Spencer Dailey

@spencerdailey.bsky.social

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editor at Techmeme. My 2nd-biggest pet peeve is SMS-based 2FA. https://byli.me/spencerdailey

screenshot of discussion on Techmeme: @michelletomkim: @techreview In October 2015, when Greg Brockman was soliciting donations to found OpenAI as a nonprofit, he sent an email to Marissa Mayer, who was the CEO of Yahoo at the time, asking for a donation. He told her that he himself was donating $100,000 to OpenAI, and made the same claim to Gary Marcus / @garymarcus: Wow. Greg Brockman had a 10M side deal with Altman even in the early nonprofit days, which not disclosed to Elon or (I believe) in nonprofit filings to the company.
iOS homescreen software fail
a short demo video showing a user swiping between MacOS spaces and seeing a custom menubar icon and Banner show up for each one.
Brady bunch: You mustn't let the dystopian nightmare bullshit dim your fucking sparkle.
email from LastPass reading: "Unlimited access to your passwords: 35% off"
a snapshot of a bunch of stocks dropping
an image of oil and nat gas prices spiking
word on the street is that Trump's team is going to elevate Gabbard to a "still-undefined role" in the natsec space 🙄 (She's been picked for DNI director)
this i video of an app i'm making that lets you assign names and icons to your mac's desktops
A screenshot of nbc's breakdown of voting across 59m+ votes. By gender: 54% women/44% men
A post at the top of Hacker News with the title: "Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks"