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I’ve enjoyed your articles for over 15 years and you continue to publish some of the best commentary online in ALL your musings and now your List I enjoy.

For those less familiar with you, Politics is totally part of Tech. They cannot be unbound from each other. Restrictions on conditions and opportunities are integral to tech practice currently and future systems. Recently tech is far more exposed to vagaries of political maneuvering and dilettante meddling, notable in security, data management and even existence is in question, notably with Twitter. Systemic concerns are now laid bare, at least some parts we now know are affecting millions of people unaware before.

As always, Mike Elgan lays it out, not just the tech turbulence but still horizons and futures to come. Thank you, Mike.

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Thank you so much!!! That's very kind of you. : )

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I like the way you write Mike. You don’t have to be a tech only writer. Fun read, thanks!

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Thank you!

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Missing the mark on Musk. Way more substance, success, and oh free speech without government intervention?

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If you've been led to believe by liars like Musk that the Twitterfiles scandal involved government intervention with Twitter, you might enjoy this podcast episode by Sam Harris, where he lays bare the facts of that whole lie: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/307-twitter-elon-free-speech

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Sam Harris has no credibility-already stated he was willing to lie for his cause

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He discusses that extensively on the podcast episode, and was taken out of context and smeared based on a false accusation by Musk and others.

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I came for the tech, leaving because of the politics. Check your own narcissism.

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If you disagree please share your thoughts, don't just hang up.

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I didn't mention politics. I mentioned -- under the larger theme of public narcissists -- Trump's narcissism, which is a lifelong personality trait, and criminality, which is a lifelong fact about Trump decades before he ever entered politics. I talked about Trump's lying, which is another obvious, indisputable characteristic of this person. I didn't mention politics, policy, the left, the right, the parties or anything else about politics. If you would prefer that I talk about public narcissists without mentioning Trump, well, that just doesn't make sense to me.

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