Azure Dragon

Fatherhood-focused, community-minded, nature-connected, love-based adventurer. Categories are the death of imagination.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@wheeler244 What about turning at Coles Corner and going through Plain as an alternate? Not a bad route to avoid Tumwater Canyon. The railroad moved out of there for a reason - in fact, why Leavenworth became a Bavarian-themed town to form an alternate economy.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@wheeler244 This is what these people volunteered for, not that danger zone in D.C. "protecting" ICE.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

Thankfully, many citizens on this platform do actual research into topics before tweeting. I nominate this man for appointment to the DOGE team to balance out the software bros under 24 doing all this "hard digging" into our govt. books. Journalists are better at this stuff.

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

This "large scale social deception" contract was:

* first awarded under Trump
* paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom
* for researching *defenses* against deception
* not revealed by "DOGE investigations"; was a public record, visible online for many years

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@mb9k_com @elonmusk Actually, it is you BOT who is lying, or just did zero research on facts and just repeated what you heard. SHUT YOUR MOUTH if you can't make an effort to read beyond the fold.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@endlibtyranny @elonmusk Fake news. The spend was to defend against that thing, and it wasn't the news branch of the organization. Musk is trolling you. Thomson Reuters does many things, include supplying data to investment firms, background checks on individuals, you name it. Not paid for making news.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@Th3mous @elonmusk Do some homework. Thomson Reuters is a massive corporation that does a lot of things, not just news. Kind of like, I don't know, the Federal Government?
https://t.co/h6mXlq3Jku

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@elonmusk Says the guy whose Tesla fobs were easily hacked by side channel attacks demonstrated by SCIENTISTS. Are you a moron now? or just insane? I suspect the latter. Take your large head out of your ass and get some sleep. This was CYBERSECURITY DEFENSE spending against misinformation.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

This is "literally" the definition of Large Scale Social Deception. The person put in charge of researching details of Fed govt. spending apparently did NO research on what these contracts or acronyms mean and is alerting the public on a massive scale. Read the Reuters statement.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”.

That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam.

Just wow.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@SnoqualmiePass Google Maps is reporting the closure lasts until 11pm and routing is up to Hwy 2. True or false?

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@YardenLaif @euruko Good talk! I looked for that JRuby feature request you said remained open. Is that a Gitlab ticket number? On their Github repo, the issue numbers are much lower. Example: https://t.co/Ime5aS14vz (p.s. Headius gave you a shoutout at RubyConf 2022)

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@KyleACooke Better than flying to South Africa for World Cup 2010 with an airplane full of vuvuzelas. https://t.co/JIKKbTRcQU

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@admiraltrust108 @0xNakamojo @mineCityCoins @FrancisSuarez Nope, it was New York City. https://t.co/tfMHODt4d9

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@renakingery Nice story! The one linked in Featured Works on your personal web page leads to a FedEx article instead.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@katheroony @Ian_SMC It's worth noting that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to intentionally slow down professional typists (or at least spread out the most popular keys) so they didn't jam the typewriters so much. Not the best layout for digital machines.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@katheroony Yes, ca. 1993, and I took pride in my accuracy. I now write computer code for a living (which means several languages and syntaxes) and I can exceed 100 wpm on a good day. My teacher was weird, though!

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@excusezla @gmiller @RichardHanania Also worth noting that men are more action oriented and women are more relational and communication (talking) oriented. Surgery = quick action. Psychology = long talking.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@albedo21 @gmiller @joerogan @RichardHanania "Around 80% of psych undergrads are women." https://t.co/YUqpyeL3NJ

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@onedarwinian @JohnMHillier @SchislerCole Humans had almost zero power over the natural environment at that time, so even if he was, he wouldn't need to try & change people's minds about their actions. He would just hunt and make more humans.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@bratton279 @fenny_tweets @PaolaQP1231 Here's a fact. Data scientists & statisticians studying climate consider factors like frequency & intensity, so saying there have been 4 intense events in the last 120 years without comparing it to the near term frequency of events (say 4 in 30 years, or 4x) is a weak conclusion.

[Azure Dragon @ryanrockets]

@Cointelegraph @BustaRhymes @jack @elonmusk @CathieDWood I'm paraphrasing: "all pump, no dump"