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@james_mtc

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Turnaround CTO, advisor, and startup vagabond. Former head of AI @NASA CAS and tech wonk for (Obama) @WhiteHouse, DOD, and DOJ. Tweets are my own.

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@james_mtc
James V
3 months
Tired of Cursor overwriting key files hidden in big changes? Me too. So I built a thing to prevent AI from overwriting certain files. Check out Lockor. PRs and comments welcome! https://t.co/ekRujsg3WR
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The most predictable outcome of the CoPilot debacle. Interconnected but not interoperable. Full access but limited understanding. Tested in production. The Windows Vista of the AI generation. https://t.co/eTX96aPEgm
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extremetech.com
Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.
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James V
6 days
Small town life is not… great.
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James V
6 days
If we wanted to be really accurate, we'd posse up to all the Nativities across the Arch Diocese and just start stealing all the baby Jesus's. No followup. No record. No sign. No answers. Just gone. Maybe then they'd get it.
@LongTimeHistory
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻
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Baby Jesus is disappeared from Nativity scene—replaced with warning that "ICE was here." "Jesus was a refugee," said Rev. Stephen Josoma. "And if he were here today he would be deported." The Archdiocese of Boston has ordered him to remove the display—but he refuses to comply.
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@MelyanSt
Melyan
1 month
I really should’ve gotten this sooner — my sink stays neat and it holds on tight.
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@davidsirota
David Sirota
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@GavinNewsom
Gavin Newsom
11 days
WATCH: if we don’t democratize our economy and allow for the distribution of wealth, our democracy will die.
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@davidsirota am I wrong here? Are you tracking this?
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James V
12 days
Watch how this works out: 1. Make database with fuzzy matching criteria. 2. Search for Hispanic names with certain age criteria in certain districts. 3. Match many many people, most of whom are citizens. 4. Invalidate the voter registration of all of them under the guise of
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migrantinsider.com
Fair Elections Center filing reveals bulk SSN queries, driver's license plans as 26 states weaponize flawed data against voters.
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@futurism
Futurism
13 days
It's way, way stupider than you think. https://t.co/kcbaSZOJWp
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@CoinDesk
CoinDesk
1 month
⚡️ Consensus Hong Kong 2025 wasn't just a conference. It was a hackathon, a festival, a networking hub, and a deal-making powerhouse all into one. Now that you’ve seen the energy, would you like to join 15,000+ attendees? Get your ticket to be part of the action in 2026. NOW.
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@slotkinjr
Dr. Jon Slotkin
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I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States @Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million
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James V
12 days
No offense to the 37Signals team… I just don’t get their design approach. Not Basecamp. Not Rails. Not HEY. Not Fizzy. I don’t think I’ve ever looked at the feature set of any of their products and thought… “Yes! that’s what I care about!” Some love it. Just not me. 🤷‍♂️
@jasonfried
Jason Fried
12 days
INTRODUCING FIZZY Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bloatware? Trello put on 40 pounds of cruft. Jira started charging by the migraine. Asana tried to become everything to everyone. GitHub Issues
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@BusDownBonnor
Connor
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Hear me out
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@magnushambleton
magnus
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I chose the green door ninety-three days ago. At the time, it seemed obviously correct. Not even a close call. The red door offered two billion dollars immediately—a sum so large it would solve every material problem I'd ever face, fund any project I could imagine, and still
@Wisdom_HQ
Wisdom
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This EXPOSES you instantly
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@FTMO_com
FTMO.com
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Prove your trading skills with simulated capital and start earning real-money rewards!
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@_smcf
Simon
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SaaS cost vs functionality: $10/mo - works flawlessly $100/mo - jank but saves your HR people a lot of time $1000/mo - barely usable. If you cancel it your sales department will quit en masse $10k/mo - only ever touched by the kinda smelly guy who insists on working solo in
@yifever
yifei e/λ (meetmeinshibuya dec 20)
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so tiring when you pay for software and the software doesn't work. you literally just have one job and can't even do it
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@kmcnam1
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"I don't know anything about code, but I'm a developer because I can prompt AI." Job security for those of us in infosec.
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James V
16 days
I swear, if American Healthcare operated half as well as @FirestoneAuto we’d be the healthiest country on earth.
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James V
17 days
Facebook Marketplace is weird.
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James V
19 days
Another terrible DHH take. I don’t buy a comp based on current capabilities, but the minimum capabilities I expect to need over the next 5yrs. Local models are mediocre today, but in 3yrs it’s very likely local models will be sufficient and safer than remote.
@dhh
DHH
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"Thus, I find it spurious to hear developers evaluate their next computer on the prospect of how well it's capable of running local models. Because they all suck! Whether one sucks a little less than the other doesn't really matter."
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James V
19 days
This has to be one of the dumbest, self-inflicted catastrophes in the history of military recruiting. https://t.co/31sBE7NeQ3
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npr.org
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
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