I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location

Over the last 15 years almost all consumer devices have become a “smart” e.g. vacuums, cameras, phones, fridges, air purifiers, etc. Prediction: by 2032 (7 years from now) everything that’s currently “smart” will be intelligent i.e. running a local general AI model.

Ted Gioia Marc Andreessen's sister shares his interest in programming.

Years ago Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK said the internet wasn’t just better cable TV. He was right. I think AI isn’t just better software. In the future AI will be as far from software as the internet is from 90s cable TV.

will brown Theoretical physicists are the intellectual embryonic stem cell, I’ve now seen them become ~everything.

10 years, 8 months, and 24 days ago Randall Monroe published "Tasks" (xkcd.com/1425/). I propose the 1425 Lemma: If a smart engineer says a CS problem is hard and will take N years to solve, just wait 2N and it'll be solvable by anyone in an hour on a laptop.

Everything, Everywhere all at once.

Must manifest this

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"no Shakespeare yet -- only syntactically correct Bash scripts"

TLDR; identifying as trans is a lot like wearing bell bottom jeans.

Solar power is good Batteries are good Air conditioning is good AI is good Nuclear power is good Stop thinking like a medieval peasant

I asked Grok 4.1 to tell me the MOST UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH about humans. Its response: We are wired to be profoundly selfish at our core, and almost all of our “higher” motives are post-hoc rationalizations for self-interest. Even when we appear altruistic, kind, moral, or