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An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.

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@JeremyW33138778 @Dust92 @GregAbbott_TX

That's not what separation of church and state is, no.

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@JoelGeo55746880 @GregAbbott_TX

Others have made this point. My response: twitter.com/dchackethal/st…

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@SSEG_KingCosta @GregAbbott_TX

Well, maybe so, but that's not the meaning I am using. Note that I didn't say anything bad about Christianity. For all you know I might be a Christian.

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@Dust92 @GregAbbott_TX

What you're doing, expressing intolerance of the free exercise of religion

That isn't what I'm doing. I'm not saying Abbott shouldn't be religious. You're arguing against claims I didn't make.

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@ReneBon69069180 @GregAbbott_TX

No, it goes both ways. Religious ideas should not be advocated by politicians.

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@Wal_Patriota @GregAbbott_TX

I can appreciate someone who takes ideas seriously.

What if someone is a Christian and wants to fight against Satan, except he just doesn’t think politicians should use their political platform to spread religious memes? Does that still make him Satan?

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@TheHistorian19 @GregAbbott_TX

LOL what a powerful, condescending mic drop. You’re not convincing anyone that way.

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@Dan03292062 @GregAbbott_TX

I didn’t say he’s trying to establish a mandatory religion. You’re arguing against points I didn’t make.

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@JeremyW33138778 @GregAbbott_TX

Yes, actually, it does mean that.

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@SSEG_KingCosta @GregAbbott_TX

What do you think its new meaning is?

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@JeremyW33138778 @GregAbbott_TX

I didn’t say that he wasn’t. I’m saying him using the same platform he usually uses to make political announcements blurs the line between state and religion. It’s unprofessional of a politician to do so.

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@Reecespuffs14 @HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX

Would you feel the same way if it was Islam he practiced instead of Christianity?

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@Wal_Patriota @GregAbbott_TX

So anyone who thinks politicians shouldn’t use their platform to spread Christian memes is or at least supports Satan? Is that what you’re saying?

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@isth1srealL1fe @GregAbbott_TX

LOL. “Anyone who disagrees with me is evil.”

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@RuthlessLatinX @GregAbbott_TX

He put the source in his tweet.

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Prophecy -> pessimism -> undervaluing achievements. twitter.com/RealJamesWoods…

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@HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX

He speaks as a politician to people following him as a politician. He makes political announcements using this profile all the time. You know what’s going on here.

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@GregAbbott_TX

Separation of church and state, anyone?

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@KittySnoww @GregAbbott_TX

Why not? A good government gets smaller, not bigger.

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It completely automates error detection: it shows you how many words you mistyped and allows you to practice them. It also shows you a replay of your typing speed.

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Get out of there. Now. twitter.com/KevinUncensore…

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Very cool website to practice your typing: monkeytype.com

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RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Most people who practice Islam would never do this. Why are we focusing on the 30% or whatever who think it's OK, and…

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@GregAbbott_TX

Seems like you’ve been signing a lot of laws lately. Do you ever get rid of laws, too?

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@nomadcapitalist

Lack of knowledge.

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@OfficialGaryS @liberty_deity @DeGuerre_Nom

Isn't that a problem with conservatives, not with the graphic?

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RT @dockaurG:
🧐But but the “cases”, the scariants, the “delta” scariant! A break from your regularly scheduled state-sponsored fear-mongeri…

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@ClimateWarrior7

So brave!

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RT @NASAPersevere:
Mapping out a path in my search for signs of ancient life: after my first campaign to the south, the long term plan take…

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RT @CrimeADay:
21 USC §676 & 9 CFR §319.180(a) make it a federal crime to sell overly fatty hot dogs.

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RT @BasedMudMonster:
@Timcast

Gender doesn’t exist, therefore the gender wage gap can’t exist

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@drumheadberlin @BILD

Lösung: die Rente gibt es für jeden sobald er mag, wenn er für seine eigene Rente sorgt, nicht für die anderer, und wenn kein ineffizientes Staatsorgan damit beauftragt wird.

