Max Shapiro

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[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

@akoustov Use Codex with QGIS if you have local government GIS data. That plus assessment and zoning data can do anything.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

@akoustov To explain something like Codex you need to make it sound like we have the computers from Star Trek, which sounds insane, but is arguably true, which makes it a really tough thing to wrap your mind around.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

Human supervision and road restriction are design choices. The underlying system can take any video frames you throw at it and send commands to the vehicle, just like a human. This is why the levels are obsolete, they are from an era where we didn’t have general purpose computer vision technology. Look up https://t.co/q4J9ENNxg4, you can turn most any car into a self driving car by hooking into the onboard computer and streaming video to an open source AI model that emits steering and throttle commands.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

@ActivateVA I’m not sure what consequences would have helped. Either you get more Republicans or you get more Democrats who are too stupid to know you need to negotiate to get bills signed. Or I guess wait 4 years and hope we don’t get a GOP Governor which odds are we do.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

It could just be anecdotal, nobody has shown me any emails or anything and that warnings about potential delays this time of year are typically boilerplate.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

The budget deadline is tied to the end of the fiscal year which causes some delays with state contractor payments as entities close out the books. I’m hearing this year some warnings are including language about the potential for a government shutdown to delay things further.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

We all need to demand politicians stop gaslighting us about proposals. Either show it to us or shut the fuck up. The stakes are too high for vagueposting.

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

I am grateful to the General Assembly leaders who have been working in good faith to pass a budget that invests in Virginia.
 
Throughout this process, I have been engaged with legislative partners. I have made my priorities clear — including raises for teachers and other public employees, funding to address rising Medicaid costs and the impacts of the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ and working to make Virginia more affordable, including by investing in housing and childcare programs.
 
I have also been clear that data centers in Virginia need to pay their fair share for energy consumption. I have brought proposals to the table that would make data centers pay more for the energy they use and address environmental concerns, including their air pollution, water and energy use, and noise.
 
I am confident that General Assembly leadership will get a bill on my desk that I can sign on time. Because there is no other option — those responsible for funding our government have an obligation to deliver.

[Jay C. Ford @jaycford]

VA House, Senate, & Governor all say they have a compromise to make Data Centers pay & mitigate environmental impacts but…no deal.

This is the time for transparency. Release your respective plans.

3/4 of Virginians want action on data centers. Let the public see the proposals

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

@beachmamax2 I used to live in Downtown Norfolk. So I can’t disagree with anything you said.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

If you're going to exert pressure to negotiate the budget through X, you should at least let us know what those compromises are. We all want to know exactly how dumb House Democrats are being.

[L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas]

Let me be clear—I came up with several compromises to get us out of this mess! These compromises didn’t give me everything. But Data Center Diva and Amazon Don couldn’t understand that this is about the policy—fair taxation and protecting our resources and citizens.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

Platner seems pretty bad at managing relationships. Just being some guy works for the House, maybe, definitely for State Legislature. For Senate you've got too many employees and a messy personality turns into a real national shit show. To deal with him, you need a COS who is a real piece of work and that person is going to be making crazy terrible junior staffer hires.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

The OG model is party leadership convinces everyone credible they can run for a seat 1-2 cycles away but say in order to do so they need to work their ass off for the candidates up in the current cycle. You then hand them progressively bigger surrogate roles and make them all compete for attention. By the time the next cycles roll around, everyone is more or less sorted out. The problem is that takes party leadership willing to string multiple people along in an ethical way and that's really tough.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

HIPPA is a big part of it. It makes transcription tools basically worthless because anything you transcribe is now a health record and can't be altered. So any minor transcription error can have massive down stream impacts and correction requires manually appending information. If you can't trust transcripts or have to engineer around multiple levels of manual appending and verification, everything else becomes a major pain in the ass.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

@mudflapp24 So somehow all the stories about him track back to Israel yet they don't actually have anything on him? Interesting logic there.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

@mudflapp24 You really think the anti-Israel candidate with a long history of doing crazy shit and working overseas as a mercenary hasn't already be compromised by Mossad?

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

Platner is a train wreck and basically a con man (what working class man lives in DC for 2 years and dates a GOP operative?), but all things considered, he's probably going to win because he is representative of Maine voters who elected Paul LePage twice.

[Republicans @Republicans]

Graham Platner is vile.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

@hecubian_devil It’s really funny to me that few are taking issue with Platner dating a GOP operative. To me that makes the whole thing more credible.

[Max Shapiro @LegislativeAI]

The problem with Platner is the same problem with Trump. Once you say you will stick with somebody no matter what as long as they say they support the things you want, there is a massive incentive for them & everyone around them to bullshit exponentially.

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Statement from Ro Khanna, who’s scheduled to visit Maine tomorrow for a rally with Graham Platner and other candidates: