Tuesday tweets -- politics, math, fun with creepy chickens
West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more) 2024-04-23
To Russia with Love...
We start out with, I kid you not, a MAGA letter of apology to Moscow.
Same shit, different day. pic.twitter.com/8aeHXG1PqZ
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) April 21, 2024
Gaetz says that he thinks that at least 1-3 of his “corrupt Republican colleagues” will take a bribe and vote for Hakeem Jeffries once a motion to vacate is successful. pic.twitter.com/cT7XlW7rkj
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 19, 2024
Whoa if true. In fact, whoa if not true but she’s still saying this publicly. https://t.co/aNVMo6dVhL
— Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) April 19, 2024
Russian state TV praises Marjorie Taylor Greene for opposing aid to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/UpxPpwNvDI
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) April 19, 2024
Marge Greene actually wrote this piece of Putin propaganda into legislation. Directly from Putin’s mouth into the U.S. Congress. pic.twitter.com/IMumU26rAe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 19, 2024
Russian State TV praising Marge: “Greene is a real beauty. She is a blond who wears white coats with a fur collar. She’s demonstrably heterosexual.” https://t.co/v9HQU5BJCi pic.twitter.com/aZVj23RTN4
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 21, 2024
I've heard that China was lobbying hard for aid to... [checks notes]... TaiwanRep. Eric Burlison: “Johnson has become - his reputation, his history, his legacy, will be the Speaker who got things done with Democrats. Unfortunately, that’s a fact. I don’t even recognize the person that I once called a friend.” pic.twitter.com/NpDlptY37m
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 19, 2024
One of Trump’s old pals weighs in on Johnson. pic.twitter.com/NdqIDG0Pgt
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 20, 2024
🔥 @RepTonyGonzales on CNN SOTU: “It's my absolute honor to be in Congress but I serve with some real scumbags. Look, Matt Gaetz — he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white…
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 21, 2024
This might be my favorite headline of the week. pic.twitter.com/ROYOql70mg
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 22, 2024
If you traveled back in time and told me Michael Steele would become a political voice of reason, I'd say "you have a time machine?!?!?"The Senate should say NO to the warmonger wishlist pushed through by Speaker Johnson. pic.twitter.com/OJgJx2kHvC
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) April 20, 2024
Andrea Mitchell- “If you saw Donald Trump behind bars…” Wouldn’t his fundraising and polls go up? Michael Steele- “Well let’s do it and find out. Why are we concerned with how much money he raises off of a perp-walk?”@MSNBC (4/15/24) pic.twitter.com/KfBLJs60BT
— BetoMedia (@BetoMedia) April 15, 2024
In case you were wondering, there really are people on the far right who make Alex Jones look like the sane one.The other funny part about this is that the hardcore MAGA people in the House and Senate are denouncing the aid package to Ukraine as treasonous while Lindsey is trying to give all the credit for it to Trump. pic.twitter.com/Xk8vKjXgbX
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 21, 2024
The Republican Senate candidate from Arizona continues to spin like a weather vane in a tornado on the biggest issue of the campaign.Alex Jones says Hitler is bad and his fans are...not happy. He's getting ratioed on these replies. Madness. pic.twitter.com/Ljs2fvxcWp
— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) April 21, 2024
Kari Lake calls on Arizona county sheriffs to enforce 1864 abortion ban https://t.co/7Trl0oEBbT
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 22, 2024
As we've been saying for about two years now, keep an eye on the secondary and tertiary impact of Dobbs (like preventing women from getting prompt and appropriate treatment for miscarriages).Kari Lake says she is concerned that Hillary Clinton may be plotting to send a hit man after her to take her out. Story …https://t.co/xxU2rpmtlz
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 22, 2024
Reading between the lines here, hospitals appear more afraid of criminal and civil charges for providing abortions to patients in a medical emergency than they are of federal penalties for turning those patients away. https://t.co/y9iUGY0GRj
— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) April 19, 2024
“It is shocking, it’s absolutely shocking,” said Amelia Huntsberger, an OB/GYN in Oregon. “It is appalling that someone would show up to an emergency room and not receive care -- this is inconceivable.”https://t.co/3l9Mb3ZAjY
— Harris Meyer (@Meyer_HM) April 19, 2024
In case you were wondering if the Republican establishment was planning on backing away from reproductive issues until after the election.
