k-means Kyle!

Mostly guitars and data. Director of Data Science at Nike!

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

Maybe the real coronavirus is the friends we made along the way

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The guy who bailed out his Wall Street donors as they threw 10 million families out of their homes is now chiding “the left” for making materialist arguments about improving people’s economic situation rather than telling morality stories. Truly unreal.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying Americans who oppose data centers are backwards and poor?

AOC: I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center at Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

No

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The White House has said: EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Lake Ontario is renamed to LAKE AMERICA!

[onion person @CantEverDie]

jon ossoff is anti medicare for all, anti green new deal, pro ICE, and pro israel. he cannot be anywhere close to being the nominee for president in 2028

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

is abdul looking electable now?

[paulypandemic @we_are_ssd]

Remember when we had money to upgrade school HVAC systems and improve indoor air quality which would reduce all airborne illnesses but instead it got repurposed to more police funding because Democrats didnt want to seem like they supported police reform?
https://t.co/IJUhaPrcQ9

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

personally I can't wait for my claude-branded feedbag

[Michelle Z @michellezfr]

Wearing noice cancelling masks to talk to Claude is crazy

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

@mayhewsw They should just lean in: "This app is so good it gave me a sixth finger"

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

The proliferation of gambling in all aspects of American life is unalloyed negative for all accept the people who own the gambling companies, but their involvement in electoral politics is so poisonous its a real threat democracy.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

This is an opportunity for the big boys to cash out by dropping the stock on people that have no idea they’re the marks.

The biggest rug pull in the history of the stock market.

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

ok

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Elon Musk: "10 years from now, probably 90% of all distance driven will be driven by AI in a self-driving car."

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Mexico gives its citizens ponies, we get to die early bitter & broke to fund a $1.5 trillion military that can’t beat a sanctioned mid-tier country

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Under Bernie's 5% billionaires wealth tax, Jeff Bezos (worth $279 billion) would owe $14 billion more in taxes and starting teacher pay in America would be raised to $60,000.

The average starting teacher would get a raise of nearly $12,000 & Bezos would still have $265 billion.

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

I'm glad I work for a company whose philosophy basically begins and ends with "sports are super fun and people should have fun" instead of whatever insanity this is

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Zohran on CBS: " I think what we can see is that a democratic socialist politics is one that should be judged on its delivery, like any ideology ...  I think that this is a politics that can flourish anywhere because, frankly, there is only one majority in this country — that's the working class and it's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're pursuing and not as part of the appendix."

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

I may not understand voting

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

No.

[Chris Dudley @Dudley4Oregon]

Oregon needs a rebound, and I know what it takes to get one. I’ve spent my career doing the work that doesn’t make headlines but decides outcomes. As Governor, I’ll strengthen our economy, refocus our schools, and restore safety. Vote for me May 19th.

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

Spirit Airlines announces pivot to AI data centers

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Spirit Airlines is at risk of being liquidated as soon as this week, per Bloomberg.

[k-means Kyle! @TheKyleAmbert]

I just finished reading Life, the Universe, and Everything to my son, and the parallels between the Krikkit Wars and :gestures around: were difficult

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

This country says its the richest nation on earth but leaves its people in the streets to starve or get sick and die. $1,000,000,000,000 for war but we can't fund this. We are not a serious country.