Life is full of choices.
Maximized optionality is a sign of a life unlived, because nothing compounds until you give up on most things to focus on a few.
While this is wild, I’d imagine there are already multiple apps that do this and have done this for some time. Privacy doesn’t exist and hasn’t existed since the early 2000s
I’m actually pretty upset Apple allowed this. While the feature is cool, the technical functionality that enables it is not cool.
If I was Tim Apple, OAI would be temporarily banned from the App Store until this is reversed, and here’s why:
I use iMessage because it’s quantum encrypted, with server keys I can own. Local caches are on devices that are encrypted with my passwords, not apples keys.
This makes it and computationally and legally impossible for anyone else to access chat history but the people I trust and directly communicated with.
But *now* the copies of my messages from years ago on *anyones* laptop in what is *supposed* to be an encrypted-at-rest local cache only can now be fetched directly by chatgpt without my permission or even knowledge and stored and processed in plain text forever on openai / Microsoft servers unencrypted and requested by any government entity at a moments notice without my knowledge and openai/Microsoft legally have to provide that, in federally enforced total secrecy. And they’re never legally allowed to admit they do it.
AND because of default chatgpt settings most people haven’t bothered to turn off, all those private texts can now be used for training and will end up in the weights of future models, so all future AI models will permanently know all of our private lives as a part of the weights, immortalized forever as training checkpoints.
Total architecture abandonment and user trust betrayal on Apples part. This should be the most viral story of 2026 by 100x. The permanent end of private communication in the US.
One of the best parts about living in the South is that people like this auto-select out and probably move to LA / NYC / Austin. Keeps it nice here.
An interesting case of rejecting someone else's framing. Reporter continually tries to frame conversation around Pratt being a MAGA guy and Pratt is able to reject that and focus local. It only takes a little backbone but so few people have the skill to recognize and reject someone else's frame.
Tom Llamas keeps forcing Trump questions in an LA mayor race interview.
Spencer Pratt shuts it down perfectly:
Trump is not the reason why my streets have naked drug addicts, no lights, and potholes everywhere or why my town burned down. This is a local race.
@spencerpratt "This conversation is what's destroyed local elections. People don't care in LA. They want to feel safe. They don't want to step in human poop.
I don't need to have personal opinions about anybody that doesn't affect them stepping in human poop."
Somalian fraud uncovering is great and all but we’re missing the forest for the trees.
The problem is that the government redistributes massive amounts of wealth and can’t audit those $’s.
The solution is to greatly reduce redistribution via welfare and subsidies.
Just fired up claude code for the first time and oneshot a relatively simple iOS app I've wanted for some time. Lives up to the hype then some
The more you relate to a group, ideology, or activity as "yourself," the more you'll contort to fit that thing.
Over time, you’ll stop thinking, assuming the position of your thing.
Then you fully constrict around that thing, losing sight of yourself and happiness
Strongest example is politics. “I am hard right / left so I believe these things. If I’m good I do these things.”
* beliefs change *
“Now I believe these new things fully and without question”
Why are the companies lauded for having the best product managers the ones with the worst products? Looking at you Amazon and Google.
Whole foods online shopping experience? Can you confirm your delivery address another 22x for me?
GMail? I just want to see my unread emails... Come on now
Therapy from the perspective of the patterns I learned when I was young is an interesting and impactful way to view patterns you use as an adult. But I think people frequently lean too deeply into that to deflect responsibility for how they act to someone else, like a parent
Switched jobs and feel totally reinvigorated. Growth is such a key to my happiness and boredom / stagnation is a black hole that sucks me into a dark place.
Have also started focusing on the impermanence of all things as a result of making this daily practice.
E.g., baby screaming in my ear is frustrating. There will be a day when I have a kid and miss the baby phase and that makes me so grateful for that moment
