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Once you see that the people dismissing Tesla are the same kinds of people running our cultural institutions, the decline of those institutions over the past 10 years makes a lot more sense.
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The SF homelessness trap, simply:
Advocates convince liberals they're helping locals priced out of housing. The city spends billions on housing and services. But many recipients are drug users from outside SF.
Users attract dealers. Drugs stay cheap, services stay generous, and more people come. Cartels see this and bring in cheap fentanyl. Problem explodes.
Advocates mean well, but the unintended consequences are too great. The money we spend on housing, treatment, and healthcare for out-of-town drug users could go to San Francisco Kids & Schools.
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The idea that poverty is man-made rather than the default starting point is one the dumbest and most dangerous misconceptions in economics, politics and life.
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My chat with @daltonc on Claude trying to kill our startup and the launch of MagicOS:
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Socialists will cry about monopolies while begging to nationalize industry. Nationalizing everything is an impressive antitrust policy. One company, zero competitors, and the complaints department can issue arrest warrants lmao.
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When actual fascism happens Democrats cheer.
Major banks closed accounts of MAGA, pro-life and other conservative groups disfavored by Biden admin: bombshell report trib.al/Ttt6eY9
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The question on a lot of founders minds: What do you do when Claude enters your market?
I sat down with @alexdanilowicz from @magicpatterns to provide some thoughts and advice for founders imagining how they would react and rise to the occasion.
In addition, we talk about Magic Patterns new MagicOS launch, a design agent built for the future.
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Brilliant.
"That's the whole trick. Whoever controls the word "fascist" decides who is allowed to speak. Orwell saw it in 1946, when he wrote that "fascism" had come to mean little more than "something I don't like.""
100% correct.
My dear American friends,
Someone just quoted my post saying "the anti-fascists are bringing more fascism." He's more right than he knows. Let me tell you the history of that word, because nobody teaches it to you.
"Fascism" comes from Mussolini, Italy, 1919. "Antifascism" was born there a few years later, among his opponents: socialists, liberals, Catholics, communists. At that moment, the word meant something real.
Then Moscow took it.
In the late 1920s, the Comintern, Stalin's international arm, adopted a doctrine called "social fascism." The idea was simple: the moderate left, the social democrats, were fascists too. If you weren't with the Communists, you were a fascist. The word stopped describing an ideology and became a label for enemies.
In 1932, the German Communist Party launched "Antifaschistische Aktion." Look at its logo: two flags in a circle. It's the same logo you see on Antifa banners in American cities today. Same symbol, almost a century later. Back then, that movement spent as much energy attacking the Social Democrats as attacking the Nazis. While the left tore itself apart, Hitler took power.
After the war, the Soviet bloc made "antifascism" its official state religion. East Germany officially named the Berlin Wall the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart." A wall built to keep its own people from escaping. Called antifascist.
That's the whole trick. Whoever controls the word "fascist" decides who is allowed to speak. Orwell saw it in 1946, when he wrote that "fascism" had come to mean little more than "something I don't like."
Real antifascists existed. The French Resistance. The soldiers who landed in Normandy. They fought fascism with their lives. They didn't need the word as a brand.
Today, you live in a world of inverted words. Censorship is "fighting misinformation." Burning cities is "mostly peaceful." Disagreement is "hate." And the person screaming "fascist" at everyone who disagrees with him is usually the one who wants power without debate.
So here's the test. When someone calls himself an antifascist, ignore the label and watch what he does. Does he want to silence opponents? Cancel speakers? Get people fired, banned, deplatformed? Then the label is a costume.
I'm French. We've lived this. For decades, anyone in France who questioned immigration, taxes, or the size of the state was called "far right" or "fascist." Half the country has been labeled that way. The result was no debate, only exclusion. And a country that stopped growing.
This vocabulary is now the vocabulary of the American left. Every Republican is "a threat to democracy." Every opponent is "fascist." And once your opponent is a fascist, everything becomes permitted against him. That's the logic of 1932, recycled.
