Michael Koby

Professional nerd with delusions of rock stardom. #kobymusictx

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

Driving 30 minutes in Houston will get you to... Houston.

[Skylar Skye @SkylarSkye3]

I still laugh every time an American says somewhere is “close” and it’s a 30 minute drive.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

The more stuff that happens in this world, the more I'm convinced that people live in distinct alternate realities.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

Tell me you’ve never bought a gun without telling me you’ve never bought a gun 😂

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!?

Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

@film_girl I have seen the Wizard of Oz more than probably any other movie and even I’m thinking, “yea, I need to see that.”

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

Coming back to this post... I'm thinking that the ideas in Path need to come back in a new app.

The idea that you can only have 20-ish "friends" on the app to keep the circle tight is something I think the world could use right now.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

Man… I loved Path and the ideas it had going. I think it was little do “close circle” for early social networking at the time it was around.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

The TL;DR version: "Tell me you don't understand why your side lost, without telling me you don't understand why your side lost."

[Angelo Carusone @GoAngelo]

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org (@mmfa) did this study and been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

I want @BernieSanders to become a billionaire so bad.

That way he'll shut up about them. Just like he did millionaires, after he became a millionaire.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Abraham Lincoln talked about a vision of an America with a government of, by, and for the people.

13 of Trump's nominees are billionaires.

What we have right now is a government of, by, and for the billionaire class.

We've got to fight back.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

Man… I loved Path and the ideas it had going. I think it was little do “close circle” for early social networking at the time it was around.

[Shannon Potter @cifilter]

I worked at Path back in 2012. Today, I found the codebase I had on a hard drive and managed to get it building after all these years. Very broken and unusable with no servers, but I'm about to cry. Working at @path was probably the best time of my life. 🥹

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

I'm sorry, but $40/month for full ad-free is a ridiculous price.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

This

[Caroline @carolinecwilder]

I don’t want a $5000 check. I want to abolish the IRS.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

The terms are acceptable.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Schumer is panicking: "If DOGE can shut down USAID, next it might be the IRS or intelligence agencies"

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

This right here.

Most of what people people complain about with regards to capitalism is either A) crony capitalism, B) government interfering in free-market capitalism, or C) government regulation, allowing crony capitalism, which lobbies government to keep it in power.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The biggest threat to capitalism is crony capitalism.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

The confession through projection continues unabated.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

It feels like so much of modern "progressive-ism" is rooted in trying to deny well instilled evolutionary instinct, and attempting to use language to contort reality to the whims of what it wants to be a truth it can not and will never be.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

@film_girl Wait… is this an actual thing? Links please? I’m not really keeping up with CES.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

I have an idea…

Shut the government down. Then, and hear me out on this, leave it shutdown.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

Me.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

Honestly, until they can fix:

1. The limited range and
2. Battery charging speeds (or figure out how to do full swaps)

Doing long road trips with an EV isn't going happen anytime soon. I love the idea of EV for doing hyper-local errands, but if I'm going from Houston to even Galveston, I'm taking a gas car.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

99% of cars will be electric and autonomous in the future.

Manually-driven gasoline cars will be like riding a horse while using a flip phone. Still happens, but it’s rare.

[Michael Koby @mkoby]

They could find success IF they would find people that love and appreciate the source material like they did for practically all of the Infinity Saga.

Now they hire people who actively don’t like comics or self insert and think they’ll be successful.

The reason the Infinity Saga worked is because while it deviated in places the essence of the source material was prevalent throughout.