Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc Twitter profile

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

Fetterman does a bit of economic populism, wins PA. Biden is a little more ambitious than past Presidents, Dems have a historic midterm. The answer can’t be more obvious, Dems. Go big and lead and you will win more.

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2 years

Who at Tesla kept Elon from randomly releasing idiotic stuff? Who stood up to tell him no when he wanted to put a hot tub on every Model S?

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1 year

Railroad workers are too important for our economy to let them strike, but not important enough to have the basic human dignity of sick days.

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@saikatc

2 years

One consequence of the new Twitter Blue stuff is I legitimately cannot tell what is real and what is satire. @elonmusk really has made Twitter funnier than it’s ever been.

Capital Weather Gang

@capitalweather

2 years

Trump is not evacuating and will stay at Mar-a-Lago through storm although the club has closed, per @jdawsey1 . Read more:

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1 year

It’s fascinating how many people are conflating insuring deposits with bailing out SVB. We should insure deposits, let SVB fail, and going forward, we should just have a national bank (e.g. the Fed) for companies to park money risk-free. Deposit accounts should be boring.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

It's disappointing to see people paint Prop 30 as just benefitting Lyft. It's a blanket credit for electric vehicles. You do realize ANY credit for electric vehicles will benefit Lyft, right? Should we not have passed Biden's IRA either then?

Sam Altman

@sama

2 years

prop 30 is a disappointing effort funded by and benefiting @lyft to pay for its transition to electric vehicles. CA will presumably at some point regret driving a large fraction of its revenue out of the state by even entertaining stuff like this. extreme short-term thinking.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

So the government imposing work conditions on people organizing freely is somehow not government overreach?

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

Really good thread on the details/difference between Prop D and Prop E. Vote yes on D, no on E.

Clara Jeffery

@ClaraJeffery

2 years

28/ *coming in hot* Props D and E: These are competing ballot measures that both claim to be about streamlining process in order to build more apartments. Only one is *actually* that, and that's Prop D. Prop E is yet another predatory delay tactic by anti-housing supes.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

I’m sure he got rid of all the bots on Twitter within a month!

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@elonmusk

1 year

Trump poll getting ~1M votes/hour!

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@saikatc

2 years

Noob engineer mistake

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

When people thought AI was going to put truckers out of work, there were a million thinkpieces about how to retrain everyone to be programmers. But now that we know AI is coming for yuppie jobs first, where are all the proposals for retraining programmers to be electricians?

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@ricburton

1 year

OpenAI published a paper on whose jobs are most under threat 🫣

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Saikat Chakrabarti

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1 year

Karthik Soora, a clean energy developer who has worked on building huge infrastructure projects, is challenging the oldest Democratic Senator in Texas who worked with the GOP to gerrymander Texas while managing to be one of the most corrupt Dems in Texas ()

For Dean of Senate, Public and Private Blur

Critics say the dean of the Texas Senate, John Whitmire, D-Houston, is a poster boy for a legislative culture in which real and perceived conflicts of interest are commonplace. Whitmire says he's pro…

www.texastribune.org

Karthik Soora

@KarthikForTexas

1 year

It takes real reform to deliver progress for Texas. We can't solve our 21st century challenges with a 19th century political system. I’m a Millennial Democrat - a clean energy developer and teacher - running to represent Texas Senate District 15. Join us.

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1 year

Any talk of nationalizing oil and gas companies, or setting limits on corporate profits, is deemed unthinkable. How dare the government get involved in private markets! But as soon as workers threaten a strike, we have 0 qualms of getting involved swiftly and decisively.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

Ok I take it back this is hilariously passive aggressive.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

RIP comedy on Twitter

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

2 years

Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended

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2 years

I think Prop 30 is great because it's so clear what the money is going to. A tax to fund fighting wildfires and electrifying California. Wealthy people are constantly saying they'd love to pay taxes if only they could be sure the tax money wasn't being wasted. Now's their chance!

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

Then just make Twitter a paid service instead of making the blue check the badge of a sucker. If people don’t “understand” your product, you are doing it wrong.

Mike Solana

@micsolana

2 years

i think people somehow still don't understand the point of paying for a checkmark. no one is interested in buying the status that no longer exists. the point is this feature is going to be used to filter bots and spam. without it, you will be filtered with the bots and spam.

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2 years

@sama @lyft This sounds like someone sent you a talking point and tweeted it without diligence. Would recommend you look at the policy, which has nothing specific about rideshare companies. Is the CHIPS Act bad because Intel benefits? Are solar credits bad because SunRun benefits?

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

I’m all for companies trying stuff, but how does Elon not realize you can try new feature without releasing them to everybody? Oh, he probably fired the person that would have done that.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

8 months

Why is it still so easy to prescribe opioids in America? I go to the doctor and they ask me if I’ve ever smoked marijuana, but no one asks even once if I’ve ever been addicted to opioids before handing me oxy. Does the medical industry realize we have an opioid crisis going on?

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

Very free speech of @elonmusk . I thought he was getting rid of account suspensions entirely?

