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[farsight @seekingfarsight]

Perhaps a way for users to set their own daily limits as a % of weekly limits. I agree with the comments that work is spiky so 5 hr limits can be disruptive. If you want to yolo, go for it; if you want to ensure an unpredictably long task doesn’t blow up your week, you can hedge that. For the projects I’m working on I want to ensure I always have enough in reserve to fix blocking issues.

[farsight @seekingfarsight]

As an "idea person" and designer, Codex w/ Sol makes me feel like a wizard by acting as a thinking partner and enabling me to build projects that would be unrealizable otherwise. For personal projects I switched from other tools which felt magical at first but struggled to get past the prototype phase without having to light my bank account on fire. At my day job we use multiple other big name products, and for most tasks I wish I was using Codex instead - Sol meshes with my way of thinking, I much prefer the Codex workflows, and am looking forward to better Codex/Work/Chat integration.

[Ezra A. Cohen @EzraACohen]

America’s light of freedom and liberty shines brighter than ever!

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

Happy Birthday, America.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I’ve always found people who bristle at “American exceptionalism” kind of… weird. Not because I lack self-awareness — I’ve spent my career cataloging every way this country fails to live up to its own rules. But that’s exactly why I love it so damn much. We built a system designed to be shamed by its own founding documents, and it still delivered one of the most spectacular, world-altering runs in human history. A genuine force for human flourishing.

I also found the argument against American exceptionalism to be historically illiterate. Here’s a sample of what we were first at:

• The first large-scale democratic republic in human history — not a city-state, not a monarchy with a parliament bolted on, but a bold continental experiment in self-rule, popular sovereignty, and ordered liberty.

• A written Constitution (1789) with separation of powers and checks & balances — still the oldest national constitution in force anywhere.

• The Bill of Rights (1791): the first time a nation wrote “the government cannot touch these” into supreme law and actually meant it. A dare the world copied — from later rights charters to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Public land-grant universities and mass higher education (Morrill Act), opening college to ordinary people no aristocracy would have let near the gates. (but don’t get me started about what happened after we started. Massively federally funding it.)

• Kitty Hawk, 1903 — first controlled powered flight.

• The Moon, 1969 — still the only ones who’ve been there.

• The world’s largest economy since ~1890, powering unprecedented prosperity through grit and genius.

• The assembly line, skyscraper, transistor, personal computer, ARPANET — the backbone of the modern world.

• Telephone, phonograph, GPS — connecting and powering daily life.

• Surgical anesthesia, polio vaccine — saving and transforming millions of lives.

• Jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll — brand new American art forms that conquered the globe.

• Hollywood’s dreams, blue jeans, bourbon, and a culture so open a kid like me could devour sushi, burritos, stuffed cabbage, and tabouli in the same week and rightfully think of it all as American.

That’s the part that fills me with genuine love and pride: not just the power or the wins, but the appetite for freedom, creativity, and reinvention. The audacity to say “We the People” and keep trying to live up to it.

What do you love most about this truly exceptional country? 🇺🇸

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

God bless America.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[farsight @seekingfarsight]

@JobsNowPR @Cernovich Companies are getting ahead of the game, laying off staff in the US and making them train their newly hired replacements elsewhere in order to “earn” their “enhanced severance”

[farsight @seekingfarsight]

@JobsNowPR @JoshuaSteinman Unsurprisingly this comes on the heels of them running an early retirement buyout program to get rid of expensive senior technical staff

[farsight @seekingfarsight]

Interesting, @grok promoting past-tense summary of events that haven’t started yet in Latest News

[farsight @seekingfarsight]

@BrianRoemmele Just got my voice recorder today to start this project after putting it off for way too long.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Reminder that technology is the most potent way to augment humanity and reduce suffering

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is important in this often difficult and troubled world for there to be things that also inspire and make you feel great to be part of humanity

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

Illegitimate regimes do illegitimate regime things

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The regime of censorship being imposed on the internet – by a consortium of DC Dems, billionaire-funded "disinformation experts," the US Security State, and liberal employees of media corporations – is dangerously intensifying in ways I believe are not adequately understood.

[farsight @seekingfarsight]

@johnrobb Dissipation seems futile in the moment but redirection could be possible. Took less than a week to move the swarm from 2 years of Covid mania to Russia mania. How then to redirect to a target with high absorption capacity and minimal real impact.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Democrats are talking about expanding the draft to cover young women.

If they wanted peace, they’d expand it to cover politicians, lobbyists, military contractor executives, and retired hedge-fund managers.

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

'Experts say'

Never trust a person who utters this...

[Naval @naval]

The modern secular religion casts humanity as the devil and the state as the savior.