Dan Walmsley
@danwalmsley
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CEO @gravityrail, former Lead AI Architect @automattic, CTO @nationbuilder.
Joined June 2007
@ettingermentum The president and vice president don’t make laws. The Republican-controlled house does. The most the president can do is sign or veto them.
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@PeterSchiff @gfun_eth Aggrieved and lonely white men with guns?. Agreed. They appear to be the problem.
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All the mini Trumps and hangers on who think they can ride the tiger: you can’t. Nobody ever has. You’ll end up on the political trash heap like the rest of them. Just look at the simpering cowardice of Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz.
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@_ChicagoV_ @DrEricDing @elonmusk Right but… he said the terminals are on their way. He’s moving substantially faster than most governments and offering concrete support rather than sanctions.
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Today was my last day at Automattic. I spent the last 2 years building large scale ML and generative AI infra and products, and a lot of time on robotics at night and on weekends. I'm going to spend the next month taking a break, getting married, and visiting family in.
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@RealDanODowd @Tesla @NHTSAgov @elonmusk There are over 300,000 cars actively running this software. How much more of a public demonstration do you need?.
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@MarianneSimmons @elonmusk @Tesla Can't find the original tweet, but I believe a few years ago he answered this by saying "Will you send us money if you buy then the price goes up? Can't have it both ways." So I guess that's his answer.
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@DanCrenshawTX Dude… why did you post this? It makes you look like a jerk and Kamala looks fun.
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@ashleevance I was having exactly this conversation today. I dislike visiting SF because it feels so tragic these days and I remember going to robogames there many years ago and having the best time. Feels totally different now.
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@unclebobmartin @jcoplien You’re right. We should just have one law that bans them. Fewer laws is better.
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@JordanSchachtel Republicans: The Party of Doing Favors For Your Children and Nobody Else’s. We literally can’t imagine someone doing otherwise!. (Camera pans across to the frowning faces of Jesus Christ and the Pope).
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My Collected Thoughts for the Talk with Lily. - The first clue to me that @ilruletheworldmo was an AI was just the rate at which it was posting. This in itself was not surprising, because these days anyone can build a chatbot. What was surprising was the sophistication of its.
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@CandiBea_1966 @jonostrower @AP Yes, but if you were faking the EXIF data, why would you fake these particular times? To MAKE people think these pics were staged? Why wouldn't you change them to make it look like he worked a whole day since you're already going to the trouble of photographing him in two rooms?.
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@stealthygeek I am not a rocket expert, but it’s hard for me to swallow the idea that the company responsible for sending the vast majority of payload to orbit, who reinvented rockets for the modern era, somehow wouldn’t know what they’re doing with starship. They were pretty clear about.
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@TboneTorrie @alex_proyas There’s a big difference between making a prop for a movie and making a car millions of people can buy. Elon is many things but he’s not a grifter. You can actually buy and use the things he’s selling.
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@grantbelden @jchybow @RealDanODowd @elonmusk @Tesla I have written software for air traffic control and clinical trial management and I’m pretty impressed with the Tesla software. I don’t know too much about the internals but I have FSD beta and it’s quite thoughtfully designed and feels safe as long as I’m paying attention.
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@Plinz In order to believe this, I would have to believe that this game changing conversational AI was only possible with Scarlett Johansson‘s voice, which is a pretty long bow to draw.
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@paulg @BenjaminDEKR Mathematically, that is not so. Imagine that there are 20 "top reasons" people leave (and of course in reality there's probably many more). So theoretically perhaps only 10% of those workplaces are toxic and it could still be the "number 1 reason".
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@mattyglesias I don’t think this quite tracks. Anxiety about immigration, lack of Christian values, and censorship run strong on the American right.
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@akafacehots A similar graph could be made for density, saying: “there are no red states, just mostly-empty tracts of land with the occasional small town”. The fact that more people of one party are packed into less space is not inherently undemocratic. It just reflects the fact that our.
