All-time best quote from Dune: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

I love that the New Yorker put this one in print this year, lol

We have a moral duty to accelerate biomedical innovation.

Unfortunately this is 100% correct

Housing is the only essential good that we still hand build bespoke, on site to hyper local standards. Imagine the price of cars, clothes or electronics if they were still built this way. Automation and standardization in construction is a desperately needed innovation.

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finally, we're living through precedented times

People who post incessantly about politics don’t represent the population. They represent the least intelligent, least caring subset. Data: The 2 robust predictors of online political activity are low cognitive ability and high psychopathy. Don't mistake outliers for the norm.

ok which one of you is ready to make an Age of Empires 2 like interface for Claude Code and make a billion dollars??

Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.

2021: it can’t even autocomplete a line 2022: it can’t even write a whole function 2023: it can’t even pass a coding interview 2024: it can’t even build an app 2025: it can’t even handle complex projects 2026: oh no

Trump actually kidnapped Maduro because he wanted his advice on economic policy.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

This is the way