Chen

Chinese Era

[Chen @tevli_]

I should be more ruthless this year.

[-valar morghulis- @eldivine]

This is very similar to the “money ritual” lore popularized by Nollywood. It’s almost entirely duck tales.

People’s Club was a members only club that guaranteed each others credit with suppliers, pooled risk and capital and made intros to one another. They vet you seriously to accept you but once you’re in they can help you get off the ground quickly.

People were becoming “rich” within a short time. Non members started saying they were doing rituals and from there the myth took off.

[Babatunde Gbadamosi @BOGbadams]

This is TREASON.

[Morgan @simplymorgn]

a good middle manager looks like a guy who just drinks coffee and forwards emails, but his actual job is secretly absorbing insane executive requests so the team can just do their work

[gst @wearegst]

Every single part of your daily peace is governed by politics. If you're holding onto a cracked screen because phones now cost millions or you can't buy shawarma without doing mathematics, you are feeling the real-world weight of state failure.

Everything is politics.

[Chen @tevli_]

@_Mira___Mira_ What? Please upload a git repo

[Neet @neet_sol]

picking a random college major on a whim at 18

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

I’ve never seen this much packed into 21 words

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

in the future everyone will be uk prime minister for fifteen minutes

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

Let me be the first to call upon Andy Burnham to resign as Prime Minister.

[untamed yapper @jeremiahajayi_]

It gets to a point where you’ve just got to stop correcting bad behavior and simply end the relationship.

Else, you’ll be in a constant loop of complain > reconcile > bad pattern repeats itself > complain > reconcile…

[smit @itsoksmit]

at a job interview

"whats your biggest weakness?"

"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"

"could you give an me an example?"

"yes i could"

[𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎 @hellspatisserie]

Here’s the thing with obedience-centered parenting: it totally kneecaps your ability to be an adult. Totally. Adulthood requires a willingness to act upon and change states of affairs that the logic of obedience is totally opposed to

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Exit taxes are great, actually… and the alternative is insane.

No exit tax means anyone with huge paper gains get an obvious playbook:

Build wealth in a country. Use its talent, capital, courts, customers, universities, and infrastructure. Let the gains compound untaxed. Then leave right before liquidity and sell in Dubai, Monaco or Singapore.

Would be a terrible loophole that would drive away talented people.

Canada is just saying: you built unrealized gains while a Canadian tax resident, you cannot erase that tax claim by changing your address before selling.

That is good policy!

If the US taxed purely by residence and had no exit tax, the optimal strategy for the Cursor founders right now would be obvious: move to Singapore. They could save billions by doing so and it would be bad for America.

The tax code would be begging them to do it. They would almost be idiots not to.

That is exactly the kind of dumb incentive exit taxes are meant to prevent.

Canada’s version is not perfect, but it has a good feature- you don’t owe the tax until you actually sell the asset. You can defer payment with no penalty when you leave.

You just cannot take all the unrealized gains with you and pretend the old tax base never existed.

IMO Gad should quit whining.

[David @DavidSHolz]

i wish i could do more - i wish i had a thousand hands and a thousand eyes and a thousand years and army of angels and a thousand stars that lit the sky so bright that the night would never come and that our sleepless dreams would fill this world

[Big Tee @societyhatestee]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep.

[️sof @sodazerosugar]

realizing something is out of my control

[Abdool Moh. @abdool_moh]

It always beats my brain that Nigeria has a dedicated national programme & budget to fund the rehabilitation of terrorists but has nothing dedicated for the victims of the terrorists who are traumatized for life.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[weed @yurimusings]

chud is one letter away from chad and the only thing that changes is u

[tomie @tomieinlove]

I plan to live Anthropically. If someone asks me about something I don't like I'll just become a stupider version of myself