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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
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Realized gains on stocks with non transferable voting preferences should be subject to income taxes instead of the lower capital gains rate.
December 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Realized gains on stocks with non transferable voting preferences should be subject to income taxes instead of the lower capital gains rate.
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The stock structure of Facebook should be illegal.
Realized gains on stocks with non transferable voting preferences should be subject to income taxes instead of the lower capital gains rate.
December 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The stock structure of Facebook should be illegal.
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Literally one of the reasons I’m skeptical of gAI is because I’m a historian and technology is one of the things I study, but also who looks at the recent history of Silicon Valley and trusts a single word they tell us
Hoverboards are the future, segways are the future, betamax, laser disc, Google glass is the future, 3d tvs are the future, curved screens are the future.
Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.
Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Literally one of the reasons I’m skeptical of gAI is because I’m a historian and technology is one of the things I study, but also who looks at the recent history of Silicon Valley and trusts a single word they tell us
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Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.
I think one of the lessons that the huge success of congestion pricing in NYC is that charging a nominal upfront fee- even one far less the the levellized cost you are paying for elsewhere- is very good at cutting off the bottom 5% of bad behavior that makes things worse for everyone.
December 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.
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The internet is revolutionary to free speech because it empowers individuals and citizens to route around censorship in all its forms—even a captured “free” press.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The internet is revolutionary to free speech because it empowers individuals and citizens to route around censorship in all its forms—even a captured “free” press.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
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Love this! I have exactly the same feeling riding over bridges in this city. Each time I do it I take in the view and think about how lucky I am to live here. It's a feeling that's hard to experience any other way other than on the seat of a bicycle.
Rama Duwaji, New York City's next First Lady, on the joys of riding a Citi Bike:
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Love this! I have exactly the same feeling riding over bridges in this city. Each time I do it I take in the view and think about how lucky I am to live here. It's a feeling that's hard to experience any other way other than on the seat of a bicycle.
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Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
December 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
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For generations, when you learned to program you were constantly being forced to be better at paying attention to the words on the screen. Noticing you'd made a typo, noticing you'd used the wrong argument, noticing shit in general.
Over time, you got better at noticing the words on the screen.
Over time, you got better at noticing the words on the screen.
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
For generations, when you learned to program you were constantly being forced to be better at paying attention to the words on the screen. Noticing you'd made a typo, noticing you'd used the wrong argument, noticing shit in general.
Over time, you got better at noticing the words on the screen.
Over time, you got better at noticing the words on the screen.
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Learning how to pay attention to small details, how to deliberately strain yourself to notice tiny details that are off, is a skill programmers learn the painful way.
And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.
And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Learning how to pay attention to small details, how to deliberately strain yourself to notice tiny details that are off, is a skill programmers learn the painful way.
And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.
And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.
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Great thread about what LLMs are doing to the programming world.
It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
December 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Great thread about what LLMs are doing to the programming world.
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I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.
Fine: "I'm talking to my colleagues about whether we want these fake Somali refugees - who come to our country, add no value, suck our resources, defraud our govt - whether we actually want them here. I don't think Ilhan Omar shouldn't be a member of Congress - I think she shouldn't be an American"
December 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.
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and one can only assume it’s intentional confusion production by the marketing teams… the opposite of FUD
*taps the sign from 2017*
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
and one can only assume it’s intentional confusion production by the marketing teams… the opposite of FUD
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression
Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
December 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression
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This encroachment of so-called “dynamic pricing“ into every facet of everything is ridiculous and wrong. Applying it to food in grocery stores is abuse.
#BREAKING: Instacart says it will halt a practice that used AI to adjust the cost of groceries for different shoppers after a study found some customers were paying as much as 23% more for the same items.
Ending Item Price Tests on Instacart | Instacart
Over the past couple weeks, there’s been a lot written about Instacart and how pricing works on our platform . Some of that coverage raised fair questions. Much of it included misconceptions and misin...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This encroachment of so-called “dynamic pricing“ into every facet of everything is ridiculous and wrong. Applying it to food in grocery stores is abuse.
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
Hey Costco— Time to review your relationship with your same-day delivery partner $COST
#BREAKING: Instacart says it will halt a practice that used AI to adjust the cost of groceries for different shoppers after a study found some customers were paying as much as 23% more for the same items.
Ending Item Price Tests on Instacart | Instacart
Over the past couple weeks, there’s been a lot written about Instacart and how pricing works on our platform . Some of that coverage raised fair questions. Much of it included misconceptions and misin...
www.instacart.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey Costco— Time to review your relationship with your same-day delivery partner $COST
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In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
Vance's latest rant has set off another misguided round of "free Usha" rhetoric. This isn't just inaccurate--she's wholly a part of this fascist project--it's dangerous. We can no longer afford to imagine fascism as smaller than it is. Hindu fascism is vast, too. No religion is immune.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
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it occurs to me that the waymo failure in the SF blackout is precisely the kind of failure we were trying to help with: when traffic lights go out navigating intersections resolves to social negotiation, which requires theory of mind, which AVs ain't got
They have made enormous headway. The central issue is that driving isn't _really_ a rule-based process; the rules are codifications of social mores but fundamentally driving around other people is about theory of mind and social negotiation, which ML is largely hopeless at; here's a thing I wrote.
Driving is a social process
Photo by Sangga Rima Roman Selia on Unsplash There is something very strange about automobiles. They are much faster and more dangerous than our brains are...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
it occurs to me that the waymo failure in the SF blackout is precisely the kind of failure we were trying to help with: when traffic lights go out navigating intersections resolves to social negotiation, which requires theory of mind, which AVs ain't got
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JD Vance cozying up to the sort of white supremacists who would consider his wife and children insufficiently white (and hence American) is pretty bleak, and says a lot about his character.
December 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
JD Vance cozying up to the sort of white supremacists who would consider his wife and children insufficiently white (and hence American) is pretty bleak, and says a lot about his character.
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Said it last night and I'll say it again this morning: none of us hate tech bros enough.
December 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Said it last night and I'll say it again this morning: none of us hate tech bros enough.
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nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived.
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived.
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes