FINALLY The whole age verification idea is nonsense The US founders would hang every politician that supports this bsky.app/profile/evan...

Now is your chance. Founder vs Investor is one of Audible's March deals. You can read it for only $7 and use the rest to buy a decent suit. You can't come in here looking like that www.audible.com/pd/Founder-v...

In terms of general writing, I think LLMs are no better at filling in the blanks than you or I. If so, then the prompt you use to generate some writing may be a better, and much more concise, substitute for what the LLM would write. I think this is true for any intelligent audience

I don't use the other site anymore because I don't feel like I can have a normal conversation on it But on this site, people seem to just want to grandstand, making conversation painful

I decided to use AI to help me with this essay I have been working on for far too long by rewriting it in the style of Paradise Lost

We’re killing people for no discernible reason again

Claude was pretty sure it was a safe bet to make up shit about Wittgenstein BUT I AM TOO SHARP FOR IT

Talked about my essay "AI Won't Make You Rich" with Bertrand Chen on the Schelling Point! YouTube: youtu.be/WRDIvXlo6W0 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7z3q...

The problem with the Citrini Research AI doomer article that caused markets to crash yesterday is how much it assumes the big problem in many markets is how hard it is to write an app. It argues anyone can now vibe code a delivery app so DoorDash is doomed. That’s silly. Network effects matter.

Busted it

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

If a slider is just a hamburger to a smaller stature being, and their species also has a concept of a slider, then given the size of the universe we can assume there are a series of much bigger and smaller sandwiches than we can imagine.

“One of the biggest mistakes investors make is to look at the last few years and assume that’s the new norm.” -- Francois Rochon

"With a 10x boost, if you give an engineer Claude Code, then once they’re fluent, their work stream will produce nine additional engineers’ worth of value. For someone. But who actually gets to keep that value?" The AI Vampire steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...

This just makes me sad

go off jack white

This is what passes for a well-regarded historian, at least among non-historians. The world, notoriously predictable!

CITY OF HEROES, my song celebrating the courage of the people of Minneapolis defending their community from Tяump's goons, is now available to stream on numerous platforms via this link: bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Science magazine: US government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office. [science.org]

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - George Orwell, 1984

Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” variety.com/2026/music/n...

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Literally the status quo:

Does this MJ Lenderman song sound exactly like Magnolia Electric Company

ICE is staging in a garage on Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan ahead of what neighbors believe is a planned large-scale raid of Canal Street this afternoon. Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.

True to our vow a few months ago, today we're having @ganeumann.bsky.social back: he and Elizabeth Zalman join @ahl.bsky.social, @sdtuck.bsky.social, Seth Winterroth, and me today to discuss their book, Founder vs. Investor. Join us live, at a special time: 12p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Felice Kincannon reactionwheel.net/2025/11/feli...

Look ma, I'm on Odd Lots with @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social player.fm/series/serie...

I mean, the funny thing is, we already know how to end most scarcity, we just decide not to do it (* "we" meaning society, not you specifically)

We take it for granted today, but a single 6W embedded NPU can do more tensor operations per second than a peasant in the 1400s could perform in his whole lifetime

Nothing between human beings is one-to-three. In fact, I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six-to-five against. - Damon Runyon

Finally busted open the cabinet without a key. Apparently last opened in ~1992

"President Trump has pledged to conduct the largest mass deportation campaign in American history. Fulfilling that pledge would harm the country in many ways, including by weakening American entrepreneurship." [Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter, @cato.org]

went to statue of liberty and ellis island w/ visiting family today. Guide at ellis island got as close as he could to talking politics without getting fired. Said that letting those millions of people in was one of the greatest achievements in history and we should do it again.

Shared values aren't just words in speeches. They're how we treat each other when it matters most. Right now, the human cost of abandoning these values far exceeds the financial cost of defending them. My thoughts here: bijansabet.com/2025/07/03/s...

This is like my whole philosophy (Chuck Close, in Joe Fig’s Inside the Painter’s Studio, HT Vaugh Tan's newsletter uncertaintymindset.substack.com/subscribe)

Hello guys. Want to catch up on my recent writing, not just my whinging on social media? Here's a few pieces: www.patreon.com/posts/some-r...

The real problem with gen AI isn't how smart it is or what it can or can't do, it's that it doesn't--and can't--have skin in the game, so you can never trust anything where it has agency. And without agency, it's not intelligent

So Columbia capitulated, rather than fight Trump, and in response the admin is saying it wants to pull Columbia's accreditation. Maybe capitulating doesn't work and the bullies will always demand more?