"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

I just wanna say thank you to all the venture capitalists out there who don't treat my inbox like their personal substack. Grateful for both of you.

I guess my hot take is that AI isn’t the bubble, it’s the pin that pops the bubble.

This passage is interesting today isn’t it

“The Free Press”

All I want from the Dems is this message but with secular branding

Rahm Emanuel on Pod Save talking about how the Dem brand shouldn’t have advocacy as a piece of it. Thanks for being forthright I guess. Also I ain’t gonna vote for that milquetoast version of Dems, personally, because it feels like you’re just running a fundraising phone tree for… what exactly?

Evolution of a UI layer working with Claude Code. I feel like what happens for a lot of people is they see the first thing, laugh (rightly so!), and conclude LLMs are shit. But if you know what you want, you're only a dozen or so iterations from something good. Key is to make the iterations fast.

There are these moments when the coffee has kicked in and the family is still asleep where I can sit down and achieve the most incredible flow state, ripping through todos with Claude in 5 different windows, mind just humming along with no need to idle. Love it.

One step closer to giving you all the autistic upgrade.

Can't believe this is the guy who said he was "Head of Global Macro" at Greenlight and then Einhorn was like "lolno" and he was like "yes I was David I 𝙬𝙖𝙨" and everyone on twitter laughed and laughed while he gnashed his teeth and threw little tantrums on LinkedIn and threatened to sue.

Well we are definitely at that point where some people gotta go to jail if we want to keep having a society.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

This lede is so funny. Like why would I read the article? Good work Tim, case closed. Also: can someone at CNBC please brush up on the 13 comma rules this is a crime scene

The strange thing about using agents when coding is that you have to maintain this dual view of the codebase — the old view, how it functions, and this new view which is like how it will react to being acted upon and modified. People in bigger companies have this, because the codebase is busy. 1/2

If you want to get me something nice for Christmas, you could remind all your relatives who thought Trump would make the economy better that they shouldn’t be trusted with fire or sharp objects. Happy Holidays.

Massie the one Republican who didn’t get the memo that all that “party of virtue” stuff was part of the grift. Weirdly adorable, like someone being mortified a corporation isn’t sticking to the values posters on the walls.

I find it vaguely annoying when people talk about ‘talent.’ It’s not that it doesn’t exist, like it definitely does and at the very top of any field it’s a factor. But skill is far more the product of practice and it’d be good for the children if we spoke in a manner reflective of this.

Fun times for chart horoscope afficionados. Tidy little channel retest on the long bond, crude oil looking like it ate too much Thanksgiving turkey.

A New Zealand bunker is not the correct form of preparation in a crisis that’s primarily epistemic. Suppose it’ll be interesting watching a few select people realize that.

JD Vance is just terribly cast. We’re all watching a dystopian crime drama play out in front of our eyes and also somehow Chucky the doll is central to it.

My favorite undiagnosed neurodivergents are the ones who rebrand executive dysfunction as like a capitalist efficiency hack. “Sure I haven’t eaten or peed for 6hrs, that’s just what dedication looks like.” Aw, friend. What a journey you have ahead of you.

Still do this thing which I think is considered childlike, since children do it, where it’s late and my entire body is communicating we are tired but I’m fighting against it because I’m rather busy being fascinated by something please check back later

“A CBS telecast moderated by Bari Weiss featuring Erika Kirk.” Lands like someone pitching mothballs as a breakfast cereal.

What was that

Derek Guy confirming we did at least one thing right with the house made my week. Pets are family; help them feel it.

There’s this guy I went to school with as a kid who has always been intensely annoying in a way that’s hard to describe. He’s like extremely confident and outgoing but all his takes are soul-wrenching cringe. Just saw him get into a Cybertruck with a sticker that says “I look better topless” on it.

The number of people who want to catch up and network with you when you’re trying to stand up a software company is the top reason not to do it in SF. Y’all think I went into tech to hang out and talk? Ick.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

Estate tax approach where everyone is just required to spend 10% of inherited assets on therapy.

If I ever write a memoir I’m gonna call it, “The trauma of putting up with the rest of you.”

omg @coloradotravis.bsky.social

Real talk happening in the terminal window tonight

You know… I want to say something pithy here like “sounds like Lonsdale is volunteering to go first!” except the thing is I just don’t believe in public hangings at all really so that would be a form of self-sabotage. Don’t really wanna share a society with this guy tho.

There’s a sense of dread in tech around agents writing code that seems well-founded. The commodification of any craft is a depressing thing. With it comes new craft, but it’s shaped differently and puts even more emphasis on systems design. I suspect remaining in tech will require adopting it.

Listened to the Bulwark episode with Nuzzi because a there’s a toxic part of my brain craves schadenfreude with the hunger of an ancient vampire. Left vaguely bored but really impressed by Tim Miller as an interviewer. Pushes people on stuff but backs off quickly if they’re feeling threatened. 1/

My coffee shop is the one where they all have septum piercings & tattoos. None of us know much about one another; perhaps they’d hate me if they found out I’m a form of capitalist—not unfounded, but I tip good. Still feels a lot safer than the coffee shop where the owner pickets planned parenthood.

Good feeds here.

One of the known patterns around AI agents for stuff is it helps to give them a little bio. Lots of people get into fanfic here, and that stuff doesn't move the needle much and can be a distraction. Some things to matter tho, like a little bit of cognitive scaffolding goes a long way. 1/

Tell you what if you adopt any variant of an agent-augmented workflow, which is a very odd way to work and involves a lot of queueing and monitoring, the idea of commuting to an office seems completely absurd. Long WFH; short RTO.

People are treating this guy who literally just runs a pretty vanilla degen casino like he’s some sort of visionary, lol. “I mean yeah I think betting could eventually be bigger than companies” dude what are you talking about are you high right now

I just want to live in a world where we elect Derek Guy as President and he writes a beautiful thread meticulously explaining why being too rich is and has always been extremely gauche and everyone is like “hell yeah President Guy” and then a little bit later we all have free healthcare.

we actually life in hell

Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol

Mamdani posts a photo of himself on a picket line supporting labor and the top dozen replies are all people yelling at him for not using alt text. Love this place.

The thing you have to understand is that “will no one rid me of this turbulent priest” was purely rhetorical, as was the part where I was like “make sure he’s all the way dead.”

Just read an article titled “ChatGPT may help you find information faster but you learn less” which sounds scary but then you look at the study it’s referencing and they’re measuring… self-reported learning vibes?

Have you ever wished you had a JACK & JII FUh Bah #2 with three sinks? That’s the power of AI.

We’re in the strangest time where what would be most collectively adaptive is for most of us to believe things are 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 as they seem. Yet somehow, our emotional condition is characterized by a commitment to private mythologies: the veil is belief in the veil. Our ethos is a pathos of mythos.