Ryan Brewster

Software Engineer. Rustacean, bread maker, amateur welder, tall building enthusiast.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.

[Ryan Brewster @ryanpbrewster]

One of the more thoughtful things I've read about the Department of War tensions: https://t.co/Xch4tXbYWR

[Ben Kuhn @benkuhn]

One thing I love about Anthropic is that our hiring process often includes a disclaimer that we will absolutely do something that zeros our equity if we think it's the best thing for the world.

We are not anywhere close to that here—DOW can only block us from DOW contracts—but

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

https://t.co/Gg7Zb09IMR

[BART @SFBART]

@maxdubler And there are other real benefits such as fewer corrective maintenance requests and time spent cleaning and fixing things.

[Dr. Insensitive Jerk @DrInsensitive]

Mandatory car safety seats prevented 140 births for every life they saved.

Safetyism sucks the life from our culture, figuratively and literally.

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

Kalshi officially beat the CFTC. Appeal withdrawn, case dismissed. Election prediction markets are legal!

[Ryan Brewster @ryanpbrewster]

Super useful vocabulary to describe a bunch of distributed systems.

The sign of a good mental model is that it clarifies your thought processes.

[Alex Miller @AlexMillerDB]

New blog post on the mental model I've used when working through complex or confusing papers on transactional systems.
https://t.co/iPUZTRhBZR

[Alex Miller @AlexMillerDB]

New blog post on the mental model I've used when working through complex or confusing papers on transactional systems.
https://t.co/iPUZTRhBZR

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

the only thing that will actually prompt a full recovery is Congress reasserting its power over taxation so the markets can actually be sure we won't do this song and dance again in a few months.

[A. Ham @PhoenixWrightA1]

@NateSilver538 It's essentially Critical Trade Theory. Any trade imbalance between two countries is de facto evidence of systemic unfair trade practices.

[Stephen Landry @landryst]

"Months after wildfires devastated Los Angeles, only four building permits have been issued to homeowners to rebuild their properties so far, and call me conspiratorial, but I’m starting to suspect this is intentional."

- @NellieBowles @TheFP

https://t.co/661FFSCTp2

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Friends who travel to South Asia talk a lot about the incredible, charming, quirky tiny businesses that you find everywhere, run out of homes - themed tea shops and craft shops and antique shops and mini-bakeries, a testament to the diversity of human interests and fascinations. You cannot do that here. You cannot do that here because it is illegal. Converting your garage into a tiny walk in tea shop is barred by municipal regulations in nearly every major US city; even running a home daycare is restricted by zoning laws in many of them. If you want to build a ADU in your backyard for your aging parents, you often need to spend years working through incomprehensible and expensive processes for permission. You need to be a determined, stubborn, bureaucratically fluent person with an absurd amount of time on your hands in order to do things in your own home, in your own community, to make it richer and healthier and better. That's a bad thing.

[Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO]

In Colorado, we are laser-focused on cutting housing costs and increasing the supply of new housing that Coloradans can afford. In my State of the State address, I called for Smart Stair reform to increase the supply of housing people can afford in the neighborhoods where people want to live near transit and job centers. This new study shows that smart stair buildings are less costly to build and are safer.
https://t.co/UND96KzGjL

[Have you tried rubbing a database on it? @hytradboi]

All the videos are up at https://t.co/Ez6KVOQoke now.

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

The notion that people don't have to make trade-offs and can simply hold out for getting 100% of what they want is one of the most damaging ideas that's been downloaded into the heads of young people.

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

It's always incredible to me when people imply that NEPA is needed to protect the public interest.

Very often, NEPA lawsuits are brought with explicit anti-humanistic intent. As an example, one of the top NEPA plaintiffs is the Center for Biological Diversity.

The first quote below is from a New Yorker profile of the CBD entitled "No People Allowed." They explicitly say they plan to "inflict severe economic pain."

The second quote is from a High Country News profile. They say they would like to "bring industrial civilization to its knees."

Are these goals in the public interest?

The far left pretends NEPA is a good government law, that it's about transparency and democracy. In reality, it impedes democracy because it means elected officials and the agencies they oversee cannot implement policies that are good for large majorities of the population. Allowing weird and anti-human outlier people to impose a veto on government decisions via forever litigation is not in the public interest.

Democracy and the public interest requires effective government, and NEPA is one of the biggest impediments to that. Repealing NEPA is in fact in the public interest. I suppose people are free to disagree with that assessment but the idea that NEPA defenders are champions of the public interest is absurd.

Sources:
https://t.co/fnel3Fkzuv
https://t.co/R4MAGb9l2Y

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

For too long, the blockers and Nimbys have strangled our chances of cheaper energy, growth and jobs, leaving us hostage to Putin.

I'm putting an end to it.

We are changing the rules on nuclear to deliver cleaner, more affordable energy across the UK.

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

Putting aside the urge to dunk on Newsom, I do think this is a great precedent.

Any time we want to do anything with any urgency, whether it is rebuilding from fires or building a border wall, we waive a bunch of laws and regulations.

Well hang on, those laws and regulations must not actually be that important, right? And they slow everything down? So can get rid of them and replace them with rules that don't slow things down?

Many people are asking these questions, love to see it.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Direct democracy can be good, but letting voters directly decide incredibly complex policies like property taxes and insurance rates in the form of a binary measure that ties the legislature's hands even decades in the future has been an unmitigated disaster for California.