Jan Řezáč

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Giant stack of pink boxes. Waiting to be picked up.

Here’s a fun story. Erika and I are on our way out to grab lunch when there’s a knock on the door. I go to answer and there's the mailman and he's holding a copy of my book. Which is odd. Why is the mailman holding a copy of my book? He hands it to me. I open it up and it’s signed. "To Jared."

This is what happens when you have a military lead by the kind of people who think wars are fought like Call of Duty games.

Welcome to the future

My new video with Mayor Mamdani just dropped 📼

Our partnership has shown that politics doesn’t have to be sour or ego-driven. It can be a team sport in pursuit of values and our hopes. ⬇️

As we say in Spanish, "He who steals from a thief is forgiven for a hundred years."

Democracy is dying in America.

ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous.

We need real leaders - not career politicians.

Jacaranda trees in bloom lining Fairfax in South Hollywood, CA I consider this a very mediocre picture but I’m posting it today in contrast to yesterday’s amazing pic as a test. I paired yesterday’s with Malcolm X and those pics never do numbers. Methinks the folks on this platform need a lot more Malcolm in their lives. Ninnys.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker

Pic of the day
#photography

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Maybe you live in an immoral country if its priority is killing people abroad instead of keeping people at home alive.

Ramp data shows companies are replacing freelancers with AI Firm-level spending on freelance marketplaces and AI model providers from 2021 to 2025 shows those that spent the most on freelancers shifted to AI the fastest.

Ramp’s data science team has published research showing businesses are replacing freelancers with AI. Two key findings

1. Spend on services like Upwork & Fiverr has dropped -80% replaced by spend on ChatGPT/Claude.

2. AI is much cheaper. Each $1 of freelance spend is replaced by $0.03 of AI spend

Even the Wall Street Journal has been radicalized into saying tax the billionaires.

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

Gift link (hope it works) for the @ftrain.bsky.social NY Times piece on the impact of post-November-2025 coding agents (like Claude Code) on the cost of developing software - it's very worth a read www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

This. Every damn bit of it.

Early on, the CEO is “the best person at the company” at some things. Often sales (passion + knowledge) or product vision.

But by 100 people, if the CEO is “better than everyone” at 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, the CEO has hired poorly, and the company is suffering.

Tough transition.

Wow.

I remember as a young person reading about that intermittent reinforcement rat study—sometimes you get the pellet, sometimes you don't, making you press that bar in a frenzy—and now that's just everything.

We used to at least be in a proper rat race.

workplace incompetence is like porn: the technical definitions are unclear… but you know it when you see it

For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

Captain Cook was cooked, but not eaten A remarkable new book about the navigator, ‘Wide, Wide Sea’ by Hampton Sides, traces the adventurer’s third voyage and its fateful conclusion

Captain Cook was cooked...
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

See also: Gaza

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

"Sure," said the rocket scientist, "we can send rockets to the moon."

"We can build a city there," said the engineer. "It'll be expensive, but we can do it."

"But why?" said the economist. "What would you mine there you can't get on Earth?"

"One thing," said the billionaire. "Respect."

But like this is literally true. Elon Musk is literally responsible for the deaths of millions. Literally, literally. And we let him walk among us.

Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y X @elonmusk For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.

Hot startups being acquired by Big Tech isn’t new. The Instagram and YouTube acquisitions come to mind as hot startups that sold versus going solo.

What is new is that this is happening at the individual co-founder and employee level. Individuals are being headhunted like free agents in sports.

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Silicon Valley accurately predicted the vibe coding era.