I acknowledge it didn’t work out that well.

Thanks random reply guy

Heads up “Blueskyism” isn’t a personality or successful political strategy

Oh Bluesky, never change, please, you’re fabulous

“There is no world in which political violence escalates but is contained to just your foes. Even if that were possible, it would still be a world of horrors, a society that had collapsed into the most irreversible form of unfreedom. Political violence is a virus. It is contagious.“

So it’s embarrassing for Ezra Klein to call for words not violence? How can you disagree with this:

Unfollowed, rhetoric like this leads to bloodshed.

Okay Bluesky Boomer

Do you have a dish washer & clothes cleaner/dryer? People used to do those by hand, those are basically robots in a box. There’s a ton of domestic chores I have to do as a parent that I’d love to have a robot do (so I could spend more quality time with my kid, for example, rather than dishes).

I’m re-reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfus and also listening to an audio book of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power

You’ve got more secrets than a CIA field station in Beirut.

It will be like a fleet of autonomous swarming drones attacking a traditional aircraft carrier.

DOGE is about to get inside the OODA loop of traditional government and it’s going to be incredibly disruptive, and will show the intellectual bankruptcy of traditional ways of doing things. The 20th century is over.

In many ways the media environment in 2025 is truly the Internet, including podcasts, short form video, social media, and email newsletters. The traditional media, which I used to enjoy, is lashing out with bitterness and anger at this transition

It’s kind of wild to watch the old narrative setting ability of traditional media breaking down in real time. It’s been falling apart for awhile but has really accelerated the last year.

I don’t believe that frame anyway - I believe in the centaur model where humans and machines augment each other (in fact humans are the tool making species and arguably we have been augmented since our beginning, which includes language as a tool that augments us).

Important math here from Hacker News post.

Humans are incredibly good at what we do, both intellectually and physically in the world. It will take quite awhile for things like OpenAI o3 and robotics to truly replace people.

Where do the stairs go?

It’s over for leet code software engineers.
It’s just starting for idea guy software engineers.

Tired: Models
Wired: Benchmarks

Um, Congress, you might want to take a look at this What might DOGE have brewing?

I’ve been suspecting that DOGE will use very advanced AI to try to tackle the regulatory state; independent of what you think about that objective I think it’s an interesting use of AI, some speculation on how DOGE might do that: open.substack.com/pub/eatingpo...

In an age of AI perfection imperfection will grow more valuable.

We need a Left willing to break the regulatory status quo a bit more, like a progressive version of DOGE, removing regulation that isn’t leading to progressive results.

Get rid of everything bagel politics as well.

We need a Left willing to break the regulatory status quo a bit more, like a progressive version of DOGE, removing regulation that isn’t leading to progressive results.

Get rid of everything bagel politics as well.

I want to see Blue cities be successful. I want to see:
- Affordable & climate neutral energy at scale
- Walkable, livable cities with public transit built quickly & affordably
- Healthy, safe communities with affordable housing not blocked by NIMBYs
You would probably call me an Abundance Democrat

I want to see Blue cities be successful. I want to see:
- Affordable & climate neutral energy at scale
- Walkable, livable cities with public transit built quickly & affordably
- Healthy, safe communities with affordable housing not blocked by NIMBYs
You would probably call me an Abundance Democrat

That’s What Aboutism.

If the Left wants to win elections again it needs to prove that it can govern and deliver results. I’m confident that a reformed Left can do this but some real house cleaning has to happen.

Oh and people *are* voting with their feet moving to more affordable Red cities.

I also went to a charming Christmas parade in Walnut Creek with my 6 year old at an out door mall, and it felt safe.

I remember when Union Square in San Francisco used to be a great place to bring my kid at Christmas, now it’s endless store closures and very sad & tough people on the street.

I just shopped at a Walgreens, which made me think of this. All the shopping baskets and carts are taken away to prevent petty theft, which makes shopping a pain, and everything is locked up.

I know it’s possible - as I’ve said before I’m looking forward to the left that comes after the current one, a left obsessed with practical results not ideology or red tape.