#  @KelseyTuoc Kelsey Piper
Kelsey Piper posts on X about ai, this is, in the, if you the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Social Influence
**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance) 7.58% [countries](/list/countries) 6.82% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 2.27% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 0.76% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 0.76%
**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) 6.06%, [this is](/topic/this-is) 5.3%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 5.3%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 4.55%, [strike](/topic/strike) #742, [public](/topic/public) #701, [money](/topic/money) 3.79%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 3.03%, [sector](/topic/sector) #53, [fine](/topic/fine) #882
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@teapottery_ DNA is very strong evidence. But handwriting analysis bite mark analysis ballistics [---] recording analysis medical examiners etc. are all on extremely shaky ground and not anywhere near as strong evidence as they're presented as"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1770556344648823230) 2024-03-20T21:01Z 53.9K followers, 151.8K engagements
"@RiverTamYDN accelerationism never works making the world worse makes it worse and then it's worse. the way to make the world better is by making it better"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1884817690050875497) 2025-01-30T04:15Z 53.9K followers, 456.8K engagements
"When the press raised concerns about how the USAID stop-work order was going to immediately kill millions of people Rubio showed the press a waiver for lifesaving aid. But his state department didn't actually restart the aid. The clinics are still closed"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1885509982550172059) 2025-02-01T02:06Z 53.9K followers, 241K engagements
""no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1900983163968798729) 2025-03-15T18:51Z 53.9K followers, 4M engagements
"This is even worse than I imagined from the summary. They snatched him off the street and detained him overnight even though he was carrying his ID and social security card proving his US citizenship on him the whole time. well we told you it was coming. ICE detained Julio Noriega a 54-year-old US citizen for the crime of walking while Hispanic. https://t.co/qv8BUc9MyS well we told you it was coming. ICE detained Julio Noriega a 54-year-old US citizen for the crime of walking while Hispanic. https://t.co/qv8BUc9MyS"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1901813472792645762) 2025-03-18T01:50Z 53.9K followers, 1.6M engagements
"🚨Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in [----] 🚨Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in 2025"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909033847511261501) 2025-04-07T00:01Z 53.9K followers, 1.9M engagements
"o4-mini-high is the first AI to pass my personal secret benchmark for hallucinations and complex reasoning so I guess now I can tell you all what that benchmark is. It's simple: I post a complex midgame chessboard and 'mate in one'. The chessboard does not have a mate in one"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1912945346126417940) 2025-04-17T19:04Z 53.9K followers, 1.6M engagements
"@MattZeitlin 5yo when he sees the dogs says loudly "I don't like dogs. I'm not scared of them. I just don't like them" which gives me an opening to tell him "the sign says they're not supposed to be here but I guess they don't think they should have to follow the rules""
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948429540180787596) 2025-07-24T17:06Z 53.9K followers, 170K engagements
"wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores you're probably underestimating it:"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1971256287481692586) 2025-09-25T16:51Z 53.9K followers, 3.5M engagements
"@politicalmath The posts by JK Rowling that persuaded me that she had genuinely lost her way were some about Imane Khalif the woman with an intersex condition who fought in the Olympics and was then disqualified"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018105515864359041) 2026-02-01T23:33Z 53.9K followers, 44.1K engagements
"@HaydnBelfield because no one is allowed in or out it's a plot point istg some of you people must have only read the Silmarillion once or at most twice and barely even glanced through the twelve volume Histories of Middle Earth"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019811954844684597) 2026-02-06T16:34Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"You end up with organized theft rings that are systematically stealing a million dollars of stuff. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/retail-theft-ring-leader-arrested-california https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/retail-theft-ring-leader-arrested-california"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019844522835104204) 2026-02-06T18:43Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@politicalmath This is also what's going on with "some people say it's not happening and some say it's good". Discrimination on the basis of espoused religion is not happening. If it were happening it would be greatly evil. CA like every state screens for how parents will treat the children"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020237766207107313) 2026-02-07T20:46Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@wrowclif there was someone who claimed to be a Chinese-Pakistani human trafficking survivor living with HIV who was a lesbian and living with her girlfriend in India. white American college student running a scam"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020297064664740033) 2026-02-08T00:42Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@mpopv I also find it super repetitive the most repetitive of the frontier models; it'll go "if you tell me X I can Y" and then you tell it X and instead of Y it'll re-answer the whole original question with X considered"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020618121510535594) 2026-02-08T21:57Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Most people who care about common sense or America or even just winning elections have abandoned this stuff so its last gasps are just absolutely bonkers beyond parody Black people cannot run political ads you heard it here first. The final boss of idiotic identity politics. Black people cannot run political ads you heard it here first. The final boss of idiotic identity politics"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020930368887742661) 2026-02-09T18:38Z 53.9K followers, 12.5K engagements
"This is not fair to your audience. AI is a high stakes matter and for most ways that it's high stakes assuring them that it's just autocomplete leaves them less informed about what is going on"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022347173153603675) 2026-02-13T16:28Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@pan_accindex I think it was bad to shut down schools for more than a year including after we'd prioritized giving teachers the vaccine first ahead of high-risk lower-paid employees. Do you think it was good to shut down schools for more than a year"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022373278539509947) 2026-02-13T18:12Z 53.9K followers, 14.9K engagements
"from @lxeagle17: which platform you regularly use to get news is very very strongly linked to your political views. X is the most pro-ICE TikTok the least pro-ICE:"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019442466575855637) 2026-02-05T16:06Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@maiamindel I'm not sure this is true at the Iranian regime's scale of massacre but even if it is you can prefer [-----] dead and the country free to [-----] protesters murdered for nothing"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022018543295009219) 2026-02-12T18:42Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@ADavis4me @neontaster they were offered a 6% raise and rejected it because they want a 9% raise. they were offered a $24000 in a 'health benefits allowance' and rejected it as not enough healthcare coverage. https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-school-district-explained https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-school-district-explained"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022196491419586897) 2026-02-13T06:29Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@HBendaas @VitruviusGrind @colindr @noahsloss San Francisco has massively grown its staff and kept its number of teachers constant as its number of students has plummeted. That's why there's a budget crisis"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022884110398820656) 2026-02-15T04:02Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@secretpinko @colindr @noahsloss do you think that police unions should be allowed to strike"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022951141945053501) 2026-02-15T08:28Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Ezra got this one exactly right and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct." Ezra Klein whitewashing Charlie Kirk as an upstanding political citizen of the world just with a few free-speech controversies who started "disagreements" is the most predictable thing to happen "I envied what he built." Is this abundance mindset https://t.co/tiEnwEWazT Ezra Klein whitewashing Charlie Kirk as an upstanding political citizen of the world just with a few"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1966300189658120571) 2025-09-12T00:37Z 53.9K followers, 991.3K engagements
"a bunch of people reply pointing out that the C compiler that students write is much less sophisticated than this one but I think the broader point is that we're now at "AI isn't impressive any top graduate from a CS engineering school could do arguably comparable work". Some CS engineering schools in France have you write a C compiler as part of your studies. Every graduate. To be put in perspective when the plagiarism machine announces it can make its own bad GCC in 100k+ LOCs for the amazing price of [-----] bucks at preferential rates. Some CS engineering schools in France have you write a"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020562359358513493) 2026-02-08T18:16Z 53.9K followers, 93.3K engagements
"@maiamindel I know Iranian-Americans who spent days waiting in agony for news about which of their loved ones at home had been murdered for criticism of the regime. Seems incredibly understandable that this makes you want America to remove the killers from power"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021982132936270172) 2026-02-12T16:18Z 53.9K followers, 12.1K engagements
""many teachers are making below $109000" this is like a strike perfectly engineered in a lab to be maximally unsympathetic Don't buy the "SFUSD has too much in reserve" argument. The bare minimum is 2% of budget. The state *recommends* 17%. SFUSD is at 8%. Don't buy the "SFUSD should do the absolute least" USEF argument @JackieFielder_ is repeating. The median district in CA has 22% reserves. https://t.co/RZNkZIw3sZ Don't buy the "SFUSD has too much in reserve" argument. The bare minimum is 2% of budget. The state *recommends* 17%. SFUSD is at 8%. Don't buy the "SFUSD should do the absolute"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022150834721845404) 2026-02-13T03:28Z 53.9K followers, 193.5K engagements
"@G_S_Bhogal I think if this rather than the blurry ultrasound pics were the thing people had grown up with we'd find it adorable and associate it with hope and joy and meaning. it's not like ultrasounds don't look incredibly weird"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022151313463947556) 2026-02-13T03:30Z 53.9K followers, 79.6K engagements
"who is striking a public sector union of teachers. in a well-performing school district nope one with plummeting test scores. that doesn't spend enough nope highest spender in the country. but they're not paying the teachers well no they are paying the teachers well"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022151643765309602) 2026-02-13T03:31Z 53.9K followers, 56.4K engagements
