Jon Pierce
@jonpierce
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technologist, traveler, ex-expat, indie music & Mets fan, builder of products/teams/communities. past: co-/created @awesomefound @betahouse @angelbootcamp
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a few days ago brian kilmeade said homeless people should be executed. jesse waters accused the left of trying to start a civil war. fox news spent years telling verifiable lies about dominion and the 2020 election. canceling jimmy kimmel isn’t about an offensive line in a
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It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.
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In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination
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OpenAI released the Responses API yesterday. 24 hours later I have reimplemented the API and it's running on Ragwalla, my service.
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Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them “very long sentences,” I can’t help but take him
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Confirmation from Robert Kagan, the editor-at-large who resigned over the decision, and why it matters. Free speech and democracy are very much on the line. To see where this path leads, one need only look to the authoritarian regimes further down it.
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Indeed, and seemingly at the direction of Bezos himself. Between this and Musk's own 🍊-pilling, it's quite the shameful display for billionaire tech leaders. Thank goodness for... Bill Gates? Think what you want of KH or the Dems, but know that Trump's only interest is himself.
On political endorsement https://t.co/e5OTZhylIE This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.
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the best satire about people truly not caring about child labor is still from flight of the concords
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Enjoy amazing Indian food or uniquely flavored, hand crafted ice cream? If you're in Boston, head over to Kendall Sq on Saturday for my friend @raj's pop-up at Depth 'N Green, the newly opened restaurant from Pushpir, founder and former owner of the great Guru the Caterer. 😋
We're having a pop-up this weekend and would love for you to join us. The flavors are incredibly unique.
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Pretty cool work by my friend @raj. His service https://t.co/QzVXORyJj2 uses generative AI to help you create a presentation based on a simple prompt, and now supports uploading source documents, like PDFs, for context (i.e. RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation).
Chatting with PDFs is cool, but what's even cooler is turning those documents into other useful things, like slides for a presentation. #buildinpublic #indiehacker
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İnşallah! The people of Türkiye deserve better! 🙏✌️🧿🇹🇷 @OyveOtesi #SeçimHepimizin #DemokrasidenTarafız #OyveÖtesi
The early voter turn out today for the upcoming Türkiye elections at the LA Consulate is incredible. Hundreds of Turkish-Americans and expats here. I have goosebumps. May 14th will be historic. 🧿✌🏻
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Fantastic event on the Future of Business with AI at MIT today with @lexfridman @stephen_wolfram @sama @dileeplearning @vkhosla @mtarpenning @alex_pentland and many others. Brilliant job by @johnkwerner and Dave Blundin organizing! 🙏🤖 #ai #genai #imaginationinaction
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Creating an effective PowerPoint presentation – let alone quickly – can be a real challenge. My friend @raj just launched a new Generative AI-powered service to make it so much easier. Excited to check it out! 👇
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Heartbreaking
Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast. @AFP pic by @AdemAltan3
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What a treat! Such a tight performance. Prime Malkmus. It's like being transported back to 1997.
Pavement made their @ACLtv debut this past weekend, available to stream via @PBS for the remainder of the month: https://t.co/uDNpfcmJfo
@Pavement_band
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This has been just a devastating decade in Turkey. Today's horrors are very much intertwined with the overall political situation, since massive corruption has led to shoddy construction, stolen earthquake funds, minimum preparations for the inevitable, and an economy in tatters.
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If you'd like to help, here are some possible ways. 👇
Devastated by the loss of life in today's earthquakes and the many more left without shelter in miserable weather conditions. Sharing a work-in-progress list of ways you can help here: https://t.co/rBlRiPpTZC and in the following thread.
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The numbers are sure to grow as rescuers struggle to dig people out of the rubble amid freezing conditions. It’s a major humanitarian crisis that will require lots of assistance in the coming days and months. To my friends in Türkiye, my love and thoughts are with you all. ❤️🧿🙏
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