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If you want to contact me, use email/phone. Make it secure: use Signal/iMessage. Mostly taking a Twitter break he/him

Berkeley, CA
Joined April 2014

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    This is a joke that's not a joke. Two times in as many years that ethicists and ethical boards in the Google AI division have been summarily fired and dismantled because they got even the slightest pushback from those people doing their jobs or over how that board was constituted

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    Compounder Finance – a self-described clone of Harvest and Yearn Finance built by pseudonymous programmers – had its contracts drained of $750,000 worth of wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), $4.8 million ether, $5 million dai and a small assortment of other tokens.

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    Consider what the country would be enduring right now had Trump’s loss been decided by just Pennsylvania, with no states for Biden to spare. You can make a strong case that the only reason the election isn’t being overturned is because it wasn’t close.

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  5. Given a choice between a SINGLE 2-nd factor of SMS message or authenticator app, I'm going to chose the former because it is far more resilient to failures. And I'm using a password manager anyway.

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  6. Why the fuck is the state stay at home order closing outdoor campgrounds and playgrounds? We know how this shit is spread, and playgrounds in particular are super safe: Young kids don't get it often, don't spread it much, and this is OUTDOORS!

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    2 hours ago

    Flashback: One year ago, Trump was impeached for interfering with the 2020 election by contacting officials in Ukraine to get them to announce a bogus criminal investigation into the President-Elect. Trump has basically one move, which he makes over and over again.

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    Invincible and triumphant Marshal Kim Jong-Un will never lose the people’s love, but if he did, he would leave power far more spectacularly than with some isolated lunatic in a bunker, muttering about conspiracies to mere radio talk show hosts.

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    Dec 4

    Students: Prof, um, the exam is in 30 min but we don't even see the exam link. We are all the panics. Me: Super flattered you think I have finished writing your exam. All the best and take care.

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    Just had a 30-minute press briefing with senior officials pushing back on reporting using anonymous sources. So of course they decided the call could not be on the record.

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    20 hours ago

    If you're wondering what Google was so terrified of publishing, I got a copy of the paper. Here's my best summary of what it says. Thank you to who coauthored the work for sending it my way.

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  12. So is the Razorcrest's gear-shift made of Beskar?

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    Main problem is corruption. Imperial contracts go to crony suppliers, so you get inaccurate weapons, armor that can’t stop anything etc. Drain the swamp!

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  15. How many completely loony conspiracy theories is Trump going to spew at his rally in Georgia?

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    7 hours ago

    Really? "Feels right"? Think about all the models, hairdressers, makeup artists, delivery persons, misc services, and production crew needed - who all had to maintain COVID hygiene - just so one person could look at people walking in clothes that only the 1% can afford.

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    The anonymous statement is more than likely authored by Jonathon Hoffman, the chief DoD spokesperson, who of course never ever speaks to reporters on background as a senior defense official

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    "Our compliance program is fine. Our C-Suite did a tabletop exercise to validate it."

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    "AI" is the study of algorithms that don't work, as my college AI prof once said. AI Marketing is the study of using complex systems to sell people's stolen data back to them AI Ethics is the study of how not to get caught

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