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Infosec dude. Trying to rethink how we view trust. Fact checking is not censorship.
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I will say though: the shitheads understand that if you pull someone into your epistemic bubble, you can lead them anywhere, get them to believe anything. They consciously & deliberately build those bubbles around powerful people. The left just yells at & alienates them.
Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I will say though: the shitheads understand that if you pull someone into your epistemic bubble, you can lead them anywhere, get them to believe anything. They consciously & deliberately build those bubbles around powerful people. The left just yells at & alienates them.
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
My current guess in that generative AI is going to become the biggest government subsidy program we have ever seen. So profiteering is going to take a second row to the Governments strategic initiatives
Good piece on the rationale behind charging $200 a month for a subscription, though I’d add the other reason is that power users are costing these companies so much money and $200 a month is *closer* to making actual money, even though they’re still unprofitable
www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is...
www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is...
July 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My current guess in that generative AI is going to become the biggest government subsidy program we have ever seen. So profiteering is going to take a second row to the Governments strategic initiatives
Trump wants you talking about this and not about Epstein. He desperately wants that to go away. Don’t fall for it.
📌The President of the United States posted a FAKE VIDEO TO THE WORLD of a kneeling Barack Obama being placed in handcuffs, and we are supposed go along like it is just another day.
Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.
Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.
July 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Trump wants you talking about this and not about Epstein. He desperately wants that to go away. Don’t fall for it.
If anyone has ever read Snow Crash, this is kinda eerie.
Authoritarian-style loyalty for whether FBI agents ever criticized the buffoonish director with no expertise.
An actual FBI agent:
“An F.B.I. employee’s loyalty is to the Constitution, not to the director or deputy director,” said James Davidson, a former agent who spent 23 years in the bureau.
An actual FBI agent:
“An F.B.I. employee’s loyalty is to the Constitution, not to the director or deputy director,” said James Davidson, a former agent who spent 23 years in the bureau.
July 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If anyone has ever read Snow Crash, this is kinda eerie.
Agree with this 1000% and it reminds me of one time when at a previous employer, we had a well skilled and smart engineer who was just toxic. It didn’t matter how good they were at their job when no one wanted to work or correspond with them.
There was this engineer on my team a while back who was: a good dev, but not the best dev. Got everything done. But had zero ego, a very nice personality, and got along with *everyone* on the team very well.
When he joined, the team became... better. Nicer. More balanced.
When he joined, the team became... better. Nicer. More balanced.
July 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Agree with this 1000% and it reminds me of one time when at a previous employer, we had a well skilled and smart engineer who was just toxic. It didn’t matter how good they were at their job when no one wanted to work or correspond with them.
As someone who is pretty pro AI, especially compared to bsky, this is one of the best examples and criticisms of how it’s being implemented and what risks are involved.
I will be citing this in every business discussion about using a generative AI model that's outside of your control.
This likely manipulation of alignment through system prompt changes is obvious. It won't be when another provider does something subtle. 1/
This likely manipulation of alignment through system prompt changes is obvious. It won't be when another provider does something subtle. 1/
July 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As someone who is pretty pro AI, especially compared to bsky, this is one of the best examples and criticisms of how it’s being implemented and what risks are involved.
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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
If you read this letter in the Boulder’s voice from Avatar the Last Airbender, it’s hilarious and fitting.
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.
Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
May 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
If you read this letter in the Boulder’s voice from Avatar the Last Airbender, it’s hilarious and fitting.
My hot take is that I find LLMs incredibly useful. I use them as a thought board, planner and assist with small programs. Even the debugging doesn’t bother me because it forces me to learn something in a non-linear fashion. That really works for me.
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My hot take is that I find LLMs incredibly useful. I use them as a thought board, planner and assist with small programs. Even the debugging doesn’t bother me because it forces me to learn something in a non-linear fashion. That really works for me.
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Here is the memo, for those who've not seen it: whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/
3/3
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Addressing Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES The Federal Government has a constitutional duty and a moral responsibility to respect and
whitehouse.gov
April 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Here is the memo, for those who've not seen it: whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/
3/3
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I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...
