I'm not really a finance guy, but I don't think this is a good sign.
$TSLA SVP Drew Baglino also sold shares this week.
— Suspected Saboteur (@ShortingIsFun) June 14, 2023
Honestly, how convenient for them that $TSLA had this sort of run-up leading to their sales? Amazing luck. https://t.co/i84Cco7xpl pic.twitter.com/hVRt1hIf30
With JB owning no shares of $TSLA, does his economic interest as a #Tesla Board member align with the shareholders? Per @elonmusk: No.
— Suspected Saboteur (@ShortingIsFun) June 14, 2023
H/T @rschmied https://t.co/78jX0ZHC5s pic.twitter.com/M19TCQLgIT
Or this.
Deadbeat non paying tenants getting evicted from Pearl St. https://t.co/9SBZIubL8J
— mountains to oceans. (@mtns2ocean) June 14, 2023
Since we've checked in, Musk has had some memorable tweets...
The so-called fact-checkers are huge liars and incredibly biased
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 14, 2023
But this one stands out.This could effectively mean state-mandated sterilization of your children
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 14, 2023
I didn't believe this was real but I went to look and it is.
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) June 14, 2023
Sulla the Dictator is remembered two thousand years later as a terrifying butcher - the first man to seize power in Rome by force. Thousands died in his bloody purges - on a whim, or so he could take their property. pic.twitter.com/200BfpVuFK
I would add: be extra nervous if the dictator-curious individual is also a big fan of Ramesses II, whose blood-soaked megalomania was a bit much even by the blood-soaked standards of Bronze Age kingshiphttps://t.co/I4DfmDtH0M
— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) June 14, 2023
And in other tweets you thought were fake but aren't...
Fox News chyron under split screen of Biden and Trump as Trump speaks live: "WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL RIVAL ARRESTED." pic.twitter.com/9eWZxhoXE4
— Natasha Korecki (@natashakorecki) June 14, 2023
🇺🇸 American Forces Network provides popular TV and radio programs to our troops and their families overseas. It is an invaluable service and brings back a bit of home to its viewers & listeners. I subscribed during 6+ years overseas with Stars & Stripes.
— D. Earl Stephens (@EarlOfEnough) June 14, 2023
However ...
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Asked for comment about the Fox News chyron describing Biden as a "wannabe dictator" who had "his political rival arrested," a spokesperson for the network told me: “The chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed.”https://t.co/MJfQQSqgGL
— Charlotte Klein (@charlottetklein) June 14, 2023
Before network cut away, @PressSec said "There are probably about 787 million things that I can say about this that was wrong" -- a subtle nod to the $787M the network paid to settle defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems.
— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) June 14, 2023
Elsewhere in the GOP.
New: The Georgia Republican Party has elected Bryan Pritchard to be its first vice-chair. He claims the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump— while he is currently under criminal investigation for voting illegally 9 times while serving a felony sentence. https://t.co/czWIT5mENb pic.twitter.com/QiSzg8uwlB
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 12, 2023
This is a spectacularly misleading portrayal of what Republicans’ identity has really been. That half a century contains the aftermath of Watergate, Iran Contra, GHWB’s pardons, the reintroduction of torture by executive memo, Hastert, family separation, January 6th… https://t.co/leC455S6RQ pic.twitter.com/ZsVJIca6BF
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 11, 2023
The problem for Trump right now is he is getting his legal advice from morons around him and TV lawyers on right-wing networks, so he is admitting to things because they are telling him that what he is admitting to is legal when it’s not.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 10, 2023
Russia was behind the Canadian convoy attack on Ottawa. cc @CTVNews @CBCNews @globalnews @NDP @theJagmeetSingh wake up Mr. Singh
— @RGBAtlantica (@RGBAtlantica) June 12, 2023
Russia used state-funded propaganda outlet to whip up support for the ‘Freedom Convoy’ and undermine the Trudeau government https://t.co/0DMZBzMNXz
The case study is an extension & applied analysis of some of the tactics from this study, which found that Russia used apolitical topics to target liberals while pushing political content to conservatives as an insidious form of voter suppression. https://t.co/ELEu87etVv
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 12, 2023
While on the topic of "traditonal fiscal conservatism," remember those IRS cuts the Republicans demanded?Referring to "a system of law and order that has been central to the party’s identity for half a century" is a little bit like accepting at face value the GOP's "traditonal fiscal conservatism." https://t.co/VaJZ08eFdm
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) June 12, 2023
For every additional $1 spent on auditing the wealthy, the @IRS can make $12. By @crampell https://t.co/LAOhJUsGcd
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) June 14, 2023
The good thing is that even though only 27 people might be watching Chris Christie’s CNN Town Hall right now, one of them is most assuredly Donald Trump.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 13, 2023
I guess Alex Jones is back on Team Trump. pic.twitter.com/HDjxzfkrey
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 12, 2023
Oh boy. pic.twitter.com/GpDPI5Qg4Y
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 11, 2023
At least she didn't work in anything about the shape of the earth.
