Vivian Chong

I feel like it should be a bigger deal that the top natl security people in the government have been cc’ing an Israeli startup on all their supposedly top secret text messages and that startup left all of its doors open

In this moment of federal crisis, the work of local governments is ever more critical. ✊

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

Builder Blueprints The go-to document library for building the best companies with trust. This library was created by ex/ante and the Ford Foundation for founders who want to build the best company worthy of their users...

Announcing Builder Blueprints: a free, first-of-its-kind set of legal docs and tools that founders can use to raise the standard for users and companies alike. New standard docs for a new status quo: www.builder-blueprints.com (1/3)

A pro to this international AI competition is having training datasets that are more representative of our global culture & history x.com/DavidSHolz/s...

But you would be nuts to pay a big US frontier model provider to run your spam farm, propaganda outlet, nudifier, or any other abusive application. Not only does it cost more, but you are leaving a log trail for the authorities.

Prepare to argue with fine-trained Deepseek about politics thru 2025.

A huge step forward in building intentional economies for open social.

The US natsec fear around Deepseek is rooted in wanting their own standards of AI alignment to be embedded in the world’s leading models. Even if one self-hosts and tries to fine tune Deepseek’s filters out, the local baseline has these standards in the weights.

Hot take loosely held: By verbally bashing Big Tech yet failing to pass any meaningful privacy or antitrust reform when they had the chance (2021-2022), Dems managed to alienate tech tycoons while leaving them stronger than ever, setting the stage for an unholy alliance between tech and Trump's GOP.

Elon Musk Sued by the SEC, Awaiting TikTok's Fate Bloomberg Technology · Episode

Awesome hearing @noupside.bsky.social on a Bloomberg Tech podcast chat about social media middleware (at 20 min mark)…Wall St and SV folks need more of this type of content!! open.spotify.com/episode/1sBS...

2025 will be the year of the luddites

one major improvement i've seen in the world over the course of my lifetime is the emergence of lightly-salted sweets. i just swung by a bakery to pick up a chocolate chip cookie and it had the slightest flaking of kosher salt on it. that shit went crazy. i think we're doing great in that department

Building an AI creator community w/ Civitai founders Justin Maier and Maxfield Hulker

Insightful listen on the future of the creative AI industry, AI model marketplaces, and how critical safety by design is for the genAI space: open.spotify.com/episode/3cQm...

no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta

It's far from mission accomplished but if nothing else comes of this fortunate Bluesky wave, it should be considered proved that it's *possible* to challenge the incumbent social apps with open alternatives.

Smart investors should be thinking *now* about funding atproto/Reddit, atproto/Tiktok, etc.

Everyone is seeing this through their lens of course but, to me, this so obviously the result of social content platforms and their impact on our ability to create a shared reality.

Sending these phone bankers and poll workers gratitude and blessings 🙏

The difference in texts/calls I’ve gotten for being considered a Georgia vs California voter couldn’t be more stark, but still proud to exercise my California vote ✅

Devastating to hear of all these efforts preventing the right to vote…this is the antithesis of democracy…

Love the T&S shoutout as a top investment priority- soon we’ll have more VCs saying the same for their investment thesis?? 😁

kind of amazing they've made it this far already on just angel money and a seed round. also wild (in a good way) to see a social network startup list "investing in trust and safety" as a top priority for its Series A

In addition to safe training datasets (real & synthetic)!

Tragedies like this emphasize why AI detection, watermarking, and moderation tech is not enough - we need robust safety evaluation tools too.