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Jack Selbo retweeted
One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on.
Jack Selbo retweeted
EVERY
WORD
OF
THIS
I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die?
Because I do.
My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.
You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.
You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.
You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.
You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line.
You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.
You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.
I have.
And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.
Jack Selbo retweeted
We should be taxed so little that the government is forced to account for every red cent.
We should be taxed so little that it’s nearly impossible to defraud us because every dollar must be accounted for just to keep the lights on.
The fact that we have had hundreds of billions stolen from us & no one even noticed, the fact that an obscene amount of money cannot even be accounted for, the fact that we have money for everyone under the sun, from every dark sht hole corner of the universe,
The fact that we fund foreign projects like “basket weaving for bisexuals in Bolivia”, “trans tribal tap dance in Tunisia”, that means…
WE PAY TOO MUCH
Jack Selbo retweeted
so far at least, i'm pretty sure AI has been net job-creating.
this was not what i expected--although i was much less pessimistic than others, i thought by this level of capability we'd have seen some impact.
it is possible this direction keeps going!
Jack Selbo retweeted
Hey @bryan_johnson I stumbled and pulled generational leeks out of my garden on accident today. Happens daily. Beyond organic. No pest/herb/fungicides. This could be your life. Imagine Kate's fertility. Both of your lovemaking abilities hopped up on organic veg...
DM me
Jack Selbo retweeted
If you are not willing to kill or die for your own most treasured values, you should think carefully before welcoming in migrants who would do both for theirs.
Jack Selbo retweeted
If politicians like you didn’t tax us so much, we would be able to make a living with no problem.
I think F makes a lot of sense in regards to outside temperature. Like it’s a nice place to live where the coldest day of the year is 0 so it has enough range to consistently snow, and the hottest day of the year is 100 to justify going for a swim. C makes sense for science. F makes sense for weather
Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius and I’m tired of pretending this is a debate.
Fahrenheit feels like temperature was designed by an human being who walks outside, feels the air, and says, “Yeah, that makes sense.”
Zero is freezing. 100 is brutally hot.
70 is comfortable. 80 is warm.
The numbers feel like what they are describing.
Celsius feels like it was designed by a committee of people who hate joy and want every conversation about the weather to sound like a chemistry lab.
“It’s 22 degrees outside.”
What does that even mean to a normal person? Am I wearing shorts? Am I grabbing a jacket?
Nobody knows. You need a conversion chart and a government employee standing next to you explaining the vibes.
Fahrenheit gives you range. That’s the point. It gives you more numbers for the temperatures human beings actually live in. You can feel the difference between 68, 72, 76, and 80. Those numbers matter. Fahrenheit lets you describe the world with more precision without having to break into decimals like a lunatic.
And here’s the other thing...
Celsius is connected to the metric cult energy that came out of the French Revolution. And the French Revolution was evil. Both of the Revolution were to rip out tradition, faith, monarchy, hierarchy, the Church, the calendar, the clock, and anything that reminded man he was not God.
CELSIUS IS INHERENTLY EVIL
So yes, Celsius may be useful if you’re boiling water in a lab. Congratulations. But Fahrenheit is for living LIFE because Fahrenheit is for walking outside and instantly knowing what kind of day you’re about to have.
100 means hot. 70 means beautiful. Zero means don’t go outside unless you have a death wish.
That’s a real system.
Jack Selbo retweeted
Today, WEF head Klaus Schwab filed a criminal complaint in Geneva after discovering a "listening device" inside his home office. The guy who wants you to own nothing and be monitored 24/7 doesn't like being monitored in something he owns. Go figure.
Jack Selbo retweeted
A huge cultural difference between international soccer and American sports cultures. Americans are used to our athletes saying they prefer to beat an opponent at full strength. International soccer culture - the same culture that produces players pretending to be injured - is fine whinging about a guy being suspended for something he didn’t even do to their team.
🚨 BREAKING: RBFA say they are "astonished" Flo Balogun can play against them and "investigating all potential options".
"The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) is astonished by FIFA's decision to declare suspended United States player Folarin Balogun eligible to play in the USA–Belgium match on Monday, 6 July at 5:00 p.m. (Seattle time).
"FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction.
"However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team's next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup.
"Furthermore, and irrespective of the above, the decision is in direct contradiction with the provisions of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Competition Regulations, as set out in Article 10.5:
"If a player or team official is sent off as a result of a direct or indirect red card (second caution), they will automatically be suspended from their team's subsequent match. In addition, further sanctions may be imposed."
"The automatic nature of such a suspension was also explicitly reaffirmed in FIFA World Cup 2026 Circular No. 16, which was distributed to all participating member associations on 12 May 2026.
"The same rule is reiterated at every FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Coordination Meeting prior to each match and is included in all FIFA World Cup 2026 workshop presentations.
"In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options."
Jack Selbo retweeted
Lyn Alden: "The best product Coca-Cola ever sold was their bonds, not their Coke."
Coca-Cola borrows at 2-3% while the money supply grows at 7%. They then use that cheap debt to buy scarcer assets.
Governments do it. Corporations do it. Wealthy individuals do it. Everyone is shorting the currency...
Except the people at the bottom.
They can't access cheap debt and "are getting the full damage of the inflation" on their wages and savings.
FT @LynAldenContact @PeterMcCormack.
Why do people feel poorer even when nothing dramatic has happened?
Michael Saylor explains the invisible tax crushing everyone who doesn't own assets.
"The currency supply measured in dollars is continuing to expand, probably expanding 7% a year. It's been expanding about 7% a year for 100 years."
People that don't own assets are paying for it without even realizing it.
FT @Saylor @PeterMcCormack @mccormack_show.