Kareem Shaya

@mattparlmer Institutional inertia

Where the fuck are the nets?

@daylightco Gotcha, thanks!

@kareems Unfortunately we don’t control the app since it’s a third party app It doesn’t appear to offer that function Sorry!

@daylightco in the Notebook app, is there a way to see a the name of the chosen color of marker/highlighter? I can sometimes infer it from the hex code in the color picker, but it would be super useful if the app gave me a rough sense (e.g. "Nearly black", "Dark red", etc).

@SchmanthonyP Completely unrecognizable with the mustache

I have never seen a picture of Jim Downey that looks like any other fucking picture of Jim Downey.

@justalexoki Arabic Christians get the best of both worlds.

alhamdulillah goes so hard. what do christians have

It depends a lot on the specifics of how much air you’re trying to exchange and what the temp differential is. And if you don’t have an ERV, then yes, definitely open the window for a while every day. Even if you do have one, it’s nice to open a window. But for most of the country, an ERV is still a good idea if you’re in a house built to modern air tightness standards.

@kareems This is the kind of incorrect belief that leads people to hotbox in their co2. You can totally have a window open and ac/heat on in the vast majority of the country most of the year. I’ll grant dust or smoke, but temp differentials aren’t blockers.

The thing buying a co2 monitor taught me is that the obsession with insulating and sealing houses is psycho. You actually want a window cracked 24:7. The solution to climate change isn’t hotboxing in 2000ppm co2: it’s window open + AC / Heat On powered by abundant electricity.

@Nowooski “Open a window” is good when it works, but in most of the US, for most of the year it’s not a great solution due to outdoor temp, humidity, and/or dust. Also often people want CO2 to lowest when they’re sleeping, which is the time they’d least want to leave a window open.

ERV Enthusiasts: if you just redesign your entire house for a air tight envelope and also put in an expensive new hvac system with an ERV you can get air exchange that is 85% as good as an open window!!! Me: Thanks, I’ll just crack the window and enjoy the nice breeze.

@TRHLofficial The Count of Southern Ohio

A Ohio treasure hunter who was sent to prison for refusing to tell authorities and investors where he stashed $50 million worth of gold discovered in an 1857 shipwreck has been released from jail after 11 years.

@Noahpinion @tonyannett I value so much of your writing, but the depth of your motivated reasoning on this topic has made it increasingly hard to take your other writing seriously.

@tonyannett "Has Noah ever condemned the massacre of 70,000 Gazans?" <-- Well, I find it hard to call it a "massacre" when the Gazans were actively fighting back, and when they in fact started the war. But I do think Israel should have done more to minimize civilian casualties.

Has Noah ever condemned the massacre of 70,000 Gazans? Has he ever condemned the brutal apartheid regime in the West Bank, where settlers can terrorize and even murder without consequence? If so, I haven’t seen it. His moral outrage is always one-sided.

@tenobrus The alternative is to hash things out behind the scenes on the administration's terms, which was guaranteed to be a losing battle. This shifts the conversation onto ground that's more favorable for Anthropic.

but fr like.. dawg why would you fucking say that

this is such a massive tactical blunder it's significantly increasing my trust in dario lmao. maybe he really isn't an Optimizer after all

@lennysan How were your CO2 levels?

I did a whole-house toxin health assessment, where a guy spent half a day testing our house's air quality, water, EMFs, lighting, mold, and household products. So many surprises: - Our Waterdrop reverse-osmosis water filter seems to be introducing a chemical (Dichloromethane) into our drinking water that wasn't in the (whole-house filtered) tap water. Will recheck this to make sure it's not a fluke. - Even though we have air purifiers in many parts of the home, they weren't on the proper setting so our air quality was not great. Turned them all up higher. - Most of our light bulbs have blue light and super high flicker rates which disrupt circadian rhythms. Replacing a bunch of them. - The wifi router in my office is EMF'ing the sh*t out of me. Going to move it to a different part of the room. - The powerstrip under our bed is EMF'ing the sh*t out of us. Getting a grounded power strip that avoids this. - Some of our shampoos and soaps had harmful ingredients. On the plus side, no gas leaks or carbon monoxide 👌 I'm predicting this is going to become the next microplastics-type trend, to test your home for toxins and harmful products.

