Michael Celiceo

Wanderlust, flâneur, wino, parent & RHINO. Loves football (both kinds), tennis, capitalism and the ocean.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

They only care about themselves and instead of help they race hustle

[Susan Crabtree @susancrabtree]

Despite being billions of $$$ in debt, here's the pet projects California Dems are doubling down on in their just-passed 🤯🤯🤯record-breaking $352 billion budget:

-trans surgeries for illegal immigrants and anyone else who can't pay for them -- $10 million more
-$12 billion for health insurance for illegal immigrants
-$1.5 billion more for the bullet train to nowhere
-$100 million more for illegal immigrant services for a total of $175 million/a yr.+ $5 million extra for CHIRLA
-$12.5 million for overpriced nanny-state diapers
-An additional $10 million to existing funds for a total of $81 million for Calif. to sue the federal government.
-$5 million for the Voting Rights project at UCLA to sue states for voting laws.

“At a time when law-abiding Californians are struggling with the high cost of living, their basic needs are being ignored. Instead, legislative Democrats continue to expand government programs, pass $14 billion in tax increases, and approve billions in borrowing, while directing funding toward political allies and pet projects," said @TonyStrickland, GOP state senator representing the 19th district, which includes Huntington Beach.

[MissionLoco @MissionLoco]

Welp, the @sfchronicle has a new “intern” from back east, here to lecture & lie at us about our own City. She says that “ridership is down because transit hating gentrifiers replaced ‘working class’ Mission residents who now have to ride in from far away.” @hearst we’re OVER you.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Nectarine farmer in California is giving away his entire 125,000 lbs of ripe nectarines to the public for free

He says Big Agriculture in California has made it impossible for him to harvest and sell his nectarines

You can go pick for free from June 29–July 3, at 21500 E. Parlier, Reedley, California. 7am-10am

What’s happening is a handful of large marketers and packers dominate, they are squeezing independent growers

Direct-to-retail attempts often get countered aggressively. The big companies severely undercut farmers like this to drive them out of business

[Michael Celiceo @mceliceo]

@jason you forgot to mention being born into wealth and privilege so they're qualified to lecture.

[@jason @Jason]

They’re communists

They have never worked a day in their lives

They’ve never built anything except a list of complaints

They’re takers, we’re builders

Important to understand why their winning and fix those things via capitalism and free markets:

lack of Affordable housing (afforability) 

College debt (afforability) 

Universal health care (afforability) 

inflation (afforability) 

wages (afforability) 

Ending pointless forever wars (policy)

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

You're hiding an air conditioner under your floor, aren't you?

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

It wasn’t the working class that voted in this slate of “socialists” and it wasn’t “socialism” they ran on. It was a hatred of this country and a deeply-embedded resentment that their vanity pursuits haven’t resulted in the riches they were promised in their fancy schools.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

It’s time for everyone to realize that the fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers.

They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating.

Until those running the big LLMs understand this and start a community tour, not to explain the benefits of AI, it’s too late for that, but to help towns and cities that may be impacted by job losses (and I’m a believer their will be a net gains in a few years), this battle is only going to get more intense and let me tell you now , no matter how much money you pay to buy politicians and races, you will lose.

One thing I have learned is being hated is not good for business.

How can they help ? They will tell you. You will need to do what they ask. Billions of dollars is a lot of money across towns and city programs. Across the major LLMs, it’s a cost of doing business.

At the same time, I would go to LA and NYC and ask the arts and creative unions what kind of programs would help and protect their artists. DO NOT GO TO THE MUSIC OR FILM COMPANIES. that will make it worse.

Don’t try to pay famous people to endorse what you are doing. That’s dumb.

Talk to artists and ask them what you can do to provide financial and creative support. Every creative I know is TERRIFIED about what AI will do to their profession. You must meet them face to face and basically do what they say.

The big LLMs have lost the PR battle. Why ? Because they all suck at putting people first. They have an SV attitude that makes them all think they are John Galt saving the
world

Given the number of data centers and power that is needed, today and going forward , If you don’t kiss the asses of the people that go to work every day, and are just trying to pay their bills, you will fall far far short of the capacity you need to make your business work.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Stephen A. Smith admits he can’t wrap his head around “how the hell” the Clintons and Obamas left office worth upwards of $100,000,000 after “serving” the American people.

“Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas, grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell he and the Clinton Foundation are worth hundreds of millions of dollars beats me.”

“Barack Obama was a community organizer who became the President of the United States. And last time I checked, that salary ain’t over $450,000.”

“How the hell you depart from office, [together] you worth over $200 million?”

Clintons’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Clintons’ net worth today: ~$120,000,000

Obamas’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Obamas’ net worth today: ~$70,000,000

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

FTP: LAPD killed her dog. He was wearing his Knicks jersey.
His name was Jameson. A golden doodle. One of the sweetest, most gentle breeds alive.
A neighbor called a noise complaint. That's it.
20+ officers showed up. Then a helicopter. For a noise complaint in an apartment complex.
And they shot Jameson dead. In front of his owner. In front of her child.
No warning. No de-escalation. Nothing.
The media is barely covering this. No headlines. No outrage.
Like it never happened.
If this was your dog... your child watching... how would you feel?
Jameson deserved better. That little boy deserved better. His mama deserved better.

[Michael Celiceo @mceliceo]

@RoKhanna @BernieSanders You are with $200 million please donate that to help people

[Michael Celiceo @mceliceo]

@saikatc Look, the carpetbagger speaks. How is the move back to D.C. going?

[Bloomberg TV @BloombergTV]

After 18 years with Bloomberg, @CarolineHydeTV is taking on a new journey away from the hustle and bustle of news.

We wish her the best in her new adventure! https://t.co/1gPwO9eErq

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

Hey Pocahontas, it’s been over a YEAR since I asked you this, and you STILL haven’t told us:

How did you amass a $12 MILLION net worth on a $176,000 salary??!

The math ain’t mathin’!

[Michael Celiceo @mceliceo]

@GavinNewsom You and your wife were born to wealth and privilege in Marin County; you send your kids to expensive private schools, and live in a $9.3 million home that you couldn't possibly afford as a career politician making $234K a year! Super rigged!

[Michael Celiceo @mceliceo]

@SenWarren If Congress wants to talk about fairness, let's start by making lawmakers live under the same healthcare and retirement rules as everyone else.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

CBS has fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, and rightly so. He betrayed journalistic principles in platforming debunked science, in being closed-minded and dogmatic, and in behaving like a pompous ass. Good riddance.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

[Michael Celiceo @mceliceo]

Hysterically funny outcome for @saikatc. A socialist carpetbagger from G-D knows where spent over $10M of his tech fortune only to come in 3rd place (by a wide margin) to a communist and a penis. His next move will be to leave SF apartment and return to D.C. or NYC! #goodriddance

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

saikat chakrabarti
> be first 10 at stripe
> clear 9 figures
> ladder-pull: don't want people to start startups
> donate $500K to Prop D, the 800% increase in gross receipts tax that blocks startups from staying in SF

^^ don't be this guy. don't be the ladder puller.