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Peter Darche

Peter Darche

@Pdarche

Research Engineer @PluralityInst. Previously @southpkcommons @AbnormalSec @DataKind, @ITP_NYU, @recursecenter

San Francisco, CA Katılım Şubat 2008
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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
OpenBallot is now live for the June 2nd primary! Primaries get less attention than general elections, but in CA they're often the election that matters most. OpenBallot pulls together 65+ voter guides so you can quickly and easily vote your values. x.com/OpenBallotApp/…
OpenBallot@OpenBallotApp

Make voting less painful with Openballot.app - now live for San Francisco & Oakland! Just in time for the June 2026 special elections. Please share with your communities - we’d love everyone to experience how easy voting should be!

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Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard·
Update: the House may vote on the farm bill tomorrow. This is a critical time. @RepLuna is leading a last minute fight to strike the SOB Act from the farm bill. Call your reps. We need a vote to strike SOB. If leadership won't allow that, we need to kill the farm bill.
Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard

This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill. The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates. We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House. Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive. The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.

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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@KelseyTuoc @Arrogance_0024 You'd think as a "geoeconomist" he'd be able to see beyond 1st order costs and benefits. We have a highly effective, all-volunteer military. Maintaining that, which would be much harder to do if we just left people to be captured or die, is worth a lot more than these airplanes.
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Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc·
@Arrogance_0024 as an American taxpayer, yes, this is the trade that we want the military to make with our tax dollars. They did a great job and if it comes up again they should do it again
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Tymofiy Mylovanov
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov·
Imagine Amazon — but for combat drones. Ukraine built it. Commanders log in, browse hundreds of drone models, pay with brigade credits and receive delivery in 5-10 days. Successful strikes earn bonus credits. No other military in the world does this — NYT. 1/
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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@EpsilonTheory This is how populism manifests in governance. They’re not gonna stop until the conditions driving the populism change.
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Rush Doshi
Rush Doshi@RushDoshi·
Must-read piece from @Noahpinion: “In this situation, we don’t need to tear our hair out asking which industries the government should promote; as in the era of the railroads, the answer is bleedingly obvious. A core set of 'winners' has already been picked for us — it’s just batteries, electric motors, power electronics, and chips. This is a lesson China has learned, and the West has not yet learned."
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion

Critics of industrial policy often claim that it's difficult to pick winners. But military necessity often picks winners for us. In the age of the drone, that has happened once again. We know what we need to build. noahpinion.blog/p/why-every-co…

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Open New York
Open New York@OpenNYForAll·
Our members are canvassing for our endorsees across NYC! There are still lots of opportunities to support pro-housing candidates - sign up in this 🧵
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NY Working Families Party
NY Working Families Party@NYWFP·
In this mayor’s race, New Yorkers have real options and candidates who have a vision to make NYC a place where working families can afford to live, feel safe, & thrive. @nywfp is proud to endorse a slate of candidates ready to fight for you, and stand up to Trump. #RankTheSlate
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Abundance NY
Abundance NY@abundance_ny·
📣 It’s here! 📣 Our NYC 2025 Voter Guide for the June 24 Democratic primary! We’ve broken down the key races, the stakes, and who we believe has the best plans to move New York forward. Early voting begins June 14. Dive in here: nyc2025.com
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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@ianbremmer "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
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ian bremmer@ianbremmer·
the british didn’t understand what brexit meant for their economy. but they wanted it, they voted for it, and they’ve gotten it. now it’s the americans’ turn.
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Dave Guarino
Dave Guarino@allafarce·
@simonw Thanks Simon! (And I appreciated your feedback very much!)
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison@simonw·
This is excellent, really great to see more writing on the topic of evals, especially valuable when it discusses building them for a specific domain My brief notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/bu…
Dave Guarino@allafarce

I just published our first public post in a series on how we're building an LLM eval for SNAP (food stamps) One of the more important points: having a domain expert *just use* the models a lot Why? They quickly get to the nuances of what "good" means by reacting to output

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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@mpopv Break the top left pane of glass and take out the bowls and then replace the glass.
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Matt Popovich
Matt Popovich@mpopv·
what would you even do in this situation
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Jake Porway
Jake Porway@jakeporway·
10 years ago today, @craigbarowsky and I left our day jobs to focus on a little side project we called @DataKind. Little did we know that was the beginning of a grand adventure in trying to use data and AI for the greater good 1/x
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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@vesnos @Noahpinion It’s depressing coming back to the bay after spending time in KTown in LA but the H-mart is a step in the right direction and for some reason the weird ghost kitchen on Bryant has a growing number of pretty decent Korean offerings which is also great to see.
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HK Choi@vesnos·
@Noahpinion I do feel sorry for people in the Bay Area looking for Korean food.
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Michael Nielsen
Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen·
Best readings on justice from the last century? Things I should read or complete reading: Rawls' "A Theory of Justice" (partway through - it's great!); "Letter from Birmingham Jail". What else?
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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@zittrain Or inadvertently fired a proton torpedo into its own exhaust vent
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Jonathan Zittrain@zittrain·
Astounding to see that Facebook basically locked its keys in the car.
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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@chrisalbon Maybe part of it is just frustration at the difference between what it could be and what it is. It could be a west coast Barcelona, but instead it's a middle-sized, parochial, extremely expensive, homogeneous, mostly upper middle class quasi-suburb
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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@lydia_kou Ah yes, remind people that by buying a structure and a plot of land they are not, in fact, buying every other structure and plot of land around them and that they don’t have say over what other people reasonably do with their own property.
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Lydia Kou
Lydia Kou@lydia_kou·
CAR is a supporter and proponent of SB 9 and SB 10. Destroying single family neighborhoods where many families invested and backyard habitats. If you are a realtor, look at where your annual dues go, it goes into a PAC which financially supported SB9 & SB10.
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Lydia Kou
Lydia Kou@lydia_kou·
California Association of Realtors (CAR) needs to prepare disclosures to let buyers know that potentially the home they are buying in a single family neighborhood may end up next to a parcel with 8-10 dwelling units on it, no parking on site. ARBnBs and luxury rentals.
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Peter Darche
Peter Darche@Pdarche·
@gmail team, fyi my mom's vaccine appointment confirmation email was marked as a Promotion. She's using CA's PrepMod-based system which is also used by 27 other states
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