So, my American friends, before you vote, ask yourself one question: who wants to argue with you, and who wants to silence you?
The answer tells you who the real fascist is.
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Replying to @frantzfries
Reminds me of the Social Radars interview with @snowmaker where he talks to @paultoo about Scribd and he reframes it for them just like that.
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Ok, launch went WAY BETTER than expected.
Here's a walkthrough on how to use MagicOS:
If I were on a product team at YouTube shipping a new feature (say 'creator plus') here's how I'd design it in 5 mins:
1. Drop in a PRD, a screenshot, and existing product states
2. Tell MagicOS to build a modal referencing the PRD
3. Fire off 2 more threads in parallel
4. Ask it to audit the modal against the PRD
5. Publish the final version as a live interactive url
6. Check different states and share with stakeholders
This is how most teams use @magicpatterns today.
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Today we're launching MagicOS. And we've come to the conclusion that designers are NOT getting replaced.
most of the industry moved to the same answer this year: give the agent its own canvas, let it run, hand you the output.
we made a different bet: the canvas should be yours and the agent is your collaborator. that’s MagicOS.
most AI design tools are a linear conversation: prompt, generate, iterate, repeat. a hundred prompts in, you might have a great final design, but the reasoning, rejected directions, and inspiration that got you there are buried in a chat log nobody will ever scroll back through.
MagicOS is a persistent, spatial canvas. Your PRD, inspiration images, design system, variations, rejected directions, final picks - all of it lives together, all in one place, instead of stacked on top of itself and lost.
it’s voice-first. talk to it in real time and watch work land directly on the canvas as you speak.
it’s also multiplayer. your whole team works on the same canvas together.
and it still runs on your design system and components because none of this matters if the output doesn’t look like your actual product.
three months ago, this was internal only at Magic Patterns, my co-founder's weekend project. it’s now live for everyone.
Design everything, everywhere, all at once.
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Today we're launching MagicOS. And we've come to the conclusion that designers are NOT getting replaced.
most of the industry moved to the same answer this year: give the agent its own canvas, let it run, hand you the output.
we made a different bet: the canvas should be yours and the agent is your collaborator. that’s MagicOS.
most AI design tools are a linear conversation: prompt, generate, iterate, repeat. a hundred prompts in, you might have a great final design, but the reasoning, rejected directions, and inspiration that got you there are buried in a chat log nobody will ever scroll back through.
MagicOS is a persistent, spatial canvas. Your PRD, inspiration images, design system, variations, rejected directions, final picks - all of it lives together, all in one place, instead of stacked on top of itself and lost.
it’s voice-first. talk to it in real time and watch work land directly on the canvas as you speak.
it’s also multiplayer. your whole team works on the same canvas together.
and it still runs on your design system and components because none of this matters if the output doesn’t look like your actual product.
three months ago, this was internal only at Magic Patterns, my co-founder's weekend project. it’s now live for everyone.
Design everything, everywhere, all at once.
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The progressive decarceration agenda is when a Berkeley chemical engineer is caught on camera deliberately poisoning his colleague with a toxic heavy metal over the course of months, nearly killing her, and a Soros DA pleas him to one day in jail and a fine.
Understand where we are with these people.
It’s political malfeasance that every single Democrat currently running for office isn’t being repeatedly grilled on decarceration, because this isn’t some obscure academic theory anymore — it’s a very real thing that’s happening in every Democrat jurisdiction in the nation and they need to answer for it.
A Berkeley chemical engineer who suffered years of unexplained illness discovered through a spy camera from Amazon that her coworker, David Xu, was poisoning her food and water with cadmium, a toxic heavy metal for nearly 18 months between 2017 and 2019. The victim experienced significant health problems and at times required emergency care at a hospital. Newly released video shows Xu appearing to put a substance in her water bottle in 2019.
Xu was arrested that year and charged with attempted murder and two counts of poisoning, offenses that could have sent him to prison for life. But under a plea deal, the attempted murder charge and one poisoning count were dropped. Xu pleaded no contest to one felony poisoning charge and received two years of probation, with credit for one day served. He completed probation in March and is now seeking to have his felony conviction dismissed.
