if only twitter had been around during the john sculley / steve jobs conflict history is so much more interesting when you watch it play out live on a timeline

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In the Elon Musk biography, Isaacson tells of a poker game where Musk went all-in every time until he won. It's an analogy for how Musk - in Peter Thiel's words - "understands something about risk that everybody else doesn't", and how he's able to create companies that seemed

SF uses ranked choice voting to decide elections, and that’s a good thing—mostly. But ranked choice voting has some quirks, so you need to know the details. We explain exactly how it works. With emojis.

“Mr. Bean” on free speech in UK. Video: The Christian Institute

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There's a type of person who uses words like "everyone knows", "as you know", "obviously", "as experts believe", "the field knows", "the literature says", etc. to launder incorrect views, and the strategy seems to work because a lot of people don't recognize the tactic.

The Origins of Wokeness: paulgraham.com/woke.html

Damn that was the last spot left that I buy clothes in SF

Ironic that we got free AI from a hedge fund and $200/month AI from a nonprofit.

Feeling like there’s now a non-zero chance Alberta becomes a state in the next year

The biggest news of today by far is that the FDA approved what is potentially the first actual non-opioid painkiller about an hour ago This could be huge. We might finally see people's pain actually reduced, not just numbed, with something non-addictive Potentially gamechanging

OK, now I’m going to have to speak up. Assuming the below is accurate HHS.gov & NIH could have used that 29M USD to fund approximately 20 full five-year NIH grants to laboratories to do basic research. (Including overhead costs). This is egregious. WTF.

A word of caution: In the gleeful, righteous rush to identify government fraud & waste, there will be a temptation to mock any federally funded science that _sounds_ trivial or ridiculous to ordinary folks. Granted, a lot of that research is actually trivial or ridiculous. But

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Who’s making this movie?

I ordered 12 Optimus robots to give to my fans over the next 12 days… retweet to be entered.

A new pope might be selected before Shadeur Sanders.

Apple should acquire Anthropic. Evolve Siri into Claude. That would catapult Anthropic into consumer relevancy and presumably “fix” Apple Intelligence. Make OpenAI really dance.

At some point the meaning of ‘driving’ and ‘self-driving’ will invert.