Attempting to bring back nuance in public discourse 📊 https://xitter.cf/t.co/0bpVJoTdMD
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internetjohnny retweeted
My gf is banned from reviewing places in Europe on Google Maps after she gave one restaurant in Portugal a 1-star review
When she reviews inside EU it gets auto rejected, outside EU she can review any place
Free speech in Europe has sadly died a long time ago
internetjohnny retweeted
Once you’ve experienced a city full of electric vehicles, it’s so obvious that breathing in car exhaust is insane.
We do not have to live like this.
internetjohnny retweeted
This is an important analysis. It is absolutely worth your time. There are many considerations when it comes to how and why women have been moved to the left politically. But this assessment is particularly salient.
internetjohnny retweeted
Markets are not perfect, but they are quick to correct mistakes.
If a product is bad, people stop buying. If a restaurant is awful, it closes.
Government mistakes can last decades, because government officials don’t pay the price for being wrong.
internetjohnny retweeted
Community Notes show when they’re found helpful by people who normally disagree. What if we could do the same for posts, recognizing posts that are liked by people who normally disagree? We’ve heard requests for this for years since launching Community Notes, and we’re starting a small, experimental pilot to test the concept.
Starting today, a subset of Community Notes contributors — representing a wide range of viewpoints — will occasionally see a new callout in the product. The callout shows based on early and limited Like signals on the post. Contributors can then rate and provide feedback about the post, helping to develop an open source algorithm that could effectively identify posts liked by people from different perspectives.
People often feel the world is divided, yet Community Notes shows people can agree, even on contentious topics. This experimental new feature seeks to uncover ideas, insights, and opinions that bridge perspectives. It can bring awareness to what resonates broadly. It could motivate people to share those ideas in the first place. Ultimately, it could help move the world forward in ways that the people want.
Following the path we used to develop Community Notes, we’re building in public with a small pilot so that this concept can be shaped by the people. We look forward to learning and iterating with you all as we do with Community Notes every day.
Learn more at communitynotes.x.com/guide/e…
internetjohnny retweeted
It's funny, if you buy a:
- car
- furniture
- machinery
- laptop
- washing machine
- oven
- most things really
You expect it to depreciate and lose value, because why wouldn't it?
But when buying houses, the banks and government created this artificial system where they NEED house prices to always go up to make it a good investment for people
And people get elected for keeping this system, or else social revolt would start
This entire system relies on a perpetual housing shortage
Which is why most people now can't afford to buy a house and many can't even afford to rent
No politician is gonna risk changing that because it'd probably be a career ender, that is until the people that can NOT afford a home become powerful enough to elect some revolutionary politician into power
internetjohnny retweeted
I said it many times before but I always think there's billions and maybe trillions in PR spend to make Elon Musk and in turn his companies Tesla look bad in the media
The reason is he disrupts so many industries at once, with so many people's incomes potentially being disrupted in turn, that they try defend by making him look bad
Electric vehicles, in turn entire petroleum industry, aerospace, now telecom, if you see Elon enter your industry you'd be silly not to try stop him. But you can't stop him by merit cause his products usually superior to yours. So companies resort to buying up $$$ money in PR, it seems obvious
Same with DOGE there's a lot of risk of people losing money from welfare fraud etc
While he's not perfect and nobody is, the obvious manipulation of the narrative seems so obviously funded by interest groups and other billionaires
So ye take everything you read with a grain of salt, esp about Elon
An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla “protests”: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America.
ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix.
ActBlue is currently under investigation for allowing foreign and illegal donations in criminal violation of campaign finance regulations. This week, 7 ActBlue senior officials resigned, including the associate general counsel.
If you know anything about this, please post in replies. Thanks, Elon.
internetjohnny retweeted
A major mistake as we age is failing to keep friends across different age ranges.
An age-based echo chamber traps your beliefs, blocking out challenges and growth.
Being around people of different ages offers fresh ideas and unexpected wisdom.
I can’t imagine clinging to beliefs and never changing my mind based on new information and perspectives.
That unwillingness to challenge our beliefs or change our minds is what ages us the most.
A diverse friend circle is a good insurance policy against it.
They’ll call you on your BS.
internetjohnny retweeted
This is my read of the health landscape and how we win. We’ve been going through a period of health awareness and education for the past few years. The power law principles of health are known. We know what 20% of healthy behaviors delivers 80% of the benefits.
Learning about health is easy; doing those things is hard. Doing is also the most valuable. In fact, you don’t even need to learn in order to do. Doing is value.
We will succeed at doing by building community and societal systems that help people consistently do the right things for their health. Giving them an edge to overcome bad habits and create new good habits.
These communities need to be large and strong enough to create in-group defiance towards outside groups who seek to undermine the new emergent culture. They'll need a strong belief that they are correct in their health choices and martyrdom culture is wrong.
Prioritizing health is much easier when it’s done with others. Health is particularly hard for so many because of individual isolation, how easy it is to do harmful things to oneself and loved ones, and the risk of being ostracized by social groups for not participating in Die culture.
These health communities need to have rewards, status, achievement, and growth opportunities. They need to invite pro-social behaviors where members care for each other and invest in the community. Eschewing the cynicism that primarily drives online interactions.
This is what my team and I are building right now. Expect to join soon. Enough of us will gather together to create strength in numbers.
We will build the future of human together. Others will join in time too because sometimes we embrace the future and other times the future pulls us kicking and screaming into their magnificence.
internetjohnny retweeted
Increasingly convinced we should not think in countries anymore but subcultures who are not geographically tied
It makes no sense to talk about Brazilians or Dutch anymore
There's now subculture groups of people spanning 100+ nationalities who are more similar to eachother than any citizens of a country are
internetjohnny retweeted
Why would I stop? And since when did you become so patriotic?
I criticize all countries, see my tweets, they all have issues that are good to discuss
Nationalism killed 100 million people in last century, source of a lot of evil
We live on one globe as one people
internetjohnny retweeted
Thoroughly inspired by the business side of the @elonmusk biography.
Most overused and inaccurately applied word in the book: Reckless.
I find most of his business decisions snugly wrapped in *practicality*. Much of the stuff that’s branded risky actually feels like risk reduction to me. Like most things, it depends which lens you look through. Bold, simple, and practical is how I see it.
Many of the decisions appear reckless if you’re peering through the antique monocle of corporate America. Musk looks through a telescope. The focal points are entirely different.
Looking at what he’s done, and what he’s doing, traditional corporate America has actually taken the riskier route - fear, marginal decision making, complexity, and mediocrity slathered in marketing.
Mistakes come in all shapes and sizes, but the ones that come with slow decisions, committees diluting responsibility, sloppy cost control, and the prerequisite of pseudo-certainty before making a move are the worst kinds. Musk doesn’t make those kinds, his critics often do.
His mistakes are real, and, like all mistakes, have real consequences, of course, but they’re rooted in forward motion, rather than anchored in preservation of what was. I’m glad there’s someone out there unafraid of making those kinds of mistakes, and showing all of us what’s possible when you pierce the membrane that holds most things back.
Interesting times!
