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Avi Flombaum retweeted
A long-time NYC resident, hard-core centrist Democrat friend’s comments on Mamdani and what his win means (and doesn’t/shouldn’t mean) for the Democratic party:
Adams won with 67% of the vote last time. Even widely unpopular de Blasio won re-election with 66% of the vote in 2017. In 2013, he had 72% of the vote. NYC is a deep-blue town so a Dem winning in this city with barely half (50.4%) of the vote is hardly a mandate or a loud and clear path forward for the party. Rather, that number shows a candidate who has alienated a big part of the base, not widened the tent (though Mamdani probably did widen it generationally… but that just means he turned off even more of the party faithful).
The talking heads trying to paint Mamdani as the future of the Democratic Party will doom the party. Spanberger and Sherrill should be the takeaway from Tuesday night, even if they are less exciting as clickbait, are bad at TikTok, and don’t have a million-dollar smile.
Here’s a hint: the 20%-ish of NYC Dem voters who disappeared did not turn MAGA. It’s easy and popular to say that… but it’s bullshit. We just don’t want to live on either end of the horseshoe.
Good luck to us NYC, we are going to need it. Going from managing 4 people to 300,000+ is quite a leap, and our budget is already in bad shape. The choices are going to be about what to cut, not what to add. People are not going to get a lot of the stuff they voted for. And they will probably get some things they didn’t vote for and won’t like.
As for the antisemitism, I will remember those who consistently gaslit us all election season with constant dismissive posts and quotes from token Jews. It was like if you asked Black people to vote for someone with a Confederate flag in their living room, and then if they objected, you trotted out Tim Scott to tell them racism doesn’t exist in America anymore.
I would love to be proven wrong about this guy. I would love, love, love to be wrong. But I don’t think I will be. NYC won’t fall… I don’t buy that hyperbole. But my bet is it’s going to get very bruised. Again, I hope I’m wrong.
But back to the first point, I’m hoping Dems take the right message from Tuesday night and not the BS I see being spun already by what is a very marginal Dem victory in a deep-blue town.
And by the way, it is totally consistent (and not uncommon) for people like me to be appalled by what is happening in DC and also be appalled by what happened in NYC Tuesday night.
I feel like an adult using @zeddotdev with AI. Like I get why I should be paid a lot of money to do this.
AI told me this would save me time in my test runs. I imagine same is true for Factories. Thought I'd share with my @rails people incase your AI hasn't gotten to this yet.
It's almost like the longer you've lived in the city, the more you know about what would be good for it.
Was just discussing component library code implementation (like how to implement a component library, what are the design principles of the code), and was reminded that the best and most popular component library, @shadcn, is not a component library. IYKYK but this is critical.
Thiel called it. I think there’s a subtlety to his reasoning.
I think for a portion of those believing they don’t have a stake in the capitalist system, it isn’t that they don’t have capital to feel that they do.
It’s that compared to others, they don’t. Their disgust with capitalism is more about their insecurity, guilt, greed and jealousy.
You see this across 2 types:
1. Call them the 2-9% that have it so good but live in a world where they consider themselves poor.
2. Privileged people that don’t earn their own capital, thus take it for granted, and despise those that worked for it and earned it.
Still having some hard to deal with issues with @zeddotdev.
1. How can you collapse all the folders at once in your Project view?
2. My markdown syntax highlighting is borked?
3. You can't wrap lines to read them without actually creating line-breaks? I don't get the soft-wrap, editor width, preferred line length, options. Anything that creates a line break is def a hard wrap IMO.
4. Can't easily toggle between default/favorite light and dark theme.
5. You can't increase the font size of the project drawer and I think some others.
6. In the agent panel, you can't hide recent chats.
7. Doesn't autodetect diffs. And the diff syntax highlighting is pretty poor.
8. For some reason in the inline ai edit, I can't get it to accept, if I hint enter or option+enter, etc, it just redoes the prompt. I have to manually scroll to hit the checkmark.
There's some more. I'm sticking with it for now because its so much more responsive than Cursor but...
This is disappointing.
Researchers have mathematically proven that the universe cannot be a computer simulation.
Their paper in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics shows that reality operates on principles beyond computation.
Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, they argue that no algorithmic or computational system can fully describe the universe, because some truths, so called "Gödelian truths" require non algorithmic understanding, a form of reasoning that no computer or simulation can reproduce.
Since all simulations are inherently algorithmic, and the fundamental nature of reality is non algorithmic, the researchers conclude that the universe cannot be, and could never be a simulation.
Finally got Asana MCP hooked up to Claude code to create tasks and then work on them automatically. Love getting more of these automation workflows down.
