Chris Williams

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

The Godfather: opening scene. “Some day, and that day may never come, I will come to you for a favor…” That is clear corruption.

I hate that the thanks for donating to a Democratic candidate is having my phone number sold on a list to a hundred other campaigns, all of whom send me passive-aggressive texts asking for my donation, often weirdly attempting a guilt trip, as though I knew them. I really don’t like that.

This is The Last Supper now.

Great line from Eddie Murphy in Trading Places: The best way to hurt rich people is to turn them into poor people. $TSLA youtu.be/4SVN_Em6cEk

The 17th amendment that allows for the direct election of senators was passed to prevent the wealthy from buying senators. Guess we didn’t count on the richest man on the planet doing it directly. En masse. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

The Commerce Secretary is promoting a company’s stock on live TV, and not just any company’s - the company owned by a ‘special government employee’ and the president’s biggest donor. The corruption is the point.

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

Great art, like #Severance, is not for everyone, and causes people to disagree about what makes it great, what works for them, what "sucks" and what doesn't. That's why art is so important. And why you can never "enjoy each piece of art equally".

Note that Clara Shih leans fully into her diverse heritage to explain herself. Is it BS? Sure. But I thought Meta fully disavowed DEI? You mean that having people with a range of life experiences can be helpful? Huh. 🤷‍♂️

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

“I won’t forget” ?

If Democrats want to beat back this threat, we need the best communicators out on the field. We need Pete, and Jasmine, and AOC out there -- all day every day. Hakeem is a nice, smart guy. But can't do this. Neither can Chuck Schumer or any of the other octogenarians in Dem leadership.

Destroying US govt ✅ Disinformation pipeline ✅ Trade war with our allies ✅ Stock market freefall ✅ Deserting Ukraine ✅ Putin apologists in govt ✅ Sell off US to elites ✅ Abandoning NATO ✅ At each other’s throats ✅ Just getting started ✅ Champagne is flowing in Moscow.

The fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy. — Elon, on Joe Rogan’s podcast Nothing sums up him, Trump, the GOP, and the entire right wing today better than that. “F*** you, I got mine.”

We didn’t have all this airline drama when the gay man was in charge. Just sayin… 🤷‍♂️

The most "Trump" things happened today: -- Hawking personal merchandise from the Oval Office -- while selling US admission to the ultra-wealthy -- while actively kicking out hardworking poor immigrants -- and holding an ally hostage for their mineral rights All in one day, the Trump Superfecta.

For those that disagree with me on AI, this article does a good job explaining your position and why he thinks you are right open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Made me spit out my coffee.

JPMorgan’s portfolio is heavily invested in city centers. Major office complexes (like their $3b HQ), shopping centers, transit bonds, etc. are key, for JPM and their clients. Follow the money: Jamie Dimon’s concern isn’t his company’s culture, or even its effectiveness. It’s his wallet.

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

Leon and DOGE have just fired most of the staff cleaning up Hanford, the second most toxic nuclear site on the planet (after Chernobyl).

Ransaking the government as if it was a college prank.

Google went from "do no evil" to "bend the knee" pretty seamlessly.

The way to conquer corruption is to expose it to sunlight. Discover it, document it, publicize it, prosecute it. Not to do more of it under cover with a mysterious team of unqualified amateurs while flailing around making brash statements with no proof.

What's the next "blame everything on it" TLA (three letter acronym) for the MAGA crowd. Was BLM that set their hair on fire. Then it was CRT. Now it's DEI. They don't stick with anything for long, what's the next TLA boogie man?

It's getting a little North Korean around here.

Waiting for the two narcissists running the US government to collide when their self-interests don't align. Gonna be like two cats in a bag. To be clear, I have little doubt Donny will cave to the $$ that is Leon. But he won't go quietly into the night.

Shouldn’t $TSLA shareholders be upset that their stock is down ~6% in the last month, and sales are cratering — down 50+% in Europe, all while their CEO is cosplaying POTUS?

I can't tell you how much I'm thankful for my LinkedIn Premium experience. Without it I wouldn't get notifications like this one.

What if Deepseek is so cheap because all it does is call ChatGPT in the background and echo the result? Seeing all these videos of queries where it first gives a cogent answer and then censors it has me hmmmm… 🤔

DeepSeek’s terms of service are far more concerning than TikTok’s, and a light year beyond OpenAI’s more transparent terms. Nate explains this perfectly: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2YMDK5f/

This administration is gonna be four years of non-stop episodes of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?

LandMan. So many questions: 1) Is it just an Exxon ad and we're being gaslit? 2) How is 17yo Ainsley getting drinks at the club and bar? 3) Do we need the soft core porn in every episode? 4) Is Taylor Sheridan on any sex offender registries? 5) Does it get better after, say, episode 4?

It was all in Project 2025…

The same people running around, hair on fire, claiming that AI will take over in the next two years, are also probably still sending their contracts around via Fax. Yes, it will change a lot of stuff at all levels of your company. No, it's not taking over the world in the next two years.

Just had some 🤡 actually comment: "I want you to think about what I said". LOL, right. If I didn't do that for my mother -- over 60 years ago -- you can be pretty sure I'm not doing it for some rando on the interweb.

The logical step to take when egg prices are soaring because of a disease is to — stop all medical research. Obviously!

A guy publicly endorses the neo-nazi party — in Germany of all places — and days later people are questioning the salute?

Who’s doing the Project 2025 checklist? How’s the orange guy doing? Pretty much following the document to the letter, right?

That wasn’t Inauguration Day, that was Reveal Day. We learned more about more people than in any 24hrs in history.

My NYTimes Crossword streak is now 3,000 days, well over 8yrs. Everyone needs a hobby, right?

So glad I just jumped on the Severance train a month ago. I can’t imagine waiting years for season 2. 😳 What an amazing show.

The TikTok ban lasted less than 24hrs. Not much of a conspiracy guy, but … ummm, what? I hate that the orange guy is gonna get credit for solving a problem he started. 🤮