Jake Friedman

Jake Friedman

@spaceisfun.bsky.social

MSFT employee, Azure firmware dev. Posts are my own thoughts and opinions. he/him.

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Siobhán 🪏
@shibbi.me

This is a really good move. It answers AHM’s complaint directly, by explicitly disclaiming academic credit and relinquishing control over the disclosure process. Researcher-led, no NDAs, each field makes its own decisions, continually open to negotiation.

openai.comWorking with academic communities to build scientific understandingOpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.
Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

I wonder how many minutes of coverage this will get

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

Whew

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection Sunday over conservative Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro. The result showed voters in Brazil declining to join the region’s marked rightward shift. https://wapo.st/4BstJHK

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Andrew Lilley Brinker
@alilleybrinker.com

In addition to the abject racism, the rest of the new rules make clear r/opensource is committed to being a highly insular, exclusionary community. Projects posted must be successful long-term projects with active communities. The person posting must be a long-time active Redditor.

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

Joke about banning Linux aside, this policy is terrible and only hurts small, non-English projects, ya know the kind of thing OSS folks are supposed to support

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

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The Urbanist
@theurbanist.org

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Stop MAGA from Taking Over Washington, Vote No on I-645, I-001, and I-638 By Suresh Chanmugam via @theurbanist.org

theurbanist.orgOp-Ed: Stop MAGA from Taking Over Washington, Vote No on I-645, I-001, and I-638Three harmful statewide ballot initiatives, which seek to block the millionaires tax and curtail the rights of queer and transgender kids in Washington state, are an effort to distract and divide us. Don't fall for it.
Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

Air quality Computers (price and power) TVs and monitors Cell phones Batteries Video games Solar panels Vaccines Rocketry Robots Food choices and quality Gay marriage Packaging (compostable and recyclable) Life expectancy Weather forecasts Public transit

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

This whole thread but also this part in particular

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Actually, positive change is slow, difficult and incremental by nature. Destroying is fast, building is slow. It is easy to bring misery to people - any idiot can do it, as Trump shows - but very hard to improve their conditions. Building a better society is slow, careful, patient work.

Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

Err

nightshade →eth0:2026@nightshade.technology

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

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Omar Wasow
@owasow.bsky.social

“American roads are becoming deadlier for walkers. Between 2009 and 2024, pedestrian deaths increased 72% across the U.S., federal data show. Over the same period, such deaths declined in most other developed nations, according to United Nations data. In road safety, the U.S. is an outlier.” 🎁

wsj.comThe Deadly 1.5-Mile Corridor That Shows the Fatal Flaw in America’s Road DesignSix lanes and crosswalks a half-mile apart: How American urban-planning is failing walkers.
Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w... 🎁

nytimes.comHow a Trillion-Dollar Industry Launders Illegal Gold (Gift Article)The line between dirty and clean gold is an industry fiction. Wall Street and governments profit off gold from criminals, gangsters and those who exploit children.
Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social

the reporting and photography, including of this Madagascar child drinking from a gold mine's waste water pipe, is incredible. the story is infuriating. a look at how dirty gold is laundered into the world economy, with help from the one org meant to regulate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w...

Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

The dirty secret in our 2 party political system is this is always* true (*almost)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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Secretary of Defense Rock
@sodrock.bsky.social

It’s cool POTUS just made up a diplomatic agreement out of thin air and it’s like the 5th news item of the day

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

Not sure what’s worse: that an AI agent submitted this false report or that Philly PD didn’t even know about a submission on their murder tip line…😕

Stephanie Farr@farfarraway.bsky.social

Holy hell. Anthropic's AI model submitted a false tip about a HOMICIDE to the Philadelphia Police Department's online public tip form. The release today from the PPD:

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Push The Needle
@pushtheneedle.bsky.social

I don’t think city planners and architects understand cities at all if they can illustrate this type of graphic without asking the question of why that space isn’t used? Freeways are loud, unpleasant gashes in cities and the only way to create this level of vibrancy is to remove them

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lastpositivist.bsky.social
@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social

This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comTrump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report findsThe figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

brb renaming everything at Microsoft

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

whitehouse.govInaugurating The Era Of Super IntelligenceBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...

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James Without End
@neverendingjim.bsky.social

Replying to @lawsomepup.bsky.social

chess is too simple to serve as a background for gay sex: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position. hockey addresses these limitations.

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🏳️‍🌈Toofthey 🏳️‍⚧️
@toofthey.bsky.social

smh of course the Bezos Washington Post won't acknowledge that @theneedling.com already outscooped them on this story theneedling.com/2026/02/08/e...

theneedling.comEnvironmental Hero Makes Fossil Fuels Too Expensive for Anyone to Keep UsingAccomplishing what no other green energy advocate has before, this month environmental hero President Donald Trump successfully created so much indefinite economic turmoil in the global oil market …
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

President Trump’s war on Iran, now in its seventh month, has led to a plunge in the consumption of oil and gas around the world as fighting disrupts production and transportation. https://wapo.st/4ycPvNA

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson
@mayor.seattle.gov

We are building a Seattle where stability is not the ceiling of our ambition, but the ground beneath it. I am transmitting a budget to City Council with ambitious funding for shelter and community to create safety, stability, and affordability. Oh, and — no structural deficit through 2030.

Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

Feeling pretty good about snagging a 5090 for a “reasonable” price when I could early this year

VideoCardz.com@videocardz.com

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 60 reportedly delayed to 2028, another leaker confirms

videocardz.comNVIDIA GeForce RTX 60 reportedly delayed to 2028, another leaker confirms - VideoCardz.comKopite7kimi now says NVIDIA's GR20x gaming GPUs are planned for 2028. The same leaker previously expected the Rubin-based GeForce generation in the second half of 2027.
Jake Friedman
@spaceisfun.bsky.social

Wow if true

Amy Sundberg@amysundberg.bsky.social

BREAKING: In Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's new proposed city budget being released Tuesday, there is no projected deficit through 2030. Given the state of the projected deficit over the past many years, this is quite an achievement.

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Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley.bsky.social

This quote by Dwight Dively, who spent nearly two decades at King County doing budget work but is now back at the City of Seattle, is really quite damning and I'm afraid it will get buried in today's news cycle.