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Jason A. Kiesel

Jason A. Kiesel

@jasonkiesel

I Build Stuff (now in the movie biz🍿)

Austin, TX Katılım Nisan 2008
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Secretary Kennedy
Secretary Kennedy@SecKennedy·
The Washington Post editorial board accuses me of a conflict of interest that might bias me against Big Pharma, whose interests they apparently seek to protect. The alleged conflict comes from money I supposedly made from a settlement in a lawsuit against Merck for injuries caused by its Gardasil vaccine. The problem is that I never received a penny from the Merck Gardasil settlement, and neither has my son nor anyone else in my family. Before taking office, I relinquished any interest in potential Gardasil fees back to the Wisner Baum law firm, which publicly confirmed this during my confirmation process. Yet @SenWarren, @Reuters, and @washingtonpost editorial board — in their ardor to protect Big Pharma — continue to push a false narrative that makes Big Pharma the victim and me the mendacious villain. They should correct the record — and spend more time examining the real conflicts that have long disabled the regulatory function of my Department, all of which I am now deconstructing. I’m firing corrupt regulators and dismissing the panels formerly populated by heavily conflicted “experts.” We are dismantling the mechanisms of corporate capture that made this agency the sock puppet for the industry it was supposed to regulate. Why are Reuters, Warren, and WaPo inventing lies to besmirch the first @HHSgov Secretary in modern history to stand up to industry?
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren

Is RFK Jr.'s son getting a cut of a $50 MILLION settlement that his dad could have influenced? I'm investigating.

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PossiblyMe@PossiblyMe_NotU·
@jasonkiesel @JustineBateman Says the dude that watched as his country wasted trillions, yes TRILLIONS, on war and allowed massive corporate malfeasance and consolidation while income disparity skyrocketed. If DSA takes hold it's because of the dumpster fire that unregulated capitalism wrought.
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Justine Bateman
Justine Bateman@JustineBateman·
Wonder how long into the fattening-you-up-in-a-cage period will the Hansel & Greteles of the world to realize the DSA Witch is never going to let them eat the gingerbread house.
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US Oil & Gas Association
Hello Hunter Biden. Thank you for sharing your views on the oil and gas business. We know you worked for foreign oil and gas entities primarily Ukraine’s Burisma and China’s CEFC China Energy. This is interesting given your lack of measurable talent or experience in this business. Burisma Holdings is the Ukrainian natural gas producer that put you on their Board of Directors in April 2014 - again despite your lack of talent or experience - while your father oversaw U.S. Ukraine policy as Vice President. You earned approximately $1 million per year ($83,333 per month) but that was reduced to roughly $500,000 per year starting March 2017 when your father was no longer in office. You served until April 2019 - which is surprising despite your lack of talent or experience - but it was a good gig while you had it. You and your associates (including partner Devon Archer) earned approximately $6.5 million for being your father's son. Not too bad for not having any experience in the energy sector or any discernible talent in deal making. But lets not forget your work with the Chinese. You worked for CEFC China Energy, the Chinese oil and gas conglomerate with reported CCP and military intelligence ties from 2017–2018. CEFC and related entities paid approximately $4.8 million to companies controlled by you and your Uncle. Your total work for for CEFC and related Chinese energy entities to the Biden family/associates was over $8 million. These figures come from bank records, IRS search warrant applications, congressional memos, court documents, and contemporaneous reporting. (We will leave out your work with Kahzhakstan and other questionable enterprises.) And what is surprising to all of us is that after earning nearly $20 million working for foreign owned oil and gas companies when you post stupid things like this it is clear that after 10 years and $20 million dollars. YOU STILL DON"T UNDERSTAND THE OIL AND GAS BUSINESS. But thank you for sharing your views anyway. Good luck on your comeback tour.
Hunter Biden@HunterBiden

Chevron just posted $12 billion in profit. Up 400% in a year. Their biggest quarter ever. Exxon made $14.5 billion. You paid for all of it at the pump. Say what you want about Trump. He’s making something great again. And who’s more deserving than Big Oil. In 2024 he asked them for a billion dollars and promised their whole wish list in return. This morning they collected.

