windshield time

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant. - No VC funding. - No viral launch. - No TED talk. - Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve. He built a language that fit in kilobytes. 50 years later, it runs everything. Linux kernel. Windows. macOS. Every iPhone. Every Android. NASA’s deep space probes. The International Space Station. > Python borrowed from it. > Java borrowed from it. > JavaScript borrowed from it. If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow. He died in 2011. The same week as Steve Jobs. Jobs got the front pages. Ritchie got silence. This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

@cgtwts what is remission rate ?

> a founder loses a close friend to depression > spends a year studying neuroscience to understand the problem > builds a hardware startup from scratch to solve it > partners with Harvard Medical School to validate the approach > raises $ 2.1M to bring it to life > ships a product that shows a 72% remission rate in 12 weeks now he’s turning it into a company to help millions this is insane.

If you spent $1 million per day since Jesus was born you wouldn’t even have spent $1 trillion. The U.S. national debt is $38 trillion.

a new beginning 😍

In 1910, six men representing a quarter of the world's wealth met in a private railroad car bound for Jekyll Island. Their mission? Draft the legislation that would become the Federal Reserve Act—the greatest banking cartel in human history, sold to the public as "reform." And they did it all in secret, using fake names, because they knew damn well that Americans would never voluntarily surrender monetary sovereignty to a private banking syndicate. But here we are, 113 years later, watching these same banking families print trillions while your purchasing power gets obliterated. The Jekyll Island conspiracy wasn't theory—it was the business plan.

dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic. and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic. humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.

@KangusB2 @profstonge THE WORDS. THE WORDS ARE SO VIOLENT. HURT SO MUCH. 🙃

@profstonge THEY SCORNED HIM FOR HIS LANGUAGE

Woke Ninth Circuit decides Korean spas have to let biological men swing their gear in front of women and children. The dissent is pure gold:

Headline: Dissenting opinion chastised for "vulgar language" by judges who approve of "swinging dicks" being exposed to adolescent girls. Height of Hypocrisy

No matter how bad it might seem, remember it's never too late to turn it around.

Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI. - He didn't have a co-founder. - No VC funding. No office. - No team. - Just a personal project he posted to a mailing list: "I'm doing a free OS." 33 years later, it runs 97% of the world's servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station. The most important software in history started as someone's side project. Absolute legend.

@GovBobFerguson @future42org i don’t want be a tax slave in a tax farm

The Millionaires' Tax is about making life more affordable. We delivered on sending a significant portion of revenues back to Washingtonians, including the largest tax break in state history for small business owners.

This fast food commercial from the 1980s feels almost dystopian watching it today. They proudly advertised that $5.59 could feed your entire family. It’s wild to see how dramatically purchasing power has changed.

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The Internet Is Gonna End Us (But it's okay!)

🚨 This might be the most important thing a CEO has said this year and nobody's going to take it seriously because of who said it. This is the same Alex Karp whose company builds spy tools for the CIA, just partnered with Nvidia to build an "AI operating system," and is still quietly using Claude despite the Pentagon blacklisting Anthropic. And he's right. Here's why nobody wants to admit it. > AI is about to automate every predictable, linear, "follow the process" job on earth. The people who think in straight lines - do task A, then B, then C - are the easiest to replace. Because that's exactly how AI thinks. > The people who can't be automated are the ones who think sideways. The ones who see patterns nobody else sees. The ones whose brains jump from A to Z and somehow land on something brilliant. The ones every school system tried to medicate into compliance. > ADHD, autism, dyslexia.. every condition that made you "difficult" in a system designed for linear thinkers is about to become the only competitive advantage that AI can't replicate. The corporate world spent 50 years optimizing for people who follow instructions. AI follows instructions better than all of them. Now what? The misfits aren't the liability anymore. They're the last thing the machines can't copy.

I never thought I'd miss Jay Inslee.

@GovBobFerguson maybe not the worst policies, but probably the worst

When I delivered my State of the State address at the start of this session, I talked about history — particularly the history that we create ourselves. I want to thank legislators, legislative staff and my team for a historic legislative session. I was very specific in articulating key priorities in my State of the State address: Make historic investments in housing to respond to Washington’s housing affordability crisis — and build a foundation of safety, security and opportunity for thousands of Washingtonians. Make historic investments in our transportation infrastructure to fix our roads and bridges that have been neglected for too long. Adopt important policies to adapt to an increasingly lawless and hostile federal government. Specifically, prohibiting ICE agents from hiding their identities with masks, and shifting vaccine recommendations away from science-denying federal committees and place it with our own Washington State Department of Health. Help fix our upside-down tax code by adopting a historic Millionaires’ Tax that returns significant dollars to working families and small business owners, including a dramatic expansion of the Working Families Tax Credit. Thanks to a productive and collaborative session, we are delivering on all of these priorities for the people of Washington. In my budget, I proposed $1.5 billion for maintenance and preservation of our roads and bridges over the next six years, without raising taxes. I appreciate the Legislature adopting that historic level of funding. The need is urgent — in Washington state, 342 bridges are 80 years or older, the typical lifespan for a bridge. We have 212 bridges in poor condition — meaning they have serious deficiencies such as deterioration, cracking or even damage to the primary structure. Our state has been underfunding preservation and maintenance work for decades. This puts critical transportation corridors at risk, and leads to more costly repairs down the line. This $1.5 billion investment is an important first step in taking care of our roads and bridges – which is good for individuals, communities and our economy. I proposed $237 million to build and preserve affordable housing. The Legislature stepped up, committing more than $200 million — a historic investment in a supplemental budget. I was direct about the need to stand up to the Trump Administration. As an American, I never thought I would see federal agents in masks grabbing people off our streets. In my State of the State, I called on the Legislature to prohibit law enforcement, including federal immigration agents, from wearing masks. The Legislature adopted SB 5855 which does exactly that. Five of my six governor-request bills made it to the finish line, including my proposal in partnership with Insurance Commissioner Kuderer to give our state decision-making authority on vaccine schedules. The Centers for Disease Control has seen an exodus of scientific experts and alarming shifts in policy that place Washingtonians’ health at risk. This session, we put policy decisions in the hands of the experts, who will base those decisions based on science — not politics. In my State of the State, I called for something truly historic — a tax on incomes over $1 million, paid by less than one half of one percent of Washingtonians. The Legislature delivered. Now, we have a Millionaires’ Tax that sends money straight back to Washington families by expanding the Working Families Tax Credit to 460,000 additional households, and provides substantial relief for small business owners. It also saves working parents money and ensures our kids are prepared to learn by investing in affordable childcare and funding free breakfast and lunch for all Washington K-12 students. That has been a priority of mine since I ran for governor. There are challenges ahead, but also significant reason for optimism for the future. In my State of the State, I said Washingtonians are not mere bystanders to history. We are bold and, with heart and spirit, we forge our destiny and make history. That’s exactly what happened this session, thanks to the work of many dedicated public servants. We have a historic Millionaires’ Tax, with significant tax breaks for businesses and increases in checks going directly to working families. We have historic investment in housing to help make our state more affordable. We have historic investment in maintenance and preservation for our roads and bridges. Together, we confronted historic challenges from the Trump administration head-on by protecting Washingtonians’ health and safety, and positioned our state for an even stronger future. Once again, I greatly appreciate the hard work of so many that made this session such a success.

There is massive unseen economic damage done to Washington: all the talent that no longer wants to come here because the Democrats have made Washington one of the most highly taxed states in the nation, all in the space of four years and done unconstitutionally. Shameful.

Hayek: “Any redistributive policy requires a discriminating treatment of different people.” “Once government is entitled to take from some people in order to give to others, this is discrimination of a kind for which they can be no general rule. They are purely arbitrary.”