Colin Megill

cofounder @UsePolis board @CompDem ⚗️ make OSS for open democracies && open science

[Colin Megill @colinmegill]

Yes it can!

Community Notes is based on @UsePolis, open source technology deployed by the policy innovation units of three national governments: @TAIWANmoda, @PolicyLabUK and @SitraFund (Finland)

Read: https://t.co/QWvPhbhAFe via @carljackmiller

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

This is really neat: Community Notes work because they estimate users' political preferences and upweight notes that are liked by users of all stripes.

I wonder if other parts of our democracy could be improved with mechanisms like this.

https://t.co/7PFYpzDclr

[414 Magyar's Birds @414magyarbirds]

"Muscovites are a quarrelsome bunch. Throughout their history, they’ve picked fights with everyone around them. Every 50–100 years, they get their teeth kicked in.

For the first time, Ukrainians aren’t fighting on Moscow’s side.

Now they’re fucked."

Exclusive interview with Commander Magyar coming soon on @CaolanReports

[Colin Megill @colinmegill]

"This changes everything!"

[tedfrank @tedfrank]

Engineer: “The concrete beams in our residential conversion of the Pfizer Building are buckling. The building could collapse! Did you correctly account for the weight of the additional floors we added?”

ChatGPT: “You’re absolutely right! I see the issue now—in using the Euler Critical Buckling Formula, I forgot to square of the length of the column in the denominator. I’ve recomputed it using 9.86*EI/KL and have confirmed that the beams are more than adequate to support the additional weight with a robust safety factor of 120. Proceed with confidence! That’s not just math—it’s prudent safety.”

[tedfrank @tedfrank]

Engineer: “The concrete beams in our residential conversion of the Pfizer Building are buckling. The building could collapse! Did you correctly account for the weight of the additional floors we added?”

ChatGPT: “You’re absolutely right! I see the issue now—in using the Euler Critical Buckling Formula, I forgot to square of the length of the column in the denominator. I’ve recomputed it using 9.86*EI/KL and have confirmed that the beams are more than adequate to support the additional weight with a robust safety factor of 120. Proceed with confidence! That’s not just math—it’s prudent safety.”

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Ukraine has taken out 21 ships in the past 72 hours. Historic. Especially in modern warfare. Even in the Battle of the Atlantic, this would count as one of the highest totals in that time period. And Ukraine has no submarines and no navy in the traditional sense. Rock on.

[David Kalmanson @4gb7xvbwqx]

I used Codex to port Command & Conquer: Red Alert to Mac and Android.

No emulation. The original engine now compiles natively to ARM64, with macOS and Android platform layers.

Codex wrote the code, built the binaries, ran them, played the game, found bugs, and fixed them. All in a /goal loop.

(Inspiration from @ammaar )

Full open source below.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

⚡️❗️We are discussing the possibility of Ukraine reaching deep into Russia so that Russia sees how difficult it is to defend its airspace, - Rubio

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump added: "This is an escalation. But this is an escalation that could lead to the end of the war."

[0.005 Seconds (3/694) @seconds_0]

my wife asked me to clone a site for her for work and in the process of doing so claude appears to have logged into their unsecured admin portal to screenshot the layout

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Trump to Zelenskyy: "We're gonna give a license to you to make Patriots."

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Earlier today a dogfight between a Russian SU-35 and an American made F-16 aircraft took place over eastern Ukraine which lead to the Russian aircraft being shot down by a Patriot missile battery.

[Sumaesioso 🔣 @sumaesioso]

google what the fuck are you talking about

[Trey the Explainer @Trey_Explainer]

Homie got a glimpse into an alternate timeline

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Hell yeah dude. EBTIT is the new community adjusted EBITDA

[Karen X. Cheng @karenxcheng]

i hooked up a rotary phone from the 1920s to an AI agent, that replies on a mechanical display

it’s like a dumbphone without distracting notifications

here’s how i built this w/ @cursor_ai

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

SUKHOI SHOOT DOWN: Ukrainian F-16s just SPLASHED a Russian Su-35 [NATO Reporting Name: ‘Flanker’] fighter during an air-to-air engagement over the eastern front. Sources confirm: pilot ejected, jet destroyed. One of Russia’s Top Guns --is going to have to walk home.

[Tessa Green @the_tessallator]

Rob Patro (writer and maintainer of salmon) on the limitations of Fable for biology applications:

He stripped his problem down to theory about rooted binary tries and still got “complete and utter refusal to engage”

[⿻ Andrew Trask @iamtrask]

why is an LLM storing information in first derivatives related to consciousness?

LLMs literally cannot learn anything that wasn’t first encoded as a gradient. so yeah… the gradients will have semantic structure… otherwise the LLM literally couldn’t learn anything. thats backprop.

[Gordian Biotechnology @GordianBio]

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[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The Trumps aren’t just using their family name to make money.

Their companies have received almost a billion $$ in federal contracts – a shocking and unprecedented display of corruption.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

TRUMP: Putin said, "I'd love to meet in Moscow." I don’t know if Zelenskyy would go to Moscow. Maybe he would. Would you go to Moscow?

ZELENSKYY: It’s difficult. There are lot of Ukrainian drones there. (Audience laughs) It’s dangerous.

TRUMP: Yeah, it’s hard to go to Moscow.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

@caril_suave I'm graphing standard deviations, not the raw data. So, yes, it is a bit different because I am graphing a different thing.