@PalmerLuckey @AlecStapp No argument that the government has been awful on this front for ages. The question is, is the president trying to make it better, or doubling down on the same problem? Every president keeps doubling down.

@AlecStapp This would hit a lot harder if the government had not been doing this for at least a century. The gun industry during the Clinton years is a particularly relevant example.

This is not hyperbole, and every business leader in the country needs to recognize the stakes of what’s happening:

@USConstAmendXIV @justinamash RIP

@kareems @justinamash I'm a 14th Amendment absolutist, but .... oh never mind.

“I’m a Second Amendment absolutist” “you have to have your ID and permit on you”

@tamarawinter @stripepress So happy you’re doing this!

1/ Today @stripepress is releasing the first two mini-documentaries in a series we’re calling Tacit. They’re vignettes of craftspeople who provide a pretty compelling answer to the question, “after AI, does mastery still matter?” This episode features Christophe Laudamiel, master perfumer at Osmo. Christophe is the creator or co-creator of dozens of scents, most notably, Polo Blue by Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie Fierce, and Tom Ford Amber Absolute. We spent a week with Christophe, following him from his office, to his home (which too, looks suspiciously like an office), observing him as he built fragrances essentially from scratch, isolated problematic notes (TIL: certain fragrance notes, when put together, can produce an unfortunate ‘wet dog’ smell), and even discovered new molecules. Christophe is an archetype of individual we’re obsessed with: *he’s* obsessed with mastery for its own sake. For the past 30 years he’s been at the forefront of perfumery, and now he wonders if and how computers can augment his craft.

@bobbyfijan @TheEricEkberg @ImpulseLabs_ Yes, by revenue. Guesstimate.

@kareems @TheEricEkberg @ImpulseLabs_ 25% of what market? Appliances?

My wife and I set up the @ImpulseLabs_ stove and cooked some things on it. Thinking through what happens next to every other appliance maker's stove business: - 2026–2027: Nothing. Impulse grows, but it's not on their radar yet as a meaningful player. Meanwhile, early adopters aren't even considering brands other than Impulse anymore. - 2028: Denial. Their sales reps start getting questions from normies about why they don't have temperature sensing or power boil. The sales reps try to explain how their inferior equivalents are just as good, leaning heavily on "Do you really want to buy a stove from a startup? We've been in this business for decades. 'Tech guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.'" - 2029: Uh oh. They realize they actually need legit temperature sensing and power boil, and they need the software in the stove to be really good. But they have zero tech competence, their legacy commitments make it almost impossible to pivot the whole company. - 2030–2031: The legacy appliance firms release half-baked Impulse competitor stoves … right around the time that Impulse releases its fridge and/or heat pump water heater. Game over.

@KO_Sulli @ImpulseLabs_ That's surprising. The polish and the tech were very impressive to me, so like you said, wonder if it was some wild card factor.

@kareems @ImpulseLabs_ Wasn’t polished and tech didn’t deliver. They thought induction was better. Didn’t press them but it simply could have been a lack of education, faulty unit or 1000 other things. I would imagine it gets rolled into a number of other appliances.

@idlebell Super impressive

I’d love to try an impulse. clients spend a lot more than 7K on stoves. Very bullish

@KO_Sulli @ImpulseLabs_ What was their feedback?

@kareems @ImpulseLabs_ Looks awesome and a huge fan of the tech, but in talking to some consultants at appliance showrooms who attend industry events, they’re not convinced.

@TheEricEkberg @ImpulseLabs_ It's out of budget for lots of people. But everyone buying Wolf/Miele/Thermador/etc. are a good chunk of the market (seems like 25%), and they're all paying Impulse prices +/- $2k. Impulse is going to own that segment.

@kareems @ImpulseLabs_ Not at $7k. This thing is for ultra high end only. And how big can that market be? And warranty is 3 years. That’s potentially $2300/yr for a stove worst case. I love the idea but … this is not even for upper middle class.