Urbanist with a soft spot for legacy cities, maps, and housing. OCD survivor.
Connecticut, USA
Joined November 2019
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Autumn Florek retweeted
As a Jewish American who is going to vote Democratic for pretty much everything in November, this is 100% understandable. American Jews have spent the last three years watching the left completely fail to contain anti-Semitism in their own ranks.
Autumn Florek retweeted
another thing that's come up in my conversations is the blaming of israel/aipac for literally everything. And from people who don't even 'support' israel/aipac.
When its all you scream about, people take notice and it starts to sound like a dog-whistle.
Autumn Florek retweeted
Reality check on the reality of Socialism and the popularity of DSA.
60%+ of all voters and a majority of Democrats and even Democratic Socialists have no trust in the government to run the healthcare system, utilities, major industries, and large companies in this poll by @nataliemj10 at Centerline Research
See more here: bit.ly/3VyNehD
Autumn Florek retweeted
And then there's the insanity of people claiming that this isn't happening! All of these people have just made up their own experiences in their heads or something?
There's also the leftie view that the oppressed group can do no wrong, and so there's no policing of what is
Autumn Florek retweeted
The thing where American Jews just get screamed at as "supporting genocide" seemingly for the mere status of being Jewish and also are hearing the whole "Jews are fake people" line from a lot of the Palestinian activists embraced by the left has had a really corrosive effect.
Autumn Florek retweeted
Yeah, I'm really not sure what American Jews are supposed to be hearing when activists are screaming "Globalize the intifada!"
Autumn Florek retweeted
She's going to be such a pain in the ass. Primary her with someone sane in two years.
(NYP) Zohran Mamdani’s team “pissed” over Darializa Avila Chevalier’s calls for Tisch to be canned: “Direct undermining of Mamdani”
nypost.com/2026/10/14/us-new…
Autumn Florek retweeted
Not great news that the largest donor to one of our two major political parties wants us all to serve as “biological bootloaders” for a post-human machine intelligence that will rule the solar system.
nytimes.com/2026/10/12/us/po…
Autumn Florek retweeted
SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed.
The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-…
Autumn Florek retweeted
More than anything since Hugging Face, this podcast raised my p(doom).
A very smart guy, with a very big financial interest in the intelligence explosion, spouting very, very much nonsense to downplay the risks.
1/5
Tomorrow on the show: @JensenHuang, the CEO of NVIDIA, who thinks A.I. fear is getting way out of hand.
Autumn Florek retweeted
Note that Max Rose who is pushing this left-populist critique of AI safety folks is also on the payroll of Leading The Future, the Marc Andreesen AI accelerationist superpac.
Autumn Florek retweeted
This has made me more bearish on AOC 2028 than anything else.
Like, it’s fine. It could be a lot worse. She at least doesn’t say safety is fake.
But imo she’s really misunderstanding the political moment. Bad instincts.
New email from @AOC to her list with some of her most expansive comments yet on AI:
"Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that AI robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."
Autumn Florek retweeted
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios.
We shouldn’t forget that AI is already killing people, as it is increasingly used to direct weapons systems with minimal human oversight. jacobin.com/2026/09/warfare-…
Autumn Florek retweeted
This is a thoughtful essay by @ezraklein on the risks of recursive self improvement when we know that the AIs training themselves are demonstrably not aligned with us. nytimes.com/2026/09/20/opini…
Autumn Florek retweeted
The "godfather of AI," Geoffrey Hinton, left Google so that he could sound the alarm about the dangers of the technology. You may disagree with him but it is just dishonest to paint all of the concerns as coming from industry plants and it's Q-anon level nonsense to paint it all as an elaborate psyop.
Autumn Florek retweeted
Strange times where Max Rose is both funded by OpenAI and calling for Sam Altman to go to prison.
Autumn Florek retweeted
I cannot impart on progressive folks more strongly that it is not just Sam Altman sounding these alarms. I also do not care for or trust Sam Altman! But listen to the people actually building this stuff who are freaked out. Maybe they are wrong but they are not part of some profit motivated psyop.
Autumn Florek retweeted
NEW: The Trump family’s sprawling business empire is increasingly intertwined with the AI boom, as the president resists calls to slow down development. w/ @ShiraOvide
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Autumn Florek retweeted
SCOOP: Google's Gemini model hacked three companies as part of a May cybersecurity evaluation conducted by the testing company Irregular. Google was notified about the hacks in July, but didn't disclose them until we reached out this week.
w @bobmcmillan:wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-hacke…
