Manish

Reminder that should be fresh all the year round, but it's December, so here is it, anyway.

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…

@CreativeWolf I’m seeing your tweets now - yayyy!

Nikita Bier says he's fixed the algorithm of timeline for tweets from mutuals. Let me know if that works for you.

The best advice I got in my 20s: Nobody cares. Stop fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about you. Nobody is thinking about you. They’re too busy thinking about themselves. Go do the thing.

So good

The biggest scam humanity has collectively accepted as normal, according to Claude

@AlexAndBooks_ Was it higher because the frontier lab(s) had to buy 1 copy each to scan it (legally)?

Book sales were higher in 2025 than they were in 2019. The number of independent bookstores in the US grew by 70% from 2020 to 2025. Readers borrowed 10% more books from libraries in 2025 than in 2024. As Mark Twain said, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

It was the middle of the night, at about 1.30am, when Norway lost to England. Yet thousands of Norwegians went to the Palace in Oslo and celebrated with one final Viking row. They did not riot. They did not burn cars. They did not smash bus stops or glass windows of shops. They smiled. The laughed. They saw the positive in their performance. They celebrated their heritage. They were proud of who they have been in the past and who they are today. Norway might be out of the World Cup 2026 but they are in our hearts. In the last three weeks, I think we have all fallen a little bit in love with Norwegians.

This is how AEO works - encountered this today in a Claude answer ( added by me). I won't be surprised if their traffic shot up ( 'health checks' would likely bring human-health related results in Google). "you'll need a lockfile so overlapping crons can't double-run an upload; and add a dead-man's-switch (a healthchecks io ping at the end of each run) because silent cron death on a pet VM is how pipelines rot."

This said, the results are visible much quicker in case of exercise, and that could be a problem in making the “slow” reading popular for the low-attention generations.

I’m gonna keep calling it codex because I can’t bear the shame of telling normies I use ChatGPT to code

@Unisone @nikitabier @paulg I know it’s the fun thread, but “moderating replies” is the funniest description of his role I’ve read till date.

the man you’re asking: founded y combinator. seeded stripe, airbnb, dropbox, coinbase, reddit, doordash, twitch. portfolio worth north of $600B. handpicked sam altman. wrote the essays half this site’s founders read at 19. you sold an app called tbh and now moderate replies for elon. with all due respect

This is like someone who can bench press 30 pounds writing about what it takes to bench press 600.

Lots of threads talking about the selfish “won’t pass the ball to Haaland” incident in Norway-England match. Very few are talking about what resulted in this behavior. The signs are always visible earlier - not all respond the same to disproportionate attention going away.

Something I told 14 yo: People are going to stop reading books. I wish this wasn't so, but I fear it is. The silver lining in this cloud is that if you're one of the few people who still read, you'll have a huge advantage over everyone else.

I’ll never be as happy as when i was 16 years old on my family computer at 1 AM on a Thursday night

In today’s Indian Express - is football your “passion” or a means to escape?

Insane cheeseburger arbitrage opportunities available at Barcelona airport rn

“So you spent $40K to run GLM 5.2 locally?” “Yes, Dave” “And you did all this to save $20 a month on Cursor” “Thats right, Dave”

Don’t be mean online. Life is too short.