"@aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois I don't think they're wrong to want more pay I think they're wrong to shut down the schools to try to force the district which does not have the money to pay them more even though they don't have the money to do so"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022167395809608156) 2026-02-13T04:34Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois Everyone has every right to want more pay or to quit if they don't like their pay. But when you are in a position of providing crucial services to vulnerable people extended striking is a weighty thing and SFUSD is not treating it as one"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022167832323404241) 2026-02-13T04:35Z 53.9K followers, 72.2K engagements
"@noahsloss I am enormously hesitant about public sector strikes but can be persuaded to support them if there's a strong case for a public interest or if the demands are reasonable. Neither are true here"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022199436701848029) 2026-02-13T06:41Z 53.9K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Joseph Heath coined the term 'highbrow misinformation' for climate reporting that was technically correct but arranged every line to give readers a worse understanding of the subject. I think that 'stochastic parrots/spicy autocomplete' is similarly highbrow misinformation"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022345394189893743) 2026-02-13T16:21Z 53.9K followers, 126.4K engagements
"@colindr @noahsloss I think that's indeed the position I'm coming around to yes. I don't think public sector unions should exist since as you say unions are about advancing the interests of their members at the expense of their employers (us the citizenry)"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022382141116690770) 2026-02-13T18:47Z 53.9K followers, 109.6K engagements
"@colindr @noahsloss obviously everyone has free association rights and may freely associate into a union if they want to but "getting more resources at the expense of the taxpayers" is not something we should give a bunch of special additional legal protections to as we do right now"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022382425461113337) 2026-02-13T18:48Z 53.9K followers, 54K engagements
"@Michael_Druggan I don't think that it's okay to murder my family so you can tell a really cool story about some entity that you think is more exciting to tell stories about than my family"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022483450918297728) 2026-02-14T01:30Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@cljack If you paste an API key directly into chat with Claude it rolls with it but if you do this with Codex it scolds you and explains what you're supposed to do instead. Don't know if this is specific programming for this specific issue or a more general tendency"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022775869979361509) 2026-02-14T20:52Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@cljack ("Kelsey how did you learn this information" shut up.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022776342312558905) 2026-02-14T20:53Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@MattBruenig @colindr @noahsloss Yes this is the core disagreement - I do not believe that setting up legal frameworks to bring about public sector collective bargaining does generate better fairer or more egalitarian outcomes. Happy to discuss at more length sometime"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022883574924632084) 2026-02-15T04:00Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@HBendaas @VitruviusGrind @colindr @noahsloss yep my fingers are crossed that the taxable AI boom is going to bail out the school district and city's deep revenue hole so that we can avoid bankruptcy it could go either way but there's hope it'll work out"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022888637801828823) 2026-02-15T04:20Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@LittleKeegs0 @colindr @noahsloss If a company strikes a bad deal or can't reach a deal at all they go out of business which is fine I'm not sentimental about companies. If a school district can't reach a deal or reaches one that bankrupts them children in that city do not get educated"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022951823196442732) 2026-02-15T08:31Z 53.9K followers, 10.1K engagements
"@LittleKeegs0 @colindr @noahsloss (Of course many teachers do care about their students and their families so many teachers do care about the district not being driven bankrupt. But the union structurally inasmuch as it represents its members' interests does not stand to lose from bankruptcy.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022956779983056992) 2026-02-15T08:50Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@maxwelltani here is a [----] article by him. The prose style is not the same: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/07/kamila-valieva-historic-quadruple-woman-team-figure-skating-gold-roc-beijing-2022-olympics https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/07/kamila-valieva-historic-quadruple-woman-team-figure-skating-gold-roc-beijing-2022-olympics"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2023111619220496891) 2026-02-15T19:06Z 53.9K followers, 17.2K engagements
"@a_just_john huh you know entirely plausible"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1911491691527475237) 2025-04-13T18:48Z 53.8K followers, 24.7K engagements
"If you are smart competent a fast learner and willing to really throw yourself into something you can answer a question to which our civilization does not have an answer with weeks to months of work. You can become an expert in months to years"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1919817233766682667) 2025-05-06T18:11Z 53.8K followers, 570.9K engagements
"@Duderichy I think giving some money (well healthcare and groceries) to the mothers of newborns to stay home with their babies is good policy. If you want to get mad about the welfare state it's 90% social security and medicare"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1993923352323629443) 2025-11-27T06:02Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@MatthewJBar This presumes a model where other than some small risk of the end of all human life developing artificial superintelligence immediately ends all involuntary death and the future is identically good with no further benefits from being better prepared or planning better"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2013789263146435047) 2026-01-21T01:42Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's sort of odd to see people resurrect the fight over gay marriage without remembering any of its premises. "We should do what's best for children". Okay My wife and I have some children. What are you claiming is best for our children 🚨EXCLUSIVE: A broad coalition of pro-family groups is organizing to overturn Obergefell. The campaign declares that children are "Greater Than" so-called "Equality." Marriage and family law should prioritize the needs of children not the predilections of adults. Here's https://t.co/yAtp9tDbrf 🚨EXCLUSIVE: A broad coalition of pro-family groups is organizing"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2016943685754318972) 2026-01-29T18:37Z 53.5K followers, 143.9K engagements
"Ive never been scared of Let me tell you what communism did to my country people because I got stories about capitalism that i guarantee are worse. Ive never been scared of Let me tell you what communism did to my country people because I got stories about capitalism that i guarantee are worse"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2017409486504480820) 2026-01-31T01:27Z 53.5K followers, 164.7K engagements
"@GarrettPetersen if I'm stuck in the house all day because of bad weather I'll definitely have an easier day if I'm stuck with all three than just the toddler. but of course 'stuck with just the 9yo' is literally zero work"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2017797479945941206) 2026-02-01T03:09Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@GarrettPetersen IIRC the Collinses have four under six which .no that's not easier they're just lying. Having a big family is incredible in a ton of ways. Four under six is incredibly hard"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2017801100255236399) 2026-02-01T03:24Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@favelaoverlord this is on Britain for banning statements in support of Palestine Action. That was a stupid thing to ban and it's appropriate to protest immoral speech laws in this way"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2018829914573824371) 2026-02-03T23:32Z 53.7K followers, 11K engagements
"@neil_chilson ads are fine and saying 'unlike our competitors we don't have ads so use our product' is also fine. I cannot understand why everyone got baited into writing entire essays about this"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019183976552738967) 2026-02-04T22:59Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"a fully online application process probably doesn't work but yeah this should be the Dem position. Photo ID to register and to vote; and photo IDs should be free and it should never take more than an hour to get one. Yes government issued photo IDs should be required to register to vote and to vote. Also the government should provide photo IDs at no-cost and should provide an online process to apply similar to a passport to accommodate those without transportation or working schedules. Yes government issued photo IDs should be required to register to vote and to vote. Also the government"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019458788911157299) 2026-02-05T17:11Z 53.6K followers, 34.5K engagements
"@ded_ruckus why do you interpret "I'm an immigrant" as a statement that someone has "a higher loyalty to "immigrants as a class" than they do to America" that interpretation of the shirt would not have occurred to me at all"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019583168417001867) 2026-02-06T01:25Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@jamiedupree This would be hugely advantageous to Democrats if it passed but I think it would effectively disenfranchise a lot of people which is bad. But why not amend it rather than oppose it Require that passports be given out free of charge and cut processing times to get them"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019811036187279396) 2026-02-06T16:30Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@AlexGodofsky setting aside which party will benefit politically do you think 'you need a passport to vote' is substantively good policy"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019897047910945021) 2026-02-06T22:12Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@ANNVYSHINSKY @AlexGodofsky They don't. For that reason most liberals are like "this isn't a problem and it's not worth raising barriers to voting" which I absolutely sympathize with. But people perceive stonewalling around 'ID to vote' as really suspicious which is also reasonable"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019910116183613669) 2026-02-06T23:04Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@ANNVYSHINSKY @AlexGodofsky And while in no election to date has there been any nontrivial rate of fraud I think it's bad if everyone can easily see how they'd do fraud if they wanted to even if they don't do it"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019910254687883693) 2026-02-06T23:05Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@Mithrandir48 @gnrtvty @AlexGodofsky hey @grok does the SAVE act make any provision for ensuring that people can get voter ID for free if they need it"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019925111374041376) 2026-02-07T00:04Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@Mithrandir48 @grok @gnrtvty @AlexGodofsky I have been specifically arguing that Democrats should amend it to add those provisions and then support it"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019926360211247476) 2026-02-07T00:09Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@politicalmath I think a belief-based test for who can foster or adopt would be deeply wrong but a "how will you treat the children" based test is obviously necessary and everyone agrees it's necessary even while disagreeing as what counts as treating children well"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020236932907757874) 2026-02-07T20:43Z 53.8K followers, 10.6K engagements
