Jonathan Tierney

Pengwinning 🐧🏆

[Cincinnati Bengals @Bengals]

Haynes to the house.

#CINatPHI on CBS/Paramount+

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Four goals. Three points.

[Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh]

OK I did it. I tracked over 1,000 shots for SGA, Brunson, Harden, Spida and Wemby in the playoffs. Here's how often they fell: https://t.co/0Vgr3ibDyP

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I know it's boring and repetitive to talk about how grossly evil Trump is, but the fact remains: Trump is grossly evil, in a way that's pretty much unprecedented in this country.

[Alex Griswold @HashtagGriswold]

Beginning to grasp the ideological roots of SEC fans

[Ryan Moulton @moultano]

After all this is over, we need to pass a law that makes social media posts from official agency accounts like this subject to perjury. It is too destructive to the country to let them keep lying and lying and lying without any possible legal remedy.

[Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo]

AI is impressive, yes. But most people don’t care if AI is magically good at coding. They’re asking whether it helps with the things they actually care about. And right now, it mostly doesn’t, in two different ways.

First, AI doesn’t meaningfully improve the physical conditions of life. I think to the extent that technology makes people happier, it does so when it trickles down into the physical realm: healthcare, infrastructure and housing are good examples. These are domains where often the bottleneck is not idea generation, but lies downstream of that, in implementation. I am somewhat optimistic that AI will improve medicine, but I also think it won't revolutionize it unless other issues are solved, too.
Second -- people feel pessimistic about the consequences of AI in the spiritual domain. Status, belonging, love, meaning -- these are all things people care about where AI does not seem merely neutral, but an active threat. We live in the shadows of the first tech revolution, one that seems to have done some serious damage to our social fabric. Why would people be excited about the spiritual consequences of "Tech Revolution, this time turbocharged"?

This is compounded by the lack of AI leaders (or political leaders or some leaders?) that are attuned at all to what people need or care about.

The least bad are those who repeat utilitarian platitudes along the lines of YAY UBI. The worst are those who seem to be actively cheering at the birth of a neo-feudalist society.

Note that as a nerd, I am pretty excited about AI as such. But it's easy for me to see why people do not welcome it with excitement.

[Jonathan Tierney @jatd913]

This is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve seen a major politician push

[WORLD NEWS @_MAGA_NEWS_]

🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis has dropped a bombshell, demanding the complete elimination of property taxes in the United States.

Ron stated, "It's almost like they have to pay rent to the government just to enjoy their property. That's wrong. We need to do something about it."

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

This morning with our burned down church still smoldering and four saints murdered, members of the Church of Jesus Christ raised $60k for...checks notes...the shooter's wife and children. Most donations are anonymous. Each Christian comment will make you cry more than the last.

[Jonathan Tierney @jatd913]

@Kelly_Quinlan Is omar Daniel’s injured?

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Jonathan Tierney @jatd913]

Come on Leicester!

[NBC Sports Soccer @NBCSportsSoccer]

We're throwing it back to the 2015/16 season—name this Premier League team. ⬇️

[Jonathan Tierney @jatd913]

It’s interesting that we’ve evolved dogs to not just be great human companions, but great companions to a wide variety of animals. The same traits work across us all

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The disabled 500 pound lion and his unlikely Dachshund friends who have been inseparable ever since the lion was a cub ...

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Take 4 mins today to watch Reagan's last speech as president, one of the best ever.

He talks about what makes America great- immigrants.

It’s so good

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[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

On Thomas Jefferson's birthday, let's recall the grievances he wrote in the Declaration of Independence against the abuses of the Mad King.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

Sound familiar? Makes me angry. Should make you angry too.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Colorized footage is like a time machine 🧵

1. English kids in 1901, 124 years ago

[Eric Abbenante @EricAbbenante]

Jon Stewart screams 'OMFG' and is rendered speechless after hearing all 14 steps to apply for 'Build Back Better' funding:
Ezra Klein: "We have to issue the notice funding opportunity within 180 days that's step one.
Step Two: States who want to participate must submit a letter of intent. After they do that, they can submit a request for up to $5 million in planning grants.
Then the NTIA Step Four has to review and approve an award again. States who want to participate must submit that letter of intent.
Step three: "They can request up to $5 million in planning grants. Just planning, just planning.
Step four : "The requests are reviewed, approved and awarded by the NTIA." States must submit a five year action plan. All 56 had passed through at least step 5, it took more than 3 years.
[Step 6] Then the FCC, must publish the broadband data maps before NTIA allocates funds. So having done the no vote. So the letters of intent, the the the request for planning grants, then the review approval and awarding of the planning grants, then the five year action plans in between that the federal government has to put forward a map saying where it thinks we need rural broadband subsidies. And then, of course, the states need an opportunity to challenge the map for accuracy.
step seven So then the NTIAhas to use the FCC maps to make allocation decisions. It's hard even to talk about this, man.
Step eight is states must submit an initial proposal to the NTIA."
Jon Stewart: "But then what was the five year plan and what the fuck did they apply for?"
Ezra Klein: "Step nine NTIA must review and approve each state's again initial proposal. By my read, we have had at least two initial proposals here, but that's a different issue.
Step ten. States must publish their own map and allow internal challenges to their own map.
Step 11 the NTIA must review and improve the challenge results and the final map. So the NCAA has put forward a map.
Step 12 states must run a competitive sub granting process."
Jon Stewart: "Oh, my fucking God. At step 12. After all this has been done!?"
Ezra Klein: "Step 13 States must submit a final proposal. This all all the proposals weren't enough to NTIA. Now that goes to three of 56.
Step 14 the NTIA must review and approve the state's final proposal. And that is three of the 56 jurisdictions. And states are there."
Jon Stewart: "I'm speechless."

Jon just learned why "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'"

[Ben Hunt @EpsilonTheory]

Y’day, the Tennessee Senate passed through committee a bill making it a felony for a local official to VOTE for ‘sanctuary policy’ (as defined by the TN Safety Commissioner) for a city or town.

If you don’t see where this is heading I got nothing for ya.

https://t.co/CbkFSEfK8O

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

This is the most accurate thing I've seen on the Internet all year.