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@laurenboebert Seems like every day there’s just more virtue signaling and no action. Where’s the policy? How is this helping anyone? What does this actually MEAN for your approach to healthcare and social security?.
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@jamestheright1 @MatthewDR Never left my house without a full charge.Spent far less time at chargers than gas stations.Zero maintenance except for tires.I plug it into the same outlet in the garage that I plug my vacuum into. I actually own an EV. It’s definitely not what you describe.
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@KennethCassel What would you pay to keep it in orbit? Might as well build a new one at some point. Stuff wears out. We have new technologies now.
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@ValidScience @NateSilver538 It does them no favors to lie about the details. Now they’re dealing with bomb threats and school closures. So you took a struggling community and made them struggle more. What a problem solver.
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@DavidLimbaugh She’s always been biracial. 10% of the US population is biracial. Why make this the issue? Why would it matter to voters? Seems the only reason he would bring it up is to remind people she’s not white. Silly as that’s sounds.
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@peterrhague The reason is so popular is because it’s backwards compatible with DOS and all previous versions of windows, has an open ecosystem of third party software, can be installed on clone hardware by third party system vendors, and it plays video games pretty well. Those are the.
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@BillAckman @CNN @KamalaHarris @realDonaldTrump @Tim_Walz @JDVance This is insane. He was blabbering about rally sizes and people eating cats and you think someone is playing 12d chess with the lighting setup so he would lose?.
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@marcorubio I don't know much about football, but I know enough about voting to see that this is a terrible analogy. And spare us your careful threading of the political needle to suit your personal career aspirations. This move is like Lindsey Graham Lite. Putting when you should be driving.
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@ksorbs I just became a citizen this year because I love this country so much, and I’m planning to use my vote to help rid us of Trump and his whole mindset. I’m happy and excited for the opportunity to elect Kamala Harris president as well. There are many people out there just like me.
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3D printers are a wonderful way to give your children unique and memorable nightmares.
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@stephenfry Come back! I love you and want to read your thoughts on everything that’s going on.
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@SLCPaladin Let them convince conservatives to buy electric cars. The rest of us are going electric anyway, so regardless of manufacturer maybe that reduces emissions the most?.
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@Toddkirrane @lalalalala19392 Curious what your experience has been - what was the change he brought which improved things? I've always really liked Mayor Pete TBH. He was my choice in 2020.
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@LexRogue00 @JamesGunn @NICKIMINAJ Dude, think about it: her cousin's friend got an STD or something right before the wedding and wanted to cover their ass, so they blamed the vaccine. Seems more plausible than some non-existent outbreak of vaccine-swollen balls.
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@heydave7 @EmmanuelMacron If your platform is a conduit for Russian military messages AND illegal porn AND all sorts of other nefarious stuff, then good luck to you not getting arrested at some point. I’m all for freedom of speech but this is not about what he said. It’s about what he did.
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@KirstyWebeck I say “ta” and “ciao” to Americans (I’m from Melbourne) and they grimace at me in that polite-but-that’s-weird kind of way.
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California in 2020: my robot car with HEPA filters thinks the sun is a red light, please fix.
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@JackPosobiec . except that nobody is actually saying that. Reasonable people are pointing out that Donald Trump has some responsibility because he called for the jailing of his political enemies and violence against the media.
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@GaryMarcus @lexfridman As a person who builds large scale apps against these APIs, I can tell you the improvements have been dramatic. GPT-4o is many times faster and cheaper than the original GPT-4, and performs better for our use case. It might not show up in whatever cognitive benchmark the ML.
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@wideawake_media You would only need to put solar cells on <1% of the earth’s surface and then you could eliminate carbon pollution and get free energy forever. And it doesn’t need to be a mountain but sadly Japan doesn’t have a lot of big flat deserts.
