Max
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Max
@planetmaxwell
no one can comprehend what goes on under the sun // head of ops @piratewires 🏴☠️
NYC Katılım Aralık 2020
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Today we're launching a new brand and website for Warp.
Our last website was built 18 months ago. At the time, we had a handful of customers, a small team, and a product thesis that most people thought was a dead end.
The feedback in 2023 from investors was consistent: the market's too fragmented, the incumbents are too entrenched, you're betting on technology that doesn't work yet.
We didn't listen.
Since then, Warp has grown to serve thousands of companies. We've processed hundreds of millions in payments, on track to $1B this year. Companies are migrating away from ADP, Rippling, Gusto. Some breaking their contracts to switch.
We went from a payroll product to a full platform: HRIS, payroll, AI tax compliance, benefits, IT, global payroll. The first employee management platform that runs itself.
At a certain point, the gap between what you've become and how you present yourself starts to work against you.
So we rebuilt everything.
The new brand is built around a tension we love: analog precision meets velocity. Technical, but warm. Engineered for performance, designed with soul. Think 1960s racing garage meets modern editorial design.
It reflects how we build the product: obsessive attention to the details you never see. The invisible circuit boards are beautiful.
We're just getting started. This is the next chapter.
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blake is an incredibly kind person and this is as close as you’ll get to fighting words from her
Blake Dodge@dodgeblake
As ever, you can read the funny/subversive/detailed story (in this case, about the 'deal guy' ethics that helped blow up the AI deal at the Pentagon) in @PirateWires, OR: you can read the peanut-gallery'd/watered down version in @WSJ one week later! To their credit, that's faster than usual!
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fyi heather cox richardson is currently arguing that local zoning laws are preventing trump from building concentration camps
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the purpose of the wealth tax is not to patch a budget hole, it's to destroy the concept of the wealthy businessman — the last real check on left-wing power in the country. piratewires.com/p/theory-of-po…
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jury duty is a vital civic responsibility and you should embrace it
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
My friend apparently got drafted to jury duty. And he got off by saying he's an anarchocapitalist who would vote not guilty regardless of the person's guilt because he doesn't believe in the legitimacy of the state. lmao
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Jihadists pledging their allegiance to ISIS while attacking a marginal right-wing influencer in the midst of a crude and embarrassing Westboro Baptist-style outrage stunt feels like a pretty grim portrait of the future of American politics
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at a sunny pool in miami on the water and everyone is drinking and laughing and has no idea about the DOW anthropic controversy
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unstoppable force (deal guy) meets an immovable object (politburo of ai ethicists)
Pirate Wires@PirateWires
EXCLUSIVE: Department of War AI Chief On How The Anthropic Deal Collapsed When Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) took over the Department of War’s AI portfolio last August, he discovered the Biden admin had been “asleep at the wheel” when it came to top military contracts. “I was like, ‘Holy cow,’” Michael said of Anthropic’s contract, “There’s 25 pages of terms and conditions of things I can’t do.” For example: as written, the contract would not allow Anthropic to plan any kinetic strikes, generally considered a central activity of war. “This is a contract that should be made with GEICO Insurance, not with the Department of War,” he told us. A renegotiation ensued. What followed, in Michael’s words, were “three months of knockdown, drag-out negotiations” which involved Michael imagining every possible future wartime scenario that would require a carveout in Anthropic’s terms of service, and asking them for approval. Anthropic was also quite slow: “It’s not like mano a mano negotiation, me and Dario,” Michael says. “It’s like every time we discuss something, he has to take it back to his politburo of co-founders and their ethics panel.” Then, after an Anthropic exec reached out to Palantir to ask for classified info about how Claude was used to capture Nicolás Maduro — allegedly implying they could pull the plug on a military raid if they disagreed with how AI was used (which Anthropic denies) — Michael and the DOW concluded the company was a supply-chain risk. Many speculated that the Pentagon was punishing Anthropic for ideological differences. But Michael feared that certain ideological differences could, in fact, harm or undermine the performance of DOW products, potentially threatening soldiers’ safety. “I can’t have a gun not work because they decide they don’t like guns,” Michael says. That’s “putting real lives at risk. It’s no joke, right?” Anthropic’s unreliable behavior led Michael to believe they may have never really wanted to reach a deal. Still: he’s open to renegotiating if Anthropic can prove they’re acting in good faith. “I have a responsibility to the Department of War, and if there was a way to ensure that we had the best technology, I have no ego about it.” he said. “I mean, look, I’m a deal guy.” Full story in Pirate Wires 👇
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what I saw on 10/7 disturbed me for weeks. there are obviously many otherwise normal, good people who are skeptical of israel. but actually enjoying the sort of carnage we saw targeting civilians that day is legitimately psychopathic. mamdani's wife is a psychopath.
Stephen L. Miller@redsteeze
One of the posts was from a go-pro attached live stream that showed Hamas attackers shooting dogs outside of houses after breaking down fences. The NY Times omits this.
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My return to @PirateWires!
I analyze the case of Gu Ailing, aka Eileen Gu, who thinks it is very unfair when Americans question her choice to wrap herself in the PRC flag at the Olympics. After a look at other athletes who did the same thing, I conclude: yeah, she's the worst.
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