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Speaking to downtown business group, Harrell calls Musk, Thiel, and other Trump tech advisors “some of the smartest innovators around” (publicola.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s a bad line for sure. I watched and read through the follow-up quotes and I think this bit is important to read along with it:

“The mayor was not praising them, he was referencing they have an objective reputation as leaders in technology and innovation, and that it is a danger they are in the president’s orbit,” Housen said. “He certainly doesn’t agree with their politics, which is why he highlighted this through concerns around the actions coming out of DC like significant staffing cuts impacting cybersecurity and the degradation of protections and questions over access to personal data.”

Could’ve been foot-in-mouth syndrome, and I think the concerns he shared about federal layoffs support his real intent. I know it’s easy to see red right now, and that’s why it’s important to distinguish the real problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Agree on foot-in-mouth after watching the video. He stumbles immediately following this sentence having lost his argument. Not sure of Mayor Harrell’s politics since I don’t live in Seattle right now (just an admirer) but headlines like these do make the experience of reading the news so difficult. No one should be calling those grifters innovators though… he needs to remove that lexicon from his mouth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I have a difficult time separating the Elonverse from all the incredibly cool shit SpaceX keeps doing. I have to constantly remind myself that I’m following it for the engineers that are pioneering breakthrough tech and that it has nothing to do with Mr. Elmo. How you walk that tightrope when you’re a policymaker must be even more challenging.