Schemas and the Political Brain
The neuroscience and psychology of why better facts don't make winning arguments in politics.
www.forkingpaths.co
April 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
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Remember when top Trump officials used an unsecured app, Signal, to share confidential military plans & then lied about it and they continue to expose our national security to potential foreign countries and enemies by using unsecure communications and most of them still have their jobs? Fun times.
April 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Remember when top Trump officials used an unsecured app, Signal, to share confidential military plans & then lied about it and they continue to expose our national security to potential foreign countries and enemies by using unsecure communications and most of them still have their jobs? Fun times.
Everyone should burn this man’s name into their collective memories. We cannot forget who he is and what is likely to happen next. He is the canary warning us all.
Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back.
They think it’s funny.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
They think it’s funny.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Everyone should burn this man’s name into their collective memories. We cannot forget who he is and what is likely to happen next. He is the canary warning us all.
AI an is excellent tool, but people need to be realistic to what it is and what it is not.
There are a lot of problems with the Silicon Valley interpretation of what it should be but we shouldn’t resist their flawed ideas with a “throw out the baby with the bathe water” mentality.
There are a lot of problems with the Silicon Valley interpretation of what it should be but we shouldn’t resist their flawed ideas with a “throw out the baby with the bathe water” mentality.
Anti AI piece in the New York Times and another in CNN from the excellent @amorrow.bsky.social. Something is changing.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
March 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
AI an is excellent tool, but people need to be realistic to what it is and what it is not.
There are a lot of problems with the Silicon Valley interpretation of what it should be but we shouldn’t resist their flawed ideas with a “throw out the baby with the bathe water” mentality.
There are a lot of problems with the Silicon Valley interpretation of what it should be but we shouldn’t resist their flawed ideas with a “throw out the baby with the bathe water” mentality.
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Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
So as American citizens, I think we need to be the voices of the ones who cannot speak freely any longer in our nation. If anyone needs a safe person to publish something and anonymize themselves, I would be happy to help.
March 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
So as American citizens, I think we need to be the voices of the ones who cannot speak freely any longer in our nation. If anyone needs a safe person to publish something and anonymize themselves, I would be happy to help.
Pretty exhausting watching actionless cynicism coming from those groups. Figure out who your allies are, organize with them.
Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.
March 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Pretty exhausting watching actionless cynicism coming from those groups. Figure out who your allies are, organize with them.
It seems like moving them out of state and keeping them in constant motion is a tactic to subvert the judicial system.
NEW: Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk had already been transferred out of state before a federal judge ordered that she not be removed from Massachusetts, federal officials told the court today www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/m...
March 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It seems like moving them out of state and keeping them in constant motion is a tactic to subvert the judicial system.
Literal suppression of speech. Is there a time in our history where this has ever happened?
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Literal suppression of speech. Is there a time in our history where this has ever happened?
Thread: John sheds some light on DOGE and SVs views on AI. As someone who is very pro AI, these are exactly the type of people we dint want abusing it and is creating a very worrisome atmosphere.
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Thread: John sheds some light on DOGE and SVs views on AI. As someone who is very pro AI, these are exactly the type of people we dint want abusing it and is creating a very worrisome atmosphere.
Edgy quote of the day: “A man is easier to exploit than a system. That is why they are trying to destroy the systems we have put in place” — me, I think 🤷♂️
March 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Edgy quote of the day: “A man is easier to exploit than a system. That is why they are trying to destroy the systems we have put in place” — me, I think 🤷♂️
I’ve been making fun of them using the 1979 Ba’ath Party Purge as an example of how our government is acting and then Vance just flat out says it. 21 executions were had as a result.
The successful policy of *checks notes* 𝘋𝘦-𝘉𝘢'𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
March 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’ve been making fun of them using the 1979 Ba’ath Party Purge as an example of how our government is acting and then Vance just flat out says it. 21 executions were had as a result.