Jacob van Loon

painting, with a paintbrush, with paint, on paper - Contact: [email protected]

[Jacob van Loon @jacobvanloon]

@ChickenJoeSTL i got to see the inside and upstairs of that horn building years ago when the guy building the arcade downstairs was renovating. he gave me a
geode!

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

This announcement arrives hours after our investigation (https://t.co/ZOusgFy2c9) described how OpenAI dissolved its superalignment and AGI-readiness teams and dropped safety from the list of its most significant activities on its IRS filings—and how, when we asked to speak with researchers, working on existential safety, a representative replied "What do you mean by 'existential safety'? That's not, like, a thing."

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.

OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?

A thread on some of of our findings:

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Vapor Dog II
Gouache on paper, 8x10”
2021

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Pullman Sheets
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 8x10”
2022

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The Rip XII
Watercolor on paper, 7x9”
2020

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Flowers in the Night III
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 8x10”
2020

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The Rip XVII
Watercolor on paper, 8x10”
2021

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Let the Tumbleweeds Through
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 8x10”
2023

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Window to Window
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 8x10”
2024

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Lead Shot Star 8.5
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 10x13”
2024

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Crepuscular Rays
Watercolor on paper, 10x13”
2023

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Saints’ Roost
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 10x13”
2023

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Smoke in the Crystal Lake Kitchen
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 9x11.75”
2024

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Prairie Cinders
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 9x11.75”
2024

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Thicket Creeper (2025)
Watercolor and graphite on panel, 19x24”

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Immaculate Inhalation
Gouache on paper, 10x13”
2021

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Short Trek to the Cauldron
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 8x10”
2023

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The Prismatic II
Watercolor on paper, 11x15"
2021