Eric McCambridge

[Jeremiah Oshan @JeremiahOshan]

That is quite a tifo ⁦@WeAreECS⁩

[Noah Riffe @NoahRiffe]

I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this very special day.

[Eric McCambridge @EricMcCambridge]

@SoundersFC @JmoSmooth13 Nice

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. On Monday, a federal judge dropped an extraordinarily important decision.

It has received ZERO media attention.

In 1871, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which allowed people to sue law enforcement officers who violated their Constitutional rights. It was intended to curb white supremacist violence against Black Americans.

In 1967, the Supreme Court flipped it on its head.

They "interpreted" the Ku Klux Klan Act to provide "qualified immunity" to law enforcement officers who violate Constitutional rights in "good faith." It has allowed law enforcement officers who abuse their power to escape accountability.

A federal judge, Carlton Reeves, just issued a powerful ruling urging the Supreme Court to acknowledge its mistake and repeal the doctrine of qualified immunity.

Follow along if interested.

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[Seattle Reign FC @reignfc]

A legacy unlike any other. 👑

To celebrate one of the greatest athletes in Seattle, @mPinoe's No.15 will be retired at Lumen Field on August 25thA legacy unlike any other. 👑

To celebrate one of the greatest athletes in Seattle, @mPinoe's No.15 will be retired at Lumen Field on August 25thA legacy unlike any other. 👑

To celebrate one of the greatest athletes in Seattle, @mPinoe's No.15 will be retired at Lumen Field on August 25thA legacy unlike any other. 👑

To celebrate one of the greatest athletes in Seattle, @mPinoe's No.15 will be retired at Lumen Field on August 25th.

[Osvaldo Alonso @OzzieAlonso]

See you tonight Seattle! 🙏🙏
🗣️ Seattle Soundersssssssss @SoundersFC #BTAMI #dale #farewell

[tom robinson @tlrobinson]

Wait, what.

[SeattleFWC26 ⚽️ @FWC26Seattle]

WHO'S EXCITED TO WELCOME @USMNT TO @LumenField ?!! Mark your calendars, Seattle: June 19th, 2026! #WeAre26 #WeAreSeattle @FIFAWorldCup

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

One of the biggest causes of transit cost bloat is the decimation of "state capacity" and the outsourcing of everything from design to procurement to engineering to manufacturing to consultants and other grifters.

BART bringing this in house is a huge win.

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my now 9 month old son. Spending time with him has been every bit as rewarding as I thought it would be, and I was happily avoiding full time employment. I took this job because I believe that OpenAI is one of the most important companies currently in existence. When the board shared the situation and asked me to take the role, I did not make the decision lightly. Ultimately I felt that I had a duty to help if I could.

I have spent today drinking from the firehose as much as possible, speaking with the board, a small number of major partners, and listening to employees. Our partnership with Microsoft remains strong, and my priority in the coming weeks will be to make sure we continue to serve all our customers well. OpenAI employees are extremely impressive, as you might have guessed, and mission-driven in the extreme. And it’s clear that the process and communications around Sam’s removal has been handled very badly, which has seriously damaged our trust.

I have a three point plan for the next 30 days:
- Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report.
- Continue to speak to as many of our employees, partners, investors, and customers as possible, take good notes, and share the key takeaways.
- Reform the management and leadership team in light of recent departures into an effective force to drive results for our customers.

Depending on the results everything we learn from these, I will drive changes in the organization — up to and including pushing strongly for significant governance changes if necessary. I will be rolling these out as they become clear over the 30 day period. OpenAI’s stability and success are too important to allow turmoil to disrupt them like this. I will endeavor to address the key concerns as well, although in many cases I believe it may take longer than a month to achieve true progress.

I have nothing but respect for what Sam and the entire OpenAI team have built. It’s not just an incredible research project and software product, but an incredible company. I’m here because I know that, and I want to do everything in my power to protect it and grow it further.

It's now 1am and I'll pick this up tomorrow.

PS: I am posting this here both because I think it’s in the general public interest to know in this case, but please don’t expect all future internal comms to come through a public channel.

PPS: Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models.

[EmeraldCitySupporter @WeAreECS]

On Friday, the Emerald City Supporters were informed that our Iron Front and "Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist, Always Seattle" flags - "approved" by @MLS in 2019 - will not be permitted at @stlCITYPARK for the Sounders match vs. @stlCITYsc on Saturday.

Needless to say, we disagree.

[John Avon Art @JohnAvonArt]

Competition Time! Win the classic Unhinged Set in limited edition aluminium. These large prints are ready to hang, one of only 100 of each produced, hand signed and numbered by John! https://t.co/xHisj9Evde
To enter like & retweet this post! Competition closes 21/8/23 2200 BST

[Ballard FC @GoBallardFC]

THE CHAMPS!!!

#BallardFC | #UpTheBridges

[Jamu Kakar @jkakar]

The idea that a JIRA ticket should have so much information in it that anyone can pick it up, do the task, and verify acceptance criteria is asinine. So much effort to avoid talking to each other. My mind boggles at this stuff.

[Adam Jentleson @AJentleson]

John Fetterman just asked the Silicon Valley Bank CEO if there should be work requirements for CEOs who crash banks and dear reader, I almost fell out of my chair.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

updating my linkedin

[Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV]

And this is why most of my friends gave up writing near-future sf, because this is horribly, hilariously plausible and NOBODY saw it coming.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Working in a large tech company, one thing I wish every team had (but barely any have it):

A “map” of the teams that you depend on, that depend on you, and ones that are coupled to your work in one way or the other.

One map for engineering teams; another for non-eng ones.