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@gptbrooke Thinking about this RE blockers at companies and you have to know the problem exists to start solving it. We spend too much time listening to every view point and building consensus.

Current status: feeling frustrated that the whole “the bulk of shoplifting, car thefts etc are committed by a small group of very active criminals” thing applies to EVERYTHING it’s a small handful of people causing things to be worse for everyone, no matter what rock you look under I wonder if we’ll ever be able to fix this, it’s gotta be a brain thing right? Will we(/should we even if we can?) be able to idk increase empathy or impulse control with targeted ultrasound one day

@publicinte Being on X is wild because something comes and goes then you see it on Instagram or regular news 3-6 months later. Today I saw a guy on LinkedIn write a post about how he just tried out Claude Code for 3 days.

just heard a radio had that ai companies may be making sycophantic chat bots for user retention how behind is the average new cycles

@GrantObi @joshmanders I didn’t realize GitHub was on that European schedule.

For context on how absurd this is: a website could have perfect uptime for the entire year, be down for the entire month of December to go travel and be home with family, come back to work on January 4th, fire up the servers again, and still beat this.

@mil0theminer It's all automated barely a real person behind the account.

Why do grifters bring the “Comment “X” + RT and I’ll send it.” Garbage from Instagram, it’s like they have no clue how each platform works. Avoid this garbage at all costs

@forgebitz If it's so easy why hasn't anyone done it yet? Surely Jira, Linear and Basecamp would have been replaced since we have had the tools for over a year.

give me the confidence of a vibe coder

Getting back into Ruby, let's see what has changed in the last 10 years.

@_imdawon If you want to practice kicks get something that hangs lower. Boxing bags are generally higher about to your waist height where MT will go down to your ankle height. When hanging it make sure you have space to rotate around so you can strike the bag once it starts swinging.

Speaking of heavy bag is it really this simple ??? I'm not paying the fairtex toll MMA bros tap in

@GMT_98_ @thats_bb_suzyn Knowing the first pitch is important is pretty basic knowledge.

@thats_bb_suzyn You really expect a team to be perfect game 1. All new crews, all new people trying to form chemistry. These productions take a lot!

Netflix production crew misses another first pitch hit. This is so inexcusable.

@publicinte Thankfully I'm in Texas now. Just need to figure out how to block non-Texans.

@CoderciseYT Have fun with the Indonesians

don’t do this. You never know who is out there. Just block accounts as they come on your for you

Why did all of my notifications disappear?

@tenobrus Glad to make the cut

gm friends and friends of friends . how are yall today? what did u have for breakfast?

I don't know if X and other "legacy" social sites can survive this. Either we get back curated feeds or people start moving to personal blogs where site owners can rule with an iron fist.

@isaiah_bb Fails in the opposite direction too. I have uploaded AI text I have made and it says a number under 10%.

Hate to think of how many students have suffered and job applications have been ignored because the software that does stuff like this basically doesn’t work.

@GergelyOrosz Managing applications was already difficult and it will be worse with these tools. I would be worried about my reputation if I was using them to apply.

The death of inbound applications is upon us: and yes, it’s in a big part because of AI making it dead simple to apply. And so inbound applications become noisy, with increasingly more of non-qualified people. And so companies rely on referrals and recruiters to source instead.

@CliffRacer_ @twinkmoder Unless it’s the two or three approved creators a subreddit likes then no rules apply.

@twinkmoder only reddit could create a culture where people will report artists for "self promotion"

Every artist has a moment where they post their work on Reddit and find out why Redditors are considered the most worthless social media users in advertising

@thogge I love this one. I wonder how absurd we can get with it.

Misleading “customer” pages (very common) is an easy, reliable tell of a startup that’s either struggling, shady, or both.

@sneaknsneak Why do you allow yourself to get trolled by Nigerians?

it's not a fucking canal. stop being stupid.

Very good point. There was a time when legacy businesses didn't believe in the internet and people (millennials at the time) could swoop in and do something new like booking flights online or some D2C product but now it is so oversaturated and everyone has laptops. These people are competing against digital native millennials who have access to all the same tools and online culture.

The mundane explanation is that all these “young professional genius” marketing schemes prey on the remnants of the 2000s delusion that 20s types can somehow drop into mature industries and catch something that everyone missed, bc surely competence can’t exist when kids grew up with laptops, thereby vaulting to the top. This was true for one blip in tech history, and it wasn’t even early adopters to the Internet — kids who grew up on it were prone to figuring out how to translate social lives to an online medium. Outside of social media and the culture it spawned, 20s types haven’t meaningfully innovated anywhere, bc innovation is *hard* when you don’t understand industries at a macro *and* granular level, which usually requires at least 10 years of experience. Thus the obsession with youth turned to grifting and ulterior motives (which is seemingly why there’s so much dating in the niche fundraising space — everything is matchmaking in some form at the end of the day.) That this story keeps repeating again and again is just a sign that funding is way too accessible in all the wrong ways — there’s too much money floating around and people who should be banned from elite universities for having no moral code whatsoever instead raise series round after series round. The most important realization going through my 20s was not that I wasn’t smart as I thought, but that intelligence and correcting other people has a very hard cap in how your ideas can proliferate. There are simply too many mental models for one to reliably win out, and clustering them together is how ideas proliferate and you truly create a giant that lasts. I don’t think any of the current big name VC firms will leave behind anything with a generational legacy as a result of stuff like this, compared to a Goldman Sachs or McKinsey etc. It’s too niche, only selects for the types of personalities that will play along, and never scaled outwards and create a class of aristocrats rather than lining a few pockets and signing off on a few resumes. But for a beautiful moment in time, a lot of capital was returned to stakeholders.

@SandyofCthulhu The group of 40+ year old guys I play with is going to be very surprised by this information.

Remember this guy?