civilizational well-being
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jordanthink retweeted
Robert and I are thrilled that our gift of over 2 million shares of SpaceX stock will be distributed to children’s Trump accounts in December!
Our initial gift (shares transferring to escrow as we speak) will go to 11 to 17-year-olds who live in zip codes with median family income (MFI) of $57,000 or less, and to those who live in zip codes with too few residents for an MFI to be reported in the census. These families should receive a notice by Monday.
In a few weeks, an additional gift will be finalized for eligible 11 to 17-year-old children in military families serving overseas, children in foster care, and more children whose MFI is $90,000 or less living in counties near our home in the great state of Texas.
Thank you to the incredible team @SpaceX, @Treasury, @IRS, @DellFdn, @GreaterHorizons, @InvestAmerica24, and the legal firms of Morgan Lewis and Gibson Dunn for working over the past few months to make this happen.
We are deeply grateful for the groundbreaking work that Brad Gerstner @altcap and @MichaelDell have done for the long-term financial security for millions of kids.
God Bless America!
jordanthink retweeted
I just shared this with my family, and you all should do it too.
You’ve probably noticed it feels like everything is getting hacked right now. At this point, you should assume everything about you is exposed in one way or another.
Your socials, your medical history, your old passwords, your phone number.
I ran through this checklist last week, and I’d do it as soon as you can. Like today.
These are the 5 steps I took, plus prompts that get your AI to do most of the work for you.
1. Freeze your credit at all three bureaus.
If you only do one thing on this list, do this one. It’s free. It takes about 10 minutes per bureau. It stops anyone from opening a new card or loan in your name. You can unfreeze it any time you need to apply for something.
Equifax: equifax.com/personal/credit-…
Experian: experian.com/freeze/center.h…
TransUnion: transunion.com/credit-freeze
2. Put limits on your credit cards.
Log into each card and set a spending limit wherever the app lets you. Start with the cards you never use. If a card has no limit option, turn on the lock toggle until you need it.
My advice is to set every limit a little above what you actually spend in a month. You can always raise it later.
3. Kill old API keys and cap your spend.
Go into every AI provider you use: Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Gemini, OpenRouter, wherever you’ve made a key. Delete every key you aren’t actively using. Then set a spend limit at the org level.
When I checked mine, my one-person account had a $200,000 limit. Anyone holding one of my old keys could have run up that whole bill, and I had no idea. I dropped it to $100 lol. Check yours. The default is probably way higher than you think.
If you’ve ever pasted a key into a chat, a doc, or a GitHub repo, treat it as leaked. Delete it and make a new one.
Paste this into your AI with browser access:
"Help me lock down my AI API accounts. Open each of these consoles in my browser: [list your providers]. For each one:
1. List every API key, when it was created, and when it was last used.
2. Flag any key not used in the last 30 days. Ask me before deleting anything.
3. Show me the current org-level spend limit and monthly budget, and where to change it.
Don't create new keys and don't touch billing or payment info. Give me a summary table at the end."
4. Unshare everything.
Assume anything with a public link has already been found. That includes Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Notion pages, Claude artifacts, and any page an agent built for you. Nothing should be “anyone with the link.” Everything should be invite-only.
My rule now is simple. If I’m not sharing it with a specific person, it’s locked.
Paste this into your AI:
"Search my Google Drive for every file shared as "Anyone with the link" or public on the web. Then do the same for my Notion pages and my published Claude artifacts.
Give me a list with the file name, who can see it, and when it was last opened. Flag anything that looks sensitive: finances, IDs, medical, passwords, client info, contracts.
Don't change anything yet. Wait for my approval, then switch the ones I approve to restricted, invite-only access."
5. Have your AI build your personal audit.
This one is my favorite. Claude interviews you, then writes a custom prompt to check your last 30 to 60 days of activity. It also points out places you didn’t think to look.
"Act as my personal security auditor. Assume my personal data (email, socials, medical records, phone number, old passwords) has already leaked in a breach.
First, ask me 5 to 10 quick questions about the accounts, devices, banks, and tools I use.
Then write me a step-by-step prompt I can run with an agent that has access to my email and browser. It should review the last 60 days for signs of trouble, like:
- sign-ins, devices, or locations I don't recognize
- password reset or 2FA change emails I didn't request
- new accounts opened in my name
- charges or subscriptions I don't recognize
- connected apps and logins I forgot I gave access to
- email forwarding rules or filters I didn't set up
Then give me a ranked list of other areas I should lock down that I probably haven't thought of, highest risk first. Keep it in plain English."
Don’t save this for later. Freeze your credit today, then work through the rest this week. Future you will be really glad you did.
just encountered a complicated scam that almost convinced me it was real, involving a letter from "ledger" about the recent supply chain attack. I didnt scan the QR code which is i'm sure what they wanted me to do, but I did (falsely) think I might have been compromised
jordanthink retweeted
Someone is putting the law of every country into one git history.
Git for Global Law turns each country's laws into a repository where every commit is a real law taking effect. So you can see exactly what the law said on any date, and which law changed every word.
It started with the US Code, which hit #1 on Hacker News. The global version is growing country by country: Germany's constitution since 1949, Estonia and more so far.
Free to use for anything, and perfect for feeding to an AI.
github.com/lexifina/global-l…
jordanthink retweeted
Meeting Sir Patrick Stewart in person was one of the happiest days of my life. His portrayal of integrity, dignity, bravery, and so many qualities I look up to, was truly inspirational.
When we met, I thanked him and shook his hand. He was kind.
I was so happy I got to thank him like that.
Thank you again for everything, Sir Patrick. Today forward, I will try to be a better person in your honor, to help shape the future into something you would be proud of us for creating.
I hope many others will as well.
We will miss you.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
i would love to tell people they look beautiful without it seeming like a come on, but i dont know how unless we're clearly not compatible, like by age or sexual orientation
jordanthink retweeted
Tesla has released new FSD (Supervised) safety data.
Miles per major collision:
• Teslas Driven With FSD (Supervised): 6,006,200
• Teslas Driven Manually (Active Safety Features): 2,031,221
• Teslas Driven Manually (No Active Safety Features): 845,915
• U.S. Average: 660,164
Total major collisions:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 1,579
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 17,775
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 239
• U.S. average: 4,989,713
Total miles logged:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 9,483,790,215
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 36,104,958,020
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 202,173,600
• U.S. drivers overall: 3,294,031,000,000
Tesla vehicles with FSD (Supervised) engaged experienced ~9x fewer major collisions than those driving without it on.
This is North America data across all road classes (highway and non-highway). The data reflects a rolling twelve-month aggregation of miles and collisions.
Although it’s frustrating and destructive if we don’t evolve, it’s an incredible social-epistemic accomplishment that average internet trolls use the equivalent of “check your sources” or “yeah but how you’re interpreting the data is the problem” as a common rebuttal
jordanthink retweeted
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "I don't even know a dramatic enough word to use… models can find bugs that are outside of the normal threat model of what we think a hacker can do… hardware-level, insane stuff… I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs."
