Josh Penrod

something to remember about twitter is that there's a kind of reverse survivorship bias happening where you're always going to see the most dysfunctional people's takes and you're never going to see takes from people who just arent compelled to fight on the internet

Prediction markets are gambling.

I am optimistic about this country's ability to assimilate immigrants and their children into American values, and less optimistic about our ability to assimilate citizens with a seething hatred of immigrants into American values.

@JALindsay4444 @HansFiene Oh man, that would be incredible! They would go "no thanks" and then you would have an incredible story to tell! 🤣

@HansFiene Oh, I can tell when they are in my store shopping. And I always fight the urge to offer them coffee! 😂

Mormon physiognomy is a real thing. Having grown up in Utah, I can spot a Mormon at 50 yards. I did this on my honeymoon. My wife and I were holding the cruise ship elevator for a couple coming down the hallway and I told my wife "they're Mormons" and she said "how do you know," and I said "by looking at them" and she said "you can't tell if someone is Mormon just by looking at them" and I said "yes I can" and then they got in the elevator and I asked where they were from and they were from Utah and he had just finished his mission.

@Pinboard and another thing: I never said Death Ray. please don't put in the paper that I said Death Ray. It was always a Subtle Warming Ray!

When your orbital laser didn't quite meet its power goals

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

@rsms crazy talk

@amishrobot Soooorrrryyyy I wish Apple would focus on quality like they used to, instead of putting all the money into marketing...

Today we at Playbit are sharing our first iteration of the Playbit runtime, our vision for building playful personal-scale software. playbit.app Personal-scale software means programs by you, for you and for the people in your life. An app for your friends isn't very useful if only some of them can run it, so usually these projects have only one option: the web, an abstraction which many apps don't fit well into. We wanted a better solution, so that's what we're building. A runtime designed for highly dynamic graphical apps that are collaborative, with a really good set of developer tools. The Playbit runtime is a bit like an OS, but lives inside a host environment and gives guest code a small system layer to interface with. In practice it’s a minimal ABI-stable syscall interface with well-defined semantics. While we only support macOS in this initial release, our vision is for a powerful multimedia and collaborative platform which you can write your app for once, and run it on any platform. Learn more and grab the macOS app at playbit.app With love and a bit of code, – Edward, Nick, Julia and Rasmus

@rsms Yeah, crashed my Mac Studio too

There’s a bug in macOS 26 WindowsServer that were triggering. We’re looking into a workaround. As if you needed another reason to avoid macOS 26 “Tahoe” (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)

A reminder to my fellow Latter-day Saints that every law used against Muslims will eventually be used against us. We will eventually be subject to the level of abuse we tolerate in others. Pluralism is our shield.

@John_Attridge And honestly? It wasn't just the best of times. It was also the worst of times. And that's rare.

I can't believe humans were gifted a planet full of famine, disease, and death and invented fusion, vaccines, moon rockets, and so much food that most people die from obesity.

Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

I tried watching the first episode of The Last Frontier, but ended up saying "You have a gun you idiot cop!" a thousand times and was out.

@brandosm Beautiful! (hey algorithm, more of this please!)

Manchester by Kishi Bashi, playing for our student masterclass today. If you are in Denver and have an open evening, you should come to this concert. Very close to a sell out!

BTW: still better than post-liberal Fascists (King-men)

We can’t be held accountable for outcomes. What matters is constructing an extremely elaborate process to balance everyone’s needs, producing no benefit for anyone, and then declaring moral victory because the procedure was followed!

youtu.be/1gVeWQHbvvs This is what I picture when I see the left screaming at the Abundance Dems.

@thogge glp-1 driven?

I know it sounds weird, but in the middle of peak inflation of 2021-2022, i imagined a day where food prices dropped again. Not slowed. Dropped. Finally here.

Tribalism vs actually having principles + social media acceleration is going to be the end of society