The accidental gift of LA’s terrible urban plan is that if we ever wake up and decide to embrace good urbanism, we have so much public land just in the roads that you could actually use it for public spaces without displacing houses.

No one tells you that parenting is just relearning the world through someone who thinks worms are friends & birds are miracles. It’s the most healing thing I’ve ever done. My daughter looked out the window this morning & said, everything is green & growing. I told her, you too.

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Somewhere out there, a Thanos-like character is likely plotting an AI 9-11 by rationalizing that the shock will make humanity resilient to a much larger ASI danger.

Deflationary technology ftw

What’s going to be the hangover cure after the giant dopamine crash from AI overexuberance?

American voters in 2024:

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

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I’ve seen a lot of Presidents fall short of their promises but I’ve never seen any President just doing the opposite of everything promised on purpose. Prices, Epstein, wars. Just absolutely racing to betray his voters.

Striking image from the new Anthropic labor market impact report.

@Acyn This revenge language is a disturbing way to talk about war. Our Military power isn’t supposed to be about “punching people while they’re down” or celebrating destruction from the sky. Professional armed forces operate under the law of armed conflict, proportionality, and

There’s a legit challenge with vibe coding and arguably software in general: as the cost of adding features falls, software becomes massive in scope, slower, and full of internal contradictions. Even with agentic assistance, the complexity is inherent and tough to reduce.

LEEEEEEROYYYYYYY JENKINNNNNNS

Most people seem to be using AI and agentic workflows to offload thinking. That's fine, but I find it much more exciting to use them to make yourself more intelligent / informed / context aware. It's exhilarating.

LA could be the best city in the US, just needs a lot of trains and new, denser housing

MAGA has spent the past month pushing this “we can police our own hemisphere” doctrine after Venezuela. I spent weeks arguing against it. Turns out they didn’t believe it and have already turned into full blown neocons.

It’s extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it’s siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance. In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for

What Claude Code has revealed is that most people either have mediocre ideas or no ideas at all. The tool is a force multiplier for those who already know what they want to build and how to think through it systematically; it elevates competence, rewards clarity, and accelerates

SF guy eating a delicious blueberry: in 18 months everything will be blueberries

I keep coming back to Southern California, and it keeps solidifying its rise as the hard tech capital of the US. California should do everything in its power to make it possible for these companies to build their biggest factories here