Kandiss Taylor led the GA State GOP Convention in an opening prayer: “Seek my face and turn from the wicked ways - stolen elections, (inaudible) our children’s sex organs, and flat out lying .. Help us to be christians first, and Republicans second. In Jesus name, amen.” pic.twitter.com/7YR880KcJ5
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 9, 2023
Watergate helped Nixon's stock with the far right.
“Had it not been for the witch hunt, if they’d left him alone, I’d probably be for Ron DeSantis. Since they’re persecuting my president, I swear allegiance to him.” - Darlene Doetzel, GOP retiree from Michigan. https://t.co/FRIwIXTz8h
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) June 14, 2023
Who would have thought that Ann Coulter would turn out to be the hitchhiker with the axe. *
Best Republican tweet of the day. Instant classic. Charlie doesn’t stand a chance. pic.twitter.com/sUvitsMwXt
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 9, 2023
Or that Hutchinson would be the sanest voice in the GOP.
Asa Hutchinson on GOP presidential candidates promising to pardon Donald Trump:
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) June 14, 2023
"It's wrong. It's unjustified. It's a bad precedent. They're politically pandering to get votes using the federal pardon power...I want our candidates to show more courage." pic.twitter.com/t5YvtuUyCi
The @GOP should clarify that there is no pledge to support a nominee if they are found guilty of espionage or a serious felony.
— Gov. Asa Hutchinson (@AsaHutchinson) June 8, 2023
Donald Trump is the target of an ongoing criminal investigation and he should step aside & put the good of the country above his candidacy.
So Arkansas people… what does this mean for the maps that @AsaHutchinson already said were troublesome because they diluted the strength of Black voters?
— Kerri Jackson Case (@kerrijack) June 8, 2023
Is #arkleg gonna have to roll back their protections of @ElectFrench? https://t.co/mi9rjIt8wC
As much as I hate to agree with this guy.
dingdingdingdingding https://t.co/JYNvfrvvI9 pic.twitter.com/2U8arOwQh4
— Paige Williams (@williams_paige) June 10, 2023
Worrying some analysts? pic.twitter.com/0hcFaKaGMu
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) June 11, 2023
New York Times finds shoppers who have seen far more rapid increases in food prices than the rest of the country https://t.co/3upQQyBuRY
— Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) June 14, 2023
"The same issue"
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) June 9, 2023
If you're following the UFO story, you need to read this (there's even a DeSantis angle).
Most journalists don't cover the more esoteric aspects of the story, probably because they think it's too ridiculous.
— Mick West (@MickWest) June 11, 2023
But our current state of affairs is deeply rooted in baseless UFO mythology, and a large part of it goes directly back to Robert Bigelow and Skinwalker Ranch. https://t.co/zk9eJLTUoh
AI News
turns out AI models collapse quickly once the AI trains on data created by other AIs instead of original data by humans. three things follow from this:
— Terence Renaud (@terry_renaud) June 13, 2023
i) AIs must continue mining human content in order to function, thus can't substitute for human laborhttps://t.co/49Whb6mQty
This from the same company who predicted that the so-called Metaverse would be worth $5 trillion by 2030. https://t.co/3xNwEkRFpH
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 15, 2023
AI’s supposed emergent capabilities have caused great concern widely shared by many in the tech industry. But according to a new paper, the presence of emergence only exists because of the programmers' choice of metric. https://t.co/ehxNT7lYbm
— Stanford HAI (@StanfordHAI) June 8, 2023
For 25 years I have been trying to get the AI community to face the fact that neural networks have a fundamental weakness.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) June 12, 2023
They fail to generalize outside the distribution.
