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pbiggar

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About pbiggar

Cofounder of Tech for Palestine (https://techforpalestine.org)

Previously founder/CTO of Dark (http://darklang.com), and founder/CEO of CircleCI (https://circleci.com)

https://hachyderm.io/@paulbiggar

https://twitter.com/paulbiggar

https://blog.paulbiggar.com

Contact: paul@techforpalestine.org or paul.biggar@gmail.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49172614

    This has already happened. It appears that Israel has poisoned the Common Crawl. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatb...

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    Comment #49046025

    America had a violent revolution. So did practically every other country. Are violent revolutions de facto bad?

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    Comment #49037200

    We evaluated Bitchat and determined it would be a really useful tool for Gaza - Israel controls all internet access to Palestine and would frequently cut off internet access to Gaz…

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    Comment #49036055

    Relevant section: Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, d…

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    Comment #49036025

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    Comment #49035997

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    Comment #48926108

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    Comment #48844209

    Microsoft's human rights stain will take decades to wear off (just like Meta, Google, and Amazon).

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    Comment #48542081

    I'm sad to see Intercom/Fin's CEO, Eoghan McCabe, did not face repercussions after credible allegations about sexually harassing his employees came out in The Information in 2019 […

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    Comment #48479580

    Thanks for catching that, should have done a better job vetting that. The rest of my post is still true.

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    Comment #48478346

    [edit] Removed as my link was to a different Eric Ries.

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    Comment #48458123

    Facebook is also paying far right israelis, whose content incites violence against Palestinians. > a new report titled “Monetizing Occupation: Meta’s Financial Enablement of Settle…

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    Comment #48428064

    Every Big Tech company employs hundreds of "former" Israeli spies - Google just brought on another 900 via their acquisition of Wiz (to add to their existing 6000).

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    Comment #48396496

    Defensive missions? Was the UK under attack?

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    Comment #48356627

    We work on helping people move to Signal from WhatsApp. It'll be easier once they have a Communities feature, as WhatsApp is very far ahead there. The main advice we got is that al…

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    Comment #48292798

    Definitely. Not to mention that their major investor, Sequoia, has been war profiteering and Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire has been publicly islamophobic and a huge supporter of th…

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    Comment #48291618

    > Before eventually admitting to the theft of organs, the Israeli government initially denied the allegations and called them antisemitic. This is basically the MO for anything. Ca…

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    Comment #48276749

    The best advice I saw on this was to think of the LLM as simply a tool, and if you get bad results, it's because you -- the user of the tool -- are using it wrong. After that, I'm …

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    Comment #48178202

    They mention Vibecoded compiler, here is one: https://blog.paulbiggar.com/full-optimizing-compiler-with-ai... . I continue to work on it in some limited spare time, but it continue…

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    Comment #48172634

    To get a flavor of what Ahmed Eldin speaks about, here is one of the last episodes of his podcast before his arrest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9poJrS_VgI

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    Comment #48121221

    Disagree on his characterization of Claude as being much better than OpenAI (a very low bar), esp from a sovereignty perspective. Here's what Anthropic's CEO had to say (from https…

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    Comment #48119985

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    Comment #48011677

    CircleCI seems to not have the same problem: https://status.circleci.com/

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    Comment #47952802

    Would not recommend getting attached to an editor that's VC funded by Sequoia.

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