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We were sold on the freedom to be creative on the web and the ability to communicate with audiences at scale. We were given the exploitation of neurochemistry through machine learning to increase watch time on platform for more ad impressions. Incentive realignment is how we win
Introducing CivicBond.US a new way to hold politicians accountable for campaign promises. Will we ever see a candidate enter a $1,000,000+ bond to get elected?youtu.be/VDgK8piOCKM
Any cool, definitely not a cult.. HOAs or towns out there that incentivize community, food resilience, security, you know, all the stuff people enjoy and need in the event of natural disaster or remake of Terminator as documentary? Asking for a friend.
Anecdotal, but I don't want to upgrade my phone or OS to a ChatGPT wrapper. Over the last 6 months 1/2 of the apps I used required upgrading. I won't do it so I'm switching to browser where I can or terminating service.
Action speaks louder than words. If you know anything about Dolly you know her life outside her career as a humanitarian had an impact on more people than most will ever know. What an absolutely beautiful human being and a major loss for all of us.
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'Big Pharma is Slowly Killing You'.
New Real Talk with Zuby podcast with the awesome @ferrisbuhler81 out today!
The sheer amount of Flock stake holders and investors all quoting and posting the same stuff in a major media effort this week feels off from how normal people are responding to a surveillance state.
$100 says they are planning to file for IPO soon.
You misspelled China.
San Francisco is one of the clearest examples of what happens when a city commits to the full safety bundle: prosecution, modern technology, and political will.
In 2024, the city deployed 400 license plate readers and 80 drones across the city. Major crimes fell 44% from 2023 to 2025, and car thefts dropped 54%.
Evan Sernoffsky, a spokesperson for the SFPD, credited "tools like drones, ALPR, and public safety cameras." The decline shows up across nearly every crime category.
Flock and the Future of Safety in American Cities: a16z.news/p/flock-and-the-fu…
My social feed seems to be 2 types of accounts: Normal people opposed to mass surveillance and then investors/employees in the surveillance economy... substack.com/@richardryan/no…
Flock wouldn't have prevented any crime here but good job trying not waste a good tragedy to monetize your shitty growth at all costs company. If people choose privacy or accountability over unsecured 3rd party surveillance state it must be a targeted misinformation campaign.
Last year, the city of Austin turned off their Flock cameras as the result of a targeted misinformation campaign.
This weekend, for nearly 24 hours, three suspects drove around Austin in stolen vehicles, undetected, conducting a shooting spree at 12 separate locations. They shot multiple people, houses, apartment buildings, businesses, and fire stations. They committed multiple robberies and car thefts during the spree. Despite a full manhunt involving 200 officers, with helicopter and K9 support, they weren't able to locate the suspects, and the spree continued.
Luckily, the suspects drove into the Flock-supported city of Manor, TX. Manor is a small city with ~20k residents, and a fraction of Austin's budget. What they do have is modern technology and the ability not to fall victim to misinformation campaigns.
After the suspects drove into Manor to continue their shooting spree, Manor PD located them almost immediately. The residents of Manor stayed safe.
This is a tale of two cities.
I love Austin. I have plenty of friends who live there. I myself almost moved there years ago. I'm glad that the shooting spree is over, but I just wish it never happened.
🚨BREAKING!🚨 does muting or blocking everyone who posts with “breaking” or “instead of Netflix this evening” make your timeline any less filled with slop? Trying to figure out how to clean up my feed 🤣
Am I the only one who gets frustrated with how often I hear people say “what do I mean by that?”. How about you just dumb it down for knuckle draggers like myself to begin with please.
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Show me the incentive and I’ll show the outcome.
1. Politicians are getting richer, while their constituents are getting poorer
2. They increasingly go back on their campaign promises
3. Americans are more politically divided than ever before
How do we fix that? Criticism is easy, solutions are hard.
If @elonmusk really wants to contribute to a positive outcome for the American people I don’t think a 3rd party is the solution. I think it’s consequences for the existing parties and politicians.
A 3rd party won’t get enough votes to make significant proactive policy changes, the best you can hope for is leverage as a tie breaker vote. Ensuring your opponent loses doesn’t mean you win.
At best our primary system is broken, at worst it’s rigged. You have the most extreme and polarizing 5% of each party that votes in candidates that leaves most people voting for the lessor of two evils in the general elections because they’re afraid of what the other extreme will do if they get in power.
Instead of a 3rd party, what about a political action committee that holds politicians publicly accountable? An apolitical organization that supports democrats or republicans that enter into a legal agreement based on a core criteria. Example: they will never vote to increase the deficit, only balance the existing budget.
How would you enforce that?
First they have to disclose their income and all their assets. Then they put all their assets into an irrevocable trust with the governing documents stipulating the terms. Much like wealthy people will put parameters into trusts if their kids go to college or start a business the trust allocates funds or get money… you can also deny funds or have other consequential actions. In other words you could say if a politician votes to increase the deficit their assets are liquidated, the funds are then distributed to reimburse the PAC in the amount of whatever campaign contributions were made and the remainder is disbursed equally to their constituents, builds a hospital or whatever.
If a politician won’t disclose their assets or income, they should be primary’d immediately. If they won’t put their money where their mouth is on a few key issues around the economy, privacy or single issue bills… They should be primary’d immediately. There has to be consequences for their actions. I think legal framework is a great way to expose those who aren't their to represent the people.
For generations we keep getting suckered into voting for the lessor of two evils when Americans have more common ground than differences. Corporations, nation states and special interests understand this. That’s why you’ll see them support the “uniparty” and hedging their bets regardless of who is in the majority. A great example was how @TheAKGuy was polling to beat Tony Gonzales in the Texas District 23 primary and AIPAC came in at the last minute with 7 figures to help Tony narrowly win by only a few hundred votes. When it came time for the general election the people in that district wouldn’t risk losing a seat to the other party so twice the amount of people voted the Republican candidate than the Democrat.
We need more bipartisan legislation and officials that represent the majority of American perspectives and our futures. I think that starts by supporting politicians who are publicly willing to put skin in the game and risk the consequences of selling our futures for their short term gain.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
Don’t think of today as America’s birthday… Birthdays are cute. Birthdays are for children.
Today is the day a nation of people stood up to a tyrannical government that no longer represented their interests, values and declared their independence from it. It’s also the day that humanity faced annihilation from an alien species. Today, remember that government overreach is unacceptable, taxation is theft and Randy Quaid for blowing up that spaceship.
Today we celebrate our Independence Day🇺🇸
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A huge congrats to @RichardRyan on his new book launch! Richard is multifaceted (a Swiss Army knife as you will) in tech, entrepreneurship, crypto, media, health, AI, has some pretty bad ass hobbies, and is an overall legit human being
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