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“can’t wait for rain tomorrow; my car is so dirty”

Post making the rounds lately. I don’t think it’s aggressive enough in its analysis. I suggested in 2022 that folks should detox. People can’t do that though. It’s too easy to scroll. It’s too easy to fold.

Shoutout to all the tech folks who didn’t shill for people to join a locked down ecosystem in the past 15 years. The five of y’all, thank you.

There’s something deeply democratic to see someone who has not the range to become a president, at all, become one, again.

There’s something absolutely frightening about that, too.

Dear journalists,

Fire weather is not a thing. It’s just dry and windy. What’s next? “wet wet from the sky is really needed?”

Brain rot. Get your fucking shit together, media, it’s alarming.

And stop implying that those fires are natural! They’re from us by us.

Package finally arrived after sending it in early December, getting it back for no reason, sending it back again after visiting three post offices, filling out three forms and talking to four people and hoping my gifts would arrive at some fucking point.

Very easy to think right now that things are absolutely terrible in LA and the US. And they are.

But I’m reading this utterly fascinating book series called The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers and things were absolutely terrible in Tokyo and Japan in the 80s and 90s.

Overworked developers, cramped work spaces, ruthless practices, endless contracting and poor stability, developers who had their games all over the world dead in their 40s and 50s after a lifetime of unhealthy habits working 12 hours a day on pixels and machine code, it’s pretty rough.

But just like 2025 California also has some great things going, so did 80s-90s Japan. We just need to focus on them and make room for them to keep growing.

Related: keep being a generalist and connect the world in your mind.

Is it possible for us to care in the US? To foster the will to have nice things? I think we actually had this in the aftermath of WW2. The country was mostly on the same page about progress, values, the future. But over a few generations, more and more people defect.

Nobody cares.

I do!

Inequalities made people care less and less. Right after WW2 is full of opportunities and great, positive changes in the US. It slows down in the 60s and as we know, wages and productivity stopped being connected in the 70s and everything fell massively apart after that.

Let’s set up Universal Income so that people stop the tunnel vision about survival and start caring about their environment again.

And fuck those LED lights.

• Copilot/chatGPT as guest in Firefox.
• Copilot/chatGPT logged into Edge.
• Copilot/chatGPT pro tier through day job.

There’s a massive difference in results quality, which expands inequality.

I haven’t touched the most expensive version at $200/month, but I imagine that it’s really sharp.

We need Universal Income asap, what are we doing?

In 2023, French authorities seized 23.5 tons of cocaine, compared with 4.1 tons in 2010. In the first 11 months of 2024, nearly 47 tons of cocaine were seized by the authorities.

10 times more, one order of magnitude bigger in 15 years. Nice work, y’all.