JB Rubinovitz
@rubinovitz.bsky.social
Hacking on decentralized social for communities
Are any leftists talking about Decarlos Brown on X?
My understanding after doing primary source research is that Brown should’ve been off the street but was not due to a mental healthcare staff shortage.
But I don’t see anyone talking about it and instead my whole feed is calling for more policing
My understanding after doing primary source research is that Brown should’ve been off the street but was not due to a mental healthcare staff shortage.
But I don’t see anyone talking about it and instead my whole feed is calling for more policing
September 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Are any leftists talking about Decarlos Brown on X?
My understanding after doing primary source research is that Brown should’ve been off the street but was not due to a mental healthcare staff shortage.
But I don’t see anyone talking about it and instead my whole feed is calling for more policing
My understanding after doing primary source research is that Brown should’ve been off the street but was not due to a mental healthcare staff shortage.
But I don’t see anyone talking about it and instead my whole feed is calling for more policing
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XAI’s dogwater performance on the 2025 IMO confirms that their Grok 4 benchmark claims were hot air. Their eye popping metrics were down to the following innovations:
- train on test
- train on test
- train on test
- train on test
- train on test
- train on test
July 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
XAI’s dogwater performance on the 2025 IMO confirms that their Grok 4 benchmark claims were hot air. Their eye popping metrics were down to the following innovations:
- train on test
- train on test
- train on test
- train on test
- train on test
- train on test
I wonder if Mistral knows they’re basically using the American Bear Pride Flag palette
June 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I wonder if Mistral knows they’re basically using the American Bear Pride Flag palette
I don’t think we need more police to increase public safety, but appreciated this thoughtful take on the mayoral candidates.
www.maximumnewyork.com/p/how-im-vot...
www.maximumnewyork.com/p/how-im-vot...
How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary
1. Tilson // 2. Myrie // 3. Adams // 4. Lander* // 5. Cuomo // (X) Not Mamdani
www.maximumnewyork.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I don’t think we need more police to increase public safety, but appreciated this thoughtful take on the mayoral candidates.
www.maximumnewyork.com/p/how-im-vot...
www.maximumnewyork.com/p/how-im-vot...
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Stop building tech on the presumption that the state is always going to be a positive or even a neutral actor.
A warning to all AI researchers: "The data analytic tools now being used to scour [students'] social media were enhanced during the Biden administration...But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended."
Inside the DHS task force scouring foreign students' social media
A critic called the review a return to “McCarthyism,” a reference to tactics used to identify alleged communists during the Cold War.
www.nbcnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Stop building tech on the presumption that the state is always going to be a positive or even a neutral actor.
History is shaped by the PT Barnums, rarely the Albert Einsteins.
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
History is shaped by the PT Barnums, rarely the Albert Einsteins.
If you aren’t crypto allergic I have 3 invites to Farcaster if you want to play around with the embedded mini apps and wallet.
February 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
If you aren’t crypto allergic I have 3 invites to Farcaster if you want to play around with the embedded mini apps and wallet.
I wish I understood why some people think kissing up to other dudes is “masculine”
January 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I wish I understood why some people think kissing up to other dudes is “masculine”
The fact so many Americans pretend they care about children by supporting anti-trans politicians when we are a country that regularly incarcerates, starves, and doesn’t give medical care to children, breaks my brain.
December 4, 2024 at 10:21 PM
The fact so many Americans pretend they care about children by supporting anti-trans politicians when we are a country that regularly incarcerates, starves, and doesn’t give medical care to children, breaks my brain.
I was at a VC’s office that had chromosome labeled bathrooms.
I didn’t even consider that could be a thing so I just walked in on an investor in an accidental power move?
I didn’t even consider that could be a thing so I just walked in on an investor in an accidental power move?
December 4, 2024 at 2:15 AM
I was at a VC’s office that had chromosome labeled bathrooms.
I didn’t even consider that could be a thing so I just walked in on an investor in an accidental power move?
I didn’t even consider that could be a thing so I just walked in on an investor in an accidental power move?
Feeling really lonely in tech after the election so will be Blue Skying more.
November 24, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Feeling really lonely in tech after the election so will be Blue Skying more.
I wonder if Trump also wants to bankrupt universities because banning international students could do that.
UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.
November 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM
I wonder if Trump also wants to bankrupt universities because banning international students could do that.
NYC crime rates in the 70s are used to justify extreme NYPD funding, so I’ve always been curious why there was so much crime.
