James Roan

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

@mastersugee 2 all day

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

@gekibnews 1

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

@ojessie__ Toro

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

@KingTunde_SZN 16

[໊ @oboo_emma_]

mexico genuinely has one of the best stadiums at this world cup, but they’re not getting the hype they deserve. that view is absolutely insane man.🇲🇽

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like “Defund the Police” or “From the River to the Sea” or “Latinx.”

There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

@harrisonjaime Bernie is spot on.

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

@MichaelJStern1

[Black Lives Matter (BLM) @Blklivesmatter]

Timeline of Events

Sunday
•Joe Biden drops out.
•Kamala Harris announces campaign with Biden endorsement.
•Kamala Harris says she is going to work hard to earn the nomination.
•Kamala Harris makes calls to party delegates.

Monday
•Kamala Harris continues making calls to party delegates.
•Kamala Harris makes two public speeches.
•AP announces Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to be the Democratic Nominee (Monday night).
•Kamala Harris releases this statement, noting she has worked hard to “go out and earn this nomination” as promised (Monday night).

A 24-hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a process Democrats should be proud of. We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs.

Installing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee and an unknown vice president without any public voting process would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites.

We call on the @DNC to create a process that allows for public participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party delegates.

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

@libbyemmons Turned to the Dark Side he has, an agent of evil, he has become.

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

Good. Now let’s get @RobertKennedyJr on the stage for the next debate, because we all know the Dems are champions of Democracy. 🙄

[The Associated Press @AP]

Biden orders Secret Service to protect RFK Jr. after attempt on Trump's life https://t.co/NjMobzvZcj

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

@MarkHamill I no longer wonder why we had to wait for a CGI Luke to be a bad ass, and I don’t even like Trump.

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.

This is the email I’ve shared with our @scale_AI team.

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MERITOCRACY AT SCALE

In the wake of our fundraise, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about talent. All of our external success—powering breakthroughs in L4 autonomy, partnering with OpenAI on RLHF going back to GPT-2, supporting the DoD and every major AI lab, and the recent $1bn financing transaction—all of it is downstream from us hiring the best people for the job. Talent is our #1 input metric.

Because of this, I spend a lot of my time on recruiting. I either personally interview every hire or sign off on every candidate packet. It’s the thing I spend the plurality of my time on, easily. But everyone can and should contribute to this effort. There are almost a thousand of us now, and it takes a lot to hire quickly while maintaining, and continuing to raise, our bar for quality.

That’s why this is the time to codify a hiring principle that I consider crucial to our success:
Scale is a meritocracy, and we must always remain one.

Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale.

It’s a big deal whenever we invite someone to join our mission, and those decisions have never been swayed by orthodoxy or virtue signaling or whatever the current thing is. I think of our guiding principle as MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.

That means we hire only the best person for the job, we seek out and demand excellence, and we unapologetically prefer people who are very smart.

We treat everyone as an individual. We do not unfairly stereotype, tokenize, or otherwise treat anyone as a member of a demographic group rather than as an individual.

We believe that people should be judged by the content of their character — and, as colleagues, be additionally judged by their talent, skills, and work ethic.

There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity. I strongly disagree. No group has a monopoly on excellence. A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas. Achieving this requires casting a wide net for talent and then objectively selecting the best, without bias in any direction. We will not pick winners and losers based on someone being the “right” or “wrong” race, gender, and so on. It should be needless to say, and yet it needs saying: doing so would be racist and sexist, not to mention illegal.

Upholding meritocracy is good for business and is the right thing to do. This approach not only results in the strongest possible team, but also ensures we’re treating our colleagues with fairness and respect.

As a result, everyone who joins Scale can be confident that they were chosen for their outstanding talent, not any other reasons.

MEI has gotten us to where we are today. And it’s the same thing that’ll get us where we’re going, as we embark on our next chapter focusing on data abundance, frontier data, and reliable measurement to accelerate the development and adoption of AI models.

Alex

[James Roan @JimmyRoan76]

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[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Coming soon…

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Joe Biden is campaigning in South Carolina right now. Tomorrow is the first day of Black History Month. Let’s reminisce on everything he’s done for Black Americans:

- Authored the 1994 crime bill which led to the mass incarceration of black people

- Said if you don’t vote for him, “then you ain’t black”

- Extended penalties for people under 21 charged with selling marijuana

- Endorsed segregationist senators

- Opposed busing because he didn’t want his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle”

[Lauren Helmbrecht @lmhelmbrecht]

“How bout them Cowboys!”

#Packers Special Team coordinator Rich Bisaccia is very excited postgame