Guy Currier

Guy Currier

@guycurrier.bsky.social

Technologist and technology market expert. Very proud dad and husband who also loves movies, music, language, science.

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Replying to @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social

But between crap like this, endless fundraising texts that drive supporters away with spammy fake deadlines and trash "match" claims, scam PACs run rampant for firms to grift without actually supporting candidates,

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This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

Truthout@truthout.org

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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A realistic rogue agent scenario in the coming years is a tech worker creating an agent to help them get promoted and the agent deciding hacking the HR system is the most effective mechanism. It’s less outlandish than some of the reports from Anthropic and OpenAI in recent months.

So the Orange Dude’s strategy du jour for saving the midterms is to try to make us think diesel prices are high because of the Ukrainian government? Do I have that right?

These folks are worth watching. H/t @stephen.fosketts.net

Oxide Computer Company@oxide.computer

Today we're announcing our $445M Series D and announcing that we've reached profitability. Huge thanks to Eclipse for leading the round, which included participation from existing investors USIT, Jane Street, Riot Ventures, Intel Capital, Friends and Family Capital, and Counterpart Ventures.

My 2023 take that AI improves quality and dependability is holding up well. I’ve never thought it was productivity. I’m not saying that we’re seeing quality and dependability improvements _yet,_ however. I am saying that we will turn to those goals as the productivity attempts keep failing

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.

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In 1984 Winston Smith had to be starved, tortured and eaten by rats to finally concede 2 + 2 = 5. In 2026 there are people who believe any old shite because someone who looks like them said it on Instagram lol

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Don’t wait. Double-check your voter registration status TODAY and make sure you are vote ready. We can’t afford to sit out this election. We need every single one of you voting, from the TOP to the BOTTOM of the ticket. The vote is yours. The power is yours. You decide what happens next in Texas.

Dudes, fucking stop it. AT LEAST STFU if you can’t take action

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

Cogent, very rational summary of what I’ve been trying to tell my fellow tech people for years: The ultimate benefactor of all of these products and technologies is people, and ultimately people determine tech’s fate

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social

What I don't get about the "AI as jobless future" scenario is where the money comes from. Gates says tax the companies for using the AI agents, but if no humans are working, who is paying the companies for the AI services they're providing so the companies can pay taxes?

To violate the accountability to the people of Texas they swore before God to uphold, Governor Abbott and his minions simply stop telling anyone what they know about women getting sick and dying

Pooja Sethi@poojaintexas.bsky.social

We stood together to demand the release of Texas’ delayed maternal mortality report. Nearly 4 out of 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, and Black women continue to face the highest rates. We need this report to understand why women are dying and build legislation that saves lives.

Cloud-native isn’t (or shouldn’t be) a belief system but it feels like it is sometimes. It says that there’s a canonical modern application stack we're all supposed to build toward, and everything else is legacy or wrong

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When it comes to AI regulations, I think the EU has the right idea with the AI Act. The focus should be on harmful uses of AI (job descrimination, healthcare decisions, etc) versus hypotheticals about how AI shouldn’t get so powerful it can hack the internet or isn’t aligned with certain politics.

Really important point. Your big star whose artistry you love has many factors driving their decisions besides their feels and pique

Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social

Not to defend Ed Sheeran but when you see is an exercise of monopoly over a communication media (concerts) by state-sanctioned oligarchs (how many subsidies have been given to Robert Kraft?), Ed Sheeran is not the problem.

Yes. If you want an example of actual real mainstream media bias, this is it. Like the Times with AOC, these reporters and editors pedantically cast smart actions as corrupt and straightforward words as moronic mumbling 1/2

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com

By this measure, you could say the Trump administration is “paying” Maggie Haberman, since having access to him “put her in a position” to write a best-selling book.

These reporters and editors spend 90% of their lives in a white- and elite-fueled echo chamber of fear, jealousy, and cynicism. So main, blatant points are missed, headlines are contradicted in paragraph 13, and active evildoers stripped of agency and responsibility 2/2

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So you know how there’s a discourse in this place about tech brollionaires living in a fantasy world of their own, validated by sycophants of their choosing, where only they are worthy and should decide everything based on their own amazing thoughts? (👀 @anildash.com) Well. 1/3

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

NEW: Hakeem Jeffries met with Kushner recently to discuss how democrats could work with the administration when we take the house back. We shouldn’t work with fascists, and I’d appreciate a leader who felt the same. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...

The causes and effects here are different, but the existence of a fantasy world is the same. Not one of fascist authoritarianism but one of accomplishment through imagined compromise, realpolitik, and righteous negotiation. And it is equally a product of self-referential, vibey privilege 2/3

Note to the D leadership in its various places and forms: Your compatriots aren’t pissed at you because we don’t know how things work. We are pissed at you because you don’t see us—refuse, in fact, to see us. Stop it! 3/3

There’s gotta be some kind of “donut hole” emerging, where today’s younger knowledge workers don’t have the experience to produce good work from AI but eventually better understanding of AI enables better training of new knowledge workers

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

When I was a college hire at Microsoft, they had a program for all their “high potential” hires where we got to network, meet execs and get coaching. That kind of investment in people seems increasingly rare while the rush to AI has created what can best be described as anti-people initiatives.

  2. On a week-end talk show, @aoc.bsky.social 𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 critiquing early wokeism and now the media is acting as if 𝘴𝘩𝘦 said it. This is infuriating. Can we please wake up? I mean it 2/2

Thread. General rule: The reason for a given tradition or community/​national concept or observance changes over time, sometimes into something quite different than originally. Every reason all along the way is valid, if not necessarily honest or good

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Not that this goes to the deeper issues people are discussing. But the Thanksgiving Holiday has basically nothing to do with the Pilgrims or anything to do with settlers or later white Americans interactions with American Indians. The holiday didn't start with the Pilgrims. The modern day ...

Agree—but experts in what? Not whatever you immediately think. Expert creators do not make expert AI users. Expert AI users do not make expert creators. And I don’t think it’s as simple as “experts in both”

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

“The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away.” - Chamath Palihapitiya ~~ The idea that AI makes developers interchangeable cogs is the opposite of reality. It widens the gap between experts and novices.