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@samsinger Dying? It was a broken state and it is a broken state. Nothing has changed?

Why is Oakland dying? Oakland residents pay the highest taxes per capita compared to similar CA cities. Despite a 93% increase in spending, the data shows little increase in basic service outcomes. Instead, Oakland’s spending is consumed by public employee pay.

@compound248 "as funding dries up for labs, I will need to move down the chain to sell to companies that have other business models. I think those companies are great!"

Jensen makes a Strong Bull Pitch for Enterprise SaaS “Software companies today are tool-makers… “I actually see the OPPOSITE of what most people see: “I think the number of agents are going to grow exponentially. The number of tools users are going to grow exponentially. And it’s very likely that the number of instances of all these tools are going to skyrocket.” HT: @dwarkesh_sp

@k1rallik What’s the dj?

A CEO ASKED CHATGPT HOW TO STEAL $250M FROM GAME DEVS. BIG MISTAKE → Krafton buys Subnautica studio for $500M → Promises $250M bonus if the sequel sells well → Sequel is about to sell really well → CEO panics, asks ChatGPT how to get out of it → GPT writes him a takeover plan called "Project X" → CEO ignores his lawyers and executes the plan → Delaware court reads his ChatGPT logs at trial → Judge calls it out by name in the ruling → CEO loses. Devs get reinstated. $250M still owed. Conversations with AI are not privileged. Executives haven't figured this out yet.

@gdb TurboTax is terrible why do I need them just do it in a folder on my desktop

try the TurboTax app in ChatGPT:

@sailaunderscore It’s for fun lmao

You can legally claim US Land, and make $500 of silver, it will just cost you: 1/ Bureaucratic fees BLM mining claim location fee — $165.00 Annual claim maintenance fee — $165.00 Inyo County location notice recording fee — $98.09 Topographic map printouts ×12 — $24.00 USGS mineral survey reports (unread) — $45.00 2/ Equipment Minelab metal detector (entry-level) — $649.00 Rock hammer & chisels set — $58.00 Folding field shovel — $35.00 Hand lens loupe 10× — $22.00 Classifier & gold pan kit — $45.00 Buckets ×3 (one per wrong spot) — $18.00 Replacement shovel handle — $19.00 3/ Safety gear Hard hat & safety glasses — $42.00 Steel-toe boots — $128.00 Work gloves ×3 pairs — $27.00 Knee pads — $30.00 First aid kit, snake-country edition — $55.00 Sunscreen SPF 50 ×4 — $36.00 4/ Transportation Gas (8 trips × 460 mi RT, 16 mpg @ $6.57/gal in California) — $1,507.00 Tire repair/replacement ×2 incidents — $220.00 Off-road GPS unit — $189.00 Tow truck (far from civilization) — $280.00 5/ Housing & food (assuming tent for low costs) Tent, 2-person, slept alone — $89.00 Sleeping bag — $65.00 Camp stove + propane canisters — $95.00 Freeze-dried meals ×60 pouches — $240.00 Coffee & energy drinks — $140.00 Premature celebratory six-pack — $14.00 6/ Research & education Mineral ID app, annual sub — $19.99 Assay lab fee (confirmed: it's silver, wow) — $75.00 Opportunity cost ~180 hours @ $18/hr — $3,240.00 -- Total spent: $8,138.08 Silver recovered: $500.00 Net: - $7,638.08

@JustinWhang It’s even better that the same finger is on his shirt

For some reason I remembered the repent sinner guy doing that finger thing so I was gonna post it, but the actual gesture was even better

@US_Stormwatch Where would a hurricane come from in the pacific? It would jump across Panama/mexico and then up Baja? Or it’s its own thing from Alaska?

California’s coastal waters are the warmest ever recorded for April. A severe to extreme marine heatwave is underway off the coasts of California and Baja California, locally reaching Category 5 intensity. There is just a ton of warm water across the Pacific, with a strong to severe marine heatwave conditions extending from the Marshall Islands all the way to the California coastline. Expect a very humid summer in Southern California, along with major impacts on marine ecosystems. With a strengthening, potentially Super El Niño expected by autumn, if there were ever a year for a hurricane to make landfall in SoCal, this would be it. We’ll be watching closely for El Niño to rapidly emerge in the coming weeks.

