MR - Michael Robertson

Inventor/CEO:
- Warehousing the World's Wisdom
(NASDAQ, sold to Universal), Gizmo5 (sold Goog), Lindows (sold Xandros)

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

Strong men have a duty to stand up to the mob.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

This is an inherent flaw in democracy:

[Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

Go read about “the Curley effect” and you will completely understand every decision being made by Democrat mayors and governors.

https://t.co/CmvK1hGZN2

[Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

Go read about “the Curley effect” and you will completely understand every decision being made by Democrat mayors and governors.

https://t.co/CmvK1hGZN2

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

@JayInslee @GovPritzker There is nothing in physics describing 'clean energy'. Clean energy doesn't exist in science or nature. It is just energy. The idea of clean energy is used to perpetrate a global swindle, based on destroying cheap affordable energy. This is a transition of logic for grand theft.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

According to the Harvard Business Review, these are the top 10 generative AI use cases in 2026.

And yes, therapy/companionship is the top use case again, regardless of what AI companies say:

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

Climate mania may never die. For many it's a religious belief for which no amount of evidence or logic can dissuade.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

Term of the day - Mime pedaling, or the act of casually moving the pedals on an electric bicycle to provide the appearance of pedaling without actually meaningfully contributing to the mechanical locomotive effect of the bike, is a common occurrence on powerful electric bicycles being ridden on throttle-only or with substantial pedal assist motor power. It essentially makes it look like the rider is pedaling, when in fact little or no work is being done by the rider.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

@Nick___Edwards Watch those child labor laws. CA is strict about them.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

$55 million? Amatuers! In CA that wouldn't even qualify for the top 1000 government boondoggles.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

It seems undeniable that climate data has been highly manipulated. Always in the same direction to manufacturer a crisis. @dhuman

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2016, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute adjusted temperatures at De Bilt, the country's main climate station. Daily maximums from 1901 to 1950 were lowered by up to 1.9C, which removed 16 of 23 heatwaves from the record.

The altered data were then used to claim modern heatwaves were unprecedented.

Four researchers challenged the changes, but the institute dismissed the criticism, so the analysis went to peer review. In 2021, it was published, conclusively demonstrating the method systematically erased historical heat extremes.

Today, the Meteorological Institute has quietly changed its approach, and as a result, seven erased heatwaves have been restored, including the extreme summer of 1947.

Here again, we have a government agency caught rewriting climate history. The Netherlands Meteorological Institute erased heatwaves of the past, ignored critics, and reinstated the truth only when the evidence became impossible to ignore.

Policies were built on that manipulated record.
Dutch farmers lost livelihoods.
Industry and the wider economy paid the price.

But accountability is coming.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

@sircharlesohio @paulg @JasonCoombsCEO That's some serious TDS.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

I remain in awe of the immeasurable benefit Craigslist has brought to the world. One tiny example: I located this weight machine on CL, and it really helped my physical well-being.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

Hey Craig @craignewmark - your interview with Tyler was epic. You're a net legend. Thx for inventing CL. It's improved human life immensely.
https://t.co/548B7RGUXg

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Because it’s literally illegal

IQ tests kept showing racial disparities

So they made IQ a forbidden employment metric

Griggs V Duke Power, disparate impact

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

“Non-human traffic will exceed human traffic sometime in the first half of 2027,” Lai Yi Ohlsen, senior product manager at Cloudflare.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

You know you're an old school Internet guy if you can remember getting a customer support email from Craig Newmark on Craigslist.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Funding for public schools is already quite high and has been steadily increasing.

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

@MattMahanSJ @ZhouFengSuo Should spending be cut?
Which spending should be cut?
Should taxes be lowered? Which ones and how much?

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

@joerogan commentated the first dozen UFC fights for free. That's what it takes sometimes.

[Chad Crowley @CCrowley100]

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

— Plato, The Republic

[MR - Michael Robertson @mp3michael]

Vagrancy is obviously not a housing problem, but an enormous, endemic drug problem. Stop the free stuff and people will be pushed to treatment.