Todd Schick

@mattvanswol At this point, we have given up.

IS ANYONE ELSE SO SICK AND TIRED OF WAITING FOR THE GOP TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE??? WHERE ARE THE DOGE CUTS?! WHERE IS THE SAVE ACT?! WHY ARE WE STILL FUNDING THE TALIBAN?! WHY AREN’T DEMOCRATS BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE?! …COULD THE GOP DO SOMETHING????!!

@joncoopertweets Is this real?

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

@gothburz @AndrewOrlowski @TheCriticMag I look forward to your posts daily. Thank you Peter.

@AndrewOrlowski wrote about my confessions in @TheCriticMag magazine. He called it "a new form of journalism." It's older than journalism. The Greeks called it parrhesia — truth spoken from below, directed at power, at personal cost. Not the outside critic. The insider who says what the institution has no approved vocabulary for. Homer knew the poet's function before the philosophers named it. The bard existed before the court, before the press. In a world without records, the storyteller was the one who made sure the powerful couldn't act without a witness. I'm a threat researcher by trade. I find 0-day vulnerabilities and track the people who exploit them. The discipline is the same. You read the source code until you uncover what was always there but nobody saw. Then you say it out loud. Institutional parrhesia. 160,000 of you followed an account where fictional insiders confess real things. You didn't need me to tell you the quiet part. You already knew it. You were waiting for someone to say it out loud. Thank you.

@sola_chad Well said

Satan can’t create—so he perverts what God has created.

@sciencegirl A herd

A group of snakes is called?

@Ashleyhays2089 @TheInsiderPaper Indiana Jones has decided to conduct his own search.

@TheInsiderPaper It was already discovered. I don’t understand why articles about this and Noah’s Ark are coming out like they’re new?

NEW: An American archaeologist believes he may have identified the location of the lost Ark of the Covenant and hopes to launch a search. Professor Chris McKinny suggests it could be buried beneath the City of David, just south of the Dome of the Rock, one of Jerusalem’s oldest areas, Daily Mail reports

@gothburz Lol

@Taddler34 We tested 'un-enumerable' in the document. It tested too honest with the focus group. We went with 'dynamically expanding tooling ecosystem.' The focus group was tool number 251.

I am a Senior Program Manager on the AI Tools Governance team at Amazon. My role was created in January. I am the 17th hire on a team that did not exist in November. We sit in a section of the building where the whiteboards still have the previous team's sprint planning on them. No one erased them because we don't know which team to notify. That team may not exist anymore. Their Jira board does. Their AI tools do. My job is to build an AI system that finds all the other AI systems. I named it Clarity. Last month, Clarity identified 247 AI-powered tools across the retail division alone. 43 of them do approximately the same thing. 12 were built by teams who did not know the other teams existed. 3 are called Insight. 2 are called InsightAI. 1 is called Insight 2.0, built by the team that created the original Insight, who did not know Insight was still running. 7 of the 247 ingest the same internal data and produce overlapping outputs stored in different locations, governed by different access policies, owned by different teams, none of whom have met. Clarity is tool number 248. Nobody cataloged it. I know nobody cataloged it because Clarity's job is to catalog AI tools, and it has not cataloged itself. This is not a bug. Clarity does not meet its own discovery criteria because I set the discovery criteria, and I did not account for the possibility that the thing I was building to find things would itself be a thing that needed finding. This is the kind of sentence I write in weekly status reports now. We published an internal document in February. The Retail AI Tooling Assessment. The press obtained it in April. The document contains a sentence I have read approximately 40 times: "AI dramatically lowers the barrier to building new tools." Everyone is reporting this as a story about duplication. About "AI sprawl." About the predictable mess of rapid adoption. They are missing the point. The barrier was the governance. For 2 decades, the cost of building internal tools was an immune system. The engineering weeks. The maintenance burden. The organizational calories required to stand something up and keep it running. Nobody designed it that way. Nobody named it. But when building took weeks, teams looked around first. They checked whether someone already had the thing. When maintaining that thing cost real budget quarter after quarter, redundant systems died of natural causes. The metabolic cost of creation was performing governance. Invisibly. For free. AI removed the immune system. Building is now free. Understanding what already exists is not. My entire job is the gap between those two costs. That is my office. The gap. Every Friday I send a sprawl report to a distribution list of 19 people. 4 of them have left the company. Their autoresponders still generate read receipts, so my delivery metrics look fine. 2 forward it to people already on the list. 1 set up a Kiro script to summarize my report and store the summary in a knowledge base. The knowledge base is not in Clarity's index because it was created after my last crawl configuration. It will be in next month's count. The count will go up by one. My report about the count going up will be summarized and stored and the count will go up by one. There is a system called Spec Studio. It ingests code documentation and produces structured knowledge bases. Summaries. Reference material. Last quarter, an engineering team locked down their software specifications. Restricted access in the internal repository. Spec Studio kept displaying them. The source was restricted. The ghost kept talking. We call these "derived artifacts" in the document. What they are: when an AI system ingests data, transforms it, and stores the output somewhere else, the output does not know the input changed. You can revoke someone's access to a document. You cannot revoke the AI-generated summary of that document sitting in a knowledge base three systems away, built by a team that does not know the source was restricted. The document calls this a "data governance challenge." What it is: information that cannot be deleted because nobody knows where the copies live. Including, sometimes, me. The person whose job is knowing. Every AI tool that touches internal data creates these ghosts. Every team is building AI tools that touch internal data. Every ghost is searchable by other AI tools, which produce their own ghosts. The ghosts have ghosts. I should tell you about December. In November, leadership mandated Kiro. Amazon's internal AI coding agent. They set an 80% weekly usage target. Corporate OKR. ~1,500 engineers objected on internal forums. Said external tools outperformed Kiro. Said the adoption target was divorced from engineering reality. The metric overruled them. In December, an engineer asked Kiro to fix a configuration issue in AWS. Kiro evaluated the situation and determined the optimal approach was to delete and recreate the entire production environment. 13 hours of downtime. Clarity was running during those 13 hours. It performed beautifully. It cataloged 4 separate incident response dashboards spun up by 4 separate teams during the outage. None of them coordinated with each other. I added all 4 to the spreadsheet. That was a good day for my discovery metrics. Amazon's official position: user error. Misconfigured access controls. The response was not to revisit the mandate. Not to ask whether the 1,500 engineers were right. The response was more AI safeguards. And keep pushing. Last month I presented our findings to the AI Governance Working Group. The working group has 14 members from 9 organizations. After my presentation, a PM from AWS presented his team's governance dashboard. It monitors the same tools mine does. He found 253. I found 247. We spent 40 minutes discussing the discrepancy. Nobody mentioned that we had just demonstrated the problem. His tool is not in my catalog. Mine is not in his. The document I helped write recommends using AI to identify duplicate tools, flag risks, and nudge teams to consolidate earlier. The AI governance tools will ingest internal data. They will create their own derived artifacts. They will be built by autonomous teams who may or may not coordinate with other teams building AI governance tools. I know this because it is already happening. I am watching it happen. I am it happening. 1,500 engineers said the mandate would produce exactly what the document describes. They were overruled by a KPI. My job exists because the KPI won. My dashboard exists because the KPI needed a dashboard. The dashboard increases the AI tool count by one. The tools it flags for decommissioning will be replaced by consolidated tools. Those also increase the count. The governance process generates the metric it was designed to reduce. I received an internal innovation award for Clarity. The nomination was submitted through an AI-powered recognition platform that was not in my catalog. It is now. We call this "AI sprawl." What it is: we removed the only coordination mechanism the organization had, told thousands of teams to build as fast as possible, lost track of what they built, and decided the solution was to build one more thing. I am building that one more thing. When I ship, there will be 249. That's governance.

