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@davidshepardson @WhiteHouse Prime example of why the US needs a robust train network you can 100% eliminate EAS and folks in the boonies can take the train to the nearest major airport
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@convenwisdom @blip_tm @dilanesper I sleep all the way to Europe in coach big dog you’re just bad at sleeping
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99% of the first class value proposition for international flight is “you can lie down”
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
wow. Basically the idea here is some people just want the seat or the bed and don't want the rest of the luxury bundle they sell with it. this could change the industry's pricing model.
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@john_dough @blip_tm @dilanesper Ah right. Yes, east coast transcons and Europe are too short for service. West coast is different.
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@convenwisdom @blip_tm @dilanesper You on the east coast? Because from SF to Europe is a bit longer…
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@marisa_schultz @CaitlinDoornbos @stevennelson10 @nypost Wait how would this be supposed to work. If you tell everyone the same story you can’t tell who leaked it…
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NEW from @stevennelson10 in the @nypost . Hegseth’s top aide has been spreading a reckless rumor about his boss .
nypost.com/2026/04/03/us-…
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@kaseyklimes Not sure 2 is totally true yet. At least in the way I’m interpreting it.
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figma's demotion has two parts
1. code is a far more frictionless medium for design than it once was
2. visual design specifically is less relevant in the present era of technology than system design
kasey@kaseyklimes
as a designer I haven't used figma for anything other than slides since early 2023
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@stevehou And standing next to him, screwing all this up but failing upwards, Boz.
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“Hassabis administered a subtle test on him. The two men discussed the potential of AI, and Zuckerberg expressed appropriate excitement. But then, as the dinner continued, Hassabis brought up other hot technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, 3-D printing. Zuckerberg sounded equally excited about all of them. ‘That told me what I needed to know,’ Hassabis said.”
Steve Jurvetson@FutureJurvetson
Subtext: how Zuck’s obsession with VR lost him AI leadership and “the greatest deal Google ever made.” “if Facebook didn’t buy DeepMind, they would end up in the arms of Google. Hassabis came out to the West Coast to have lunch with Larry Page, still the strongest suitor. Zuckerberg got wind of his visit and invited him to dinner. Arriving at Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto home, Hassabis administered a subtle test on him. The two men discussed the potential of AI, and Zuckerberg expressed appropriate excitement. But then, as the dinner continued, Hassabis brought up other hot technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, 3-D printing. Zuckerberg sounded equally excited about all of them. ‘That told me what I needed to know,’ Hassabis said. ‘Facebook offered more money, but I wanted somebody who really understood why AI would be bigger than all these other things.’ After the dinner, Hassabis got back to Larry Page. ‘Let’s go further,’ he told him.” — book excerpt from today’s WSJ: wsj.com/tech/ai/deepmi… Zuck’s misplaced devotion to VR and the metaverse hurt the company much more than the $80 billion of wasted spend. It’s the reputational hit. @DemisHassabis divined it in his final test, and Zuck didn’t even know that he blew the opportunity. Eight years later, he renamed the company Meta, doubling down on what anyone with tech savvy knew was DOA. Then, in a 2025 attempt to play catchup, Zuck spent $14 billion on a data labelling company with a salesy leader and upended his AI team. Once again, anyone with tech savvy rolled their eyes on the acquisition and management changes, further evidence that the tech leadership at Meta was seriously lacking. TLDR; beware the metaverse. It is a dystopian vision at best, and luckily for humanity, headsets are still nowhere near readiness for mass adoption.
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@dilanesper Strait of Trump is a better name because it’s useless.
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@billybinion @NicksProps Knowing that terrorists might crash the plane (rather than divert it to some other country for negotiations) has probably done even more than the locked cockpit doors.
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@NicksProps Locking the cockpit doors has done more for air safety than the creation of an entire agency
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I waited nearly 3.5 hours in a TSA line—and *still* almost missed my flight.
The ability to get home shouldn’t depend on whether Congress does its job. Why are we still tolerating this?
Nothing has made a better case for abolishing the TSA than this shutdown. I wrote about it:
reason@reason
I spent over three hours in a TSA line. Why haven't we abolished this agency? reason.com/2026/03/26/i-s…
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@_ZachGriff JFK terminal 5 was 1 hr and 56 mins this morning
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Great news: EWR and JFK are live again on my free TSA wait time dashboard.
Since official feeds were pulled, I’m now sourcing data from a 3rd party provider (EWR/JFK only)
Lmk if times are off.
