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I am very curious- what state?

Yeah, this is amazing and should be submitted here on its own if it hasn't already.

I just found that one of my reps got an absurd amount of money from some shadowy group called "Think Big". Which is in turn part of a larger org called "Leading the Future" [0], which is:

> A coordinated network of AI-industry super PACs working to head off stricter AI regulation, chiefly by pushing a single federal framework that would override stronger state-level rules on issues like consumer protection and liability. Leading the Future is the lead committee, channeling money to the Democratic-facing Think Big and the Republican-facing American Mission. All draw on the same core backers — chiefly Andreessen Horowitz, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife.

[0]: https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/networks/leading-...

That would be "wrongly"

> No him/her.

Uh. What?

> Unlike infrastructure projects in Britain or America, which are heavily reliant on external consultants to handle all stages of the project, this group of well-paid in-house engineers led much of the Madrid Metro expansion. The team stayed largely the same throughout the different projects, meaning that they were able to learn from their experience and apply it to future projects.

Imagine that: building expertise in-house and within the governmental org results in better planning and management and thus outcomes.

No, but what are the odds of the robust welfare state that would be required to actually enable some sort of post-work society taking shape here in America? I'd truly like to be optimistic but, politically we have been moving in the opposite direction ever since the end of the New Deal, and the oligarchs who control the technologies are not exactly benevolent.

> Despite all of the skepticism, a whole lot of Americans also report using AI in their daily lives on an increasingly regular basis. About a quarter of Americans say they use AI chatbots on a daily basis. Those who do are typically using the chatbots for research purposes or for work, Pew says.

Yeah, we don't have a choice. These things were foisted upon us, and now we all just have to deal with it, so long as we want to keep being employed/employable.

> Are you saying that you think the US government is unpredictable and arbitrary, but that the People’s Republic of China is not?

Why not both?

That seems the crux of the state we're currently in; what daylight there was between the two is quickly fading.

> The Veritas Villages claim to have an education and health-care charity called Help Them Help Themselves.

These people could not be more comically despicable if they tried.

Also one of their "executives" is seemingly a teenager [0]

[0] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6866a3346a2532...

The one thing I appreciate about smart glasses is that it broadcasts the wearer's terrible personality loud and clear and I can thus avoid them.

You're conflating two different categories of product and their targets.

Copper is a fungicide, which is a category of product that both chemical ("conventional") and organic farmers often need to use for certain types of crops in certain types of climates, including pretty much any fruit. There are chemical fungicides which are more targeted and thus can be "greener" in some ways than copper, but there's also a lot more which are substantially worse.

Whereas RoundUp/glyphosate is an herbicide, which is a category of product that chemical farmers use extensively but organic farmers use rarely to not at all, relying instead on cultural and mechanical means. And what organic herbicides are used rely on contact rather than systemic action.

Funnily enough, both are pretty terrible when used near bodies of water. But chemical agriculture requires a much greater volume begetting much greater runoff.

These two substances are used at entirely different times, for entirely different purposes, in entirely different manners, with different levels of persistence in both the environment and the final product.

> Donald Trump said “I love the inflation” after new data showed that inflation jumped to an annual rate of 4.2% in May, the third consecutive monthly increase since the start of the Iran war and a three-year high.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/10/inflation-r...

You may be on to something...

> allowScripts defaults to off

Nice that they're following pnpm's lead on this after [checks watch]... 18 months?

I used it for the very advanced task of picking my brackets for my company's world cup pool. I was impressed with the analysis it came back with and now I actually want to follow the games.

I vibe coded myself a simple little Home Screen-installable webapp that tells me when my first meeting is the next day (I am in a lot of meetings, and they're constantly in flux). That way, I don't need to be logged into anything work-related on my phone, or even mentally engage in that world. I just want to know when I need to wake up. All it shows me is the time, and I can tap on it if I want to see the title. It adjusts the font and color according to how early the meeting is (earlier than 8a gets Nosifer).

Could I have done this myself? Of course. Would I have tho? Prob not.

This kind of simple, hyper-specific bespoke utility is the perfect thing for vibe coding IMO.

Many 1st gen immigrants have the pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you attitude. My grandparents (also Italian) certainly did. Everyone wants to imagine they did it the "right way" and that their struggle is the most unique and deserving one.

Which made it even funnier when I discovered that they never actually legally naturalized.

Many such cases.

> Oh, here I am on hacker-news when I should be working.

What else am I supposed to be doing while Cursor does its thing?

> Martin Scorsese, the living embodiment of cinema as high art and a conscience for modern Hollywood

That's some ChatGPT-level glazing. No one thinks this. Unless they also think that, like, Bob Dylan is the voice of Gen Z.

another good technique is to use boomer mode- make the fonts as large as possible, which has the side effect of making instagram (for instance) practically unusable and all of it just generally unpleasant. you're welcome.

Must be nice.

> ...this shift advantages people who can build fast with AI tools and disadvantages people who can't. The bias to action is genuine, but it isn't neutral. The engineers who've adopted these tools effectively get heard more often, get their proposals taken seriously more often, and shape direction more than those who haven't.

If only this was limited to engineers.

I'm seeing this applied to every role across organizations. The designer that gets heard is the one who can vibe code the best. Same with strategists, writers (seriously), and other people for whom "coding" is not remotely their expertise or function. This exponentially accelerates the "cost of aligning organisationally" when you have not only several eng groups but every single person in your team regardless of role proposing their own solutions, that as an engineer it is now your responsibility to babysit (or as we are terming it, "harden").

Meanwhile, the quality of creative work suffers because instead of working in a surface that's designed for their trade and process (e.g. Figma) they jump straight to Claude or Cursor or v0 or whatever, where they're bounded by (and graded on) their ability to manipulate a bot, rather than their actual skillset.

...of property taxes on second homes valued > $1M?

And yet again, even in these hypotheticals, New Yorkers suffer for decisions they didn't make and don't want. Why don't they sail it into Florida?

Mortified that this guy calls himself a Portlander yet mail-orders subscription coffee from L.A.

I'm sure this will turn out fine /s

But also the type of investor who is into crypto in the first place will probably love this

Crypto bros :handshake: AI bros

Why are people so excited to put themselves out of a job?

Not that these or any "skills" will do that, but just- in principle. This is like alienation from labor at scale.

Same. A new Gabriel Knight would be fun!

> James Giovansanti lives and works on Staten Island.

ya don't say

(sincerely, ex-resident)

Private equity destroys everything it touches