I have some thoughts on Paul Graham's latest essay, "Founder Mode." Paul Graham founded YCombinator. His singular influence has been to drive Silicon Valley toward producing endless Sam Altmans and zero Aaron Swartzs. Every time he speaks, we are all worse off. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
"Founder Mode" is such garbage.
Expand the Supreme Court on your way out, bro. Just do it. Die historic on the Fury Road
What Democratic supporters are reacting to is not Kamala so much (though she’s great) as the removal of UNCERTAINTY after weeks and weeks of it, and all these open-primary geniuses seem to have completely missed the point that no one wants any fucking more of it.
Pretty impressive that Peter, Michael and Rhiannon have managed to keep this partnership under wraps for the last three months
Lord, I've seen what you've done in Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak and Jacob Rees-Mogg and Marine Le Pen and Henry Kissinger's lives, and i want that for Donald John Trump Sr.
“AI will replace movies. I can make my own version of Star Wars where I’m the hero and Obi-Wan doesn’t die.” The problem is we’ve allowed a society where adult men can say things like this without being shunned from the village to starve as a pitiful outcast.
I think a lot of folks steeped in climate doomerism have internalized "we break 1.5/2C and we're Totally Doomed" but every tenth of a degree we can prevent, warming-wise, is very important! 1.6C > 1.7C > 1.8C, etc it is important to take the good news as evidence that we can limit the damage
If you make any kind of art and call yourself a "content creator" I will go angry mom on your ass so fast. "Content" is corporate pabulum. You make art. Call yourself an artist, hold your head up high, and don't help bean-counters and empty suits to degrade you. They'll do that on their own.
the "weeb" as a type barely exists anymore, or rather, all the kids are weebs now
The intolerant label by Bluesky pisses me off so much- just ban the dudes posting Nazi propaganda