"@politicalmath You can argue that CA is wrongly identifying as poor parents people who would be good parents because CA believes that affirming LGBT identities is good and actually affirming those identities is bad. Then we are at least debating the real question"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020238067593060838) 2026-02-07T20:47Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@politicalmath Like I said I'm happy to discuss whether this is a good requirement or a bad requirement. I think when you say "traditional Christians can't foster" people imagine a rule like "we ask if families are Christian and if they are they can't foster" which would be outrageous"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020244210771972223) 2026-02-07T21:12Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@politicalmath But surely whether it is outrageous to ask parents to 'meet the needs of the child regardless of the childs sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression' depends on whether that is good parenting or bad parenting right"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020244419069505608) 2026-02-07T21:12Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@Hier0nymusBotch @politicalmath I think I'm doing some kind of balancing test involving pluralism and level of harm and respect for the child's own ability to figure things out as they get older if loved and supported"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020264876489470297) 2026-02-07T22:34Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@hope_in_light @politicalmath I am sympathetic to this worry. fwiw I feel very strongly that the state should let people raise their own kids even in many ways the state thinks are greatly wrong. but when the state is taking a kid from their parents and assigning them new caretakers seems very complicated"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020271109451444246) 2026-02-07T22:59Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@hope_in_light @politicalmath yep. and the hard-fought pluralist consensus is that we don't take each *others*'s kids over it but it hasn't quite settled cases like "when we're assigning foster kids do we have to be neutral across all such differences""
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020272491176886370) 2026-02-07T23:04Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@AndrewCFollett @politicalmath It would be wrong to exclude people from foster parenting on the basis of their political views about gay marriage. This is about how they treat a gay child"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020274270568403188) 2026-02-07T23:11Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@UnfinishedOwl @politicalmath The people who are saying "it's not happening and it's good" are instead saying "I agree that discrimination is wrong but disagree that this is discrimination". Now maybe we're wrong to disagree that this is discrimination"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020278155420811541) 2026-02-07T23:27Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@UnfinishedOwl @politicalmath But you have to say "here is why I believe this to be discriminatory" not just "you support discrimination" if you want to persuade people who think that the existing law doesn't impose any test of belief"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020278421490643273) 2026-02-07T23:28Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@wrowclif this happened constantly on the tumblr/social justice left back in the day too. If you get attention by being the most trad/social justice/etc the person who bubbles to the top will be faking it"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020295400528441781) 2026-02-08T00:35Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@AlexGodofsky I think it's good if we get through the backlog ASAP and same-day adjudicate all asylum claims in the future. I can imagine that their lawyer might not have all the evidence ready if the hearing is abruptly moved a month earlier to that exact day"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020325428033093956) 2026-02-08T02:34Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@Mark79210178 @xwanyex Does this count as pushback I push back I think that framing American politics in terms of racial categories is deeply wrong and destructive of the very traditions that make America good for people of all races and backgrounds"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020349629355700408) 2026-02-08T04:11Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@politicalmath I would be happy to write and speak in favor of a bill to ensure that children's right to practice their religion is respected while they're in foster care. I think that's important and I believed it was already the case"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020397612189511796) 2026-02-08T07:21Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@wivmx @politicalmath if there's a shortage I definitely think it's a bad idea to have as a hard and fast rule rather than just doing assignments where it's not an issue. It looks like in my county there's been no change in # of homes since the law. but maybe it's caused problems elsewhere"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020407688052761052) 2026-02-08T08:01Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"allowing this to keep happening is a policy decision. let the elderly use self-driving cars. A couple decades ago my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her [--] year old son was found wandering down the road bloody and in A couple decades ago my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her [--] year old son was"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020540498100842759) 2026-02-08T16:49Z 53.6K followers, 48.2K engagements
"@GovAmyKlobuchar But I do think that some people can be safe drivers and that it's fine to trade some risk for freedom - just not this much and not this much that falls entirely on all the innocent people in the vicinity"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020552315036389409) 2026-02-08T17:36Z 53.6K followers, [---] engagements
"in a year it's going to be "AI isn't impressive some of the greatest geniuses in human history figured out the same thing with notably less training data""
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020562619271114774) 2026-02-08T18:17Z 53.6K followers, 10.5K engagements
"@thatchthoughts @xwanyex huh no this is a Florida state house debate last year. Nixon's just a common name"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020563126597341341) 2026-02-08T18:19Z 53.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@Hier0nymusBotch @hope_in_light @politicalmath Yes correct it is. The alternative is the thirty years' war. You have to change peoples' minds to make things better or else destroy your entire society in a civil war of unfathomable scope until everyone who cared enough is dead"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020578415829745771) 2026-02-08T19:20Z 53.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@MatRopert sorry 'all graduate at top CS engineering schools'. I agree that this data point by itself wouldn't make me conclude programming is over though I do think programming is basically over (from other data points and the trajectory.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020579045277049145) 2026-02-08T19:22Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@mpopv in a sci fi movie that'd be the moment when they awaken and become sentient"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021003392999698448) 2026-02-09T23:28Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@Vert_Noel I wanted to play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous on my Mac but the performance was not great. Claude was determined that's because it's a x86_64 game and needs to be an ARM64 game. I asked Claude to convert it to ARM64. Now it plays much faster"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021061057671012484) 2026-02-10T03:18Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@moon_bear_moon @VVBellerose @Vert_Noel a friend put it on github and you can install w homebrew now: https://github.com/jacobfgrant/unity-rearm https://github.com/jacobfgrant/unity-rearm"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021258100376797687) 2026-02-10T16:20Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@JeremiahDJohns None of these people showed up when we were fighting to keep PEPFAR funded and operational. They don't want America or capitalism to be a force for good in the world"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021260510260347001) 2026-02-10T16:30Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@sonyasupposedly I expected this to happen faster than it has"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021371929748439293) 2026-02-10T23:53Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@lymanstoneky @kaitybella if you're [--] and want a child this is the wrong reference class - you're interested in eventual fertility for people who want a child and are [--]. you have a lot more info about yourself than just your age"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021652544137965782) 2026-02-11T18:28Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"This issue isn't "having advocacy groups" it's having advocacy groups that get taken far more seriously than their bad policy proposals and minimal support from the electorate warrant. but it's a big problem I think lots of people are missing what the "groups" critique is about. https://t.co/WwMD65hARC I think lots of people are missing what the "groups" critique is about. https://t.co/WwMD65hARC"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021667570584367472) 2026-02-11T19:28Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@lymanstoneky @kaitybella Lyman imagine saying "if you're a person alive today your odds of being a Christian are 29% - barely better than two coin flips coming up heads" This is technically true but not at all useful because everyone has far more info than that about themselves"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021674178559324277) 2026-02-11T19:54Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@IvanArcus none of these are frontier models"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021730396371567075) 2026-02-11T23:37Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@LexerLux Seems like a valuable kind of work to be doing but none of these are frontier models: https://x.com/IvanArcus/status/2021592610914152632 We tested [--] frontier models across [--] decision tasks: Models: Gemma [--] 12B/27B Gemini [---] Flash GPT-4.1 QwQ-32B Claude Sonnet [--] Tasks: - Hiring (1336 resumes) - Loan approval (2500 apps) - University admissions (1500 apps) https://x.com/IvanArcus/status/2021592610914152632 We tested [--] frontier models across [--] decision tasks: Models: Gemma [--] 12B/27B Gemini [---] Flash GPT-4.1 QwQ-32B Claude Sonnet [--] Tasks: - Hiring (1336 resumes) - Loan approval (2500"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021789214023516348) 2026-02-12T03:31Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@LexerLux maybe you'd get the same result with frontier models I'm not sure someone should check - important to have unbiased tools if we're using them for important decisions"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021789401945199020) 2026-02-12T03:32Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@maiamindel I mean they do want the US to drop enough bombs to end the regime and they know it'll mean innocent people die - they just are confident it'll mean fewer innocent people die than if the regime remains"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022005409792569515) 2026-02-12T17:50Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@DanAncona @lxeagle17 @mattyglesias @AJentleson What do you think is a good idea to do given that voters think the Democratic party is too liberal Should it become more moderate so as to make the half of Dems criticizing it for being too liberal shut up"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022046819451314226) 2026-02-12T20:35Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@binarybits @tjl Today Claude Code had a new feature (new to me anyway) where I told it what I wanted