Urban Coyote

@pronounced_kyle "I hate electric vehicles" "I hate AI" "I hate high rises" "I hate facial recognition" "I hate cashless stores" "I hate nuclear power" "I hate lab grown meat" America needs to push its openness to experience another 1-2 sigma

This is accurate. And unironically why America wins every new technological era.

"I hate electric vehicles" "I hate AI" "I hate high rises" "I hate facial recognition" "I hate cashless stores" "I hate nuclear power" "I hate lab grown meat" America needs to push its openness to experience another 1-2 sigma

@nizamanisaad1 @jackcalifano Why are you commenting about the United States?

@jackcalifano New Yorkers love to go online and act like statements such as “no other city has sandwiches” are completely true and normal to say.

@Duderichy He explicitly asked for a roast in his prompt but definitely a fun response

incredible

@xXcatbulletsXx @vivian39_ @JeremiahDJohns

@vivian39_ @JeremiahDJohns abundance mindset: “let’s give more power to corporations and get rid of these pesky ‘regulations’ so they can build more houses for profit! power to the corps!”

abundance mindset is just like. what if things were good. what if there were enough homes. what if the sidewalk wasn't actively trying to kill you. what if permits got approved before the heat death of the universe. i'm running on "what if things were good"

@durandalcomplex Demoreel

theres gotta be a term for completely visionless but relatively absurdly high effort content that isnt "qualityslop"

@NateSilver538 "You can just have a 99th percentile E personality factor" as if that is advice

"You can just do things" is basically the same heuristic as "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" except for people who haven't been punched in the face yet.

@stanfordNYC “Just have an extroverted personality” wow amazing thank

Won't say there's nothing to this article, but it is a bit annoying (and too common) to read articles/posts whose structure is basically this.

@func25 I usually use nit: sug: issue: now adding optional: to the roster

I just learned how to write PR reviews that keep them constructive without sounding like a jerk: 1. use "we" not "you", 2. keep every comment under 300 characters, 3. start each note with "nitpick", "suggestion", "optional" 4. stop doing fake praise as a technique --- 1. use "we" not "you" Treat every PR note like a tiny product you are shipping and the product goal is simple: Make it easy to act on and hard to misread. Start by removing the 'you versus me' framing. Write in 'we' language so it feels like joint ownership of the codebase, not a personal correction. Instead of saying 'You should rename this' or 'I would do it differently', write - We should rename this to match the naming in UserService and AuthService, - Can we change it to userId. That one swap changes the vibe fast. 2. short cap each written note at 300 characters. Not 3 paragraphs, not your full reasoning. Long text reads like a list of faults even when it is meant to help. If the reasoning matters, put one sentence in the PR and then ask for a 10 minute huddle or a quick call. For example, we may want to avoid caching in this handler to prevent stale reads, can we talk for 10 minutes and pick an approach. 3. make intent explicit with normal words, not a legend If something is optional, label it as optional in the first word. For example, use "nitpick" for style, "suggestion" for improvement, "blocker" for correctness or security, etc. 4. fake praise Compliment sandwich feels like manipulation when the positive line is only there to cushion the hit. Give real praise when it is real and tie it to a specific thing: - Nice job on the early return in validateToken, it makes the error path clear. - This ... looks good. That ... sounds like a good idea, but ... (it's fine) Give critical feedback plainly and friendly, separate from praise. If something is broken, say what breaks and how to verify. - Blocker, this can panic when user is nil, add a nil check and add a test that hits /login with a missing user record.

@uncledoomer Put this on a German 101 syllabus

das beste goyslop kommt in S tier

pretty crazy that the cheapest way to create pixels on a 2d screen that looked like explosions used to be to literally blow stuff up in real life and then use a real life to pixel converter device

@astridwilde1 Underrated tweet.

@marcjoffe Limit or ban sales taxes or income taxes or capital gains taxes or anything at all other than property taxes. Land value tax specifically is one of the most efficient / least destructive forms of taxation.

@johnloeber @Noahpinion Really great list. For #2 - I used to get airsick frequently as a kid. I don’t anymore, and I think it’s due to better airline technology providing a more comfortable ride.

