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TMC, $TRUMP, and Tesla. All down 8 to 14% today.

It's a good day to follow Bloomberg writers on here

I’ve been following this project for a while and am excited it’s finally out - a stark contrast from the opacity of the AI industry and demonstrates why it’s important to publish research openly, with methodological rigor and real insight into how training datasets are built

It feels significant that SF’s billboards on the 101 are all AI and divorce lawyers.

"The U.S. Navy is considering renaming multiple naval ships named after civil rights leaders and prominent American voices...Among them are the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers."

First day at @figma.com.

damn

Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Larry Ellison’s Oracle.

"Someone has to bully these people. Respectfully."

Perfect timing for the release of Mountainhead.

Out in SF for my first week at @figma.com. Haven’t been in SF-proper since before the pandemic. Where do I need to eat? What should I do besides ride in a Waymo?

Mountainhead's only miss is that no one used the word "orthogonal."

When I need a bike part/tool, I call my local bike shop. Either they don't have the part, or need to order it. Sometimes they offer to do it (like loosening a stuck freewheel) for more than the part costs. And so... Amazon.com.

I'm one of those people. I won't be ranking Zohran first, but I won't be ranking Cuomo at all.

Reading Sahil Lavingia's blog post about working for DOGE and it's just painful how little any of them bothered to learn anything about civic tech. Silicon Valley types thinking they're the first people to name problems and solve them sahillavingia.com/doge

here’s a crazy statistic: more people work for the MTA (~70K employees) than are coal miners in the entire country (~42K)

Went to Rome, took some photos.

Wrote about the end of Glitch - the platform, the union, the dreams, and the technical debt that killed it all. Tried to keep it honest but not too spicy. Been gone a year now but felt like the community deserved some context đź’ž

Interviewed the guy who directs Mets games, who has been weaving in some high-falutin film canon homages into the broadcast. Baseball games are better with De Palma references! slate.com/culture/2025...

This is the death cross they warned you about.

$6.5 billion is all it costs to solve the male loneliness epidemic.* *for two men

Sometimes I'm on the subway platform. I want to check for delays. But I have horrible cell service. The official MTA.info is ~8mb (less cached, but still). It never loads. MTA.fyi is 13kb. It's static HTML, updated once a minute, and loads fast basically anywhere—no matter how bad your connection.

Savage use of alt-text.