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RT @michaelmalice:
the last time you people didnt understand the concept of private property you ended up selling Manhattan for a bunch of…

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RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Fauci is the science, and the science is Fauci.

Enemies of Fauci are enemies of the science!

Fauci is the science's…

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@brbascript

That was Billie red nuts!

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@MattRaehl @emmalsalinas

Presumably imperfectly self-replicating programs. Wouldn't be a computer you'd wanna use.

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"Discounting Future Knowledge": blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/discount…

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@ks445599 @JonMunitz

Yea. And, assuming those “federal tax bill” numbers are correct—which I doubt—why not lower the tax burden for “wage earners” instead of raising it for those oh-so-greedy evil rich people?

That should enable wage earners to “spend on basics” themselves.

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"Many people decided that this was the end of the world, and that therefore attempting any further earthly improvements was pointless." (from David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity)

Who thought so: medieval Europeans during the Black Death or 21st-century environmentalists?

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Yeah, malaria plays real nice out there in nature. twitter.com/normonics/stat…

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RT @TheBabylonBee:
Governor Gavin Newsom Announces He's Using His Emergency Powers To Wish For More Emergency Powers babylonbee.com/news/gov-gavin…

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RT @SJobs_Stories:
"This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and a half years." - Steve Jobs, presenting first iPhone at MacWorld…

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@MagnetThatcher

Yeah, first there was only a bubble of explicability in an ocean of senselessness (the Haldane-Dawkins argument), now that ocean is at least explicable too, but still finite.

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@jdeamattson @levelsio

Yeah that looks like SF not Cupertino.

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@CrimeADay

How would this country work without these laws?

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RT @realchrisrufo:
National Propaganda Radio strikes again.

It's like a headline from 1981 saying: "Republicans across the country are de…

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@AxelKamann

Mensch:innen. Das mit dem Gendern muss sie noch üben.

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RT @amasad:
Imagine sending someone a deep link to a breakpoint with the program halted and all the state ready to debug.

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@mercury191872 @brbascript

Yes such a good scene.

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You'll restore access even for Nigerians with conservative and/or anti-lockdown views? twitter.com/Policy/status/…

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@Markus_Krall

Hochstapler:innen:de+ (er/sie/es*+)

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Good example of academic obscurantism and its translation (thread): twitter.com/AlexEpstein/st…

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@GregAbbott_TX

Sounds like you’re aiming to regulate it. If you really wanted the blockchain to expand, you’d stay out of it.

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@BridgetPhetasy

Doesn't it cost more money to stay in those places?

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@chriskalmar

Formatted like that it’s not so bad. Reads just like nested conditionals.

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@CasuallyGreg

Can't find that account. Got a link to the tweet?

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RT @AurelianofRome:
@SwipeWright

People are just making up words to give themselves titles that they believe are prestigious.

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@_Islamicat

Steal is against lawses

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@dvassallo

Unless you’re in politics and complain on people’s behalf.

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RT @CrimeADay:
21 USC §§331, 333, 342 & 21 CFR §§110.110 make it a federal crime to sell canned spinach with caterpillars in it if the cate…

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@DavidDeutschOxf @jchalupa_

Say the birds' algorithms for detecting and nudging small asteroids nearby have reach to also detect and nudge big and far-away ones. Say it's because big far-away ones look like small close ones. Birds evolve group behavior to fly out in huge flocks to nudge big asteroids.

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@jchalupa_ @DavidDeutschOxf

Yeah could be. To be clear, I don’t claim that what I’m proposing would happen in exactly that way. But isn’t it sufficient to show that biological evolution could lead to organisms that deflect asteroids in principle?

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@jchalupa_ @DavidDeutschOxf

Not a sacrifice if the bird doesn't die.

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@jchalupa_ @DavidDeutschOxf

Could be that birds that avoid debris enable it to continue down its path and kill other birds, so genes that code for birds that actively seek out debris and deflect it back into space would spread more.