Twelve Recent Thoughts 1. It's remarkable that GitHub Copilot blew its lead to a bunch of small startups. Should've been a slam-dunk. 2. Despite the ubiquity of vomit bags in airplanes, I've never once seen them used. 3. One time I saw a Series B founder shoplift and that really told me everything about how his company would go. 4. In the past year, I've been running into more and more people saying "{X} is my life's work". Maybe it's an early-30s thing, or maybe it's that everyone is trying to stake out some core areas of meaning before the AI wave washes over us. 5. As we're living through exponential technological takeoff, it's more important than ever to journal and to write down one's impressions as time goes, because otherwise the incremental improvements make it so hard to pin down exactly how something was at a given point in time. I already regret not recording short YouTube videos of what it was like e.g. programming at the end of 2023 vs. 2024 vs. 2025. These are totally different experiences now. 6. I had an interesting "gender is real and not just a construct" moment the other day, when I had a female Uber driver late at night, and we ended up chatting about the "female driver" feature for female riders and how it was a huge change in terms of safety perception for women, and really popular. For me as a man, this hadn't occurred to me at all. 7. Every day I have to log into like 50 different things and every single one of them wants to me to enter a 2FA code and click a link in my email and ENOUGH. This must end. Let me have an API key and then interact with things programmatically. If I lose, let's say, 10 minutes a day on average to just logging into things, then that's what -- 3600 minutes a year? 60 hours? That's fucking crazy. 8. At this point, do YouTube/TikTok/etc. still do any meaningful copyright enforcement on audio tracks? I remember this being pretty tight in 2010, but it feels like this entire ship has sailed by now. 9. "Culture as food" is an incredibly shallow view. You mention any country, culture, ethnic group, etc. and the default response is "have you tried the [starch with meat]?" Or, for example, there are lots of good reasons to be pro-immigration, but "so I can have more [foreign vegetable soup] at low prices" is not one of them. Cultures are more than just their culinary products, and reducing them to that feels deeply unsatisfying. 10. The irony of "security questions" on any given online service is that they tend to be pretty similar -- mother's maiden name, childhood best friend name -- which means that the more of them you use, the less secure they get, because surely one of these services will be breached at some point. My trash pickup service, which truly is not technically sophisticated, has made me set all these recovery questions, and I'm just thinking: surely these will wind up in public. 11. I really wish that iCloud notes had a git-style version history. It would be so easy to do since it's all plaintext. I don't get why they haven't. 12. Movies aren't doing super well these days, and I think a big part of the reduced appeal is that they struggle to capture the digital age. Most movies are still set in a pre-tech world, one with libraries and phone calls and such. It's hard to make a good movie where the characters are mostly on their phones. Any realistic romance movie nowadays would mostly be about people texting.

@ClickingSeason @Noahpinion Charge $1 for access!

My politics in a nutshell: We should improve society specifically in the ways that will make it feasible to remove the chain from the subway bathroom doors

@alz_zyd_ In some areas like diffusion models the formalism does help with idea generation. "Oh turns out we're just solving SDEs here. Maybe we can use this huge existing literature to write better solvers." Probably the exception that proves the rule.

Mathematical formalism, as used in modern academic AI/ML research, is even more useless than mathematical formalism in economics research, a bar I previously thought impossible to clear

@sircalebhammer Inflexible output is a downside not a benefit

I want full nuclear… look how steady she is 🥺

@StatsMaxer @var_epsilon He adds explicit framing to the videos claiming that you’re learning. It sells a feeling regardless of whether it’s actually true.

There's a difference between enjoying something because it makes complex ideas click and thinking you're learning something. A lot of people who watch educational content think that's enough. But 3b1b actually gets at the intuition. The fact that you feel like you're learning says it's working

that's 3b1bslop. you only like it because you think you're learning math

@dieworkwear Love this!

Excited to announce I'm starting a new column at Bloomberg about the business of fashion. The first piece is about how to re-shore US apparel manufacturing. Instead of using mass deportations and tariffs, the government should move the industry upstream. 🧵

@orphcorp Haha that little old thing? Just my +3sd memory

gwern spoke about this