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Saturday, January 11, 2025

11: Islam

11: Paul Krugman

Why aren't there 100's of Helicopters & Aircraft doing water-drops in LA? Why isn't the Army and Airforce here supporting operations? This will impact 100,000+ people and cost multiple trillions of $ lost. The level of response local and national is massively inadequate.
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) January 11, 2025

Too many people talking about LLMs replacing software engineers, not enough people talking about LLMs replacing Deloitte analysts
— Ishan (@radshaan) January 10, 2025

What are Republicans going to do to lower costs, raise wages, and provide for American families? Nothing.

They’re too busy focusing on lowering taxes on the rich, cruel mass deportations, and cutting Social Security and Medicare. pic.twitter.com/B6RkLbmk9c
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) January 11, 2025

Just checking in: has Elon Musk said anything critical about the government in China?

No?
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 11, 2025

Men fighting on Twitter will never not be funny to me
— Hailey Lennon (@HaileyLennonBTC) January 11, 2025

Unhealthy relationships are marked by one-sided sacrifice. The more cooperative person repeatedly gives in to the more stubborn one, and resentment builds.

Healthy relationships involve balanced compromise. Both people make a consistent effort to cooperate, and respect grows.
— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) January 11, 2025

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 10, 2025

ChatGPT is already better than any doctor I know. It takes more time, doesn't make quick considerations and decisions, listens carefully, gives good answers to queries and is available 24 hours a day and isn't annoyed if I have to ask five times.

ChatGPT is getting better and…
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) January 11, 2025

dude chat gpt gave me a better skincare routine than any dermatologist ever has
— claude shannon (@catpoopburglar) January 11, 2025

Yeah..Did you know it can also be your Psychotherapist? Yes, your emotional doctor as well Kim! Can't wait to see the o3 capabilities!
— Essere.ai Agency (@EssereAI) January 11, 2025

This is an office. It's deliberately spartan. The rest of the house looks very, very different.

(And incidentally, I deliberately use different color lights. Why is it good for all the light in a room to be the same? How *can* it be if the room has windows?)
— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 11, 2025

zuck is right — AI will replace mid-level engineers this year

as a programmer with over 8 years of experience, i believe these two models, claude 3.5 sonnet and openAI o1, are already capable of that.

the only thing they lack is agency and the ability to test their work.
— Haider. (@slow_developer) January 11, 2025

2 billion people trust Google Maps.

But most people still don't know its full potential.

Here are 15 amazing things Google Maps can do: pic.twitter.com/NoaxNsV27x
— Atul Kumar (@atulkumarzz) January 11, 2025

The insurance industry's biggest fear just came true:

A company big enough to fight back.

Samsung filed a $400M lawsuit that's exposing everything.

The playbook they never wanted you to see: pic.twitter.com/iaxswTi1JZ
— Marc Gravely (@MarcGravely) January 10, 2025

I’m in Dubai & it makes paying taxes in the U.K. feel like a scam:⁰⁰No income tax. No capital gains tax, yet the city thrives: clean. Safe.

World-class infrastructure. Wealth. Opportunity everywhere.

Yet the U.K. burdens with record levels of tax, a broken public service &…
— Rob Moore (@robprogressive) January 11, 2025

🤣🤣 https://t.co/nVNK66StUk
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 11, 2025

Only one country was represented at Kim Jong Un's New Year's Eve party. Can you guess which one?

At the Rungrado Stadium, Kim hosted a grand celebration. Before the fireworks, officials enjoyed a private party near the stadium

One attendee's face stood out 🕵️‍♂️

It’s OSINT time! pic.twitter.com/RJcUjcpb5C
— Baptiste Robert (@fs0c131y) January 10, 2025

Nothing disgusts 12 yo more than when I mix up his various fictional worlds (there are about 7 or 8 he writes stories about). It's as if I had presented him with a bowl of beef-flavored ice cream.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 11, 2025

Every man's worse nightmare came true for me today.

