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the anti science party continues its war on knowledge
Breaking News: The EPA said that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so.
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies.
nyti.ms
July 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
the anti science party continues its war on knowledge
The nature of #AI and Human Sentience... we're learning more as we go...
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What is the Nature of Human Sentience?
A founder, a computer science professor, and a cognitive psychology professor walk into a room… you'll never guess what happens next...
open.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The nature of #AI and Human Sentience... we're learning more as we go...
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Your business is growing, your core team is set. you ened to scale. but how? Scaling your team with recruiting :
sfrancisatx.substack.com/p/scaling-yo... #recruiting #startup #austin #austintech
sfrancisatx.substack.com/p/scaling-yo... #recruiting #startup #austin #austintech
June 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Your business is growing, your core team is set. you ened to scale. but how? Scaling your team with recruiting :
sfrancisatx.substack.com/p/scaling-yo... #recruiting #startup #austin #austintech
sfrancisatx.substack.com/p/scaling-yo... #recruiting #startup #austin #austintech
Agentic AI is in desperate need of some Orchestration!
#process #ai #orchestration #camundacon
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#process #ai #orchestration #camundacon
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Agentic AI is in desperate need of some Orchestration
Also, it turns out that people are the worlds’ first Intelligent Agents
open.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Agentic AI is in desperate need of some Orchestration!
#process #ai #orchestration #camundacon
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#process #ai #orchestration #camundacon
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Recruiting from co-founders to early team to scaling... starting with founders:
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sharing what i learned in 30 years building great teams!
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sharing what i learned in 30 years building great teams!
Recruiting a High Performance Team: Founder Edition
How do you find your founders, or get found? How do you know it's the right fit?
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Recruiting from co-founders to early team to scaling... starting with founders:
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sharing what i learned in 30 years building great teams!
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sharing what i learned in 30 years building great teams!
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What a time to be alive to see how #Austin has transformed from a sleepy town with some tech into a tech powerhouse with a vibrant vertical downtown? We celebrated Austin Tech Hall of Fame 2025 inductees on the 35th floor of Indeed tower on Wednesday!
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May 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What a time to be alive to see how #Austin has transformed from a sleepy town with some tech into a tech powerhouse with a vibrant vertical downtown? We celebrated Austin Tech Hall of Fame 2025 inductees on the 35th floor of Indeed tower on Wednesday!
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With cost of running models declining, it was inevitable that new businesses would pop up that embed these models. Are wrappers not “innovative”? or are they just focused on innovation at the point of customer experience #ai #wrappers open.substack.com/pub/sfrancis...
The Great AI Wrapper Debate
Are AI Wrapper applications not innovative? or are they innovating at the point of user experience, instead of in the R&D lab? CNBC, surprisingly, takes on this debate, but we should have seen it comi...
open.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
With cost of running models declining, it was inevitable that new businesses would pop up that embed these models. Are wrappers not “innovative”? or are they just focused on innovation at the point of customer experience #ai #wrappers open.substack.com/pub/sfrancis...
sharing one of my favorite tricks for building organizational memory (muscle memory) on the cheap | Foundations for Building a Company: Organizational Memory #startup #lessonsLearned #process
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Foundations for Building a Company: Organizational Memory
There's a method to the madness
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April 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
sharing one of my favorite tricks for building organizational memory (muscle memory) on the cheap | Foundations for Building a Company: Organizational Memory #startup #lessonsLearned #process
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Jackson County Public Health (Kansas City) said it lost $1.1 million it had been expecting from federal funding streams. As a result, the health department immediately laid off three employees who worked on monitoring communicable disease outbreaks in local schools.
thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...
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Massive cuts to federal health care grants alarm Kansas City’s public health community
The grants paid for public health basics like vaccines for children, infectious disease tracking, community health work and funding for mental health and addiction treatment.
thebeaconnews.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Jackson County Public Health (Kansas City) said it lost $1.1 million it had been expecting from federal funding streams. As a result, the health department immediately laid off three employees who worked on monitoring communicable disease outbreaks in local schools.
thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...
thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...