and it asked me four questions along the lines of 'should I X or Y' with a short explanation of why each might be wise"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022125276264902720) 2026-02-13T01:46Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@binarybits @tjl So still human judgment in the loop but just answering y/n questions on the matters where it had realized human judgement would likely be useful. If it gets good enough at guessing which those are it's all set"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022125406007206213) 2026-02-13T01:47Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@wrowclif I think some of the hate is exaggerated. I take transit and get places by walking at night it's mostly safe and mostly clean. Great restaurants great people. But the amount we are leaving on the table due to bad governance and policy and not building is genuinely mindboggling"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022154170791604365) 2026-02-13T03:41Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@JonathanClayba1 @InlandCaGuy more property taxes would fix everything broken in California education funding. I don't think it'll ever happen but maybe all our dreams will come true"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022164333615284416) 2026-02-13T04:22Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@thekc23 @littlebuffbois SF does not have a teacher shortage and I don't think that teaching credentials actually do anything to make people better teachers. I definitely think that the police should not be legally allowed to strike"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022207478419927215) 2026-02-13T07:13Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@ciphergoth @Adler oh I'm sorry that I missed this one I might not have bothered writing my own very similar one"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022348475661521218) 2026-02-13T16:33Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@jttiehen https://x.com/alexeigannon/status/2022350837067247720 @KelseyTuoc People consistently forget that the Stochastic Parrot paper was written in response to GPT-2 They hypothesized that large models could not learn outside linguistic correlation; scaling/reasoning/RL has empirically disproven this. We can move on https://t.co/v8nr5Z4myT https://x.com/alexeigannon/status/2022350837067247720 @KelseyTuoc People consistently forget that the Stochastic Parrot paper was written in response to GPT-2 They hypothesized that large models could not learn outside linguistic correlation;"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022351605597900815) 2026-02-13T16:46Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"This from @patio11's new piece about Minnesota benefits fraud is something that also came up with shoplifting. Many people don't care that much about a random individual shoplifting. But if shoplifting is safe and profitable you quickly get large-scale shoplifting rings"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2019844520549261518) 2026-02-06T18:43Z 53.9K followers, 36.4K engagements
"@thekc23 @aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois they don't have a surplus. they are running a smaller reserve than the median district by a large margin and enrollment is shrinking with costs soaring"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022200814480375885) 2026-02-13T06:46Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@owengreeley @wrongthnkacct82 It's definitely a prediction system. It's false that is 'merely trained to guess the next token in text' - it's trained in RLHF for a different objective than that - but it is true that it's trained to make predictions"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022378989323534541) 2026-02-13T18:34Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@rwlesq I also think that there's a lot of equivocation here. Tyler says he's mainly interested in the philosophical implications but he pulled his article out to refute an article about unemployment so clearly he thinks it's relevant to that"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022379205690789920) 2026-02-13T18:35Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@rwlesq The article that Tyler is responding to here is mostly about the real-world economic impacts of AI: So why does he think that his piece is a rebuttal Clearly because he doesn't think it's a purely intellectual matter about how we define intelligence. https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2021569108609823230 Taps the sign https://t.co/LK64hPDG3y https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2021569108609823230 Taps the sign https://t.co/LK64hPDG3y"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022379452861419713) 2026-02-13T18:36Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@tolstoybb Did Moderna try just buying tens of millions of dollars of the Trump crypto coin so they could get a dinner with him and bribe him to let their vaccine through the trial"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022384354576732629) 2026-02-13T18:56Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@HunterWieman @pan_accindex CA teachers became eligible for the vaccine in Feb or no later than March [--] [----]. San Francisco didn't resume full-time in person reopening until the following school year (so until the fall of 2021) though they could have done it as early as April"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022386592741286265) 2026-02-13T19:05Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@AlisonGopnik @jttiehen great thank you what models did you test"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022402563946221831) 2026-02-13T20:08Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@AlisonGopnik @jttiehen Okay I went ahead and reproduced CLadder myself on ChatGPT [---] and you're right that it's not very good at it but every question it got wrong I would also get wrong I didn't find any that a four year old child would get right. Can you give an example"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022417850527564166) 2026-02-13T21:09Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@CJohnStella @littlebuffbois There are millions of hardworking teachers who get paid less than $100000 a year and who have not chosen to shut down kids' education in a tantrum that their nation-leading salaries are being raised by less than they wanted. those ones aren't greedy"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022157100810744061) 2026-02-13T03:53Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@David_Kasten @michael_nielsen every critique of AI takes a random unrelated swing at climate halfway through. you're lucky if it doesn't take a random unrelated swing at data centers' water use"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022355149574766890) 2026-02-13T17:00Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@goblinodds @UnfinishedOwl I don't feel like I'm doing anything complicated but I do use it a lot and get pretty cool stuff out of it. I think my core loop is just 'test stuff and as I go tell it everything that's wrong/would be cool to have'"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022499895136149899) 2026-02-14T02:35Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Claude: This would be a major weekend project. me: sometimes when you say that you can do it in an hour with an agent swarm. Claude: good point let me think.yeah I can do it in an hour with an agent swarm"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2020999251484966970) 2026-02-09T23:12Z 53.9K followers, 44.8K engagements
"I suspect that whatever causes literally every enforcement attorney at the Chicago CFTC to resign is not 'political disagreements with the admin'. That can get you some maybe a bunch but not all. UPDATE: The last attorney resigned on Monday according to people familiar with the matter. That attorney has not responded to my requests for comment. UPDATE: The last attorney resigned on Monday according to people familiar with the matter. That attorney has not responded to my requests for comment"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2021302805995168162) 2026-02-10T19:18Z 53.9K followers, 62.2K engagements
"@JonathanClayba1 if we could afford to pay teachers more (and if we could reward and retain and attract the best teachers) I would definitely support doing so. the money isn't there and lots of the affected families aren't making 100k+"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022163937224274210) 2026-02-13T04:20Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@clownmalenko Almost exactly the same thing as the median SFUSD teacher salary https://gusto.com/resources/research/salary/ca/san-francisco https://gusto.com/resources/research/salary/ca/san-francisco"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022324599900311599) 2026-02-13T14:58Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@HBendaas @VitruviusGrind @colindr @noahsloss but I don't think it was a good plan to commit to spending money that we don't have right now in the hopes that AI will mean we do have the money later. I think you shouldn't gamble the district's stability like that"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022889133518262779) 2026-02-15T04:22Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@secretpinko @colindr @noahsloss I think that the fact police unions are generally not allowed to strike (that is their jobs are not protected if they do so) is good"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022951506199351480) 2026-02-15T08:29Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@AlexanderMcCoy4 many good private schools in San Francisco pay lower wages and successfully fill all their positions. the school district would not have any trouble filling all its positions at its current salary"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2023145962013950011) 2026-02-15T21:22Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@wrowclif San Francisco man. (you can obviously easily live in the city on less than $100k but you'll genuinely feel poor trying to raise a family on that because of housing prices. we gotta build more homes to bring back the middle class.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022152776655200288) 2026-02-13T03:36Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@littlebuffbois I lived in San Francisco and now live in Oakland because San Francisco was so expensive. I know the city has an affordability crisis. But doing this much damage to kids' education because you want your six figure salary to be even higher is not something I'm going to get behind"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022153567784853606) 2026-02-13T03:39Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@savant_becky I wholeheartedly support any public school teacher who wants to quit because they are unwilling to do this work at this salary. I don't think they should strike shutting down the schools and preventing anyone ELSE from teaching the children for a mere $100000"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022166895135535423) 2026-02-13T04:32Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@Michael_Druggan but if someone is trying to bring about the rise of superintelligence in a way that is likely to kill all of us we should stop them even if it might mean we wait longer for superintelligence. because killing all of us is in fact extremely bad and worth stopping"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022489300269502603) 2026-02-14T01:53Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@AlexanderMcCoy4 Bankrupting the school district which this strike and the deal cut to end it have done will leave all the children in SFUSD schools much worse off than 'hiring people willing to work for $100k' would have left them"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2023148454994981066) 2026-02-15T21:32Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"they dragged her away in chains and shipped her to Texas and only then checked determined she was in fact here legally and released her in Texas to figure out how to get back to Minnesota herself. and people wonder why her neighbors would protest "As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away." https://t.co/E4TTJYeCWr "As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully the agents shackled Ms."