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@jchalupa_ @DavidDeutschOxf

...and bigger debris, and those birds' adaptations develop reach to deflect that too. Slight modifications to birds' existing hunting algorithms detect size, speed, and trajectory of debris. The more those birds are able to deflect it, the more they spread.

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@jchalupa_ @DavidDeutschOxf

Say some birds develop adaptations to live at altitudes so high they deal with space debris (left by people and otherwise). Many of them die through collisions but some happen to have adaptations that help them deflect debris. As people's space endeavors increase, there's more...

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@DavidDeutschOxf

Why couldn’t biological evolution make adaptations that deflect asteroids, in principle?

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RT @TitaniaMcGrath:
It takes real courage for major corporations to display the Pride rainbow colours in our homophobic and heteronormative…

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Buggy cat 🐛 🐱

instagram.com/reel/CPl3ZBgBY…

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RT @micsolana:
this week in san francisco

percent of population vaccinated: 70%
daily new covid cases per 100k: 1.4
number of times i've…

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@lode_cesky @michaelmalice @RyanOfKalamazoo @NotAdvised1 @sinbabe69

That isn't a sentence.

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RT @dchackethal:
@RyanOfKalamazoo @NotAdvised1 @sinbabe69 @michaelmalice

That, in a nutshell, is what "everybody owns it" always comes down…

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@jchalupa_

Yes. It's an old socialist trick. But I'm not sure the push is wholly anti-democratic—in some ways it shows how close to socialism democracy really is.

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"I believe that the demand for a theory of successful thinking cannot be satisfied. Nor is it the same as a theory of creative thinking."

– Popper, translated freely from his autobiography

How much further along would AGI be if researchers took these two sentences seriously?

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@profwolff

So how much violence are you willing to use against those who don't want to have their wealth "redistributed"?

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Here we go again... twitter.com/profwolff/stat…

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@michaelmalice

"take up the great cause of Socialism" ?

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RT @diemauerthewall:
LEAP INTO FREEDOM
East German soldier Conrad Schumann jumping barbed wire to freedom as he defects from East Berlin, A…

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@NotAdvised1 @RyanOfKalamazoo @sinbabe69 @michaelmalice

I didn’t say it’s okay to destroy public property. Note, in particular: twitter.com/dchackethal/st…

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RT @patrickc:
@heartbreakbrett

For who? Me, no.

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@lode_cesky @michaelmalice @RyanOfKalamazoo @NotAdvised1 @sinbabe69

Dunno what you're referring to by "it al" but I'm inclined to say "no" since revolutions are bad (Popper).

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@NotAdvised1 @RyanOfKalamazoo @sinbabe69 @michaelmalice

Indeed. Take it seriously and you might learn something.

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@NotAdvised1 @RyanOfKalamazoo @sinbabe69 @michaelmalice

When everybody has a say, nobody does.

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What a great banner, gonna start using this. twitter.com/michaelmalice/…

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@RyanOfKalamazoo @NotAdvised1 @sinbabe69 @michaelmalice

That, in a nutshell, is what "everybody owns it" always comes down to: when you want to have a say in what to do with it, suddenly everyone else owns it except you.

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@alexandereardon

Saying that returning false from an object-property event handler will "cancel the event" may be a bit misleading as the event still triggers. It has to, since JS doesn't know that the fn returns false before running it. Only the default behavior after the fn runs is canceled.

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@brbascript

"I... did not follow what you just said."

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@Neuro_Skeptic

Presumably they meant “consciousness and disorders related to consciousness”.

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RT @HannahCox7:
Accurate https://t.co/BCbpmm2RzO

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@JustJustalan @angela4LNCChair

They do, was gonna say the same thing.

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RT @TheBabylonBee:
'You Can Reopen Now!' Governor Newsom Shouts At Row Of Abandoned, Dilapidated Buildings babylonbee.com/news/you-can-r…

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