Shaun Greene

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

If you’re a CTO or VPE you’re still early, and we’re here to help.

My friend Zach & I are running a 2 day weekend intensive to get large team adoption in prod/eng/design w a special focus on complex codebases:

https://t.co/ZyNcATNdGK

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[Mel Conway @conways_law]

All the flattery at the recent Trump Cabinet meeting was more than a “suck up to The Boss” session. It was indeed that, but something much more consequential was happening:

It was a *ceremony* in which each person refreshed his/her Loyalty Oath to The Boss.
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[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

To follow up on my recent article about Trump’s covert manipulation of the algorithms that curate our reality, I published a 10-step guide for resisting the tyranny of the algorithm.

You have a lot of power here, but you have to learn to use it.

[Mel Conway @conways_law]

We couldn’t have asked for a stronger test case than the Bove confirmation vote. Now we know that, in today’s US Senate, the Rule of Law is dead.
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[Shaun Greene @Ductape312]

@conways_law In the analysis with the example of the neighborhood protection syndicate— it would be interesting to combine @anneapplebaum ‘s research on kleptocracy from her podcast Autocracy in America.

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

One thing I think is really underrated in modern politics is the extent to which "helping the working class" is actually usually code for "creating an aesthetic of virtuous poverty" and not "improving material conditions."
Cheap clothes and toys don't cause poverty, but they

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A good reminder why you can pick up GenAI - and you probably should. Real story:

Small company, 5 devs. Last time they hired was 12 years ago. AI comes out: company wants to add AI feature. But they don't have the expertise. So hire an AI agency.

Agency spend 3 months planning:

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Three years ago, Russia launched a brutal and unprovoked invasion on Ukraine. They did not succeed taking the country thanks to heroic ongoing defending from Ukrainians.

The war on Ukraine is a war on Europe. I stand with Ukraine.

Time for Europe to step up its support.

[GeoConfirmed @GeoConfirmed]

GeoConfirmed UKR - Misinformation by President Trump.

While we typically refrain from political commentary, President Donald Trump's recent statement regarding the war in Ukraine is so egregious that we feel compelled to respond.

Several claims made by President Trump have already been debunked. We've included responses from Grok AI for each claim, demonstrating that even Grok refutes the misinformation spread by the president.

In this thread, we will provide geolocated footage as a reminder to everyone that Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, marking the beginning of this war.

1)

The United States has not spent $350 billion on this war, nor has it outspent Europe by $200 billion. In fact, European contributions have surpassed those of the US. Moreover, a significant portion of the American military aid (around 90% !) is spend in the US, reinvesting in the US economy.

https://t.co/ixpSYq760j

https://t.co/R43tYKS97a

https://t.co/HcD3e906Ax

https://t.co/KoDBJO691b

(Grok: https://t.co/xvtso8g5ZC)

2)

President Zelensky did not claim that half the American money sent to Ukraine is "missing". He stated that half of the promised funds had not been received, which is a crucial distinction.

https://t.co/KoDBJO691b

https://t.co/UvDRegmS2a

https://t.co/pSQBtQ8k6R

(Grok: https://t.co/TBgyaJQog8)

3)

Ukrainian constitution prohibits elections during wartime, a measure designed to protect the democratic process from foreign interference, particularly given Russia's known capabilities in this area...

https://t.co/g52JHKbxOS

https://t.co/oDp3fUd8mq

https://t.co/nn0RpBGGu6

(Grok: https://t.co/UFR5gGvlmi)

4)

President Zelensky is not a dictator, as evidenced by Ukraine's constitutional framework and his commitment to holding elections once hostilities cease. In contrast, it's worth noting that President Putin consistently wins elections in Russia with implausibly high percentages of votes, with opposition that 'falls out of windows", is poisened or jailed, raising questions about the true nature of Russia's electoral process.

https://t.co/Y7ZqMgz8QO

https://t.co/ROaxPjVHK7

https://t.co/xY73CzziHd

https://t.co/LiPrS6NWNL

https://t.co/RMMPcOwFIM

(Grok: https://t.co/8oYZ22jCDL)

5)

President Zelensky has a approval rate above 50% and not 4%. 4% is Russian disinformation.

https://t.co/QClKP7ATLz

https://t.co/0D2e4ePdJd

https://t.co/b2f6x9F3Fp

https://t.co/oj4y2Nh5mo

(Grok: https://t.co/RGglftewgL)

6)

There was no NATO expansion to the East, as NATO itself cannot expand. Instead, democratic countries independently decide whether they want to become members of the alliance. The process of joining NATO is voluntary and involves multiple steps, including meeting specific requirements and completing a formal application process.

