Creative partner at Ripple Training. I tweet about Final Cut Pro, Motion, Resolve, Filmmaking, AI, and basically anything I find interesting.

SF Bay Area
Joined March 2007
Agreed it applies to me for sure
I think most people multi-tasking with agents could benefit from slowing down most of the stuff you're doing wont really matter- what's your P0? what would it look like if you gave it your full attention?
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It is absolutely bizarre that the President of the United States is actively committing open treason with no fucking consequences.
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Mark Spencer retweeted
It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically. Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country. Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case. Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve. In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota. The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.
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Mark Spencer retweeted
Nous sommes à la conjonction des deux phénomènes civilisationnels distincts qui mènent à la révolution: Le premier : dans une société démocratique, comme le notait Tocqueville, toute inégalité devient vite insupportable car il n’y a plus que deux moyens d’expliquer que certains réussissent mieux que soi-même : la corruption du système ou le mérite. Et psychologiquement, sans surprise, on a plutôt tendance à penser que ceux qui réussissent mieux que nous bénéficient d’un système corrompu sont plutôt qu’ils soient plus méritants. La démocratie est donc un régime qui crée structurellement des armées de mécontents, sauf quand il y a une forte croissance économique. Car alors on peut prendre son mal en patience en se disant raisonnablement que dans quelques années, on sera soi-même au même niveau que ceux que l’on envie. Cela fait 15 ans qu’il n’y a plus de croissance en France. Les jeunes générations ne croient pas que leur situation rattrapera naturellement celle des plus privilégiés. En conséquence de quoi, elles n’ont plus grand intérêt à maintenir le système en vie. D’autant plus que n’ayant souvent pas d’enfants et n’étant pas propriétaires, elles ne sont soumise à aucunes des forces conservatrices traditionnelles. Le deuxième : comme le notait Schumpeter, le capitalisme faisant exploser la productivité industrielle et agricole, il réduit à la portion congrue le nombre de métiers manuels. La société se met donc à produire des cohortes gigantesques de personnes formées aux métiers intellectuels, alors même que l’économie n’a pas besoin d’autant de personnes dans ces secteurs. On a beau démultiplier les bullshit jobs, on produit néanmoins un grand nombre d’individus éduqués et inemployables. (Ils considérèrent que les emplois manuels ne sont pas assez dignes.) Ces cohortes sont structurellement révolutionnaires puisqu’elles se vivent comme un élite éclairée en opposition au système existant. La France est une des économies les plus tertiarisees du monde et avec un des plus hauts pourcentages d’individus faisant des études supérieures. Elle n’a plus de croissance depuis 15 ans. Kaboum, donc ? Pas encore, car il existe cependant une composante de la société qui a un intérêt absolu à maintenir le système tel quel : les retraités. Et ils représentent un tiers de l’électorat. Leur rôle est ambivalent : ils empêchent la révolution destructrice tout comme toute réforme à même de viabiliser le système. Voici donc une des tâches clé du politique aujourd’hui : relancer la croissance économique et rediriger les richesses vers les actifs en réussissant à la fois à contourner les blocages des retraités et à contenir les pulsions révolutionnaires de la jeunesse. Ce n’est qu’un des nombreux chantiers urgents de la France, en cette période de crises multiples. Mais avec la crise financière qui approche, c’est la fin de l’amortisseur de l’endettement. La question fondamentale d’au service de qui et de quoi est la machine économique française ne pourra plus longtemps rester sans réponse satisfaisante.
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Mark Spencer retweeted
A friend of mine asked my why I have such an issue with Higgsfield. So I had Grok summarize all the allegations until I got bored. Here's over a minute of that:
Replying to @0xSpotts
If I made a list of scummy businesses it'd be right on the top. Genuinely feels like they're run by a criminal organization. Never seen anything like it in the AI space, nothing even comes close. Maybe @grok can summarize - Why do people on X hate Higgsfield? Not the anti AI people, the pro AI people.
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Mark Spencer retweeted
Digger is a damn masterpiece. Go out to see it while you still can—the ending, updating Orwellian doublespeak for the surveillance capitalism age, turns the act of walking out of a theater into a gut punch. And Oscar for Maggie, immediately.
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Mark Spencer retweeted
You know what I don't give a shit about? The 11 boys in this country trying to play girls sports. You know what I do give a shit about? 16 year olds shooting 5 year olds in the goddamn face.
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Mark Spencer retweeted
Watching journalists cover a BS flying Tesla car instead of the deaths of women and children in Ukraine because Starlink was slowed down is disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting.
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Mark Spencer retweeted
Katie Zacharia wasn't fired because she lied. It was because she was a bad liar. It's a key distinction.
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Unbelievable and shameful.
Latest: ​Zelenskyy tells reporters over WhatsApp that restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." He says Ukraine has done tests to determine whether SpaceX is truly facing technical issues, as has been told Kyiv by the US side, or if this is a "deliberate operation... to restrict us, cut us off, and prevent us from defending ourselves and protecting our people, both at the front and among the civilian population." He says Ukraine "sent a couple of vehicles equipped with Starlink terminals into European Union territory." "They moved at speeds exceeding 180kph, and the Starlink systems worked perfectly. We have the relevant logs and evidence to prove this." He adds: "The conclusion is clear: the restrictions are in effect within Ukraine but do not apply within the European Union. In other words, this is a planned operation."
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Well put
The problem of our time is not merely information overload. It is that the time required to construct a coherent understanding of reality is becoming longer than the time during which that understanding remains valid.
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Mark Spencer retweeted
This is pretty surreal. My favorite NBA player, Steph Curry, is warming up in my daughter’s jersey. GO VALKS!!! #WBZ
Steph Curry starting warmups wearing Veronica Burton No. 22 practice jersey. @valkyries open WNBA Finals tomorrow here at Chase Center.
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Dear @katiezacharia — speaking as the world's leading expert on short White House tenures: turn off the news and go enjoy your family. In time you’ll realize that the Universe did you a major favor.
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Anyone who is already on Instinct who could create an invite link for me?
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Mark Spencer retweeted
Elon Musk flips a vehicle upside down and everyone claps and cheers. But when I do it, suddenly I'm "recklessly endangering children" and "unfit to be a school bus driver".
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