Republicans also continue staking out other notable positions on health care.Adopting a pro-contraception strategy would be a significant unforced error for the GOP. Women are increasingly displeased with birth control, and there’s little evidence it decreases abortion rates. My latest for NR magazine: https://t.co/BnvnWGfqqs
— Alexandra DeSanctis Marr (@xan_desanctis) April 19, 2024
Republicans in New Hampshire are moving to remove its requirement for children in child care to get the polio vaccine. It would be the first state in the nation to do so. https://t.co/1KKQnDkb7f pic.twitter.com/zTUjJdqLjQ
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) April 21, 2024
Peter Thiel has invested in a “period tracking app that dissuades users from taking birth control” (It was Thiel who bankrolled JD Vance’s last campaign. Vance is on Trump’s VP short list.) 10/31/22 1/ https://t.co/e4OpSuWBF0 pic.twitter.com/rOTE3uYrGk
— jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) April 22, 2024
Every candidate's supporters will tell themselves the occasional lie, but this is like Democrats in '38 telling themselves what a great mountain climber FDR is.
Editor’s note - There is a 0.0% chance he will testify.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 20, 2024
I try not to rely too much on these crazies in the crowd. It's too easy to cherry pick to make the other side look bad, but you'll notice it's RSBN doing the cherry picking.
This guy at Trump rally in NC today has some kind of conspiracy that a lot of US dollars are worthless but Trump has made sure that his are real and will let him redeem his dollars for gold when he is president. pic.twitter.com/3BVuJtwpfV
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 20, 2024
Dems in disarray...
Remember when we said the money story went from Biden/Harris all the way down to the state house races?
Holy shit, Michigan Dem Party + Michigan House Dems are reserving $18m+ in ads for the state House elections https://t.co/vwhB3hzqKP pic.twitter.com/9DWYw3ZM6v
— Ben McAdams Memorial Acct (@purrtah) April 20, 2024
Lots of Republicans seem to be getting nervous.
Marjorie Taylor Greene to Alex Jones: I’m not so sure that Trump is going to be able to win this election against Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/NxjPCY7PJ8
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 22, 2024
Disappointing...Fox host: President Biden is busy, he's gone to battleground Pennsylvania again and again and again. Nearly 20 trips over just the past 6 weeks pic.twitter.com/4J1iqxOjIA
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 19, 2024
John Oliver's piece, which reportedly took months to assemble, was superficial both-sides-ism more concerned with complaining skeptics are "killjoys" and facts are "boring as fuck" than in providing the kind of deep-dive factual analysis @LastWeekTonight is typically known for. https://t.co/jlQXoUfVpI
— Jason Colavito (@JasonColavito) April 22, 2024
I find it interesting that @nytimes covered many pronouncements from the Future of Humanity Institute and seemed to take their ideas somewhat seriously. But for coverage of its closure, I must look to the Guardian or the Oxford Student newspaper: pic.twitter.com/SrGmySY1rY
— Critical AI : first issue out! https://read.dukeup (@CriticalAI) April 22, 2024
😧 How on earth could you say this, @mustafasuleyman @microsoft? LLMs and related techniques have been used to • influence elections • influence markets • generate nonconsensual deepfake porn • generate so much child porn the NCEMC is overwhelmed • write fake books,… https://t.co/eoMgaiuInl
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) April 22, 2024
"I got past the guard rails." "Did you hack the system?" "No, I just used auto-complete."
MetaAI won't create images of real people. But it will create images in real time as you type the prompt. That means it will start to draw someone named "Taylor Sw" but it won't draw "Taylor Swift." pic.twitter.com/NbE6n8fHLv
— Jane Rosenzweig (@RosenzweigJane) April 21, 2024
Fun with chickens. All kidding aside, this self-described Alabama redneck is an engineer with one of the smartest and most thoughtful science channels on YouTube. When just the name of the jpeg is enough.Here is the only number that cannot be written as x² + 2y² + 7z² + 11w² pic.twitter.com/YuQ4n9MP8s
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) April 20, 2024
Airplane_with_dots.jpg https://t.co/kFWckMVHnx
— Steve McCormick (@Quasilocal) April 18, 2024