Colin 🇺🇸
@cvonh.bsky.social
Patriot. Former NH elected official; current dad, democracy defender & startup investor. Long term optimist, short-term cynic.
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Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, she's focused on keeping Oura’s core users happy while organically attracting new segments. And young women are becoming part of that core market.
Oura is winning young women and losing gym rats, and it's fine with that | TechCrunch
Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, she's focused on keeping Oura’s core users happy while organically attracting new segments. And young women are becoming part of that core market.
techcrunch.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, she's focused on keeping Oura’s core users happy while organically attracting new segments. And young women are becoming part of that core market.
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Compelling piece from @adambonica.bsky.social. It's bad that voters think both Dems and GOP are corrupt. I think there's something to a "clean house" brand refresh for the Dems. But I suspect outsiders are going to have to do the refreshing.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...
The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party
But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.
data4democracy.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Compelling piece from @adambonica.bsky.social. It's bad that voters think both Dems and GOP are corrupt. I think there's something to a "clean house" brand refresh for the Dems. But I suspect outsiders are going to have to do the refreshing.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...
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Wrote a little exploration of confirmation bias in LLM responses and on whether educational mitigations could help. It's a tiny constructed example, but keeping it small allows for some experimentation showing some fascinating behavior I haven't seen detailed before.
Confirmation Bias in LLM Responses and Potential Educational Mitigations
A couple notes on an interesting problem and some possible educational approaches to it
mikecaulfield.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Wrote a little exploration of confirmation bias in LLM responses and on whether educational mitigations could help. It's a tiny constructed example, but keeping it small allows for some experimentation showing some fascinating behavior I haven't seen detailed before.
There is a lot that is pretty spot-on here — including both the likelihood that NH leads off 2028 and the kicker telling N.H. to approach the calendar with humility.
(especially amidst all the ongoing threats to free and fair elections)
#nhpolitics #fitn
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
(especially amidst all the ongoing threats to free and fair elections)
#nhpolitics #fitn
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The DNC Will Have No Choice But to Restore New Hampshire’s First-In-the-Nation Role
Democrats Want Party Unity. The Answer May Lie in New Hampshire.
www.politico.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
There is a lot that is pretty spot-on here — including both the likelihood that NH leads off 2028 and the kicker telling N.H. to approach the calendar with humility.
(especially amidst all the ongoing threats to free and fair elections)
#nhpolitics #fitn
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
(especially amidst all the ongoing threats to free and fair elections)
#nhpolitics #fitn
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.
Bluesky's CEO warns you shouldn't 'fully outsource your thinking' to AI
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.
www.businessinsider.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.
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We need to make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising. And, we need to really examine referral fees as well.
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
July 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We need to make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising. And, we need to really examine referral fees as well.
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
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The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!
July 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!
Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness /
We fought for these ideals we shouldn't settle
for less.
pursuit of happiness /
We fought for these ideals we shouldn't settle
for less.
July 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness /
We fought for these ideals we shouldn't settle
for less.
pursuit of happiness /
We fought for these ideals we shouldn't settle
for less.
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Trump is claiming his strikes on Iran made the American people safer. He is dangerously wrong.
I served two combat tours in Iraq and am now on the Armed Services Committee.
His actions were not only unconstitutional, they have made America less safe – not more.
Here’s why:
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I served two combat tours in Iraq and am now on the Armed Services Committee.
His actions were not only unconstitutional, they have made America less safe – not more.
Here’s why:
🧵
June 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Trump is claiming his strikes on Iran made the American people safer. He is dangerously wrong.
I served two combat tours in Iraq and am now on the Armed Services Committee.
His actions were not only unconstitutional, they have made America less safe – not more.
Here’s why:
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I served two combat tours in Iraq and am now on the Armed Services Committee.
His actions were not only unconstitutional, they have made America less safe – not more.
Here’s why:
🧵
So, deep new research from MIT tells us, more or less, that people who use LLMs to write an essay don't remember what they wrote, even minutes later. This strikes me as Very True, and profound. I wrote up some thoughts about what this might mean (without using AI).
www.linkedin.com/pulse/mit-fi...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/mit-fi...
MIT Finds LLM Users Forget Their Own Essays in Minutes —Are We Headed Towards Post-Literate Thinking?
Deep new research from MIT tells us, more or less, that people who use LLMs to write an essay don't remember what they wrote, even minutes later. This strikes me as Very True, and profound.
www.linkedin.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So, deep new research from MIT tells us, more or less, that people who use LLMs to write an essay don't remember what they wrote, even minutes later. This strikes me as Very True, and profound. I wrote up some thoughts about what this might mean (without using AI).
www.linkedin.com/pulse/mit-fi...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/mit-fi...
From NH Women's Foundation:
‼️‼️URGENT ACTION ALERT‼️‼️
Late on Wednesday, June 18, the Committee of Conference working on New Hampshire’s state budget gutted Momnibus 2.0. TODAY is the last day they meet on the budget and they need to hear from YOU.
