Jade
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Jade
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Jade is a systems and capabilities development enthusiast who is haunted by what she has done and what she has left undone. Infra sr. staff eng at some FAANG.


AI turret that tazes cyclists who run stop signs and appear older than ~21 (and/or mandatory licensing). I am quite blackpilled on urban bike riding adults because they're the group with the most casual lawbreaking that I see and their level of entitlement just makes it worse.

I think if cyclists break the law try to evade police, police should be able to ram them. Give a week of notice that this is gonna happen. Then tell police "We will support you in all but the most egregious incidents. We expect some rammings."





@linkbutalt This is why I was fairly insistent on Maya getting a bedframe when we first moved in together :P

Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.


Really the best thing you can do for yourself as a trans person online is extricate yourself from trans online “communities” ASAP. They’re viper-pits of insane people and they *will* come after you. Everyone gets their turn in the stocks in these little digital villages.



Episode 9 is up! Our interview with Jon Machnee from Christianity On The Spectrum (@ChristianityOn ), who as a teenager suffered from severe gender dysphoria, which unusually spontaneously remitted In this wide ranging discussion, we discuss his post dysphoria life, the influence of autism, and how his experience can inform the discussion and decisions of other sufferers youtu.be/D_KE0uDOx1M?si…

.@USWREMichael says the Maduro raid was the trigger point for the DoW’s conflict with Anthropic: “Palantir’s the prime contractor. [Anthropic] is the sub.” “One of [Anthropic’s] execs called Palantir and asked, ‘Was our software used in that raid?’” “So— they’re trying to get classified information. And implying— if they were used in that raid, that it might violate their terms of service.” “It raised enough alarm with Palantir, who has a trusted relationship with the Department, to tell me, and I’m like, ‘Holy shit— what if this software went down? Some guardrail kicked up? Some refusal happened for the next fight like this one and we left our people at risk?” “I went to @SecWar @PeteHegseth and told him what happened.” “That was like a ‘Woah’ moment for the whole leadership at the Pentagon that we’re potentially so dependent on a software provider without another alternative that has the right or ability to not only shut it off— maybe it’s a rogue developer who could poison the model to make it not do what you want, or trick you, or hallucinate purposefully.” “That culminated in the Tuesday dramatic meeting with Secretary Hegseth and me and Dario with the Friday deadline that got blown.” “I never really thought they wanted to make it.” @DoWCTO @emilmichael on @theallinpod

Nicholas Carlini at [un]prompted. If you know Carlini, you know this is a startling claim.







