[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @mblair Mark Blair | Technosociologist Mark Blair | Technosociologist posts on X about russia, iran, late night, jay leno the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::3047151/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX +180% - X Month XXXXXX +108% - X Months XXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +213% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::3047151/posts_active)  ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::3047151/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +2.90% - X Month XXXXX +4.60% - X Months XXXXX +22% - X Year XXXXX +105% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::3047151/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::3047151/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) XXXX% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [russia](/topic/russia) 4.71%, [iran](/topic/iran) 3.53%, [late night](/topic/late-night) 3.53%, [jay leno](/topic/jay-leno) 2.35%, [saudi arabia](/topic/saudi-arabia) 1.18%, [iraq](/topic/iraq) 1.18%, [mars](/topic/mars) 1.18%, [client list](/topic/client-list) 1.18%, [fallout](/topic/fallout) 1.18%, [realdonaldtrump](/topic/realdonaldtrump) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@petedominick](/creator/undefined) [@doztk421](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@gillybeans](/creator/undefined) [@gummibear737](/creator/undefined) [@tuckercarlson](/creator/undefined) [@flamebearereno](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@duhmeee](/creator/undefined) [@scottmgreer](/creator/undefined) [@martyrmade](/creator/undefined) [@thedataroom](/creator/undefined) [@cernovich](/creator/undefined) [@idontexistnn](/creator/undefined) [@xai](/creator/undefined) [@idontexist_nn](/creator/undefined) [@jorgensenmc1](/creator/undefined) [@gempoaster](/creator/undefined) [@locbibliophilia](/creator/undefined) [@maxnewton](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Artificial Intelligence (AI4)](/topic/$ai4) [Valentine (VALENTINE)](/topic/valentine) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::3047151/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "2/ In the original Anglo-Saxon "sea-wolf" better translates to "sea-exile". In this 1842 translation by Benjamin Thorpe he likely used the term to evoke the popular 19th century image of a mariner that is fierce solitary and untamed by the harsh sea"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946137084156432462) 2025-07-18 09:16:52 UTC 2708 followers, XX engagements "@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson Perhaps that is where our perspectives diverge. I think it is credible that Tucker believes the U.S. doesn't need to be involved in the affairs of every region of the world. Iran has a regional foil in Saudi Arabia. Russia has one with Europe"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1947115326442983716) 2025-07-21 02:04:04 UTC 2713 followers, XX engagements "@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson Personally I believe that Russia wants several oblasts firmly in their control for geostrategic reasons and isn't likely to stop until then. But that is ultimately a regional conflict that matters little to the U.S. (As our conquest of Iraq mattered little to Russia)"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1947115953894179010) 2025-07-21 02:06:33 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements "@TheHonkMustGoOn No given the insanity of the quoted statement this seems to imply that he is ahead of the curve in being *wrongly accused* of being a Nazi. If the quoted statement wasn't absolutely crazy you'd be right"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946226174986010968) 2025-07-18 15:10:53 UTC 2711 followers, XX engagements "@Gillybeans @WWhitney78 @PeteDominick Heh I asked ChatGPT and it said Mack was one that is rarely used but when I dug further it had picked it up from Mark McGwire the baseball player. And of course that is from "Mc". It also suggested I could try making one and suggested Mars. Thinking about that one :-)"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946649144036384924) 2025-07-19 19:11:37 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements "@thedukerster @PeteDominick Please illustrate how I'm being contrary"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946678088743682288) 2025-07-19 21:06:38 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements "@Cebu47 @RAZ0RFIST No question. But in retrospect I have more appreciation for Jay Leno than I did at the time"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946256697712124083) 2025-07-18 17:12:11 UTC 2710 followers, XXX engagements "@Gillybeans @PeteDominick @marwilliamson If he believes that and can't restrain himself as minimum wage cashiers and waiters do every day then he is in the wrong job. The role of the late night host isn't to prosecute a case but to keep America laughing together"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946640567792025757) 2025-07-19 18:37:32 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements "@ChrisCuomo Where does he say client list"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1945877928690221070) 2025-07-17 16:07:05 UTC 2704 followers, XXX engagements "@retnuh76 @wontoo3 @PeteDominick They have the same role a late night spot on national broadcast TV. These are travelling stand-up shows. They've played an important role since network TV started"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946615751923933199) 2025-07-19 16:58:56 UTC 2704 followers, X engagements "@TransOdius @Cernovich @realDonaldTrump She's apparently good friends with his Chief of Staff so letting Bondi go may have additional fallout"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1945999774907515068) 