Jon Pierce

technologist, traveler, ex-expat, indie music & Mets fan, builder of products/teams/communities. past: co-/created @awesomefound @betahouse @angelbootcamp

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

Well done, America! Glad to see our nation’s immune system is still functioning. 💙🌊🙌🇺🇸

[Jeff Dlouhy @dlouhy]

I've been working on a new app, @UseReprise, since the beginning of the year, and I'm ready to start getting some beta tester feedback. It makes it easy for you to save articles and listen to them on the go, with voices generated on the Neural Engine, 67x faster than real time.

[Raj @raj]

I wanted to answer a question: can Jev be used to determine an agent's next-tool decision?

So I tested Jev, Clef-flash and GPT-6 Luna (just for fun) in shadow mode: 300 τ-bench conversations each.

TLDR: None met the preset bar. The revealing part is where confidence stopped being useful.

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

@raj Whoa 🤯 And with a song that's distinctly 80s, totally unlike their earlier stuff. Kinda reminds me of when I learned Ministry started as a synth pop band. Equally crazy: the song I most associate with Karate Kid, Bananarama's "Cruel Summer", isn't even on the soundtrack!

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

@dens You and the team defined a new category and UX, built a product that people loved and wove into their daily lives for years – even decades(!) now (🙋‍♂️), and did so with a rare level of vision, commitment, and craft. Y'all deserved much better, for sure. Thank you, Dens. 🙏❤️👑

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

@dlouhy Beautiful work – and photos! Very Tufte-esque. 👌

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

@Trace_Cohen @cosign Yes, please! Would love to check it out.

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

@mattknox Beautiful! Congrats to you both!

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

@mattknox @carmenjyuen Congrats!

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

.@Sec_Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I'm calling on her to resign. 

Gregory Bovino must also be fired.

No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

@businessbarista Claude

[Jon Pierce @jonpierce]

@alphacolin @CustomerIO You earned that trust, and I have no doubt you would have made your way regardless. But as a friend, I'm grateful that our paths intersected then and for whatever support I was able to offer in the early days of the journey. It's been a fun one to witness and cheer on from afar!

[Raj @raj]

🧵Shout-out to @tewy—creator of 2005’s Million Dollar Homepage, a quirky pixel-grid that apparently funded college and became internet lore.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

a few days ago brian kilmeade said homeless people should be executed. jesse waters accused the left of trying to start a civil war. fox news spent years telling verifiable lies about dominion and the 2020 election.

canceling jimmy kimmel isn’t about an offensive line in a monologue. it’s about wielding state power to silence political opposition.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents.

But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Raj @raj]

OpenAI released the Responses API yesterday. 24 hours later I have reimplemented the API and it's running on Ragwalla, my service.