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You will be dust

You will be dust

Chamath Palihapitiya: You will be dust in less than 100 years from now and the decision to be remembered won’t be yours so stop sweating it. It’s not in your control. So what is in your control? Be kind. Have fun. Work on something meaningful to you. Find

Photo of Ceuta, Spain looking out over a body of water

Ceuta Was Real. The Invasion Wasn't.

I've been following the Ceuta “invasion” story for a few weeks now, and the gap between what actually happened and what got reported is wild. As a reminder, on July 30 and 31, somewhere between 60,000 and 72,000 people, mostly young Moroccans, crossed from Morocco into

cork board with various political charts and graphs with the title "none of this is real"

A Polling Firm Deliberately Distributed False Polling Information

A relatively new polling firm called Median Strategies conducted polls on several recent national races with their most notable finding showing DSA-backed Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong with a 23-point lead, which garnered significant national attention. However, Median Strategies has since shut down and declared that their polls

A group of people wearing robes and holding signs about ignorance in a medieval setting

Willful Ignorance is Contagious

”Low-IQ stupidity might still be spread across both sides of the political aisle, but willful ignorance — the dogmatic cultish belief that loudmouths’ opinions are on equal ground with facts and evidence presented by informed experts — is the entire basis of the MAGA movement." -John Gruber, ‘Stupid-Americans Are

OpenAI —> Hugging Face Hacking Incident

This news is a bit old at this point (< 1 month), but as more details of the incident continue to emerge, the story becomes even more incredible. The following events were discussed in the Black Hat presentation on the OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident. Starting in May, 2026 autonomous AI

Elon’s Bad Day

From Caleb Ecarma’s Oligarch Watch: Tesla stock fell by almost 15% on Thursday, shaving $200 billion off the company’s market capitalization. The selloff — which bled into Friday and took place as the stock of Elon Musk’s other public company, SpaceX, continues to plummet — was Tesla’s worst

Things are not always as they seem

Things are not always as they seem

Someone close to me believes that all AI is dangerous without exception. I understand enough about the subject to recognize where this belief originated, and it's not entirely accurate. What troubled me wasn't that she was wrong (people are wrong about things all the time), but

The Nerd Reich

One thing the billionaires are really good at is imagining the future. And their future is very grave for most of us. But we also have to seize that power of imagination. A lot of these billionaires are imagining a future without us because we won't have jobs,

People think more differently than you think they do

People think more differently than you think they do

I used to assume people thought roughly the way I do. I don't believe that anymore. Take the thought "they're after my job." It shows up when someone new joins the team, and some part of you decides that's what they want.