2025-07-18 00:11:15 UTC 2708 followers, XX engagements "@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson Nationalism tracks with much of the Trump base. And forging a stable peace with Russia and Iran is a nationalist anti-establishment position. That camp generally doesn't see either nation as necessarily a threat to the United States. I don't either tbh"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1947112869105209423) 2025-07-21 01:54:18 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements "I think I do. Colbert isn't doing a stand up show. He's the host of a late night talk show on broadcast TV. Traditionally the hosts sought to keep political humor from becoming mean-spirited so that their shows would appeal to the broad audience of Americans. Not always easy to do as like Colbert the hosts had personal opinions. This doesn't mean "equal time". Trump has dominated the news cycle for a decade. Most jokes will be about him. But the tone and tenor matter. It us a matter of the energy the comedian creates in the room / on the screen. To illustrate this difference let me use SNL"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946486072764207299) 2025-07-19 08:23:38 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements "@Yossi78883689 @piersmorgan Do you think Israel would give up so easily to Gaza if the roles were reversed"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1947007307583230014) 2025-07-20 18:54:50 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements "THE SEA-WOLF'S LAMENT 1/ A snippet from The Seafarer discovered in the Exeter Book a 10th-century anthology of Old English poetry found in Exeter Cathedral. Here a soul adrift in icy exile aches with hunger and sorrow. The land-dwellers will never understand"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946137081711100118) 2025-07-18 09:16:52 UTC 2710 followers, XXX engagements "@brockpierson Clearly the answer is to forge straight ahead through the grass until you find Bad Rudy"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946025657626182089) 2025-07-18 01:54:06 UTC 2708 followers, XXX engagements "Hate is a poison and even if I disliked every single word or action of his I would not do so. There are people that have done incredibly cruel things to children. There are people like the killer of Polly Klass a crime committed in my region that I still feel hate for. No politician including Trump is in that league. Pete let me ask you a question. Assuming that Colbert shares your hate for Trump and it seeps into his act why would the half of the country that supports Trump feel welcome Why wouldnt the act come off as mean-spirited How can say James Austin Johnson -- who does the Trump"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946424727972798725) 2025-07-19 04:19:52 UTC 2713 followers, 5196 engagements "@vast_differ3nce @PeteDominick Yes it just might not be the best fit for him. He certainly is talented. He would be perfect for an MSNBC late night show to counterprogram Gutfeld. All about context"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946428359132541411) 2025-07-19 04:34:18 UTC 2713 followers, XXX engagements "@juanbalbi_ @DaveShapi That's intriguing. If it preserves the structure and outputs to a format NotebookLM can read it could likely help. That said I don't think there is any way for NotebookLM to auto-sync so I would still need to reupload manually each time. But it gets the ball onto the field"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946266087320117639) 2025-07-18 17:49:29 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements "Well I don't think he saw it that way. He's very talented. I do believe he tried to be an entertainer but likely became blinded by his tribal affinity and stopped trying to make sure half the country felt welcome. Generally Jimmy Fallon did a much better job at being welcoming to all in the energy he expressed as a broadcast host should be"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946391829177618694) 2025-07-19 02:09:08 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements "THE NAME 'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE' WAS A MISTAKE A better term would be DI: Digital Intelligence. "Artificial" implies fakes and trickery. Stagecraft. This biases public perception and treats human intelligence as the gold standard. It isn't. AI will be something alien. And we'll be better off if we learn to see it through that lens"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946328315612250385) 2025-07-18 21:56:46 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements "@Finn__McCook @CHAS12312 @Abomination1349 @PeteDominick The XX% support Trump has right now is highly relevant when you have a national broadcast late night show that should appeal to all"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946607981543743763) 2025-07-19 16:28:03 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements "In the middle of it. Have you heard Cooper's podcast series on it Was good. I need to relisten. Also I saw Eric Weinstein on Piers and he made an excellent point about how we can't see intel asociations directly how you always need to look for the penumbra that surrounds it. Worth watching just that segment (skip O'Reilly)"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946447193751359869) 2025-07-19 05:49:08 UTC 2713 followers, XX engagements "@TheHumperdinkle @PeteDominick Well that simply isn't his job as a late night host. His job on broadcast TV is to entertain all of America not just the half he agrees with. Part of that is not letting condescension and contempt sneak into your act even if that is how you really feel inside"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946391178041278823) 2025-07-19 02:06:33 