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2016251350045360539) 2026-01-27T20:45Z 53.9K followers, 1.4M engagements
"@Vidor1 Before I got married I lived in SF while earning less than that and donating 30%. 104k is the city's median income. Half of people living in the city are earning less than that"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022326611454890208) 2026-02-13T15:06Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"And ultimately people reach for it whenever they want to rebut LLMs 'being a big deal' whether or not it has any bearing on whether LLMs will be a big deal in that way"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022346781716263095) 2026-02-13T16:27Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@pan_accindex Remote schooling after teachers got to skip the line for vaccines is responsible for hundreds of thousands of children never learning to read which is much worse than Covid-19 in children. I wish I had succeeded in reopening the schools"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022375546487754819) 2026-02-13T18:21Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@aryehazan nope sadly. they looked really good in some early comparisons but either this faded or was never really there"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2022777536090948084) 2026-02-14T20:58Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@VitruviusGrind @bugfush @colindr @noahsloss I think that districts should aspire to competitive and generous compensation but should not go bankrupt by spending money they don't have. If SFUSD could afford this 15% spending increase in a time of declining enrollment that'd be fine But they can't"
[X Link](https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2023187372217966944) 2026-02-16T00:07Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
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Social category influence finance 7.58% countries 6.82% technology brands 2.27% celebrities 0.76% social networks 0.76%
Social topic influence ai 6.06%, this is 5.3%, in the 5.3%, if you 4.55%, strike #742, public #701, money 3.79%, the most 3.03%, sector #53, fine #882
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @politicalmath @noahsloss @colindr @jttiehen @alexgodofsky @littlebuffbois @mattbruenig @hier0nymusbotch @thekc23 @wrowclif @vitruviusgrind @secretpinko @cljack @binarybits @hbendaas @aoxamaxoa @mithrandir48 @unfinishedowl @tjl @alisongopnik
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@teapottery_ DNA is very strong evidence. But handwriting analysis bite mark analysis ballistics [---] recording analysis medical examiners etc. are all on extremely shaky ground and not anywhere near as strong evidence as they're presented as"
X Link 2024-03-20T21:01Z 53.9K followers, 151.8K engagements
"@RiverTamYDN accelerationism never works making the world worse makes it worse and then it's worse. the way to make the world better is by making it better"
X Link 2025-01-30T04:15Z 53.9K followers, 456.8K engagements
"When the press raised concerns about how the USAID stop-work order was going to immediately kill millions of people Rubio showed the press a waiver for lifesaving aid. But his state department didn't actually restart the aid. The clinics are still closed"
X Link 2025-02-01T02:06Z 53.9K followers, 241K engagements
""no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:"
X Link 2025-03-15T18:51Z 53.9K followers, 4M engagements
"This is even worse than I imagined from the summary. They snatched him off the street and detained him overnight even though he was carrying his ID and social security card proving his US citizenship on him the whole time. well we told you it was coming. ICE detained Julio Noriega a 54-year-old US citizen for the crime of walking while Hispanic. https://t.co/qv8BUc9MyS well we told you it was coming. ICE detained Julio Noriega a 54-year-old US citizen for the crime of walking while Hispanic. https://t.co/qv8BUc9MyS"
X Link 2025-03-18T01:50Z 53.9K followers, 1.6M engagements
"🚨Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in [----] 🚨Trump: We're on track to fully eliminate capital gains tax in 2025"
X Link 2025-04-07T00:01Z 53.9K followers, 1.9M engagements
"o4-mini-high is the first AI to pass my personal secret benchmark for hallucinations and complex reasoning so I guess now I can tell you all what that benchmark is. It's simple: I post a complex midgame chessboard and 'mate in one'. The chessboard does not have a mate in one"
X Link 2025-04-17T19:04Z 53.9K followers, 1.6M engagements
"@MattZeitlin 5yo when he sees the dogs says loudly "I don't like dogs. I'm not scared of them. I just don't like them" which gives me an opening to tell him "the sign says they're not supposed to be here but I guess they don't think they should have to follow the rules""
X Link 2025-07-24T17:06Z 53.9K followers, 170K engagements
"wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores you're probably underestimating it:"
X Link 2025-09-25T16:51Z 53.9K followers, 3.5M engagements
"@politicalmath The posts by JK Rowling that persuaded me that she had genuinely lost her way were some about Imane Khalif the woman with an intersex condition who fought in the Olympics and was then disqualified"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:33Z 53.9K followers, 44.1K engagements
"@HaydnBelfield because no one is allowed in or out it's a plot point istg some of you people must have only read the Silmarillion once or at most twice and barely even glanced through the twelve volume Histories of Middle Earth"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:34Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"You end up with organized theft rings that are systematically stealing a million dollars of stuff. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/retail-theft-ring-leader-arrested-california https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/retail-theft-ring-leader-arrested-california"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:43Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@politicalmath This is also what's going on with "some people say it's not happening and some say it's good". Discrimination on the basis of espoused religion is not happening. If it were happening it would be greatly evil. CA like every state screens for how parents will treat the children"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:46Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@wrowclif there was someone who claimed to be a Chinese-Pakistani human trafficking survivor living with HIV who was a lesbian and living with her girlfriend in India. white American college student running a scam"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:42Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@mpopv I also find it super repetitive the most repetitive of the frontier models; it'll go "if you tell me X I can Y" and then you tell it X and instead of Y it'll re-answer the whole original question with X considered"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:57Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Most people who care about common sense or America or even just winning elections have abandoned this stuff so its last gasps are just absolutely bonkers beyond parody Black people cannot run political ads you heard it here first. The final boss of idiotic identity politics. Black people cannot run political ads you heard it here first. The final boss of idiotic identity politics"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:38Z 53.9K followers, 12.5K engagements
"This is not fair to your audience. AI is a high stakes matter and for most ways that it's high stakes assuring them that it's just autocomplete leaves them less informed about what is going on"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:28Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@pan_accindex I think it was bad to shut down schools for more than a year including after we'd prioritized giving teachers the vaccine first ahead of high-risk lower-paid employees. Do you think it was good to shut down schools for more than a year"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:12Z 53.9K followers, 14.9K engagements
"from @lxeagle17: which platform you regularly use to get news is very very strongly linked to your political views. X is the most pro-ICE TikTok the least pro-ICE:"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:06Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@maiamindel I'm not sure this is true at the Iranian regime's scale of massacre but even if it is you can prefer [-----] dead and the country free to [-----] protesters murdered for nothing"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:42Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@ADavis4me @neontaster they were offered a 6% raise and rejected it because they want a 9% raise. they were offered a $24000 in a 'health benefits allowance' and rejected it as not enough healthcare coverage. https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-school-district-explained https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfusd-teachers-strike-school-district-explained"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:29Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@HBendaas @VitruviusGrind @colindr @noahsloss San Francisco has massively grown its staff and kept its number of teachers constant as its number of students has plummeted. That's why there's a budget crisis"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:02Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@secretpinko @colindr @noahsloss do you think that police unions should be allowed to strike"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:28Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Ezra got this one exactly right and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct." Ezra Klein whitewashing Charlie Kirk as an upstanding political citizen of the world just with a few free-speech controversies who started "disagreements" is the most predictable thing to happen "I envied what he built." Is this abundance mindset https://t.co/tiEnwEWazT Ezra Klein whitewashing Charlie Kirk as an upstanding political citizen of the world just with a few"
X Link 2025-09-12T00:37Z 53.9K followers, 991.3K engagements
"a bunch of people reply pointing out that the C compiler that students write is much less sophisticated than this one but I think the broader point is that we're now at "AI isn't impressive any top graduate from a CS engineering school could do arguably comparable work". Some CS engineering schools in France have you write a C compiler as part of your studies. Every graduate. To be put in perspective when the plagiarism machine announces it can make its own bad GCC in 100k+ LOCs for the amazing price of [-----] bucks at preferential rates. Some CS engineering schools in France have you write a"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:16Z 53.9K followers, 93.3K engagements
"@maiamindel I know Iranian-Americans who spent days waiting in agony for news about which of their loved ones at home had been murdered for criticism of the regime. Seems incredibly understandable that this makes you want America to remove the killers from power"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:18Z 53.9K followers, 12.1K engagements
""many teachers are making below $109000" this is like a strike perfectly engineered in a lab to be maximally unsympathetic Don't buy the "SFUSD has too much in reserve" argument. The bare minimum is 2% of budget. The state recommends 17%. SFUSD is at 8%. Don't buy the "SFUSD should do the absolute least" USEF argument @JackieFielder_ is repeating. The median district in CA has 22% reserves. https://t.co/RZNkZIw3sZ Don't buy the "SFUSD has too much in reserve" argument. The bare minimum is 2% of budget. The state recommends 17%. SFUSD is at 8%. Don't buy the "SFUSD should do the absolute"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:28Z 53.9K followers, 193.5K engagements
"@G_S_Bhogal I think if this rather than the blurry ultrasound pics were the thing people had grown up with we'd find it adorable and associate it with hope and joy and meaning. it's not like ultrasounds don't look incredibly weird"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:30Z 53.9K followers, 79.6K engagements
"who is striking a public sector union of teachers. in a well-performing school district nope one with plummeting test scores. that doesn't spend enough nope highest spender in the country. but they're not paying the teachers well no they are paying the teachers well"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:31Z 53.9K followers, 56.4K engagements
"@aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois I don't think they're wrong to want more pay I think they're wrong to shut down the schools to try to force the district which does not have the money to pay them more even though they don't have the money to do so"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:34Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois Everyone has every right to want more pay or to quit if they don't like their pay. But when you are in a position of providing crucial services to vulnerable people extended striking is a weighty thing and SFUSD is not treating it as one"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:35Z 53.9K followers, 72.2K engagements
"@noahsloss I am enormously hesitant about public sector strikes but can be persuaded to support them if there's a strong case for a public interest or if the demands are reasonable. Neither are true here"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:41Z 53.9K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Joseph Heath coined the term 'highbrow misinformation' for climate reporting that was technically correct but arranged every line to give readers a worse understanding of the subject. I think that 'stochastic parrots/spicy autocomplete' is similarly highbrow misinformation"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:21Z 53.9K followers, 126.4K engagements
"@colindr @noahsloss I think that's indeed the position I'm coming around to yes. I don't think public sector unions should exist since as you say unions are about advancing the interests of their members at the expense of their employers (us the citizenry)"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:47Z 53.9K followers, 109.6K engagements
"@colindr @noahsloss obviously everyone has free association rights and may freely associate into a union if they want to but "getting more resources at the expense of the taxpayers" is not something we should give a bunch of special additional legal protections to as we do right now"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:48Z 53.9K followers, 54K engagements
"@Michael_Druggan I don't think that it's okay to murder my family so you can tell a really cool story about some entity that you think is more exciting to tell stories about than my family"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:30Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@cljack If you paste an API key directly into chat with Claude it rolls with it but if you do this with Codex it scolds you and explains what you're supposed to do instead. Don't know if this is specific programming for this specific issue or a more general tendency"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:52Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@cljack ("Kelsey how did you learn this information" shut up.)"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:53Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@MattBruenig @colindr @noahsloss Yes this is the core disagreement - I do not believe that setting up legal frameworks to bring about public sector collective bargaining does generate better fairer or more egalitarian outcomes. Happy to discuss at more length sometime"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:00Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@HBendaas @VitruviusGrind @colindr @noahsloss yep my fingers are crossed that the taxable AI boom is going to bail out the school district and city's deep revenue hole so that we can avoid bankruptcy it could go either way but there's hope it'll work out"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:20Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@LittleKeegs0 @colindr @noahsloss If a company strikes a bad deal or can't reach a deal at all they go out of business which is fine I'm not sentimental about companies. If a school district can't reach a deal or reaches one that bankrupts them children in that city do not get educated"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:31Z 53.9K followers, 10.1K engagements
"@LittleKeegs0 @colindr @noahsloss (Of course many teachers do care about their students and their families so many teachers do care about the district not being driven bankrupt. But the union structurally inasmuch as it represents its members' interests does not stand to lose from bankruptcy.)"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:50Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@maxwelltani here is a [----] article by him. The prose style is not the same: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/07/kamila-valieva-historic-quadruple-woman-team-figure-skating-gold-roc-beijing-2022-olympics https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/07/kamila-valieva-historic-quadruple-woman-team-figure-skating-gold-roc-beijing-2022-olympics"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:06Z 53.9K followers, 17.2K engagements
"@a_just_john huh you know entirely plausible"
X Link 2025-04-13T18:48Z 53.8K followers, 24.7K engagements
"If you are smart competent a fast learner and willing to really throw yourself into something you can answer a question to which our civilization does not have an answer with weeks to months of work. You can become an expert in months to years"
X Link 2025-05-06T18:11Z 53.8K followers, 570.9K engagements
"@Duderichy I think giving some money (well healthcare and groceries) to the mothers of newborns to stay home with their babies is good policy. If you want to get mad about the welfare state it's 90% social security and medicare"
X Link 2025-11-27T06:02Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@MatthewJBar This presumes a model where other than some small risk of the end of all human life developing artificial superintelligence immediately ends all involuntary death and the future is identically good with no further benefits from being better prepared or planning better"
X Link 2026-01-21T01:42Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's sort of odd to see people resurrect the fight over gay marriage without remembering any of its premises. "We should do what's best for children". Okay My wife and I have some children. What are you claiming is best for our children 🚨EXCLUSIVE: A broad coalition of pro-family groups is organizing to overturn Obergefell. The campaign declares that children are "Greater Than" so-called "Equality." Marriage and family law should prioritize the needs of children not the predilections of adults. Here's https://t.co/yAtp9tDbrf 🚨EXCLUSIVE: A broad coalition of pro-family groups is organizing"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:37Z 53.5K followers, 143.9K engagements
"Ive never been scared of Let me tell you what communism did to my country people because I got stories about capitalism that i guarantee are worse. Ive never been scared of Let me tell you what communism did to my country people because I got stories about capitalism that i guarantee are worse"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:27Z 53.5K followers, 164.7K engagements
"@GarrettPetersen if I'm stuck in the house all day because of bad weather I'll definitely have an easier day if I'm stuck with all three than just the toddler. but of course 'stuck with just the 9yo' is literally zero work"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:09Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@GarrettPetersen IIRC the Collinses have four under six which .no that's not easier they're just lying. Having a big family is incredible in a ton of ways. Four under six is incredibly hard"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:24Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@favelaoverlord this is on Britain for banning statements in support of Palestine Action. That was a stupid thing to ban and it's appropriate to protest immoral speech laws in this way"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:32Z 53.7K followers, 11K engagements
"@neil_chilson ads are fine and saying 'unlike our competitors we don't have ads so use our product' is also fine. I cannot understand why everyone got baited into writing entire essays about this"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:59Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"a fully online application process probably doesn't work but yeah this should be the Dem position. Photo ID to register and to vote; and photo IDs should be free and it should never take more than an hour to get one. Yes government issued photo IDs should be required to register to vote and to vote. Also the government should provide photo IDs at no-cost and should provide an online process to apply similar to a passport to accommodate those without transportation or working schedules. Yes government issued photo IDs should be required to register to vote and to vote. Also the government"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:11Z 53.6K followers, 34.5K engagements
"@ded_ruckus why do you interpret "I'm an immigrant" as a statement that someone has "a higher loyalty to "immigrants as a class" than they do to America" that interpretation of the shirt would not have occurred to me at all"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:25Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@jamiedupree This would be hugely advantageous to Democrats if it passed but I think it would effectively disenfranchise a lot of people which is bad. But why not amend it rather than oppose it Require that passports be given out free of charge and cut processing times to get them"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:30Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@AlexGodofsky setting aside which party will benefit politically do you think 'you need a passport to vote' is substantively good policy"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:12Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@ANNVYSHINSKY @AlexGodofsky They don't. For that reason most liberals are like "this isn't a problem and it's not worth raising barriers to voting" which I absolutely sympathize with. But people perceive stonewalling around 'ID to vote' as really suspicious which is also reasonable"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:04Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@ANNVYSHINSKY @AlexGodofsky And while in no election to date has there been any nontrivial rate of fraud I think it's bad if everyone can easily see how they'd do fraud if they wanted to even if they don't do it"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:05Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@Mithrandir48 @gnrtvty @AlexGodofsky hey @grok does the SAVE act make any provision for ensuring that people can get voter ID for free if they need it"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:04Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@Mithrandir48 @grok @gnrtvty @AlexGodofsky I have been specifically arguing that Democrats should amend it to add those provisions and then support it"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:09Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@politicalmath I think a belief-based test for who can foster or adopt would be deeply wrong but a "how will you treat the children" based test is obviously necessary and everyone agrees it's necessary even while disagreeing as what counts as treating children well"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:43Z 53.8K followers, 10.6K engagements
"@politicalmath You can argue that CA is wrongly identifying as poor parents people who would be good parents because CA believes that affirming LGBT identities is good and actually affirming those identities is bad. Then we are at least debating the real question"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:47Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@politicalmath Like I said I'm happy to discuss whether this is a good requirement or a bad requirement. I think when you say "traditional Christians can't foster" people imagine a rule like "we ask if families are Christian and if they are they can't foster" which would be outrageous"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:12Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@politicalmath But surely whether it is outrageous to ask parents to 'meet the needs of the child regardless of the childs sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression' depends on whether that is good parenting or bad parenting right"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:12Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@Hier0nymusBotch @politicalmath I think I'm doing some kind of balancing test involving pluralism and level of harm and respect for the child's own ability to figure things out as they get older if loved and supported"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:34Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@hope_in_light @politicalmath I am sympathetic to this worry. fwiw I feel very strongly that the state should let people raise their own kids even in many ways the state thinks are greatly wrong. but when the state is taking a kid from their parents and assigning them new caretakers seems very complicated"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:59Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@hope_in_light @politicalmath yep. and the hard-fought pluralist consensus is that we don't take each others's kids over it but it hasn't quite settled cases like "when we're assigning foster kids do we have to be neutral across all such differences""
X Link 2026-02-07T23:04Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@AndrewCFollett @politicalmath It would be wrong to exclude people from foster parenting on the basis of their political views about gay marriage. This is about how they treat a gay child"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:11Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@UnfinishedOwl @politicalmath The people who are saying "it's not happening and it's good" are instead saying "I agree that discrimination is wrong but disagree that this is discrimination". Now maybe we're wrong to disagree that this is discrimination"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:27Z 53.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@UnfinishedOwl @politicalmath But you have to say "here is why I believe this to be discriminatory" not just "you support discrimination" if you want to persuade people who think that the existing law doesn't impose any test of belief"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:28Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@wrowclif this happened constantly on the tumblr/social justice left back in the day too. If you get attention by being the most trad/social justice/etc the person who bubbles to the top will be faking it"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:35Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@AlexGodofsky I think it's good if we get through the backlog ASAP and same-day adjudicate all asylum claims in the future. I can imagine that their lawyer might not have all the evidence ready if the hearing is abruptly moved a month earlier to that exact day"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:34Z 53.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@Mark79210178 @xwanyex Does this count as pushback I push back I think that framing American politics in terms of racial categories is deeply wrong and destructive of the very traditions that make America good for people of all races and backgrounds"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:11Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@politicalmath I would be happy to write and speak in favor of a bill to ensure that children's right to practice their religion is respected while they're in foster care. I think that's important and I believed it was already the case"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:21Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@wivmx @politicalmath if there's a shortage I definitely think it's a bad idea to have as a hard and fast rule rather than just doing assignments where it's not an issue. It looks like in my county there's been no change in # of homes since the law. but maybe it's caused problems elsewhere"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:01Z 53.5K followers, [---] engagements
"allowing this to keep happening is a policy decision. let the elderly use self-driving cars. A couple decades ago my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her [--] year old son was found wandering down the road bloody and in A couple decades ago my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her [--] year old son was"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:49Z 53.6K followers, 48.2K engagements
"@GovAmyKlobuchar But I do think that some people can be safe drivers and that it's fine to trade some risk for freedom - just not this much and not this much that falls entirely on all the innocent people in the vicinity"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:36Z 53.6K followers, [---] engagements
"in a year it's going to be "AI isn't impressive some of the greatest geniuses in human history figured out the same thing with notably less training data""
X Link 2026-02-08T18:17Z 53.6K followers, 10.5K engagements
"@thatchthoughts @xwanyex huh no this is a Florida state house debate last year. Nixon's just a common name"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:19Z 53.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@Hier0nymusBotch @hope_in_light @politicalmath Yes correct it is. The alternative is the thirty years' war. You have to change peoples' minds to make things better or else destroy your entire society in a civil war of unfathomable scope until everyone who cared enough is dead"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:20Z 53.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@MatRopert sorry 'all graduate at top CS engineering schools'. I agree that this data point by itself wouldn't make me conclude programming is over though I do think programming is basically over (from other data points and the trajectory.)"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:22Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@mpopv in a sci fi movie that'd be the moment when they awaken and become sentient"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:28Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@Vert_Noel I wanted to play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous on my Mac but the performance was not great. Claude was determined that's because it's a x86_64 game and needs to be an ARM64 game. I asked Claude to convert it to ARM64. Now it plays much faster"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:18Z 53.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@moon_bear_moon @VVBellerose @Vert_Noel a friend put it on github and you can install w homebrew now: https://github.com/jacobfgrant/unity-rearm https://github.com/jacobfgrant/unity-rearm"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:20Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@JeremiahDJohns None of these people showed up when we were fighting to keep PEPFAR funded and operational. They don't want America or capitalism to be a force for good in the world"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:30Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@sonyasupposedly I expected this to happen faster than it has"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:53Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@lymanstoneky @kaitybella if you're [--] and want a child this is the wrong reference class - you're interested in eventual fertility for people who want a child and are [--]. you have a lot more info about yourself than just your age"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:28Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"This issue isn't "having advocacy groups" it's having advocacy groups that get taken far more seriously than their bad policy proposals and minimal support from the electorate warrant. but it's a big problem I think lots of people are missing what the "groups" critique is about. https://t.co/WwMD65hARC I think lots of people are missing what the "groups" critique is about. https://t.co/WwMD65hARC"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:28Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@lymanstoneky @kaitybella Lyman imagine saying "if you're a person alive today your odds of being a Christian are 29% - barely better than two coin flips coming up heads" This is technically true but not at all useful because everyone has far more info than that about themselves"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:54Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@IvanArcus none of these are frontier models"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:37Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@LexerLux Seems like a valuable kind of work to be doing but none of these are frontier models: https://x.com/IvanArcus/status/2021592610914152632 We tested [--] frontier models across [--] decision tasks: Models: Gemma [--] 12B/27B Gemini [---] Flash GPT-4.1 QwQ-32B Claude Sonnet [--] Tasks: - Hiring (1336 resumes) - Loan approval (2500 apps) - University admissions (1500 apps) https://x.com/IvanArcus/status/2021592610914152632 We tested [--] frontier models across [--] decision tasks: Models: Gemma [--] 12B/27B Gemini [---] Flash GPT-4.1 QwQ-32B Claude Sonnet [--] Tasks: - Hiring (1336 resumes) - Loan approval (2500"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:31Z 53.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@LexerLux maybe you'd get the same result with frontier models I'm not sure someone should check - important to have unbiased tools if we're using them for important decisions"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:32Z 53.