mxdalloway

Product Manager. Cat dad. Perpetually watching the taxicabs going by.

[isaacs @izs]

New ai psychosis just dropped: return of the pre Bronze Age bicameral mind

[mxdalloway @mxdalloway]

@Luckyballa tears of joy if I never see this error again

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the federal deficit.

Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the federal deficit.

[sick public transit, gloria @seungylee14]

this is why magical realism thrives in Latin America

[Lain on the Blockchain @CryptoCyberia]

I think of this tweet every day.
I can't stop myself.
Every time I see anything YC related now, it immediately comes to mind.
I hope to be free of this tweet someday.

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

Mom was worried somebody would step on the cat, so she put cones around him

[evgrieve @evgrieve]

Thankfully I kept this map...

[Evan Applegate @youwillmakemaps]

New York's dept. of transportation processed *every* 1:24K USGS topo map that touched the state, ~900 in all, into 4x high-res georeferenced tileable files: contours, anthro-stuff (streets, buildings etc), water, and built-up areas

Could make a 50x50 ft. full-res map floor.....

[mxdalloway @mxdalloway]

@nymetrowx

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

The AI supercluster's attempt to build a silicon god is driving GDP, and government spending on old people is driving the whole labor market.

Tapping the sign: "The US economy is a Friday church service: Mostly old people and the attempt to summon the divine."

[Tomasz Wyderka @TWyderka]

It is not a productivity metric... @jburnmurdoch

[Oliver Weilein, Iowa City Councilor @Ollie_XVX]

All we gotta do is prevent 20 trans students from playing sports and we’ll fix this

[BENIO @popopo2017]

ハンドクリームの写真撮ろうとしたら
とんでもなく可愛いウルヴァリンに邪魔されたので見てください

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

A crazy mental trick is to map complex concepts onto regions the brain is “primed” for (Chernoff).

The most hilarious example I’ve seen is…multivariate portfolio data on cartoon fish.

Analysts would thus look for the "weird fish" in the aquarium.

[Cats That Make You Go Awww @CuteAdorableCat]

Cat followed the Google Earth camera everywhere 😂

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis", now hear this, because I've been coding for 50 years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver.

Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete" panic has been a bust, and this one's going to be too.

The fundamental problem of mismatch between the intentions in human minds and the specifications that a computer can interpret hasn't gone away just because now you can do a lot of your programming in natural language to an LLM.

Systems are still complicated. This shit is still difficult. The need for people who specialize in bridging that gap isn't going to go away.

As usual, the answer is: upskill yourself and adapt. If a crusty old fart like me can do it, you can too.

[Uncle J @UncleJAI]

@nikhilv 16 years in management and the universal truth is: the bigger the org, the more leadership principles exist specifically to justify not shipping. Every company eventually becomes a religion with better PTO.

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

Steve Bannon, Trump’s former advisor and close associate, is now saying the quiet part out loud: the Administration will use ICE to intimidate voters at the ballot box.

Under the guise of immigration enforcement, Trump and his loyalists are trying to rig the 2026 midterms in their favor. And they are willing to use every lever of power they have, including a militarized ICE.

We cannot fund @DHSGov until there are election restrictions.

[Ian @ianfluencer]

this diva got in at Marcy and stepped out at Delancey … her ass was not flying over that bridge