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Jack of all trades. ♥ strats, design, programming, yorkies. Chief Product & Technology Officer, reimagining marketing at Opinions mine.

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

@elonmusk Ha ha. Look at your own chart. Both parties have lost ground to independents. Republicans have just lost WAY more. Almost like the GOP lost its mind and journalist affiliations along with it.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November. https://t.co/Tn2TQu5Djo

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

@ftrain Also a problem: people deciding our future and setting policy based on the belief that wizards are real.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Our job is to understand universe🧠

[Steve Benen @stevebenen]

A truly amazing US job market:
- 303,000 jobs created in March
- 3.8% unemployment (below 4% for 26 consecutive months — a streak unseen since the '60s)
- Biden-era growth doubles Trump-era growth (even excluding Covid)
- wage growth outpacing inflation
https://t.co/ufI59Twsqu

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

Front end versus truck survival rates. Tesla model X: -10%

https://t.co/ZxJLe8Qb2l

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

@KevinNaughtonJr @sama This was season 7 of Silicon Valley.

[Ron Harris @ronharrismn]

President Biden is not too old to run for reelection.

He has accomplished more in three years than most of his predecessors did during their presidencies.

I look forward to continue working with the President when I get to Congress.

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

@drvolts @lowerthetemp Loved this thread, but… lol?

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Direction is more important than speed.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

@RexChapman Such a shit show.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Five great signs of intelligence:

• You're not afraid or ashamed to find errors in your understanding of things.
• You take mistakes as lessons.
• You don't get offended with accepting the facts.
• You are highly adaptable and very curious.
• You know what you don't know.

[martin grasser @martingrasser]

Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird

This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,

The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

One software product from every year since 1977, in chronological order.

1977: VisiCalc, the “killer app” for Apple II

1/46

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

• If you're wrong, admit it.
• If you're confused, ask questions.
• If you're stuck, seek for help.
• If you make mistake, learn from it.
• If you learn something, teach others

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

Could all the democrats and 5 republicans make @RepLizCheney speaker of the house?

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

Oops.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

[screams into the void @gregorysean]

He bought it. Now he’s breaking it.

Will be interesting to see how long the apologists will hang in there.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.

Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.

[ExpertVoice @TheExpertVoice]

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