Katy Haynes

Working on something new. Previously @NightingaleOS @ChanZuckerberg @USDS @ObamaWhiteHouse @Twitter. Show up, dive in, stay at it. She/her.

[farhad manjoo (former bluecheck) @fmanjoo]

Imagine spending $500 million to lose everything

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

This final effort to other Abdul El-Sayed is appalling, and a good antidote is to listen to the way he speaks about what being an American means to him. This is from our interview in September:

[Katy Haynes @khay]

@stevenstrogatz @RachelAbramsNY @annieminoff @nytimes I loved this conversation so much!

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

It's important to learn math not because you may need to do long division as an adult, but because it promotes rigorous thinking. IMO, history and causal inference are among the most important subjects a young person can study — math being central to the second.

A significant problem in public discourse right now is people's inability to critically evaluate causal claims (e.g., vaccines cause autism, deporting immigrants will solve the housing crisis, etc.). The less able people are to critically evaluate causal claims, the worse our democracy functions because people can be preyed upon for votes. You should promote anything that improves rigorous thinking, even if it doesn't have market value. In fact, we should stop thinking of education only in the context of what improves the economy.

IMO, this is distinct from knowing your own address (which Huang can avoid because he's wealthy). Memorizing facts like this may or may not be important, but it's distinct from rigorous thinking.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Incoming miracle:

We are about to have mRNA cancer vaccines.

No thanks to those have demonized this technology and tried to smother it.

[Katy Haynes @khay]

@EconCharlie Congrats Charlie!!

[Jia Lynn Yang @jialynnyang]

We are talking more about how parenting became unaffordable. But I have also wondered: Why do we tend to think that other people’s kids are other people’s problems? And how did that come to be? This piece tries to find an answer. https://t.co/sNtL25nDyY

[Elliot Haspel @ehaspel]

"For half a century, American parents have tried to be exceptional individuals, contorting themselves into every possible shape to make the raising of children possible. They have saved, they have delayed, they have settled for smaller families in smaller homes. They have tried to survive under the strangest logic that the act of caring for others, of all things, should be seen as an individual pursuit or even indulgence. The help that is needed never seems to come: There is no amount of private exertion that can overcome public indifference."

[Melinda French Gates @melindagates]

Women deserve to live in a world that prioritizes their health—full stop.

That’s why I’m announcing additional funding for women's health, bringing my total investment over the past two years to more than $600 million. Here’s what that looks like:

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

If you want people to believe in the public sector, the public sector simply *cannot* be this wildly profligate with taxpayers’ money.

[Tom Steyer @TomSteyer]

The role of the Governor is to protect Californians, and to stand between them and danger.

That's a role I take very, very seriously, particularly when it comes to trans youth.

[ProPublica @propublica]

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.

ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Here’s what we found.
https://t.co/asm5jwMxkd

[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."

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

It’s actually a good thing that Americans are seeing high gas prices and long lines at airports. These are direct results of Republican policies

More people need to feel the direct pain of Republican policies in their lives

Politics is not some abstract concept. It is your grocery bill, your medical insurance costs, your ability to get childcare and hold companies accountable for fraud, and wealthy guys like me getting massive unnecessary tax cuts while you pay thousands more for a pointless war and tariffs

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Horrifying. We need to know exactly how this happened. Again, I do not believe for a second that this was intentional, but a terrible terrible mistake was made. We very much need to know if any policy changes contributed to it.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

Vivian gave it all up to be herself because nothing is worth anything if you can’t be true to yourself. Many people don’t realize this until it’s too late.

[Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders]

Today I read about a moment @sarah_drory spoke up. Because she spoke up things happened. Thank you Sarah. We see you.

https://t.co/ScUNq9wXEz

[Emma Pierson @2plus2make5]

.@OpenAI is nothing without its people -- many of whom are brilliant, ethical, and able to work anywhere.

Please, guys -- is this empowerment of authoritarians really what you want to be striving towards? Your talents are better-used elsewhere.

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

It is incredibly depressing to see OpenAI employees trying to spin the OpenAI-DoW deal as a good thing.

OpenAI caved to the Pentagon's demands. Your technology can now be used for authoritarian ends. Own up to it.