fast cars and slow cookers. mostly hanging out on Threäds now, so don’t expect me to see your stuff here.
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29 May 2025
If they were serious about countering CCP influence, they’d ban TikTok like Congress mandated.
But nope, they used Asian students to overturn racially conscious admissions at the Supreme Court and eventually they’ll invoke the spectre of “the CCP” to turn on more Asian students.
28 May 2025
The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
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The average car sits parked 95% of the time, so it’s more like there are 6000 of these out there.
15 May 2025
TIL there’s only 300 Waymo’s operating in SF, which is insane because it feels like I see a Waymo every 30 seconds when driving around the city.
(this is written while sitting in a Waymo.)
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This is why xAI is not a serious company and the people who invested in it should never be given another LP dollar. No business is ever going to build software on a model that exists to please a drug-addled weirdo first and to make money second.
15 May 2025
Grok randomly blurting out opinions about white genocide in South Africa smells to me like the sort of buggy behavior you get from a recently applied patch. I sure hope it isn't. It would be really bad if widely used AIs got editorialized on the fly by those who controlled them.
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Because when you send two thirds of 18-year-olds to college, most of them have zero interest in learning. But they need the piece of paper to get a desk job, so they are there.
7 May 2025
has anyone stopped to ask WHY students cheat? would a buddhist monk "cheat" at meditation? would an artist "cheat" at painting? no. when process and outcomes are aligned, there's no incentive to cheat. so what's happening differently at colleges? the answer is in the article:
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It’s weird to call someone in middle management CEO. If you want someone to be a CEO, create a subsidiary non-profit that creates a subsidiary for-profit, then raise $5-10B into it and make them the CEO of that.
8 May 2025
so excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me.
i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety.
these are critical as we approach superintelligence.
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The hardest thing getting kids excited about coding is that it takes so long to get to something they think is cool, so the fact you can make a basic iPhone app before you have to figure out what a Swift is seems exciting.
12 Apr 2025
Here’s how vibe coding plays out. There are only 30 million developers globally. This number is artificially low because it’s hard to get started. This will multiply as any curious higher schooler, IT person, PM, designer, entrepreneur, and more discovers they can build stuff.
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I guess we don’t want those jobs in America.
According to CSMS #64724565, products classified under HTSUS codes are excluded from reciprocal tariffs imposed under Executive Order 14257.
The list includes:
8471: Automatic data processing machines (computers/PCs)
8517.13.00: Smartphones
8541/8542: Semiconductor devices
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Urbanist line dependency is really sad. These people need a Dunkin drive through on every corner.
10 Apr 2025
This coffee line in SF is getting out of control. Every day it is growing 😱
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This looks like a throwback to the days of practical trucks you’d use for real manly activities instead of commuting to your office job, so I fear it will sell terribly in America.
12 Apr 2025
Bezos & others invested in a EV startup in Michigan called Slate Auto. They raised $111M in a Series A & plan to have a $25,000 pickup truck built in Indiana for sale by late 2026.
The idea for Slate is that it comes as a blank slate you can customize.
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~90% of America’s growth has been “sprawl” for at least 75 years because American cities hate growth. There’s not a contest of ideas here, density conceded three generations ago.
Suburbs are America’s future. The more interesting question is what is the future of the suburbs.
10 Apr 2025
I’m also a pro-sprawl YIMBY.
Suburbs are great family friendly places and we should have more of them. With remote work and self-driving cars, they’re just going to become more popular. With EVs they can be environmentally sustainable.
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If Trump knew how to play 10D chess he’d backchannel with Congress to take away his “emergency” tariff powers and say “I tried but the swamp” because the markets would *love* a vertebrate Congress and there’s no other way out of this where he doesn’t look like more of a chump.
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Markets are complex, but there’s never been a moment where the lay person could more easily understand what’s happening.
We signaled to the world, including our own businesses, that America is no longer a safe place to do business, and the world is acting on that information.
11 Apr 2025
Investors and market commentators are reading too much into short-term market movements in rates, currencies and equities.
I believe that it is much more likely that recent sharp moves in these asset classes is due to highly leveraged market participants being forced out of positions than due to fundamentals.
In other words, technical factors are driving the dramatic market moves. As a result, markets have become increasingly unreliable as short-term indicators of the impact of policy changes.
I don’t understand how it is good for the world to allow investors in equities to operate with 10-1 leverage and investors in Treasurys and currencies to operate with 100-1 leverage.
When did we decide as a society to abandon the margin rules that were put in place to protect markets from this kind of volatility?
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This isn’t even true. People will invest in well-run economies that happen to be autocratic. What money hates is incompetence.
11 Apr 2025
Money is leaving America because autocracy is a terrible investment.
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