Alex Cortez

changing my bio to "Thinker, Futurist"

@MikeIsaac finally, peak podcast

this is someone’s entire job

Krash gonna be single and jobless by tomorrow

You all started it and we fucking finished it.

@katbeee God I hated US fashion in the mid-2000s and I blame Vice specifically

@gggiants even year baby

Giants back?

Daniel Susac is first Giant to get hits in his first five career at-bats since 1900. The previous best career start by a Giant was a 4-for-4, in 1959, a fellow named McCovey.

This statement changes nothing. The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat. He has launched a massive war of enormous risk and of catastrophic consequence without reason, rationale, nor Congressional authorization - which is as clear a violation of the Constitution as any. Each day this goes on, the risk and criminality of these actions escalate for our nation and the world. Moreover, this administration’s self enrichment, insider trading, and pure corruption off this chaos - from crypto currencies to predictive trading markets to bribe “settlements” - has placed the Trump administration’s pursuit of personal wealth squarely against the wellbeing of our nation and its people. All of these incidents, and plenty more, have clearly driven our country past the threshold for impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment. We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer. None of these considerations should be partisan, but shared in good faith by Americans of all backgrounds who care for the safety and stability of the United States. Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.

@kimmaicutler he's cooked. time to yeet his foul excuse for a presidency once and for all

What is going on? Did he just whipsaw from threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization to giving them the Strait of Hormuz tollbooth? What is happening?

@heyitsnoah @MikeIsaac At the moment we will continue to disagree, because from where I'm sitting, not every job needs this form of "AI" at this time. In the future? In an improved form? I have an open mind.

@alexstar @MikeIsaac Well this is where we are going to be at an impasse … I am very much in the assume AI is useful for employees because I see it every day at some of the biggest companies in the world. So we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

this feels......misguided

the face of *I am very intelligent*

@heyitsnoah @MikeIsaac a lot of bosses *wrongfully assume* that AI is useful for their employees. many of my colleagues simply don't see the need to use AI at work at this juncture. so, they burn tokens on background processes in order to "comply". Great use of everybody's time, money, and resources.

@alexstar @MikeIsaac Yes of course… I’m very aware of Goodhart open.substack.com/pub/whyisthisi… My point is not that this is a great long-term strategy, my point is that if you’re trying to make an effort to push an employee base to adopt AI quickly sometimes you need a blunt instrument.

It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. You have to be run by ideas not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people do not stay.  —Steve Jobs

@MikeIsaac @heyitsnoah goodhart's law. when a metric becomes a target, it's no longer useful as a metric. people will start gaming the system.

@heyitsnoah i would argue there are better ways to measure effective use. outputs/projects shipped etc

@MikeIsaac that's not very "move fast and break things" of you mike

i think this is a fair point trying to imagine when in the past any of these hyperscalers would’ve been fine shipping a ten percent error rate mass market product “this car runs 90 percent of the time” etc

glass half full: 90 percent accuracy is an impressive accuracy rate glass half empty: 10 percent error rate for a company that does more than 5 Trillion search queries per year is still a gigantic number nytimes.com/2026/04/07/tec…

Hegseth could be impeached for this alone. He is not a serious person and has no business wielding the power that was gifted to him. he's like a malevolent child, wandering through the house, breaking things impulsively and with impunity

@katbeee ugh glad you're (mostly) okay!

gonna be a long season

@katbeee I went yesterday but didn't see this!! 😭😭

Hegseth about to give his next briefing from under the bus

@kimmaicutler @GavinNewsom @iGardon

@GavinNewsom @iGardon You’re not supposed to acknowledge this.

For so many years people have been saying that Patrick Bateman and I look alike. Now this pic has been going all over the place. What do you think?