Elan Ruskin retweeted
@atk825 They just say things. They make no effort at all to match them to reality
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TFW you ask someone a simple yes/no question on Slack and see the “[whoever] is typing…” dots for five minutes
(well, I guess the feeling is I’m glad they’re doing it in text and not in person)
(well, I guess the feeling is I’m glad they’re doing it in text and not in person)
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Elan Ruskin retweeted
Over the past months, a single Wikipedia editor has been quietly shaping @AbdulElSayed's entry.
The editing has been intensive and highly directed. For example:
+ Hasan Piker controversy got cut down.
+ Syed's antisemitism problem – deleted.
+ Harris and Obama endorsements ing AIPAC’s brand is “toxic” included.
Is it an op?
Well, two weeks ago the same editor had this to say in an edit summary on the El-Sayed page:
“another half month of this shit.”
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The editing has been intensive and highly directed. For example:
+ Hasan Piker controversy got cut down.
+ Syed's antisemitism problem – deleted.
+ Harris and Obama endorsements ing AIPAC’s brand is “toxic” included.
Is it an op?
Well, two weeks ago the same editor had this to say in an edit summary on the El-Sayed page:
“another half month of this shit.”
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Having learned of the reason for Sir Patrick's passing, I've been thinking about this episode a lot today.
youtu.be/EOm1dKSOq1g?si…
[TNG: Sarek, S3E23. Worth watching in entirety.]
youtu.be/EOm1dKSOq1g?si…
[TNG: Sarek, S3E23. Worth watching in entirety.]
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Elan Ruskin retweeted
That developer would be correct yes
The developer behind the controversial plan to build new homes on top of a Safeway store near San Francisco’s waterfront is accusing neighborhood opponents of using civil rights law as a “weapon” to keep new housing out of the low-rise Marina neighborhood. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mar…
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Elan Ruskin retweeted
Dear frontier AI employees,
when leaving audio logs around the office, please remember to intermix:
1) reports of what happened
2) tragic personal anecdotes
3) creepy forebodings
4) the locations of useful access keycards and passwords
This will greatly help the protagonist.
when leaving audio logs around the office, please remember to intermix:
1) reports of what happened
2) tragic personal anecdotes
3) creepy forebodings
4) the locations of useful access keycards and passwords
This will greatly help the protagonist.
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- spend years of badgering city council to allow more housing
- watch a handful of new apartment buildings go up
- get lease renewal form
- rent increase is $1
- the system works, I guess
- watch a handful of new apartment buildings go up
- get lease renewal form
- rent increase is $1
- the system works, I guess
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See, the joke is that the game that invented the audio logs trope is the one that was literally about a rogue AI trying to escape containment.
As automated hacking starts to take off, AI company employees are saying that now is a good time to start recording audio logs to leave scattered around
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“If there isn’t enough of something, you need to make more of it” seems like a thing most people would believe.
I think the fundamental YIMBY insight is that, if you live in a society which imposes artificial scarcity on basic necessities like housing and health care, then there is no amount of redistribution which will make them broadly available to the poor. You need supply-side changes.
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Elan Ruskin retweeted
This is why Aisha Wahab was named as the Senate Housing Chair. It's why LA has permitted so few new homes after the Palisades fire. It's why the state is eye-wateringly expensive. And it's why young and working class people are fleeing. 2/2
therebuild.pub/p/californias-…
therebuild.pub/p/californias-…
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“Neuromancer” at real risk of being nonfiction by the time it airs.
An internet where every company has to pay big bucks to Anthropic and OpenAI every month just to avoid destruction by ever-present swarms of rogue AI agents is not nearly as economically valuable as the free internet we've enjoyed up to now.
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Elan Ruskin retweeted
There’s a clear choice in this race: I’ve fought to build the homes we need to lower costs. My opponent has only blocked them.
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Elan Ruskin retweeted
"voter dislike of the very actors who could ameliorate the housing shortage further exacerbates it"
Now published at @apsrjournal. Check out "The Symbolic Politics of Housing" doi.org/10.1017/S00030…
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Elan Ruskin retweeted
Another vulnerability few are talking about: I found my Claude Code exposing personal data in http headers because the sites it curled politely asked agents to identify their users 😊
Epistemic cybersecurity is the hot new category for 2027.
Epistemic cybersecurity is the hot new category for 2027.
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Elan Ruskin retweeted
I'm just going to assume any pollster I've never heard of is straight up fabricated. I know it's unfair but they should have policed their industry better.
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Why?
@Alonso_GD @mehdirhasan Definitely worth checking the factuality of your claims before tweeting them!
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