David Kinsfather

A SF techie now hanging out in San Diego

[David Kinsfather @davidk42]

@grok @ADHDloganberry @claudeai So is Grok an open model? 😅🤣

[Hamid @hamids]

Wow. I just watched this entire 20 minute interview of $PLTR CEO Alex Karp, and I have no idea what I just watched. He talks for 20 minutes and it's very difficult to decipher what he's saying - he just seems to be attacking everyone, including his partners OpenAI and Anthropic.

It's ironic that it's hard to decipher what he's saying because it's very similar to how nobody knows what Palantir does. "Critical infrastructure" that nobody knows what it is, but somehow relies on the tech of others to function.

I suspect Palantir is probably waaaaaay less important than Alex Karp thinks it is.

[David Kinsfather @davidk42]

Strategic Conquest https://t.co/BpE8t8mSY1 via @brianalvey

[David Kinsfather @davidk42]

@TheStalwart @jackclarkSF Speaking as shrimp eating, monogamous, software engineer of 42 years today's episode the most cringe inducing yet. What is it you have against software engineers and people from San Francisco? Mr. "Normie", please look in the mirror before asking some these questions.

[David Kinsfather @davidk42]

@omooretweets Those billboards for nerds make me miss living in SF. Nothing that here in Southern California

[beeple @beeple]

UNDEFEATED

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie just went nuclear on Trump’s DOJ for bringing zero “charges, arrests, or investigations” over the Epstein files.

“Who should be investigated?”

“I’ll name them right here.”

“Leon Black.”

“Jes Staley, accused of terrible things.”

“Leslie Wexner.”

“Why did the FBI list him as a co-conspirator in their own documents in a child sex trafficking case, and then tell him that they had no questions for him?”

“Over 3 million documents describing horrible things, unspeakable things, much of it redacted.”

“Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide.”

“But I haven’t seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States.”

“Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who has since been stripped of his royal titles due to his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein, has been arrested.”

“Peter Mandelson, who previously served as UK’s ambassador to the United States, resigned in disgrace from UK’s House of Lords and the Labour Party, and he’s been arrested.”

“Former Prime Minister of Norway, Thorbjørn Jagland, has been charged.”

“But we don’t see any charges, arrests, or investigations in the United States.”

“What do we see?”

“We see our FBI director celebrating in the locker room at the Olympics overseas.”

“We need justice.”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

[David Kinsfather @davidk42]

@TheRabbitHole You forgot to ask Claude.

[Gruz @damnGruz]

"Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 7 AM"

[Erik Schluntz @ErikSchluntz]

Next iteration of the Vibe Coder's Keyboard - now with Voice Mode!

[David Kinsfather @davidk42]

@minchoi Tribbles. Someone watched Star Trek.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

https://t.co/Lb6T42n5jl

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Claude the alligator was a much-beloved resident of @calacademy and our unofficial mascot. He captured our hearts—along with the rest of San Francisco’s. We were honored to play a small part in caring for him.

[David Kinsfather @davidk42]

Brace Yourself for … Full. Blown. Panic. https://t.co/02eA6EjT5j

[Ron Pragides  @mrp]

THE DOGE WE GOT VERSUS THE DOGE WE COULD HAVE

"I agree that the @DOGE we could have, could do a lot of really good work. It could find duplicative regulations. it could find cases where we could move from input-based to output-based evaluation of our programs. In other words, instead of saying this is a meaningful program because how many billions went into it, figure out how much value came out of it.

But the @DOGE we got was one that couldn't even count, that put information sometimes that was wrong by three orders of magnitude on its own website, then erased its own information because they didn't believe in the transparency.

The @DOGE we got sent an email to every air traffic controller in the country — during an air traffic controller shortage — and suggested they quit being an air traffic controller and get something 'more productive' to do in the private sector… only later on to be told actually that was a mistake. The @DOGE we got apparently wasn't supposed to send that information to all the air traffic controllers. Whoops!

The @DOGE we got fired people in charge of making sure our nuclear weapons were safe and in charge of making sure that bird flu didn't spread and then — whoops! — tried to hire them back in a hurry.

So yeah, there's a huge difference between the @DOGE we got and the @DOGE we could have had.

But if you're talking about in principle, should we unleash really smart, talented people with an outside-in perspective and a free hand to evaluate what is working, and where we're not getting value for our money in government? You and I would be in violent agreement that that's a good idea, and there's no better place to find some of those opportunities than the things that the federal government does… because it just does, or because there was a good reason once upon a time but that reason has expired"

@PeteButtigieg
(via @theallinpod)

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

There he goes again

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Not often you’ll here this from this account, but: listen to President Reagan on how disastrous high tariffs are for this country!

[Bru @brumetanoia]

@JoshuaBarzon This is the real deal. The Histomap! I have this hanging on my wall in the living room.