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@MayorOfLA As far as I know you’ve not repaved one street. Am I wrong here?

I ran for Mayor to break away from the City’s broken system that has left us with deteriorating streets and backlogs of repairs that piled up for years.

Ever wonder why housing is so expensive? While LA allows homeless criminals to dump raw sewage right into storm drains, new homes are required to spend tens of thousands of dollars to capture and treat rain water before it can leave the property...

@SteveHiltonx He’s so weird

Gavin Newsom’s “bestseller” memoir just got the ultimate California treatment: his PAC dropped $1.56 million of donor cash to buy 67,000 free copies and mail them to anyone who donated any amount. That’s two-thirds of all print sales. Nothing says “Young Man in a Hurry” like rigging your own book numbers with political slush funds while California burns. nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/…

@TheKevinDalton He’s so weird

Gavin Newsom just used his own PAC to buy $1.5 million worth of his own book. Even more comically, that accounts for 2/3 of the entire print sales.

Incredible. Never gets old.

LA County quality of life hits record low, UCLA survey finds spr.ly/6017B64XLS

Wild

@CollinRugg @LatinosPorPratt @spencerpratt We need to put cages around the thieves and free the lights!

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt rips LA Mayor Karen 'Basura' (trash) Bass over the 6th Street Bridge disaster. The bridge is completely dark because criminals have stolen all the lights. The bridge was completed in 2022 and cost just shy of $600 M; however, millions more will now reportedly have to be spent to relight the bridge. "Mayor Basura is planning to take two hundred more million dollars of our tax money to get solar power lights. Oh, because the criminals won't steal those,” said @spencerpratt.

@Jason would buy

if anything remotely close to this CyberSUV concept drops, it will take over the entire SUV category Would love to have hyper-lifted feature in this, in order to navigate Tahoe blizzards!

While America suffers, Chevron profits.

@karpathy Somehow I’m in the middle. Super novice and coding with my mind being blown but also annoyed because I don’t know what I don’t know in terms of getting the model to write what I need it to write.

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

@spencerpratt Pretty standard.

How many crimes can you spot in just one frame here? Trespassing, stolen copper, burning copper, littering, and drug use (probably). Every day, 50K+ druggies commit multiple crimes, every single day in LA…it goes entirely ignored by Karen Basura and Nithya Raman, so they can lie about “crime being down”

It’s actually going to cost 1 trillion dollars.

Commentary: LA28's first Olympics ticket drop flops, leaving locals locked out of events in their own backyards latimes.com/california/sto…

Woah

@fabianstelzer Brilliant

Palantir, but for organizing children’s birthday parties who’s building this?

@elonmusk Super close!

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth. On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world. Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

Creepy LA Times “journalist” has been phone-stalking & harassing my sister, my wife, my MOM, and even my favorite burrito restaurant trying to dox where my kids sleep and go to school, all because I pulled ahead of Nithya Raman in the polls, and she sent her lapdog to do her dirty work. That’s what they call “journalism” at the LA Times, folks! They’re scared of our campaign. We’re gonna take back our city, and they know they can’t stop us.