Jesse Griffis

@not_asian_asian @SandyofCthulhu Solution is to find the lawyers who did it and f'ing force them to choke on chicken bones. F them.

@SandyofCthulhu Number 3 is the problem. I worked at KFC and we got sued one time because a homeless person got salmonella eating chicken out of our trash that was mixed with other chicken waste. We had to throw our trash away in separate bins as a result.

Okay let's discuss why Krispy Kreme does this: 1) obviously, they miscalculated how many donuts to make that day. They don't WANT to waste the food. Since you can't predict your customers, sometimes you will have too much food. 2) Because they're a business, they can't just hand out the donuts for free at day's end, or they won't be able to sell them. 3) So the solution is "give them to charity". The problem here is that the litigious nature of modern America means that they will absolutely be sued when some moron chokes on a pecan chunk. It's not worth the risk. 4) The next step is to argue "The law needs to hold Krispy Kreme guiltless if they give away their extra food." That all sounds fine and well, BUT I guarantee that the city will have a whole list of rules a food donation has to follow to be immune from lawsuits. And Krispy Kreme has clueless teenagers throwing out the donuts, so they will absolutely fail to follow all the rules. 5) the only way this could readily work in the USA without being crushed under the burden of bureaucracy or lawsuits would be if each individual Krispy Kreme had a specific charity who came by at night to pick up the extra donuts. People they knew and trusted. Get rid of the lawyers and allow for common sense and that food can be donated lightning fast.

@mustwerightnow @micyoung75 And what action do you expect us to take, exactly? There is no lawful way for 99% of us to do a damned thing.

@micyoung75 As someone who lives in the southern hemisphere, fuck this is tiresome. We are sick to death of the current US clown show headlining every single dam day, with some new crazy, corrupt, lawless thing. Enough is enough. When is action, aside from whinging on X, going to be taken.

The Gerstein piece is doing something the CBS story didn’t fully surface: the collateral damage runs backward. The Presidential Records Act took effect on January 20, 1981 - Reagan’s first inauguration day. Every president since has operated under it. The system for accessing Reagan’s records, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, Obama, Biden - the entire framework governing public access to forty-five years of White House decision-making - rests on the legal validity of that law. The OLC opinion declaring it unconstitutional doesn’t just free Trump going forward. It destabilizes the foundation that every future researcher, journalist, congressional investigator, and historian uses to access the records of every administration since the one that ended with “Morning in America.” A former White House Counsel’s Office lawyer who served under Obama and Clinton put it flatly: the opinion gives Trump the authority to hold sensitive documents when he leaves office and sell them to the “highest bidder.” That’s not hyperbole. That’s the logic of an opinion that says Congress has no valid legislative purpose in regulating what presidents do with government records. In Trump’s first term, White House staff retrieved documents he’d torn “into pieces so small they looked like confetti” and literally taped them back together because the law required it. The law no longer requires it. The taped-together confetti was evidence of something. We may never know what.

@jonesalex91 @hsimon62 @UBuffaloMBB Sign a contract, leave a week later. Buffalo media still all over him like he grew up here. Obnoxious.

@hsimon62 @UBuffaloMBB He trashed Buffalo. Disappointed in him

From @UBuffaloMBB to one of the highest paid coaches in the country. Congratulations to Nate. He’s built Alabama into a basketball power.

@SalSports Watch out he might jump to a better job in a week.

Huge new deal at Alabama for former UB coach Nate Oats.

@bprintco @itry2makestuff Pretty wild the reply guy decrying inability to pay attention doesn't read the word "nephew"

@itry2makestuff Not my kid. Mine doesn’t have and won’t have a phone or tablet for many years.

Unfortunately true. Took our 6 yo nephew to lunch one day and his nose was in his tablet the whole time. When we sat down for lunch I had to say his name 5 times to get his attention and I asked him “Hey bud, do you know where you are or what we’re doing?” He looks around and says “nope”. Then went right back to his tablet. He has the attention span of a goldfish. His parents try to take it away sometimes and it’s like they unleashed a demon. He also has eating issues and is too skinny and won’t eat because he can’t look away. Just like a drug addict. The videos he watches are some serious brain rot stuff too. He’s more interested in watching videos of other kids play with toys than he is playing with his own toys.

@ChadMoran Wow, the disconnect between ppl bitching like hell because housing is so expensive vs cars is amazing. Just because we MUST pay $ for a new car doesn't make that $ "affordable" guys....

Show me a more out of touch group. There's a big difference in value vs affordability. Yes it's a good value, but it's not affordable. I convinced my friend to buy a Model Y and was quoted $400/mo for insurance. Went with an IONIQ that was cheaper and $110/mo for insurance. Oh and add $100/mo for FSD... C'mon.

@KevinBuffalo "worst", or "most exciting"!

Another line of storms to close March because there were a few people that don’t agree that March is Buffalo’s worst weather month.

@MikePepi @asymmetricinfo @palan57 So, none. You could just say that.

@asymmetricinfo @palan57 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664 literally from openai . Keep trying to dig yourself deeper. Youre literally getting piled on by everyone, and you believe these models are better than the literal company. Just take the L.

I use AI to do research (i.e., find things to read, explain parts of academic papers I find ambiguous or confusing), transcribe interviews, generate pushback on my column thesis, suggest trims when I'm over my word count, sharpen podcast interview questions, and perform a final fact check on columns and editorials. But mostly it's compressing the ancillary tasks to the main job: reading, thinking, and writing.

@hsimon62 You're just a drip? (in "insults from your era" jokes...)