For years I've accumulated all the cables I've ever had into a drawer-- you know the drawer. After years of collecting dust, I finally convinced myself I could throw away my VGA cables.

A few months later, I need a VGA cable.
— Russell (@theramblingfool) January 10, 2025

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve had to acknowledge the sad fact that in this world of ours, bullies often prosper. But my loathing of bullies has also intensified over the years. And as bullies are ultimately weak, I do think the Putins, Trumps, & Musks, if resisted, can be defeated.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 11, 2025

Elon Musk has declared Hitler a communist.

And yet so many people who should know better continue to insist on calling him a "genius."
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 11, 2025

Just recorded an interview with Marc Andreessen, legendary venture capitalist--and, for the last few weeks, an "unpaid intern" (his term) for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at Doge. The news from Mar-a-Lago? Just you wait. The show will go live on Tuesday. @pmarca pic.twitter.com/YqWFcsiTZU
— Peter Robinson (@p_m_robinson) January 10, 2025

A 2T Cut https://t.co/0dstvf42WG #passiton
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 11, 2025

अर्थतन्त्र धानेको नेपाली श्रमीकले जावो राहदानी र विमान स्थल प्रयोग गर्थे, नागरीक उड्यानको प्रायोजिनमा यो पनि नसीव नहुने भयो,भारतको रुट भएर विदेश जाने अवस्था वन्यो, विमान स्थल निर्माणको नाउँमा टिकटमा कालो वजारीलाई संस्थागत गरियो।अस्सी हजारको टिकट दुईलाख सम्म, कारवाही गर्नुस!
— Dipendra Jha (@dipjha) January 11, 2025

I cannot over-emphasize how much you are seeing a distorted version of reality in which the world is ruled by incompetence and evil if you see everything through the lens of Elon tweets rather than actually engaging with your community.
— Hank Green (@hankgreen) January 11, 2025

“Capitalism works because it makes you fire your best friend.” https://t.co/4DmuP1z4Ta
— Naval (@naval) January 11, 2025

I continue to think this is one of the most important cartoons of recent years. @marketoonist pic.twitter.com/HSILx7tcr0
— nxthompson (@nxthompson) January 10, 2025

Can confirm. I learned Python back in 2014 and 2015 but as soon as ChatGPT came out, I started learning stuff I hadn't even encountered. The model knows not just more about your favorite language, it knows literally every programming language better than you ever could. https://t.co/JYx82LVxpA
— David Shapiro ⏩ (@DaveShapi) January 10, 2025

California is preventing insurance companies from canceling home coverage for LA wildfire victims in impacted zip codes over the next year.

The folks in these communities have suffered enough. They should not have to deal with the stress of home insurance on top of it all.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January 11, 2025

Hey Canada, let’s unite, work together on getting our energy to global markets, stop selling to the U.S. unless we get better pricing. Let @realDonaldTrump get his 4.5 million barrels a day from Iran, Venezuela etc. instead of us.
— Martin Pelletier (@MPelletierCIO) January 10, 2025

People seem to be surprised that wokeness is collapsing so fast. But what grows exponentially shrinks exponentially too.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 11, 2025

Elon made a moral decision. Zuck made a business decision.
— Thibault (@Thib_DP) January 11, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg just declared war on Apple.

In a shocking 3-hour conversation with Joe Rogan, he tore apart Apple's strategy:

"They haven't invented anything great in a while... they're just squeezing everyone."

Here's what Zuck had to say about Apple's strategy on JRE 🧵 pic.twitter.com/HLNeTTJaeP
— Tim Carden (@timjcarden) January 11, 2025

China’s “ghost cities” are a modern mystery:

• Entire cities built with no residents
• Billions spent on empty skyscrapers and malls

Why did this happen—and what does it reveal about the dangers of speculative growth?

