Sean O'Shea

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[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

Fareed is my global events sanity protector. Here he addresses AI and more importantly HI.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

At university graduation ceremonies this spring, commencement speakers have been getting booed for championing AI, given how the technology might threaten their job prospects.

In a commencement speech at Bard College last week, I delivered a more hopeful message — that humans can do essential things that computers simply can’t. Here are some highlights from that speech:

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

We need jurists who are fearless.....not pathetic.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This exchange between @SenBlumenthal and Trump’s judicial nominees is utterly astounding.

If you can watch this and still think this country isn’t falling into authoritarianism and fascism under Donald Trump, then you are not being honest with yourself.

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

"I was just testing to see who's listening to me"

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

If you were a refined fossil fuel supplier i.e. petrol and diesel and you have limited supplies would you choose to supply to:
a) Australia
b) any other Asian country (ex China)
a) is rich enough to pay whatever it takes going forward.
b) may not be paying some day soon.

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@MagnumIceCream You had 1 job

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@ImJacksRage @AngryBDG @gtconway3d Respect for yourself mate.
Do you want to just appear to everyone like an unhinged verbal maniac ? Or do you have a point that goes beyond behaving like a stereotypical fishwife ?
I would draw your attention to the great writers of history but maybe you never heard of them.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

The Strangest Border Between Sweden & Finland 🇸🇪🇫🇮 Märket Island

📹 geoglobe_tales

[Shivan Mahendrarajah @S_Mahendrarajah]

@ahandjani @les_politiques Fujairah was hit yesterday. Unclear if pipeline open still. But Iran has steps yet to take on escalation ladder

https://t.co/iwWrI6jop3

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@Ilunga_Mbidi_ @exclusivfarming @CrimeWatchZW It sounds like you are impressed with the sign over the gate of a number of well known accommodation premises

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@AngryBDG @gtconway3d "She is a shameless Marxist shill. A shrill, vitriolic little hag."

Respect ?

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@mehdirhasan 1. Trying to differentiate between shots 1,2and3 is like trying to differentiate between Austria the Rhineland and Poland sorry wasted question.
2. Not defending so irrelevant
3. Ditto.
Appreciate you are bating but I think that 1.3M views justifies a more intelligent reaction.

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

What it means is that if he a) really did experience this or b) thinks he experienced it, he is totally unfit to be in charge of the military in any more complex circumstances........

Hegseth Invoked the ‘Fog of War’ in a Boat Strike. What Does That Mean? https://t.co/PWzVBdDpWa

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

Re debate about EM saying "1,000 immigrants come and rape the kids" Hmm. The way to respond is not outrage but to postulate that in CA (e.g. or TX) based on his logic "there are 1 million immigrants have come and (actually) raped 100 kids". @daraobriain @gtconway3d do the math

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@armourEph611 @hughriminton That's actually quite funny mate ! 😂

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@armourEph611 @hughriminton https://t.co/VvNuN0bMRn

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@ChiChiGreenblat Is that because 125 minus your age = your birth year (in the 1900s) ? Oh hang on... Does the answer to this deep mathematical complex need a 19 before it ? What about a 20 ? But thanx anyway.

[Sean O'Shea @sosheatwit]

@GSpier @JohnCleese Families and how to survive them. I try not to condemn people on social media but you deserve the epithet moron.