Facebook went from follow your friends to follow Kim Kardashian to follow random viral content to follow AI Shrimp Jesus to send 3m messages to sexy AI Step Mom

Do you have kids? Do you think assisted suicide is acceptable for the elderly suffering from disease?

I think about this a lot. I often feel like my team and I are constantly *discovering* Brainscape rather than inventing it.

Gotta triple Brainscape's # of AWS servers this week, thanks to the double-whammy of back-to-school traffic plus an assault of LLM bot traffic crawling our millions of URLs of content to train their latest models. I guess that's a good sign? Hopefully these next generation

I often wonder how much of the lack of progress toward new state initiatives this past century (e.g. DC, Puerto Rico, etc) is just because 50 is too perfect of a number to ruin.

R.I.P. Recipe websites. Having been using ChatGPT as my cooking sidekick this past year, I can never see myself wading through someone's grandmother's life story (and 20 pop-up ads) just to get a recipe ever again.

ABC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

If he can use his maga fascist powers to do one useful thing please let this be it

… and, in terms of America deporting illegal workers, we’re on track to spend $40-90k per deportation If we ensure the ~10m working illegals pay their taxes, we would bring in $60b in taxes — instead of spending $30b on deportations … and, if 1m businesses got a $10k fine

Good morning to everyone except the person who designed the NYT Connections game for today, Oct 6

When I was a kid watching sci-fi movies, all the futuristic technologies seemed like a cool thing that would just “happen”. What most people don’t understand is that nothing happens without entrepreneurs. Empowering entrepreneurs is literally building the future.

Something I genuinely wonder: why do anti capitalists seem a lot more bothered with the incomes of CEOs than incomes of elite athletes, musicians, actors etc? My guess they can comprehend the uniqueness of the skills of Taylor Swift or LeBron James but they have no idea what

My friends who exercise the most also happen to be my most successful friends. Correlation or causation?

It is basically illegal to make a cheap new car now, due to all the new “standards”. A true economist would argue that less wealthy people would willingly pay less for lower safety. But that option is currently only viable for used cars.

Microsoft Azure team all day today

Your brain doesn't care about your intentions. It cares about your repetitions. Repetition shapes your reality.