The Waco Yid

Incorrigibly Heterodox. Cowboy Jew. Burkean Hippie. Not Woke/Woo. Rational Mystic. Psychedelic/AI Strategist. Grateful American. Trying My Best.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

My entire three-decade career—in high-level politics, media, the criminal justice system, corporate public affairs, psychedelic policy reform, and now AI safety—testifies to one core truth.

Please trust me when I tell you this.

There’s no one flying the plane.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

@RoKhanna If only there were a marketplace where these ideas could be put to the test.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

🚨 ATTENTION: Per my email inbox, @shakeshack has updated their Terms of Use.

I repeat--the terms upon which I and all other purchasers of a hamburger from Shake Shack have been updated.

Consider yourself forewarned.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

@nxthompson @DanLamothe Particularly troubling for accounts like yours and mine, which objectively produce the best content on X, while others—who do not create content as excellent as ours—falsely claim to.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

@AdamCrafton_ @TheAthleticFC I didn’t know my Texas pride could suddenly be stirred on behalf of Los Angeles, but here we are.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

Someone please create an AI agent capable of turning off a microwave’s “beep” and child safety lock functions, because I’ve been trying to follow the instruction manual for 20 minutes without success.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

Not my monkey, not my circus.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

AI has come for the American cowboy.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

this is just the most ridiculous AI application i've ever seen lol

a Peter Thiel-backed startup that makes AI collars for cows is now worth $2 billion

and the more I read about it the cooler it gets. here's how it works:

every cow wears a solar-powered collar that talks to a network of radio towers and an app on the farmer's phone

instead of building physical fences, the farmer draws the fence on a map in the app, and the collar keeps each cow inside that invisible line using GPS

when a cow drifts toward the edge, the collar plays a sound to steer her, and a gentle vibration tells her which way to go.

it's like how a car beeps as you back up toward a wall

the cows learn the cues in a few days

so now a rancher can move an entire herd to fresh grass by sliding the fence on a map, without driving out to open a single gate

and that same collar is reading each cow's body the whole time.

it takes five readings per second on every animal, so the AI can catch a cow that's sick, injured, ready to breed, or about to give birth before a person would ever notice walking the field

so it's basically like WHOOP for cows too lol

and they gave the AI behind it the perfect name: the Cowgorithm

it's been trained on more than 7 billion hours of real cow behavior, which is why Halter calls the data its real asset and moat.

they know what a normal cow looks like better than anyone, so they can flag the odd one out instantly

it's already on more than 1M cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and a bunch of US states.

California even used it on public land to graze cattle in patterns that clear dry brush and slow down wildfires

costs about $5 to $8 per cow per month

a job that used to mean barbed wire, gates, and driving the fields all day is now mostly 1 person on their phone

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

Michael Pollan has been squatting in a cave outside Santa Fe. https://t.co/dLeP2fg6gd

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

I remember like it was yesterday.

Actually convinced a guy to go in the back and grab me a pint after it had been pulled off the floor by corporate.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

We used to be a proper country.

[RobLogic @RobLogic]

This was the vibe of a vintage 1920's playground

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

@nypost People need to mind their own business.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

https://t.co/CufrMcfOci

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

RIP, Sonny

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

Diet Coke is what @claudeai “thinks” cola tastes like.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

Despite their desperate howls to the contrary, aficionados of Diet Coke are suffering from a form of internalized, intergenerational trauma.

There was no alternative, so people convinced themselves they liked it.

Like goat head soup.

[The Waco Yid @WacoYid]

Diet Coke taste like sucking on car keys.

Coke Zero is like kosher bacon—not the Platonic ideal of the original, but a genuinely delicious substitute.

(Mexican/Pesach sugar-cane Coke is liquid manna.)

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

As Coke Zero gets bigger, and threatens to dethrone Diet Coke as the most important diet soda property in the Coca-Cola extended universe, the feud between Diet Coke fans and Coke Zero drinkers is getting pretty fizzy. https://t.co/a5r63q8WKS