Kaushik Bhatta (KB)

Yup, the platform that was supposed “open” yet never released weights, source, nor license post-first launch, now through version 3.

I’ve always liked your work and XKCD is hilarious.

But standing up now when its a matter of defining principles and values of who we are - even bigger fan.

Good job team America
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I fondly remember your traffic simulation, my first systems thinking concept that stayed with me.

Thank you for your teaching! You’ve inspired generations of learners.

AI Agent Meetup SF · Luma You are invited to our very first event! The SF AI Agent Meetup is a new community for agent creators, developers, and researchers exploring the evolution of…

📍 April 1 in SF — the #AIAlliance Agent Meetup is on.
Hear from and join @davenielsen.bsky.social @ismaelfaro.bsky.social @chiefscientist.org 🔥
Agent demos, workflows, LLM hacks — it’s all happening at 972 Mission St.
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GOLDMAN hikes its odds of US recession to 35% — from a prior 20%.

The move reflects “the sharp recent deterioration in household and business confidence, and statements from White House officials indicating greater willingness to tolerate near-term economic weakness in pursuit of their policies.”

Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement by French Court The ruling immediately bars her from running for public office for five years, jeopardizing the far-right leader’s plans to run for president in 2027.

So a politician is convicted of a serious crime, and then can't run for the presidency. Weird idea, but worth a try.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w...

+1 Georgetown. Letter attached.

Georgetown @georgetownlaw.bsky.social stepping up should be applauded.

More institutions must recognize that this fight aims to centralize power in the U.S., undermining centuries of expansion, freedom of speech, and progress of inclusion. Kudos. 3/3.

That’s why we lead in startups, innovation, and science—areas driven by merit. The people have a voice and new ways to enforce it. Meanwhile, much of the world centralizes. Royalty, dictators, and rule by violence. Once a nation does, history shows it rarely reverses without bloodshed. 2/3

One of America’s top strengths is expanding power through institutions—not via royalty or violence. We build it: checks on federal government, states, cities, law, education, media, economics, institutional norms, technology. Power here isn’t (just) inherited; it’s built and evolves over time. 1/3

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

What are the best alternative funding models for media? Who’s cracked it best?

Seems the margins drop until someone with a big check underwrites. Time, The Atlantic, WashPo.

Social media before, modern LLMs now - undercut the cost to research, and report.

Issue of our time.

The president launched a meme coin hours before taking office. I don’t think traditional lobbying blocks can apply

Conquest for land, also a thing again.

60 minutes covered in depth, concluded it was targeted by Russians. Most victims attacked worked specifically on Kremlin assets. Even found schematics for the device/mechanism used, and an arrest that had what seemed like the device. The pro-Russian tilt across the board is remarkably heinous.

Great reporting @klong.bsky.social

If the open-source models are so good, imagine their closed-source.

Congrats. What tool is that?

A lot of immigrants worried to lose their lives, families, homes, careers etc. Kids and more.

Top of mind, highest impact now. Reaching out to anyone on temp visas, h1b’s, etc to see how to help, talk, chat, refer etc goes a long way.

Our Statue of Liberty represented welcome and freedom.

Issue with bots.

ie. View folks attacked with hate tweets etc. The number of bots promoting crypto, alt right narratives, and misinformation is enormously concerning and tilts narrative of whats “true”.

Make far too many issues seem confusing with limited human memory/bandwidth to assess

Except when from the president himself and adds a disclaimer it’s not a security or investment yet totally pretends to be.

Bluesky Documentation | Bluesky Explore guides and tutorials to the Bluesky API.

Alright @bsky.app - #firstpost . What can users do to utilize the platform better? Favorite apps, potential new uses (happy to dev), any tips, etc.

Skimming through docs.bsky.app

Oof. - Bill. My bad.

Vinod Khosla, Paul Graham, Mike Bloomberg, Mike Moritz, Chris Sacca, Reid Hoffman, Reed Hastings, Bill and French Gates- few I can think of.

We should have a list of VCs, and platforms to build upon that are not in this cohort. Unconscionable after yet another pump and dump meme coin.

Cloud, services, hardware, companies, investment capital w/ethical leaders.

Help builders to vote and move with their $’s

Moved/moving to vercel. The impacts went downstream, plugins, other developers, all kinds of compatibility issues of late. Sad to see communities hurt downstream by high level narcissism/in fighting at top.

Apple Siri Eavesdropping Payout — Here’s Who’s Eligible And How To Claim Apple could pay out $20 per device to users affected by alleged Siri spying. Here’s who is eligible and how to make a claim.

So #iPhone peeps, since now you know you have been spied on (and that data has been sold to advertisers). Claim your free $20 from Apple.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2025/01/06/apple-siri-eavesdropping-payout-heres-whos-eligible-and-how-to-claim/

One determinant line between prior software vs agents seems personal context. Prior interfaces were output based ie Expedia’s apis = travel. Agents instead learn via personal information like your calendar, itinerary, and learned preferences (cost vs. time) to make decisions or provide options