Rich

just riffing to the pornbots on this hellhole site

[Rich @sometimes_data]

One day everyone will have always been against this

[Elijah Meeks @Elijah_Meeks]

There was a time when the most winning dataviz tools (D3, ggplot, etc) were made by people deeply invested in data visualization. But today's winning tools are all made by people who have very limited data visualization ambitions.

[Rich @sometimes_data]

@Corey_Yanofsky Are you joking?

[Rich @sometimes_data]

@Corey_Yanofsky OPs argument seems to be that LLMs are a Chinese room and so can’t be conscious. Your criticism was our brains are also a Chinese room. But without knowing the physical events in the brain that give rise to consciousness I don’t think this is a real objection.

[Rich @sometimes_data]

@Corey_Yanofsky @Strife212 That’s a cute response but you can’t map physical brain processes or events to human language generation in a one-to-one manner the same way Im guessing we can to LLMs

[Rich @sometimes_data]

I don’t understand why CA has an open primary and then a general election. Just have one round of ranked choice voting. Boom. Job done. Same outcome

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

17% is in with Hilton still in the lead with Becerra below that

[Liam Donovan @LPDonovan]

For the uninitiated https://t.co/vXaGmgziSI

[Rich @sometimes_data]

@jmwooldridge Mostly? If Trump told maga to drink cyanide-laced Kool Aid how many would refuse??

[Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge]

Massie’s loss is further proof that MAGA is mostly a cult. Massie simply held Trump to two of his campaign promises: fully release the Epstein files and no foreign wars. Massie was lock step with Trump until Trump broke campaign promises.

[Rich @sometimes_data]

@Jacob81660159 @atrupar Meanwhile everyone in Australia gets 3 hours of free electricity a day because of excess solar

[Rich @sometimes_data]

This is what I hoped Claude cowork would be:

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

There comes a moment in every founder's life where you just love using your own product and can't stand using the less functional alternatives out there.

I love iterating with Inkstone (link in comments). Love it. It's so fluid for thinking, writing, brainstorming, researching, fact-checking, proofreading. All co-creatively.

Co-creative is the key. I don't want a pure black box running off and doing stuff without me and making crazy mistakes. I want AI to work with me. I want to see what the hell it's doing.

There are tools out there that try to do everything and so folks end up doing nothing. The market for feeling productive in 10x larger than the market for being productive but I don't care. I just wanted something to augment what I do all day, every day, which is think, plan, research, write, and iterate, so that's what I built.

Real work. Real workflow.

- Full rich doc editor
- AI edits and changes show up right in the doc
- Does deep research and web search
- Multiple models (Sonnet and Opus 4.6, GPT 5.2, more coming fast including Kimi and GLM)
- Threads
- Light and dark mode that's easy on the eyes
- Fact-checking
- Proofreading
- Fully feature reactive mobile version so I can work on the go and on the jon where ideas usually hit me

It's not perfect yet but it's already joy to work with, IMHO.

I'd love for you to give it a try. I hope you like it as much as I do.

[Rich @sometimes_data]

He doesn’t have the cards.

[Rich @sometimes_data]

Why is the homeowner in California paying 5x as much for a solar panel as the homeowner in Australia? Exact same solar panel, same technology, same brand, same inverter, same software.

[Rich @sometimes_data]

I think sheepdog trials should be an Olympic sport

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

I've started using LaTeX. It's great but I can see how someone can spend 20 hours a day on this thing and feel like they accomplished something when they've done nothing.

[jay...but the other one @meijay_jay]

@tommysantos14 No other president has had to distract us from him being a pedophile.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

[Rich @sometimes_data]

"Release the Trump files!"

[Rich @sometimes_data]

33-yo Thomas Jefferson enumerated grievances against a would-be authoritarian king over us. Among others were: 1. He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People 2. He has excited domestic Insurrection among us 3. For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us