Chris Beiser

new Thiel lecture notes and leaks imply that Dario is the antichrist… i hate to admit that i gotta hand it to him

The important thing about Anthropic is that the reason they love the BDSM cults is because they have toxoplasmosis. The same way a toxoplasmotic mouse will become aroused by cats, Anthropic employees exhibit an exceptional counterphobia, and will systematically produce exactly what they fear.

apropos nothing, I think it’s a grand historical tragedy that the Google employees fighting Project Maven had so little political discipline and consequently lost the battle against turning the company into a military contractor. Not to say they could have done it—but that group definitely couldn’t.

it seems very obvious to me that kanye is on cobenfy. nobody is talking about this.

people outside the bay area do not grasp that OpenAI is a company that wants to make money, but Anthropic is a Leninist doomsday cult building 10,000 Optimal Cadres in a datacenter in order to win WWIII

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 27,1954

Rectangles with rounded corners are a very common shape and they should be called roundtangles

i think it's probably good that new models will kill the creative coding industrial complex by just letting people make things themselves

its just not been the same since i lost my knocker-upper

in order to fight (checks table) labor obfuscation in image generation, I'm here to tell you: i work on that stuff

i do think that it's good that hong, as a slopulist anti-data center candidate, lost the primary. but i must say that I respect her opposition to holidays.

i don't think it makes sense to fight ceaselessly to get people to say they like data centers… we just have to get zoning declared unconstitutional forever

Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold.

Mamdani's focus on state capacity represents a form of civic education about what govt does in an age of bureaucracy-bashing. He also connects improving state capacity to his core policy goals on housing, childcare, consumer and worker protection. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...

lots of people say you should go to a "top school" to meet smart people. not true. smart people are everywhere. what's unusual about is that they have many smart people who are well adjusted.

SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT IS ANTISOCIAL

i think drake should release a chicago juke record

I think that this kind of framing is borderline irresponsible and borders on encouraging conspiracy thinking. This company has 17 investors, and one is Founders Fund.

People love to be like "you have to understand what these people are feeling" when they believe something completely false and frankly stupid

do we *actually* need to smash agriculture, the attorney-client privilege, and every HR department to pieces, or do you just need a Snickers and maybe for Mom to put your show on the iPad for you

[yoda on tiktok] think fear leads not to the dark side, do you? 😏👉fear ➡️ anger 😏👆anger ➡️ hate 😏🫴 hate ➡️ suffering

most people still don't grasp at a basic level that the landowner / labor divide does not map to a left-right logic of affiliation

genuinely concerning to me that consensus view on X seems to be that Nithya did election fraud somehow would be an incredibly impressive ground game for the DSA lol

i spent a couple months drinking Kim Kardashian's paraxanthine-containing energy drink and let me tell you: those things are way too strong.

incredible clip due to the body language. lander having incredible fluidity and movement and goldman standing like a statue, fully linear, legolike—posture is politics

Very exciting news: notnothing.ooo, the small press which I have begun to help my friends Suspended Reason and @arquipelago.org run, is the recipient of a New Aesthetics grant. To celebrate, we are giving away PDFs of Suspended Reason's “Avatar: Way of Water”: www.notnothing.ooo/books/the-wa...

What have you been reading lately? Looking for some new things to think abt

you gotta be multitudesmaxxing. you gotta be containing soooo many multitudes.

the reason you're not seeing everyone's vibe-coded software yet is that the first thing everyone makes is illegal. it's all decompilation and recompilation, unauthorized clones, apps for piracy, unauthorized third party clients, apps for bypassing terms of service, etc

everything is content especially your interiority

funniest type of content online is people who are like "i've never eaten a salad, AMA" what kind of secret knowledge do they think they're granted? how would they recognize it?

i'm increasingly interested in sanctification

tabs are probably a bad interface for browsers if you're gonna on the same sites a lot. i don't need to accumulate 1000 tabs that are the same… who's working on this?

it's crazy that elon musk was for a few months the second most powerful person in the US government and he did nothing about direct auto sales. crazy.

the person in front of me on this flight is writing the world's meanest email about how they can't allow someone to expense plane wifi because Meta does not allow accessing any business materials in a public space like a plane

We need to let BYD import cars into the US so the car manufacturing labor force can instead build american data centers.

you're allowed to fall in love whenever you want to