Jacob Metcalf
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Jacob Metcalf
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Technology ethicist, dog haver, mountain dweller, forest critter, mover of heavy things. Writing a book about wildfire, AI, and Cali. Senior Researcher @ D&S @datasociety.bsky.social‬. Founder @ Ethical Resolve. Formerly @undersequioas in the Bad Place.
Facebook allowed a foreign weapons manufacturer (Cambridge Analytica) steal my data to launch a fascist coup in the US and all I got was $35.
September 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The new AI business trajectory: skip the Trough of Disillusionment, go straight to the Slope of Dark Enlightenment.
August 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
But what we really haven't grappled with is how profoundly stupid the people who own the models are. Thiel is quite literally saying that unless the computer says the n word with a hard r then we will never cure dementia or get to Mars.
June 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Peter Thiel has been telling us for over a decade that the reason he invests in AI is because it will allow him to enforce a future on us that we despise and would never accept. Believe him. Musk is the same. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
June 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
They need to fear tribunals. www.alxnow.com/2025/06/24/r...
June 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Athenian ostraka, the original group block function. #bluesky #jdvance
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
If you were an adult or adult-adjacent and weren't inside that red circle then I really don't care about anything else you say or think about politics.
June 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
San Francisco rolls like that too
June 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This fucking schmoe thinks he has the right to depose the government of California. He'd be lucky to depose the night manager at an Arby's. He's not even the head of a law enforcement agency, he's just an upjumped "advisor" lacking any capacity to arrest or order an arrest.
June 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
June 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Nazis get punched, it's a weird habit they have.
May 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I'll just leave this here.
May 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM