Research Engineer @PluralityInst. Previously @southpkcommons @AbnormalSec @DataKind, @ITP_NYU, @recursecenter
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2008
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Fun fact: America has over 90,000 government entities (1 federal gov, 50 state, 3k county, 35k municipal / township, 40k special districts, 12k school districts). Cool to see what we can learn about American governance when @myhamletinc pulls together data about all of them.
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Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
This @gwern post is excellent and something labs and other pro-AI people should be focusing on. AI can be a tremendous aid to helping people achieve important goals for themselves, and tools like this could have a huge impact personally and socially gwern.net/guardian-angel
OpenBallot is now live for the June 2nd primary! Primaries get less attention than general elections, but in CA they're often the election that matters most. OpenBallot pulls together 65+ voter guides so you can quickly and easily vote your values. teapawt.net/OpenBallotApp/status/2…
Make voting less painful with Openballot.app - now live for San Francisco & Oakland! Just in time for the June 2026 special elections. Please share with your communities - we’d love everyone to experience how easy voting should be!
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Update: the House may vote on the farm bill tomorrow.
This is a critical time. @RepLuna is leading a last minute fight to strike the SOB Act from the farm bill.
Call your reps. We need a vote to strike SOB. If leadership won't allow that, we need to kill the farm bill.
This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill.
The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates.
We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House.
Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive.
The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.
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10 years ago today, @craigbarowsky and I left our day jobs to focus on a little side project we called @DataKind. Little did we know that was the beginning of a grand adventure in trying to use data and AI for the greater good 1/x
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Thanks so much for help in finding his kids!
Here is a GoFundMe for Jeffrey and his family.
Please help them take some time off from the gig economy to recover from this traumatic incident:
gofundme.com/f/help-the-fang…
People probably won't do this but supermarkets could allow them to add carbon offsets to their purchases like they do donations to charities. Would generate awareness of the link between food and carbon and probably generate a non-trivial amount of money teapawt.net/florianederer/status/1…
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For those who are able to: please try to scrape and save any videos and livestreams of the Capitol storming and occupation. Just like after Charlottesville in 2017, many of those who are streaming will delete their streams once they realize how incriminating the footage is.
The really awful part is that shooting or gassing pigs is just what the American Veterinary Medicine Association says you should do when you need to "depopulate" a group of animals
avma.org/sites/default/files…
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Tomorrow's April 1. You probably know people who are going to be struggling more than usual to pay their rent. If you still have your job and can afford it, consider helping some of them out with no strings attached.
I hope transportation agencies around the country are taking advantage of reduced hours and ridership to batch up improvements. This, with bus lane expansion and street reclamation could lead to real improvements once we're through to the other side teapawt.net/SFBART/status/12439563…
Peter Darche retweeted
If you/someone you know in California is being affected by #COVID19 & struggling with getting:
- Unemployment (reduced hours; lay-off)
- Paid family leave (if you have to stay home to care for someone)
- Short-term disability (if you get sick)
You can send them my way for help.
In addition to helpful explainers on how to properly wash our hands, people should also be sharing @3blue1brown's video on exponentials so we can all get a better sense of the kind of process we're dealing here youtu.be/m2MIpDrF7Es?t=716
The first paragraph of the capped comment gets at (IMO) the core of NIMBY psychology: the feeling of anger and resentment at having the environmental basis of your way of life ("neighborhood character") taken away from you by outsiders teapawt.net/ZeframM/status/1231314…
Type II NIMBY in the wild. Advice to young people: “just move, lol.” and “I got mine.”
Also bristled at the notion that their single family home is ‘luxury.’
@nextdoorsv @preservememes
An exquisite Bootleggers and Baptists example for you, @EconTalker mercurynews.com/2020/01/26/i…
If you’re wondering how zealous @youtube’s ContentID system is, I uploaded one video of a San Francisco planning commission meeting and was hit with seven copyright claims