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Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees that if you fail to remember the past, you are doomed to repeat the Great Depression.
And then you cannot blame it on President Biden, you loopy orange dipshit.
And then you cannot blame it on President Biden, you loopy orange dipshit.
April 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees that if you fail to remember the past, you are doomed to repeat the Great Depression.
And then you cannot blame it on President Biden, you loopy orange dipshit.
And then you cannot blame it on President Biden, you loopy orange dipshit.
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So we’re watching Tulsi Gabbard just straight up lie to a Senate hearing. If strategic war planning two hours before a planned attack is not the highest level of security clearance then clearly all the rules have changed.
March 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So we’re watching Tulsi Gabbard just straight up lie to a Senate hearing. If strategic war planning two hours before a planned attack is not the highest level of security clearance then clearly all the rules have changed.
celebrating number 53 like
March 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
celebrating number 53 like
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moderator - wrote a paper called protocols not platforms.
March 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
moderator - wrote a paper called protocols not platforms.
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Thoughts prayers meh
March 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Thoughts prayers meh
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LMAO, Twitter has crashed yet again.
Who could have guessed that firing a bunch of workers would make something run LESS efficiently?
It's a good thing that same person isn't firing people who provide vital services through our federal government.
Oh wait.
Who could have guessed that firing a bunch of workers would make something run LESS efficiently?
It's a good thing that same person isn't firing people who provide vital services through our federal government.
Oh wait.
March 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
LMAO, Twitter has crashed yet again.
Who could have guessed that firing a bunch of workers would make something run LESS efficiently?
It's a good thing that same person isn't firing people who provide vital services through our federal government.
Oh wait.
Who could have guessed that firing a bunch of workers would make something run LESS efficiently?
It's a good thing that same person isn't firing people who provide vital services through our federal government.
Oh wait.
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Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.
January 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.
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January 6, 2025, by the numbers:
ONE certification of election completed
ZERO Dems rioting in DC
ZERO Capitol Police assaulted
ZERO walls smeared with feces
ZERO fire extinguishers used as weapons
ZERO people chanting "Hang Kamala Harris"
ZERO fist-pumping Senators running for his life...
ONE certification of election completed
ZERO Dems rioting in DC
ZERO Capitol Police assaulted
ZERO walls smeared with feces
ZERO fire extinguishers used as weapons
ZERO people chanting "Hang Kamala Harris"
ZERO fist-pumping Senators running for his life...
January 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
January 6, 2025, by the numbers:
ONE certification of election completed
ZERO Dems rioting in DC
ZERO Capitol Police assaulted
ZERO walls smeared with feces
ZERO fire extinguishers used as weapons
ZERO people chanting "Hang Kamala Harris"
ZERO fist-pumping Senators running for his life...
ONE certification of election completed
ZERO Dems rioting in DC
ZERO Capitol Police assaulted
ZERO walls smeared with feces
ZERO fire extinguishers used as weapons
ZERO people chanting "Hang Kamala Harris"
ZERO fist-pumping Senators running for his life...
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In 2021: it took 14 hours and 48 minutes to certify the vote
January 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In 2021: it took 14 hours and 48 minutes to certify the vote
kind of amazing that 34 years after the first time i heard them, Cowboy Junkies still in the top 5 of my playlist for the year. Khruangbin up to no.1 this year. Apparently i also played a lot of Artemas... no judgment :)
nearly 800 artists. we live in amazing times.
nearly 800 artists. we live in amazing times.
December 3, 2024 at 11:08 PM
kind of amazing that 34 years after the first time i heard them, Cowboy Junkies still in the top 5 of my playlist for the year. Khruangbin up to no.1 this year. Apparently i also played a lot of Artemas... no judgment :)
nearly 800 artists. we live in amazing times.
nearly 800 artists. we live in amazing times.
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James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
November 27, 2024 at 5:03 PM
James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
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He's STILL a convicted felon.
And guilty AF.
Periodt.
And guilty AF.
Periodt.
November 26, 2024 at 12:28 AM
He's STILL a convicted felon.
And guilty AF.
Periodt.
And guilty AF.
Periodt.