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Education hasn't been defunded. I don't know why so many people keep posting that misinformation when the opposite is true.

Inflation-adjusted funding per student rose from $14,969 to $20,322 over the past two decades.

K-12 funding rose $1,610 per student in real terms between 2020 and 2023 alone.

"Schools in the United States spend an average of $20,387 per pupil, which is the 3rd highest amount per pupil (after adjusting to local currency values) among the 40 other developed nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)."

Would you ban alcohol and video games and Netflix?

Do you think your anecdote is more likely to be true than an insurance company putting its money where its mouth is?

"Tesla Full Self-Driving is twice as safe, so Lemonade takes 50% off every mile driven with FSD."

1. Tesla has $40B in cash and is profitable. To say it's worth $5B is beyond absurd.

2. The market determines what is a fair value, not rando haters on the internet. Even professional Wall Street consensus is that it's fair value at approximately $1.2T market cap.

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/312605-schumer-t...

He said a while ago that he was open to trying it in response to some shareholders who kept asking him to advertise.

This applies to discussion too.

For instance, how many Reddit comments are bots? With the extreme groupthink present there, it wouldn't be a huge shock if it already makes up over half of the comments in popular subs.

Twitter/X has a productive approach with Community Notes. Scam ads get noted.

"under-delivering"

Delivered millions of EVs that everyone said would never work, dragging the entire car industry out of its stupor.

Delivered a vast electric charging network and made it available to the competition.

Delivered the best satellite internet.

Delivered rockets that NASA uses.

Delivered the most payload to space, more than even China.

Gee, imagine under-delivering that badly.

He's an engineeer that worked through this with other engineers from first principles.

You're spreading bullshit with 2 seconds of effort.

You're right that it's too slow.

It would help if they sent a notification to everyone who liked or interacted with such a tweet, to give them the community notes update. And or resurface it in the timeline.

Community notes is the replacement for s/moderation/censorship. It's far more truthful and accurate than any s/moderation/censorship committee. This has been repeatedly demonstrated.

Why?

It's like opting out of the genepool. Twitter/X is still where everything happens and where you get closest to the source.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com

Even the most vocal Spaceman haters come back whenever something big is happening. This was reaffirmed again recently with the entire OpenAI CEO saga.

Add to that community notes, the single best social media innovation.

Don't confuse tolerance for free speech with the dubious concept of hate speech and its selective application.

It demonstrably has FSD capability. Marques Brownlee has a video from last year where it drove him to his studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nF0K2nJ7N8

Why does that article say Elon caved as though he's personally involved in every moderation decision. He wasn't even aware of it and sees it as a problem to be fixed.

"First I’ve heard. It is not possible for me to fix every aspect of Twitter worldwide overnight, while still running Tesla and SpaceX, among other things."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1618319479662055426

That would work. It's hard to think of a better choice.

That's a salient point. Biased, uneven, nontransparent moderation was always happening with weak justification, it was just done by unaccountable people and propagandized as righteous.

Remember people getting banned for saying "learn to code", disallowing certain news links even in DMs, shadowbanning undesirables with no transparency.

If PG isn't a case of malicious enforcement by moderation and doesn't reverse this policy, he's truly lost the plot.

Now let's see if he bans and fires George Hotz, who is working at Twitter.

"Agreed that’s this is an absolutely ridiculous policy. My bio link has been a link to my Instagram since I created this Twitter. Feel free to ban me." https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/160459789929523609...

"Btw follow me on Instagram in case I get banned here, you know how to find me

If saying that is banned, this isn’t somewhere I want to be anymore. That’s so far from free speech." https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/160459985556060569...

This is fucking sad. This is just as bad as the old Twitter that banned people for saying things like "learn to code".

Any hope for an improved Twitter is getting tossed out the window.

PG still has an excellent batting average and is more insightful than not even on Twitter.

"Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content."

Is this a violation of the 1st Amendment or a way to skirt around it?

I appreciate you pointing out that both sides are disingenuous about assassination attempts.

My attacks on you are consequence culture. Your attacks on me are stochastic terrorism.

Exactly, the hypocrisy knows no bounds.

They were defending Twitter's biased nontransparent censorship before only because it aligned with their bias. Now that it doesn't match their bias, they see the problem.

Finally, welcome to the club!

Welcome to the new Twitter, just like the old Twitter.

At least now everyone understands the value of a neutral free speech town square and can see that "it's a company, they can do what they want" was always a disingenuous argument. It was never principled, it was always predicated on bias alignment. It's the same with those who are happy about these journalists being banned. Blatant bias and hypocrisy on both sides.

That is what people are doing with TSLA. Cherry picking one of many tech stocks that went down and trying to attribute to something other than macroeconomic factors.

All tech stocks took a dive.

They previously agreed, but of course that was when it was them and not someone they dislike. If it's someone they don't like, then fair game.

"Doxxing, stalking, trying to hurt people's loved ones, threatening them, it's not OK in any situation. People on here who want to constantly stoke these politicized outrage campaigns want to dismiss it, but it shouldn't be dismissed. Has very real consequences." @taylorlorenz

That was the case until a stalker got close to his toddler. That clearly shook him and changed his mind. Now the account will come back with a delay.

He also changed his mind on free speech absolutism. He came around to the "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach" argument.

Hopefully it's 5D Chess, playing the long game.

"A warm welcome to all the newest converts to the great American cause of free speech!" @pmarca

"If the same thing was happening"

It's a hypothetical. Swap the word "Elon" with "AOC".