Working to elect Democrats | Executive Director of Zinc Labs | Was Joe Biden's Director of Engineering | Built a lot of tech for Hillary Clinton | Rumored to have done a bunch of other computer things | My bot @everyDotGov | Austin, TX
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Last Notes npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1yl3…323t Yeah. Cognitive philosophers definitely have indexed on the cognition question. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub14cv…90c2 but I’m repeatedly told by people who refuse to use the tools that the tools are useless and I’m a rube for thinking i find any value npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges continuing to acquire millennial music on boomer hardware npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges "Then as usual, he left the dirty work to others. He retreated to the White House. As America was attacked from within, Donald Trump watched on TV in the private small dining room off the oval office. The entire nation watched in horror, the whole world watched in disbelief, and Trump did nothing [...] It was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history." npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1zdc…6exm "Generally, the IRS categorizes redemption of credit card rewards and frequent flyer miles as non-taxable"¹ ... "Thankfully, most of the points and miles you earn are not considered income by the IRS"² ... "If earned through the use of the card, like a cash-back bonus, the rewards are viewed by the IRS as a rebate and not taxable income."³ npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges It's weird that credit card rewards aren't taxed. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1w7a…tpn3 @npub1ytq…9rrp @npub1f6a…pnql WOW npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges being weird and making a sankey diagram of our 2023 household income and expenses npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges a venn diagram of “scraping is not a crime” and “LLMs infringe copyright” and “paywalled, here’s the archive.is” npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Seems good! npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges There were 17 precincts that existed in Ohio's August special election that didn't exist in the general election. There were 9 precincts that existed in the general election that didn't exist in the special election. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I do get a chuckle at, "it's not real intelligence!" when "artificial" is right there in the name. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1w7a…tpn3 @npub1xzm…eykm I think it's historically incorrect to say that, "technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing". Yes, marketing is capitalizing on it! But the nomenclature matches my CS education from the late 2000s and it matches 70 years of how "AI" is used in research and literature. The recent obsession with asserting "theory of mind" or "intentions" or "originality" or "real intelligence" seems, well, recent. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1w7a…tpn3 @npub1xzm…eykm Not too long ago — in fact, roughly a year or two ago — "Artificial Intelligence" was a term used to describe computer systems which could perform tasks that historically required human cognition. Few people were offended that Chess or Go-playing systems were considered "AI" and "real intelligence" was never a requirement. But, as we see time and time again, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges 💻🇺🇸 The Movement Cooperative is hiring a CTO #PoliticalTech npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I get that everyone mourns at their own pace when an online community is lost, but the fact that we're now hitting the one-year mark and people are still writing articles titled The Moral Case for Quitting Twitter really does showcase the traumatic dependency these platforms create npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1l3t…cal9 I mean I wouldn't say I'm equipped to do anything close to "research" when it comes to vaccines, but I would like to know if this is a thing the research-doers say I should get or if it's more for other people npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I went to schedule a booster and CVS was like "can we also interest you in the updated Hepatitis B vaccine?" and now I need to go read about stuff npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1efv…4jx2 I mean, npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1ddp…2tax @npub10uh…p7v5 If you're trying to rationalize the minds of the electorate — in any state — you're in for a bad time. Voters are weird! A not-insignificant number of the voting-eligible population things Democrats ended Roe. These needles are very hard to thread. Sometimes name recognition wins out, despite the logic of ideology. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1ddp…2tax Mike DeWine achieved some fairly astounding persuasion wins with left-of-center Ohio voters during the peak of Covid. Many suburban Democrats spoke openly about "Wine with DeWine" over the past couple of years ... a ritual of drinking wine and watching DeWine hold press conferences about managing Covid protocols. It was weird! Voters are weird! npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I can't stop looking at the #OhioIssue1 map. This is the kind of map Democrats haven't seen in #Ohio since 2012. Just look at the 2022 #OHGov race by comparison! Republicans have really gone all-in on a losing issue. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Last night was such an immense gift to Sherrod Brown. #Ohio Dems will now have precinct-level data on winnable voters on a winnable issue. Just a staggering self-own by OHGOP. Frank LaRose devastated. #OhioIssue1 npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1dl0…49nf The size of the court is set by Congress, and we don’t have control of one of its houses. Turning this into an unpopular money-burning performative issue around the presidency — that we already hold — is not a great strategy for power-building, in my opinion. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges 💻🇺🇸 The Biden campaign is hiring Data Scientists,¹ Data Engineers,² and Data Analysts.³ #PoliticalTech #PoliticalData npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges hey if someone says as a passing detail, "I live in $PLACE" it's really not necessary to reply with, "I hate $PLACE" or, "so glad I left $PLACE"
