Chris Patton

dad, husband, biker/skier loving VT since 2004. on that other spot

[Scottish Banter @1scottishbanter]

Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States.

Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.

[Chris Patton @cgpat]

Just so smart…..love it

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you.

Thanks to the @NBA, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of @LinkNYC screens across our city.

LGK.

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

The new Fable video was made without AI.

The death of human creativity has been greatly exaggerated!

[HamNCheddar @HamNCheddar]

This shit pisses me off so fucking much. Every business in this entire set of 10 blocks gets cut off during one of the biggest nights of the year for the city all because one orange dickhead needs to come watch the game. Also what happens to all the commuter traffic coming into and out of Penn station? Thousands of people planning to come in and out on NJ transit and the LIRR, anyone on the ACE or 123 lines do what exactly? Absolutely ROBBING the city of their homecoming game.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Come on. No question pricing is ridiculous and extortionary. But, an LLM can't teach you the people and life skills that you gain in college. It can help with what you can learn, but it can't teach you how to learn. It can't teach you to stand up in front of a class and make a presentation, to show some semblance of responsibility and it can't hold you accountable for anything.

AI should definitely be part of every college experience. It can ampllify it in new and unique ways.

But, it won't ever hold your legs in a keg stand

[Chris Patton @cgpat]

Love this framing - "reluctant operators of small businesses." That's exactly who we've been serving for the last 10+ years and Jason is exactly right - they just want simple, straightforward software that lets them get back to doing what they love.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Love seeing people build better software for reluctant operators of small businesses.

The baker who ends up running a bakery. The hair stylist who ends up with their own salon. And here, the doctors and dentists who end up with their own practice.

More attention on these small businesses, please. We've been building for them for two+ decades, and I can tell you they're starved for great, straightforward software.

I'd bet on these guys. They've got the dirt of real work in the field under their fingernails. There's no better way to know than to do.

[Chris Patton @cgpat]

@tylertringas Congrats!!! Ingress in NYC last week. 😅 But will be back!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Chris Patton @cgpat]

@IanLandsman I knew I should have bought more when it dropped after their earnings. Dammit!

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I've never been at a medical conference where the results have been greeted with a standing ovation

Tremendous breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment

Through science

Hard work, rigorous research, clinical trials.

Science

Not the quack pseudoscience of social media

[nick kokonas @nickkokonas]

The way to make outsized money is to take risk.

The conversation around rent control, taxation, etc. etc. ignores that completely.

Labor deserves respect. Expertise deserves respect. But risk deserves respect too.

That’s the part the politicians just skip over. /1

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.

But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops.

These are sick, corrupt people.

[Brad Lemley @BradCLemley]

Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press.

I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it.

It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix.

There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views.

Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it.

I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on...

I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube.

Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing.

Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.

[Covie @covie_93]

The families of the Capitol Police officers who were beaten or killed as a result of the riot did not receive a cent but the people who assaulted them are about to be millionaires.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is a THEFT far worse than Watergate. There is no other word for it. They are stealing $1.78 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

[The Lobster @LikeableLobster]

Switzerland will be spared.

[Dion @2024dion]

With just two quick pincer attacks Bostonians could bag their two exclusionary suburban salients and increase their territory by ~1/3rd