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fast cars and slow cookers. mostly hanging out on Threäds now, so don’t expect me to see your stuff here.
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Joined October 2007
Happy pride month to all the individuals and corporations celebrating. I look forward to hearing about your meaningful relationships and/or successful advertising campaigns, respectfully.
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RT @kimmaicutler: If they were serious about countering CCP influence, they’d ban TikTok like Congress mandated. But nope, they used Asia….
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The lowest US tariff rate is 10%. On China it is 30-145% depending on the day. Walmart’s profit margin is 2.4%. The shart of the deal.
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The average car sits parked 95%+ of the time, so it’s more like there are 6000 of these out there.
TIL there’s only 300 Waymo’s operating in SF, which is insane because it feels like I see a Waymo every 30 seconds when driving around the city. (this is written while sitting in a Waymo.).
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This is why xAI is not a serious company and the people who invested in it should never be given another LP dollar. No business is ever going to build software on a model that exists to please a drug-addled weirdo first and to make money second.
Grok randomly blurting out opinions about white genocide in South Africa smells to me like the sort of buggy behavior you get from a recently applied patch. I sure hope it isn't. It would be really bad if widely used AIs got editorialized on the fly by those who controlled them.
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The future is already here, some of us just haven’t created a free account yet.
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Because when you send two thirds of 18-year-olds to college, most of them have zero interest in learning. But they need the piece of paper to get a desk job, so they are there.
has anyone stopped to ask WHY students cheat? would a buddhist monk "cheat" at meditation? would an artist "cheat" at painting? no. when process and outcomes are aligned, there's no incentive to cheat. so what's happening differently at colleges? the answer is in the article:
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It’s weird to call someone in middle management CEO. If you want someone to be a CEO, create a subsidiary non-profit that creates a subsidiary for-profit, then raise $5-10B into it and make them the CEO of that.
so excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me. i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety. these are critical as we approach superintelligence.
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They are not so much playing 10D chess as they are throwing chess pieces at other nations the way chimpanzees throw their feces at rivals to assert dominance.
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The hardest thing getting kids excited about coding is that it takes so long to get to something they think is cool, so the fact you can make a basic iPhone app before you have to figure out what a Swift is seems exciting.
Here’s how vibe coding plays out. There are only 30 million developers globally. This number is artificially low because it’s hard to get started. This will multiply as any curious higher schooler, IT person, PM, designer, entrepreneur, and more discovers they can build stuff.
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I guess we don’t want those jobs in America.
According to CSMS #64724565, products classified under HTSUS codes are excluded from reciprocal tariffs imposed under Executive Order 14257. The list includes:.8471: Automatic data processing machines (computers/PCs). 8517.13.00: Smartphones. 8541/8542: Semiconductor devices.
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My wife has been reading American tourists are getting harassed overseas and is worried about our European trip this Summer. Thinking of making these for the family.
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This looks like a throwback to the days of practical trucks you’d use for real manly activities instead of commuting to your office job, so I fear it will sell terribly in America.
Bezos & others invested in a EV startup in Michigan called Slate Auto. They raised $111M in a Series A & plan to have a $25,000 pickup truck built in Indiana for sale by late 2026. The idea for Slate is that it comes as a blank slate you can customize.
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~90% of America’s growth has been “sprawl” for at least 75 years because American cities hate growth. There’s not a contest of ideas here, density conceded three generations ago. Suburbs are America’s future. The more interesting question is what is the future of the suburbs.
I’m also a pro-sprawl YIMBY. Suburbs are great family friendly places and we should have more of them. With remote work and self-driving cars, they’re just going to become more popular. With EVs they can be environmentally sustainable.
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It must be weird to be so rich you forgot you spent $44B on a propaganda campaign to make yourself popular that backfired.
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If Trump knew how to play 10D chess he’d backchannel with Congress to take away his “emergency” tariff powers and say “I tried but the swamp” because the markets would *love* a vertebrate Congress and there’s no other way out of this where he doesn’t look like more of a chump.
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Markets are complex, but there’s never been a moment where the lay person could more easily understand what’s happening. We signaled to the world, including our own businesses, that America is no longer a safe place to do business, and the world is acting on that information.
Investors and market commentators are reading too much into short-term market movements in rates, currencies and equities. I believe that it is much more likely that recent sharp moves in these asset classes is due to highly leveraged market participants being forced out of.
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This isn’t even true. People will invest in well-run economies that happen to be autocratic. What money hates is incompetence.
Money is leaving America because autocracy is a terrible investment.
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