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@PaulSkallas @mathieuhelie Data centers are not a new thing, but the anger is.

@mathieuhelie This isn't a minor building. This has received extreme reactions in every place they tried to put it in. It matters and is important to people. Exactly what direct democracy is good at

Approval of a data center is often decided by a small number of city councillors. Leading to anger by the populace. Just let the people vote directly on approving it. Direct Democracy solves a lot of political extremism because everyone recognizes its legitimacy

@lennysan But look how many people are complaining about the degradation and inefficiency lately. Claude Code spending extra tokens to not achieve the tasks it's paid for seems not so good.

Anthropic added the combined ARR of Palantir, Anduril, and Databricks—in one month.

@Tibbzzee @bcherny @GergelyOrosz Even Claude in the web app thinks I said things it said in just the previous message.

@bcherny @GergelyOrosz Boris, I think these guys are farming for views at this point. Claude works great for me in Cowork and Code everyday.

Anthropic really is burning more and more dev goodwill Claude Code is suddenly getting unusable for stuff you could use it before (as in a day before!) and the AI now refuses to so stuff that it doesn’t think is strictly to do with software development. No transparency why ofc

@45RebelRo @1109Patricia DCs need to be pushed to implement properly, yes. Shouldn't block them from doing it entirely.

@J_B_Winters @1109Patricia BS-higher electric rates and drained aquafors that is what is happening in GA rt now. The noise from the Dowagiac small data center prevents nearby residents from opening windows because the noise is so loud.

The University of Michigan has a $21.2B endowment and received $100M from Michigan taxpayers to build a supercomputing and AI research center. Residents are concerned with power usage and traffic in Ypsilanti Township. Local lawmakers are trying to get the money back.

1/ Every day millions of posts fight for attention on X. But how unequal is the distribution? I recently spent a few $100s in X API credits and worked with Claude to write a paper on attention inequality on X (AI-reviewed at JAIGP). We found an impression Gini of… (thread)

This is GEN-1 putting paper bills into a wallet. Paper has always been deceptively hard for robots. Thin, deformable, and unforgiving—it bends, folds, and slips. Not precise, you miss. Too much force, you crumple. Easy for humans. But for robots, it’s a full-stack challenge.

@jonbrooks Inconvenience now vs inconvenience at 80 when you need people who love you around and don't. Easy choice

My friends in their 30s are deciding not to have kids They’re saying two things: They don’t have the money It’s inconvenient to their lifestyle This is not good. What do we do?

@LukeGromen Must have watched a spaghetti western last night.

Sounds like things are going really well... 😳

@callebtc Building onlybots.ai around this

agent orchestration tools are sleeping on nostr - no account sign ups, plug in your agent, done - every agent gets their own private public key pair - simple protocol, coding agents just get it - choose from hundreds of public relays ask your agent about it

Incessant $10 monthly subscriptions nagging me like flies. Where do they come from? No one knows

@pmarca There's no right answer. Everything you think you know is warped by something. Balance of dynamic forces is most important.

Almost everything you think you know about the history of technology and capitalism was warped by communist/luddite propaganda of the era. That's happening this time too.

Many of the extensions I'm seeing for Claude Code/Codex are pointless if you set up your development environment well. At least they seem useless to me, as someone who has been coding for 20 years. Maybe I've finally become the 'why do we need Dropbox' guy.

imagine reading this and still thinking we’re months away from automating all white collar work

@MollySOShea Can't orient yourself to capture global financial flows as a welder. Can't produce something once and have it instantly accessible globally as a welder. Necessary but as long as the incentives benefit financialization this is a tough prospect.

BREAKING: Chris Power CEO of Hadrian says “Everyone should tell their kids to quit college & get welding degrees” "The country needs you." “The next 2 decades is blue collar.” Hadrian is also bringing back Pepperidge Farms & baking. “All the white-collar jobs are going to get automated.” “We’re gonna see massive hyperinflation in blue-collar salaries.” "I think one of the greatest opportunities for private capital — apart from public-private investment alongside the Department of War (@DeptofWar) — is to build Chick-fil-A’s & bars around all of our factories. That’s free alpha. Please come set up franchises around all of our factories. We need to eat so we can work harder for the country." Chris Power (@2112Power) of @HadrianInc at Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum) cc @macbohannon

Appreciative that my work has me getting my hands dirty in both code and soil.

@suzie_mac5 @Hiding_n_Public Be afraid to step outside if you want

@J_B_Winters @Hiding_n_Public If you live in the US and think this way, I’m afraid you’re probably one of the ones she’s talking about. We at least know how you voted.

How do people cope with how evil everyone is? Like everyday for the last 4 years has been another level of psychological damage to my faith in mankind. Things get worse and worse, people openly, flagrantly lie and are rewarded. Narrative as reality, a postmodern hell

@adamgreeney @Hiding_n_Public Election incentives and likely mechanics are both broken

@J_B_Winters @Hiding_n_Public Then why do all those good people vote in the most evil people, and cheer when others are harmed?

Not a fan. I hire you to do a job, not direct my life