We are overstocked with bad science this week (AI, UFOs, Flat Earthers and RFK jr.), I thought I'd skip any tweets about a certain individual, though I suspect some of his known associates may make an appearance.
The Onion is doing proper journalism again.https://t.co/AIddHD1sOw
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) June 2, 2023
I love this analogy.
The crypto bro understanding of money is to modern monetary economics what the phlogiston theory was to chemistry.
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) June 2, 2023
We all know what happens to Ponzi schemes when you starve them of cash inflows. 📉 pic.twitter.com/twucQgEZyS
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) June 2, 2023
Binance is a vertically integrated stack of conflicts of interest built around regulatory avoidance. pic.twitter.com/0BqAvJuGcM
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) June 5, 2023
Lilita Infante, a former DOJ special agent who founded CAT Labs, told Fortune she had trouble raising money in the heady days before FTX’s collapse...when she approached VCs [she offered equity not tokens] “I didn’t have the pump-and-dump element, so they weren’t interested."
— Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) June 3, 2023
Did you know that rogue nations, oligarchs, and drug lords use crypto to launder billions in stolen funds, evade sanctions, and finance terrorism? It’s a big problem, but one we can fix.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 3, 2023
I have a bill that will close loopholes and apply common-sense rules to the industry. https://t.co/wcIqKFmPqi
While not quite the same tech Apple just unveiled, it is always worth remembering that VR has been the next big thing for longer than many of the people saying VR is the next big thing have been alive.
People laughed when the first iPod cost $399 w/a 5GB hard drive.
— Charles Gaba isn't paying for this account. (@charles_gaba) June 5, 2023
Obviously this will be a plaything for the wealthy for the first year or two, but they know that. Nothing like getting rich people to shell out $3.5K to beta test your new product for you. https://t.co/IzmJ5hfo3I
I give you the perfect AI hype story.
The whole "US Air Force tests an AI in simulation; it decides to kill its operator" was literally... a story. Something someone made up. There was no AI, no simulation.
— François Chollet (@fchollet) June 2, 2023
This is part of constant drumbeat of made up AI fear mongering.
In professional scientific terms, this is what we call a crock of shit.https://t.co/eI9bn9jK5Q
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 5, 2023
Seguing from techbros to politics...
He can and will https://t.co/zrKLc2BKhz
— jack (@jack) June 4, 2023
So, the claimed in the clip above that she decided to skip the vote as a “protest” against the bill, but it sure looks like she missed it because she couldn’t make it on time. https://t.co/IWUkjk7w9M
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 4, 2023
If he can hold on to the spotlight, Christie could make this interesting and by the standards of today's GOP, he may be the leper with the most fingers.
“Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis… You think it’s because he’s some kind of investing genius? Or do you think it’s because he was sitting next to the POTUS for 4 years doing favors for the Saudis?” https://t.co/Jw4wgfrAwy
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 7, 2023
Worth mentioning that the morning after the NH debate in which Christie rightly portrayed Rubio as robotic, Rubio did an event in which he recited his stump speech word for word without even a flicker of recognition that he was making Christie's point yet again. https://t.co/blKrGnItOw
— Walter Shapiro (@MrWalterShapiro) June 7, 2023
If you had told me that Ann Coulter would make a persuasive argument for contributing to the Chris Christie campaign...
I swore I would never give another dollar to those people, but this might be worth a buck. pic.twitter.com/unVaqh6Glk
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 7, 2023
2/ state since they're critical to the states construction industry.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 7, 2023
.@Timodc: "I’m not saying that I think DeSantis would be more extreme than Trump. I’m simply observing the objective fact that DeSantis’s explicit campaign message is a promise that he will be more extreme than Trump!" https://t.co/ThuhQxpyA9
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) June 5, 2023
Remember when Republicans didn't like Russian stooges?