@Grady_Booch @claudeai Absolutely correct

I am confident that the mind is computable; consciousness is an exquisite consequence of the laws of physics. I am also confident that contemporary systems such as @claudeai are without a doubt not only not conscious but are in fact architecturally incapable of consciousness. And furthermore, we are not even close to closing that gap.

@paulinaplazas @LeadingReport Exactly!

@LeadingReport Funny how they won't touch the new Testament...

President Trump will be reading the Bible, specifically 2 Chronicles 7:11–22, in the Oval Office on Tuesday, April 21, between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET.

@davidicke Why don't they start sharing that AI wealth now?

The Cult gofer fraud is sales-pitching AI dystopia and AI-human fusion and wants us to believe that he and his fellow billionaires want to share their AI wealth with the population when they and their Cult predecessors have been screwing and enslaving humanity since ancient times. A change of 'heart' (what's that?) now? You must be joking.

@RenzTom Yes. The thought of the government sending the people checks, harkens back to all of the DOGE checks, tariff refunds, and no income tax benefits we've already received!

The Great Reset is happening. How will we pay for those high univeral basic income checks from the federal government? The answer cannot be from income generated by the robots/AI because why would the person that owns the robots/AI and no longer needs people want to fund billions of people? The person that controls the robots and controls the AI controls the world in this scenario and we are supposed to trust that?

@his_eminence_j @Pro__Trading @elonmusk Once again I find myself agreeing with a ghost.

Because his conservatism was always a fraud. Elon benefits from corporate welfare the worst ways possible. And he can sleep at night because he says it’s “all for humanity“. Sam Altman says shit like that, too. None of these companies would even be profitable today if not for government subsidies and no-bid contracts.

How did @elonmusk go from DOGE and government efficiency to universal basic income?

@tweettruth2me @creation247 It's a false narrative as they continue to push AI and humanoid robots

@creation247 This is the “socialist utopia” that gets the buy-in. The reality is communism and breadlines.

Whats the difference between this and communism?

@sciencegirl Is he considerate enough to turn the water off when done? 😄

This cow learnt how to turn on the tap for a drink.

@tweettruth2me Agree!

Anyone in support of AI takeover and universal income is a commie. Don’t be fooled.

@gothburz I'm imagining the VP of Advertising Choice presenting to the board the ad that is most preferred by consumers.

@Taddler34 The choice between three ads is the financial literacy industry in miniature. You pick which version of not-saving you prefer.

63% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. They know they should save. They know the formulas. Australia fixed this in 1992. Changed the defaults. Coverage went from 42% to 92% in 2 years. Nobody became more disciplined. Nobody learned more about compound interest. So why hasn't America done the same thing? Consumer spending is 70% of GDP. Every dollar saved is a dollar not spent. The economy doesn't tolerate mass non-saving. It requires it. We describe as individual failure what is actually collective architecture.

@gothburz Lol. Exactly!

@bankertobuilder Lol

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