electronwill
Digital nomad from the US, in Costa Rica.
- Reposted by electronwill/2 The proposition that American government and institutions should unite to use official power to punish and suppress criticism of Israel is unacceptable. It should be fought by law, by defiance, and eventually if necessary by force. Free people cannot be prevented from speaking about wrong.
- Reposted by electronwillThis white genocide debacle highlights another reason to be extremely cautious of AI that I don't see people talking about much--if you're getting your information from AI, your knowledge will be selectively curated by the people who control the AI
- Reposted by electronwillKOSA is being reintroduced today. It's always been a dangerous censorship bill. But in this environment, with Trump weaponizing every aspect of the Federal government to suppress speech he doesn't like, KOSA is a catastrophic attack on human rights. We have to stop it. StopKOSA.com
- Reposted by electronwillTrump’s message, over and over, is that the police should face absolutely no accountability for acts of brutal violence. State convictions keep pardons at bay, but they cannot block the political costs of such brutal, inhumane, monstrous rhetoric
- Reposted by electronwillYou’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- Reposted by electronwillFederal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US
- Reposted by electronwillConclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
- Reposted by electronwillThe new pope signed up for Twitter in 2011 with a Hotmail email address that he also used for a lot of other stuff, which is how I know that he's probably the first pope on Zynga and almost certainly the first pope on Tumblr
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- Reposted by electronwillTime to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
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- Reposted by electronwillLook at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags
- Reposted by electronwillDear god let this man cook.
- Reposted by electronwillIn a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda
- Reposted by electronwillTop notch Leopards/faces moment here from the managing director of Thiel Capital and the person who coined the term "Intellectual Dark Web." Yeah, so weird how much antisemitism there is on Musk's platform...real head scratcher there, my dude.
- Reposted by electronwillnot to tell anyone how to do their jobs or anything but if i was a US attorney i might not write whole letters laying out how i was targeting nonprofits specifically for first amendment protected activities
- New Ed Martin letter—this time to Wikipedia about its tax-exempt status. In it, he asks about topics including its editorial practices, editor anonymity, "hateful content and conduct by editors," and content used to train LLMs. www.thefp.com/p/trump-pros... Letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNy...
- Reposted by electronwilli feel like trumpcoin, and the fact that we never talk about it, is pretty emblematic of the way the press refuses to grapple with trump. it exists in order to pay him bribes. it expressly gives you political access. it does not pretend to have a licit motive. it was a one-day scandal.
- Reposted by electronwillA colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
- Reposted by electronwillThis from Abe Foxman is very important. “As a [Holocaust] survivor, my antenna quivers when I see books being banned, when I see people being abducted in the streets, when I see government trying to dictate what universities should teach and whom they should teach.“ jewishinsider.com/2025/04/abe-...
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- Reposted by electronwillThey had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
- Reposted by electronwillOur administration will stand for two things: Fighting antisemitism and stopping the Soros-funded, Hollywood-controlling, migration-orchestrating, well-poisoning, global banking cabal of rootless cosmopolitans from destroying our Christian way of life. by J.D. Vance
- Reposted by electronwillAnalysis | You may not like Elon Musk, but you must admit: Who else could father 35 children and still be the avatar of incel culture?
- Reposted by electronwillHarvard stood up to the bully — and the bully blinked
- Kasparov's advice to stop Trump, based on experience with Putin: Don't focus on Trump's character or specific policies or culture war. Focus on democracy vs dictatorship. Flip Republicans in the House & Senate from fighting for Trump to fighting against him. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
- Reposted by electronwillWe only get results if we fight and take action. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen. Now it’s time to bring Kilmar home.
- Reposted by electronwillIt’s just me but if I had big bet-the-company dilemmas instead of going with Paul Weiss or Skadden I might choose a firm with lawyers who understand concepts like cause and effect, object permanence, and stated intent
- Reposted by electronwillThat Lindsey Graham quote about “if we elect him, he will destroy us, and we will deserve it” runs around my head like a rabid weasel.
- jeeeeeesus boingboing.net/2025/04/09/t...
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- I'm guessing this answer happened because many people have written that the cold war was far better than a hot nuclear war? But also AIs are just full of shit.
- Child abuse doesn't happen at churches more than circuses by chance. These churches teach that men should speak and lead, and women and children should be silent and obey. Just as bad hygiene causes more infections, that sick culture causes more child abuse.
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- Reposted by electronwilla lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"
- Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
- Reposted by electronwillTrump does care about the pain, chaos, and turmoil he’s causing—in the following sense: He loves it. It makes him feel powerful.
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- Reposted by electronwillhe wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.
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- Reposted by electronwillAnother thing that the abolitionists understood! Not just that slavery was wicked because of its consequences for the enslaved, but that having the kind of control over another human being slavery allows causes your soul and the society that surrounds you to become more wicked by that fact alone.
- Reposted by electronwillEveryone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
- Reposted by electronwillTactically, this seems like a fantastic time for institutions (law firms, universities) and individuals (Repubs in Congress) who want to stand up to Trump. He's openly cratering the economy, the weakness of Elon's ability to buy elections was just revealed in Wisconsin. The emperor has no clothes.
- Reposted by electronwillLook, hegemony is tiring. We just want to take a break & become a backwater for a few centuries. Or millennia. Like Macedonia or Mongolia; all empires need a rest.
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- Reposted by electronwillthe extent to which a technology whose function is to generate plausible-sounding sentences without regard to their accuracy has been embraced by so many of the richest and most powerful really shows you that these people do not have a clue what they’re talking about
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- Reposted by electronwillInevitably what'll happen, soon, is video will appear of masked plainclothes white men yanking a woman off the street into a van, and then ICE or CBP will go "no, actually that wasn't us" And no one will be able to figure out whether they're lying, or ever see her again.