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@saikatc

1 year

Republican Presidential candidates all understand that they have to talk about building and manufacturing in America to win. But since they'd get canceled for naming any actual industry of the future (since they are all green), they just say ridiculous crap.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

In 5 weeks, Elon Musk has made Twitter a true replacement for mainstream media. There is now more navel gazing here than The New York Times.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

How are we able to build nuclear power plants on ships faster than on land? "Powered by a pair of advanced A1B nuclear reactors, the ship has nearly three times the power of America’s existing supercarriers, about 300 megawatts of electrical power"

The Navy’s New, $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier Is Already Obsolete—But This High-Tech Weapon Can Save...

Defending against hypersonic missiles and swarms of drones won’t be easy.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@sama @lyft Honestly @sama , this is bordering on misinformation. Please check what the policy actually is and reconsider the tweet! Just because a company funds something doesn't mean only that company will benefit. If you are against EV credits in general, ok, but be honest about that.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

The blood moon rose last night. My prediction is Richard Nixon wins today.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

@Jamie_Maz @JonSchweppe @SBF_FTX Oh totally, the SBF is a fraudster, and my argument here is the entire political class was hawking crypto because of money from people like him. The right is pretending it was a Dem only thing, but it wasn't.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

11 months

- Government creates new industries and supports existing ones that the country needs - Support collective bargaining for workers - Streamline permitting to build faster and cheaper - The future is manufacturing This is the new consensus that’s not left or right.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

So much free speech in @elonmusk 's new Twitter!

Ryan Grim

@ryangrim

1 year

So now @elonmusk 's Twitter has suspended progressive economist @DeanBaker13 . Zero chance he threatened violence, that's not remotely who he is. If Musk wants a right-wing echo chamber, why didn't he buy parler or something else? So weird.

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1 year

Wonder if the recent crazy murder wave in Texas has anything to do with this:

New Texas law allowing people to carry handguns without permits stirs…

Starting Sept. 1, most Texans will be able to carry handguns in public without going through training or having to get permits. Law enforcement officers worry that could make their jobs more dangerou…

www.texastribune.org

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

I imagine the 'Trump War Room' scrambling to find something they could say they can build without getting canceled. Can't say batteries, hydrogen, transmission, electric cars, solar panels, fusion power, nuclear power... so let's go with flying cars.

Trump War Room

@TrumpWarRoom

1 year

#AGENDA47 : @realDonaldTrump 's plan for a QUANTUM LEAP in the American standard of living: ➡️BUILD FREEDOM CITIES ➡️REVOLUTIONIZE AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION ➡️LOWER THE COST OF LIVING ➡️MAKE AMERICA THE WORLD'S MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER ➡️LAUNCH A GREAT MODERNIZATION CAMPAIGN

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

Is Birdwatch just gonna be Elon’s personal subtweeting mechanism?

Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

Ok I take it back this is hilariously passive aggressive.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@zachtratar Not the point. Doing a big refactor of a working code base as step one is almost always a mistake and almost always what engineers with no experience want to do first. Fine to do as a side project but refactors like this are always more complex than people think.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@mishachellam @sama @lyft @Uber I also think it can both be a self-interested play AND good policy. E.g. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel paid money to lobby for the CHIPS Act, but that doesn't mean it's bad for America to fund semiconductor manufacturing.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@bambipotf I'm all for ebike subsidies too! But the reality is, there is no future in which electric vehicles don't exist. Even heavily bike centric countries like the Netherlands - the majority of trips happen in cars. So a full transition to ebikes = rebuilding the entire world.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

. @sheenapakanati announcing API versioning for Stripe back in 2013:

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

9 months

@cjc We got a Bolt EUV. It's great and I think hits everything you want. A few dealers have them around - if not a EUV, lots of Bolt EVs available.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@capntransit There is, but so far, not to the level of completely tanking the company. Teslas have issues but they are still solid cars.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@bambipotf Also turns out, prop 30 has funding for biking and bike infrastructure.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@bambipotf @josefow Yeah I hear you. I disagree on this front and think Prop30 is good enough to vote yes on. Through my work in this space, I'm that we need to do the transition to EVs ALONGSIDE bikes as fast as possible, and this helps us with that in CA.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@bambipotf I'd be happy for cities to start removing cars, and cities have the power to start doing that. But many people still live outside cities.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@bambipotf My take is -- yes, let's also fund ebikes and biking infrastructure. If that was also on the ballot, I'd support it - I have an ebike, but no car! But for the sake of climate change, I do think we need to remove ICE vehicles as fast as possible, and this helps us get there.

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

1 year

@DeanPreston Are there any good proposals that you/the Board would consider for fast tracking permanent supportive housing for the homeless? Is a big blocker to housing everyone who is currently homeless is the cost and time it takes to build new permanent supportive housing?

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Saikat Chakrabarti

@saikatc

2 years

@__smiz No, there isn't. It's a wealth tax that puts money into a fund for electrifying CA and fighting wildfires. The Lyft thing is entirely misinformation just because Lyft helped fund the prop.

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