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Rob Flaherty

@rob_flaherty
25 posts
2026-02-28
It's either: 1. Altman is lying 2. The Pentagon thinks he'll be easier to roll Or 3. The Trump admin attempted to destroy OpenAI's competitor to benefit OpenAI
2026-02-28 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safet...

2026-02-23
One of the fundamental problems with “just let the AI guys do whatever they want” is that the AI guys seem to have never interacted with a real person in their entire lives https://x.com/...
2026-02-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.

One of the fundamental problems with “just let the AI guys do whatever they want” is that the AI guys seem to have never interacted with a real person in their entire lives https://x.com/...
2026-02-23 View on X
New York Times

In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning

Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.LinkedIn:Bridget FahrlandandDaron Y...

2026-02-22
One of the fundamental problems with “just let the AI guys do whatever they want” is that the AI guys seem to have never interacted with a real person in their entire lives https://x.com/...
2026-02-22 View on X
The Indian Express

Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade”

Once allies at OpenAI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk are now sharply divided over the future of AI infrastructure.

One of the fundamental problems with “just let the AI guys do whatever they want” is that the AI guys seem to have never interacted with a real person in their entire lives https://x.com/...
2026-02-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.

2022-06-28
The refs gettin' worked Step 1: Run disproportionately spammy programs that get disproportionately sent to spam Step 2: Convince the press it's a Google conspiracy Step 3: Get Google to send all of your emails to inbox Step 4: Profit https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-28 View on X
Axios

Filing: Google asks the US FEC to green light a program that would exempt campaign emails from spam; the GOP alleges Gmail unfairly flags its emails as spam

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to steer my ship.” Tweets: Nate Silver / @natesilver538 : I barely use email tbh and this might be the thing to get me to swear of...

2022-06-16
I just think it's going to be funny when all of these platforms go The Full Recommendation Algo and then everyone's like “you know, I'd love to have a place online where I can keep up with friends”
2022-06-16 View on X
The Verge

Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources

a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here: https://www.theverge.com/... Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Leaving even more room for new startups to re...

All seems sort of inevitable in the short term that social is going to just start to look like TikTok, but two observations: 1. Chasing stories didn't seem to work for big blue 2. TikTok has started to do stuff oriented around followers (like reposts) so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-16 View on X
The Verge

Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources

a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here: https://www.theverge.com/... Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Leaving even more room for new startups to re...

2021-01-16
There's a lot of ~~normal~~ people who follow the President in the same way they follow...The Rock or Demi Lovato. It's actually a pretty normal early behavior in joining a social network! It's why the account is a public good. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-16 View on X
CNBC

Twitter outlines its plans for Wednesday's Inauguration Day, including transitioning @POTUS and other handles to Biden and archiving several official accounts

This will be the account for my official duties as President. At 12:01 PM on January 20th, it will become @POTUS. Until then, I'll be using @JoeBiden. And while you're here, follow...

On inaug day: -FB is transferring @JoeBiden's followers over to POTUS -Snap is handing us @WhiteHouse -YT is giving us all of the @WhiteHouse Subs -Twitter is starting us at zero...but recommended the President of the United States tag other accounts to encourage growth
2021-01-16 View on X
CNBC

Twitter outlines its plans for Wednesday's Inauguration Day, including transitioning @POTUS and other handles to Biden and archiving several official accounts

This will be the account for my official duties as President. At 12:01 PM on January 20th, it will become @POTUS. Until then, I'll be using @JoeBiden. And while you're here, follow...

2020-12-24
In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse — at Team 44's urging. In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Biden transition team says Twitter told it current followers of @POTUS won't carry over to Biden, whose @POTUS account will start at zero, a reversal from 2017

2020-12-23
In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse — at Team 44's urging. In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Biden transition team says Twitter told it current followers of @POTUS won't carry over to Biden, whose @POTUS account will start at zero, a reversal from 2017

- Followers were transfered to Trump from Obama in 2017  — First lady, press secretary accounts also reset to zero

2020-12-07
The most important digital takeaway, though, is to have a campaign manager who believes in The Thing. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-07 View on X
New York Times

How Biden's digital campaign, largely focused on positive, authentic messaging and “Facebook moms”, defeated Trump's “Death Star” digital operation

slick-looking 30-second spots—were far less effective than ads that featured regular voters talking directly into their smartphones about why they were voting for Mr. Biden.” https...

2020-11-03
Unreal: Facebook recently internally proposed a system where 50% of all fact checks would be conservative and 50% would be liberal, regardless of the volume or severity of the fact checks on either side. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-11-03 View on X
New York Times

How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information

So, it's going to be a big week — or weeks. Alexander Hall / Newsbusters : Mark Levin: Facebook Censored My Page on Eve Before Election; ‘I Will Not Be Intimidated’ David Gilbert /...

Unreal: Facebook recently internally proposed a system where 50% of all fact checks would be conservative and 50% would be liberal, regardless of the volume or severity of the fact checks on either side. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-11-03 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement

2020-11-02
Unreal: Facebook recently internally proposed a system where 50% of all fact checks would be conservative and 50% would be liberal, regardless of the volume or severity of the fact checks on either side. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-11-02 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement

From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.

2020-10-31
A thing worth highlighting here is that, like, 80% of the problems with facebook are on the organic side, not the ads side. This ads policy was largely a distraction, but they *still* are finding a way to get it wrong. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-31 View on X
Politico

Biden campaign says Facebook blocked thousands of its ads approved prior to Facebook's ban; Facebook blames advertisers' misunderstanding and a technical glitch

it spins toward “solutions” without reckoning with the past. https://twitter.com/... Moira Whelan / @moira : 👀 Facebook decisions have global consequences. They have every incentiv...

2020-10-30
A thing worth highlighting here is that, like, 80% of the problems with facebook are on the organic side, not the ads side. This ads policy was largely a distraction, but they *still* are finding a way to get it wrong. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-30 View on X
Politico

Biden campaign says Facebook blocked thousands of its ads approved prior to Facebook's ban; Facebook blames advertisers' misunderstanding and a technical glitch

Biden's campaign said ads that had previously been approved by the tech giant have been erroneously removed.

2020-10-08
FACEBOOK! ADS! ARE! NOT! THE! PROBLEM!
2020-10-08 View on X
Washington Post

Facebook says it will temporarily suspend political ads after US polls close on Nov. 3 and will remove calls for poll watching that use “militarized” language

The move is intended to limit confusion and misinformation on the platform, the social media company says

2020-09-28
Imagine comparing yourself to people who aided and abetted the rise of global fascism in the 30s as your *defense* https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-28 View on X
Politico

Facebook exec says right-wing drives more engagement because its “populism is always more engaging” as it speaks to “an incredibly strong, primitive emotion”