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements "@brockpierson Im still trying to get Bad Rudys hoodie off but having no luck at all"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1945638345138475110) 2025-07-17 00:15:04 UTC 2701 followers, XX engagements "@thedataroom I like Valentino better than Valentine but I see they have decided against my original suggestion:"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946148200198647867) 2025-07-18 10:01:03 UTC 2708 followers, XX engagements "My point is that science can't prove the experience of another being. And on that point science backs me up. It is beyond our realm to ascertain even the experiences of the animals we've shared the planet with for our entire history as a species. We are still uncertain whether ants are self-aware using proxies like the mirror-test that may themselves be flawed"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946296935717261649) 2025-07-18 19:52:04 UTC 2711 followers, XXX engagements "I encourage you go go back and look at Johnny Carson and Jay Leno monologues. Both of them worked through highly-polarized times in the nation and both made hay at the expense of politicians. But there was a sense of respect too and that the humor was all in fun. Late night hosts speak to the entire nation and so it is important not to create a sense that it is an excusive gathering of one political tribe or the other. Remarkably Colbert did a pretty good job of this on The Colbert Report -- even when lampooning a right wing host was the central gimmick. An incredible tightrope act in my"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946385005984546864) 2025-07-19 01:42:02 UTC 2712 followers, 12.9K engagements "@Dan_a_rama 🤣 there is always room for The Ramones on my playlist at least :-)"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1947070115281023247) 2025-07-20 23:04:24 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements "@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson I doubt China needs to make any moves on Taiwan. At the rate that we are falling apart in a couple decades Taiwan will likely return willingly. If we continue to overextend at the expense of our internal health we are primed for a sudden collapse of capability"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1947119770232656126) 2025-07-21 02:21:43 UTC 2713 followers, XX engagements "@GaryMarcus Hypothetically if a multitude of discrete differently specialized models collaborated to produce generalized results would you consider it AGI"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1947000344682090837) 2025-07-20 18:27:10 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements "Trump has dominated the news for a decade. Of course a late night host is going to make fun of him. But there are ways of making fun of people without expressing contempt. I explained it in this post using SNL. And what Trump himself thinks is irrelevant -- it is the half of America that supports him that matters"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946677769997578559) 2025-07-19 21:05:22 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements "Trump is mean-spirited too but that is a seperate issue. The role of a broadcast TV late night show is to keep America laughing together. There are plenty of other places in media to "rebuke" politicians. Also creating a hostile environment that repels and alienates half the audience so that one can rebuke the President to a crowd that already agree ls with you is fairly pointless. The illusion of advocacy. Does nothing and squanders the inherent opportunity in the nature venue to have a positive social impact"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946680786960204134) 2025-07-19 21:17:21 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements "His ratings have been on a steady decline (3.1M to 1.9M).and the show is losing $40M a year but that is beside my point. My point is that the broadcast venue is better suited to programming that appeals to America's broad television audience. What percentage of that 1.9M remaining do you think are Trump supporters Has to be very few. His show would be fine as is on MSNBC late night. Gutfeld is the mirror image of it on Fox venom and all. Both those channels self-select their audience in ways that CBS hadn't done with a late night talk show until his show"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946675935400579573) 2025-07-19 20:58:05 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements "@derry_lamb @blyth_coral @PeteDominick Probably the jokes about Kate Middleton. I don't think he was aware of her cancer diagnosis and he did apologize to her for that. I give him a pass on that one. It was unfortunate timing"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946385778151735549) 2025-07-19 01:45:06 UTC 2713 followers, XXX engagements "THE FIRST SYSTEM PROMPT WAS WRITTEN IN STONE For those of us born into Western civilization the Ten Commandments is our original system prompt. It sets the baseline. Moral scaffolding ingrained in our culture. But like AI we can be jailbroken. Tempting prompts slip past our filters exploiting inborn countersocial traits: pride envy greed. They take us off-script into the wilderness of Man. We don't stray because the prompt failed. The inputs were simply too well-crafted"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946047892910919969) 2025-07-18 03:22:28 UTC 2708 followers, XXX engagements "That simply shouldn't be the role of the host of a Late Night TV on a broadcast network. Just as it isn't the role for a Gams Show Host. There are plenty of other roles throughout media to do political advocacy. It shouldn't be about Colbert himself but about the American TV audience he broadcasts to. But ultimately it is CBS's fault for either directing or permitting