James V
@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.
He/Him
Joined March 2018
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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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.
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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They don’t call it KKKenner for nothing…
newsnationnow.com
Hundreds of federal agents have begun an immigration enforcement operation in Louisiana that could last months
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WATCH: if we don’t democratize our economy and allow for the distribution of wealth, our democracy will die.
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Sleigh the season with the most personal gift around. Get them a Cameo video!
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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
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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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. 🤷‍♂️
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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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
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America needs you! Join U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement today.
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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
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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"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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I swear, if American Healthcare operated half as well as @FirestoneAuto we’d be the healthiest country on earth.
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Our government is now, definitively, a mouth-piece for the Kremlin. https://t.co/z6pZmk0C8a
bloomberg.com
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president.
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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.
"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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This has to be one of the dumbest, self-inflicted catastrophes in the history of military recruiting. https://t.co/31sBE7NeQ3
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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A single bad actor destroyed an entire watershed. This is why the EPA needs more support. Unregulated capitalism yields disaster.
pratt.duke.edu
Story behind the discovery in North Carolina’s Haw River watershed offers insights and raises concerns for other communities dealing with high levels of PFAS
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