David Sainez

David Sainez

@davidsainez.com

woke tech bro he/him

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it's bizarre that bluesky displays alt text in the lightbox view, which imo only encourages people misuse alt text as a image captions

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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

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Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"

> replacement certificates lol

This is an absolutely astounding press release from eMudhra. No apology, a suggestion that the researcher who found their private keys must have used AI, and an attempt to shift blame to auditors... wow. emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca

It was not immediately clear to me but the linked site includes a handy live test to check if your systems are still compromised. emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

MapQuest, I owe you an apology. I wasn't familiar with your game

MapQuest@mapquest.com

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

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The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

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I’m tired of being divided into teams. Do you want a safe neighborhood? Do you want a good job with good benefits? Do you want a high quality, well funded public school? So do I. We’re far more the same than we are different. As one team, we’re unstoppable.

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Over two weeks, Prime Agent orchestrated a swarm of over 2,000 agents to rewrite itself in Rust. With 10,000+ sandboxes, 200B+ GLM-5.3 tokens, and 16,000 agent-to-agent messages.. Prime Agent now reaches usable input ~13× faster and uses 83% less startup memory than before.

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Trauma clinician here. Even if those kids are released tomorrow they will never be fully released from the trauma of their incarceration. They may leave Dilley, but they will never completely leave Dilley behind them. The impact is forever. That is what our government chooses to do to children.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick. (Published February)

Bluesky is likely aware that public, text based social will continue to remain niche. Based on their recent focus on group chats, my bet is that they will try to compete with Discord. The public square would be a funnel into smaller but more “sticky” communities

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I’ve noticed a lot of people burning out this way. Someone should build a feed that works just like For You but with a single “happiness” knob using eg sentiment analysis.

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a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

Breathtaking

Erin Hanson@erinhansonartist.bsky.social

Rich hues of sunset reflect off the wet sand in this painting of Monterey, on the California coast. The impasto brush strokes are loose and expressive, capturing the vivacity and movement of the scene. Reflections of Color by Erin Hanson, 2023 Oil on canvas 50 x 36 in #oilpainting #art #dailyart

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Replying to @newrepublic.com

I live in Texas, and right now we’ve got salmonella eggs, screw worm beef, typhus fleas, and diarrhea lettuce Are we great again yet?

American culture is so weird when it comes to death. In Mexican culture, death feels more present and insubstantial and I think that ultimately helps people be more clear-eyed in situations like this. Dying is not a thing that rewrites your life.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov

I got to know Senator Lindsey Graham traveling with him abroad in Afghanistan and Ukraine. We had just met to renew the fight for our Big Tech bill. Even though we disagreed on much, he was always willing to negotiate, with humor and wit. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

Really frustrating to see this when they struck gold with The 3 Body Problem, and then immediately suffocated it. It had everything going for it: an epic and complete story, proven producers, and great actors.

The Ankler@theankler.bsky.social

Netflix has an engagement problem. Viewers are abandoning shows after one season, and nobody agrees on how to fix it. Sources tell Lesley Goldberg that within Netflix, there's "tension" over how to grab (and hold) viewers' attention - mrf.lu/2NPp7

I know Bluesky doesn’t like Newsom. But a willingness to Just Do Things is a rare and valuable skill.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The rebuke from the Democratic party must be as swift and complete as it was for Swalwell. Trash like Platner has no place in representing the will of the people.

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“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

David Sainez reposted

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

theguardian.com‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prisonAdvocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Replying to @hrvatca.bsky.social

The crowd's reaction is undeniable in this video

Eric Champnella@echamp.bsky.social

Fans at MSG boo the sh*t out of Trump when he's shown during the national anthem. Bravo, New York.

David Sainez reposted

crazy that if you harbor self-hate you will think that everyone hates you, but there's only one man in the US who can visit new york city and get boo'd from every corner of madison square garden and general city

Why the fuck does California not have RCV yet?

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Steyer is tracking to lose to Hilton by ~1% so there are a lot of factors that could have made the difference, but it's pretty clear that if Trump hadn't endorsed Hilton (either no endorsement or Bianco instead) we'd be looking at a D vs D general election.

This is what drives me nuts about the Platner discourse. People talk like it’s either him or a Republican. There’s a vastly more qualified and progressive candidate already running.

Andrea LaFlamme@andrealaflamme.bsky.social

“There may be.” FFS. Forget the flags. I have a literal masters degree in public health, I’m an actual union leader (in my second term as chapter president,) I’m a college professor, and a reproductive health advocate. And people are quibbling over if he abused his exes enough to be disqualifying.

David Sainez reposted

The choice is simple: a California for corporations, or a California for Californians. Return your ballots to a drop box as soon as you can and vote by tomorrow.

One thing that does not get talked about often enough is intelligence/token. For example, Qwen3.5 9B has a much higher artificial analysis score than Granite 4.1 8B. But if you compare the output tokens required to run the eval, it tells a different story.

David Sainez@davidsainez.com

Ah, right. Reminds me of this writeup: www.levs.fyi/blog/2-years.... They found that a model with weaker general benchmarks (nova lite) preformed about the same as sonnet 4.5 on the classification task.

David Sainez reposted

This attempted refutation is incorrect. 1. They also looked at couples rather than households and found it was still true 2. It is also true for market incomes by age 30 (the early 20’s lag is easily explained by more education time) 3. The square root adjustment is standard statistical practice.

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Boom. Vulnerable House GOPer says he's going to try to kill Trump's slush fund via a legislative option. This confirms what I argue below, that this is an impossible thing for vulnerable Rs to defend.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Now that we know Trump's "settlement" with IRS will nix audits, potentially saving him millions, Jamie Raskin's push to force Repubicans to vote on this whole fiasco looks more urgent. Make Rs defend this with Trump 31 points underwater on the economy: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

The best way to learn infra is to open an endpoint to the public internet and then try to keep your machine alive

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spammers are like free infrastructure stress tests as a public service