Public policy entrepreneur working with AI - Posting infrequently, find me on LinkedIn!
Austin, TX
Joined January 2013
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What OpenAI is doing to Pro users is a big deal - cutting capacity for the current highest tier of subscribers, introducing a comparable tier to current Pro users that is 2.5x more expensive, and reconfiguring their models to save their financial margins
This will surprise and hurt a lot of power users who have been depending on consistency and capability from them. In the short-term, some people will jump to Anthropic. In the longer-term, the open-source movement grows more attractive.
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Exciting news: I'm happy to share that @PrivateMarket has been acquired and will be joining forces with EVERMARK AI, a new platform in the SMB M&A space designed to help serious buyers find the right acquisition targets faster.
I've really enjoyed working with Romulo Manzano and the Evermark team over the past couple of months, and I expect Evermark is going to be a huge hit with the #eta #searchfund Community.
This - 100%
Elon Musk is making one of his own conspiracy theories a reality. slate.trib.al/bltjhNE
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1/ As a former OCC bank examiner and 3x fintech founder (of companies that faced debanking—1x under Trump, 2x under Biden), I have a lot to say about @pmarca's comments on debanking. It’s real, it’s nuanced, and yes, politics plays a big role. Let’s start with some facts. 🧵
If you're like me and are anxious about the election, I'd like to recommend volunteering for a voter assistance hotline. I've worked with the Texas Voter Assistance program for the last 2 election cycles and it's the most meaningful political work I've ever done. You're not block walking or cold calling. Instead, volunteers get trained on how to help people who are legally registered to vote navigate state and local voting procedures and cast their ballots. I'm doing my training for the program today, and hope you can join me: mobilize.us/tdpvoterprotecti…
Wishing for the safety of everyone in the storm's path this afternoon. Please be careful and evacuate quickly when prompted by officials. This stuff is no joke:
Hurricane Milton is expected to bring a destructive storm surge to Florida's west coast. @StephanieAbrams uses our FloodFX simulation technology to show you what that could look like ⬇️
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Lies. Lies. Lies. Here is the proof that Kamala Harris cancelled her first scheduled appearance on “Call Her Daddy” to go to the south to support hurricane victims.
Kamala Harris on Call Her Daddy while people were dying and losing everything in North Carolina
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Alex Cooper, host of Call Her Daddy podcast, shared a video on TikTok of the first scheduled interview which was cancelled in preparation of incoming hurricane.
The interview was eventually rescheduled and was prerecorded.
Video posted via x.com/mayatcontreras…
TikTok video vm.tiktok.com/ZMhSGqT61/
Prediction: as AI continues to reduce barriers to entry in the tech world, the ability to think critically about issues of justice, human rights, and society will become even more valuable. Skilled generalists, philosophers, and yes, English majors will do especially well. We're entering exciting and unprecedented times - how we think about ourselves in relation to and in conjunction with technology will become ever more important. 🔭
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Hey @RepJeffDuncan, @SCEMD, @LindseyGrahamSC, @henrymcmaster, @POTUS, @fema … can someone explain how Laurens County isn’t declared a federal disaster? My businesses and my 53 workers have been without electricity and internet since Friday at 6am, we couldn’t even get out of town last week due to all the trees and flooding. And now we don’t have FEMA relief or anything to help these workers? I just took out cash from my personal account to ensure the people I’m meeting in our communities can pay their bills, get food/ice/water, etc; need some help from y’all soon
And for my SMB community, this is what you sign up for, I’d appreciate some help spreading the message of what’s happening in the path of Helene for small biz owners … it’s going to be a lot worse for others
Despite not being a parent, I loved this advice for parents of new college students in @TheAtlantic today:
“When parents send their children off to college, they need to encourage them not to focus on narrow careers but to acquire the sort of all-purpose intellectual skills that allowed [Benjamin] Franklin to thrive: the ability to ask deep questions and wrestle with big issues like human equality, the limits of individual freedom, and justice. Students need to learn how to reason critically; to distinguish bad, baseless ideas from deep and eternal insights; to justify their views; and to express those views lucidly enough for others to grasp.”
There's a fascinating #AI trend that I keep seeing on a daily basis. People working in AI are extremely bullish on the technology, the ability for AI researchers to push through existing challenges, and the power AI has to change the world.
People on the periphery are largely not using it on a daily basis. As an AI optimist, I find myself spending a lot of time thinking about this gap and how technologists can make the benefits of AI more tangible to society more broadly...