The fact that many of Russia's former neighbors have chosen to seek NATO membership speaks volumes about their perception of Russia and their desire for collective security.

The decision of these nations to pursue NATO membership reflects their sovereign right to determine their own foreign policy and security arrangements. It also indicates a preference for the stability and security guarantees that NATO membership offers, rather than remaining under Russian influence.

Regarding the famous 'promise':
Article 103 of the UN Charter establishes a clear hierarchy in international law. It states that obligations under the UN Charter prevail over obligations under any other international agreement in case of conflict. This supremacy extends beyond just treaties, as it is generally understood to also apply to customary international law.
The hierarchy can be summarized as follows:

1) UN Charter obligations
2) Other treaties and customary international law
3) Non-treaty international texts
4) Political promises or commitments
5) Historical claims

Russia's invasion of Ukraine clearly violates fundamental principles of the UN Charter, including the prohibition on the use of force against the territorial integrity of another state. Any attempts to justify this action based on lower-ranking considerations like political promises or historical claims are legally irrelevant.

https://t.co/Izu3N1dTLv

https://t.co/BCVCGDSM2d

https://t.co/1uXijMIcDt

(Grok: https://t.co/Gh0hvwaeCN and https://t.co/xQ9Hl9zHt0 and https://t.co/xQ9Hl9zHt0)

8)

Who initiated this nearly three-year-long war? RUSSIA.

As a platform that has analyzed over 50,000 frames/videos related to the conflict, we will remind the president ,with geolocated footage, who started this war: RUSSIA.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, despite repeatedly denying any plans for invasion in the preceding days.

https://t.co/bkygHVSYXk

https://t.co/pSQBtQ8k6R

(Grok: https://t.co/Ujmef6lyCF)

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24 FEB 2022 - Russian tanks crossing the border from Belarus into Ukraine in Senkivka.

52.106063, 31.780644
4Q4J+C7C Sen'kivka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

Sources: https://t.co/4VNiYZYDbS

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[Simon Wardley @swardley]

Excellent thread, well worth reading.

X is an enablement system for selected "free speech", in other words it's a propaganda engine.

UK & EU should seriously consider banning X as a threat to national security ->

[Mike Martin MP 🔸 @ThreshedThought]

Europe and Ukraine: What now?

A🧶

[Mel Conway @conways_law]

The Connectivity-Inequity Effect

Simple statement:
Inequity is a natural consequence of high interconnectivity.

More specific statement:
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[Shaun Greene @Ductape312]

@mcraddock But we just ended the year of the dragon so they might have 11 more years before it comes back around to get them 🤣

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

I'm baffled that people are baffled by China's move over DeepSeek.

This was clearly signalled, many times, in huge 100 foot letters with flashlights and signs shouting "this is what we're going to do" repeatedly over several years.

WTF is wrong with X/Twitter? How can anyone be baffled by this? When did X/Twitter become invaded by so many muppets? What sort of monstrous head banging bereft of thought echo chamber is this becoming?

To be blunt, "China is one of the countries which is not strategically inept. The summit was barely underway before China Gov signalled again its intended role in open source AI and a number of Chinese enterprises have reinforced that message since" - https://t.co/rY9NkfqmMU

Anyway, more general thoughts on this at - https://t.co/sobJhvN0E1

[Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin]

Here's where you can find the book if that sounds like a perspective you'd find helpful. https://t.co/j2v1BD57wK

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

X : You don't think OpenAI is the future?
Me : I've taken an interest in OpenAI since 2015 - https://t.co/EiHUVoLR3H ... however, I have warned repeatedly about the path it has started to take over the last few years. This is one of those spaces that I agree with @elonmusk on.

I've also been clear enough that if you wish to avoid a new theocracy - https://t.co/TVyNN5PUSe - then the systems must be open.

As code, that means open source. But code itself means symbolic instructions i.e. symbols that change the behaviour of the system. And in the world of AI, training data consists of symbols that change the behaviour of the system i.e. training data is code. No, we don't what the language is or even if a language exists but it doesn't change the fact that it consists of symbols that change the behaviour of the system.

There is no open source in AI unless all the symbolic instruction including the training data are open source.

Pleias with its Common Corpus demonstrates that this is more than possible. We should be supporting this, expanding this ... and we should be preparing to follow the path that China is also signalling. We should be blacklisting models that interact with the public but are not trained with open datasets.

If that messes up OpenAIs and others investments, well that's not our problem. Bowing to it is just sunk cost fallacy.

[Des Traynor @destraynor]

I've yet to see a good thread summarising new types of UI that generative AI has necessitated, so here's an attempt to start one (in the hopes you all can contribute!)

Not necessarily endorsing any of these, I just see them all as relevant in our future