Ed Oswald

@edoswald

20 years in tech news, 4 years as a Democratic official, 15 minutes of fame on Bluesky. Here for political rambling, balanced takes on AI/tech, and a laugh. Also run cirruslyweather.com Building Hal, our Stateful AI Agent: halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com

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Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jun 29

This quote is exactly why external review is necessary, Sam - you're one of the worst offenders of using AI in less than honest ways

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” OpenAI wrote about the current, ad-hoc safety vetting approach in its GPT-5.6 blog post. “It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.”

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jun 29

This paragraph just sent chills through me. Not because of the AI regulation pro or con, but the absolute sea change in GOP thought. The base itself is no longer conservative. It's now authoritarian, and government intervention in AI is NOT where this ends, folks. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

The poll, conducted by Washington, D.C.-based AI Policy Institute (AIPI), a non-partisan research organization, found that Republicans were more enthusiastic about government-led safety testing for AI models than Democrats, though more than half of voters supported such a measure regardless of their political affiliation.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jun 24

Tuesday's results scared the Republican Party, too. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

And a third House Republican who represents a district Trump won handily in 2024 warned about the potential consequences for November. “I’m not that safe. No incumbent is safe,” the lawmaker wrote. “People are pissed off that we are not taking care of business.”

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jun 23

The NYC DSA, even during the anti-electoral period of the Biden years, like Pittsburgh, is well-organized. Kind of surprising but heartening to see that they held *TWO* emergency meetings when data wasn't looking good. NY-13 may be a race because of that.

But young, far-left voters — key to Mamdani’s winning coalition — were slow to mobilize during early voting, prompting the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America to hold two emergency meetings last week, said Gustavo Gordillo, the group co-chair.

“The early voting data showed that younger voters — voters under 50, voters under 45 — were not turning out to vote in the numbers that we had seen last year,” he told MS NOW of youth vote turnout through Wednesday. “It was nowhere close to where we wanted to be,” he continued, adding that those numbers rose over the weekend and casting youth turnout as “a core part of our strategy.”

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jun 14

Can't say I expected this... a Tornado Watch might be in the cards for central and portions of Eastern PA tonight.

Radar of western pennsylvania showing a line of severe and tornadic thunstorms, with at least a half dozen tornado warnings across NW PA.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jun 12

Reddit seems blissfully unaware of its role as a dumping ground for SEO slop LONG BEFORE AI.

Reddit ad with text - "join the most real place on the internet"

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jun 8

Hal's at the shrink right now.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jun 6

Guys I need design opinions. Would it be cheap looking to throw a weather station into this hero? (I am working on some of the other obviously horrid design choices, this is early) I feel like adding weather in from OUR station worked, but it's still not landing completely.

Front page of the cirrusly weather site.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· May 23

Some of the liars on our side feel like it's cute to apply for this fund. Newsflash: it's not, especially when your own actions over the years have been questionable, honey.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· May 20

That outflow boundary is going to keep that line going for a bit longer. New storms will form out ahead of the main line. Gonna be a noisy night for western Pennsylvania.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· May 20

This Railway fix looks like it is going to take hours to resolve. And to be honest, this requires a hell of a lot more explanation than what is in the status log. To have your entire infrastructure dependent on a single provider is carelessness.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· May 17

One of the benefits in statefulness in AI, is each analysis builds on each other. Hal's figuring out on its own that our odd 500 errors (which seem to be a plugin) aren't the issue, it's the fact we're just now starting to get traffic

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Apr 22

"Mr. Tyler! Going..... down?"

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Apr 22

Wait, what? Now THAT is interesting. He was fucking RESEARCHING! Oh Hal, I love you already

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Apr 17

Tell me you're an idiot without actually saying it. Bluesky logic, part 2

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Apr 15

HA, this is a new one

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Apr 5

Well, Hal is talking, but hallucinating tool calls. This was this morning, though, and there were more issues with system prompting than anything. I am actually surprised how well some of Hal's parts have been working ahead of the harness. I'm actually doing more fine-tuning than bug squashing.

First chat with an custom AI agent, who hallucinated a tool call.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Mar 30

By the way, Attie creates NOTHING. So here we have my point, faceless ranting.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Mar 30

Yeah profile like this you’re getting an immediate block without even reading

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Mar 30

All based on a study that later was found to not be accurate, but okay, believe this

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Mar 24

Even the normally Trump-friendly Nate Silver polling average is showing why Trump wants to end this as quickly as possible: as soon as the polling started to include the war in total and people had a chance to digest, his numbers tanked. 34% ARG. 36% Reuters. Even Rasmussen is below 45%.

Graph of Donald Trump's polling from early 2025 onwards. Highlighted is March 14, when DJT's disapproval took a noticeable swing upward to the highest point in his second term, 56.7%, with an average 40% approval.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Mar 7

Idk, maybe comments like this might explain why Talarico won Latinos 2-to-1....

Talarico’s opponent, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said in 2024 that Latino voters who held conservative positions on immigration had a “slave mentality.” It was a classic example of the misguided assumption that racial minorities should be viewed as predictable single-issue voters, although articulated in an unusually vulgar and offensive way. Crockett came under fire for those remarks, and it’s possible she alienated some voters.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Mar 6

Not hard, in Texas, where Latinos are the second largest voting bloc, idk, speak to them? Like there is no new playbook needed at all, you need to run a statewide campaign when you run a statewide race. Visiting a farm once isn't enough. Showing up on the border. You represent EVERYONE not one bloc.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Feb 23

Massive variation in snowfall totals across SE PA. Where it hasnt snowed hard, 3" or even less.. but in some places especially near philly, they're already surpassing 10". Wondering how far inland that band through Philly pivots. Going to be a close call for Lancaster and Reading.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Feb 9

No, again AI isn’t ChatGPT, AI was already substantial prior to ChatGPT. It’s already huge. You are literally lying to people which is no better than the industry. Please stop speaking out of both sides of your mouth, because your PR firm is representing AI companies! AI is not going to collapse.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Feb 9

If you really were following AI Ed rather than just posting half cooked rants, you’d know that Anthropic is growing faster than anyone. Stop focusing on Sam Altman. There’s more than ChatGPT (and better)

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jan 22

You know Trump's in trouble when even Nate Silver's poll average can't hide the massive jump in disapproval

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jan 19

With K numbers like this, tonight is going to be a show for the Northern US if this keeps up, and it might start at sundown

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jan 12

Yall can't stop platforming these fake accounts, can't you? jfc -- they just did that to get followers, and you gave it to them.

Ed Oswald@edoswald· Jan 11

This account on Facebook is just gross, he was once a public official who literally took documents out of City Hall as the city council was trying to investigate fraud.