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@MarcoFoster_ @TuckerCarlson The "i'm just asking questions" excuse has run its course. Everyone knows the deflection for what it is.

NYT: “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist” Tucker Carlson: “I have not said that” NYT: *plays clip of him saying that*

@AriDrennen Epic, thanks for sharing!

Ski season is wrapping up and I’m sad about it so here’s the highlight of our honeymoon - a guided ski descent of the Vallée Blanche route in Chamonix, France. 8k feet down over 12 miles of powder and sunshine and unbelievable views!

@mattyryze Just trying to deflect from his support of the Trump government with the VC Belichick. What? Just move on bro, that’s the past bro.

“great men of history had little to no introspection” bro literally what

@BriannaWu Beautiful.

Just had an hour long conversation with my biological father. He feels very guilty about giving me up. Said, I don’t need guilt about the past. I just need him to accept me as his daughter, which the man he left me with couldn’t do. He said he could do that. 😭

@stacycay The premise is absurd. If rape is already illegal, why do we need another law? Surely that'll prevent the law breakers from breaking the law?

Joe Rogan says he wants to ban trans women from bathrooms to protect women. I’ve seen his lineups on Mothership shows and it’s 90% guys every single time. Is he trying to protect women from the stage too?

@stacycay Facts.

I should get raccoon hair

@mattyryze 💯 Her crash was the result of a full send rather than playing it safe. Tells you how confident she was in the knee.

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@mattyryze Oh yes. Destiny.

might foster this dog

@laurenbalik Wait a sec...oh...

Don't bring Kurt Cobain into generational wars. Let her rest in peace.

@AriDrennen @LinkofSunshine So true. We peaced out of AP Calc test since we needed 5’s and that wasn’t happening. Went to the pool for the rest of our excused morning. Was glorious.

@LinkofSunshine I’ve never wanted more time on a test though, sometimes getting to leave and go on with your day is the real reward

In my HS AP Chem class there were 11 students and I was the only one without double time, so I had to hand in my test early while everyone else in the class got to continue

@stacycay Guess the vector distance between republican talking points and straight fiction isn’t that far apart after all.

What did he do to grok

@AriDrennen Between all the self dosing of peptides, hormone therapies and added self dosing that's happening, the world has no idea what levels of identity queerness we're on the precipice of.

There's an interview where novelist Torrey Peters describes a 3-step process of the mainstream encountering a marginalized group (i.e. trans people). 1) basic narratives flatten group identity 2) separatism emerges 3) the mainstream absorbs practices from the group Anyway,

@EvanDweck @m_franceschetti @josh_odgers No accolades for something that should have been there day 1. They’re on version 5 ffs.

@m_franceschetti @josh_odgers This is customer service. Bookmarking this to look back at for a model when I eventually have an incident and need some inspiration.

The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it. We are taking two main actions: 1) We are restoring all the features as AWS comes back. All devices are currently working, with some experiencing data processing delays. 2) We are currently outage-proofing your Pod experience and we will be working tonight-24/7 until that is done. More updates soon.

Move chats into new or current projects. One at a time, or all together.

Here’s a hard truth about modern society. We don’t practice Capitalism anymore. Rather, for the last 40 years we’ve been conducting a horrific experiment called “neoliberalism”. And we’re near the terminal point in that experiment, a stage I’ve been calling metastatic market fundamentalism. Capitalism is agents organizing to seek profit by serving the needs and wants of customers. Metastatic market fundamentalism treats citizens as feedstock for corporate profits. Social media is a canonical example. It’s established fact that Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram etc. algorithms, which are tuned to maximize advertising revenues via limbic activation, and produce political division and derangement, depression, and a host of other problems. But regulating against these algorithms might impair corporate profits, so America doesn’t regulate them. Because the system isn’t designed to protect the rights of Americans to not be exploited by corporations for profit. The system is to designed to protect corporations’ rights to extract maximum profit from citizens. This is pathological sociopathy at societal scale. I adore Capitalism. It’s a truly miraculous tool, but shouldn't be used to solve all problems. Take science: it is unequivocally the optimal way to seek empirical truth and model reality. But science can't address which questions are worth asking, or what priorities are most important to citizens under resource constraints. Similarly with Capitalism. It is an unparalleled engine for allocating resources and commercializing innovation, but it is a terrible arbiter of human values. When we ask the market to decide what constitutes a good life or a just society, it defaults to the only answer it knows: whatever is most profitable. That is the metastatic cancer. A functional society knows when to invoke science, or capitalism, or democracy, or the judicial process, or the deliberative bodies that define its public good. The central challenge of governance is to protect the sovereignty of each institutional sphere, ensuring that the logic of the marketplace does not set the curriculum for our schools, write the laws for our courts, or determine the mission of our hospitals. So here’s where we are: We built the most powerful resource allocation machine in history, then let it allocate us. We became the resource. The product. The feedstock. If you think I’m being dramatic, ask yourself - when did we last make a major policy decision that hurt corporate profits but helped actual humans? That silence you hear? That’s the cancer winning.

@levelsio x.com/stewart_brad/s…

Things in AI change so fast In July, everyone switched from Cursor to Claude Code In September, everyone switches back from Claude Code to Cursor or Codex after Anthropic allegedly decreased the quality of responses to save money 2 months!

@mattyryze What comrade are we playing it for?

no one is going to catch the reference, my audience is too heavy on crypto bros 🤣

@nope_its_lily Yay, congrats!

@AriDrennen @esjesjesj I thought I had seen some results claim Gen Y at ~20 when you consider trans at its most broad interpretation.

@esjesjesj 21% transgender would be absolutely wild

This chart basically explains all of American politics and I think about it all the time