After her recent defection to Russia, Tara Reade goes on Megyn Kelly’s show to praise Vladimir Putin for liberating the Ukrainian people from Nazis, and says the people in Ukraine are happy Russia invaded them. pic.twitter.com/kHENQFgj5h
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 3, 2023
In case you need a refresher, here’s a thread detailing the links between Marine Le Pen’s far-right party and the Kremlin. There’s also a link here to a Russian influence operation targeting US political actors. https://t.co/536HSYwrQu
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 4, 2023
Marge denounces people who support aid to Ukraine as “bloodthirsty for murder” while parroting Putin’s talking points. pic.twitter.com/WeyvBZOmIp
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 6, 2023
And there it is. Finally when a Republican candidate for president gets pinned down on how to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he admits that his solution is to give Putin everything he wants. Now do Trump. pic.twitter.com/T5A4BIR3Fb
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 4, 2023
I did Nazi that coming...
In which Tucker Carlson says that the first Jewish president of Ukraine is "sweaty and rat like, a persecutor of Christians, a friend of Blackrock." https://t.co/oqCcSvM0I2
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) June 7, 2023
These are just a small subset of examples of Russia accusing the US of developing bioweapons to target certain ethnicities. It’s one of the most common Russian disinformation narratives in this area, and now Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. are spreading it. pic.twitter.com/TwIdfHvYyD
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 6, 2023
We're here to help you. pic.twitter.com/NtV2GM92pj
— ترجم له (@tarjimlo) June 6, 2023
Just so everyone remembers, the Miss Teen USA competition includes girls as young as 14.
Trump himself told a radio show:
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 5, 2023
“You know they’re standing there with no clothes. 'Is everybody OK?' And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.” https://t.co/nfMHQIYUMH
Imagine talking the incredibly serious problem of millions of teen girls who attempt or contemplate suicide, with all that we know about many of the root causes, and trying to blame a tiny handful of trans people for it. This is the Republican Party. https://t.co/m3BOjnkJFN
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 5, 2023
Credibility...
DANA BASH: Wouldn't Republicans be better off with a candidate who is not facing multiple criminal investigations?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 4, 2023
KEN BUCK: You know, it's interesting -- I think the multiple investigations and civil lawsuits that have been brought almost give Trump credibility pic.twitter.com/Ps5ruftuq1
New update of the Inflation/Recession Hysteria media coverage chart. In case you thought the balance might improve as inflation ebbs & the job market keeps hammering on all cylinders, well...no
— Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov) June 8, 2023
wHy dOeS eVeRyOnE tHiNk ThE eCoNoMy iS TeRriBLe?
Verily, it's a total mystery 🧐🤷♂️ https://t.co/6BpYgGV3dv pic.twitter.com/HQ5oKiCAHf
I've been trying to sucker Andrew Gelman into doing a post on this. Read the thread to see why someone needs to write this up.
Sigh. So apparently The Atlantic is back with more Peter Turchin (https://t.co/eC8jaLrZoW) on how the USA is going to collapse.
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) June 3, 2023
I just want to focus on one claim here and it's the one here, because the idea that you could do this over 10,000 years is not very good. 1/ pic.twitter.com/Bkr3Rinsef
More from Devereaux.
I recall a story from a sci-fi collection about a menial office worker who was convinced he should have been born in the days of knights. A stranger appears and tells him he was right. There's a flash and he finds himself in a stable holding a shovel.
Pardon me, but this crap is dumb as rocks.
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) June 7, 2023
Buddy, you wouldn't have been leading legions, you'd have been a damn peasant, listening to the Roman aristocrat whose estate your farm borders lecture you on how you are the problem, as your family literally starves to death. 1/ https://t.co/USntIXYNJv
A visit to Aesthetica's page reveals exactly what you'd expect, implicit racism, explicit misogyny, and lots of bad fantasy art.The chance of you being a poor peasant farmer? About 9 in 10. The chances of leading a legion in battle? About 1 in 19,200.
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) June 7, 2023
That's the thing about people imagining the past: they always imagine they'd be a noble.
You'd be a peasant.3/
Speaking of flakes.
The idea that just because you declare your candidacy for president makes you newsworthy is yet another flaw in mainstream journalism. https://t.co/Ww1ZxSOpiy
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 4, 2023
President of what? pic.twitter.com/AIMRlwIBiz
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 6, 2023
When friends tell me we wouldn't have these problems if we had a parliamentary system.
