Brandon Underwood

Recently logged out of my burner account and had to resurface on Twitter as myself. RIP HSW

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

You could run a smart, quick attack ad during the NBA finals in Central Texas. "Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and Ken Paxton don't want smart, valuable, immigrants legally contributing to Texas's economy. They don't think the Spurs should be able to have Victor Wembanyama."

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

This is metrics creating a self-fulfilling anxiety disorder.

When you outsource your perception of readiness to a metric, your brain and body go where the metric demands.

It creates fragility. Actual athletes know to use it as information and when to throw the watch away.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Need the Pope to release an encyclical against Teams calls

[Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston]

🎙️ NEW PODCAST 🎧

On the latest ep of Oil Ground Up, I spoke with @edwardfishman, author of one of my favourite books I read last year, Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, about the evolution of US Iran policy—and Tehran’s response
https://t.co/X8QG6VSdjv

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

Does this mean AI Researchers, employees, and students will now have to leave the country and wait through a backlog process to continue their work?

Harmful move for tech, business, and America broadly...

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).

This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

[Joseph O'Neill @JosephONeillx]

The US is now by far the most corrupt developed nation. The question is what to do about it, bearing in mind that the Democratic Party itself is corrupt to a degree that would be unthinkable in pretty much any other liberal democracy.

[Peter Berezin @PeterBerezinBCA]

AI companies really need to come up with a better pitch to the public than “You’re all gonna lose your jobs and end up paying way more for electricity”.

[Variety @Variety]

Seth Rogen says if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer”:

“Every time I see a video on Instagram that’s like, ‘Hollywood is cooked,’ what follows is the most stupid dog sh*t I’ve ever seen in my life. And if your instinct is to use AI and not go through that process. You shouldn’t be a writer. Because you’re not writing.”
https://t.co/JDPr8sUKOg

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

There’s nothing to reinvent. You pick up a book. You read the book. What are we doing here? Stop it

[Smita Barooah @smitabarooah]

The quiet grief of adult friendship: One of the most beautiful articles I've read in a while. Hits hard
https://t.co/qXi6UBaTs3

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

This piece on Coach Kerr from Wright Thompson is extraordinary. Everyone who is interested in good writing, good craft, or good coaching should read it and savor it. My god is it good.
https://t.co/zvhIBESHGJ

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Parents are worried AI use in the classroom is parasitic, siphoning their children’s intellectual curiosity, capacity for boredom, and data — all in order to make money. https://t.co/cZInlEmk9T

[Jon Baskin @BaskinJon]

"I do not think anyone over the age of 23, even if you are a teacher, graduate student, or professor, understands the extent to which AI usage affects every appendage of the university system." https://t.co/ovnW4lQAQZ

[amadí @amadoit__]

sometimes it feels like i'm exhausting the superlatives and doomsday rhetoric. then at the same time it feels like these things aren't being said nearly enough.

this is beyond dystopian. and it's not some worry for the future, it's happening now.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Graham Platner's flawless victory against the sitting, Schumer backed Governor of Maine shows what a new day it is in the Dem party. He survived the oppo dump of all oppo dumps and it didn't even slow him down. Voters demand candidates who oppose oligarchs and genocide.

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

Ben Sasse is a member of a political party that has done everything it can for decades now to create a political economy in which fewer and fewer Americans can afford to raise a family in comfort, security, and dignity. Talking about candy crush or whatever is pure silliness.

[a newsman @a_newsman]

The republican pitch to voters in an election year dominated by the crushing costs of living in this country should be the urgent need for a new marble and gold ballroom for members of the American ruling class to have safer banquets

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The most important moment in the entire 2026 midterms was a statement from @GrahamForMaine on @PodSaveAmerica, in which Platner had the nerve to say to the Pod Save Guys' face something that's been shadowbanned by them & the entire Democratic elite & its media machine.