Shawn Willden

Tech Lead for Android hardware-backed security subsystems. Thoughts are my own, not Google's.

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Likely no one cares, but I've decided I'm done with Twitter. There was no particular precipitating event, I just feel like it's a net negative and I'm going to stop.

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@johnrockshomes @NBCPolitics @ryanjreilly Blocked

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@JDHaltigan Can't think of anything?

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@JDHaltigan What downright false misinformation has Stelter trafficked in? (I don't know who he is; I don't watch CNN, or TV, really.)

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@QTheLibertine1 @PhilipWegmann @elonmusk I sure hope you're right, but given that Trump has already taken a multi-billion dollar payoff to change his position on one minor issue (Tiktok), it's hard to believe there's not a lot more coming.

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@shteivred @krishnanrohit Nah, this is just acknowledging the reality of what AI can do *now*. Give it a few years and a few more leaps in capability and we'll be back to AI replacing people... because it will be happening.

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@SalomeSibonex @mmeJen The notion of making him president absolutely was a joke, a long-running one.

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@Mitole2019 @cmdicely @mattyglesias I think that's actually even less defensible.

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@GordMagill @scottlincicome @oren_cass When you say the roads are a mess, what are you referring to? I can think of several things you might mean, I'm just trying to understand which one(s) you do mean.

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@centralvision1 @mattyglesias He does always seem to avoid most of the consequences.

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@jaustincarter @GunOwners I don't recall any serious attempt.

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@centralvision1 @mattyglesias I don't think Trump is good at outsmarting anything, but his willingness to ignore norms and the consequences of breaking them is exceptional, and his faction is large enough that someone is likely to find any loophole.

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@Mitole2019 @cmdicely @mattyglesias Also, given that the Democrats impeached him twice, Trump is due a third term, amirite?

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@centralvision1 @mattyglesias Assuming Thune doesn't let Trump do everything as recess appointments.

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@PaulRoundy1 @owenbroadcast Exactly the issue.

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@mmeJen @SalomeSibonex No, he was mostly a joke. That's why Doonesbury did all those "Trump as President" bits, because the thought was funny.

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@mmeJen @SalomeSibonex Trump was a superhero?

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@PaulRoundy1 @owenbroadcast For the institutions they don't want they'll probably just fire the existing staff and refuse to replace them at all.

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@PaulRoundy1 @owenbroadcast True! Though I don't think they intend to limit it to the institutions they don't want. The others will also staffed with loyalists. I hope I'm wrong, but I think we're returning to the spoils system... but in a complex world that requires greater expertise.