📞📞 Call these Reps THIS MORNING:
#nhpolitics
‼️‼️URGENT ACTION ALERT‼️‼️
Late on Wednesday, June 18, the Committee of Conference working on New Hampshire’s state budget gutted Momnibus 2.0. TODAY is the last day they meet on the budget and they need to hear from YOU.
📞📞 Call these Reps THIS MORNING:
#nhpolitics
June 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
From NH Women's Foundation:
‼️‼️URGENT ACTION ALERT‼️‼️
Late on Wednesday, June 18, the Committee of Conference working on New Hampshire’s state budget gutted Momnibus 2.0. TODAY is the last day they meet on the budget and they need to hear from YOU.
📞📞 Call these Reps THIS MORNING:
#nhpolitics
‼️‼️URGENT ACTION ALERT‼️‼️
Late on Wednesday, June 18, the Committee of Conference working on New Hampshire’s state budget gutted Momnibus 2.0. TODAY is the last day they meet on the budget and they need to hear from YOU.
📞📞 Call these Reps THIS MORNING:
#nhpolitics
This strikes me as Very True. (Eg: I no longer know any phone numbers; I’ve outsourced that to my phone.)
But for the 99% of us who aren’t famous authors, the value of writing is usually the PROCESS as much as, or more than, the result. It makes our thinking better.
Not exactly phone numbers.
But for the 99% of us who aren’t famous authors, the value of writing is usually the PROCESS as much as, or more than, the result. It makes our thinking better.
Not exactly phone numbers.
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This strikes me as Very True. (Eg: I no longer know any phone numbers; I’ve outsourced that to my phone.)
But for the 99% of us who aren’t famous authors, the value of writing is usually the PROCESS as much as, or more than, the result. It makes our thinking better.
Not exactly phone numbers.
But for the 99% of us who aren’t famous authors, the value of writing is usually the PROCESS as much as, or more than, the result. It makes our thinking better.
Not exactly phone numbers.
2023 ➡️ 2024 ➡️ Today.
Great to see the Biofabrication coalition’s Regen Valley community day grow. Future site of 100k sq ft manufacturing facility for human cells and tissues.
Great to see the Biofabrication coalition’s Regen Valley community day grow. Future site of 100k sq ft manufacturing facility for human cells and tissues.
May 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
2023 ➡️ 2024 ➡️ Today.
Great to see the Biofabrication coalition’s Regen Valley community day grow. Future site of 100k sq ft manufacturing facility for human cells and tissues.
Great to see the Biofabrication coalition’s Regen Valley community day grow. Future site of 100k sq ft manufacturing facility for human cells and tissues.
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We want the best and the brightest from around the world attending our universities.
To intentionally dismantle that as a form of political punishment is not only misguided – it will make America worse off and less competitive on the global stage.
To intentionally dismantle that as a form of political punishment is not only misguided – it will make America worse off and less competitive on the global stage.
May 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
We want the best and the brightest from around the world attending our universities.
To intentionally dismantle that as a form of political punishment is not only misguided – it will make America worse off and less competitive on the global stage.
To intentionally dismantle that as a form of political punishment is not only misguided – it will make America worse off and less competitive on the global stage.
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Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
www.wired.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...
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We need a 2028 presidential candidate who "drips and oozes authenticity when they promise to shake up a broken economic and political system," @adamgreen321.bsky.social said to @thehill.com's @juliamanchester.bsky.social.
Now is not the time for Biden or Harris to be stepping out.
Now is not the time for Biden or Harris to be stepping out.
May 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We need a 2028 presidential candidate who "drips and oozes authenticity when they promise to shake up a broken economic and political system," @adamgreen321.bsky.social said to @thehill.com's @juliamanchester.bsky.social.
Now is not the time for Biden or Harris to be stepping out.
Now is not the time for Biden or Harris to be stepping out.
AI is a powerful tool. It’s not snake oil and it’s not sentient.
It’s really really important to use it well (ie, to expand your access to & ability to process human knowledge at scale). But not as a black box opinion machine. Thar be monsters….
It’s really really important to use it well (ie, to expand your access to & ability to process human knowledge at scale). But not as a black box opinion machine. Thar be monsters….
May 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
AI is a powerful tool. It’s not snake oil and it’s not sentient.
It’s really really important to use it well (ie, to expand your access to & ability to process human knowledge at scale). But not as a black box opinion machine. Thar be monsters….
It’s really really important to use it well (ie, to expand your access to & ability to process human knowledge at scale). But not as a black box opinion machine. Thar be monsters….
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.
April 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.
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This is some “WeWork-staffers-call-Lattes-Cappuccinos-because-crazy-CEO-is-confused-and-no-one-wants-to-contradict-him” level bullshit….except, who know, for the entire global economy.
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is some “WeWork-staffers-call-Lattes-Cappuccinos-because-crazy-CEO-is-confused-and-no-one-wants-to-contradict-him” level bullshit….except, who know, for the entire global economy.
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Some time ago, I asked ChatGPT for a title for my paper. It suggested a title containing 'Unveiling'—a word I didn’t know but liked. Title found! A few weeks later, I came across another paper with 'Unveiling' in the title. A doubt crossed my mind… I checked and found this:
March 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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