Scott Young

systems and stories, tech, vet.

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@lessin @grok Is this similar to the vision of an open web with APIs or social, where walled gardens evolve? What are similar eras in tech?

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@RapidResponse47 @JoshuaSteinman @Sonderling47 @USDOL @grok what does this mean?

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@markdfabela @TomeiTyler Such a cheap trick pretending that prop 13 is about saving grandmom when people have a dozen rentals, it could be passed down in trusts, and it applies to commercial. Modern feudalism and pure greed.

[@jason @Jason]

.@JensenHuang is a national treasure 🫡

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@teodorio The models are electricity. Harnesses are their gold.

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@ns123abc OpenAI and Anthropic are becoming the electricity. Important, but hard to differentiate. They are trying to form their electic monopoly and don't want cheap electricity from China.

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@mattparlmer Agreed. But we also have nukes. Near peer wars will go nuclear (China, Russia, EU, US). So drones are for proxy wars (Ukraine, Iran).

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

The last thing you see before they add electrolytes to the water supply

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@ramahluwalia Agreed. As big as the PC and the Internet combined, but we are in the copying Yahoo and building Webvan phase.

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@joeblau Clearly a sign of the economy doing great.

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@peterjhasson @segmentum1 Epstein Association

[TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog]

"small potatoes"

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@AllThingsCivil Bro sounds like the EU: “PII”. He needs to invoke his right to be forgotten.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

In order to get out us of this war before it gets even worse, Trump has to focus on the two main things:

1) Restraining Israel: tell Bibi “no”. Ignore the Pickaxe Mountain bait—stop chasing the nuclear dust, that’s a perpetual trap. Demand that Israel withdraw from Lebanon, otherwise we will cut off all U.S. military aid.

Remember—Israel got us into this mess, that has been confirmed. Don’t keep falling for their ploys to escalate.

2) Opening the straits: SOH & BAM. First, get our troops out of the region. Then use diplomacy & economic incentives to get the oil flowing again.

Ignore the hype that our sanctions are going to bring down the regime—Iran is not going to crumble from economic suffering. The pain they can inflict by weaponizing the SOH is far greater than the pain we can by imposing more sanctions.

Trump needs to take advantage of this rapidly-closing window of opportunity and leave now, while he still can. In doing so, he’ll have pulled us out of the region and redirected all focus back on issues affecting Americans here at home. That is a win.

If we resume strikes, we’ll end up escalating into an all-out war with boots on the ground, resulting in catastrophic losses to American lives and resources, and crippling the economy—Trump won’t be able to come back from that.

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

@joekent16jan19 Thank you for your sanity and resolve. Resigning and still trying to assuage the presidents ego because it is in the best interest of Americans. Salute.

[Scott Young @coding4kicks]

Interesting to see defense make it back to the mainstream of Silicon Valley.

[Ben Lang @benln]

Y Combinator's Fall 2026 request for startups:

[Alex Svanevik 🐧 @ASvanevik]

Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.

Why?

1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.

2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.

3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.

4:

[Jennifer Begakis @jenbegakis]

This French girl is my personal favorite World Cup tourist because she keeps upping the ante on my own point:

Americans, anywhere in the world, are capable of making the good life for themselves and others by being expansive, weird, and self-possessed.

[@aaronjmars @aaronjmars]

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer

- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded

- the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit

- then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max

- temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges

hyperstitions.

[RetroBayArea @RetroBayArea]

The day Top Gun launched at Great America. Santa Clara, 1993.

Top Gun opened at Great America on March 20, 1993, and the event was a big deal. Both local and national media were invited, and everyone who attended received commemorative dog tags.