parker

fast cars and slow cookers. mostly hanging out on Threäds now, so don’t expect me to see your stuff here.

[parker @pt]

Happy pride month to all the individuals and corporations celebrating.

I look forward to hearing about your meaningful relationships and/or successful advertising campaigns, respectfully.

[parker @pt]

@buccocapital If one to ask if that particular guy is a moron, I assume they have not ever been on the Internet or are themselves a moron.

[Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler]

If they were serious about countering CCP influence, they’d ban TikTok like Congress mandated.

But nope, they used Asian students to overturn racially conscious admissions at the Supreme Court and eventually they’ll invoke the spectre of “the CCP” to turn on more Asian students.

[parker @pt]

The lowest US tariff rate is 10%. On China it is 30-145% depending on the day. Walmart’s profit margin is 2.4%.

The shart of the deal.

[parker @pt]

The average car sits parked 95%+ of the time, so it’s more like there are 6000 of these out there.

[Liz Wessel @lizwessel]

TIL there’s only 300 Waymo’s operating in SF, which is insane because it feels like I see a Waymo every 30 seconds when driving around the city.

(this is written while sitting in a Waymo.)

[parker @pt]

@msuster The problem with criticizing people for not criticizing things is that people tend to discuss contentious topics more than ones we all agree on, so you can end up drawing the wrong conclusions.

[parker @pt]

Poor people tend to overestimate how motivating money is for rich people. I personally just think he’s lost his mind.

Either way, the fact xAI has zero customers is pretty telling. They’re never going to catch up. It’s wild they can raise money, but I guess people want to bet on proximity to power.

I don’t know enough about Federal procurement to speculate on whether Trump can hand him AI contracts, but I think a better theory for why he supported Trump was to avoid going to jail vs making more money if you wanted to be max cynical.

[parker @pt]

@cyantist @rogerdickey If you just need a basic garage, our garage in Alameda is empty. We could figure something out. It’s only two-car though.

I love old Mustangs. Will one day get a 65 Fastback, but need fewer kids first. :/

[parker @pt]

This is why xAI is not a serious company and the people who invested in it should never be given another LP dollar. No business is ever going to build software on a model that exists to please a drug-addled weirdo first and to make money second.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Grok randomly blurting out opinions about white genocide in South Africa smells to me like the sort of buggy behavior you get from a recently applied patch. I sure hope it isn't. It would be really bad if widely used AIs got editorialized on the fly by those who controlled them.

[parker @pt]

There’s a lot to love about CA, but the education system is FUBAR. The Education PhDs who want to drag everyone down because “equity” need to be working registers at McDonald’s to fix this.

It goes deeper than the school boards because these are the experts telling them what’s good for kids and implementing the policies at the district level.

[parker @pt]

The future is already here, some of us just haven’t created a free account yet.

[parker @pt]

Because when you send two thirds of 18-year-olds to college, most of them have zero interest in learning. But they need the piece of paper to get a desk job, so they are there.

[meatball times @meatballtimes]

has anyone stopped to ask WHY students cheat? would a buddhist monk "cheat" at meditation? would an artist "cheat" at painting? no. when process and outcomes are aligned, there's no incentive to cheat. so what's happening differently at colleges? the answer is in the article:

[parker @pt]

It’s weird to call someone in middle management CEO. If you want someone to be a CEO, create a subsidiary non-profit that creates a subsidiary for-profit, then raise $5-10B into it and make them the CEO of that.

[Sam Altman @sama]

so excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me.

i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety.

these are critical as we approach superintelligence.

[parker @pt]

They are not so much playing 10D chess as they are throwing chess pieces at other nations the way chimpanzees throw their feces at rivals to assert dominance.

[parker @pt]

The hardest thing getting kids excited about coding is that it takes so long to get to something they think is cool, so the fact you can make a basic iPhone app before you have to figure out what a Swift is seems exciting.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Here’s how vibe coding plays out. There are only 30 million developers globally. This number is artificially low because it’s hard to get started. This will multiply as any curious higher schooler, IT person, PM, designer, entrepreneur, and more discovers they can build stuff.

[parker @pt]

We are actually succeeding in making Europeans spend more in defense, which was a Trump goal.

Unfortunately, the only new factories that are going to be built in the next four years are in Europe as their defense contractors ramp up production making weapons for all of the Western nations that want to ween themselves off American.

Ironically, those are some of the last factory jobs that have to be in America, and their future is not looking good.

[parker @pt]

I guess we don’t want those jobs in America.

[Tiánän @Tianan_]

According to CSMS #64724565, products classified under HTSUS codes are excluded from reciprocal tariffs imposed under Executive Order 14257.

The list includes:
8471: Automatic data processing machines (computers/PCs)

8517.13.00: Smartphones

8541/8542: Semiconductor devices

[parker @pt]

My wife has been reading American tourists are getting harassed overseas and is worried about our European trip this Summer. Thinking of making these for the family.

[parker @pt]

@Noahpinion @DanielleFong The Shart of the Deal