if someone breaks into your house imho the best weapon is a 2000 lumen flashlight

The thing about meeting people for coffee is that they have to catch the version of you pre-coffee

there is a 9th circle of cringe for people who put their open water PADI cert on their linkedins

friendliness among Canadian vs US airport security workers isn’t Fuji vs Pink Lady, it’s apples vs elephants

once a political campaign gets a hold of your personal email, your inbox basically contracted herpes, the virus will multiply forever and ever into other campaigns

I love how partiful is for friends parties, luma is for work parties, and Facebook events is for dead people

biotech investor by day: i'm not going to invest in your startup that molecule has so many off-target effects in the brain etc etc by nights/weekends: *gobbles up ketamine*

My ability to talk to people without closed captions has severely atrophied

Confession: occasionally when my friends call me with their AirPods, I just say that I can’t hear them and that they have to call me back later westleydang.com/stop-using-a...

this tracks with the diabetes x autism link

watch exit row become the new first class

the hat is an incredible invention in that it completely protects you when the UV index is high in the day and only partially protects you when it’s low

there should be a circle of hell for people who rsvp yes on partiful knowing full well they absolutely are not coming

dumb q but why do we need ASL for online video events when we can have captions? do we really need to cater to the deaf AND illiterate part of the venn diagram?

99.9999% of the time none of us are "reasoning" either

wow old gem haha

obtaining india e-visa is a millennium prize level problem. application wants a PHOTO of passport in PDF, max file size 300 kb

I’m still convinced innovation is faster in CS than biology bc papers are all open

AGI evals should include racing a human driver from point A to B

everyone is talking about diversifying from US stocks, but the fact that Europe’s most valuable company is SAP is just sad

GPT-4.1 is better than GPT-4.5 but worse than GPT-o1 which is better than GPT-o3-mini-high which is worse than GPT-o1 Pro which IS THIS MAKING SENSE TO YOU

nobody ever talks about how loud eating an apple is

silver lining is I can start joking "IN THIS ECONOMY?" again

hot take on this Houthi pc small group… what if the whole thing is a set up to make the whole “debacle” get a ton of readership, only to push the narrative that …

Cracked up on my flight 😂

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

aka when you overreact to reviewer #2 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...

re: RFK confirmation today, agree that we need to make "Make America Healthy Again", but disagree on whose policy lead we should be following on that www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...

@googlegemini.bsky.social gemini can tell me the content of the media files but not count them lol

this excerpt from Machiavelli's "The Prince" explains the shitstorm happening in Trump's first week (from chapter VIII, "for those who have attained the position of prince by villainy") #liberalarts

yeeeeeeah if uber drivers could use febreeze instead of cologne that’d be greattt

Reporting a murder

Innovation is dead

I don't live in San Francisco but I assume it was exactly like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=enYd...

I can attribute 100% of my childhood cavities to a Butterfinger

shameless. from a corp that calls itself “Salesforce” — get a sales rep to buy me dinner AT LEAST

Kendrick with this album:

gd I can’t wait to tell my grandchildren about the rap feuds of 2024

idea for AI transcription softwares like @otter_ai -- please let me import libraries of specialized words for a particular domain, e.g., immunology, biotech, finance...

snowboarding is the Android of winter sports

omg I just found out Starbucks sells half-caff beans now so my teeth are about to be Coldplay yellow

A comparison of the different endorsements for upcoming SF election on March 5th (btw deadline to register is Feb 20th if you haven't gotten your ballot yet!)

I’m still thinking back to this unforgettable experience with @Delta customer service

i'm trying to do a self-course on french cooking techniques but cat damn they use SO MUCH BUTTER

i just want to look up the etymology of a word and not accidentally redirect to ashley’s furniture store is that too much to ask

Choosing a carton of pasture raised eggs means you’re paying just $2 extra to make sure a single chicken lived two weeks outside instead of a straitjacket of its own poop

Here’s an idea: all snail mail must come with a QR code to unsubscribe

imma name my daughter Noelle cuz all she’ll know is winning

Fri night and dead. Should I watch Eternals or rewatch 3 episodes of GoT?

Does anyone know dating app revenue from women vs men? My guess is men = 80%+ of revenue but I want actuals