Here’s the story behind China’s economic bubbles: pic.twitter.com/XwmRgWSQ8u
— Finance Nerd (@Finance_Nerd_) January 11, 2025

It's not a miracle. It's called "concrete." pic.twitter.com/7nXHlSkGBV
— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) January 11, 2025

A ridiculous lie. We have doubled the size of our firefighting army, built the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet, and increased the forest management ten-fold since taking office.

Time to serve these folks the facts. https://t.co/qITPcQDTKk
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January 11, 2025

meta, on the other hand, has a long list of inventions:

1. Instagram (oh wait that was an acquisition)

1. Oculus (oh. uh.)

1. Whatsapp (wait, no)

1. Messenger (even that was mostly an acquisition of a company called Beluga) https://t.co/ic3EH4vZ50
— ben (@benhylak) January 11, 2025

The GOP Tax Scam championed by House Republicans destroyed the State and Local Tax deduction in 2017.

Millions of middle class Americans were hurt in order to cut taxes for billionaires and wealthy corporations.

These people aren’t serious about full restoration. pic.twitter.com/bQZNT7BhGg
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeemjeffries) January 11, 2025

This week brought a significant sanctions strike, and I am grateful to our partners for this.

The United States has imposed new sanctions on Russia’s oil sector, targeting the shadow tanker fleet and companies like Surgutneftegaz, which serves as Putin’s personal wallet. I’m… pic.twitter.com/xza0Ygxbwu
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 11, 2025

We live in a world where most Americans don’t know this, don’t believe this and/or don’t appreciate the magnitude of this.

Dems losing in November is one thing; Dems losing because of *the economy* remains insane. https://t.co/SlTdV0zQG4
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 11, 2025

Whatever marketing genius switched “bots” to “AI agents”” pic.twitter.com/nOhsTolliX
— Jason Levin (@iamjasonlevin) January 10, 2025

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 just dropped another masterpiece… on cancer cells.

Scientists at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro found that exposing cancer cells to the symphony destroyed 20% of them in just a few days—without harming healthy cells. Similar effects were… pic.twitter.com/vwK88Bct4f
— Barbara Oneill (@BarbaraOneillAU) January 10, 2025

The scary part about social media is that you can spend hours thinking that you are learning something new, when you are actually just watching other people live their lives and just getting old without getting closer to any of your goals.
— Orange Book 🍊📖 (@orangebook_) January 11, 2025

The societal pressure put on women to stay home, raise children AND enjoy it is completely dated. For those women who want to do it, please do. For those of us who enjoy building companies, making money and having children, let us. Let us have our nannies. Let us be present each…
— Nichole Wischoff (@NWischoff) January 11, 2025

AI is creating intelligence on a path to AGI and ASI.

This is one of the most important things happening in 2025.

Jensen Huang on AI scaling:

1. Pre-training is like college
2. Fine-tuning is like a PhD
3. Compute at test-time is like deep thinking and reasoning pic.twitter.com/OFYiEts86m
— Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) January 11, 2025

I do feel like we forget that a mere 100 years ago 20% of children in America just fucking died.
— Hank Green (@hankgreen) January 11, 2025

विभागीय मन्त्री को हो थाह भएन, तर नियणत्रन गर्न नसक्नेलाई तत्काल फायर गर्दा कुनै पाप लाग्दैन, हैन क्षमता र जवाफदेहीता छ की छैन यो देशमा ? गाँउवाट टिकट काट्न अप्ठायरो भयो भनी फोन आएको आए भयो लौ न नियणत्रन गर्न केही गर्न सकिन्छ की ? https://t.co/8mKw6DFRfl
— Dipendra Jha (@dipjha) January 11, 2025

They do https://t.co/bqcBuVnf8c
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 10, 2025

To me the really important thing here is creating funding structures that durably incentivize open source, open standards and security, disincentivize walled-garden mentality and extractiveness, and generally promote being a positive-sum participant toward your wider ecosystem. https://t.co/viCAYeXMhS
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 11, 2025

To understand how cynical Zuck is: he's accusing Biden of targeting Meta for political reasons, which he knows is exactly what *Trump* has publicly done.