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Democrats must make cities work. We have no one to blame but ourselves. Cities are where Democratic Party idealism meets cold hard truth. Real solutions require understanding hard problems at a deep level - not pandering. Suicidal empathy will simply destroy our cities. Politicians need to spend more time figuring out how to make an impact in the job they have rather than the job they want. Press has to call balls and strikes rather than pander to subscribers or a reporter’s personal politics. The solutions won’t be found in DC. We have to solve our own problems. Don’t let guilt or misguided compassion force you to support policies that don’t work. Intention isn’t as import as results.
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Socialists discovered that corporations have too much power and proposed merging your employer, landlord and grocery store into one institution with a police force and military.
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LA ESTAFA DE LAS BANDERAS NOBLES.
El socialismo tiene un mecanismo perverso que repite sistemáticamente en toda América Latina: SE APROPIA DE CAUSAS NOBLES PARA JUSTIFICAR CURROS INDEFENDIBLES.
Primero elige una causa moralmente atendible. Los discapacitados, los jubilados, la universidad pública. Después, en nombre de esa causa, exige cada vez más gasto público, crea estructuras burocráticas gigantescas y administra cajas multimillonarias sin controles ni transparencia.
¿Y qué pasa cuando alguien llega y se anima a preguntar dónde está la plata? ¿Cuando alguien pretende auditar esas cajas?
APARECE EL CHANTAJE MORAL.
No muestran los números. No rinden cuentas. No explican nada. Te acusan de estar en contra de los discapacitados, de los jubilados o de la educación.
Porque el objetivo no es discutir cómo ayudar a quienes mas lo necesitan. EL OBJETIVO ES QUE NADIE SE ATREVA A CUESTIONAR SU NEGOCIO.
Y cuando finalmente se abren las cajas, aparece lo de siempre: intermediarios, estructuras militantes, privilegios y curros financiados con el dinero de los pagadores de impuestos.
USAN A LOS POBRES COMO ESCUDO MORAL PARA DEFENDER LOS PRIVILEGIOS DE LA CASTA.
Lo vimos en la Argentina y lo vemos en cada país donde el socialismo logró echar sus garras.
Siempre el mismo mecanismo. Siempre el mismo chantaje. Siempre los mismos beneficiarios. Y siempre las mismas víctimas: los que verdaderamente necesitan ayuda y los argentinos de bien que pagan la fiesta.
NO DEFIENDEN DERECHOS. DEFIENDEN CAJAS.
QUE SE ABRAN TODAS LAS CUENTAS. QUE SE PUBLIQUE CADA CONTRATO. QUE CADA RESPONSABLE RINDA CUENTAS HASTA DEL ÚLTIMO PESO. LOS ARGENTINOS MERECEN SABER EN QUÉ SE GASTA SU DINERO.
VLLC!
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I am about to say something marginally political. Brace yourselves. 😎
I am a native Californian and a political independent. Here in California we have a Democrat governor, a Democrat super majority in the state legislature, and every major city has a Democrat mayor. And every election cycle every single poll reveals a majority of voters think the state is heading in the wrong direction. And yet we keep putting Democrats in office. California’s problems are all about policy. Period. You can’t blame “the other guy“ for the absolute horror that exists in our metro areas, or a budget that has collapsed due to the unrestrained funding of undocumented immigrants. It is the Dems fault and they need to own it. And perhaps we need to give someone else a shot at this. Just saying.
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Replying to @dhh
@DHH is 🎯. Recycling plastic is a scam on all of us by the industry. The fastest way to wake everyone up from this hallucination is to ban plastic recycling. For first timers to this topic, start here:
npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631…
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Most domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time. Their real function is to fill the God-shaped hole, sized for penance, prayer, and sacrifice, in people's souls. wsj.com/opinion/most-recycli…



