Tested a few times over past 24 hours, and seems accurate.
tsa.fromthetraytable.com
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@_ZachGriff Anyway to check historical (not real time) data? 7am flight from EWR tomorrow and interested in the 5am-7am window! Thanks for what you’re doing!
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At this point can't ATI just ask Claude Code to implement CUDA for their chips?
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@emily_lip I explained it to my 7yo once and he now will always tell anyone we are riding with about it.
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going through the dekalb interlocking requires you to say to the person next to you “this is the dekalb interlocking and it’s Like This because it’s older than your grandparents”
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@bgurley @davegirouard Lotteries aren’t great but I think compared to the deep addiction that sports gambling seems to be creating they are tolerable.
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@davegirouard I agree. But lots of people on both sides have promoted lotteries.
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Don’t often find myself agreeing with AOC but . . .
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
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@BarneyGumble55 @mnolangray Yes, he absolutely did. He did in the book and then he pushed for it through foundations.
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@mnolangray Did he himself advocate for coerced sterilizations and abortions? If someone took your recommendations and liquidated the kulaks (single family homeowners) are you to blame?
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Normally, I don't speak ill of the dead but: rest in piss. Paul Ehrlich's work wasn't "premature," it was wrong, completely so, and evil: his recommendations resulted in many hundreds of thousands of coerced sterilizations and abortions among the world's most vulnerable people.
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@WhitStillman There is something glorious about the amazing actors of a country that doesn’t make too many films all coming together. Someone should finance an ensemble movie for each country like this once a decade (at least).
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"The Secret Agent" had the best casting by far.
Alta Fidelidad@alta_fidelidad
🔶️Primer año de la categoría Mejor Casting, que ha ido para Una batalla tras otra #Oscars
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@zeynep I know. Any NYC is better than most cities in almost all ways here. And I know the reality of the choices cities have make it hard.
I’m just saying that people feel like crap when they hear they have to pay $xxl per person AND they have to deal with things as if they didn’t.
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@convenwisdom Every US city deals with these issues. Providing the kind of outreach to get consent to acceptable alternatives is the only legal option in the United States. NYC has sufficient shelters otherwise.
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How X works: Tweet goes viral, people say just give the money to the homeless, blah blah.
No interest in WHO this population of a few thousand people actually are (hint: NOT the general homeless) or why countries like France, Australia, etc. spend similar sums on the same group.
Mike Bird@Birdyword
Absolutely astounding figures from the NY state comptroller: spending on services for the NYC street homeless population ran to $81,705 per person last year, up from $28,428 pp 6yrs ago. Figures do not include all kinds of other spending, supportive housing, policing costs etc.
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@zeynep I think the argument is that NYC residents pay for this but they also deal with consequences as if they didn’t pay for it.
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Just look at the replies and quotes — this is the kind of stuff that goes easily viral on X, and with one interpretation. Not actual facts.
What else should NYC do if not spend money on a small number with disproportionate negative public consequence with few legal options?
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@SeanDitull16772 @moseskagan It’s definitely true in NYC. SoHo, West Village, Williamsburg all went through this. And many more on a lower scale.
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@moseskagan Is this true? I just thought of the urban environments I’ve lived in and there is a lack of national chains? Brickell Miami only has a few chains. I don’t remember Chicago when I lived there being surrounded by chains. Is there a gap between first tier neighborhoods and lower?
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“Tragedy of the commons” in interesting neighborhoods:
Each individual owner incentivized to rent to national chains, due to their higher credit-quality.
But, once too many do, the neighborhood loses what made it interesting in the first place.
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@GergelyOrosz @balintorosz This is why I think that everyone who is criticizing Apple for being behind on AI features. The kinds of features that they are interested in simply aren't ready yet and if they put them in the OS it would be a slop fest. As we saw with some of their early attempts.
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“Copilot” is something me and many others associate with “slop.” Not because if GitHub Copilot (which was good), but because of Copilot everywhere else, they Microsoft shipped unfinished, buggy… just plain bad.
Here’s my brother @balintorosz reflecting wanting to avoid just this with his startup, @craftdocs: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-first-mak…
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Microsoft has been on a speedrun in destroying the originally very strong (GitHub) Copilot brand.
This is chef’s kiss: if there is one group that has an absolutely allergic reaction to AI in the software they buy: it’s gamers.
Xbox already struggled vs Playstation - now this…
Shinobi602@shinobi602
Gaming Copilot coming to Xbox consoles later this year: "[...]we will bring Gaming Copilot to the current-generation consoles, and we will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing", said Manager for Gaming AI at Xbox Sonali Yadav ➡️ gamesradar.com/games/xbox-jus…
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