Horticulturist. Rock Climber. Thru Hiker. Tinkerer. Vegan. Interested in cryptocurrency, basic income, ML/AI, cottage food production, wilderness
Joined June 2015
- Tweets8.2K
- Following555
- Followers191
- Likes70.1K
James Lindsay retweeted
It's really worrying to see power brokers from Europe push uncritically and ideologically for Bitcoin in El Salvador and the authoritarian regime being implemented by Bukele. Imagine if she did the same for Erdogan (who Bukele openly supports)? What happened to your politics?
James Lindsay retweeted
i would love it if one day a conservative could come onto my stream and explain to me personally why i should care about this
BREAKING: A huge migrant caravan of over 1,000 people crossed illegally into El Paso, TX last night, making it the largest single group we have ever seen. The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets. @FoxNews
James Lindsay retweeted
I think the "is AI art really art?" question is a lot less important than the "is AI art based on stolen work ethical?"
James Lindsay retweeted
I’m sorry but this is so fucking funny
ALT At one point in early April musk appears infatuated with his own idea to replace Twitter with a blockchain based payment and message system. In a string of texts to his brother, kimbal musk, he manages to convince himself that the idea would be a huge way to crush spam while preserving free speech. In this preposterous scenario users would have to pay a fractional amount of the cryptocurrency dogecoin to post or retweet. Roughly 10 days later musk sends a different text noting that “blockchain Twitter isn’t possible”
James Lindsay retweeted
What actually happened: During a suicide call, a Detroit cop shot their partner while aiming *at a dog,* who did not even belong to the person police were there to see.
Detroit cops do this a lot. You would not know from this article.
James Lindsay retweeted
Puerto Rico (ie 3.5 million American citizens) is under water with no electricity, but all the news coverage is about a Queen and royal family that we literally fought a war not to have.
James Lindsay retweeted
this fully grown man has somehow never encountered a sweet potato and watching him talk about it has made me insane
James Lindsay retweeted
The thing that turns you into a deranged raspberry pi psycho is realizing that 80 percent of gadgets are the same 5 microcontrollers glued together and that you can do that shit yourself way cheaper and way more annoying.
James Lindsay retweeted
I just saw someone say “as you get older, it’s harder to make friends”
And I just want to make sure it’s clear that the problem is capitalism taking all our time and energy and not just due to being older like it’s natural causes
James Lindsay retweeted
Very little encapsulates Peter Thiel's New Right more than believing that a kindergarten teacher working 80 hours a week is a pedophile and that insulting Prince Andrew's family should be a fireable offense.
James Lindsay retweeted
Tolkien: “I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all, I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.”
James Lindsay retweeted
An innovative 3D #gear, invented by three Japanese researchers
This amazing concept gives a potential for many applications in health, robotics and many other mechanical fields
Active ball joint mechanism (ABENICS)
#innovation #tech ##3D #science
James Lindsay retweeted
As Biden cancels (some) student debt, remember why the debt exists. A key Reagan advisor warned in 1970 that free college was producing the dangerously explosive "dynamite" of an "educated proletariat," and "we have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education":
James Lindsay retweeted
if you have a problem with the student loan cancellation because you already paid off your loans, just pretend its a tax cut for the rich that you also never got but mysteriously didn't complain about.
