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Jeff Bladt

@BLADT

Politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; at times, indeed, almost ridiculous— almost, at times, the Fool.

Brooklyn Beigetreten Kasım 2008
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Ejaaz
Ejaaz@cryptopunk7213·
no fucking way lol people in china are getting their colleagues fired by secretly training AI agents to replace them 😂 they secretly learn the role, write up a doc describing the tasks, train an AI to do it… then prove they’re fireable they’re apparently doing it to prevent THEMSELVES from getting replaced by ai in response someone has created an “anti-distillation.skill” that’s gone viral on github to counter the attacks 😂
Steve Hou@stevehou

Apparently workers in China have been creating “colleagues.skill” to distill their coworkers hoping to make them redundant hence saving themselves. In response someone has recently invented an “anti-distillation.skill” that has gone viral on GitHub.🤣

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Open New York
Open New York@OpenNYForAll·
Asked what people can do to help get housing built faster, @NYCMayor says: let your state reps know SEQRA reform matters to you. Environmental review can add two years and tens of thousands in costs to affordable housing projects.
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Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie@levie·
There are far more categories where AI agents making things more efficient will induce demand for that skill than spaces where agents eliminate the work. This is why the AI jobs predictions will not play out as advertised. AI making it easy to produce more code will mean we start to apply code to far more parts of our businesses. We will build automation and software for things that wouldn’t have made sense before. Marketing automation, client onboarding, modernizing old systems, doing far more research on existing data, and more. More engineers. Far more software will mean vastly more security risks. This will mean far more people thinking through system security, compliance, and governance. This used to be primarily manual and only large companies could afford this work. AI will make it so more companies care about this (and maybe can do something about it), causing more security roles. AI will also lower the cost of a bunch of previously relatively niche or harder to access categories of work. Companies will now be doing 10X more with video and graphics, and will need people to manage that work. More media. We’re going to have a near unlimited set of legal challenges in a world of AI as AI helps write even more bespoke and complicated legal docs. More lawyers. Then there’s the impact of AI efficiency on non-office worker jobs. Talked to a customer that said they’re going to make scheduling medical appointments and getting referrals so efficient the next problem will be there will be no booking time slots available. More healthcare. Many industries will have this same dynamic play out. The examples are endless once you start to think through second order effects of agents making work more efficient.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca

The "AI job loss" narratives are all fake. AI = massive ramp in productivity = massive ramp in demand = massive jobs boom. Watch.

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Swann Marcus
Swann Marcus@SwannMarcus89·
New York is such a funny city because it’s currently the single safest major city in America on a per capita basis and literally everyone pretends it’s violent for political reasons
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos

In the 1970s "NYC urban noir became a genre of its own: The Incident, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Taxi Driver, The Warriors, New Jack City, Prince of the City, King of New York, Escape from New York, Death Wish. Even Miss Piggy was mugged in The Muppets Take Manhattan."

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Garett Jones
Garett Jones@GarettJones·
European mind cannot, etc.
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Chris Laub
Chris Laub@ChrisLaubAI·
Early 2023: 80% of ChatGPT users had masculine names July 2025: 52% have feminine names Complete flip in under 3 years. AI adoption patterns aren't permanent. The early adopter demographics don't predict mass market usage.
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Trung Phan
Trung Phan@TrungTPhan·
KitKat launched a “Stolen KitKat Tracker”. People can type in batch code on a bar to see if it stolen (*not an April Fool’s joke). Great marketing but, also, someone is about to find out their mom & brother run a transnational organized crime outfit and its going to get weird.
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KITKAT@KITKAT

Help us find them. Use the Stolen KitKat Tracker. Link in bio.