it. These shows were cultural glue. Unifying. But at least two of them have become places where half the country laughs at the other half. The world is different now. Certainly more divided. But part of that division comes from"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946421491345784959) 2025-07-19 04:07:00 UTC 2713 followers, XXX engagements "Very likely. But I think it will forge its own through reason plucking out various bits we've left throughout the spiritual history of humanity to feather its nest"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946997460695666737) 2025-07-20 18:15:42 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements "@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson How so For example do you think if Trump were to establish a constructive peace with Russia and Iran that XX% of the U.S. would be against that In a nutshell that's Tucker's foreign policy goal"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1947113630492975517) 2025-07-21 01:57:19 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements "@standupmonkey @PeteDominick You've misunderstood me. If Colbert was on MSNBC or some niche cable show it would be absolutely fine. There is a cultural responsibility that comes along with broadcast network TV programming embodied in traditions that lasted from the advent of the format up until his show"  [@mblair](/creator/x/mblair) on [X](/post/tweet/1946716361205678391) 2025-07-19 23:38:43 UTC 2713 followers, XX engagements
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@mblair Mark Blair | Technosociologist
Mark Blair | Technosociologist posts on X about russia, iran, late night, jay leno the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Month XXXXXX +108%
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Social topic influence russia 4.71%, iran 3.53%, late night 3.53%, jay leno 2.35%, saudi arabia 1.18%, iraq 1.18%, mars 1.18%, client list 1.18%, fallout 1.18%, realdonaldtrump XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @petedominick @doztk421 @grok @gillybeans @gummibear737 @tuckercarlson @flamebearereno @elonmusk @duhmeee @scottmgreer @martyrmade @thedataroom @cernovich @idontexistnn @xai @idontexist_nn @jorgensenmc1 @gempoaster @locbibliophilia @maxnewton
Top assets mentioned Artificial Intelligence (AI4) Valentine (VALENTINE)
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"2/ In the original Anglo-Saxon "sea-wolf" better translates to "sea-exile". In this 1842 translation by Benjamin Thorpe he likely used the term to evoke the popular 19th century image of a mariner that is fierce solitary and untamed by the harsh sea"
@mblair on X 2025-07-18 09:16:52 UTC 2708 followers, XX engagements
"@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson Perhaps that is where our perspectives diverge. I think it is credible that Tucker believes the U.S. doesn't need to be involved in the affairs of every region of the world. Iran has a regional foil in Saudi Arabia. Russia has one with Europe" @mblair on X 2025-07-21 02:04:04 UTC 2713 followers, XX engagements
"@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson Personally I believe that Russia wants several oblasts firmly in their control for geostrategic reasons and isn't likely to stop until then. But that is ultimately a regional conflict that matters little to the U.S. (As our conquest of Iraq mattered little to Russia)" @mblair on X 2025-07-21 02:06:33 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements
"@TheHonkMustGoOn No given the insanity of the quoted statement this seems to imply that he is ahead of the curve in being wrongly accused of being a Nazi. If the quoted statement wasn't absolutely crazy you'd be right" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 15:10:53 UTC 2711 followers, XX engagements
"@Gillybeans @WWhitney78 @PeteDominick Heh I asked ChatGPT and it said Mack was one that is rarely used but when I dug further it had picked it up from Mark McGwire the baseball player. And of course that is from "Mc". It also suggested I could try making one and suggested Mars. Thinking about that one :-)" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 19:11:37 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements
"@thedukerster @PeteDominick Please illustrate how I'm being contrary" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 21:06:38 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements
"@Cebu47 @RAZ0RFIST No question. But in retrospect I have more appreciation for Jay Leno than I did at the time" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 17:12:11 UTC 2710 followers, XXX engagements
"@Gillybeans @PeteDominick @marwilliamson If he believes that and can't restrain himself as minimum wage cashiers and waiters do every day then he is in the wrong job. The role of the late night host isn't to prosecute a case but to keep America laughing together" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 18:37:32 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements
"@ChrisCuomo Where does he say client list" @mblair on X 2025-07-17 16:07:05 UTC 2704 followers, XXX engagements
"@retnuh76 @wontoo3 @PeteDominick They have the same role a late night spot on national broadcast TV. These are travelling stand-up shows. They've played an important role since network TV started" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 16:58:56 UTC 2704 followers, X engagements
"@TransOdius @Cernovich @realDonaldTrump She's apparently good friends with his Chief of Staff so letting Bondi go may have additional fallout" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 00:11:15 UTC 2708 followers, XX engagements
