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PSA: Things we're ruling haram in the AGM caliphate. 1. Carpeting in all homes and hotels 2. Skiing 3. Tipping (servers will be paid a living wage) 4. Daylight Saving Time 5. Espresso 6. NYC bagel jingoism 7. Music above 40 db in restaurants Onwards.

Let's imagine what an 'ad for AI agents' looks like here. How do you pull in the user context for personalization and how does privacy work? What's the targeting like on the advertiser side? Do models like 'last touch attribution' still obtain? Lots going to change.

“AttentionFi”

The Signal group chat->X thread-> Substack post->NYT post->Ezra Klein book intellectual pipeline. Start to finish is about 1-2 years.

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Particularly when one can’t see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them.”

"Everything is an ad network."

Liberalism has gotten so intellectually boring. I want to hear arguments for hereditary monarchy, expansionary ethnonationalism, crypto network states; anything but a tired free speech or immigration debate between supposed antagonists who are 2mm apart on the pre-WWII spectrum.

The problem is that the principal goal of a liberal education is making illiberal thought impossible, and in that it succeeds wonderfully.

It’s not clear David French and Matt Yglesias would even be in different wings of the same party in 1890. Much less represent either extreme of the political Overton.

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Adding to the list: Grown-ass men ordering Aperol spritzes in a beer bar and slowing down the bartender.

Explaining to the Swede europoor at the beer bar that you have to leave a tip otherwise the bartender gets stiffed. “We don’t have these laws in Sweden.” “Ok, but you’re not in Sweden.” Me, the guy on the other side, and the bartender all in cahoots against the foreign

The prison warden: You are being shot at dawn for the crime of writing a work of literary non-fiction that pokes fun at technocapitalism and the SF dating scene. What is your last meal request? Me:

I want a NYT profile on dudes who own Jeep Rubicons in New York.