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[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

We are leaving the Old Code Age, the Paleocodic, the artisinal code era, where if you needed a novel program, you would commission a local codesmith or code guild to hand-craft a work of code for you, bespoke.

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

Love these videos.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Happy birthday to the guy who said this nearly two centuries ago:

“Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!

And: “The law [has] become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!”

[abiscotti @abiscotti]

@ATLHawks Keep it under 60 and we can claim a moral victory.

[abiscotti @abiscotti]

@StevenLGrizzle @CelliniNick I believe you're right on the facts @StevenLGrizzle and if the Hawks lost by, say, 20 or even 30, ok. But this team seems to have quit before the 1st qtr was up and you can't have that in playoffs, not at this level. I thought we should have cleaned house after 28-3. Maybe now 2.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

BREAKING: Iran says the strait is closed.
BREAKING: Trump says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Bloomberg says 3 ships crossed.
BREAKING: Iran says those 3 ships are Iranian.
BREAKING: Maersk says it needs clarity.
BREAKING: The strait is a philosophical concept at this point.

BREAKING: A fourth ship attempts to cross.
BREAKING: The fourth ship turns around.
BREAKING: The fourth ship's captain says he "needed to think."
BREAKING: Insurance for the fourth ship is now $47M.
BREAKING: The fourth ship is still thinking.

BREAKING: Trump posts on Truth Social that Hormuz is "TOTALLY OPEN, BEAUTIFUL, LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN."
BREAKING: 800 ships remain trapped in the Gulf.
BREAKING: Trump posts again that this is Biden's fault.

BREAKING: Iran announces tolls of $2M per ship.
BREAKING: Iran announces tolls must be paid in crypto.
BREAKING: Iran has not specified which crypto.
BREAKING: Someone on CT says it's XRP.
BREAKING: XRP is up 34%.
BREAKING: It is not XRP.

BREAKING: Russia and China veto the UN resolution on Hormuz.
BREAKING: Russia proposes an alternative resolution.
BREAKING: The alternative resolution does not mention Hormuz.
BREAKING: Nobody is surprised.

BREAKING: Israel bombs Lebanon.
BREAKING: Iran says this violates the ceasefire.
BREAKING: Trump says the ceasefire does not cover Lebanon.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says the ceasefire does not cover anything Netanyahu is currently doing.
BREAKING: Ceasefire is now 11 hours old.
BREAKING: Iran closes Hormuz again.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.

BREAKING: Trump floats joint US-Iran toll venture to manage the strait.
BREAKING: The White House clarifies Trump was "just thinking out loud."
BREAKING: Iran says it will consider the proposal.
BREAKING: Trump says Iran's 10-point peace plan is "not good enough."
BREAKING: Trump says it is "a workable basis."
BREAKING: Both statements were made within the same hour.

BREAKING: 20,000 seafarers are still trapped on ships inside the Gulf.
BREAKING: The IMO says the priority is evacuation.
BREAKING: Iran says passage requires "coordination with armed forces."
BREAKING: Nobody has coordinated with the armed forces.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.

BREAKING: The strait remains closed.
BREAKING: This is day 41.
BREAKING: We will keep you updated.

[abiscotti @abiscotti]

@ianbremmer @sundaram_anant @gzeromedia Just like the administration!

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

The Trump administration is coming down so hard on @AnthropicAI precisely because Trump & Co. don’t give a damn about the Constitution.

They’ll, of course, abuse the technology to violate rights.

They’ll insist whatever they do is lawful—and they know Congress won’t check them.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Wiser words were never barked.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

"[People]...think in herds..they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

— Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)

[The Real Rodney Lacroix @RealRodLacroix]

I thought this was Bea Arthur.

[R I @RI7164S]

@JoshEakle Political parties undermine government of, by, and for the people when they place the interests of party leadership, donors, and foreign-aligned PACs above those of citizens. The Constitution doesn't require them and Washington warned about them in his Farewell Address:

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

It took 70 years but it finally happened.

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

It’s so strange how the democrats were able to steal the 2020 election when they were out of power but couldn’t steal the 2024 election when they were in power.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

We tend to underestimate the fragility of a free society and the difficulty in maintaining it.

– Milton Friedman

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

Tried a new board game this week and was not impressed. Lots of flaws.

1. Only one scenario - Most games these days have dozens of scenarios you can play. This game starts the same every time. Very low replayability. Will probably get old fast.

2. No campaign mode - Every game is a standalone experience. This feels pretty lazy. Where are the Legacy style booster packs we can unlock? Where are the persistent changes, character upgrades, etc.? Just sloppy design work.

3. Crude miniatures - Yeah, they're kinda nice in a minimalist way, but it feels like they were just cutting costs here. No big bucket of plastic minis I can paint. Very low detail renderings on the small soldier pieces in particular.

4. No expansion packs - Adding on to the replayability problems is the fact that no new content has been announced. It's just good design and business sense to have the first 2 or 3 big box expansions already in production when the base game hits. But this is just a core set without any new content on the horizon. So the meta will probably die pretty fast.

5. New players are at a disadvantage - You have to play this game more than 2 or 3 times to find any kind of viable strategy. So new players are at a huge disadvantage. When I play a game, I want everyone to feel included so all players should be getting like 400+ victory points

6. Only one way to win - The only way to win is by taking the other player's king piece. That's it. No alternate paths to victory or other strategies to pursue. Just take the king and you win. Boring. I really would have liked if you'd been able to win by building up your kingdom peaceably, or pursuing alternate routes like farming, trade, or earning favor with a visiting monarch or something. As is, the game really pigeonholes you into just one approach.

So yeah. I won't be revisiting this one. Sad, because it feels like there was a lot of potential here that was wasted by some short-sighted design and development decisions.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Republicans railed against emergency powers during COVID as authoritarian overreach. Now many are cheering on these tariff “emergencies.” Hard to reconcile that.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Would you try Tennis Baseball? I certainly would