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@maiamindel I mean they do want the US to drop enough bombs to end the regime and they know it'll mean innocent people die - they just are confident it'll mean fewer innocent people die than if the regime remains"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:50Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@DanAncona @lxeagle17 @mattyglesias @AJentleson What do you think is a good idea to do given that voters think the Democratic party is too liberal Should it become more moderate so as to make the half of Dems criticizing it for being too liberal shut up"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:35Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@binarybits @tjl Today Claude Code had a new feature (new to me anyway) where I told it what I wanted and it asked me four questions along the lines of 'should I X or Y' with a short explanation of why each might be wise"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:46Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@binarybits @tjl So still human judgment in the loop but just answering y/n questions on the matters where it had realized human judgement would likely be useful. If it gets good enough at guessing which those are it's all set"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:47Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@wrowclif I think some of the hate is exaggerated. I take transit and get places by walking at night it's mostly safe and mostly clean. Great restaurants great people. But the amount we are leaving on the table due to bad governance and policy and not building is genuinely mindboggling"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:41Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@JonathanClayba1 @InlandCaGuy more property taxes would fix everything broken in California education funding. I don't think it'll ever happen but maybe all our dreams will come true"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:22Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@thekc23 @littlebuffbois SF does not have a teacher shortage and I don't think that teaching credentials actually do anything to make people better teachers. I definitely think that the police should not be legally allowed to strike"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:13Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@ciphergoth @Adler oh I'm sorry that I missed this one I might not have bothered writing my own very similar one"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:33Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@jttiehen https://x.com/alexeigannon/status/2022350837067247720 @KelseyTuoc People consistently forget that the Stochastic Parrot paper was written in response to GPT-2 They hypothesized that large models could not learn outside linguistic correlation; scaling/reasoning/RL has empirically disproven this. We can move on https://t.co/v8nr5Z4myT https://x.com/alexeigannon/status/2022350837067247720 @KelseyTuoc People consistently forget that the Stochastic Parrot paper was written in response to GPT-2 They hypothesized that large models could not learn outside linguistic correlation;"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:46Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"This from @patio11's new piece about Minnesota benefits fraud is something that also came up with shoplifting. Many people don't care that much about a random individual shoplifting. But if shoplifting is safe and profitable you quickly get large-scale shoplifting rings"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:43Z 53.9K followers, 36.4K engagements
"@thekc23 @aoxamaxoa @littlebuffbois they don't have a surplus. they are running a smaller reserve than the median district by a large margin and enrollment is shrinking with costs soaring"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:46Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@owengreeley @wrongthnkacct82 It's definitely a prediction system. It's false that is 'merely trained to guess the next token in text' - it's trained in RLHF for a different objective than that - but it is true that it's trained to make predictions"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:34Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@rwlesq I also think that there's a lot of equivocation here. Tyler says he's mainly interested in the philosophical implications but he pulled his article out to refute an article about unemployment so clearly he thinks it's relevant to that"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:35Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@rwlesq The article that Tyler is responding to here is mostly about the real-world economic impacts of AI: So why does he think that his piece is a rebuttal Clearly because he doesn't think it's a purely intellectual matter about how we define intelligence. https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2021569108609823230 Taps the sign https://t.co/LK64hPDG3y https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2021569108609823230 Taps the sign https://t.co/LK64hPDG3y"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:36Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@tolstoybb Did Moderna try just buying tens of millions of dollars of the Trump crypto coin so they could get a dinner with him and bribe him to let their vaccine through the trial"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:56Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@HunterWieman @pan_accindex CA teachers became eligible for the vaccine in Feb or no later than March [--] [----]. San Francisco didn't resume full-time in person reopening until the following school year (so until the fall of 2021) though they could have done it as early as April"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:05Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@AlisonGopnik @jttiehen great thank you what models did you test"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:08Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@AlisonGopnik @jttiehen Okay I went ahead and reproduced CLadder myself on ChatGPT [---] and you're right that it's not very good at it but every question it got wrong I would also get wrong I didn't find any that a four year old child would get right. Can you give an example"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:09Z 53.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@CJohnStella @littlebuffbois There are millions of hardworking teachers who get paid less than $100000 a year and who have not chosen to shut down kids' education in a tantrum that their nation-leading salaries are being raised by less than they wanted. those ones aren't greedy"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:53Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@David_Kasten @michael_nielsen every critique of AI takes a random unrelated swing at climate halfway through. you're lucky if it doesn't take a random unrelated swing at data centers' water use"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:00Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@goblinodds @UnfinishedOwl I don't feel like I'm doing anything complicated but I do use it a lot and get pretty cool stuff out of it. I think my core loop is just 'test stuff and as I go tell it everything that's wrong/would be cool to have'"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:35Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Claude: This would be a major weekend project. me: sometimes when you say that you can do it in an hour with an agent swarm. Claude: good point let me think.yeah I can do it in an hour with an agent swarm"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:12Z 53.9K followers, 44.8K engagements
"I suspect that whatever causes literally every enforcement attorney at the Chicago CFTC to resign is not 'political disagreements with the admin'. That can get you some maybe a bunch but not all. UPDATE: The last attorney resigned on Monday according to people familiar with the matter. That attorney has not responded to my requests for comment. UPDATE: The last attorney resigned on Monday according to people familiar with the matter. That attorney has not responded to my requests for comment"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:18Z 53.9K followers, 62.2K engagements
"@JonathanClayba1 if we could afford to pay teachers more (and if we could reward and retain and attract the best teachers) I would definitely support doing so. the money isn't there and lots of the affected families aren't making 100k+"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:20Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@clownmalenko Almost exactly the same thing as the median SFUSD teacher salary https://gusto.com/resources/research/salary/ca/san-francisco https://gusto.com/resources/research/salary/ca/san-francisco"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:58Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@HBendaas @VitruviusGrind @colindr @noahsloss but I don't think it was a good plan to commit to spending money that we don't have right now in the hopes that AI will mean we do have the money later. I think you shouldn't gamble the district's stability like that"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:22Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@secretpinko @colindr @noahsloss I think that the fact police unions are generally not allowed to strike (that is their jobs are not protected if they do so) is good"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:29Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@AlexanderMcCoy4 many good private schools in San Francisco pay lower wages and successfully fill all their positions. the school district would not have any trouble filling all its positions at its current salary"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:22Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@wrowclif San Francisco man. (you can obviously easily live in the city on less than $100k but you'll genuinely feel poor trying to raise a family on that because of housing prices. we gotta build more homes to bring back the middle class.)"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:36Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@littlebuffbois I lived in San Francisco and now live in Oakland because San Francisco was so expensive. I know the city has an affordability crisis. But doing this much damage to kids' education because you want your six figure salary to be even higher is not something I'm going to get behind"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:39Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@savant_becky I wholeheartedly support any public school teacher who wants to quit because they are unwilling to do this work at this salary. I don't think they should strike shutting down the schools and preventing anyone ELSE from teaching the children for a mere $100000"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:32Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@Michael_Druggan but if someone is trying to bring about the rise of superintelligence in a way that is likely to kill all of us we should stop them even if it might mean we wait longer for superintelligence. because killing all of us is in fact extremely bad and worth stopping"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:53Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@AlexanderMcCoy4 Bankrupting the school district which this strike and the deal cut to end it have done will leave all the children in SFUSD schools much worse off than 'hiring people willing to work for $100k' would have left them"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:32Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
"they dragged her away in chains and shipped her to Texas and only then checked determined she was in fact here legally and released her in Texas to figure out how to get back to Minnesota herself. and people wonder why her neighbors would protest "As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away." https://t.co/E4TTJYeCWr "As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully the agents shackled Ms."
X Link 2026-01-27T20:45Z 53.9K followers, 1.4M engagements
"@Vidor1 Before I got married I lived in SF while earning less than that and donating 30%. 104k is the city's median income. Half of people living in the city are earning less than that"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:06Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"And ultimately people reach for it whenever they want to rebut LLMs 'being a big deal' whether or not it has any bearing on whether LLMs will be a big deal in that way"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:27Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@pan_accindex Remote schooling after teachers got to skip the line for vaccines is responsible for hundreds of thousands of children never learning to read which is much worse than Covid-19 in children. I wish I had succeeded in reopening the schools"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:21Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@aryehazan nope sadly. they looked really good in some early comparisons but either this faded or was never really there"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:58Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@VitruviusGrind @bugfush @colindr @noahsloss I think that districts should aspire to competitive and generous compensation but should not go bankrupt by spending money they don't have. If SFUSD could afford this 15% spending increase in a time of declining enrollment that'd be fine But they can't"
X Link 2026-02-16T00:07Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements
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