Ever talk to a cranky 3 year old? It’s absolutely wild seeing the exact same behavior from the President of the United States.
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Ever talk to a cranky 3 year old? It’s absolutely wild seeing the exact same behavior from the President of the United States.
I think Emma Frost and Tony Stark made a good couple.
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I think Emma Frost and Tony Stark made a good couple.
AWS Aurora convinced everyone that separating storage and compute is always the right architecture. People accept this as gospel. But it's just a design trade-off: accept network latency as your bottleneck in exchange for better storage utilization.
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
AWS Aurora convinced everyone that separating storage and compute is always the right architecture. People accept this as gospel. But it's just a design trade-off: accept network latency as your bottleneck in exchange for better storage utilization.
I'm really excited for what the team built here. We're doing a lot of work to bring down the entry level price for PlanetScale so anyone can get started with us, and grow their databases with their business to any scale.
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm really excited for what the team built here. We're doing a lot of work to bring down the entry level price for PlanetScale so anyone can get started with us, and grow their databases with their business to any scale.
I won't worry much about super intelligence until Claude can consistently get the year right. I'm reminding it that it's not 2024 multiple times per day.
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I won't worry much about super intelligence until Claude can consistently get the year right. I'm reminding it that it's not 2024 multiple times per day.
Apple should be embarrassed by how bad the macOS spell check is.
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Apple should be embarrassed by how bad the macOS spell check is.
Remember when everyone in SF tech was loudly moving to Miami? heh
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Remember when everyone in SF tech was loudly moving to Miami? heh
Trump will increasingly say inappropriate and unhinged things as the dementia takes hold. The stuff he says in press briefings is already wild, but we’ll see if get substantially worse.
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Trump will increasingly say inappropriate and unhinged things as the dementia takes hold. The stuff he says in press briefings is already wild, but we’ll see if get substantially worse.
The US Dollar should do a reverse split.
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The US Dollar should do a reverse split.
Everyone is mad that a few Dems caved at the end, but I think it got the right outcome here. The Dems just made the Rs own their policies. Now they have the mid-term campaigns to talk about how the Rs raise your health care prices, and fought to take food away from poor people.
If the Dems strategy is to demand concessions on healthcare, they are going to blow it. They need to let Rs own their policy failures and feel the consequences in the mid-terms.
This looks like a plan to save Rs from themselves… And an own goal by Dem leadership.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
This looks like a plan to save Rs from themselves… And an own goal by Dem leadership.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Democrats coalesce around insurance subsidies as shutdown demand, Neal says
Any stopgap deal needs to include an extension of enhanced health care tax credits or other concessions, the Ways and Means leader said after strategy meeting.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Everyone is mad that a few Dems caved at the end, but I think it got the right outcome here. The Dems just made the Rs own their policies. Now they have the mid-term campaigns to talk about how the Rs raise your health care prices, and fought to take food away from poor people.
Not happy to see Jack Smith had a path to do the classified documents case in DC where it would have been an easy conviction. Instead took it to Florida and got a judge known to be in the tank for Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed
Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Not happy to see Jack Smith had a path to do the classified documents case in DC where it would have been an easy conviction. Instead took it to Florida and got a judge known to be in the tank for Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
The subtext is US GDP growth would be flat without investment in AI. If civil unrest erupted in SF it could stop or slow the AI development. This would be a self own by Trump going into the midterms next year, killing the only engine of US economic growth.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Inside the Tech CEO Campaign to Stop Trump From Sending Troops to San Francisco
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff helped Mayor Daniel Lurie to persuade the president not to deploy the National Guard.
www.wsj.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The subtext is US GDP growth would be flat without investment in AI. If civil unrest erupted in SF it could stop or slow the AI development. This would be a self own by Trump going into the midterms next year, killing the only engine of US economic growth.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This is so spot on. Francis Fukuyama calls this repatrimonialization. It moves us to a patronage system. You pay tribute for favors. Donors get access, relief from tariffs, pardons, or the national guard leaves their city alone.
