Lex

Former comedian, software engineer.,
ex @ticketmaster, ex @taskrabbit. History, humanities & city nerd.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

There’s been some weird things going on with my accounts and devices for the last year and a half so if anyone messages you saying I recommended them or anything fishy hit me up first.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

@tobi keep running it up tobi!

[Peter Gostev @petergostev]

BREAKING: Uber engineers now required to earn Claude Code credits by driving Anthropic employees.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

I'm hopping back on x more. thank you big Elon for keeping this free.

[Aoden Teo @AodenTeoMT]

Today, we’re excited to introduce Miso One, the most emotive voice model in the world.

Miso One is an 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model for highly expressive speech generation. It emotes like a human and responds faster than a human, with just 110 milliseconds of latency.

We’ve open-sourced the model weights, with API access coming soon.

Hear how Miso One sounds in the thread below.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

@GergelyOrosz Gotta love zuck.

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@GergelyOrosz Jesus Christ.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

To my tech friends, who are the companies doing the dopest sh*t right now?

I want more than another eval, AI wrapper or inference company.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

The live nation monopoly suit is wild

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

Hey @RocNation has Jay-Z’s name always had a diaeresis on the “y”?

I noticed a change on his Spotify and Apple pages and was curious about the addition.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

oh look x is burying my tweets. I wonder why.

As if I don't know 🥷at x.

don't make me call the homies who was in that pic with Elon up.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

It's wild that @Genius buries songs that are "too offensive".

The founders would be pissed.

Not unless big Google is penalizing websites for hosting "offensive" content.

Everyone criticizes the religious right but the algorithm has become the tech industry's god.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling.

All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Insta account takeover happening.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

It’s the 25th anniversary of the Patriot Act.

An act that was hastily passed.

Let’s not forget the civil rights abuses that came from it.

The most shocking is the FBI’s overzealous use of National Security Letters.

Those little letters where they can request banking and phone info about targets and place gag orders on the companies who provided the data.

Between 2003 - 2006 they issued 192,499 letters.

[Second State @secondstateinc]

VibeKeys Max price goes up to $99 on June 1. Get it for $69 today.

A wireless AI coding keypad for Claude Code.
Accept suggestions, trigger voice, see status —
without touching your keyboard.

5 days left at early bird pricing.
Free worldwide shipping.

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

@peter_szilagyi Did it hit you with one of these?

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@Dell @HotHardware keep going 💦

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

Let’s learn when we started hating The Boys 💅🌈🦄

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

I don’t know how to minimize the flood of AI-assisted PRs.

I’ve seen this problem across dozens of repos over the last year.

And how do you even catch this?

If this becomes the new policy, wouldn’t you simply lie about the code being handwritten?

What incentive does anyone have to be honest?

[Socket @SocketSecurity]

Rust is moving toward a formal LLM contribution policy after months of heated internal debate, driven by a wave of low-effort "slop PRs" straining maintainers. The proposal bans LLM authorship but allows private use.

https://t.co/ec83y49xCs

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

@SocketSecurity 🤔

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

Hey @FAANews thanks for the updates and the team overall. Couldn’t fly safe without you! I see you even if I can’t!

[Lex @TheLexTimes]

Hi @lathamwatkins, fan of the firm for a while now. I thought I should let y'all know that the optional fields on the job app form is broken.

Questions related to referral have to be answered before submitting.