Here it is once again, 𝟮𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 on.
Has 𝘢𝘯𝘺 prediction in AI held true more consistently? https://t.co/8hAhU63pZl
One of our key sources of human data is no longer fully “human"!
— Manoel (@manoelribeiro) June 14, 2023
We estimate that 33-46% of crowd workers on MTurk used large language models (LLMs) in a text production task - which may increase as ChatGPT and the like become more popular and powerful.https://t.co/SJfKjDM6gX pic.twitter.com/lRHp4tpfZF
I want to revisit this, but I suspect the post I end up with will just be a longer version of what Tuffy said.
This is some of the stupidest shit I have ever read https://t.co/M2QeKGZZRN
— Sean Tuffy (@SMTuffy) June 11, 2023
This is one of the most unhinged things I've read in a long time. It reads like the author dropped acid and decided to pontificate about robots and Web3 all over a Bloomberg column. https://t.co/mWTzG9nzT7
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) June 10, 2023
Mkay, so how did that go?
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) June 14, 2023
It's almost like the Bitcoin doomerism industrial complex has a financial interest in stoking economic fears. https://t.co/gV7sKwMI0U
“Even if [blockchain] could be rescued from this pullulating hive of scams, hacks, and mendacity, and even if the nakedly reactionary politics could be set aside, the prospect of holding medical records on a transparent public ledger is not a good idea.”https://t.co/bFv4OCI2jE
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) June 11, 2023
And misc.
— tyler (@walletcheck) June 11, 2023
Federal auto safety regulators have been completely asleep when it comes to fatalities caused by misrepresented "full self driving" tech, yet had the time this week to help automakers undermine Massachusetts' promising and popular new right to repair law: https://t.co/fyMrSuHKxJ
— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) June 14, 2023
“some Data Science courses are little more than old-fashioned spreadsheets classes... [the Alg 2 vs DS] debacle … is a false choice. Algebra 2's core material — such as quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic relationships — is actually central to data science”. 1/ https://t.co/cjJJw0gZpO
— Jelani Nelson (@minilek) June 12, 2023
In 1992, 72% of 4th graders scored below proficient on the NAEP reading assessment. Today, those kids are 40-41 years old. They went on to earn 4-year college and advanced degrees at a rate surpassing all generations before them. My latest post: https://t.co/93KIUrxkVU
— Tom Loveless (@tomloveless99) June 12, 2023
You can read more about the targeting of Maus in @ThePlumLineGS piece out today:https://t.co/8h57qM95zK
— Florida Freedom to Read Project (@FLFreedomRead) June 14, 2023
The false scarcity we have in U.S. higher ed. benefits almost no one, except the grads of a tiny number of “elite” schools that are famous mostly for turning people away. (After all, no one ever talks about what will be *learned* there!)
— Jack Schneider (@Edu_Historian) June 11, 2023
Doesn’t need to be like this. https://t.co/OtylhgaUmb
I aspire to be on this man’s level pic.twitter.com/JvFGT3M6Uh
— Jake Blackfingers (@Blackfingers63) June 10, 2023
Fermat believed that he had discovered a formula that produced only primes.
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) June 14, 2023
It was only after his death that Euler proved him wrong when he found factors for the "fifth Fermat prime":
2^(2^5) + 1 = 2³² + 1 = 4,294,967,297 = 641 × 6,700,417 pic.twitter.com/45RDekpzeF
How programs for the Apollo guidance computer were woven into memory pic.twitter.com/bzJqO9ng6C
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) June 8, 2023
This raccoon used tools to escape a garbage container. This sentient being's intelligence made the Mission Possible. 🧠 pic.twitter.com/KhmNpgPkyo
— Hakan Kapucu (@1hakankapucu) June 14, 2023
* Even the hitchhiker with the axe knows you shouldn't pick up the hitchhiker with the chainsaw.