james_mtc's profile picture. Turnaround CTO, advisor, and startup vagabond. Former head of AI @NASA CAS and tech wonk for (Obama) @WhiteHouse, DOD, and DOJ. Tweets are my own.

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@james_mtc

Turnaround CTO, advisor, and startup vagabond. Former head of AI @NASA CAS and tech wonk for (Obama) @WhiteHouse, DOD, and DOJ. Tweets are my own.

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Tired of Cursor overwriting key files hidden in big changes? Me too. So I built a thing to prevent AI from overwriting certain files. Check out Lockor. PRs and comments welcome! open-vsx.org/extension/lock…


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There are expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs. Data shows this over and over and over and over.

JeremiahDJohns's tweet image. There are expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs.

Data shows this over and over and over and over.
JeremiahDJohns's tweet image. There are expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs.

Data shows this over and over and over and over.
JeremiahDJohns's tweet image. There are expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs.

Data shows this over and over and over and over.

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This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end Citizens United by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

davidsirota's tweet image. This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end Citizens United by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

Damn... @claudeai inside VsCode is kicking the ass of @cursor_ai's auto model. Cursor got stuck on a parallel test-issue and could never get around it and was breaking other components trying to get around the objective. ...Claude fixed it in 3 prompts.


I saw a comment on Reddit today that read: “I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.” Sadly, it sort of was. What people often miss is that there’s an inherent asymmetry to civilization, the same kind you see in economics, what some call the “rockets and feathers” effect:…


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Funny how little time it took Siri to lose functionality. iOS 6 on the left and iOS 9 on the right. Question was “what movies are in theaters right now”.

TyleTweets's tweet image. Funny how little time it took Siri to lose functionality. iOS 6 on the left and iOS 9 on the right. Question was “what movies are in theaters right now”.

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This is pretty nuts. @prospero_ai predicted today’s market crash yesterday morning based on collapsing net options sentiment. Glad I have their alerts on.

WholeMarsBlog's tweet image. This is pretty nuts.

@prospero_ai predicted today’s market crash yesterday morning based on collapsing net options sentiment. 

Glad I have their alerts on.

Me: I just want to save my docs to my hard drive on my computer. Microsoft: Thank you for your suggestion! We’ve renamed our Ohio cloud servers to “my-computer-1.” Problem solved. windowscentral.com/microsoft/micr…


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The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs.


If Bill Burr were legitimately interested in helping bring free speech to Riyadh, he would have done the gig and given a big chunk of the payout to a free speech org fighting Saudi oppression. Otherwise his spin is just political cover for a big payday from a bad choice.


Hey AI coding nerds... you can now use `pullcraft cursor` to generate cursor rules so your AI can leverage the Pullcraft PR flow. Much easier than having an agent hack at the GH API. Templates are more reliable too. Check it out! npmjs.com/package/pullcr…

james_mtc's tweet image. Hey AI coding nerds... you can now use `pullcraft cursor` to generate cursor rules so your AI can leverage the Pullcraft PR flow.

Much easier than having an agent hack at the GH API. Templates are more reliable too. Check it out!

npmjs.com/package/pullcr…

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Trump: We’re powerless to stop to terrible Democrats. Also Trump: I’m going to use my power to direct the entire federal govt to violate the law but face no consequences.

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

JordanOnRecord's tweet image. It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
JordanOnRecord's tweet image. It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
JordanOnRecord's tweet image. It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
JordanOnRecord's tweet image. It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.


GOP to Feds: If you do your job… we’ll fire you. If we don’t do our job… we’ll fire you. bbc.com/news/articles/…


Prompt injection Product Names is the future!

i'm about to make ten million dollars

tenobrus's tweet image. i'm about to make ten million dollars


Anyone with an actually high IQ would know that IQ 276 = 11.73 standard deviations above mean (100). That's a 1-in-2.4×10²⁹ probability. Equivalent to being the smartest person across 30 quintillion Earths. Which clearly no one can prove, making YoungHoon Kim a fraud.


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this is nasty. steganography. 10 years ago they embed your account id in video game screenshots. today, any photo u take, any screenshot, from camera, phone, or laptop, might embed your device id, or worse. it is nearly impossible to know.

just learned about steganography and the fact that u can hide entire files inside an image is pure witchcraft.

birdabo404's tweet image. just learned about steganography and the fact that u can hide entire files inside an image is pure witchcraft.


Cameron is so out of touch. The danger isn’t a sci-fi AI overlord. It’s an oligarchy wielding AI to entrench inequality. Honestly, an AI superintelligence might be less greedy than the people running the show now.

james_mtc's tweet image. Cameron is so out of touch.  The danger isn’t a sci-fi AI overlord. It’s an oligarchy wielding AI to entrench inequality. Honestly, an AI superintelligence might be less greedy than the people running the show now.

My 3 guesses: 1) We’re invading Venezuela bc reasons. 2) The loyalty test results are in and only sycophants will be allowed to stay in command. 3) We’re sending troops to Ukraine bc Trump needs another distraction from Epstein. al.com/politics/2025/… out.reddit.com/t3_1nqaelt?ano…


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