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@vijayvinyl So, this is a reason not to do it? Because there’s still a chance the replacement might lose? If that’s the case then you would never be able to replace a candidate no matter how bad they were, even before the convention, which is silly.
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@Plinz That “non profit” is currently raising at a $150b pre money valuation. By your definition, every startup is a nonprofit because they almost exclusively run at a loss. However, they are most certainly not non-profit. The only reason why anyone is giving their money to OpenAI.
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@Bubblebathgirl @MarkHamill Given this country's history with race, and the fact that there have only ever been white male presidents - with a single exception, who was also a man - the fact that she is a woman of color does seem significant. It might not affect how you're voting, but it certainly affects.
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I'm very grateful to Matt and Automattic for taking such great care of me over the years, through all my own ups and downs. I know there's been a lot of internet drama recently and it makes me sad, because the Automattic that I know is comprised of some of the smartest, kindest.
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@_ChicagoV_ @DrEricDing @elonmusk To be clear I am very supportive of the sanctions. It’s also great that people are finding other ways to support Ukraine.
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As a software engineer with 20 years experience developing platforms with literally billions of users, across social media, publishing, aerospace, education, politics, pharma and finance, I can tell you that she's 100% right.
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@Liberacrat @charliekirk11 Campaigning from the basement in front of 10,000 people and also her basement looked a lot like a stadium.
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@votetimscott Now do one about January 6. This kind of “blame the other side for the breakdown of political discourse” thing isn’t helping. I am disgusted by what happened yesterday, and by Jan 6, and by the Portland riots, and by the Vegas shooting, and so on. Please, make this about.
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My daughter's first pass at upgrading humans to cyborgs. Never try version zero of anything cc @neuralink
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@fattyfatman @techAU When I bought my Tesla four years ago, I was regularly “coal rolled” and experienced other forms of abuse from people in gas pickups with Trump flags on them, because Tesla and electric cars were seen very negatively on the right. Now I get abuse from the left instead. I’m a.
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@LisaLAlexander_ @seanmdav This is a pretty bold take. I assume you’ll rethink your worldview if these predictions turn out to be false.
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It would come as no surprise to me that this was the most common reason, among republicans anyway.
"My primary reason for refusing the vaccine is much simpler: I dislike the people who want me to take it, and it makes them mad when they hear about my refusal. That, in turn, makes me happy.". - Peter D’Abrosca.
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My team had a lot of input into this release and we're super proud of it - props to @ebinnion @gregibrown and @Viper007Bond for bringing Elasticsearch and Lazy Images to Jetpack.
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@bilboofshire @Tesla @LucidMotors That explains why every second car I pass on California is a Lucid. Can you imagine the car Tesla could build if they were willing to take a $150k loss on each one? That’s Lucid. Good luck to them.
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@photomatt The trade-offs around FLoC are much more subtle and complicated than this debate would make them seem. Even people who are convinced that Google is evil should take a close look at this technology and think about how this could level the playing field for competitors to Google.
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The fact that Moms For Liberty is banning and removing The Handmaid’s Tale from campus libraries in Florida (legally, since last July, thanks to DeSantis) is just the perfect encapsulation of the current political moment.
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@TONYxTWO If this were 1939, which European political faction do you think is most likely to do something like this? If you had to pick?.
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@evleaks Jesus, that "smarts" arrow is brutal. It might just as well point at us and say "dumbs".
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@roseann_cannon @maggieNYT Credulity, noun, "a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true." Yep, reporters should probably not hold on to their credulity too tightly.
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If your employer is pulling you back to the office and you want to keep working remote, consider applying at @automattic, ~15yrs strong and fully remote work!. Ars Technica: Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work.
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This is what it looks like when a 4 year old and a 40 year old brainstorm animatronic puppet design.
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I am at the “left an Amazon package unopened outside my door for 3 days” stage of the pandemic. Even the things that used to bring me joy do nothing.
