Rod Hilton

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

Here's me saying this would happen a month ago: https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109561278388483333 https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109563779211453364

The only silver lining with this story, as well as stuff like Trump campaigning in NY to shore up house seats for the GOP, is that it indicates their internal polling shows him losing MI/WI/PA, otherwise they wouldn't be doing this. Seems like they're trying to get the house so that with SCOTUS they can overturn the election. So they know they've lost.

@altruios@mastodon.social that's interesting, I should look more into it. I didn't realize there was a difference between rated and ranked choice voting, I thought those were the same thing. The elimination rounds is why I didn't think it would scale but if this other system would allow you to rank your choices without eliminations then yeah that would be amazing

@sachee whoa, very cool. Love your delivery, are you going to share more?

@Basic_Bench@mstdn.social I like the idea of proportional allocation, giving everyone in every state a reason to vote and no reason to focus campaigns on a handful of swing states. But I have concerns about how it would turn every race into another hairsplit 50/50 election. Trump would have gotten 267 electoral votes to Clinton's 265 that way. And now that I see what Nebraska is doing, I'm much more worried about one state defecting to winner-take-all at the last second to steal the election.

@msbellows@c.im Oh, does the House choose President and Senate chooses Vice? Because we'll probably get the House and lose the Senate. Harris/Trump or Harris/Vance?

@MudMan@mas.to @dHeinemann@fosstodon.org @davekarpf@mastodon.social You were always able to click into your own tweet's metrics to see impressions, but it required a deliberate click on each tweet where you wanted that info. People generally never bothered except marketers and advertisers. Seeing it right there on your feed, as you scroll, pushes that information to you rather than requiring you pull it. So people notice more. Further, you never had access to other tweet's view counts as a point of comparison, and now you do.

@johnnywey@mastodon.online Accurate (I assume). But people are default opted-into For You. My point is just that the views feature gives away how much algorithmic interference there is. People think they have a huge audience because they have a large follow count, but the fact is what they post doesn't get seen that widely, and the Views feature shows that.

@altruios@mastodon.social I'm generally an advocate for ranked choice voting but I'm not sure it could scale to the US general election, at least not without major tech assistance which would make people distrustful.