John Burwell retweeted
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).
It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.
The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.
We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.
John Burwell retweeted
Elon Musk didn’t build his empire on an H1B visa.
He slipped into the U.S. on a student visa he never intended to use, violating its terms to work and establish his foothold.
His revisionist tale of humble beginnings isn’t just about shaping his image—it’s a calculated effort to dodge scrutiny, avoid deportation, and sidestep the financial and legal fallout of his immigration violations.
John Burwell retweeted
So the Republican mayor of Oklahoma City comes out for Kamala Harris against Trump, and the Washington Post takes a pass. #2024
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NYT tweeted this to its 55 million followers and it has under 500 retweets - presumably suppressed due to the link out. “John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would try to govern like a dictator if elected”
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John Burwell retweeted
The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Trump:
“No one has ever been as dangerous to this country” independent.co.uk/news/world…
The President of United States the People not the other way around. #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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.@karaswisher listening to your interview on the @BulwarkOnline about the Google party. I have a new term for you -- fundatory.
John Burwell retweeted
MAGA Logic:
-Abortion: Ban it
-Marijuana: Ban it
-Drag shows: Ban it
-Immigration: Ban it
-Public Schools: Ban it
-Dialogue on racism: Ban it
-Books by Black or LGBTQ authors: Ban it
-Guns: BANS DON’T WORK YOU SNOWFLAKES
#Lewiston
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BREAKING: Special Counsel Jack Smith makes a move like a chess master — files a motion to exclude special pieces of evidence in the 2020 criminal case including Trump's false claim that he is being politically targeted as well as other conspiracy theories.
If successful, this measure will stop Trump from polluting the courtroom with deranged lies...
Additionally, Smith cited the false conspiracy theory that undercover feds were hidden inside the January 6th crowd, working to instigate the violent coup attempt.
MAGA supporters have repeatedly tried to wash away the culpability for their violent actions by blaming the FBI and other federal agencies.
"The Court should not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant disinformation, and should reject his attempt to inject politics into this proceeding," Smith's filing reads.
Smith asked the court to bar Trump from peddling a "theory of selective or vindictive prosecution or to otherwise improperly inject politics into the trial."
The Special Counsel tore into the lie that Trump is being prosecuted to help Democrats—
"In addition to being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury’s determination of the defendant’s guilt or innocence, would be prejudicial if presented to the jury, and must be excluded," Smith wrote.
On top of that, Smith wants the court to prohibit Trump from telling the jury that other people ""including law enforcement, military forces, unidentified secret agents, and foreign influence" are responsible for the January 6th insurrection.
This is a no-brainer.
The court must grant Jack Smith's request.
Please retweet and ❤️ to urge the court to honor Smith's request — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb
John Burwell retweeted
Do you agree with Seth Myers’ comments about former President Donald Trump?
“F—k this dipsh-t. Racist doofus thinks he can swoop in and set up a dictatorship in 2024 despite having, like, nine sets of handcuffs on him.
Trump dances on stage like a guy in a locker room who’s trying to towel off his ball sack. But he is very much planning on completing his authoritarian takeover if he wins in 2024, and it’s clear he’s got the support of the Republican party, which has become a movement fundamentally opposed to democracy.”
Is there a danger that the man who once allegedly told aides that he wanted to remain in power even if he lost in 2020, becomes president once more?
