I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images

i’ve been significantly more productive since the whole ai thing really took off but it’s been like 10% using ai for stuff and 90% the whole “you have 2 years to escape the permanent underclass” thing

Advice to students, young engineers and inquisitive amateurs. Every major project I do, until and including today, follows this pattern, and never does the fear leave. ============ 1) Can you do "thing x" ? 2) No. 3) Go to ntrs.nasa.gov , download all papers pertaining

If you can figure out how to configure your default state to be slightly amused rather than slightly annoyed you pretty much enter God Mode

Wife and I talk about this all the time, using "snap to grid" analogy. A nerd in NYC snaps to the local Ashkenazi chess nerd archetype, in Tennessee, to the Eagle scout and ham radio archetype.

this is incredible

Why so many schools started telling kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out: In the 1960's a woman in New Zealand named Marie Clay thought that good readers read by guessing at whole words from context (the words around them, the letter they start with, or any

I asked this question of the head of a Singaporean family office and he said: "It's random. Have more kids."

It's important to make wrong answers "not fun" if you're designing for kids If it's possible to have fun tapping wrong answers, kids will do it over and over again You could imagine a game where tapping the wrong answer makes a character sad, or your ship blows up. That sounds

The director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center was shot to death last night in his home. When one of the greatest minds on the planet specializing in nuclear fusion is assassinated, it seems like a bad omen.

yeah

I remember seeing a post about how normalized AI in advertisements making the company look cheap will mean real art will start becoming the standard for brands to seem more luxurious and it's really happening

TAX MAN: Hey you! Your W-2 is ready. Pumped for tax season. ME: Awesome, so I can file my taxes now? TAX MAN: Nope, your wife’s W2 isn’t ready yet. ME: Cool. I'll see if she knows her ADP login. TAX MAN: Hey. Your 1098 is ready. ME: Great, that’s my mortgage interest

Incredible and inevitable— Police chief says ICE agents violated his own officers' civil rights while off-duty. A female officer was boxed in by ICE agents who demanded her papers, pulled their guns on her, and knocked her phone down as she tried to film.

GOV: We have a housing crisis. Prices are too high. ME: I agree. Supply is too low. GOV: So we have a plan. We’re going to subsidize demand. ME: …What does that mean? GOV: We’re going to give people money to buy houses. ME: But there aren't enough houses. GOV: Right. So

Overturn Citizens United. Get dark money out of politics. Let’s take on corruption and end special interest influence that helps billionaires & corporations, while working people suffer.

The amount of crap I get for putting out a hobby project for free is quite something. People treat this like a multi-million dollar business. Security researchers demanding a bounty. Heck, I can barely buy a Mac Mini from the Sponsors. It's supposed to inspire people. And I'm

If you're aware that the term "permanent underclass" even exists then it's clear you'll never be a part of it. No shot. On this app all day exposing yourself to every opinion about what the future might look like You've gotten to a point where you've essentially become an

BREAKING: Average US gas prices are now expected to rise above $4.50/gallon this month, per Polymarket. This would mark a +64% increase in 4 months.