Trump threatened to *imprison* Zuckerberg. But he goes on Rogan to complain about Biden, not Trump, to his new MAGA fans. https://t.co/sGOlk93jga
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 10, 2025

What happened to Vivek Ramaswamy? He’s been MIA since he called white people lazy lol
— B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC (@_iamblakeley) January 9, 2025

My friends and I are meeting at the local pub at 3pm to drink beer for a few hours.

No agenda.

Will be home early and will get a great night sleep.

Highly recommended activity most people don’t do anymore.

Bring me back to simpler times!
— Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) January 11, 2025

Trump picked Pete Hegseth to be his Secretary of Defense - a guy with a track record of being so drunk at work events that he needed to be carried out on multiple occasions.

Can we really count on calling Hegseth at 2AM to make life and death national security decisions? Nope. pic.twitter.com/8mRfihevcN
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 11, 2025

We will soon find it crazy that developers would sit down and hand-type lines of structured code all day.

Each day it makes more and more sense for machines to handle that part for us.
— Alex Albert (@alexalbert__) January 10, 2025

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING: a thread

Let me try to lay out what the next three months will look like for the homeowners in LA who have lost everything in the fires. https://t.co/dmuP3pvsSg
— ClownBasket 🙂 (@ClownBasket) January 10, 2025

Prithvi Narayan Shah's bed/resting place at Gorkha Museum. ❤️🇳🇵

Pic. Yadhab Paudel pic.twitter.com/PEPm88ADBC
— Routine of Nepal banda (@RONBupdates) January 11, 2025

Friday, January 10, 2025

10: WW3

10: CES 25

One of the best reading advice by @naval: pic.twitter.com/XDP1DE0PDq
— Daniel Aros (@thedanielaros) January 10, 2025

The debate is long over.

Climate change is real. And it’s here.

If we do not get our act together, what we are seeing now will only get worse. pic.twitter.com/VyA048vrRM
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 10, 2025

The President just committed to covering 100% of the fire management and debris removal costs for the next 180 days.

Thank you @POTUS for taking my call and having the back of Californians in our time of need. pic.twitter.com/1FW1QF6JXg
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January 10, 2025

President Biden and I have created over 16.6 million jobs during the last four years — making our Administration the only in history to have created jobs every single month.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 10, 2025

Exactly. Climate change risk is real, just much slower than alarmists claim.

The immense loss of homes in LA is primarily due to:

1. Nonsensical overregulation that prevented creating fire breaks and doing brush clearing.

2. Bad governance at the state and local level that… https://t.co/KByGVCjQ8N
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2025

A neglected predictor of success and happiness is doing chores from an early age.

Kids who do regular chores in kindergarten get better math scores in third grade—and they're more satisfied with their lives.

Giving kids responsibility shows trust and builds character. pic.twitter.com/eQOjycd5K3
— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) January 10, 2025

Insane on so many levels https://t.co/N6LlIAFxii
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 10, 2025

Just like the first time around, Donald Trump is inheriting an economy with strong job growth. https://t.co/HZ3LiwPwlZ
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 10, 2025

Probably not the best graphic Pakistan International Airlines could’ve chosen https://t.co/k4ob5DfXEt
— Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. (@ParikPatelCFA) January 10, 2025

1/ 137 inch folding TVpic.twitter.com/lRQREv8ERy
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) January 10, 2025

3/ Chinese e-car manufacturer XPeng Aeroht introduced the flying carpic.twitter.com/sXwg7cw0As
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) January 10, 2025

4/ Sony’s XYN can motion capture the real 3D world and generate high quality 3D assets or scenes using AIpic.twitter.com/8URJdBdL9w
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) January 10, 2025