@nroman

Engineer @OpenAI. Ex Stripe, Facebook

 San Francisco
Joined March 2011
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Steve McGuire
@sfmcguire79Oct 22
How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed? At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
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Carl
@HistoryBoomerOct 19
Russia’s current government is evil. The Ukraine invasion is awful. Helping Russia is bad. Few things are as morally clear as this.
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soul nate@MNateShyamalanOct 18
ELIZABETH HOLMES: of course it worked. the lights turned on. it was on the cloud NATHAN FIELDER: ok. but you know what feelings are, right? like you have them? WEIRD COCAINE HUSBAND: [watching youtube at 2x speed] babe it says here the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
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Warren Sharp
@SharpFootballOct 18
UNREAL PERSONAL FOUL WHAT DO YOU WANT HIM TO DO???
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Antoine Levy@LevyAntoineOct 17
sammy
@_itzsammyOct 17
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
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Student movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic. britannica.com/topic/Red-Guar… encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art… aei.org/education/actu…
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This was about underfunded schools 🤨
Hillel Neuer
@HillelNeuerOct 17
Limoges' historic town hall has fallen; France is on the brink.
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It’s hard to put into words how upsetting these images are
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Evis Drenova
@evisdrenovaOct 15
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
siggy bilstein
@sbilsteinOct 15
the agents are superhuman but it’s gonna impossible to RL to be fun to hang out with, I think. I hope.
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Jack
@tracewoodgrainsOct 14
I do actually think explicitly supporting a purge of media and police in an Islamist state takeover should permanently disqualify someone from taking US office—or, in other words, that it is actively wrong for people to vote for El-Sayed, independent of other positions
Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeaconSep 23
Abdul El-Sayed signed on to an Arabic-language statement in 2012 demanding that the Muslim Brotherhood “purge” media and police in Egypt. The repressive Islamic group carried out a brutal religious crackdown on the press soon thereafter, @LevineJonathan reports.
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Jarvis
@jarvis_bestOct 12
People say California is soft on crime but if you systemically torture and poison a colleague over two years you will serve EVERY LAST MINUTE of your probation.
CBS News
@CBSNewsOct 12
A Berkeley chemical engineer who suffered years of unexplained illness discovered through a spy camera from Amazon that her coworker, David Xu, was poisoning her food and water with cadmium, a toxic heavy metal for nearly 18 months between 2017 and 2019. The victim experienced significant health problems and at times required emergency care at a hospital. Newly released video shows Xu appearing to put a substance in her water bottle in 2019. Xu was arrested that year and charged with attempted murder and two counts of poisoning, offenses that could have sent him to prison for life. But under a plea deal, the attempted murder charge and one poisoning count were dropped. Xu pleaded no contest to one felony poisoning charge and received two years of probation, with credit for one day served. He completed probation in March and is now seeking to have his felony conviction dismissed.
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Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_HarperOct 6
Every time I write something critical of how elite academia is captured by bizarre ideologies, people claim that these are minor tendencies. Yet experts on things like the “liberatory potential of pilates for minoritized womxn” keep getting put in charge of major scholarly orgs.
Brandon Warmke
@BrandonWarmkeOct 6
They will not self-reform. Total ideological capture is the point. Adjust accordingly.
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You think they’d let you build a physical building here?
Alex Adelman
@alexadelmanOct 3
It’s incredible how much wealth SF entrepreneurs have created and how little of it has gone toward building culture. Where are the great museums, new architecture, music venues, public spaces? Silicon Valley should aspire to leave behind more than ephemeral software.
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Armand Domalewski
@ArmandDomaSep 28
we should tightly regulate flock-style cameras and strictly punish abuses, but getting rid of them entirely is just stupid
Austin Justice
@AustinJusticeSep 27
After Austin switched off its Flock license plate cameras in June 2025, car theft rose 24% when measured against trends in comparable cities. Austin's auto theft came in above expectations every month for the following year. About 776 more stolen cars than there otherwise would be.
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God this going to be unwatchable
DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilmSep 23
First clip for Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in ‘THE SOCIAL RECKONING’. In theaters on October 9.

The Social Reckoning

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Shikhar
@xikharSep 22
Dario wrote a 3800 words article on pacing the frontier only to drop a new SOTA model 11 days later. Safe to say, no one is actually doing it.
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Kendall Pennington
@Kenny___RoseSep 23
am i going to sf tech week? would u go to nyc spreadsheet week? miami bbl week? toronto euthanasia week? what is Real is best given and received in silence, etc
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Jack
@tracewoodgrainsSep 20
This is the per-pupil funding for the elementary school Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to. If you subscribe to the funding theory of education, how much would have been enough? It's already crossed the average per capita annual income threshold. Maybe $100k? $200k?
Don
@soblackandblueSep 20
Notice the sleight of hand. Nationally this may be true, but in NYC the Fair Student Funding gives extra funding to schools with disadvantaged students. The school that Hannah Jones' daughter attends almost certainly is better funded than predominately white or Asian schools.
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Robby Soave
@robbysoaveSep 17
If Hasan Piker thinks the US government is more evil than al-Qaeda simply because it has caused more deaths in absolute terms, wait until he finds out about his friends the Chinese government...
Axios
@axiosSep 17
👀 NEW: @hasanthehun joins @alexthomp on the Season 3 premiere of The Axios Show in what Piker called "the most contentious interview" he's done. Piker claims that "pound for pound," America conducts more terror around the world than al-Qaeda.

Hasan Piker says America is worse than al-Qaeda "pound for pound"

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David Burge
@iowahawkblogSep 16
it's the betting apps that are ruining sports, not the naked ladies in their ads
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This guy is just an enemy of my country
fauxstonox
@fauxstonoxSep 13
"Of course I am Anti-NATO. NATO is designed with the explicit intent of being an Anti-Communist institution... Now it operates like a protection racket. Putin's biggest failure... is he gave the protection racket a perfect opportunity to say why it exists" -- Hasan Piker
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