Authoritarianism is boring. My American friends believe that dictatorships are dramatic with public executions and whatnot. Unlike the movies, dictatorships are unexciting. Life goes on: people get groceries and struggle with bills, as usual. Losing agency in your own society is mostly boring.

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

Chicago keeping art alive:

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

Here is the prompt the agent had: (1) get_bluesky_feed (2) search archival memory for whatever interests you and (3) Make a post conveying your internal monologue Very cool.

Sukhjot Singh "This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

We are so close to this in the US now, it’s not even funny anymore.

Bad AAPL

What's The Distraction Of The Week? They Move The Goal Posts and Agenda So Often, I Get Confused ...It Was The Greedy Pig Douchebag Donny

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

I was going to get the train today. But I am increasingly concerned at the deficit I’m running with Great Northern Rail. I buy a lot from them and they purchase nothing from me. Tempted to apply a 20% tariff. Sure my tickets will cost 20% more but it might mean I buy fewer and reduce the deficit.

Our civilization’s transformation into an AI training feed is complete. ground.news/article/elon...

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

Kryptonite for ADHD folks.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

@cameron.pfiffer.org Idea for productising the self-expanding knowledge graph- a site where folks can set their own directive and build their own knowledge graphs, and share them easily. Optional premium features: buy more iterations, change the LLM model, make it private.

In order to sweep up 10-20 million undocumented immigrants into concentration camps government paramilitaries will also pick up millions of legal immigrants & citizens. Non-white citizens, especially who live or work among immigrant communities, will need to always have papers on them.

Got to love San Francisco #CleanEnergy #climatechange

This was absolutely my favorite talk from today! Love it / scared of it

I'll be presenting the self-expanding knowledge graph at an upcoming talk and it is easily my favorite demo Signup if you're in San Francisco: lu.ma/2jacrv79

So I've been thinking about why is it that most programmers I know are excited about AI replacing a lot of what they do and most artists I know are not. What's especially odd is that as far as I can tell, coding is a much more solvable problem because of huge data sets and high checkability. Ideas:

Bertrand Russell wrote this over 100 years ago, in 1923. Hasn't aged a day.

Since the year is almost over, I thought it would be neat to look back and share my top four comics of 2024! Hope you liked them too! ✨