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Scott Kominers
Scott Kominers@skominers·
Under Harvard's proposed new grading policy, the 10th-best undergraduate out of 10 in a graduate-level elective would be capped at an A‑minus. For honors evaluation, they would be recorded as "0th percentile." That's not a typo.
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Jeff Bladt@BLADT·
The bottom 8 teams should be forced to play a mini-tournament for the top picks
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania

The NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts to its Board of Governors on Wednesday, with modifications expected to each before a formal vote in May, per ESPN sources. 1. 18 teams in draft lottery (seeds 7-15 in each conference) – flattened odds, with bottom 10 teams having an 8% chance, the remaining 20% odds distributed in decreasing order for 11 through 18, and and a lottery drawing for all 18 picks. 2) 22 teams in lottery using 2-year record (seeds 7-15, plus the four playoff first round exits in both conferences). Lottery teams would reach a minimum win total floor in each season, such as 25 wins. If a team falls short of the floor, it gets slotted to meet the floor. Top 4 drawn as part of lottery, as is currently. 3) 18 teams in a "5 by 5" lottery – bottom 5 teams have equal odds for the top pick, with lottery formed for picks 1-5. Bottom 5 teams have a floor at 10; those that fall out of top 5 get sorted in a separate drawing.

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Alec Stapp
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp·
GLP-1 drugs are the ultimate validation of the techno-solutionist approach to society's most challenging problems. The obesity crisis seemed liked it would just get worse and worse forever. Scolding from public health officials didn't work. Proposals to completely overhaul our food systems were dead on arrival. Instead, we invented a weekly shot (based on Gila monster venom!) that fixes obesity directly. And now, thanks to the economic incentives in our biomedical industry, we have follow-on drugs that will be cheaper, even more effective, and easier to administer (by taking a pill instead of a shot). Policymakers should be focused on figuring out how we can get more breakthrough drugs like GLP-1s (and faster). They also should think hard about which slopulist ideas might inadvertently kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Ed Newton-Rex
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex·
This new paper shows that LLMs memorise their training data even more than anyone realised. AI companies like to claim their models learn patterns, not actual text. This is demonstrably untrue. Absolutely huge finding that may have major implications in many ongoing lawsuits.
Tuhin Chakrabarty@TuhinChakr

🚨New paper on AI & Copyright 👨‍⚖️Courts have credited LLM companies' claims that safety alignment prevents reproduction of copyrighted expression. But what if fine-tuning on a simple writing task ruins it all? Worse : Fine-tuning on a single author's books (e.g., Murakami) unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from 30+ unrelated authors, sometimes as high as 90%. Joint work with @niloofar_mire (@LTIatCMU), Jane Ginsburg ( @ColumbiaLaw) and my amazing PhD student @irisiris_l (@sbucompsc ) (1/n)🧵

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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
New newsletter: MARKETS AND MORALITY "Gambling and prediction markets are flourishing because they meets the needs of our moment: a low-trust world, where often lonely young people are seeking high-risk opportunities to launch them into wealth and comfort... Americans are pulling away from practically every value that once defined national life—patriotism, religion, community, family. Young people care less than their parents about marriage, children, or faith. But nature, abhorring a vacuum, is filling the moral void left by retreating institutions with the market. Money has become our final virtue. I often find myself thinking about the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who argued in the introduction of After Virtue that modernity had destroyed the shared moral language once supplied by traditions and religion, leaving us with only the language of individual preference. Virtue did not disappear, I think, so much as it died and was reincarnated as the market. It is now the market that tells us what things are worth, what events matter, whose predictions are correct, who is winning, who counts."
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Megan McArdle
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo·
Also a lot of people in NYC are getting various subsidies, especially housing (rent control/stabilization/IZ + public/section 8). Folks in market rate housing may see only modest visible difference between their consumption and that of someone making a quarter of their income.
Alex Yablon@AlexYablon

The proximity and visibility of the truly rich in manhattan (along with housing and childcare costs relative to burbs and other metros) tends to drive the borough’s merely very affluent insane

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Jeff Bladt@BLADT·
Changi is overrated. The indoor temp is set too warm. The floors are all carpeted. Security is at the gate. Getting from lounges to gates is a schlepp. Meh search.app/1Hq9h
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