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- Punk, or why I don’t stream anymoreMay 03, 2026
If you’re the sun, I’m a black hole What killed the hacker culture I grew up in was spectacle. You can consume it without participating, and even worse it has signaling value. I never did CTFs to put them on my resume. I don’t even have a resume I take seriously. Just a battle between me and a machine and the glorification of my ego, sometimes public, but never performative. There was no purpose b
- AI will create jobsMay 01, 2026
It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it. AI and immigration are fundamentally the same. There’s new people showing up, and hopefully everyone understands how and why immigration creates jobs. Wants are effectively unlimited. It’s classic Jevons paradox that if we make something more efficient, we end up using more of it. Or a cool aphorism I learned
- A Mutating AI Powered VirusApr 25, 2026
Moravec’s paradox is alive and well. Computers are proceeding through tasks in a reverse order to humans. They first learned to do calculations and win at board games, then they learned to write and talk, and now they are learning to move. Opposite of animals. At the bottom of the funnel is the first thing life learned to do. Reproduce. Self reproduction of silicon machines is the holy grail. Mach
- PositivityApr 24, 2026
Today is a good day for positivity. Sometimes I get so focused on the negative that I forget how good things actually are. We are alive to see the birth of machine intelligence. Something that would have entirely displaced Google 10 years ago runs on your laptop. The best AI research is open source, constraint is the mother of creativity. The cutting edge is more open and competitive than ever. I
- Do you really want the US to “win” AI?Apr 23, 2026
By all accounts, I should be a neofeudalist. I should love what’s happening. The AI I dreamed of my whole life is being built, engineer-type strongmen are sort of in charge, and people are saying out loud the things I have just thought. You might argue that I like it and I’m just not happy with my seat at the table. I ask myself a lot if this is true, like what if I was Elon. Would I be enjoying i
- AI has no moatApr 22, 2026
SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60B. lol it’s just sad to watch this shit, Twitter was $44B. Like this has to be some scam I don’t understand. Nobody I know even uses Cursor any more. In my opinion, opencode is legit the best coding agent. Not open source cope, like it’s actually number 1. And yes, it’s a good harness, but it’s not that hard to write something similar. opencode has a solid business m
- What is freedom?Apr 20, 2026
I had a conversation today with ChatGPT about freedom in the US vs Hong Kong. It said all these things about how Hong Kong was unfree, citing all these US expert organizations. But when we really got down to it, it had a rather strange definition of freedom. It kept talking about politics, dissent, and protest, not about things like safety, optionality, and convenience. I am not interested in poli
- America lost the Mandate of HeavenApr 18, 2026
What does it mean if a country is winning? I read an article a while back about how, basically because labor unions became too much of a pain to deal with, they were just cut out of the conversation. Everything was outsourced, and now after whining about a $25/hr job not having health insurance, there’s just no more $25 an hour job and nobody to try and bargain with anymore. The chips are made in
- Five Simple Steps to Fix AmericaApr 18, 2026
I’m coming back to America for the summer and thought I’d offer some tips to fix up the place before I get there. There’s so much winning left in America if it would just listen to some simple advice. 1 – Back the money by Gold. Dude, you live in a Ponzi scheme. You work in a Ponzi scheme. They didn’t invent some new brilliant thing in 1971 when they backed the money by nothing, they rugged you.
- zappa: an AI powered mitmproxyApr 15, 2026
Soon, AI will be good enough to interact with the Internet in an indistinguishable way from a human. This can be an amazing opportunity for liberation from all the people who are targeting your attention. I vibe coded this zappa proxy, it is not quite there yet, but I think it points the way forward. Why should I browse the Internet or use apps when machines can do it for me? Suckers getting bille