John Wolthuis (@thuddwhirr) 's Twitter Profile
John Wolthuis

@thuddwhirr

Climate. Housing. Abundance. Co-founder, @twilio. Board, @NiskanenCenter. Opinions are my own.

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calendar_today11-05-2008 04:34:53

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John Wolthuis (@thuddwhirr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Relentlessly self promoting sci-fi author cosplaying as a hardtech entrepreneur is not my least favorite architype, but its sure is down there.

Senator Scott Wiener (@scott_wiener) 's Twitter Profile Photo

LA City Council voted to oppose SB 79, our bill to allow more homes near public transit. But here’s the big picture: In 2019, the council voted unanimously to oppose SB 50, a prior version of this bill. Today’s vote was 8-5. That’s called progress. Let’s get the bill passed.

John Wolthuis (@thuddwhirr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Public transportation is not a jobs program or patronage racket, it's a core city service. You can't spend billions on a system and then constrain who can live within walking distance of it. LA is the Anti-Tokyo

Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

simon civilization scale A: You can leave keys in your car B: You can leave car unlocked C: You have to lock car D: You have to lock car and conceal any valuables E: You cannot keep anything in your car F: E + and you have to leave it unlocked so they don't smash the window

John Wolthuis (@thuddwhirr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I... I actually got Claude code to build a graphics card in Verilog and it works! VGA = Vibes Graphics Array github.com/thuddwhirr/Vib…

Sam D'Amico (@sdamico) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Huge post on WHY we're seeing everything that can possibly electrify, electrify -- there's a new technology stack, and it's eating the world: batteries, power electronics, electromagnetics, and compute. TLDR: It's better and CAN BE CONTROLLED BY SOFTWARE. 🧵

Huge post on WHY we're seeing everything that can possibly electrify, electrify -- there's a new technology stack, and it's eating the world: batteries, power electronics, electromagnetics, and compute.

TLDR: It's better and CAN BE CONTROLLED BY SOFTWARE. 🧵
John Wolthuis (@thuddwhirr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’d make fun of this more but a number of dem politicians also suggested some variation of this to me. Cargocult-ing tech industry hype language has a bipartisan tradition.

Jeff Lawson (@jeffiel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today I’m excited to announce my new venture: Inertia Enterprises. Along with my co-founders Dr. Annie Kritcher and Mike Dunne, our mission is to commercialize fusion energy with the most direct, lowest-scientific risk path available. I’m sure you heard about the huge

Today I’m excited to announce my new venture: Inertia Enterprises. Along with my co-founders Dr. Annie Kritcher and <a href="/MikeDunne_LCLS/">Mike Dunne</a>, our mission is to commercialize fusion energy with the most direct, lowest-scientific risk path available.

I’m sure you heard about the huge