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is so spot on. Francis Fukuyama calls this repatrimonialization. It moves us to a patronage system. You pay tribute for favors. Donors get access, relief from tariffs, pardons, or the national guard leaves their city alone.
Good reporting from the NYTimes on Trump admin not even trying to come up with a legal justification for killing suspected drug smugglers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Good reporting from the NYTimes on Trump admin not even trying to come up with a legal justification for killing suspected drug smugglers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
I still think this is the best explanation I've read of what is going on with US politics right now:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I still think this is the best explanation I've read of what is going on with US politics right now:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
I wonder how many of them actually understand what they've done. I don't think they can constrain him at this point. Probably the only power they have left would be to impeach him, which they of course won't do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
Republicans Who Have Rarely Opposed Trump Raise Questions About His Drug War
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I wonder how many of them actually understand what they've done. I don't think they can constrain him at this point. Probably the only power they have left would be to impeach him, which they of course won't do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
Why do people still use us-east-1?
October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Why do people still use us-east-1?
The Trump admin both wants to weaponize and defund the IRS. And pull funding from blue states that pay more than they receive. I find myself wishing the US had a structure more like the EU, without direct tax payments from citizens to the IRS. This seemed like a crazy libertarian view years ago.
October 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Trump admin both wants to weaponize and defund the IRS. And pull funding from blue states that pay more than they receive. I find myself wishing the US had a structure more like the EU, without direct tax payments from citizens to the IRS. This seemed like a crazy libertarian view years ago.
I think it’s time for a new generation to get familiar with Rage Against the Machine.
October 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I think it’s time for a new generation to get familiar with Rage Against the Machine.
Imagine spending a ton of engineering time solving a problem like making databases scale to zero.... that is only ever going to be needed by customers who won't pay you any money.
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Imagine spending a ton of engineering time solving a problem like making databases scale to zero.... that is only ever going to be needed by customers who won't pay you any money.
The 2 most recent episodes of the Ezra Klein Show are must listen if you care about what's going on in the US right now. Spencer Cox, the Gov of Utah is a voice of reason: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
And the discussion with Ben Shapiro was also just great: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
And the discussion with Ben Shapiro was also just great: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 09/19/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The 2 most recent episodes of the Ezra Klein Show are must listen if you care about what's going on in the US right now. Spencer Cox, the Gov of Utah is a voice of reason: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
And the discussion with Ben Shapiro was also just great: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
And the discussion with Ben Shapiro was also just great: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
If the Dems strategy is to demand concessions on healthcare, they are going to blow it. They need to let Rs own their policy failures and feel the consequences in the mid-terms.
This looks like a plan to save Rs from themselves… And an own goal by Dem leadership.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
This looks like a plan to save Rs from themselves… And an own goal by Dem leadership.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Democrats coalesce around insurance subsidies as shutdown demand, Neal says
Any stopgap deal needs to include an extension of enhanced health care tax credits or other concessions, the Ways and Means leader said after strategy meeting.
www.politico.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If the Dems strategy is to demand concessions on healthcare, they are going to blow it. They need to let Rs own their policy failures and feel the consequences in the mid-terms.
This looks like a plan to save Rs from themselves… And an own goal by Dem leadership.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
This looks like a plan to save Rs from themselves… And an own goal by Dem leadership.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
From the Economist: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
September 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
From the Economist: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
I think anonymous social media should simply be illegal. it’s toxic to democracy and a civil society. Probably some platform size threshold where identity becomes mandator.
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think anonymous social media should simply be illegal. it’s toxic to democracy and a civil society. Probably some platform size threshold where identity becomes mandator.
Yacht rock sounds absolutely amazing on a Schiit Vali 3 with Sennheiser HD 600s.
August 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yacht rock sounds absolutely amazing on a Schiit Vali 3 with Sennheiser HD 600s.