I'm fairly confident that if a stranger drove up into my driveway, and I walked up in front of that car as they were trying to pull away, I'd be charged with murder if I shot them in the face instead of stepping six inches to the side.

America, once it wakes up to the news this morning.

I wrote a new piece for my Substack exploring what it means to be “political” in a time when most of us feel engaged but disconnected. It asks whether our online habits are actually building power, or only the illusion of it.

Basically the AI industry right now between Nvidia, OpenAI, and Oracle.

My pitch to people who are tired of getting donation texts and emails but still want to do the work of fixing our country.

Collecting my thoughts on recent discussions.

Voters in Assembly District 63 have just one more week to cast their ballots in a special general election to fill the seat vacated by Bill Essayli, who was appointed interim U.S. Attorney for Southern California in April. riversiderecord.org/the-assembly...

This article is indicative of why modern journalism is dying on the vine. Two "respected" journalists push out an interesting headline to get you to sign up, then the article ignores the headline premise to talk about the opposite in a format of bullet points that even ChatGPT would say is too much!

I made another AI-generated video using the same tools I used for the talkubi.com video. The number of generations needed is still about the same, but Veo 3 seems to output more women and POC by default now. Also, music is creeping into generations more often now while subtitles occur less often.

It’s already started. Curtis County, Nebraska voted for Trump over Harris by a 74-point margin. Now, Trump’s broken campaign promise just cost them their hospital.

Exactly how violent do these protests need to get until we can expect the President to issue pardons to everyone? Just curious.

Is this going to become the new “3 kids in a trench coat” trope?

No one in this video is real. I made this entire video myself with only my laptop after the kids went to bed the other night. The entire project from conception to video upload and website deployment took less than 24 hours and $200 with AI. Stay on your toes everyone; things are moving quickly.

This a video entitled “dogs with short spine syndrome.” It’s a real video but in 12 months AI video generation tools will become so good that we won’t have an effective way to tell if a quirky video like this is real or not anymore. Enjoy the twilight of our online innocence; it’ll be gone soon.

Dave Chappelle’s almost 8-year-old bit about Trump trying to bring back manufacturing jobs is still relevant today.

I just had an idea that the rise of LLM models can provide a way for the common person and small groups to propose laws on par with large well funded think tanks. With some effort, AI could help democratize the legislative process. Since all laws are public data, who’s up for a scraping project?

Me in the National Security team group chat

Taken from today’s WSJ - Insert the “this is fine” dog meme here:

Ah yes. Cutting out all the waste, fraud, and abuse from **checks, notes**, small farmers and hungry children? 

You know you've lost your way when your actions make Ann Coulter become the voice of reason.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Transgenic mice are genetically modified mice in which scientists introduce human diseases in order to study them. Biden did not spend millions on transgender mouse experiments. When Trump spoke of transgender mice, it’s because he’s stupid or believes you are, or both.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Totally normal that a guy who is in charge of the FBI and ATF departments in Washington D.C. wants to manage those huge federal bureaucracies and thousands of employees from his home in Las Vegas without disclosing who he’s living with. Nothing sus there at all.

What happened today in the Oval Office will have ramifications for at least the next year. It is an inflection point for us as a country on the world stage.

Dems can't talk about the corporate + billionaire takeover of the Republican-led government while still answering to its own corp + billionaire donors. We can't serve two masters. We can’t save our country if we’re still deciding if we're the party of the money or the many

If you are curious about the budget but haven't been following the news, here is a discussion that goes through the IMMENSE problems of the newly passed Trump budget.

Introduced the kids to the holy trinity of the arcade yesterday.

Why the Democratic party hasn’t been shouting this from the rooftops and planning against it, I’ll never know.

This seems to be the existential question haunting the Democratic Party right now. I’ll just add that we should “and replaced” to the bottom as the Republican Party is breaking the system to replace it with an oligarchy currently.

Don’t forget that any veteran’s benefits qualify as DEI too.

Let’s see how long this lasts.

I truly hate school dress up days for elementary kids. My kid’s school makes them “dress like a 100-year old” for the 100th day of school. Most people don’t make it to 100. Next year I’m sending my kid in a zombie costume instead since that is what the average person looks like after 100 years.

Trump isn’t reversing the ban, but simply issuing a delay to when the law would apply. He is still requiring some US entity to take a 50% stake into it, like Elon Musk or Blackrock. We may just be exchanging full Chinese control with a partial Chinese/partial right-wing billionaire control.

This wouldn’t be a bad setup for a sitcom, Perfect Strangers style.

*Speaking in an Italian accent and motioning with hands* Now THAT’S a Constitutional crisis!

Another reason I'm spending less time on that platform and will keep my kids off of it. We are heading closer and closer to the Dead Internet Theory coming to pass all in the name of engagement/profits.

Does anyone else notice how much less styrofoam your kid’s toy packaging has now? I’m finally taking the trash out after Christmas and there is so much less of that to deal with compared to just a few years ago. Most of the packaging can now go in the recycle bin.

I’m not going to lie, that looks heavenly.

I mean…🤷‍♂️

Mike Johnson admitted during a Fox & Friends interview that he is on a text chain with Elon and Vivek and was convincing them to not go against the bill the night before they did so anyway. Why is the Speaker of the House having to whip unelected billionaires to avoid shutting down our government?

Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.

I’m really tired of every website and app we use exchanging our data back-and-forth without our permission or consent. Just because I watch a YouTube short where someone mentions Snoop Dogg doesn’t mean I need to then receive a notification from LinkedIn suggesting I follow Snoop Dogg an hour later.

MRW I see a good chunk of my book collection on the CEO shooter Luigi Mangione's Goodreads account...

Tonight is an example of legacy media failing. A country is falling and none of the 24-hour networks or radio stations are covering it live because it’s the weekend and they have preprogrammed shows. Spend less money on talking heads who argue and hire actual journalists to cover news as it breaks.