John Alley

Software Developer.
SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, Fusion Power
UWP, C#, Python.
The future is going to be aaaaawesome!

[John Alley @mostlyfoobar]

Together, we built this - out of dirt.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

@RoKhanna Accusing someone of killing millions of kids IS A SMEAR.

It’s the worst possible smear and you know it pinko.

[Kate @kate_p45]

Turns out to be deadly accurate....😡

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

The Gabbard news about Fauci is enormous. But a lot of it confirms what was already on the record — I talked about it on Rising with @emilyjashinsky and @ryangrim … five years ago. 👇

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

Chamath: Frontier AI Leaders “Created a Total F*cking Mess”

Short-sighted fearmongering and immaturity from frontier AI leaders has created deep mistrust, threatening AI’s potential as an open engine of economic mobility.

That mistrust gives hyperscalers the chance to position themselves as trusted gatekeepers, using KYC, audit trails, and compliance infrastructure to turn AI into an oligopoly.

@chamath on the All-In Pod:

“I think the leaders of the frontier labs leave a lot to be desired. I think what we're seeing is a consistent pattern of evasiveness and immaturity, and I think that does a huge disservice to the entire movement of AI.

The key to a vibrant life is rooted in economic mobility, and I think AI is the grand leveler. It is the thing that can enable everyone to have unique amounts of economic mobility because they are unencumbered to figure out what their upper bound is.

And against that backdrop, we have to live in this constant doomerism, hype cycle, naivety, and I think it holds us back. How does it hold us back?

Tactically, number one, it creates mistrust. I think that Silicon Valley was already decaying in the prestige that it held in American society. We built important things. Then we veered away from that, and we started building less important things. And now we're at a point where we've potentially started to rebuild important things again, but we have this veneer of negativity and mistrust that are created in large part because we just cannot get our sh*t together. And the leaders of the frontier labs are public enemy number one.

Number two, I think what it creates, which I think is bad, but what it creates is an incredible opportunity for the hyperscalers. And the very simple opportunity is to convince governments all around the world, not just America, that they should be the gatekeeper. A: You can't trust these guys. B: These models are all over the place. C: Let us be the ones that provision them to the world. We will wrap it in KYC. I've been now talking about KYC for a while, right? Who are these customers? Do they have identification? Why are they allowed to run these models? What are they prompting? Let's keep them so that there's an audit trail.

All of these things are going to become issues. The Frontier Lab folks made it an issue because of how they've handled all of this up until now.

And what does that create? Now that creates an oligopoly for AI, the most powerful economically leveling instrument we've ever seen in the hands of maybe a handful of hyperscalers, who by the way, would make an incredibly compelling argument, and they would be right. And the only counterfactual to it would be, ‘Well, trust us, guys, it should actually be much more open and in a far more distributed environment.’

Can you imagine the cost and the complexity if you ask the neoscaler to build the same robust KYC or the same VPC infrastructure that Amazon and Microsoft and Google have spent decades investing trillions of dollars in? It's an impossibility, Jason.

So you can take all of those datacenters off the map. You can take all of the neoscaler market off the map. All of this was preventable. So instead of a diverse, robust, open ecosystem giving a tool that is the fundamental unlock for humans, we are now going to debate gatekeeping and duopoly versus oligopoly.

They have created a total f*cking mess, and it's a shame.”

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: NeverTrumpers

I have always found it very difficult to understood the philosophical underpinnings of self-proclaimed "conservative" NeverTrumpers.

No President in the history of the USA has done more to reduce the size, scope and power of the federal administrative state than Donald Trump.

Other than Ronald Reagan, no President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote capital investment, industrial growth, and improved economic standards for the average American than Donald Trump.

Other than Ronald Reagan and JFK, no President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote American patriotism and pride in America than Donald Trump.

No President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote freedom of speech and freedom of religion than Donald Trump.

Last time I checked, the bedrock principles of American conservatism are limited government, capitalism, patriotism and liberty.

Donald Trump's policies are the very essence of conservatism.

So why are these people "NeverTrumpers"?

My theory is that they see conservatism as a club: a club whose entry credentials consist of elite prep schools, Ivy League universities, the "prestige" of being part of old-line institutions and media, and well-manicured pinkies in the air at afternoon tea.

And they don’t want Donald Trump in their club.

Donald Trump is none of what they are. He is from Queens. He has the wrong accent. He went to the wrong schools. He is crass and loud and bombastic. Although wealthy by birth, nothing pleases him more than getting down in the dirt with the workers who built his buildings. Despite his wealth, he is the everyman at heart.

There is only one logical conclusion: NeverTrumpers do not care the slightest about actual political conservatism. They care about being elite snobs, which is why they sacrifice whatever values they once proclaimed to hold so they could hate on someone who crashed the gate at their posh, private club.

They are Judge Smails and Trump is Al Czervik.

This is about social class and nothing else.

Treat those people with the righteous disdain they have so completely earned.

[John Alley @mostlyfoobar]

@jordanbpeterson There is much yet to do professor.

Heal thyself.

Live long and prosper.

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

I was lied to my whole life.

They told me Israel can’t be a Jewish state - There are ~25 Muslim states.

Told me Jews only take care of themselves - a Jewish woman got this Arab Muslim kid to Harvard.

Told me before Israel, we all lived in peace - 1929 Hebron Massacre was 20 years before.

Told me all Palestinians were forced out - elders in the village said many people sold their lands…and left to the west

Told me “we love Palestinians” - yet all nearby Arab countries treat them like second class citizens.

Some people force you to join their political cause under the lie of morality, and justice.

Don’t fall for it like I did. Seek the truth.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Tulsi Gabbard states there’s a path to Prosecute Dr. Fauci

[Trisha Hope - National Delegate-TX @JustTheTweets17]

My husband and I both had covid in August of 2021. We both became VERY SICK. Our blood oxygen was in the low 80's. We had a prescription for Ivermectin but the pharmacy played games for over a week and would not fill the order. Finally my daughter went to the pharmacy and told the pharmacist if something happened to us she would spent her life seeing he was punished.

He finally gave her the prescription. Two days after taking the ivermectin, we walked outside for the first time in 30 days.

At one point I was very seriously considering going to the hospital but my husband wisely discouraged me from that, he was right. I firmly believe had we walked into the hospital we would not have walked out.

Thank you to @stella_immanuel for having the courage to buck the system and save our lives.

Anthony Fauci needs to spend the rest of his life in prison.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This tweet is about to turn 8 years old

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

If this maggot gets away with mass murder, Justice is dead in America.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Mehdi Hasan was 30 years old in 2009 when he called non-Muslims ‘animals with diseased minds.’

He was so extreme that he even attacked ‘dog and music lovers’, since dogs and music are haram in Islam. He also compared homosexuals to pedophiles.

He only apologized a decade later, because the video leaked.

Mehdi claims he has totally changed, which I find hard to believe given his actions and the fact that he practices Twelver Shia Islam, where lying (Taqiyya) is completely allowed.

Mehdi hates when this video goes viral. It would be a shame if it did.

[Stella Escobedo @StellaEscoTV]

Israel is hated not because it lost, but because it WON.

It’s the only country in the Middle East that has successfully resisted Islamist and jihadist domination & built a thriving democracy.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

Anti-muslim hatred is primarily caused by muslims doing muslim things like raping schoolgirls, burning down churches, abusing women, and killing christians in Africa

[Natasha Carter @NatashaCL7]

There’s no such thing as Islamophobia.

A phobia is an irrational fear.

Fear of Islam is extremely rational, especially for women.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Happy Father’s Day to all the incredible dads out there ❤️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Makes no sense

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

We actually lived through this