I can almost hear @APDiploWriter asking @PressSec "any comment on Netanyahu's new adviser who calls the president "Supreme Leader Biden" & believes Trump actually won in 2020? Oh-- he also thinks the Ukrainians wear Swastikas. Any comment?" https://t.co/m3RHtexB2y
— Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي💙 (@NTarnopolsky) June 4, 2023
Just because we're taking a break from you know who doesn't mean we can't check in with another member of the PayPal mafia.
International relations expert. Political strategist. San Francisco detective. Interviewer. And now economist too? Tech dudes have apparently decided to become the Swiss Army knives of our world. (Pro tip on the Larry Summers cosplaying, even though I would not deign to play an… pic.twitter.com/WFTEvZ1vYi
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) June 3, 2023
On February 15, less than a week before Russia invaded Ukraine, Mearsheimer said that Putin had "no intention to invade." That was the opposite of a "highly accurate" prediction. https://t.co/EV6XCFRcN7
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) June 5, 2023
The numbers have some volatility and are never going to line up perfectly, especially on a month-to-month basis, but last month's results were consistent with each other. The big drop in the household survey was from the self-employed, which don't show up in payrolls.
— Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 (@JosephPolitano) June 3, 2023
The confident, cocky statement of something that is obviously stupid if you have even a basic layman’s knowledge of listening to economic news or govt statistics. https://t.co/X9y1FQctEJ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 4, 2023
Also any famous person goes to the hospital. (see what they're saying about Jamie Foxx)
The criteria had already been updated, and now, to prove a vaccine-relayed death, they must meet all of the following criteria:
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) June 2, 2023
1) The patient appears dead
Sn/Sp claims are unchanged.
I promised you UFOs.
This is a long thread (it started in 2020) but you should read the whole thing).
Here's a "newsnation" interview with the ex-government source behind this. Good stuff starting at 3:30
— Antonio Regalado (@antonioregalado) June 6, 2023
Importantly, note construction of the claim. Guy hasnt seen the UFOs. But he talked to unnamed people who know about them.
Hearsay.
Credibility=0 https://t.co/racLq2nzYr
Regarding that ufo story: GMAFB
— Michael Hiltzik (@hiltzikm) June 7, 2023
Come for the flat-earth content. Stay for the masterclass in how not to defend yourself from mockery.
These are the people that we want to decide on education for our children?
— Derek Friday (@DerekFriday) May 31, 2023
Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: "Everywhere there's globes ... and that's what they do to brainwash." pic.twitter.com/Dr1ns2ZzNV
In a case of bringing satiric coal to Newcastle, an Atlanta comic weighs in.
Kandiss Taylor explaining how the Earth is flat pic.twitter.com/CByWpLX0ZU
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) May 25, 2023
Fmr. GA Gov candidate and current GOP official Kandiss Taylor is upset about the Blaire Erskine skit making fun of her as a flat-earther. She explains her actual position, which has something to do with globes being NASA propaganda. I think. pic.twitter.com/gtqElqf6Dh
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 5, 2023
In case you thought RFK jr was was a one trick pony.
Hell yes, let's do some spurious correlations
— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) June 6, 2023
"Prior to the introduction of Ace of Base, we had almost none of these events in our country."
"Prior to the introduction of the Power Glove, we had almost none of these events in our country."
"Prior to the introduction of Barney and https://t.co/3Bc9P1JEmK
I do give this guy credit for leaving the tweet up.
Two years before the movie came out? Are you a Terminator?
— Phillip McGuire (@PhillipCMcGuire) June 1, 2023
LOL pic.twitter.com/Tomn9LVLEZ
— mark from Newark (@mardoumur) June 1, 2023
Thunderbird going upscale is a development I did not (and did not wish to) see coming.
Had to look them up. Very legit marketing. We won’t judge you. Just get sauced. pic.twitter.com/5Ioz5NNPIa
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 7, 2023
Did the Canadian wildfires start in a Chinese lab? This podcaster thinks so.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) June 7, 2023
The buyer has been identified as Cosmo Kramer, 129 West 81st Street, Apt 5C, NY, NY. https://t.co/iXcQNAuLPb
— Don Van Natta Jr. (@DVNJr) June 2, 2023
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