Ethics Bored

@PhiloGroves IMO, average listed price doesn't say much about affordability. Nor does average sale price.

That is insane lol. I paid ~half for my car and people compliment it all the time. It was slightly used and not new, but these prices are yikes.

@atlanticesque "Leftists" or just one guy you saw on the internet?

Leftists want to distribute housing through a college admissions-like process Y’know like, “Instead of paying rent, write a personal statement about how you will enrich this neighborhood” American leftism seems like people who really enjoyed the process of applying to college

@itsnikhildaga @venturetwins That is a "Carmen San Diego stole the whole stadium" level of goalpost moving.

@venturetwins Which startup has become popular by building apps only using AI and without a team of engineers?

I get confused when I hear people say the AI era has no successful consumer apps. ChatGPT hit 100M MAUs faster than any app in history - it took just 2 months (vs. 9 for TikTok and 30 for IG). And the App Store still constantly looks like this 🤔

@headinthebox "Play Magic The Gathering instead of wasting your time on a software project" is just wild advice.

If you are 16, the last thing you should do is waste your most precious time on vibe coding yet another database. There are already too many databases. Instead hang out with your friends, start a rock band, go camping, get ripped in the gym, play MTG, learn how to juggle or slacklining, … Or even collect Pokémon cards. But working on a database is simply a bad life choice.

@businessbarista Reminds me of Kalebods. nickcammarata.com/writing/two-ex…

I want to start dieting again. Don’t need a nutritionist, just need a nutrition-interested accountability buddy. We’d align on our diets and then each day share our meals and end of day macros. Can also share stuff we’re learning about nutrition and health along the way. Who wants to be my diet buddy?

@eugeneychan @fromthearena1 My guy, if you're going to let your LLM tweet for you, at least write a better prompt.

Amazon employees built a leaderboard ranking who used the most AI at work. People started running it on pointless tasks, burning real money, just to climb. Amazon killed the board this week and told staff to quit using AI for the sake of using AI. The scoreboard was nicknamed KiroRank, after Kiro, the in-house coding tool Amazon hands its developers. It counted "tokens," the tiny chunks of text an AI charges you for every time it reads or writes something. The more tokens you spent, the higher you ranked, so people started feeding the AI make-work to pad their score. A senior Amazon executive, Dave Treadwell, told staff the board was a nice idea that mostly just ran up the bills, and asked them to point AI at real customer problems instead. Amazon is not the only one cleaning this up. Meta quietly pulled a near-identical leaderboard that had been ranking around 85,000 of its workers. Over at Uber, engineers leaned on an AI coding tool so hard that they blew the company's entire AI budget for 2026 by April, four months in. A top Uber executive admitted he can't prove all that spending made the app any better for riders, and the heaviest users were running up $500 to $2,000 a month each. Two big studies help explain the second-guessing. A team at MIT looked at 300 company AI projects and found that 95 out of every 100 brought in no extra money, even after those businesses spent $30 to $40 billion trying. In a separate test, researchers timed experienced programmers working in code they knew inside out. The ones allowed to use AI finished 19% slower, and yet they came away certain the AI had sped them up. None of this means Amazon is backing away from AI. The company is on track to spend close to $200 billion this year, most of it on AI and its cloud business, and it still wants more than 80% of its developers using AI every week. One division even makes you spell out your AI use when you apply for a promotion. So the same company betting $200 billion on AI is the one telling its own staff that using a lot of it and getting something out of it are two very different things. The leaderboard rewarded whoever burned the most. Amazon swapped it for a measure of who actually ships useful work, and switched the old one off.

@PhiloGroves @rikarends Yes, but they have both.

@rikarends Aren’t they required to use USB-C by law in Europe?

They already did this, its the magnetic charger in the back of your phone.

@agraybee The writing in the first 2 seasons was basically video game dialogue already.

The Mandalorian and Grogu was fine, but it should have been a video game. There was a monster arena.

@sflorimm Team both.

Are you team Claude or Codex right now ?

@enjojoyy I had it build an iOS app from scratch that does nutrition tracking the way I want (very fuzzy tracking). It's not perfect yet, but it did a pretty decent job.

People that run 24+ hours Codex tasks Can you share what you’re running exactly? Everyone is sharing the hours but not the task itself, I feel that most of them are just engagement baits

@diviacaroline Put Wisconsin on the short list.

More of this please! Very grateful Google is doing this and hoping Texas is next.

This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine. In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on: - retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels - RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life - small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol - Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection - this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.

An underrated benefit of LLMs is talking to them about something that makes you mad on social media. You get a better conversation out of the deal and you don't make the mistake of entering The Discourse.

@ettingermentum The belief that we can change sentiment toward a group of people by strictly policing what language is used to describe them. And more generally the use of shame as the primary lever of social change.

For those of us (nearly everyone) who recognize Woke 1.0 as a failure, what’s something specific you’re willing to say it got wrong? Here’s mine: the practice of describing policies that were, like, Kerner Commission recommendations as “prison abolition” to get attention was dumb

@Andrey4Mir @ettingermentum Nope. Anyone who was on Tumblr before 2010 can tell you the roots of this were not institutional.

Woke 1.0 was neither a failure nor someone's conspiracy plot - it was a pure media effect. As institutions rushed into digital, they found the first digital demographics there, mostly young, urban, educated progressives, and aligned with them. The first users of any new medium impose their values on the rest of society, always. Woke 1.0 was an effect of the Digital Rush. andreymir.com/p/the-digital-…

Three little words that do not appear on this website often enough can resolve internal conflict, reduce stress, and reconcile you to your brothers and sisters. "Ah, I misunderstood."

@SteveLovesAmmo "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Can someone point me to exactly at what point in history everything started going to absolute shit?

@deetvleet @visakanv @CaliTenDay The joke is that we create expectations based on the fiction of the advertisement and those expectations clash with reality when we just toss the clothes on and look in the mirror.

@deetvleet @visakanv @CaliTenDay You're still evaluating it as if it's supposed to provide an accurate comparison. I don't think it is. Part of the reason we don't look like the models do is that we're not striking the pose, not in professional lighting, not wearing makeup, not in a tailored version, etc.

Saw a video that described this feeling so well lol.

@hunterlanier @techhsiren Oh man, we had a place that delivered margaritas for a while. It was kind of fantastic. And then I quit drinking because it was wrecking my anxiety levels... but for a few months there it was a nice treat! Had to find now where we could.

@techhsiren The local Mexican restaurant did “to go margaritas” and it was just a bottle of tequila with a styrofoam cup of lime juice 🤌 We drank that and a shit ton of this target margarita wine. We were just kind of drinking out of boredom now that you mention it

guys was it normal to have a mild drinking problem during the pandemic? like i didn't realize this was weird til after lockdown ended but i was buying like a litre of wine and drinking it in 2 days pretty regularly