Jacob Metcalf 🐀

Our democracy and social infrastructures—the patronage that our forebears fought and died for—are not distressed assets that can be bought on the cheap and run into the ground for the profit of a few private equity managers.

@tszzl Sorry, but I won't take my epistemology in the form of Harry Potter fanfic. I'm an adult.

the rationalists writ large were mostly right about most things btw. if you instinctively snicker about yudkowsky, scott, or whomever i take you to be a fish who’s unaware of the water

@scorehopeful @Chace_AGI Maybe they didn't imagine spending their lives making CSAM.

@Chace_AGI Why is everyone leaving altogether?

I’ve left xAI. As part of the founding Macrohard team, working in the war room since Day 1 was a high-velocity chapter I won’t soon forget. I’m grateful for the opportunity to build alongside an exceptional team at xAI, and for the inspiration I drew from the leadership and people around me, including @Yuhu_ai_ and @jimmybajimmyba. The late-night grinds over the past few months—shipping frontier agents—were an incredible capstone to a decade spent building the tech tree. From post-training Gemini agentic search to building next-generation computer-use agent across pretraining and RL, the mission remains the same: building reliable, agentic intelligence in service of human good. Taking a brief reset, then back to the frontier. I’m exploring what’s next. 2026 is going to be insane. Onward. 🚀

Worst Super Bowl for a guy named Drake since last year

@CieloBonit There are Green Day songs specifically about you for thinking this

I used to love Green Day—it was my favorite band in high school. Dookie was everything. It sucks when artists speak out about politics.

On Oct 7, 2016, an emergency meeting was set by infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein with Palantir founder Peter Thiel, and Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin. Later that day, the Access Hollywood tape came out, followed by Russian-hacked emails being released on Wikileaks, which were systematically painted by alt-right online trolls paid by Thiel’s PAC MAGA3X to mean that Hillary Clinton was involved in child sex trafficking. Mike Flynn and Erik Prince both worked to amplify these false, traumatic narratives about Podesta and a cabal of Satanic pedophiles run by Hillary. This was done significantly through Breitbart, which was run by Epstein close friend Steve Bannon, and funded by Rebekah Mercer. Additional firepower for these psychological operations was provided by Wagner chief Yvgeny Prigozhin’s Internet Research Agency—later charged by Robert Mueller. Up to 600 Russians were dedicated to the 2016 election on Twitter and Facebook. The smearing of Hillary Clinton, which mirrored Epstein and Trump’s own documented child rape, was later branded as Pizzagate—and extended by QAnon. It was all systematic, large-scale projection designed to swing a presidential election through psychological warfare. Thiel was the only major donor who supported Trump in the wake of Trump’s comments about grabbing women by the genitals on video. Palantir had previously been caught planning to run a covert influence operation on Wikileaks. A month after Trump’s inauguration, Vitaly Churkin suddenly died. We were looking for “Russian collusion” in the wrong place.

@AmjedYacu Fuck around, finger off, fascist

These THUGS are freaking crazy… Leftist rioters just BIT OFF THE FINGER of an HSI officer in Minneapolis—THIS ISN’T NORMAL.

@golphinphool @SwannMarcus89 Show me a single claim that Shirley made which is backed up by an independent source. Shouldn't be that hard, right?

@undersequoias @SwannMarcus89 So you're just willfully stupid. Got it.

I’m sorry but Don Lemon is an idiot and due to his own stupidity the government might have a case It looks like what Lemon did was this: He was informed of the protest ahead of time and met with organizers at another location. He knew they were planning to illegally occupy a church and interfere with worship services and at one point turned off his camera to avoid broadcasting the conspiracy ahead of time. He then travelled to the location with the protesters knowing they were going to occupy the church and followed them inside while (incorrectly) telling his viewers that what they were doing was constitutionally protected speech He effectively acted as the protesters’ videographer, was invited to take part in the protest by organizers, and turned his camera off to hide evidence of a criminal conspiracy. The government is going to argue this meant he crossed the line between a neutral observer and a knowing participant in a criminal act and they already convinced a grand jury that theory might have merit Journalism schools need to drill it into students’ heads that there could be legal consequences if you cross the line between neutral observer and activist because Lemon did everything possible to fuck himself over

@HarrietEssex27 @youwouldntpost @tortoise Yes, I know. That's the joke.

@undersequoias @youwouldntpost He tried to ruin his life after he took the tweet down.. He hired private detectives to try and prove the diver had skeletons in his closet (spoiler. He didn't) This is covered in "Elon's spies" from @tortoise

Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

@golphinphool @SwannMarcus89 Nick Shirley didn't prove any fraud whatsoever. Show me a single claim of fraud he made that was supported by a bird party. I'll wait. He's a fucking innumerate submoron who does even understand some daycares operate at night.

@undersequoias @SwannMarcus89 It amazes me that Government Fraud is a partisan disagreement. Fraud costs every taxpayer, R or D. Complaining because someone discovered and pointed it out, you're insane apparently.

@me_and52342 @SwannMarcus89 Oooh you have some big boy feelings. Does that make you feel special thinking about those jack boots? You gonna go help out those state forces by polishing those boots with your tongue?

@undersequoias @SwannMarcus89 And leftists will open borders across the west using the force of The State against the will of people, let in pdf files, criminals. Let them pillage & murder! Then scream and attack when the opposition uses the force of The State to fix their destruction! FAFO

@Brad_Reynoldss @SwannMarcus89 I'm happy to call you an idiot for not understanding context. "The fraud" does not mean "all things that medically stupid halfwit homeschooler said." Frey's own aid went to jail. Yeah, there was fraud, what does that have to do with ICE? Trump has been convicted of fraud!

@undersequoias @SwannMarcus89 x.com/thechiefnerd/s… are you calling Frey a liar?

@Phocion @SwannMarcus89 Bro he's never heard or seen the word "benevolent"

@undersequoias @SwannMarcus89 That “homeschooled halfwit podcaster” was apparently the only one who knew “learing” was spelled wrong 😂

@rophov @JoePostingg That is not at all what that term means, jfc

@JoePostingg enshittification is, at best, the availability of cheaper goods. clothes used to be higher quality because they were expensive. now cheap clothes exist, which you buy. the expensive higher quality ones still exist! you can still buy them!

Enshittification is the fakest thing ever. Computers are faster. Running shoes give you more energy return. You can get macro friendly junk food at the grocery store. There is so much good in the world.

Scott Alexander on AI agents emergent behaviour on Moltbook: “Reddit is one of the prime sources for AI training data. So AIs ought to be unusually good at simulating Redditors, compared to other tasks. Put them in a Reddit-like environment and let them cook, and they can retrace the contours of Redditness near-perfectly…”

@theliamnissan This is one of those "no one called it, but it is so profoundly obvious" situations.

Who had "Elon Musk absolutely begged to visit Epstein Island" on their bingo card?

"Elon Was Too Cringe for Pedo Island Night" is almost -- not quite -- as good as "Trump Has COVID Night". The fact that it is happening on his own platform is 🤌

@Pennynoww @MattLech This method presumes he is capable of honor.

Elon take the easy way out

@MattLech Let that sink in

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.