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He/him. Virtue & honor matter. Sic semper tyrannis. Hopeless romantic.
Boston, MA
Joined March 2022
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Will retweeted
Oh, you're worried about a Jewish guy's apocalyptic cult? You're scandalized that they consort with prostitutes? You think their message of compassion for everyone threatens normal bonds of family, community, and nation? Should we throw you a party? Should we invite Pontius Pilate?
Will retweeted
“Abundance failed.”
*Senate releases grand bargain on permitting negotiated by its foremost climate hawk*
Will retweeted
🚨 WE HAVE A PERMITTING DEAL🚨
And it is easily the best permitting bill we've ever gotten!
- The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is HUGE (400+ pages) and both sides got a LOT.
- The bill is much bigger and better than either Manchin post-IRA in 2022 or Manchin-Barrasso in 2024.
Once I finish reading the text I'll publish an explainer. For now, here are a few high level takeaways.
1. Transmission: The bill is absolutely HUGE for transmission, going further than Manchin-Barrasso. Includes: interregional transmission, limited federal backstop authority, interconnection queue reforms, directives for advanced grid-enhancing tech, and oversight of utilities. It's absolutely AMAZING all of this got in.
2. NEPA: The bill has BIG changes to NEPA, including fixes for judicial review that underpins the law's costs. Still reading but this is even better than I expected!
3. Certainty: The bill includes strong provisions to push back on misuse of permitting, like we're seeing with the admin's abuses against offshore wind.
4. Historic Preservation: The bill includes changes to the NHPA 106 process, including changes to judicial review that will help right-size the process.
5. Clean Water: The bill fixes problems with section 401 by adding new requirements for states and makes section 404 nationwide permits easier to comply with.
6. Geothermal: The bill includes big wins for geothermal, including parity with oil and gas catexs.
7. Mining: The bill fixes the "Rosemont decision"
8. Endangered Species: The bill creates a new path for states to take on endangered species consultation.
9. Hydro: Fixes for certain hydroelectric projects
10. Ratepayer protection: The bill adds protections for ratepayers from added data centers. Looks to be stronger than the House passed bill by quite a bit.
Honorably registering I only got a 96th percentile on the vocab test going around. What the hell are you guys reading to learn some of these archaic words?
Also shout out to Gmod, Rust, Outerwilds, & Shadow of the Colossus (Last 2 I am a poser and haven't played)
Will retweeted
I'm going to become the joker with all of these conservatives discrediting liberal arguments about AI by spookily whispering that money might be involved.
The birth of the Tech Right involved the realization, in the 2020s, that conservative people in tech should use their money to do stuff in politics. The All In podcast hosts threw fundraisers for the president!
I don't know what the principle is at stake here other than "when conservative money seems like it'll get its way, we're a movement; but when liberal money seems like it'll get its way, it's a conspiracy." In 2024, when (per the Washington Post) about 80% of federal campaign spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans went to Republicans, you didn't hear a lot from the Tech Right back then about the danger of money in politics. But now that Trump is polling below the Mendoza Line and several upcoming IPOs will unlock billions of dollars of cash among Chamath's political enemies, these guys are suddenly Woodward and Bernstein, exposing the evils of rich ppl using their money to do stuff in politics.
Chamath on Obama’s AI Warning: Follow the Money
President Obama last week:
“If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI.
That's a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing.”
@Chamath:
“This is a very important moment for a very simple reason, which is we, as in the world, are about to endow three, four, five, six companies with about $10T of wealth.
And what Obama knows very well is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left-leaning. And what he also knows is that there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into philanthropic and charitable causes that then he, and the people around him, will be beneficiaries of.
That is the truth. We already know this because we know that some of these frontier corporations actually ask you to stand up DAFs and have a portion of your stock that you're willing to pledge.
So this money is going to go to things other than consumption or savings. And so it's going to go into PACs, it's going to go into political movements, and (Democrats) stand to disproportionately benefit.
So this has nothing to do with prosperity. This is a very simple political calculus.
If you freeze frame the economy the way it is today, a handful of organizations that will disproportionately be able to affect the Democrats will win. They will capture the lion's share of the economic gains, and then they will help the Democrats win power.
That's all this is.”
The first half of Resident Evil was fantastic, incredibly well done and simultaneously tense and comedic. The protagonist is a lovable oaf. But as it escalates into the more video gamey campiness it falls off and the end has plenty of pay offs but fell flat for me.
It was also an interesting adaptation of a videogame. It adapts via the experiences of a self insert protagonist rather than leaning on 1:1 references. Desperate resource management, panicked kiting, the dread of a stalking monster, the relief of finally killing an annoying enemy