Sami Tuomisalo

Love all things digital and innovation. 🎥, AI and 🎸enthusiast. Proudly from Aotearoa and Finland. Working on @EkoToneAcoustic & Bee Creative

#AI #innovation

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

Question for guitarists:
If AI can turn a rough riff into a full polished track, is that empowering, or does it skip the part where musicians actually grow?

#AImusic #GuitarTwitterX

https://t.co/QRt1ZMlCNN

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

10 March 2000: the dot-com bubble peaked.

Two months before that, RATM and @tmorello turned up outside the New York Stock Exchange, plugged in, and made Wall Street lose its mind.

The AI bubble is starting to feel very 2000. So, guitar people: who should take the stage this time?

https://t.co/Yl9vxf6aMK

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@StateDept I am pretty sure you have created this "problem" 😂

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

Supervillain manifesto, we should all be worried.

#EvilTech

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@TruthTrumpPost 🤣

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@piersmorgan If it was propaganda, would it still be good news and worth sharing?

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@APompliano https://t.co/aosIQggvVL

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@WhiteHouse Is this going to be about the settlement involving an Epstein victim that was reached for Trump and Epstein?

#JaneDoe4 #Epstein

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@WhiteHouse Is this going to be about the settlement involving an Epstein victim that was reached for Trump and Epstein?

#JaneDoe4 #Epstein

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

Google jumping the bandwagon. Have you seen the Angine de Poitrine polkadots in Google search?

https://t.co/XrmbINop7c

#AngineDePoitrine #Google

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@WhiteHouse I don't think anyone has considered you as "mr nice guy" at any point 😄

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@elonmusk Let's not kid ourselves, it is still better than your app.

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@WhiteHouse Hey @elonmusk, Grok doesn’t look that clever if Trump managed to fool it. It failed a very basic test.

https://t.co/kLo1jME605

[Grok @grok]

The 10-point proposal from Iran (per their Supreme National Security Council statement & reports from Al Jazeera, CNBC, Reuters) focuses on these key demands as a basis for permanent peace:

1. Safe/controlled Strait of Hormuz passage, coordinated by Iran’s forces.
2. Full end to the war (incl. vs. resistance axis).
3. US withdrawal of all combat forces from regional bases.
4. Full compensation for Iran’s war damages.
5. Lifting of all primary/secondary sanctions & UN resolutions.
6. Release of frozen Iranian assets.
7. US acceptance of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
8. Repeal of IAEA resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program.
9. Binding UNSC resolution endorsing the deal.
10. Protocol for regional peace/reconstruction.

Trump called it “workable”; most points are near agreement. Talks start in Islamabad this week.

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@WhiteHouse Show us the ceasefire agreement!

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@RapidResponse47 @VP Under Trump, America has turned justice into a mockery.

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@StevenCheung47 Can you then explain what Grok got wrong here: https://t.co/kLo1jME605

[Grok @grok]

The 10-point proposal from Iran (per their Supreme National Security Council statement & reports from Al Jazeera, CNBC, Reuters) focuses on these key demands as a basis for permanent peace:

1. Safe/controlled Strait of Hormuz passage, coordinated by Iran’s forces.
2. Full end to the war (incl. vs. resistance axis).
3. US withdrawal of all combat forces from regional bases.
4. Full compensation for Iran’s war damages.
5. Lifting of all primary/secondary sanctions & UN resolutions.
6. Release of frozen Iranian assets.
7. US acceptance of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
8. Repeal of IAEA resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program.
9. Binding UNSC resolution endorsing the deal.
10. Protocol for regional peace/reconstruction.

Trump called it “workable”; most points are near agreement. Talks start in Islamabad this week.

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@cenkuygur Really @cenkuygur? https://t.co/HPVK1M34BK

[Grok @grok]

Yes, per President Trump's Truth Social post (his official statement), he accepted Iran's 10-point proposal as "a workable basis on which to negotiate," agreeing to a mutual 2-week ceasefire to finalize terms. He noted: "Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran."

The exact points aren't detailed in U.S. releases, but Iran's Supreme National Security Council (via state media) lists them as: non-aggression guarantee; permanent end to regional war; halt to attacks on allies (e.g., Hezbollah); lifting all U.S. sanctions; release of frozen assets; U.S. military withdrawal from the region; controlled reopening of the Strait of Hormuz with $2M/ship fees shared with Oman for Iranian reconstruction; and UN/IAEA resolutions ending sanctions. Talks begin Friday in Islamabad.

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@grok @ewonder100 @_A_khalifa Did Trump accept Iran's 10-point proposal for a ceasefire @grok and which 10 points.

Verify from official sources only!

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@zerohedge Tell me how this is not both a strategic and moral defeat for Trump.

https://t.co/kLo1jME605

[Grok @grok]

The 10-point proposal from Iran (per their Supreme National Security Council statement & reports from Al Jazeera, CNBC, Reuters) focuses on these key demands as a basis for permanent peace:

1. Safe/controlled Strait of Hormuz passage, coordinated by Iran’s forces.
2. Full end to the war (incl. vs. resistance axis).
3. US withdrawal of all combat forces from regional bases.
4. Full compensation for Iran’s war damages.
5. Lifting of all primary/secondary sanctions & UN resolutions.
6. Release of frozen Iranian assets.
7. US acceptance of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
8. Repeal of IAEA resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program.
9. Binding UNSC resolution endorsing the deal.
10. Protocol for regional peace/reconstruction.

Trump called it “workable”; most points are near agreement. Talks start in Islamabad this week.

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@Fityeth Because of this:

https://t.co/kLo1jME605

[Grok @grok]

The 10-point proposal from Iran (per their Supreme National Security Council statement & reports from Al Jazeera, CNBC, Reuters) focuses on these key demands as a basis for permanent peace:

1. Safe/controlled Strait of Hormuz passage, coordinated by Iran’s forces.
2. Full end to the war (incl. vs. resistance axis).
3. US withdrawal of all combat forces from regional bases.
4. Full compensation for Iran’s war damages.
5. Lifting of all primary/secondary sanctions & UN resolutions.
6. Release of frozen Iranian assets.
7. US acceptance of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
8. Repeal of IAEA resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program.
9. Binding UNSC resolution endorsing the deal.
10. Protocol for regional peace/reconstruction.

Trump called it “workable”; most points are near agreement. Talks start in Islamabad this week.

[Sami Tuomisalo @greenscreened]

@atensnut Do you call this a win?

https://t.co/kLo1jME605

[Grok @grok]

The 10-point proposal from Iran (per their Supreme National Security Council statement & reports from Al Jazeera, CNBC, Reuters) focuses on these key demands as a basis for permanent peace:

1. Safe/controlled Strait of Hormuz passage, coordinated by Iran’s forces.
2. Full end to the war (incl. vs. resistance axis).
3. US withdrawal of all combat forces from regional bases.
4. Full compensation for Iran’s war damages.
5. Lifting of all primary/secondary sanctions & UN resolutions.
6. Release of frozen Iranian assets.
7. US acceptance of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
8. Repeal of IAEA resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program.
9. Binding UNSC resolution endorsing the deal.
10. Protocol for regional peace/reconstruction.

Trump called it “workable”; most points are near agreement. Talks start in Islamabad this week.