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Jason A. Kiesel
Jason A. Kiesel@jasonkiesel·
@Jason Very nice. I’ve been thinking of ditching my need for the Rolex Yachtmaster and getting a GS instead. Screw the hype. Just buy what you like.
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@jason
@jason@Jason·
Would have bought the Rolex Day-Date in gold, but I needed to know a guy who knows a guy… sort through the 100+ DMs and emails y’all sent — then would have had hours of small talk before never knowing if I paid the right price. Instead, I walked into the Grand Seiko store in Ginza, was treated like a Saudi prince, and locked down my frosted cherry blossom dream watch — for much less than the price on the American website because of the duty-free and strong dollar It’s a true piece of art and inspiring craftsmanship, and I’m shocked that it gives me so much pleasure to look at. I didn’t get the watch thing, but I do now. Considering buying an old school leather GS from the 70s next
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The Vigilant Fox 🦊
The Vigilant Fox 🦊@VigilantFox·
Bill Maher’s audience audibly gasps when he reads what the Democratic Socialists of America are actually saying out loud: MAHER: “Trump has told 1 trillion lies, but when he says the DSA are actually COMMUNISTS, that’s not one of them.” “And it’s not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates.” “J.D. Vance was on the show, and I told him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the direction of the DSA, my vote was in play. And all I heard all vacation was, ‘Oh, my God, you’re a Republican now.’ No, that's not what I said. I said in play, and here’s why.” “Because not a week goes by where I don’t read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party. And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy shit comes out! Again.” “Let’s just read the quotes. The DSA platform says: ‘You work as much as you are able and no more than needed.’ If that was any closer to Karl Marx’s dictum, from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs, they’d be sued for plagiarism.” “New York Mayor Mamdani once tweeted, Karl Marx’s words exactly. They’re not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of two of the most murderous regimes in history, the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China.” “Mamdani's aide, his top aide, Cea Weaver, said, ‘If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over.’ And ‘impoverish the white middle class.’ What? That's a goal? You know you're supposed to scare people into voting for you, right?” “One of the new, soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia Chavalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, ‘Seize the means of production.’ Mamdani has said ‘The end goal is seizing the means of production.’ I think they want to seize the means of production.” “Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but THAT'S COMMUNISM.” “Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance. And I must take them at their word. When their words include, ‘Our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated classless society. In a word, communism.’” “What do they have to do, tweet out ‘Elect more communists’? Oh, yeah, Cea Weaver did that.” [Shows tweet, audience audibly gasps] “Yes, [she really did that]! ... People gotta realize this is going on.”
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David Thomas Tao
David Thomas Tao@d_tao·
When I say bourbon drinkers should explore more single grain, this is the sort of thing I mean
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Ross Gerber
Ross Gerber@GerberKawasaki·
Citadel just bamboozled this kid. The so called wiz kid. Turns out maybe some trading experience is necessary to play on this court. Kids take note. This is a hard business. Leverage will kill and bury you. Anyways. Thanks for the cheap stocks this week. Us long term players got a bargain for a week.
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The Rational Animal 🤔
The Rational Animal 🤔@theobjectivist·
You chose 1973 as your baseline. Let me tell you what happened in 1973. The dollar fully floated after Nixon severed gold. The first Pell Grants were awarded. The HMO Act was signed. Your chart does not start before the crisis, Bernie. It starts at the scene of the crime. Healthcare up 35x because Medicare, CON laws, and the AMA cartel run medicine. Homes up 13x because zoning makes building illegal and the Fed prints. Rent up 15x because price controls and zoning strangle supply. Tuition up 23x because federal loans gave colleges a blank check. General prices rose 7x in that span. Everything government controls rose 13x to 35x. Everything it leaves alone got cheaper. You are not the prosecutor of this case. You are the defendant.
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders

Healthcare spending per person 1973: $441 2026: $15,474 Home Price 1973: $35,500 2026: $475,400 Rent 1973: $133 2026: $2,017 Public College Tuition/Fees 1973: $514 2026: $11,950 Has your income kept up with these rising prices? Probably not. That's why so many are struggling.

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Jason A. Kiesel@jasonkiesel·
@djspry @martin_casado I wasn’t even able to use Claude yesterday due to timeouts and long waits after prompts. 😔 Grok is 10x faster. Still reviewing quality but it’s looking very good.
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martin_casado
martin_casado@martin_casado·
I still love Opus 4.8. And Fable for serious debugging. I find Opus 5.0 almost unusable.
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Jason A. Kiesel@jasonkiesel·
@d_tao I've had Baijiu and it was the foulest thing I had ever tasted. I think I'll pass on this one.
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Andrew Kolvet
Andrew Kolvet@AndrewKolvet·
WOW. Senator Josh Hawley GOES OFF on Dr. Anthony Fauci for enriching himself during the pandemic, using federal employees to apply for millions of dollars in cash awards, which is against the law. All why Americans suffered and died. Shameful.
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Jason A. Kiesel@jasonkiesel·
Is anyone else experiencing Claude as being painfully slow? I've noticed this over the past couple of days. Interestingly, as I use @grok Build, it's the fastest inference I've ever seen. 🏎️
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Jason A. Kiesel@jasonkiesel·
@MailerLite It seems all I get back is an automated message that doesn't answer my question or resolve my issue. What gives?
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Jason A. Kiesel
Jason A. Kiesel@jasonkiesel·
@MailerLite Your current website is broken. I'm a paid subscriber on a legacy plan, and you've locked me out of certain features. How do I get the paid plan features reactivated? I tried canceling my plan so that I could upgrade, except my canceled plan doesn't expire for another month. Before that, I just tried upgrading, and it still wouldn't apply my upgrade until my old plan expired, which was again a month from now.
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Jason A. Kiesel
Jason A. Kiesel@jasonkiesel·
@DavidSacks I've already started my migration to Grok Build. I'm sick and tired of Darios' bull crap. Don't get me wrong, Claude Code is a fantastic product, but I'm not going to deal with all of his entitled nonsense.
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David Sacks
David Sacks@DavidSacks·
Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Ole Lehmann@itsolelehmann

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.” it was called project panama. here's exactly what happened: 1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.” 2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy. it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.” 3: that piracy created a massive legal risk. so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.” 4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs. those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers. 5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months. 6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them. a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling. 7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data. the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

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Justine Bateman
Justine Bateman@JustineBateman·
Have you ever had a car where you replaced an aged hose? The renewed force through the new hose will stress the remaining aged hoses. So, you check (and perhaps replace) the rest of the hoses as well. Have you ever replaced a sewer line at your house? The renewed force will stress the rest of the line, so you check the entire line to see if it also needs to be replaced. Any adult should know this. Voting against competent government leaders is ultimately expensive. You will pay with your time and your wallet for their inadequacies.
ABC7 Eyewitness News@ABC7

Another water main break sent water rushing onto a street in West Hollywood Thursday morning, one week after another pipe burst nearby which left widespread damage in the neighborhood. abc7ne.ws/697KAe

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Boochie is the Name
Boochie is the Name@stoppfeenin·
32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text.
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Cursor
Cursor@cursor_ai·
We had a team of agents rebuild SQLite from its 835-page manual. It created a replica in Rust which passed 100% of a held-out test suite. Interestingly, cost varied 15x depending on which model mix we used.
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