Michael Mitsakos

Entrepreneur and Writer. “Beautifying life is a valid value proposition.”

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

I joined @X - Twitter - in Jan 2010. I tweeted notions that I deemed beautiful and constructive.

I never had many followers.

I mostly tweeted reminders to my future self. And I kept my timeline neat and organized, only leaving posts that were uplifting in spirit.

There was a point when the war in Gaza hit a threshold. It coincided with the killing of @charliekirk11 and a personal conversation I had in the middle of the night.

This was the point where I started to use @X as a tool to share and spread snippets of truth (that I thankfully found here). I wanted to make a difference.

If only one person changed their perspective, it was worth it.

What I noticed in the past few days and weeks is that posts critical of @Israel lost significant reach. They started to circulate and conglomaterate among those who are already aware of the situation.

The camps simply hardened. The war continues.

@elonmusk has still not mentioned a word on one of the most cruel genocides in the history of people. It's not a genocide in history books. It's happening right now.

When the a) richest man in the world, with b) the most resources available to a single individual, and c) with a follower count of 228.6 million (as of Nov 2, 2025) talks about his female AI avatar - while children and families are being slaughtered as he spoke - there is something fundamentally twisted.

It is not that @elonmusk restrains himself from involvement in political causes. He picks his battles.

Similar to the logical defect of the effective altruism movement (which I strongly repel), one cannot justify a current endeavor by its potential benefit down the arrow of time.

Nothing noble can justify cruelty in the moment, especially if it's towards people.

This is true for whatever noble goal @Israel has, nor for whatever noble goal @elonmusk has.

It is with Matthew 7:16-18 that I restrain myself from @x for some time:

You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

I wanted to organize my timeline of tweets to look proper, and I wanted to clean it up. But I saw the last post that I retweeted, with IDF soldiers in front of a kindergarten / school in Palestine.

I leave my timeline as it is.

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

@paulsaladinomd he seems closed-minded to this idea

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

@DollidarityArmy lol who is still surprised

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

🚨Tel Aviv is witnessing rare civil disobedience. A group of Israeli refuseniks are burning their draft papers on the main street. The reason for refusal: 'We will not kill children in Palestine and Lebanon.' The penalty: military prison. But they insist on going to prison rather than enlisting

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

@questiona_te bring the cross back!

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

In case you were wondering what a holocaust looks like.

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

@VeganRecovering yep it’s quite obviously the diet

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

@meiselasb lol

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

@haaretzcom She is correct in what she said

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

The Israeli military built an AI system called Lavender & a tracking system called "Where's Daddy?"

Lavender uses surveillance data & an algorithm to mark tens of thousands of Palestinian men as targets.

"Where's Daddy?" tracks them to their homes so they can be bombed there.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Remembering a holocaust while committing one is wild

[Yla 🖕 @Ylainoa]

"Ningún francotirador dispara 2 veces a la cabeza del mismo niño por error". "Los niños fueron empujados a la fosa común con excavadoras y la tierra que les echaron encima ahogó sus gritos".
Médicos en Gaza

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

@bryan_johnson nice

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

european football has spent the past fifteen years solving futbol like chess.

a generation of coaches optimized for pass completion, pressing triggers, territorial control, rest defense, and positional occupation.

the problem of this is that they optimize for what is measurable. depth, the willingness to attack space early, attempt the difficult pass, dribble past a defender, or deliberately create chaos, is a high variance play. it fails more often than it succeeds. if you evaluate players by completion rate, ball retention, or positional discipline, those actions look like mistakes. so they get coached out. eventually, everyone converges toward the same local optimum.

the game becomes increasingly legible. every team occupies similar spaces, presses in similar ways, builds from the back with similar patterns, and minimizes the same risks. systems become better at defeating other systems, but worse at dealing with players who refuse to behave like systems.

south american football never fully abandoned the duel as the fundamental unit of the game. the 1v1 remained sacred. so did the tactical foul, the unpredictable dribble, and the player willing to lose possession five times if the sixth breaks the match open. the objective was never simply to preserve structure, it was to create someone capable of destroying the opponent’s structure.

football is not won by completing the most passes. it is won by scoring more goals than the other team. those are related, but they are not the same objective.

this is the danger of optimizing proxies. when everyone optimizes the same measurements, they stop optimizing for victory itself. they optimize for looking efficient.

italy may have been the first major european football culture to lose part of its identity this way. its historical advantage was never athletic superiority or perfect positional play. it was tactical asymmetry, unpredictability, and an instinct for making matches uncomfortable. as italian football converged toward the same coaching model as the rest of europe, it gradually surrendered the qualities that had made it different.

the broader lesson extends well beyond football. every optimization process eventually risks becoming self-defeating. metrics become targets. proxies replace objectives. variance is mistaken for error. the outliers capable of breaking the system disappear because the system itself learns to eliminate them.

[AmarT @MarisolSte598]

La habitación de San Charbel.
No tenía nada, pero poseía al Todo, CRISTO.

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

All the annoying
back-office work of society
can soon be gone thank to AI:

The legal frameworks,
rule-based accounting,
database type of work...

What remains are the hustlers,
the movers and doers
in a world where the back-stuff is handled

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The BBC doesn't want you to know that the Zionists raped him to death

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

URGENT! For any country where (from Italy to Thailand or Brazil) possible war criminals go on holiday and R&R. 🇮🇱 soldiers must be investigated, evidence assessed, and responsibility determined through DUE PROCESS.

This is not incitement to commit violence. It is accountability.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Ningún ser humano -y, desde luego, ningún niño o niña- debería sufrir el horror que se vive en Gaza.

Hoy, nuestro país acoge a 100 personas palestinas, 20 de ellas menores, junto a sus familias, para que puedan recibir el tratamiento que necesitan.

Atenderlas es una obligación moral. Defender su derecho a volver a un hogar en paz, también.

La indiferencia nunca puede ser una opción.

[Abdulsamet Altaş @SametAlta10]

Dünya neden ses çıkarmıyor bu lanetlilere???????

6 yaşındaki çocuğu kaçırıyor siyonistler.

[Michael Mitsakos @michaelmitsakos]

@alex_verem I would love to see it succeed, but I don’t really understand the economics that’s driving this business. Could you share anything about the business model?