It’s just a lot of water. What’s the big deal??!!! I mean the Falls not me.

@jasonc_nc TERRORISM! 100% right, it's taking a loooong time to get over that kind of nonsense.

Because post 9/11 they decided it was critical infrastructure and needed to be kept confidential. No, I’m not making this up.

@Steve_Dolinsky @aakashgupta Clay pipes. Underground for 70 years. Blame the trees. Ok.

@aakashgupta Trees are starting to come out of my 74 year old development. After a while all the trees started crushing the terracotta sewer line and homeowners started suing the town. Home values weren't impacted

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

Ok, this one blows my mind… The #Sabres are now 32-6-2 in their last 40 games. No team has had more wins in a 40 game stretch of a season since the 1995 Detroit Red Wings (33). 🤯

@SketchesbyBoze @Noahpinion My 15 y/o has watched hundreds of Simpsons episodes multiple times. She's in great shape.

Growing up in the ‘90s, you could get a cultural education from watching classic films and brilliant kids’ TV. Today those have been replaced by illiterate livestreamers & conspiracy-addled tiktoks. They haven’t seen Casablanca; they haven’t heard of King Arthur. It’s bleak.

@elidourado It's got a branding problem doesn't it? I mean, Thiel is "evil" per certain segments...

a) You have already made a mark on the world. Are you done or do you want to do more? b) OK good, what else do you want to manifest in the world that wouldn't exist without you? c) Let's make a strategy on how best to achieve that, without regard to whether the vehicle is a non-profit or for-profit. Obviously. Yet very few people think like this.

@mikerodak @MattParrino Fuck that weasel

Nate Oats, speaking truth: "If you've ever lived in Buffalo in March, you don't want to get sent to Buffalo in March."

@anandcpatelmdms @shiraeis Well I guess if it's not done perfectly right now I guess it never will be. Pack it up boys!

@shiraeis perfect recall how exactly? claude forgets what we're doing every time compaction strikes. otherwise agree -- it's never been the screen per se (excluding the need for kids to experience the physical world), it's the content. but who's even doing AI tutors well and safely?

"limit your kid's screen time" is correct advice today, but people are confused about why it's correct, and that matters because the reason has an expiration date. the issue with ipad kids was never too much screen time in some vague moral sense, but that the software on the other side of the glass is essentially a superstimulus engine running a curriculum in learned helplessness. bright colors, zero latency rewards, infinite novelty, no boredom, no friction, and no consequence. you poke the most interesting square and something happens immediately. if the world worked that way, it'd be fine, but the world is almost entirely delayed gratification, ambiguous feedback, physical constraint, and needing to sit with uncertainty long enough to actually figure something out. so you're training a kid on an environment that is aggressively uncorrelated with the one they'll have to function in. it's a distribution mismatch problem. this means the winning parenting heuristic isn't "less screen time," but "don't let your kid marinate in a training environment optimized for engagement extraction when they should be building a world model." screens just happen to be a horrible training environment. but that's contingent and doesn't have to stay true. consider an AI that actually knows your kid, not in a creepy ad-targeting way, but in a way an aristocratic tutor knows their pupil. it follows them since birth, and maybe it remembers what confused them in march and checks whether they've resolved it by june. it notices when they're pattern matching instead of reasoning and calls them out on it. it asks hard questions at the right time, not to test them, but because it has a genuine model of what they're ready to think about next, and critically, it keeps routing them back to real world problems instead of substituting for them. this probably starts life as a stuffed animal, but the same entity transfers across form factors as the kid ages. the plush rabbit becomes a voice in their earbuds. he memory and the relationship are continuous. the interface changes, but it's one long developmental arc, not a series of disconnected apps. the thing that made ipad kids a cautionary tale was that the optimization target was retention. a sufficiently good AI tutor could optimize for what actually matters, like reflection, causal reasoning, metacognition, and tolerance for confusion, using the kid's actual life as curriculum instead of some frictionless cartoon sandbox. basically, the principle I'd actually endorse isn't "minimize screens." it's closer to "choose the training environment that best teaches your kid to think, pay attention, and update on evidence." right now that means less screen time, but in maybe two-five years the correct parenting move might be something nobody is emotionally prepared to hear, which is, your kid should probably be raised in part by an aristocratic tutor with perfect recall and great priors who happens to live inside a stuffed rabbit.

@bevcott @ClarksonsFarm1 The dope running this account doesn't want to hear it. I keep saying the same thing.

@ClarksonsFarm1 Dual use? People who don’t do it are missing a trick. There are so many advantages: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivolta…

Prime farmland should never look like this.

Got interviewed by ABC 13 Rochester (@13WHAM). We talked about the Republican Primary, the General Election, and how we can fix New York. @ABC @ABC7NY #FullSharpe #aNewNY

@TheMindScourge I drove the UHaul to get us outta there and I remember being on the cell (2008) saying "omg we really do drive like assholes here!"

DC/Beltway traffic is psychopathic. By far the worst in the US. Americans talk about bad drivers everywhere, and LA/NYC/Chicago/Atlanta/Houston usually get the most complaints. But DC is on another level. Makes sense once you realize that it has the highest percentage of sociopathic personalities in the US

@MasterSaiku @reason "Stupid" too, it seems.

@jvgriffis @reason What does my faith have to do with Treason's hypocrisy and betrayal of our country?

A partially blind man was found dead this week, only five miles from where Customs and Border Protection agents dropped him off after releasing him from custody: reason.pub/4cTL2HP