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What if personal consumption choices don’t exempt you from experiencing global upheaval? Has anyone heard of this

Love all the “I got an EV” posts. Real quick: does anything else you buy require transportation or plastics or raw material inputs

I can’t even find the words to describe the actual current business of “the news” as a concept.

“Defending the homeland” being constituted primarily of occupying and waging war against that very same place is a lot

A walking securities violation. Claiming to be revolutionizing autonomy while shipping fundamentally unsafe driving tech that’s more dangerous than humans and demoing the remote operated servant is pretty bold.

Claiming to make humans an interplanetary species while polluting orbit with your space junk and setting back astronomy significantly is pretty awesome but that guy needs a whole section

“We’re working on superintelligence” while making products that make everyone who uses them dumber is pretty stunning

The most obvious and omnipresent is the “we’re going to stop you getting ripped off and be America first” while stealing from your family and dismantling Pax Americana

So anyway this is how he bankrupted all those businesses

Asking for several tech companies that are rapidly replacing their codebases that they unambiguously own as intellectual property with code they may not actually be able to claim as their own property

Quick question: if generated art isn’t copyrightable is generated code

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

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Weekly candle chart of GBTC (greyscale Bitcoin trust) with RSI and MACD

Technical analysts … what’s going on here

I’m Pepsi, and I’m Actually Okay Before you ask, yes—I’m actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...

"I’ve been in therapy for a while now, and one of the things I’ve learned is that I’m not responsible for managing other people’s expectations—especially when those expectations were built around a different soda entirely."
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It’s actually FEWER Misérables

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Lionel Hutz from the simpsons editing a business card which reads "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - NO MORE FOREVER WAR" to read "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? NO, MORE FOREVER WAR"

Yeah we elevated the dumbest people we could find to be the primary source of commentary for huge numbers of people and then we got dumb outcomes and somehow none of them understood that would happen

Data Centers Are the New Fracking Podcast Episode · The Compound and Friends · February 27 · 1h 24m

Quite a title for the “bull show”.

They also say to pose datacenter development as “do you want this or a nuclear power plant?” … but actually you’re getting both in your backyard with this development plan

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It seems many of us are having the same meetings. Which is its own signal, no?

This is why the discourse has been focused on prototyping in code, and then shipping the prototype. But no amount of "MVPs" add up to a mature product. No amount of bad code adds up to good code.

Fighting this tendency means making artifacts that resist shipping: non-code sources of truth.

Do you think [executive] had “growth mindset”?

Yes, of course!

Do you think they effectively utilized “growth mindset” by laying off 10% of the company and implementing an ever-present surveillance regime to monitor exactly what tools those who remain are using?

Yes. “You didn’t expend effort to create this, but now I have to expend effort to process and respond to it” is a poor dynamic for trust between colleagues. Is there any research on the correlation between high trust environments and organizational success?

I have “like Peter Pan, not Wile E Coyote” written on my whiteboard forever.

We fly when we’re ready to, out of love and imagination, when it’s necessary to get us where we’re going. If we try to brute force it with tools not fit for purpose, out of greed and/or malice, we will destroy ourselves.

Text from the Verge, reading: Google and Samsung just launched the AI features Apple couldn’t with Siri Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference — before Apple delayed those planned features in March 2025 and which still aren’t released

Wow, as an iPhone user imagine if you could order food or hail a car with your phone

Excerpt from article, reading: Second, stop treating usage as a proxy for buy-in. High usage is often assumed to mean high adoption. In reality, usage can just as easily reflect self-protective compliance rather than genuine engagement. Our data shows that employees experiencing higher AI angst often use AI more broadly but may also feel greater internal resistance that can get in the way of real innovation. Without understanding the emotional context behind usage, leaders risk optimizing for activity rather than impact. Adoption metrics must be paired with signals of angst, psychological safety, and openness to experimentation to distinguish genuine engagement from calculated participation.

This is such a problem for PMs. The products extremely do not have product market fit despite rampant use. This is a terrible trap, because this growth is wildly expensive but not durable. Think Wile E Coyote.

Why AI Adoption Stalls, According to Industry Data Many companies report widespread AI usage but disappointing returns, assuming the problem lies in execution rather than adoption. New research shows that AI initiatives often stall because employees’ ...

HBR with some research that supports all this hbr.org/2026/02/why-...

there's a new trend among young people called "microliving" they close their eyes for a few seconds and experience a rich and fulfilling life from start to finish in their minds. birth. friendship. love. heartbreak. joy. loss. grief. death. but how does this affect their productivity at work

Frank Abagnale walked so Donald Trump could run