While DOGE sounds great in theory, it's being implemented by someone who is bad at running turnarounds. Under Elon's leadership, Twitter's revenue dropped 80% in two years. While there is undeniably a lot of inefficiency in the USG, he will cripple the USG instead of making it more efficient.

My impressions of Bluesky so far: * It has a lot of potential but it needs some key FB features to be useful to me: longer posts, friends-only posts, better discussion threading etc. * End the 300 character post limit! It favors hot takes over nuance and stops me from communicating naturally.

The Trump memecoin is actually worse than a grift -- it's a perfect tool for taking bribes. Anyone looking to transfer money to the president can just buy some amount of $TRUMP, then cryptographically prove possession. The purchase drives the price up, and Trump owns most of it, so he profits.

What are the best AI/ML accounts to follow on here?

Speedrunning learning to read: Phase 1: Letter shapes and sounds. 13-16 months Phase 2: Sight recognition of ~20 words. 16-19 months, but it doesn't scale. Phase 3: Letter sequences and phonetic reading. 24-35 months. Requires better sequencing skills and memory www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPS...

Hi everyone! Here's my most recent blog post -- What I Learned from 130 hours in a Waymo: www.mattbell.us/what-i-learn...