Let’s go #dodgers

@edzitron.com what are your thoughts a16z’s strange decentralized conference of LA tech week?

Overall mood at #latechweek feels like the real death of an era. I don’t think a majority of “tech evangelicals” are optimistic about ai now.

Day one of LA tech week Still some drama that the required app for event is partiful and how the app crashes a lot and does work great for everyone. Good free food and coffee for now

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@edzitron.com Are you going to talk about any of the new "AI SEO" Startups which seem like theyre doing pretty naked fraud. They cant actually influence how AI companies train or search data unlike how old google SEO (for all its problems) worked.

Here’s a clip of marines refusing to shoot at Taliban using women and children as human shields if you think it’s really difficult to follow LOAC (which Lew seems to be implying)

If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say, Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story. The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.

It's so weird how everyone who says they're "politically homeless" is a far right winger who lives in NY or CA and still wants to get invited to parties

Every day I resist the urge to start an account on here called American Dengist or something and start discourse.

Absolutely absurd. The B-2 is a strategic bomber that's designed to deliver airstrikes inside China or Russia in a major war. Compromising that capability in order to give bombs to Israel is an insane decision.

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

Unironically Mandani is a victory for policy experiments. More people were excited or angry over a token city grocery store compared to twisting the knife on him about specific policing policies that might of divided more of his base. People need to run on more fun small policy ideas.

Suggested further modification since the top right corner was still a bit too reactionary coded. I swapped in Sgt. Cathrine Schmid from www.businessinsider.com/im-transgend...

i think that the Democrats should triangulate in trans kids by accusing Republicans of being pedophiles

cannot believe a blog with this tone and credulity is being published anywhere in 2025, this is like a 2012-era press release rewrite-era blog dot.la/air-taxis-la...

Is a Cardinal allowed to be a Cubs fan?

Arguing that USAID funding shouldn’t be restored because it’s “US propaganda” or “imperialist” despite the projected death toll in the millions is like arguing that running through a hospital pulling the plug on every patient you can find is a protest against for-profit healthcare.

incredible scenes when you have a president who hasn't achieved object permanence

There's a world where Dems won the House 218-217 in November and Rs now have a working majority bc Grijalva and Turner died. Sorry to be unsentimental but I just don't respect people who run for office in their 70s after cancer diagnoses. Move on. Spend time with your family.

"our nobel laureate in economics writer who is an expert in international and monetary economics wants to write too much" perhaps the worst aged decision of 2025

hey now, there’s *checks watch* 16 more hours until markets open, plenty of time for several additional changes in tariff policy

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - FDR

odd lots once again truly the vanguard of the revolution weisenthal: "so is what we are seeing like maoism?" guest: "yes, absolutely. here's what that means for bond yields" www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...

i know it's a different firm but it is hard to exaggerate how much both 1) the media and 2) institutional finance hated the democratic administration for not cracking down on labor and government stimulus. a 100% certainty for a recession that never came while today they pretend the opposite.

A SpaceX investor testified the company prefers to avoid investors from China because it’s a defense contractor. One major exception, he noted: SpaceX finds it “acceptable” for Chinese investors to buy their shares through offshore vehicles. By @justinelliott.bsky.social & @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

I would respect the "abundance agenda" more if it was anything new. "Yes everyone hates local government in LA, SF and NYC. What are you going to do about it?" Some one like Klein could probably move votes in a city council race but they're too scared about loosing face.

This should be your response to the doomers

Nothing says jumping the shark like a Super Bowl ad

*through gritted teeth* We’re all Redditors now

Bernie Sanders at the Trump inauguration ceremony:

I hope the TikTok ban holds because I want to get into blogging.

Nothing makes me more embarrassed as a jaded leftist to know I helped elect a “leftist” Los Angeles city council member whose response to the question “should we build more housing?” “New affordable housing would gentrify the neighborhood.”

i’m kind of amazed at how this is just the crudest, most obvious n****rbaiting you can imagine. “the people you don’t like, yeah, they are responsible for everything bad.” and it works!

We published this in 2020: They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

rich donors want to be anonymous in California? the court says their anonymity is free speech. The ACLU wants to interview someone on death row? that’s not speech, says the 4th Circuit a couple of weeks ago. ~it’s all fake~

my Dad sent me a connection request on LinkedIn, is nothing sacred anymore.

I love how upset people get at the Dodgers, a sports organisation that appears to spend money on both big talent and fostering young talent, while also having a healthy and fun culture. Hate them for a real reason: I don't like how Freddie Freeman runs and they shouldn't encourage him

As much as people scoff at this idea, it has never been harder to make friends than it is today, therapy of any kind is expensive - are we really surprised a half plausible word calculator thing has taken this role for anyone?

I think today I’m officially not a young person anymore because I hosted my parents and siblings for Christmas at my home. This feels so strange to me. I’m 30 years and 2 months old. I never really thought I get this far in life.

Kids don't recognize Bert & Ernie! Inside "Sesame Street" as it fights to survive. With a lucrative HBO deal ending, the iconic show focuses on the emotional well-being of children & remakes itself to win over a new generation. @laurameckler.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/style/intera...

I’m existentially terrified if this is the emotional soup that motivates people. I don’t know what the solution would/could be beyond state mandated going out for drinks or brunch.

NEW: A new lawsuit calls Scale AI 'the sordid underbelly of the generative AI industry,' alleges a vast slate of CA labor law violations and says workers were emotionally disturbed by working on a self-harm prevention AI tool for Meta. www.inc.com/sam-blum/sca...

if you're a tech journalist in the present climate, it's incumbent upon you to ask why big tech is pursuing dead ends like AI when they could just start using the number 2. ones and zeroes have taken us as far as they can. either chuck a few 2s in there or cede the future of tech to those who will

My notifications when i accidentally follow a pump and dump scam pretending to be a critic of a pump and dumb schemes.

It will be very funny if the thing that existentially kills off the revolutionary right in this country is not the violence, the racism or bigotry but if they collapse the global economy due to simple idiocy on international trade and tariffs. Liz Truss ass American government. #wokebondtraders

A highly underrated alternative history idea is the failure/collapse of Christianity in the 1st century Europe and the Roman Empire maintaining its polytheistic-pluralistic-imperial cult "system" and rituals. Just embrace the Edward Gibbon theory of the fall of the Roman Empire no monotheism.

If I was chronically more online, I think I’d make a bit of being an American dengist. Just shit posting under every major account about doing socialism with American characteristics.