Faine Greenwood

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

it’s evil and we need to stop it

sometimes we’re all the eagle who’s bad at being an eagle youtube.com/shorts/kiQHm...

Finally, I’m also (equally god help me) beginning to consider getting back into journalism jobs. I have a lot of highly technical OSINT and data journalism skills and investigative reporting experience, and some people with questionable taste seem to think I’m funny, hit me up….?

I’m also trying to sort out the prospect of starting my own NGO, which REALLY isn’t my first choice but if it appears necessary…

There’s always a delicate tension between being very direct about “I need help figuring out WTF I do next” with your network versus seeming desperate. (I’m not desperate in that I don’t have money concerns, but I am desperate in that I desperately miss having a career).

It’s been a wild 24 hours for me on BlueSky and I’m getting so many messages asking what can be learned from Brazil and applied globally on top of the below. Once again, I’m not a political expert but this is what I’ve seen as a consensus amongst specialists and voters so far 🧵

(I swear this isn’t going to be a hype thread for my own book. But, also, here’s the preorder link): bookshop.org/p/books/vapo...

(Still page 5) “Today, it’s clear not only that AGI is possible but also that, in some sense, the hard part is already done.” 🤯😡 Okay, so the problem for me here is that my book pub date is 2.5 months from now. And the thesis of my book is (basically) “no it fucking is not. See: history.”

Once more unto the breach

this is pretty important context that I'm not sure some people acting in good faith on here on the topic who also don't live in one of the states in question fully understand when I say "hammered" I mean it's basically all that the opposition has been running

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

You can put aside socialist-leftist prescriptions about how dangerous that alliance is, if you would like. But everything I read, across the political spectrum, agrees that these countries are connected. It is just civic maturity to pay attention to Brazil's election.

Just need it a *little* louder until NC ends up at D+8 with D majorities in both chambers

I basically have to custom build my own cinelifter drones to do aerial videography at this point

honestly a pretty interesting case in how the company managed its perception (with lots of beer ads, especially!) to hide its origin from its own workers. Glad they're figuring it out, allies welcome whenever they get there

It's good for people who work at tech companies to realize that benign premises are often masks for contracts they're uncomfortable with, and also Boston Dynamics *origin* is as a defense contractor building robot mules for the military.

To riff on this: while reporting on DARPA in February 2020 (a Normal Time) I saw the demonstration of robotic navigation in underground environments, hinged on and framed as rescue tools. Entirely plausible! compelling tech. Fully military www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/rob... bsky.app/profile/fain...

No one is Assigned Marine at Birth. Marines are made, and they get really mad if you tell them someone who is a Marine isn't a Marine.

yes please.

Meta must be destroyed.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

A better link, as it is from the authors: "Individuals with the most negative views of women and gender equality are the most likely to support [transgender sports] bans."

Just installed my 26-year-old copy of Word on a new desktop. I will never pay subscription fees for software I already paid for. I will go live in a shack in the woods first.

I will also note that there used to be a LOT of money being directed at purely civilian drone use cases and companies until a couple years ago. Trump 2.0 has had a hugely destructive impact here, especially in the U.S.

Everybody talking about Boston Dynamics being in the military robot business is certainly not wrong but might be surprised by the degree to which that is the only robot business there is in this country

Sighhhhhhhh

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

There are around 36,000 people in Perry County, Ohio. Ramaswamy managed to get 36 of them to come by. I’ve seen busier yard sales.

Imagine a world in which enslavers had been stripped of their assets & exiled. Where their assets & power were distributed to the people from whom they had been stolen in the first place. Where the architects of Jim Crow & lynching were opining abt “the good ole days” from some distant hovel.

We live in a country that has historically privileged property & power & willingly excused or even abetted white conservative lawlessness so long as it advances those interests. That is incompatible with democracy, equality, & basic stability & simply cannot be tolerated any longer.

We must do what the country refused to do during Reconstruction: dispossess & banish those who organized & facilitated this vile & lawless regime.

A recent securities filing spotlighted what triggered Mark Zuckerberg’s months-long power battle with board directors at Meta — a fight that sparked not-so-veiled threats from Zuckerberg and led board members to contemplate quitting.