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Information security, technology, policy/politics/philosophy/econ, society, fin, some religion and theology. M.A. Religious studies @uofdenver, B.S. Computer Sci Opinions are mine - not institutionally tied.
My “We Operate Under U.S. Law” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by the ad.
Seems insane
Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2w agoThey've already proposed rules that would reclassify companies so that many more would count as small/emerging (including SpaceX), meaning far fewer exec pay disclosures anyway. Now they want to make sure there are a lot fewer disclosures across the board. www.law360.com/securities/a...
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Russia is pulling out of Syria now that Assad has been defeated. Will they do the same in the United States if Republicans are lose badly enough in the midterms?
"The wedding was officiated by Ross Douthat, the former New York Times columnist who recently joined “60 Minutes.” He had reached out to Aschenbrenner after reading his manifesto, and they met last year when his family was on a California road trip"
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Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 2w agoGreat chapter in the story of America's shitty oligarchy. I find it really weird that many AI companies keep so many weird hangers-on on the payroll despite none of them having any background in the actual skills needed to develop AI tools. This kid was 2 years out of undergrad and worked in crypto?
she’s reading a book with llamas and red pyjamas? imagine the fun Dolly and I mighty had doing a Down By The Bay duet! 🎵 🥰 did you ever see Dolly, sweet as can be.. we sure did. #DollyParton
"This behavior makes sense: it’s good business to keep us scared instead of angry. But perhaps it’s time that we put aside the sci-fi tales and actually hold these labs to account for playing fast and loose with an ill-advised way of building AI systems." calnewport.com/has-ai-gone-...
Has AI Gone Rogue? - Cal Newport
The AI story of the summer should probably be the uncertain financial position of the AI labs hoping to launch record-breaking IPOs shortly. Technology news, ... Read more
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Mr. Buick says that by the early 2030s every home will have its very own functioning McDonald’s ice cream machine
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 3w agoActual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Lolcow.. have been on at least one non-public meeting with this guy.. wasnt impressed. I'm glad this article and recent developments finally give people permission to just ignore him, something that a lot of people already wanted to do. illustrative of how full of shit the DC ecosystem really is..
Business Insider@businessinsider.com · last mo.Trump alum and voluble Substacker Dean Ball is angling to shape the future of OpenAI, if he can get people to listen. https://bit.ly/4wNOHhz
Great piece from a technical yet also holistically thoughtful person
Chris Krycho@chriskrycho.com · last mo.In which I observe both some remarkable capabilities of current-generation LLM-based tools and also some equally remarkable limitations and frustrations with them. v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/impres…
Things that can be true at the same time: 1. There is an unbelievable amount of utter nonsense out there about software engineering with LLMs. Human understanding does in fact remain really important, and isn’t going to go away—ever—the fever dreams of some of the managerial class notwithstanding.
Yikes.. Long-pull permissionless innovation has gotten out of hand..
@davidtdorais.bsky.social · last mo.8)...It brushed aside the record. Despite the volume and quality of comments—including a technical report on eye-injury risk and objections from the American Astronomical Society and the Air Line Pilots Association—the Bureau's order downplayed or ignored them. ...
got an auto-reply to an email: “Thanks for your message. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.” Yeah that’s how this generally works
Market is feeling a lot to me like 2024 in certain ways Yen developments are a sort of inverse parallel to the carry trade blowup almost 2yr ago..
schroedinger's senator is the timeline we're in
Raw Story@rawstory.com · last mo.Under a never-before-tested Kentucky law, Monday could be the last chance to call a special election before the midterms to fill the seat widely believed to have been effectively left vacant by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for more than a month.
Hard not to feel Schadenfreude about this one..
George Pearkes@peark.es · last mo.An 8 employee hedge fund that was up hundreds of percent and used aggressive leverage is asking investors for more cash to meet margin calls. The tropes in this particular bull market couldn’t get any lazier. www.ft.com/content/2803...
This together with the fact that his fiance is the Chief of Staff at Anthropic is particularly funny to me. Seems like this thing is more likely to implode before the inevitable insider trading case tho?
