the the uh the government, the administration, and this is true for Democrats and Republicans, uh tend to push back against the court. Um and and and I will say that initially the theyou might say in past administrations the thinking was that the US could take
But in my day, which wasn't that long ago, there were these cool cameras, and you could instantly take a picture and print it. Push back , resistance, right, we can move into that anger.
of cross uh horizontal polonization of this process has been as adults we're push back except from Americans for Truth uh but they're we're wary of like what they have in you know they have it
after letter after letter like this I also got a few I also got some push back from members of the feminist mostly academic feminist Community whofelt that this was a very bad subject to tackle and that by talking about boys we
Kevin, so just just for context here, there was a proposal to build some data centers in Utah, and you're saying that the push back and the negative reaction that has been seen is being encouraged or sponsored by the Chinese who are driving misinformation through bots. Is that what you're proposing?
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Thinking a little bit more about pushback, in the book, you highlight some instances where you took an opportunity to push back on what the common theme or common thought process was going to be. And so I'd love for you to share an example of how you thoughtfully pushed back on a notion, whether it was--
You do-- that is part of what I'm talking about, which is a sort of Jews being able to find some kind of voice to push back against antisemitism, which was not something I was so used to before. But I think that's also quite a good example to talk about Israel a bit, because in the book, I talk about how, for me, I identify myself--
And an answer from the Enlightenment is that it's possible through benign institutions which allow us to deploy energy and knowledge, to push back against entropy, to magnify the better angels of our nature-- as Abraham Lincoln called them, such as reason and sympathy-- while marginalizing our inner demons-- our biases, illusions, our tribalism, our thirst for dominance and vengeance.
When you're asking yourselves those-- when you're asking yourselves those questions, that leads you to the places you should go, which is to other folks who want to band up with you and push back against these systems. And then you can do it from a more empathetic place.
I've been back on Earth for 48 hours. I push back from the table and struggle to stand up, feeling like an old man getting out of a recliner. Stick a fork in me.
We've been together now 25 minutes, we're good friends. So push back a challenge at any point. Are you say you need to do both?
then 40 and then kids and then I start to, you know, change and maybe at some deeper level we are making a certain set able to push back to time zero itself.
Brexit being, you know, a catastrophe. Can I push back on one thing though, with the minimum wage or or this Yeah. The companies that hollowed out the middle class are big tech companies, big finance companies, those mega corporations. And
for, were you equally as angry about these other things that Donald Trump did in Texas, what he tried to do in Indiana, all those, yeah. I just going to push back on these constant questions of Virginia being a hypocrite. What they did in Texas, they didn't give the people a chance to vote on it. What they did in Florida, they're not giving people a chance to vote on it. What they're doing
And then 1520, you have Martin Luther trying to separate from the Catholic Church, which is it's one of the major results of this sharing of information that people start to push back against existing mechanisms that run society and provide all sorts of interesting things like security, whether or not you think they're too autocratic or whatever. And then noticing, oh, my goodness, it's computers being developed in the 1940s.
So we need to push back against those narratives too certainly in academia.
And you have to push back against all those things, or go through them, or go around them because it does matter.
And I communicated all this to the global president. He continued to push back . But then I played the card that-- you can only play this card a handful of times.
But people can push back , and they can claim possession.
We have to push back against what the definitions of queerness and mixed race or even just monoracial categories are.
And they got a push back , but the leadership said, no.
I'm going to push back on that and say it's honestly 80% food and it's only 20% activity.
The San Jose government push back against the INS in the name of defending, quote, "Chicano citizens" against harassment, passing a resolution against this, quote,
She encounters some push back from being a female, from being Persian.
And when I do push back , the feedback I always get is to be nicer.
but still push back ?
Where do I push back ?
Or maybe they push back on each other in a way.
So I want to push back on everybody here and ask you to question why do we still, after over a decade,
But I need to push back , and I need to say, the weakest link is actually in development.
It also helped them push back against the extremists in Kosovo who were saying, oh, this diplomacy is such bullshit.
willing to push back and say, look, this law and order that is being imposed upon us that is causing us
So you would push back .
We're going to push back .
So I'll push back on that, and I'll stand behind that as the history the Macintosh, not to dispute Malone's reporting.
Who can push back .
We have to push back so they don't.
The US and Europe push back and say, Ukraine must be involved.
And also the push back in terms of people wanting to reclaim their privacy.
I want to push back a little bit on some of the ideas that we assume are true and don't question much anymore.
Whether it's push back the release date, or unfortunately, have a director change.
sense of push back . Uh so uh so but but certainly for the ve for the first few
a lot of push back in others and we had a tremendous amount of push back from the kids but you know, it was a process and it took four years but Berkeley was small. It was
Are we just trying to push back against all these practical problems or other alternate approaches to criminal justice in a space settlement?
Just that change will massively push back those boundaries to the point where it's back in a safe operating space.
If we see governments or institutions often push back these deadlines.
If workers began to organize or push back in any way against their bosses, they could be deported.
I think I wanted to push back on the-- it seemed almost like the Amazon recommendation algorithm was being discounted a little bit there,
So it's quite a good push back against the idea that refugees are feckless and irresponsible people.
Have you guys seen any push back from ISPs?