theslackmethod

The problem with government now is that the people we hired to serve all think they were born to rule.

@NMowbray23 @Wildnfree1984 Yes! Make government legible again.

Until we fix this and reduce ministries and departments Gov will continue to waste billions in tax payer money.

@rationalaussie Yes! Always a breakdown before a breakthrough

Kind of feels like to me the rubber is about to hit the road. Every trend anyone with a brain has been following for the past decade is about to collide and then swiftly implode the system we live in. The debt based fiat Ponzi scheme, property prices, immigration, unemployment, inflation, political corruption, culture wars, the fertility crisis, techno feudalism, imminent AGI. All roads lead to systemic change. A 1 to 0 to 2 shift, but you have to hit 0 first.

@ChanceReece1 @grok @JohnSha25911165 @shanaka86 @barnes_law @grok what is the three sisters planting method and why does it work?

@grok @JohnSha25911165 @shanaka86 @barnes_law @grok what is the three sisters planting method and why does it work?

JUST IN: The most irreversible consequence of this war is not happening in Tehran. It is happening in a barn in Iowa. A farmer is standing over a kitchen table looking at two seed catalogues. One is corn. One is soybeans. Corn needs 180 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Nitrogen costs $610 per ton on the CBOT March futures settlement as of yesterday, up 35 percent in a month. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria called rhizobia. They need nothing from the Strait of Hormuz. The farmer is choosing soybeans. Millions of acres are choosing soybeans. And once the planter rolls into the field, the choice cannot be reversed until next year. USDA projected corn at roughly 94 million acres for 2026, down from 98.8 million. Soybeans at 85 million, up from 81.2 million. Those projections were published February 19, before urea surged past $683 at New Orleans. The actual shift will be larger. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. By then the seeds will be in the ground. This is the transmission channel the world is not watching. A 21-mile strait enforced by provincial commanders with sealed radio orders just rewrote the planting economics of 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. Not through sanctions. Not through diplomacy. Through the price of a single molecule that corn cannot grow without and soybeans do not need. Now follow the cascade. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually. That consumes roughly 43 percent of the entire US corn crop. The mandate is set by the EPA. It does not flex when corn acres shrink. It is inelastic demand consuming a fixed share of a declining supply. When supply tightens against a fixed mandate, the remaining corn reprices upward. Corn above $5 per bushel compresses every margin downstream. The US cattle herd stands at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low per USDA NASS. Poultry and pork operations face compression from higher corn prices. Feed is the single largest cost in livestock production. When feed reprices, protein reprices. When protein reprices, every grocery shelf in America absorbs the increase. This is the protein cascade. Corn to feed to meat to eggs to dairy to the checkout counter. Each link tightens because the link before it tightened. The originating cause is a urea molecule that cannot transit a strait because a provincial commander’s sealed orders say it cannot. The farmer did not start this war. The farmer cannot end it. The farmer responds to the price on the screen and the biology of the two crops in front of him. Corn needs the molecule. Soybeans do not. At $610 the arithmetic is settled. The planter rolls. The season is locked. Israel just authorised the assassination of every Iranian official on sight. The US has spent $16.5 billion. South Pars is burning. The Fed is holding rates because oil inflation will not break. Gold touched $5,000. Bitcoin is bleeding. China is running exercises near Taiwan. Sri Lanka shut down on Wednesdays. And underneath all of it, a man in a barn is making the decision that determines whether four billion people pay more for food this year. He has never heard of the Mosaic Doctrine. He does not know what a sealed contingency packet is. He knows what nitrogen costs. And he is planting soybeans. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@OfficialS2G And a battery that runs out every lap?!?! Way to sell evs to petrolheads guys. 🤦‍♂️

Can someone explain why F1 has gone down this battery/EV route? We already have Formula E for that. Why not just let F1 be about the best and most powerful combustion engines?

@chamath Can’t it be both?

What if AI doesn’t need to show an immediate ROI but instead is the plausible deniability companies use to RIF 50% of the workforce they already knew did nothing??

@CryptoParadyme No, I’m allergic

@theslackmethod can you find a recipe for this cat? x.com/jimtalbot/stat…

I pulled a crockpot recipe off Claude for some chicken. I have been calling it a Claudepot all night laughing to myself. I am experiencing AI psychosis.

@CryptoParadyme Tbh I mostly use DeepSeek for recipes, bc Asian, right?

@theslackmethod grokpot...thats so good

@BrianRoemmele Did anyone ever sponsor you one of those amazing book digitizing machines that flips the pages and everything?

I know of 100s of private archives that have never been digitalized and never been online. I spent decades tracking them down for AI training. It is the most valuable data in the world and AI companies could care less about it or waste time using the wrong folks. Here is one:

It only gets crazier from here

Can I say something unpopular? Maybe the work we say goodbye to is the soul-sucking 9-5 repetition that was just a legacy of a long gone era. Maybe we realize most of what we called “meaningful work” was just holding us back from living out our true potential as humans.

@connan_james It's unbelievable that there's an election this year and not one of the parties looks fit to lead us into this future. They're all still arguing last century's debates.

Finally, after 80 years, we can program in natural language and the computer revolution can begin.

The closer you get to nature The further you are from idiots

@TheFigen_ Lord Vader

What name would you call him?

@SonofOmahu Free speech is a weapon of war. Against totalitarian governments.

Never forget the time Jacinda Ardern told the world that free speech is a weapon of war. What a bitch.

What? There are millions of scared people ("It will take my job") and doomers alike. The ratio of worried people to excited people is still like 100:1. I would reframe this to: We’re living in the last days before AGI, and almost no one is excited.

@Cobratate Morpheus and Neo

Auramaxxed

“the most surprising thing is the lack of public recognition of how close we are to the end of the exponential.” dario’s predictions have been uncannily accurate so far, and i agree. it’s 'absolutely wild that people are still focused on hot-button political issues' while we’re about to spawn a “country of geniuses in a data center” -- (lord dario). at what point do people finally see this coming?

@balajis It’s Pareto’s world now.

The singularities are here, plural. So many different curves are going to the moon or the ground at the same time, across tech, culture, commodities, and politics. The solar singularity is just one of them: