The Well-Dressed Skeptic

Running my mouth on the internet.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

It’s also not shocking that the Daily Wire is on life support.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

You have to be retarded to give AI direct access to your bank accounts. The fact that this technology was invented 10 seconds ago and already so many people are willing to just hand their entire lives over to it and make themselves completely dependent on it and vulnerable to it is so unbelievably depressing but also not shocking.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

There’s a world of difference between user-authorized agents (Muse, Instinct, Grokbot, etc.) and true unauthorized/rogue agents that could constitute cyberattacks.

Most of the activity described in the Axios story appears to be the former: customers sharing credentials with agents so they can take actions on their behalf. This may violate bank terms requiring humans to log in themselves, but these are in no way cyberattacks.

The direction banks should go is to support user-directed agents. For example, Amex is an authorized connection in Muse, making it easy for users to grant, limit, and revoke access.

Read-only permission levels are a sensible interim step. Several banks already support or are moving toward them. Full write access (with user credentials) is a different risk category and should be approached carefully.

Frightening the public by blurring the line between user-authorized agentic behavior and cyberattacks is irresponsible.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@Beckyscake @StefanMolyneux That’s why we don’t have pronouns in the bio.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@ColinCorgi Glad you’re having fun, dog dad 😆

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

We’ve made childhood safer and more comfortable than ever, then made parenting feel harder by trying to manage every minute of it. Maybe the problem isn’t that kids need more from their parents. Maybe we’ve forgotten how much they can do for themselves.

[Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux]

It has literally never been easier to raise children, and nowhere in history do people complain more about raising children.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

Maybe $2B settled or cut on appeal and years from now.

Maybe $5B if Meta pays up to kill the copycat template before other states file.

Windfalls are the worst-spent money in government. Will be spent politically, fast, with no return test at all.

Bureaucracy’s favorite trick: take money from the highest-return capital allocators in the economy and blow it on buying votes.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

$META - META MUST PAY $25 BILLION IN PENALTIES, NEW MEXICO JUDGE RULES AFTER JURY FOUND COMPANY MISLED CONSUMERS ABOUT PRIVACY

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Being 10x more involved with your kid than your parents ever were with you, while somehow feeling 100x more guilty about falling short, is the official millennial parenting experience.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@StefanMolyneux We’ve made childhood safer and more comfortable than ever, then made parenting feel harder by trying to manage every minute of it. Maybe the problem isn’t that kids need more from their parents. Maybe we’ve forgotten how much they can do for themselves.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@StefanMolyneux Children raise themselves for the most part, but we've never been more brainwashed into thinking otherwise.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@SAnocibar Ok, maybe I’ll reach out for La Historia if it somehow ended up in my stash and I’ve already had 5 cigars that day.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

The policy shop is being retooled from content politics to industrial policy.

[Axios @axios]

EXCLUSIVE: Joel Kaplan leaving Meta after 15 years as policy chief

CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells Axios: "Joel has worked on virtually every tough issue Meta has faced for more than 15 years." https://t.co/PwhcKMDnpo

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@JSymon86 @HedgeyeComm Overly simplified - $META is about to be an Anthropic but with an ads business that prints.

I think the IPO absolutely has a real-world implications.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@JSymon86 @HedgeyeComm Especially if Anthropic IPOs anywhere close to 2 trillion.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@Cernovich @RandRCigars Yeah, no shit 😜

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

Another naive young government clerk who believes that innovation happens with a signed memorandum.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

This has got to be a clickbait

[🇺🇸Kev @KevO4188]

Brisket isn’t worth the time or money.

It’s overrated.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@adamtaggart @IslamIsRadical Adam, people who are broke and desperate have nothing to lose. Or at least that’s what they think.

[The Well-Dressed Skeptic @DressedSkeptic]

@LynAldenContact @RealChrisCotts Exacerbated not preceded.