Ben Damman @typesend

Former  & White House software engineer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ linktr.ee/typesend Missoula, MT Joined May 2009

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Hayden Field @haydenfield

3 days ago

OpenAI is now working on a LinkedIn competitor. The OpenAI Jobs Platform is a hiring platform that will "use AI to help find the perfect matches between what companies [and governments] need and what workers can offer," per a new blog post by Fidji Simo, its CEO of Applications.

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Ben Damman @typesend

a week ago

More important than the will to win, is the will to prepare. — Charlie Munger Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. — Warren Buffet

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jeffypoo @grepmoney

a week ago

we are working on big ideas here at ignis. wildland firefighting will never be the same.

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dax @thdxr

a week ago

people who think ai is gonna replace all jobs must be spending all their time indoors literally everywhere you look there's work that is hilariously far from being automated

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Ben Damman @typesend

a week ago

“Furthermore I think anyone who says they know what this future will be is talking from an inappropriate orifice.” ⁦@martinfowler⁩ martinfowler.com/articles/20250…

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jeffypoo @grepmoney

2 weeks ago

if you look at the various implementations of transformer models in detail i don’t see how you could seriously believe these things are going to lead to true AGI/ASI

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Lorwen C Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108

3 weeks ago

I'm a Harvard-trained psychologist who works with ultra-successful high-net-worth individuals... And I hate to break it to you, but the cost of overthinking and anxiety is the life you could have lived. Here's the protocol I created that actually works: 🧵

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Ben Damman @typesend

3 weeks ago

All monsters are people.

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Simon Belak @sbelak

3 weeks ago

The recent European Lisp Symposium had a talk on whether Lisp is still relevant in the age of AI. Many, myself included, found it somewhat lacking. @danshipper however inadvertently nails it: "Your job isn’t to type code anymore, but to design the systems that design the…

Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper

3 weeks ago

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Nic Barker @nicbarkeragain

3 weeks ago

I think a lot of younger programmers don't realise that both "design" and "product" work used to be done by programmers who happened to enjoy / excel at that stuff. In my experience, having hard boundaries (i.e. devs aren't allowed to design the feature) produces worse software.

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dax @thdxr

3 weeks ago

just like every debate about technology before it, the whole llm coding debate is people arguing with each other about hypotheticals instead of just pointing to what they shipped

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Ben Damman @typesend

3 weeks ago

Be one of zero. – @AlexHormozi

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Devin Goble @devinbgoble

3 weeks ago

@WarrenInTheBuff As a former government employee, I can assure you that everything you've heard about government employees being lazy and stupid is incorrect. They're lazier and stupider. They also hate you.

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Ben Damman @typesend

3 weeks ago

LLMs are turning into highly effective mind control tools

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kev @taykv2

3 weeks ago

Europe is completely technologically irrelevant Their hottest tech startup that just raised a $215 million series B is a vibe coded quantized model provider. Their papers are horseshit, not reproducible, and technically impossible. Their previous product was "quantum computing…

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

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Starlink @Starlink

4 weeks ago

Two brothers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are gifting Starlink to local schools. 4 schools and nearly 6 thousand students now have access to reliable high-speed internet, unlocking a world of knowledge and possibilities 🛰️❤️

jonathan umba banza @umba_jonathan

3 months ago

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Nadia Asparouhova @nayafia

4 weeks ago

the first, and maybe last, thing I’ll say about tech’s newfound love for building families

The New Atlantis @tnajournal

4 weeks ago

the first, and maybe last, thing I’ll say about tech’s newfound love for building families https://t.co/gRgSeRrnPL

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Keith Sakata, MD @KeithSakata

4 weeks ago

I’m a psychiatrist. In 2025, I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. Online, I’m seeing the same pattern. Here’s what “AI psychosis” looks like, and why it’s spreading fast: 🧵

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dax @thdxr

4 weeks ago

"look the LLM was wrong about this one thing it's useless" people should join up with the "look the LLM got this one thing right it can do anything" people and fuck off together

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J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling

a month ago

Freedom of speech means freedom to cause offence. The number of supposed liberals who’ve fallen at this most basic hurdle, because for the first time in their lives they risked losing the approval of their tribe, has been staggering.