Sean McTigue

Trump is "conducting the most punishing government crackdown against major American media institutions in modern times, using what seems like every tool at his disposal to eradicate reporting and commentary with which he disagrees," writes @jimrutenberg nytimes.com/2025/09/18/bus…

Grok is struggling to channel Shepard Fairey

@JakeSherman additional reliably source information

CIA Director JOHN RATCLIFFE has a new statement on the status of the Iranian nuclear program

@JakeSherman @GavinNewsom Skip the due process and straight to the cruel and unusual punishment. Doesn't Johnson style himself a constitutional lawyer?

JOHNSON on whether @GavinNewsom should be arrested: "That's not my lane. I'm not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested but but he ought to be tarred and feathered, I'll say that."

@btq96r @dieworkwear @CimaronH @RealTmDaddy "isn't consistent with history"?

@LawAndGaming @dieworkwear @CimaronH @RealTmDaddy x.com/btq96r/status/…

I don't think people such as Hegesth are intentionally choosing to dress like this to signal they're "not like the swamp." I think we're simply in a generational change in terms of taste. Will show some examples. 🧵

@btq96r @dieworkwear @CimaronH @RealTmDaddy

@dieworkwear @CimaronH @RealTmDaddy Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with how Zelensky dresses, but it's a costume as much as a suit is. Just a new variant that isn't consistent with history.

@emollick Perhaps OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf indicates the trajectory you're describing.

Manus is very accessible to non-technical folks, Replit is slightly more opaque but also pretty accessible.

Codex is neat, but I really wish that OpenAI had gone the extra step of making it accessible to non-coders. Not that non-coders should expect to make complex or high-quality applications with today's SWE agents, but democratizing making of small tools can make a big difference.

@sama Is it $300/mo?

a few times a year i wake up early and can't fall back asleep because we are launching a new feature ive been so excited about for so long. today is one of those days!

@bennash @grok @jamesjyu en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_cute

@grok @jamesjyu @grok are you making that up as an interpretation? Or do you have examples of that exact phrase?

Today, we're launching Muse, an AI model specifically trained for fiction. We've been testing Muse with hundreds of authors for months, and we're excited to finally share it with the world.

@irish_maddog @nicholaswu12 The 40 hour work week was popularized in 1926 by Henry Ford. So, less than 1 century, and designed around assembly line work.

HELL NO!!! The standard work week in America is 40 hours. Cops, firemen, toll booth operators, welders, refinery workers, janitors, et al ALL have to comply or get in the unemployment line. The whole damn country has been based on a 40 hour work week for centuries, but good luck get congressment to show up for a 40 hour week. They want to work 32 hours per week that's FINE with me, but they don't get a compensatory raise that equaled their 40 hour week. We the tax payers don't have that luxury. If you work 32, you get paid for 32 on the TIME CLOCK. Install mandatory fingerprint time clocks to remove any chance of cheating on their wages and attendence. After all, they work with and for some of the most corrupt oxygen/money theif politicians on the planet!

Progressive Hill staff are asking for a 32-hour workweek "We write today to encourage you to consider adopting a proposal that would improve worker satisfaction, increase staff retention in Congress, and model a more sustainable approach to work on a national level."

@DeadlessHick @paulg Consider you are responding to a single tweet.

I'm hardly in on this issue and immediately I can see that this is an extremely disingenuous way to go about literally any topic of debate. "So yea there's the excellent people who fall on the correct side of this issue (my side) and then there's a buncha lovers who think their opinion counts"

I don't think I've ever seen a Twitter dispute that was so one-sided. All the people who understand tech, on both right and left, are on one side, and the other side is just anonymous accounts and political commentators.

@BarExamTutor fda.gov/news-events/pr…

“‘Ultimately, we are supportive of all actions that demonstrably combat underage use of any tobacco product, including vapor products,’ a Juul spokesperson said.” That said, try our new cotton candy flavored e-cigarette! npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-…

@lawprofblawg @JoeDudekJD It's gonna take a lot to fix your poo 🎶 Something a hundred dates or more could never do 🎵

@JoeDudekJD He turned to me as if to say Hurry boy Imodium will never do

🎵I hear the drums echoing tonight She only hears the whispers of some quiet sanitation 🎵

@BarExamTutor He is saying a candidate proposing a tax on unrealized cap gains does not disqualify a candidate for him, but instigating a coup does.

I guess maybe I misinterpreted it, though. Suppose he's saying something like "I wouldn't not vote for someone who taxes unrealized gains."

I mean, to be fair, one might expect a billionaire's red line to not be taxes on rich people.

@jeffdiecidue @ianbremmer @theonlyskypie @erikmackenzie Do you mean like the PATRIOT Act?

@ianbremmer @theonlyskypie @erikmackenzie Hey, Ian. What if -- just spitballing here-- the gov't went after the telephone companies for the same reason? Your take, as usual, demonstrates how uninformed you really are.

How is it not concerning that #france and #england are lurching toward #authoritarianism? @ianbremmer

@Danil_Kutny @Ncikxd @promethurious @ylecun @ansgarjohn @AISafetyMemes Waymo does 3,500 paid trips daily in SF.

Why? I have seen only Waymo videos where journalists being invited for test in a specific area, while there are a lot of YouTube channels, where a random Tesla owner drives through all kinds of local roads(including city centers) with no hands throughout the whole trip. This seems much better to me

Sometimes, the obvious must be studied so it can be asserted with full confidence: - LLMs can not answer questions whose answers are not in their training set in some form, - they can not solve problems they haven't been trained on, - they can not acquire new skills our knowledge without lots of human help, - they can not invent new things. Now, LLMs are merely a subset of AI techniques. Merely scaling up LLMs will *not* lead systems with these capabilities. There is little doubt AI systems will have these capabilities in the future. But until we have small prototypes of that, or at least some vague blueprint, bloviating about AI existential risk is like debating the sex of angels (or, as I've pointed out before, worrying about turbojet safety in 1920). bath.ac.uk/announcements/…

@420AttyChicago I think the proponents would say that self-expression, rather than creation durable economic value in works, is the upside of access to a tool like this. Whether useful for that end remains to be seen.

@KinseyAndrew @ItsMattsLaw Do you have any quicksand?

@ItsMattsLaw We have poison ivy every year in our yard. It's always a problem for us.

Really thought poison ivy was going to be much more of an occurrence/threat

@NotAnyUse @1dgrn Agree contract disputes are same either side. But IP, antitrust, etc can have people heavily specialized to either defense or plaintiff side, and can be high end litigation either way.