Gabriel Birnbaum

Technically in show business

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

medium was burning $2.6M a month when they replaced the phrase "free and open" from the company's rules with "a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment." then came substack. the untold story of what should have been the next great publishing giant from @HarrisSockel

[Ernst @ernsterlanson]

For some reason what children want to do is seen as antithetical to them having a childhood.

Actually it is the determining trait of mainstream views about childhood; preventing children from doing what they want.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

It's not the same, but a big reason I care so deeply about this is that I found my fibromyalgia diagnosis - missed by 25 doctors - on an online forum, as a kid. I don't want to close the door behind me

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Back in March I wrote for The Guardian about how a “social media ban” for children is just forced Digital ID by another name. These policies are nothing more than mass surveillance and authoritarianism https://t.co/Nyu66hrTmC

[Chris Best @chrisbest]

The UK is on a dark path for speech on the internet.

I argued in the Telegraph in December that laws claiming to be for child safety were opening the door to surveillance and censorship of law-abiding adults. The new ban continues this trend.

[Simon @realsast]

this clip encapsulates the stupidity of this law in 10 seconds

[Chris Best @chrisbest]

Re-upping https://t.co/IoX3C3PjQO

[Gabriel Birnbaum @killahtcell]

Take that Morocco 😭

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Wait what? Rio 3.5 Open 397B, developed by IT company of Rio de Janeiro's city government is now SOTA open source and even outperforming Qwen 3.7?

What is happening today.

Never heard of them before.

[Gabriel Birnbaum @killahtcell]

@raphaelschaad sometime after work!

[Trevor Blackwell @tlbtlbtlb]

Remember when compilers would detect that someone was using it to build another compiler and silently inject bugs?

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This slop movie is going to exacerbate the insane off the rails moral panic about technology and manufacture consent for the worst mass surveillance and censorship laws we’ve seen in our lifetime

[Spenser Skates @spenserskates]

New datamonster posters in the office @Amplitude_HQ

Much better than old, bland, corporate Amplitude

[Gabriel Birnbaum @killahtcell]

EA authoritarian: diversity is bad, actually. Worst case scenario is competition.

You can't make this up.

[Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦 @BlackHC]

Please join Anthropic if you're really really good at what you do. It makes sense to help the company that has the best governance so far keep their lead and extend it (and to reward them being principled)

Currently we're in an AI race scenario and the easier it is for them to keep up the lead, the easier it is to preserve safety and negotiate

The worst-case scenario is having multiple actors racing head to head because it makes coordination much harder and it is likely that the companies who are slightly behind will skimp on safety

With a decisive lead that is still possible but at least, the misaligned models will be less capable by more than a bit

Am I wrong?

[Joe Rivano Barros @jrivanob]

It is obviously worthwhile to the people who live & pay rent in San Francisco to know the upside, locally, of an IPO that will flood the housing market with newly-minted multi-millionaires.

Rent is up 22% YOY to $4k/mo, avg. home is $1.4M—people here worry about these things.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

There is absolutely zero evidence that access to short-form social media video algorithms is harmful to children. Zero. Every single top expert on this topic has said so repeatedly. Pushing these sorts of hyperbolic claims about media formats when what u really take issue with is content is harmful however and feeds a very reactionary moral panic that I don’t think either of us agree with!

[Max Rumpf @maxrumpf]

An easy way to tell a good from a great AI researcher:

How much do they think about infrastructure?

[Mills Baker @millsbaker]

I'm hiring a product designer, and perhaps more than one! In the JD, I note that we're looking for a designer "with engineering characteristics," mild hyperbole (perhaps) and definitely one of the stranger phraseological references I've made in a posting. 1/n

[jasmine sun @jasminewsun]

I expect AI populism to be disproportionately young, educated, and slightly left-leaning

https://t.co/OF00HtJbB7

[Chris Best @chrisbest]

This misses a lot of traffic to custom domains too

[Gabriel Birnbaum @killahtcell]

Figma – and more generally product design – is the one workflow that didn’t change at all for me since AI. Figma is as much a powerful tool for design as it is a tool for thought.

I frankly I don’t know how anyone gets work done without x and y axis freedom of movement.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Quick update: not dead.

$FIG Q1 results:

→ 46% YoY revenue growth, accelerating for the 2nd straight quarter
→ Net Dollar Retention Rate increased to 139%, our highest rate in over two years
→ Raising 2026 revenue guidance for the year

Design matters more than ever.