Greg
@gentschev.bsky.social
Dad, product and business geek, and runner
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Trump didn't "back off" his tariffs yesterday.
The cost to consumers is *higher* than it was before his announcement - losing households $4,400 per year!
And it's the highest tariff rate in around 100 years!
The cost to consumers is *higher* than it was before his announcement - losing households $4,400 per year!
And it's the highest tariff rate in around 100 years!
April 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Trump didn't "back off" his tariffs yesterday.
The cost to consumers is *higher* than it was before his announcement - losing households $4,400 per year!
And it's the highest tariff rate in around 100 years!
The cost to consumers is *higher* than it was before his announcement - losing households $4,400 per year!
And it's the highest tariff rate in around 100 years!
Remember how people used to say the president didn't actually have much effect on the economy? Well, it turns out previous presidents were just relatively reasonable.
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember how people used to say the president didn't actually have much effect on the economy? Well, it turns out previous presidents were just relatively reasonable.
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Solarpunk's defining piece of media is a yogurt ad, and that fact makes it actually cyberpunk.
youtu.be/z-Ng5ZvrDm4?...
youtu.be/z-Ng5ZvrDm4?...
Dear Alice
YouTube video by THE LINE
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March 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Solarpunk's defining piece of media is a yogurt ad, and that fact makes it actually cyberpunk.
youtu.be/z-Ng5ZvrDm4?...
youtu.be/z-Ng5ZvrDm4?...
The real moral hazard?
The fact that the people who did Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Guantanamo got away with it is part of how we got here
March 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The real moral hazard?
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Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient: "Work has ground down to a stunning degree and management is spending a significant amount of time responding & preparing to respond to the chaos incited by the never ending barrage of EOs & accompanying memos"
Many make no sense🧵
Many make no sense🧵
March 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient: "Work has ground down to a stunning degree and management is spending a significant amount of time responding & preparing to respond to the chaos incited by the never ending barrage of EOs & accompanying memos"
Many make no sense🧵
Many make no sense🧵
The phrase fractally dysfunctional comes to mind.
March 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The phrase fractally dysfunctional comes to mind.
Grift.
Trump says he’s moving forward on a crypto reserve, calling out Ripple, Cardano, and Solana by name. It’s unclear why he didn’t mention bitcoin, which is the obvious favorite.
March 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Grift.
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February 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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In India, selective breeding and better husbandry increased the milk yield per cow significantly from 2013 to 2022. Cattle in poor countries remain far behind their rich-world peers, which means the opportunity for catch-up growth is enormous. Subscribe to Chartbook: tinyurl.com/bdesb9ye.
February 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
In India, selective breeding and better husbandry increased the milk yield per cow significantly from 2013 to 2022. Cattle in poor countries remain far behind their rich-world peers, which means the opportunity for catch-up growth is enormous. Subscribe to Chartbook: tinyurl.com/bdesb9ye.
A lot of things will need to get rebooted in four years. People should start preparing for that now.
February 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A lot of things will need to get rebooted in four years. People should start preparing for that now.
Prompting the AI turns out to be a good way to rubber duck too.
February 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Prompting the AI turns out to be a good way to rubber duck too.
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If you want to understand how California’s NIMBYism squandered one of the greatest economic opportunities in nearly a century, consider that over the last 15 years, Silicon Valley’s GDP nearly tripled, yet it approved less housing than Austin, Texas has in just four years.
February 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you want to understand how California’s NIMBYism squandered one of the greatest economic opportunities in nearly a century, consider that over the last 15 years, Silicon Valley’s GDP nearly tripled, yet it approved less housing than Austin, Texas has in just four years.
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Cutting fraud for federal programs seems like an underrated way to save some money. I've seen numbers like $500B for taxes, $100B for Medicare, and $80B for Social Security. You'd never get to zero, but cutting those by half would net you over $300B a year.
November 27, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Cutting fraud for federal programs seems like an underrated way to save some money. I've seen numbers like $500B for taxes, $100B for Medicare, and $80B for Social Security. You'd never get to zero, but cutting those by half would net you over $300B a year.
I’m having another AI mini-epiphany using ChatGPT o1-preview for a side project. It happily does the next 15 steps of the work, when I used to struggle to get early GPT-4 to do one fully.
November 24, 2024 at 11:27 PM
I’m having another AI mini-epiphany using ChatGPT o1-preview for a side project. It happily does the next 15 steps of the work, when I used to struggle to get early GPT-4 to do one fully.
This is an interesting scamming case study, and it also shows how much easier this is going to get with AI. What happens when every step of the operation is automated and the AIs don't make obvious mistakes like the people in the scam call center? Buckle up.
We have a live example of why they're called "pig-butchering" scammers! They're called that because they use the whole pig, ie, they don't just take a little money from their victims, they slaughter them and use them all. I'm gonna be slow on this thread because I'm doing exhaustive alt text, but:
November 24, 2024 at 8:36 PM
This is an interesting scamming case study, and it also shows how much easier this is going to get with AI. What happens when every step of the operation is automated and the AIs don't make obvious mistakes like the people in the scam call center? Buckle up.
We may have to extend the popular version of Godwin's Law to include fascist.
November 24, 2024 at 8:21 PM
We may have to extend the popular version of Godwin's Law to include fascist.
Feeling much better about my life decisions right now.
Alan Turing buried his life savings in a forest and then forgot where the spot was
November 22, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Feeling much better about my life decisions right now.
"But how—and why—would we allow members of the public to opt out of having their handwritten addresses on envelopes read by machines, or to appeal the decisions of those machines?" Great essay on unintended consequences in government. www.digitalistpapers.com/essays/ai-me...
AI Meets the Cascade of Rigidity — Digitalist Papers
Jennifer Pahlka
www.digitalistpapers.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM
"But how—and why—would we allow members of the public to opt out of having their handwritten addresses on envelopes read by machines, or to appeal the decisions of those machines?" Great essay on unintended consequences in government. www.digitalistpapers.com/essays/ai-me...
Regarding continued AI startup claims of "AGI real soon," it occurs to me that once you set the expectation that your startup will achieve AGI soon in the first place, deviating from that expectation becomes a big deal, like a potentially company-destroying event. So, consider the incentives.
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Regarding continued AI startup claims of "AGI real soon," it occurs to me that once you set the expectation that your startup will achieve AGI soon in the first place, deviating from that expectation becomes a big deal, like a potentially company-destroying event. So, consider the incentives.
The bots are here already. :(
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
The bots are here already. :(