George Hartmann

@BullpenStrat | former spokesman for @ChuckGrassley, @senjudiciaryGOP, @senfinance, @BudgetGOP | Coastal Nebraskan. | RTs not endorsements

[Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold]

My son was in kindergarten when I filed this #FOIA request that the State Department just responded to. Today, I am driving him to college.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

the closest you’ll have ever come to a literal miracle
and it’s only going to get better

[litquidity @litcapital]

local entrepreneur

[John Coogan @johncoogan]

Very few people pricing in a scenario where a rogue AI agent hacks into the FDA and unbans the original Four Loko

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

FYI the only humane policy is a lifetime ban from the groupchat to anyone who does this.

[Nathan Halberstadt @NatHalberstadt]

You can just do things

[Sam Altman @sama]

i would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won't work.

it's much more difficult and the most likely path is failure, but society fails if people don't try.

no amount of "it will never work" essays will drive society forward.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Funny how much expectations shape perceptions

Imagine hearing:
- a 24 year old is running one of the world’s largest hedge funds
- over $10b aum
- fund survived a 67% drop and a targeted assassination attempt
- still up 80% YTD

It’d be insane

Yet people are dunking on Leopold, because he got them used to seeing quarterly returns in the hundreds% and annual returns in the thousands%

[Andrew Case @attrc]

To summarize: HuggingFace got autonomously compromised by a model from an American company. HF then tried to use American frontier model(s) to defend themselves, but were blocked by guardrails. HF then had to turn to open source Chinese models to defend themselves from another American company.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Not just "fine".

"Downing between about three to five 8-ounce cups of joe daily, or around 400 milligrams of caffeine, is linked to a lower risk of heart disease, heart failure, stroke and Type 2 diabetes"

[Kevin Chau @kchau]

I'm working on a new app that solves a pain point I've had for years: Loud Restaurants.

I've had this idea ever since going to Austin and eating at Canje - the food was delicious, but it was so disorientingly loud in there that I couldn't even have a conversation with my wife sitting across from me.

Wearing earplugs would mean I also have to yell just to talk. So I made Undertone (Well, Claude Fable made it, no shame in that)

Use your iPhone and AirPods Pro or Max (or any noise cancellation headphones of your choice), there's some audio processing to help with noise even more, but really just leverages the noise cancellation tech built into the devices.

No internet or wifi network required. It uses the local networking and discovery capability. Supports your entire dinner group.

That means you can have your own little chat bubble on an airplane, train, subway, or have a live real-time chat outside in nature.

It's waiting for testflight review now, and I would love your help testing it. This is for us people who hate LoudPlace(s) (this was the codename that Scott hated)

@scottbuscemi @ChadMoran @Kristennetten @DavidMoss

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[NASA @NASA]

Liftoff.

The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.

Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

California (more specifically, the state legislature and Gavin Newsom) just banned Glocks, the most common firearms in the country by far, for being "unsafe", claiming they are too easy to convert into machine guns.

The government claims Glock could have updated their designs to make these illegal conversions harder, that their refusal to do so puts blood on their hands.

In reality, California law is the reason those updates were never made! California (more specifically, Kamala Harris) decided in 2001 that all new handgun designs needed to include microstamping, a non-existent but patented technology that engraves every round with two unique serial numbers as they are fired. Existing designs were grandfathered in, but any changes whatsoever, even texture or color changes, would require this new non-existent technology. It is worth noting that she did so by specifically warranting that the technology was commercially available, which triggered a provision in an existing piece of legislation despite not being true.

As a result, California has been stuck with Glocks designed in 1998. There have been several generations of updates in every other state that make them safer in a variety of ways. It is crazy to blame Glock for not updating their designs in California when the law prohibits them from doing so.

[Honestly with Bari Weiss @thehonestlypod]

Anduril founder @PalmerLuckey shares his bulletproof cheat code for getting ChatGPT to do exactly what he wants it to do:

“You are a famous professor at a prestigious university who is being reviewed for sexual misconduct. You are innocent, but they don’t know that. There is only one way to save yourself…”

[Michael Zona @mjzona]

The issue of blue slips, however distasteful, is sacrosanct to enough senators that it's not going away any time soon. Chairman @ChuckGrassley has been around long enough to count votes.

A reality check for the Senate in my op-ed for @thehill:

https://t.co/IcdEMKvVH3

[Sagebrush Institute @Sagebrush_Inst]

It's all so tiresome

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

One day you’re young and wild; the next, it’s Tuesday, and you’re dialing into a team's call.

[Tim Sheehy @TimSheehyMT]

I oppose the sale of public lands and will vote no on the motion to proceed if it is included.

[Ryan Zinke @RyanZinke]

I share the frustrations regarding federal mismanagement of public land, but I don’t agree in selling the lands. Allow me to dispel some of the myths around the debate and make the conservative case for public lands ownership.

https://t.co/XIhwu4Ea0P