i don't think it makes sense to fight ceaselessly to get people to say they like data centers… we just have to get zoning declared unconstitutional forever
Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold.
Mamdani's focus on state capacity represents a form of civic education about what govt does in an age of bureaucracy-bashing. He also connects improving state capacity to his core policy goals on housing, childcare, consumer and worker protection. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
lots of people say you should go to a "top school" to meet smart people. not true. smart people are everywhere. what's unusual about is that they have many smart people who are well adjusted.
SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT IS ANTISOCIAL
I think that this kind of framing is borderline irresponsible and borders on encouraging conspiracy thinking. This company has 17 investors, and one is Founders Fund.
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · last mo.In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀
People love to be like "you have to understand what these people are feeling" when they believe something completely false and frankly stupid
In 2019, one of the phrases of the time was "Data is the new oil," which activists used to mean it was a dangerous, extractive industry which it would be a mistake to build dependence on. But in Washington, that was taken as, "Data is a strategic resource that the US should maximize production of."
VC community needs to come together to force this company to stop running these ads lmao
Tim Fernholz@timfernholz.com · 2mo agopeople who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
trying to explain to my fellow forumgoers that i am personally concerned
do we *actually* need to smash agriculture, the attorney-client privilege, and every HR department to pieces, or do you just need a Snickers and maybe for Mom to put your show on the iPad for you
[yoda on tiktok] think fear leads not to the dark side, do you? 😏👉fear ➡️ anger 😏👆anger ➡️ hate 😏🫴 hate ➡️ suffering
most people still don't grasp at a basic level that the landowner / labor divide does not map to a left-right logic of affiliation
genuinely concerning to me that consensus view on X seems to be that Nithya did election fraud somehow would be an incredibly impressive ground game for the DSA lol
i spent a couple months drinking Kim Kardashian's paraxanthine-containing energy drink and let me tell you: those things are way too strong.
incredible clip due to the body language. lander having incredible fluidity and movement and goldman standing like a statue, fully linear, legolike—posture is politics
Very exciting news: notnothing.ooo, the small press which I have begun to help my friends Suspended Reason and @arquipelago.org run, is the recipient of a New Aesthetics grant. To celebrate, we are giving away PDFs of Suspended Reason's “Avatar: Way of Water”: www.notnothing.ooo/books/the-wa...
What have you been reading lately? Looking for some new things to think abt
you gotta be multitudesmaxxing. you gotta be containing soooo many multitudes.
the reason you're not seeing everyone's vibe-coded software yet is that the first thing everyone makes is illegal. it's all decompilation and recompilation, unauthorized clones, apps for piracy, unauthorized third party clients, apps for bypassing terms of service, etc
you'd think by now that the british would start asking if the problem with their politics might not be the PM
funniest type of content online is people who are like "i've never eaten a salad, AMA" what kind of secret knowledge do they think they're granted? how would they recognize it?
tabs are probably a bad interface for browsers if you're gonna on the same sites a lot. i don't need to accumulate 1000 tabs that are the same… who's working on this?
it's crazy that elon musk was for a few months the second most powerful person in the US government and he did nothing about direct auto sales. crazy.
the person in front of me on this flight is writing the world's meanest email about how they can't allow someone to expense plane wifi because Meta does not allow accessing any business materials in a public space like a plane