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AIPAC's United Democracy Project once again was the largest donor to EDW Action, giving them $1.35M in June, 43% of their funds. EDWA sent $2.46M to Pro Choice Majority Action (97% of their haul) who in turn spent over $1.5M against @MelatKirosCO, and now @DrAmishShah in #AZ01








FESTEJO MUNDIAL Dada la inquietud sobre los festejos por el logro alcanzado por la Selección Argentina, comunico a la población que, en función de lo que decidan los Jugadores y el Cuerpo Técnico respecto al día para celebrar, el mismo será declararado feriado nacional.







I like Dean Ball's writing and respect him, he's been a thoughtful voice, but I disagree with the logic in this piece really forcefully. Given that he's now one of the leading policy people at a trillion dollar frontier lab, I think these arguments warrant extra scrutiny. "Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist" This is simply not true. If OSS models are good and there is demand for them, this benefits the neoclouds at the expense of the labs' margins -- but margins aren't capex!! The GPUs still get bought to serve the tokens. My company is putting more inference through providers like @baseten and @FireworksAI_HQ and less through the labs lately, and we're using MORE tokens than before while delivering better value to our customers. How is this bearish for progress? Linux didn't decelerate computing -- it commoditized the OS layer and built the cloud, which is now the hyperscalers' most profitable business. Competition is good. If and when the labs deliver price-performant models, we will move more inference back to them. "AI communism" The implied chain (I think) is: open weights win -> model production isn't a viable business -> only states can fund frontier training -> state-provided AI -> communism. This strikes me as so fanciful it’s barely worth refuting, but: open ecosystems have historically been funded by commercial complements, not states: Linux by IBM and Google, Android, Chromium, Llama by Meta's ad business. Roads, GPS, and TCP/IP are public infrastructure and nobody calls them a dystopian hellscape. The chain only holds if you assume near-term AGI makes human intelligence irrelevant, a premise doing a lot of unstated work here. If you view AI as anything like normal technology, having it cheaper and more competition around producing it is strictly good for innovation and progress and the consumer and the economy. It's really that simple. regulatory FUD Dean frames this as a prediction, but he also calls it the administration's "best strategy" and sketches the playbook in some detail, including the observation that "it needn't be that well justified." Regulation by vague threat is how things work in banking and fintech, and it's precisely why those spaces are barren wastelands for innovation. Importing that model into AI and software generally would be disastrous.


I’m afraid to tell you that it is effectively impossible to do the kind of writing I used to do on this website, not because anyone at OpenAI censors me but because of the sheer volume of hostility I get for sharing my analysis as a frontier lab employee.
I enjoyed writing quick takes on this website for one basic reason: I could get rapid feedback on my own ideation process in real time. Post the early version of the take here, see the criticism; then refine, sharpen, and repeat. Unfortunately now that feature of this site is gone, because the feedback I get is now almost exclusively colored by resentment at the fact that I work at a frontier lab or other forms of hatred for my employer. The feedback signal is essentially useless now, so writing on here is not fruitful for me anymore.
Literally everything I write now is responded to with “of course you said that because




I’m afraid to tell you that it is effectively impossible to do the kind of writing I used to do on this website, not because anyone at OpenAI censors me but because of the sheer volume of hostility I get for sharing my analysis as a frontier lab employee.
I enjoyed writing quick takes on this website for one basic reason: I could get rapid feedback on my own ideation process in real time. Post the early version of the take here, see the criticism; then refine, sharpen, and repeat. Unfortunately now that feature of this site is gone, because the feedback I get is now almost exclusively colored by resentment at the fact that I work at a frontier lab or other forms of hatred for my employer. The feedback signal is essentially useless now, so writing on here is not fruitful for me anymore.
Literally everything I write now is responded to with “of course you said that because

New - who do you support (Age 18-24) Hamas 60% Israel 40% Harvard - Harris #B - RV - 7/12


“Billionaire” is such a dumb term. You can be scraping by in SF with $1B and technically you can still call yourself a billionaire. But everyone agrees you’re not really rich here until $5B, need about $20B to be wealthy, and to really be generationally wealthy need $100B.








Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday. cnn.com/2026/07/16/bus…



‘don’t have pets you can’t afford’ is a generally cool sentiment but very outdated since we need to chat about the private equity elephant in the room buying up all of the vets and making tooth extractions $1500










