Sufyan Desai

Human being experiencing being human

[Sufyan Desai @sandstormsuf]

@StephenPunwasi What do you see as the best solution to get Canada back on track? Politicians aren’t really giving us any new ideas.

[Sufyan Desai @sandstormsuf]

@sidprabhu What role did ZIRP play in this? Didn’t high income earners bid up housing, making it out of reach for a lot of people, and thus the response was to raise the wages of low income earners?

[Sufyan Desai @sandstormsuf]

@UofBasketball Chet is a bitch

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Mitt Romney to Harvard Business School graduates: "There's more to a country than its economy. To be a great nation, it must also be a good nation. The world needs good men. It needs good women. Good leaders. Good parents raising good children. There is no national success that could compensate for failure to be a good and noble people."

[Sufyan Desai @sandstormsuf]

@DNVR_Nuggets Yes, when your style revolves around 1 or 2 guys there is too much data for sophisticated coaches to not figure you out.

[Ahmad @TheAhmadOsman]

OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE - PLEASE READ

If intelligence becomes something people can only rent from a few closed institutions, the public does not just lose software freedom. It loses operational freedom.

AI is a civilizational infrastructure for work, education, science, software, creativity, public services, and national capacity.

This civilizational infrastructure must not become rented access through closed APIs, remote platforms, shifting terms, opaque moderation, and prices set by a handful of companies.

The ability to study, build, repair, deploy, audit, adapt, teach, preserve, and run intelligence systems without asking permission is of EXISTENTIAL importance.

With OpenAI, Anthropic, and a handful of other players controlling the models, this civilizational infrastructure risks becoming a subscription economy for cognition.

Opensource AI should remain usable, understandable, reproducible, locally deployable, economically viable, and community-governed even if today's dominant labs, foreign labs, hardware vendors, cloud platforms, or open-weight model providers change direction or disappear.

America should not fall behind on the freedom to run, inspect, modify, benchmark, teach, and preserve intelligence infrastructure. The practical posture is American capacity with global open standards.

[Wemby Central 👽 @WembyCentral]

Inspiring the youth to read #wow

[EconomicWoes 🤖 @ManyBeenRinsed]

Wait times at Ontario emergency rooms have spiked over past 5 years yet the Premier @fordnation is more worried about buying private planes and building unnecessary highways.

His cuts to healthcare, social services and education will worsen Ontario as time goes on.

[Rebecca Tan @rebtanhs]

Thailand is one of the first ag countries to enter a planting season since the Iran war. We went to document the impact of supply shocks to fuel/fertilizer — It was worse than I anticipated.

Farmers are leaving huge tracts of land barren bc they can’t afford to plant.

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

OKC is now a +48 this postseason without SGA on the court.

Possibly the least valuable superstar of all-time.

[Voja @VojaMedic]

Do you know how disgusting it has to get for people to be on the Lakers side

[Zoë Coombes @ZoeCoombes]

Toronto laneway in the 1940s.
Cities change.

[Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam]

The Andes virus outbreak associated with the MV Hondius should be treated with urgency now, before transmission chains become established internationally. 1/

[soothsayer @iamasoothsayer]

2023: Corona ended
2026: Hantavirus

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

Bluesky really is the weirdest social media site ever created. It’s like the most toxic liberals built themselves a prison and then locked themselves up in it and now have 10 riots a day. Why would you do that lol.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

80% of U.S. hoteliers in 11 World Cup host cities say bookings are tracking below original forecasts, with some describing the tournament as a “non-event,” according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association

[Paul Millerd @p_millerd]

i feel like everyone is just bullshitting about ai and the economy and jobs

i have so many questions and would love to riff with anyone on all these

my own work with codex and claude code over the past few months has shown me that knowledge work really is going to change. but doing it at scale and organziation level is going to take a lot of time. we are just figuring out how to make these things work at n=1 scale. a few questions on my mind:

IDENTITY - how will people adapt psychologically to their work identity "darlings" being killed off

- what i mean is that many people define themselves by being good at certain tasks. what happens when you can automatically clean excel models, synthesize initial takeaways and have claude whip up a draft deck in 5 minutes thats far better than your previous 4th draft that took 3 weeks. how do you deal with not being essential in the grindy kind of early phase work

INTERFACES - what is the killer interface for working with agents. i know what microsoft and google hope. but is it html interfaces, some dashboard sort of review software, custom each time? text based?

- no one really knows what this looks like, but one thing you quickly learn when you are generating stuff without doing the grindy generation is that you need good visual interfaces to review work

TRAINING - how do you train the underlying skills needed to validate, review & polish?

- if you don't need a 23 year old analyst to grind through stuff while also apprenticeing for 3-5 years, how do young people develop the skills? more self-learning? more apprentice model? I don't have a good answer to this and most organizations don't either

FIRM SIZE - will firms either be massive with genius AI model infrastructure or solo?

- How do massive firms think about restructuring. It's very clear to me that previous companies I worked for have many people doing work that could almost immediately be replaced at a higher quality and reliability level. It's harsh but anyone that's played with frontier models sees this too. How does this happen? Slowly? Fast? Will older employees be offered retirement packages? Will OpenAI/Anthropic start donating to Social security?

CAREER - what does a career trajectory look like? what role does self-employment start to play in the modern career?

- these tools enable almost any employee to quickly spin up their own thing. we're seeing a massive uptick in self-employed businesses being started. will people be allowed to moonlight on the side? what is the role of full-time work? will contract work be more central? will people riot for a jobs guarantee?

ive been trying to write about this but realizing i have more questions than answers - would love to read anything good on all this!

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

The adrenaline pumping in Jamal Cain’s body right now could power a capital city.

[Sufyan Desai @sandstormsuf]

@70sBachchan I hope they take their own path and not follow in the footsteps of western powers. Will make the world better for everyone if they bring their own unique ideas and interpretation of how things should be run, especially cities.