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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?
3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.
It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.
4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
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PSA: when you wake up, reach for your phone immediately. Do NOT scroll Instagram reels. Send a good morning message. Not to your girlfriend, to Claude.
That way, you can start the clock for your 5 hour Claude Code usage limit while you freshen up and head to the office. At noon, the 5 hour window would have passed and the usage limit would reset. Then you can generate more shareholder value.
People talk about Obama being an all time orator. But name one thing he said that hit harder than Biden describing little kids rubbing his hairy legs in a pool. You can’t.
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Our lives are the sum of our choices. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. See you at the movies May 23, 2025.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Teaser Trailer
Every recipe blog is an LLM written word vomit preamble about summertime chili, overlayed by a deluge of pop-up ads, followed by an embedded pdf recipe that is unreadable on mobile browsers. These people need to be arrested.
There’s an app called ‘Paprika’. Download it. It costs a couple dollars but it’s worth it.
Any time you find a recipe you like, you copy the URL, paste it into Paprika, and it will download the ingredients and directions and save it as a simple recipe card.
You can curate an entire library of recipes and never have to wade through a web page again. You can scale the recipe to halve/double/etc it, you can change the units (metric/imperial), and you can check off ingredients as you use them so you know where you’re up too.
It’ll change your life.
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This ad is (unintentional) perfect metaphor for today's creative dark age: compress organic instruments, joyful/imperfect machines, tangible art, our entire physical reality into a soulless, postmodern, read-only device a multi-trillion $ corporation controls what you do with
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1/ If you went to school in the 80s or 90s, you probably remember the musical instrument called the "recorder." It was probably made out of cheap plastic, and sounded a little bit like the flute. But did you know...
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The govt says the wind industry isn't killing whales, but it is. Here's the proof: another dead one, nicknamed "Faith." They found her yesterday at the @Orsted Southfork Wind site (#517), Rhode Island, right next to the (yellow) turbine base. 71st whale killed since last Dec
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25 years ago today, the iconic Undertaker vs Mick Foley inside Hell in a Cell match took place.
The many injuries Mick suffered from this night:
A dislocated shoulder
A dislocated jaw
A concussion
Bruised ribs
Internal bleeding
Numerous punctured wounds from the thumbtacks
Knocked out at least 1 tooth into the nostril
The legacy & impact of this night lives on forever.
Playing a holographic piano on #HoloLens2 - the hand tracking is 🤯 – at Seattle, WA
Springtime in the city and everybody’s havin life. This is one of two times of the year I hope for rain just to wash away the pollen. These trees have no concept of PDA. bit.ly/2uOf49O
As above, so below. The lake ripples and sunset reflections reminded me of a real life Monet. You know, all impressionist looking. The black spot is a crow left of the murder, protesting the property tax increase of their Ballard roosting site. bit.ly/2GNykeR
“Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.” -William Hazlitt – at Seattle, WA
We’re building the Matrix, one day at a time. KK details our upcoming superpowers, among other things :)
I wrote the cover story for this month's @WIRED . It's about what I think is the next big thing after the web. wired.com/story/mirrorworld-…






