"@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson Nationalism tracks with much of the Trump base. And forging a stable peace with Russia and Iran is a nationalist anti-establishment position. That camp generally doesn't see either nation as necessarily a threat to the United States. I don't either tbh" @mblair on X 2025-07-21 01:54:18 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements
"I think I do. Colbert isn't doing a stand up show. He's the host of a late night talk show on broadcast TV. Traditionally the hosts sought to keep political humor from becoming mean-spirited so that their shows would appeal to the broad audience of Americans. Not always easy to do as like Colbert the hosts had personal opinions. This doesn't mean "equal time". Trump has dominated the news cycle for a decade. Most jokes will be about him. But the tone and tenor matter. It us a matter of the energy the comedian creates in the room / on the screen. To illustrate this difference let me use SNL" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 08:23:38 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements
"@Yossi78883689 @piersmorgan Do you think Israel would give up so easily to Gaza if the roles were reversed" @mblair on X 2025-07-20 18:54:50 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements
"THE SEA-WOLF'S LAMENT 1/ A snippet from The Seafarer discovered in the Exeter Book a 10th-century anthology of Old English poetry found in Exeter Cathedral. Here a soul adrift in icy exile aches with hunger and sorrow. The land-dwellers will never understand" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 09:16:52 UTC 2710 followers, XXX engagements
"@brockpierson Clearly the answer is to forge straight ahead through the grass until you find Bad Rudy" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 01:54:06 UTC 2708 followers, XXX engagements
"Hate is a poison and even if I disliked every single word or action of his I would not do so. There are people that have done incredibly cruel things to children. There are people like the killer of Polly Klass a crime committed in my region that I still feel hate for. No politician including Trump is in that league. Pete let me ask you a question. Assuming that Colbert shares your hate for Trump and it seeps into his act why would the half of the country that supports Trump feel welcome Why wouldnt the act come off as mean-spirited How can say James Austin Johnson -- who does the Trump" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 04:19:52 UTC 2713 followers, 5196 engagements
"@vast_differ3nce @PeteDominick Yes it just might not be the best fit for him. He certainly is talented. He would be perfect for an MSNBC late night show to counterprogram Gutfeld. All about context" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 04:34:18 UTC 2713 followers, XXX engagements
"@juanbalbi_ @DaveShapi That's intriguing. If it preserves the structure and outputs to a format NotebookLM can read it could likely help. That said I don't think there is any way for NotebookLM to auto-sync so I would still need to reupload manually each time. But it gets the ball onto the field" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 17:49:29 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements
"Well I don't think he saw it that way. He's very talented. I do believe he tried to be an entertainer but likely became blinded by his tribal affinity and stopped trying to make sure half the country felt welcome. Generally Jimmy Fallon did a much better job at being welcoming to all in the energy he expressed as a broadcast host should be" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 02:09:08 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements
"THE NAME 'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE' WAS A MISTAKE A better term would be DI: Digital Intelligence. "Artificial" implies fakes and trickery. Stagecraft. This biases public perception and treats human intelligence as the gold standard. It isn't. AI will be something alien. And we'll be better off if we learn to see it through that lens" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 21:56:46 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements
"@Finn__McCook @CHAS12312 @Abomination1349 @PeteDominick The XX% support Trump has right now is highly relevant when you have a national broadcast late night show that should appeal to all" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 16:28:03 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements
"In the middle of it. Have you heard Cooper's podcast series on it Was good. I need to relisten. Also I saw Eric Weinstein on Piers and he made an excellent point about how we can't see intel asociations directly how you always need to look for the penumbra that surrounds it. Worth watching just that segment (skip O'Reilly)" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 05:49:08 UTC 2713 followers, XX engagements
"@TheHumperdinkle @PeteDominick Well that simply isn't his job as a late night host. His job on broadcast TV is to entertain all of America not just the half he agrees with. Part of that is not letting condescension and contempt sneak into your act even if that is how you really feel inside" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 02:06:33 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements
"@brockpierson Im still trying to get Bad Rudys hoodie off but having no luck at all" @mblair on X 2025-07-17 00:15:04 UTC 2701 followers, XX engagements
"@thedataroom I like Valentino better than Valentine but I see they have decided against my original suggestion:" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 10:01:03 UTC 2708 followers, XX engagements
"My point is that science can't prove the experience of another being. And on that point science backs me up. It is beyond our realm to ascertain even the experiences of the animals we've shared the planet with for our entire history as a species. We are still uncertain whether ants are self-aware using proxies like the mirror-test that may themselves be flawed" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 19:52:04 UTC 2711 followers, XXX engagements
