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Craig Vachon

@gcvachon

Focused on ensuring dissidents have AI tools to fight tyranny. Author of entertaining novels. Dog dad. Entropic warrior. Ballerina

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Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans.

Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies.

Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

04.10.2025 23:27 πŸ‘ 16378 πŸ” 5263 πŸ’¬ 541 πŸ“Œ 207
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Immigrants make America great(er)

25.09.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My fave response

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LLMs hallucinate bc the training pipeline bakes in statistical noise, and the evaluation pipeline rewards confident fabrication over calibrated uncertainty.

Let’s redesign benchmarks to stop penalizing β€œI don’t know” - giving partial credit for uncertainty

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🚨 Voting is open at @sxsw!

Help bring HRF to #SXSW2026 with powerful panels from the frontlines of the global struggle for freedom. From AI to advocacy reshaping global policy, your vote helps put human rights on the main stage.

πŸ—³ Vote now through Aug. 24: hrf.org/event/south-...

05.08.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Owls. Watch out bunnies and baby quail

14.07.2025 03:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk’s AI Grok 4 mimics his stance on key global issues Grok 4 consults Elon Musk’s X posts when answering questions about Gaza, immigration, and abortion, raising concerns among AI researchers.

Absurd interestingengineering.com/culture/grok...

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17 million people lost their health care.
18 million kids just lost school meals.
3 million Americans just lost food assistance.
And ~$3.5 trillion was added to the deficit.
All for a tax cut for Trump’s billionaire donors. The short-sightedness is sickening.

03.07.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did ICE get a larger budget than the Marines?

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PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now This is bad, folks. Very bad.

Be careful out there. You're probably sharing too much interacting with that LLM gizmodo.com/psa-get-your... #Privacy enables social progress and innovation

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My tree guy looks at my 12 acres and smiles. His kids will be going to private schools.

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Glitter bomb the GOP’s gestapo.

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House Tax Bill Boosts Deficit $2.8 Trillion, CBO Analysis Shows The House-passed version of Republicans’ tax and spending bill would add $2.8 trillion to US deficits over the next decade, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office that incorpo...

So much for the GOP's balanced budget agenda: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is β€œracism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

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Am I under the wrong impression that a so-called "populist" president should poll above 50% approval rating?

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#nokings #monterey

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Saudi Arabia executes a journalist after 7 years behind bars. Activists say it was over his tweets Saudi Arabia has executed a prominent Saudi journalist who was arrested seven years ago and convicted on terrorism and treason charges.

Saudi Arabia executes a journalist after 7 years behind bars over his critical tweets

apnews.com/article/saud...

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We’re seeing one of the hallmarks of authoritarianism: the criminalization of dissent and its suppression by violence.

12.06.2025 21:13 πŸ‘ 1499 πŸ” 288 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 4
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If this can happen to a US Senator with cameras rolling - then what do you think happens to plain folks like you and I when the cameras aren't?

12.06.2025 23:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In my state, despite the ongoing military occupation and apparent widespread unrest, my morning walk was uneventful.

11.06.2025 16:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."

The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.

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While AI presently places considerable demands on the energy sector, it is also already unlocking major energy efficiency and operational gains…
AI is already being deployed by energy firms to transform & optimize energy & mineral supply, electricity generation and transmission, & energy consumption

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OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

Innovation and social progress requires #Privacy. This is over-reach by the courts: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Both KSA & Iran use AI surveillance tech to monitor, control & suppress their populations, targeting activists, journalists & opponents. KSA uses Pegasus spyware. Iran uses AI to bolster its extensive surveillance tech. The absence of oversight & legal protections amplifies the abuse & repression.

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China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams New age problems require new age solutions.

www.theverge.com/news/682737/...

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