A team spent 8 years making a documentary on this and goes back to a fiscal crisis, union propaganda, and a standoff with the president (which may repeat next year).
🧵
A team spent 8 years making a documentary on this and goes back to a fiscal crisis, union propaganda, and a standoff with the president (which may repeat next year).
🧵
November 22, 2024 at 4:45 PM
NYC crime rates in the 70s are used to justify extreme NYPD funding, so I’ve always been curious why there was so much crime.
A team spent 8 years making a documentary on this and goes back to a fiscal crisis, union propaganda, and a standoff with the president (which may repeat next year).
🧵
A team spent 8 years making a documentary on this and goes back to a fiscal crisis, union propaganda, and a standoff with the president (which may repeat next year).
🧵
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I haven't read his essay...link?
But from your description I would have to disagree. Deduction (infinite or not) only gets you the logical unpacking of things you already know and induction only gets you the implications of processes you already know about
But from your description I would have to disagree. Deduction (infinite or not) only gets you the logical unpacking of things you already know and induction only gets you the implications of processes you already know about
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I haven't read his essay...link?
But from your description I would have to disagree. Deduction (infinite or not) only gets you the logical unpacking of things you already know and induction only gets you the implications of processes you already know about
But from your description I would have to disagree. Deduction (infinite or not) only gets you the logical unpacking of things you already know and induction only gets you the implications of processes you already know about
The biggest tech accelerator is asking for government tech startups for the first time and it hit me:
We are underestimating how much gov tech will be deployed under Trump, how bad it will be, how good it could be under a well intentioned admin.
Researching this now.
x.com/benln/status...
We are underestimating how much gov tech will be deployed under Trump, how bad it will be, how good it could be under a well intentioned admin.
Researching this now.
x.com/benln/status...
x.com
x.com
November 12, 2024 at 5:31 PM
The biggest tech accelerator is asking for government tech startups for the first time and it hit me:
We are underestimating how much gov tech will be deployed under Trump, how bad it will be, how good it could be under a well intentioned admin.
Researching this now.
x.com/benln/status...
We are underestimating how much gov tech will be deployed under Trump, how bad it will be, how good it could be under a well intentioned admin.
Researching this now.
x.com/benln/status...
Great JB
“Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday sought to assure Illinois residents that he would fight to preserve the state’s protections on fronts including reproductive health, immigration and LGBTQ+ rights during Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.” www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/07/g...
November 8, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Great JB
Existential question 1:
How do you pay for compute costs without taking on valuations that cause you to be obligated to do potentially unsafe things for shareholders?
Existential question 2:
What is your obligation to your country’s military as an AI company?
How do you pay for compute costs without taking on valuations that cause you to be obligated to do potentially unsafe things for shareholders?
Existential question 2:
What is your obligation to your country’s military as an AI company?
Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers
Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers
Anthropic today announced that it’s teaming up with Palantir, the data-mining company, and Amazon Web Services to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude 3 and 3.5 family of AI models. The news comes as a growing number…
tcrn.ch
November 8, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Existential question 1:
How do you pay for compute costs without taking on valuations that cause you to be obligated to do potentially unsafe things for shareholders?
Existential question 2:
What is your obligation to your country’s military as an AI company?
How do you pay for compute costs without taking on valuations that cause you to be obligated to do potentially unsafe things for shareholders?
Existential question 2:
What is your obligation to your country’s military as an AI company?
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If you’ve not read all of Sagan, you should
November 7, 2024 at 5:53 PM
If you’ve not read all of Sagan, you should
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that you don’t need a global network of computers working hard for global consensus to immutably store shitposts in an ordered log?
i’ve said this for years. blockchains have mostly proven useful for payments and identity, and most users prefer web1 systems like DNS because key management sucks
i’ve said this for years. blockchains have mostly proven useful for payments and identity, and most users prefer web1 systems like DNS because key management sucks
April 30, 2023 at 9:52 PM
that you don’t need a global network of computers working hard for global consensus to immutably store shitposts in an ordered log?
i’ve said this for years. blockchains have mostly proven useful for payments and identity, and most users prefer web1 systems like DNS because key management sucks
i’ve said this for years. blockchains have mostly proven useful for payments and identity, and most users prefer web1 systems like DNS because key management sucks
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the consensus among the twitter tranny council is that bluesky fucks. good work bluesky team. we approve.
April 27, 2023 at 11:14 PM
the consensus among the twitter tranny council is that bluesky fucks. good work bluesky team. we approve.