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Joe Fabisevich

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β€œApps genius” - Colleen. I used to work on making Twitter a bit healthier, then that all went to hell. Now I make puns, @plinky.app, and teach @ build.ms. Born and raised New Yorker, trying to do a little good and be the friend you made along the way. πŸ•πŸ±βšΎοΈ

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To be fair that's not what he said and even X of all places has community notes that explain that.

06.03.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a simple rule: I see a cat and I have to give them a like.

06.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I ran a workshop today with a company that makes the app I've probably spend the most time in for the last 13 years β€” probably ~1,600 hours in that time β€” and I can't tell you how unbelievably rewarding it felt helping them with their AI knowledge and strategy so they can make the app better. πŸ₯°

06.03.2026 02:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"I sure could use some more paperclips" - Me, if I was an agentic system

06.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love Is A Game, by Adele. (It was the last song played for Colleen and I at our wedding.)

05.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gotcha! Yeah, I use AI all the time to question my own assumptions β€” and then question those assumptions in turn because the process of thinking is what this is all about anyhow. πŸ™‚

04.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm, I can agree with some of this as not fully articulated in three tweet-sized posts, but I think it’s over-indexing on the idea of this being corporate vs. governance when I’m trying to say that regardless of the context the questions ultimately boil down to civil liberty vs. collective safety.

04.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now I’m curious, what are the edges?

04.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There is no right answer, because no matter how the question is framed politically, the real question is: how much societal harm are you ok accepting to protect your civil liberties? Your preferred answer may be extreme or somewhere in the middle, but every solution will have meaningful tradeoffs.

04.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The AI labs should build this feature. Oh, ok, I now have to trust OpenAI, great. No no, we'll have the government regulate it. Well I don't like this term's president and congress so that sounds bad to me. I can't trust anyone to make decisions besides me so we should have no guardrails. And so on.

04.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Most societal matters of our day like age verification, AI content certification, or mandated encryption backdoors are primarily a question of where you want the locus of control in your life to live.

04.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
An app-walled article on Substack

An app-walled article on Substack

Substack is now an email newsletter service where you can only read articles if you download their app.

04.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body.
Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the
lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to
intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told
the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed.

The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed.

How embarrassing. Falling in love with AI is one thing, but falling in love with a Gemini model? Have some standards man.

04.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The year is 2034, Jasmine Crockett is on the Supreme Court for some reason, and now legal scholars are debating whether the constitution prohibits appointing a bear justice to replace John Roberts.

04.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Buddha would say do not wonder what’s next, enjoy the present. Funny enough he also never talked about bitcoin.

04.03.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine working at the Pentagon and you're told you'll get to use OpenAI's models only to be handed GPT-4.1?

04.03.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A chart that shows the price of bitcoin going down from 120K to 89K.

A chart that shows the price of bitcoin going down from 120K to 89K.

I didn't realize Jack Dorsey laid off 40% of Bitcoin this year too.

04.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all agree that I don't have AI psychosis.

04.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Making a prediction about this? Hypocrite.

04.03.2026 04:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI continues to find new and novel ways to make their model switcher even more confusing β€” this time it's offering two different models for Instant and Thinking at once.

04.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Report: Apple Asks Google to Run Siri on Its Servers Apple has asked Google to investigate setting up servers in its data centers to run a future version of Siri powered by Gemini, The Information reports. Currently, Apple sends its more complex AI quer...

Don’t tell anyone but I heard Apple is going to lean into OpenClaw and rebrand their PCC servers Private Claw Compute. www.macrumors.com/2026/03/02/a...

03.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Does anyone know which bank offer competitive mortgage rates for the new MacBook Pro?

03.03.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cat food delivery now estimated between March 6 - April 22

Cat food delivery now estimated between March 6 - April 22

Hope Maiori gets to eat sometime in the next six weeks.

02.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This whole essay is worth a read and is probably more thoughtful than anything else you’ll read on the subject of what happened between Anthropic and the DoW. hyperdimensional.co/p/clawed

02.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I spoke with him, more than once, in private. I
held his hand and tried to say goodbye. My
mother came back into the room, and all three
of us held hands. Eventually a machine
declared with a long beep that he had crossed
some line, though it was an invisible one for
the humans in the room. My father died in the
late afternoon of December 26, 2014.
A few days and eleven years later, on
December 30, 2025, my son was born. I have
watched death as it happens, and I have
watched birth. What I learned is that neither
are discrete events. They are both processes,
things that unfold. Birth is a series of
awakenings, and death is a series of
sleepenings. My son will take years to be born,
and my father took six months to die. Some
people spend decades dying.

I spoke with him, more than once, in private. I held his hand and tried to say goodbye. My mother came back into the room, and all three of us held hands. Eventually a machine declared with a long beep that he had crossed some line, though it was an invisible one for the humans in the room. My father died in the late afternoon of December 26, 2014. A few days and eleven years later, on December 30, 2025, my son was born. I have watched death as it happens, and I have watched birth. What I learned is that neither are discrete events. They are both processes, things that unfold. Birth is a series of awakenings, and death is a series of sleepenings. My son will take years to be born, and my father took six months to die. Some people spend decades dying.

At some point during my lifetimeβ€”| am not
sure whenβ€”the American republic as we know
it began to die. Like most natural deaths, the
causes are numerous and interwoven. No one
incident, emergency, attack, president,
political party, law, idea, person, corporation,
technology, mistake, betrayal, failure,
misconception, or foreign adversary "caused"
death to begin, though all those things and
more contributed. I don't know where we are
in the death process, but I know we are in the
hospice room. I've known it for a while, though
I have sometimes been in denial, as all
mourners are wont to do. I don't like to talk
about it; I am at the stage where talking about
it usually only inflicts pain.
Unfortunately, however, I cannot carry out my
job as a writer today with the level of analytic
rigor you expect from me without
acknowledging that we are sitting in hospice.

At some point during my lifetimeβ€”| am not sure whenβ€”the American republic as we know it began to die. Like most natural deaths, the causes are numerous and interwoven. No one incident, emergency, attack, president, political party, law, idea, person, corporation, technology, mistake, betrayal, failure, misconception, or foreign adversary "caused" death to begin, though all those things and more contributed. I don't know where we are in the death process, but I know we are in the hospice room. I've known it for a while, though I have sometimes been in denial, as all mourners are wont to do. I don't like to talk about it; I am at the stage where talking about it usually only inflicts pain. Unfortunately, however, I cannot carry out my job as a writer today with the level of analytic rigor you expect from me without acknowledging that we are sitting in hospice.

Damn man, Dean Ball is such a ridiculously good writer.

02.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A train station in NYC with a subtitle that said β€œagent available at this entrance”.

A train station in NYC with a subtitle that said β€œagent available at this entrance”.

Agent available at this entrance? Even the MTA is getting AI-pilled.

02.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is Freecash - Get Paid Real Money erasure.

02.03.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I think Ben is a fantastic technology and market analyst, but he’s more blinded when it comes to product. He’s done a decent job with paradigm shifts before, but he’s such an idiosyncratic consumer that I think he has trouble mapping his mental models onto consumer behavior. (See: Meta Vibes.)

02.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I followed up with Katrina about this and the answer is yes. The contract does not allow NSA Title 50 work.

I followed up with Katrina about this and the answer is yes. The contract does not allow NSA Title 50 work.

As I was saying. x.com/polynoamial/...

01.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I followed up with Katrina about this and the answer is yes. The contract does not allow NSA Title 50 work.

I followed up with Katrina about this and the answer is yes. The contract does not allow NSA Title 50 work.

As I was saying. x.com/polynoamial/...

01.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0