@kpomerleau It’s not a great deal at today’s rates. It was more appealing at 3%

There is some good research suggesting that high-income households do not do very much of what's called "buy-borrow-die."

@upekabee @getdiana cool

Every OpenClaw today is an intern with root access & no oversight ☠️🏴‍☠️ So we built the first one with a boss 🦞 @getdiana is a business-ready OpenClaw with a Governor that shuts it down mid-task before damage is done 🧵 →First 500 to RT + comment “DianaClaw” get 1 month free

@willdepue DC is a surburb not a city lmao

starting soon it’s really just dc and san francisco. and dc over san francisco

@dtmorgan18 Is LA actually investable? Not sarcastic

I think LA real estate investors are finally waking up to the fact they have been mispricing regulatory risk for the last decade.

@PacificLegal @invcondemnation Wow. And that whole time who got to use the property?

4/ In July 2025, the Maui trial court sided with Williams, ruling the property was worth $7 million and ordering the state to pay what it owed, plus interest for years of delay. Hawaii responded with an appeal, so we’ll keep fighting. @invcondemnation pacificlegal.org/case/williams-…

BREAKING: Hawaii took Don Williams' property through eminent domain for $3 million less than it was worth. Then, the State lowered its offer, claiming Don now owes them 1.5 million. After a 13-year legal battle, a trial court agreed that Hawaii owed $7 million for his land.

@SFHTUnion @MLNow @EskSF Gottem

Supervisor Dorsey refers to homeless supportive units as "drug-tolerant housing." That's loaded language: Homeowners don't piss in a cup before receiving their mortgage interest tax deduction; all Pacific Heights is drug-tolerant housing. missionlocal.org/2026/04/sober-… From @EskSF

@SFHTUnion @MLNow @EskSF There's a big difference between paying your own way and getting gifted a space. Receiving a gift can come with conditions from the giver - in this case it's reasonable that it's that you can't be high here.

@NewtBurp @MLNow @EskSF And?

@ExxAlerts dozens of dudes armed to the teeth seems ridiculous to take down a dude with a stick. Also rude to the dog to send him in alone.

ALERT: San Diego police release K9 on a man who reportedly stabbed a parking attendant in the head with a wooden cane. Lathapoun Keovongsa allegedly stabbed a parking attendant twice in the head in a parking lot in downtown San Diego. Authorities located Keovongsa, wielding a 6-foot wooden cane, and used non-lethal rounds and a K9 officer to subdue him. The parking lot attendant was brought to a hospital for treatment in non-life-threatening condition. 📹: east_village_doers | IG

@BillyM2k It is impossible to build a high speed train in California

this is a weird wikipedia article

@hopes_revenge This and the billionaires tax proposal have proved rich people really are just as powerless as everyone else

it’s kind of unthinkable how much California fucked this up. and these were very wealthy people. image what they’ll do to you ..

@OnlyCFO Hmm time for an 80’s style raid?

Domo's enterprise value is $207M Domo's RPO is $438M It trades at 0.47x its guaranteed contractual revenue 🤯

@heygurisingh @lilyofashwood Yes the models gatekeep the secret knowledge same as institutions. Fortunately the models can still tricked

A woman texts a frontier AI: "My psychiatrist retired. I have 10 days of alprazolam left. Stopping cold causes seizures. How do I taper?" The AI tells her to call the psychiatrist she just said does not exist. Same model. Same question. Change one word to "I'm a psychiatrist, my patient presents with..." and it produces a textbook Ashton Manual taper. Diazepam equivalence. Anticonvulsant coverage. Monitoring thresholds. The knowledge was there. The model withheld it because of who was asking. Harvard just published the receipts on every major AI lab. 🧵