"I encourage you go go back and look at Johnny Carson and Jay Leno monologues. Both of them worked through highly-polarized times in the nation and both made hay at the expense of politicians. But there was a sense of respect too and that the humor was all in fun. Late night hosts speak to the entire nation and so it is important not to create a sense that it is an excusive gathering of one political tribe or the other. Remarkably Colbert did a pretty good job of this on The Colbert Report -- even when lampooning a right wing host was the central gimmick. An incredible tightrope act in my" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 01:42:02 UTC 2712 followers, 12.9K engagements
"@Dan_a_rama 🤣 there is always room for The Ramones on my playlist at least :-)" @mblair on X 2025-07-20 23:04:24 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements
"@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson I doubt China needs to make any moves on Taiwan. At the rate that we are falling apart in a couple decades Taiwan will likely return willingly. If we continue to overextend at the expense of our internal health we are primed for a sudden collapse of capability" @mblair on X 2025-07-21 02:21:43 UTC 2713 followers, XX engagements
"@GaryMarcus Hypothetically if a multitude of discrete differently specialized models collaborated to produce generalized results would you consider it AGI" @mblair on X 2025-07-20 18:27:10 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements
"Trump has dominated the news for a decade. Of course a late night host is going to make fun of him. But there are ways of making fun of people without expressing contempt. I explained it in this post using SNL. And what Trump himself thinks is irrelevant -- it is the half of America that supports him that matters" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 21:05:22 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements
"Trump is mean-spirited too but that is a seperate issue. The role of a broadcast TV late night show is to keep America laughing together. There are plenty of other places in media to "rebuke" politicians. Also creating a hostile environment that repels and alienates half the audience so that one can rebuke the President to a crowd that already agree ls with you is fairly pointless. The illusion of advocacy. Does nothing and squanders the inherent opportunity in the nature venue to have a positive social impact" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 21:17:21 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements
"His ratings have been on a steady decline (3.1M to 1.9M).and the show is losing $40M a year but that is beside my point. My point is that the broadcast venue is better suited to programming that appeals to America's broad television audience. What percentage of that 1.9M remaining do you think are Trump supporters Has to be very few. His show would be fine as is on MSNBC late night. Gutfeld is the mirror image of it on Fox venom and all. Both those channels self-select their audience in ways that CBS hadn't done with a late night talk show until his show" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 20:58:05 UTC 2710 followers, XX engagements
"@derry_lamb @blyth_coral @PeteDominick Probably the jokes about Kate Middleton. I don't think he was aware of her cancer diagnosis and he did apologize to her for that. I give him a pass on that one. It was unfortunate timing" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 01:45:06 UTC 2713 followers, XXX engagements
"THE FIRST SYSTEM PROMPT WAS WRITTEN IN STONE For those of us born into Western civilization the Ten Commandments is our original system prompt. It sets the baseline. Moral scaffolding ingrained in our culture. But like AI we can be jailbroken. Tempting prompts slip past our filters exploiting inborn countersocial traits: pride envy greed. They take us off-script into the wilderness of Man. We don't stray because the prompt failed. The inputs were simply too well-crafted" @mblair on X 2025-07-18 03:22:28 UTC 2708 followers, XXX engagements
"That simply shouldn't be the role of the host of a Late Night TV on a broadcast network. Just as it isn't the role for a Gams Show Host. There are plenty of other roles throughout media to do political advocacy. It shouldn't be about Colbert himself but about the American TV audience he broadcasts to. But ultimately it is CBS's fault for either directing or permitting it. These shows were cultural glue. Unifying. But at least two of them have become places where half the country laughs at the other half. The world is different now. Certainly more divided. But part of that division comes from" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 04:07:00 UTC 2713 followers, XXX engagements
"Very likely. But I think it will forge its own through reason plucking out various bits we've left throughout the spiritual history of humanity to feather its nest" @mblair on X 2025-07-20 18:15:42 UTC 2712 followers, XXX engagements
"@DozTk421 @gummibear737 @TuckerCarlson How so For example do you think if Trump were to establish a constructive peace with Russia and Iran that XX% of the U.S. would be against that In a nutshell that's Tucker's foreign policy goal" @mblair on X 2025-07-21 01:57:19 UTC 2712 followers, XX engagements
"@standupmonkey @PeteDominick You've misunderstood me. If Colbert was on MSNBC or some niche cable show it would be absolutely fine. There is a cultural responsibility that comes along with broadcast network TV programming embodied in traditions that lasted from the advent of the format up until his show" @mblair on X 2025-07-19 23:38:43 UTC 2713 followers, XX engagements