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@unclebobmartin It went in and out of US airspace several times before crossing the continent. It wasn’t clear that it would necessarily go where it did, and shooting down has to be weighed against other risks, diplomatic and physical.
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@teardowntitan @cybertruck The one sticker on my Model Y is "Munro Live". You're a living legend. You remind me of my Dad who was a product design engineer and designed everything from lawn mowers to radar towers to hospital beds, as well as the factories that built them and the tooling etc etc. On the.
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@JackPosobiec So the step mum of my kids doesn’t make the cut even though she’s raising my children? Got it. Crystal clear.
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Pay more tax and ask your friends to do so too. Look at how much state and local governments are doing to fight this and imagine if their work was properly funded. Perhaps this is a good idea but should billionaires get to choose which causes get funded just because they're rich?.
I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here:
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@Chicago1Ray @SecretaryPete @elonmusk Everyone I’ve meet who has actually worked with him say he’s one of the most effective secretaries of transportation ever. People from all political stripes. I realize that’s just anecdotes but I’ve heard it from multiple independent people.
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@WarClandestine So you're saying that a candidate who is showing signs of serious cognitive decline should be required to stay in the race, even though they haven't been officially nominated? Sure, there were primaries. Sure, it sucks. But isn't this the best outcome? That he steps aside with.
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@ylecun @NateSilver538 Yeah Celsius definitely better. I’m used to Fahrenheit now after living in the US for 15 years, so I have to pause before estimating in Celsius now. I can see why someone born here would feel like Celsius is worse. It isn’t.
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@frankgaffney What the actual fuck. Somebody sent bombs in the mail which could have exploded at any time killing any number of innocent people, and of course there's also a risk of killing their target despite protections. Please don't diminish the seriousness of this with partisan hackery.
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@bonchieredstate The fact that siblings disagree says nothing about which one of them is on the right side of history.
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Know any marketing folks who want to want to work for a great, soulful tech company? via @photomatt and @automattic.
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@unclebobmartin It’s undeniable that he stood and answered questions. His answers were terrible though. He seemed like an angry entitled toddler.
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I've been contacted by several campaign tech companies building tools to win the US election for dems, so I'll share my main advice publicly:. 1/ you have a moral responsibility to ensure that if your app tells someone they "helped" then they REALLY DID help.
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@JoeyMannarinoUS Chasing the critical “whose daughter is more conventional looking?” voting bloc.
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@aarolston That’s not true. One guy owns the copyright, but anyone can download a zip file of Wordpress for free and do whatever they want with it. It’s GPL. However it does rely on central services like plugin directory, theme directory etc. These are maintained by the Wordpress core.
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NationBuilder can now scan paper surveys into your database. A HUGE amount of work went into this! http://t.co/J3dQlI8Fw1 via @NationBuilder.
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Unreal. This stuff is improving so fast it makes my head spin.
New paper in Science today on playing the classic negotiation game "Diplomacy" at a human level, by connecting language models with strategic reasoning! Our agent engages in intense and lengthy dialogues to persuade other players to follow its plans. This was really hard! 1/5
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Let's just agree to ban the word "democratize" from the tech industry. It's almost never true in reality.
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Not content with being one of the richest people ever, @elonmusk also goes toe-to-toe comedically with @RickandMorty
@RickandMorty Hell yeah, with that crew, we will party like Escobar and Cobain wish they could've partied!!.
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Hey politics Twitter! Now that the Democratic Data Exchange is out, are there any organizations who could use my help making use of it? Ex CTO of @NationBuilder here, want to help with the election. I also have lots of @WordPress experience. cc @dnc @nbdevelopers.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr Is your best defense of January 6 something like “well, it wasn’t as bad as 9/11”? 🤣.
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@DefiyantlyFree Practically 100% of late term abortions are because of significant abnormalities - including my partner’s (we have two subsequent healthy children that were only possible because of it). But you’re not showing footage of those because it would show quite starkly that you are full.
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