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@brianpiercy.bsky.social
Polymath. Product manager on hiatus. Music. Dogs. Appalachia. Linux. Ruby on Rails. Python, ML/DL/LLMs. Semiconductors. Football. Tacos. Vampire hunter. (Not really.)
Moat? What moat?
The “Famous” Claude Code Has Managed to Port NVIDIA’s CUDA Backend to ROCm in Just 30 Minutes, and Folks Are Calling It the End of the CUDA Moat
Claude Code, the famous agentic coding platform, has managed to port NVIDIA's CUDA code into the ROCm platform in just half an hour.
wccftech.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Moat? What moat?
Someday this ****show will end. Then the rebuilding begins.
Inside the ambitious plan to undo DOGE's damage
The initiative Tech Viaduct is preparing a turnkey, day one plan to improve and reform U.S. government services in the next administration.
www.fastcompany.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Someday this ****show will end. Then the rebuilding begins.
Woo, boy. Haven’t we all done this?
Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."
January 20, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Woo, boy. Haven’t we all done this?
Job 1: lock yourself in a closet with a phone and a customer list.
Gusto’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How Listening to Customers Built a $9.6B Company
Cold-calling from a walk-in closet taught Tomer London how to recognize what PMF really feels like.
review.firstround.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Job 1: lock yourself in a closet with a phone and a customer list.
I want them under the jail.
Opinion | ‘This Is Trump’s Goon Squad, for Christ’s Sake’
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I want them under the jail.
There’s nothing else to do with that land. Might as well.
A Conservative Cowboy Town Embraces the AI Revolution
Abilene lured one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence hubs to the city by meeting Stargate’s big demands. Will locals benefit?
www.texasmonthly.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:41 PM
There’s nothing else to do with that land. Might as well.
Well done fellas. Sane Americans salute you.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Well done fellas. Sane Americans salute you.
“The beings I admire exude a sense of knowing they are indebted, of resting upon a state thankfulness. They recognize they are at the receiving end of an ongoing lucky ticket called being alive.”
#gratitude
#gratitude
How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work every day.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:04 AM
“The beings I admire exude a sense of knowing they are indebted, of resting upon a state thankfulness. They recognize they are at the receiving end of an ongoing lucky ticket called being alive.”
#gratitude
#gratitude
“The more we rely on the transmission view of communication, the less incentive there is to treat other people with care.”
Spot on.
Spot on.
your reality is someone's content
I love living near Washington Square Park.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:55 AM
“The more we rely on the transmission view of communication, the less incentive there is to treat other people with care.”
Spot on.
Spot on.
Paying it forward.
Eric Lullove (@drlullove)
Patient came to my office yesterday.
No insurance. Got kicked off ACA. Was laid off his job as a line chef at a small restaurant that closed.
Diabetic.
Can’t afford his medications.
Walked in wi...
substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Paying it forward.
Lord I hope so..
Jess Piper (@jesspiper)
I don’t know her, but I like her.
substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Lord I hope so..
My god, this guy is an idiot.
Opinion | $25 Billion. That’s What Trump Cost Detroit.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM
My god, this guy is an idiot.
Sounds like a damn good reason to cancel those Caribbean trips whenever Musk launches one of his bottle rockets.
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Sounds like a damn good reason to cancel those Caribbean trips whenever Musk launches one of his bottle rockets.
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Here's the list, but it's taking forever to load. I think there's a whole bunch of traffic rushing to it right now.
wiki.icelist.is
wiki.icelist.is
ICE List Wiki
The ICE List Wiki is a public, verifiable record of immigration enforcement activity in the United States.
wiki.icelist.is
January 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Here's the list, but it's taking forever to load. I think there's a whole bunch of traffic rushing to it right now.
wiki.icelist.is
wiki.icelist.is
Straight to the veins. 🤟
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Are the same that burn crosses
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by RATMVEVO
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Straight to the veins. 🤟
It *is* amazing. #greenland
David Ddraig Goch (@oldreddragon)
Mad props to who ever created this... Fucking amazing.
substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:29 PM
It *is* amazing. #greenland
His player eval methods are exacting. Can’t argue with them.
From 'duck feet' to 'production over potential:' Curt Cignetti's secret to building Indiana
The Hoosiers' roster is filled with different kinds of players, but all had to meet Cignetti's standards.
www.espn.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
His player eval methods are exacting. Can’t argue with them.
When Claude tells you to not even bother using it for Ruby on Rails work - take the hint.
Claude Code vs ChatGPT comparison
Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
claude.ai
January 11, 2026 at 12:06 PM
When Claude tells you to not even bother using it for Ruby on Rails work - take the hint.
This is fascinating stuff.
www.wearethemighty.com/feature/auto...
www.wearethemighty.com/feature/auto...
An autopsy of Venezuela’s $2 billion Russian S-300VM missile system
Venezuela purchased Russia's S-300VM air defense system because it was supposed to be an impenetrable umbrella. It was full of holes.
www.wearethemighty.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
This is fascinating stuff.
www.wearethemighty.com/feature/auto...
www.wearethemighty.com/feature/auto...