What is an American? Only 18% say being white is important and only 34% say being Christian. Only 37% say having many generations of ancestors makes you American; 58% reject the idea. Meanwhile, 86% say supporting the Constitution makes you an American. The poll asked about

This is very interesting

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AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it.

As an as accomplished “person who makes the lines work” this seems inevitable. And w/ the power to create becoming table stakes, the near term formula for success feels like agency + ownership

My project this weekend was building a bookmarks scraper for Twitter. 1,193 tweets → local markdown with threads and media, now connected with Obsidian as I build a system for continuous learning. Twitter had no export feature. Now it does. Repo is here: github.com/TommyD04/twitt…

rohit This organization could have been a series of markdown files.

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10x traffickers

Pretty draconian from Google. Be careful out there if you use Antigravity. I guess I'll remove support. Even Anthropic pings me and is nice about issues. Google just... bans? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=471158…

Excellent

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93. He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).

Some thoughts on destruction of oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf. It is not exactly a new insight that modern economies operate on oil. Oil access, synthesis, and interdiction was a major theater of WW2. 100 years ago oil-poor nations spent heavily and participated in

Those wheels you’re looking at are 0.75 millimeters thick. That’s half the thickness of a US dime. Each one was carved from a single block of aluminum, and NASA sent six of them to Mars knowing they’d eventually shred. Curiosity was built for a 2-year mission. It landed in

Friends outside of tech: lol copilot is dumb Friends in tech: I just bought iodine tablets and have made an offer on land upstate. My supplies of antibiotics and potable water are sufficient but I need to set up hydroponics to make it through the first few years.

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle

Just got word that will shock the world - Land of the free...home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!