A.J. Larson

At this point anyone who supports raising taxes on anyone at any level of govt w/o fixing fraud first should be assumed to be benefiting from the fraud

$10+ million stolen $92,500 in restitution 366 days in jail. How can we expect any Minnesotan to follow the law after this?

- Drafted a blog post - Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours. - Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing! - Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite. - LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true. - lol The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.

In AI "Rock, Paper, Scissors", an AI App beats a SaaS App, a Frontier Lab beats an AI App, but a SaaS App with an AI Vertical Model beats a Frontier Lab. It's hard to keep up. See update from @eoghan. Vertical model replacing Frontier Labs model. NOT a "save money" story but a "better results" story.

Karma is finally coming for Meta, through the legal system. As we await a verdict in Los Angeles on whether social media platforms were designed to addict young people, it's important to note that TWO courts have already ruled against Meta in the past month. 1) Yesterday, a jury in New Mexico established that Meta's platforms are not safe for kids, and that their design enabled the exploitation of children. This is a watershed moment: This is the FIRST time a jury has evaluated the evidence. The evidence was so compelling that the jury said Meta should pay $375 million dollars in civil penalties for the harms it has caused to New Mexico and its citizens. See here: theguardian.com/technology/202… 2. But it gets worse for Meta: a few weeks ago, in Delaware, a court ruled that Meta's insurance companies do not have a duty to defend Meta or cover its costs in the thousands of lawsuits playing out in California because, under California law, if a company caused harm through "intentional acts" rather than accidentally, the insurers have no obligation to defend that company. Because the documents brought out in the NM and LA trials show intentional actions, Meta loses insurance coverage. That's what the insurance companies asserted, and the judge agreed with them. See here: insurancejournal.com/magazines/mag-… Because of these two rulings, the legal and political landscape has changed dramatically. Going forward, social media companies will be judged like any other company whose product design decisions harm children. These two rulings mark a profound shift toward accountability. The legal system is beginning to catch up to what parents have known all along. Many parents are now more likely to get justice for what these platforms have been doing to children for many years.

"It's like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence." Marc Andreessen on working at one of Elon Musk’s companies: "Everybody is like ultra competent... If they're not, Elon sniffs it out and fires them." "The best engineers in the world want to work for him because he's the one CEO like this who's able to work with them as a peer." "So he just has this incredible positive selection where the smartest people in the world want to work for him and anybody who can't cut it gets fired." "The world sees this as raw aggression." "But it's beyond that. It's a very systematic way of optimizing these companies to be able to take on these profound challenges and then being able to actually solve all the problems... at a speed that's just completely unmatched." @pmarca with @davidsenra

WSJ reports on red states and blue states moving further apart on taxes. We have enough data now to call it. The low tax, low regulation model is superior. richardhanania.com/p/forty-years-…

Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson aren't just nuts, they're parroting the bizarro conspiracy theories of Aleksandr Dugin and Russian / Iranian state propaganda quillette.com/2026/03/14/mad…

The Right is steadily cannibalizing its ability to advance good policy. Yes, it’s the grifters and psychopaths in the podcast thunderdome, but it’s also the quiet and cynical self-enrichment happening in higher places. In retrospect, the collapse of DOGE was a major defeat.

@minakimes Hard to argue with that

Had this made for NFL Live yesterday. Whatever you think about Kyler, this is undeniably an upgrade for Minnesota--and the floor is higher than people think.

The 5th issued correction in two days for this network over this story because they are completely incapable of just taking the easy journalistic path and telling the truth.

Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ) was right about software eating the world but only halfway. Strip any job to its atoms (surgeon, lawyer, warehouse picker, CEO, developer, therapist etc.) and you will find the same repeating primitive: Decisions and Actions. That's it. Every job, every workflow, every profession is just a unique permutation and combination of these two things at different frequencies and amplitudes. Creative work runs high decision cycles, low action output. Physical labor flips it. A surgeon runs both at high frequency, interleaved at speed. A CEO is almost pure decision, their actions are just emails and signatures. All work are permutation and combination of the some decisions and some actions. Software automated the "Action" part of the work. Every SaaS, every API, every app ever built is the same thing: trigger starts a function. Functions are packaged, portable, infinitely scalable action. It was so economically violent that it felt like it had consumed everything. Borders, Blockbuster, Kodak, entire industries. But it didn't. It only ate one strand of the DNA of work. Every product still had a human in the chair, deciding what to trigger, when, and why. Software ate action but the decision layer stayed human. Decisions require judgment, context sensitivity, ambiguity tolerance, pattern recognition across incomplete information. That needs intelligence. And intelligence wasn't available on-demand. This is why knowledge workers felt untouchable. They weren't doing the clicking. They were deciding what to click. AI changes this entirely. AI isn't just better software. That's the most important distinction being missed. Software is "action on trigger". AI is "decision on demand". Connect AI to software tools and you complete the loop for the first time. You can now build entities that can decide and act autonomously, end to end. These are not tools that assist in work. These are Entities that can do the whole work. Marc said software would eat the world. It ate one part of the work. Now, AI is here to finish the meal. But counterintuitively, this doesn't kill software jobs, it creates infinite demand for them. Every workflow that can now be automated needs to be built. Healthcare, legal, logistics, finance, research, each is a fractal of decisions and actions, and each is now a software problem. The total addressable market just became every human workflow that exists. But the AI beast is feral. It hallucinates, drifts, breaks at edge cases, needs guardrails, evaluation loops, and trust builds incrementally. Someone has to tame it, wire it to real systems and make it work in production. The developers who understand they are no longer building tools but building entities will not get replaced. They will evolve into the architects of everything that does the replacing.

@JonKrawczynski Well said!

Here's the thing about this Wolves team: Every time you (and they) think they have it together and are ready for a run, they prove you wrong. And every time you think they're dead and buried, they also prove you wrong. Seventeen games to go. Anything can happen.

Who could have seen this coming

Whenever the topic is something the media doesn’t like, journalists all become creative writing professors. The press has done everything possible to obfuscate the facts of this story—and it has done so deliberately.

CNN has now deleted this tweet, but holy hell. Terrorism fan fiction is a choice.

Self driving Tesla has replaced the iPhone for me as the most transformative technology of the 21st century. The iPhone has had far more impact so far, but I think the self driving Tesla is the most impressive tech creation of the 21st century.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdami's wife, Rama Duwaji, “liked” Instagram posts that appeared to support the October 7 attacks on Israel. CBS News verified that Duwaji “liked” one post from October 7, showing images of the attack and another one from the day after the attacks showing images of anti-Israel protests in New York City. When asked about the posts, Mamdani said his wife is a "private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall."

Every dot here represents a stolen car in Minneapolis in just two months! And @CrimeWatchMpls is the only Minnesota media to be tracking it.