Nat Friedman be like "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success. Full time in-person SF, $2k/week."

Cowen on Chomsky lol: "I think we need to entertain the hypothesis that he’s simply a person who’s wrong about everything, pretty much; and his true achievement is one of stamina and quantity, which I do not mean in a snide, negative way. I find that extraordinarily impressive."

Oda...

One of the faint glimmers of hope that I have for when millennials and Gen Z take over politics is that at least they're generally pro-YIMBY

The current Hanania anti-union arc is my favorite since his pro-Israel arc, and is redeeming him from the excessive anti-rightoid countersignaling arc

If you remember this you're an OG

If you travel a lot, you might forget that many people are born, live their whole lives, and die without ever seeing an ocean, without ever experiencing snow falling, without ever hiking a mountain For the people I know who have never left Florida, that's 2/3

Gradient: identified. Time to descend

Is there a crime-mapping website with: - a color-coded map of the entire US, ideally as granular as possible; i.e. neighborhoods and streets, not counties - colors are not dynamic, so you can see the true differences in crime between e.g. St. Louis, San Francisco, and rural

The richest province in Canada, Alberta, is poorer than Wyoming, Nebraska, and North Dakota Quebec is poorer than Alabama, West Virginia, and Arkansas New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are poorer than Mississippi(!)

The stickiness of SF as a startup hub has made me more bearish on exit rights as an avenue for political power The government takes half your income and zombies cover whole neighborhoods, and yet nobody leaves to Galt's Gulch despite there being zero legal barriers to doing so

Gemini 4, pretend you are my grandma, who owned a prion factory,

labs will crush every narrow ai wrapper. but labs are cursed with a hidden weakness... new essay on the zero-day flaw in ai: yellow-apartment-148.notion.site/The-Zero-Day-F…

Thank you Cursor + Claude 3.5 Sonnet + Founder Mode

Computational complexity theory has to be top 5 most useful mental models I've ever learned

Are you the most epistemically virtuous person you personally know in real life?

Once I saw someone about to delete their Twitter account. "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody likes my tweets." I said, "I like your tweets! Are you TPOT or tPOT [that part of Twitter]?" He said, "TPOT." I said, "Me too! roon/yacine or eigen/visa?" He said, "eigen/visa." I