“The one thing money can’t buy,” said Luckey, “is people who liked you before you had money. I’m very lucky that I met my wife back when I had literally nothing. When we met, I had less than $300 in my bank account … I probably should have gotten married, should have married her when I was 16. Looking back, I think that’s probably my radical belief.” tabletmag.com/feature/americ…

Reminder that any Chinese boomer you meet lived through Mao.

Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb. foxnews.com/us/new-bombshell…

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The release of GPT-5 this week will likely mark the end of AI as the most interesting thing happening in tech culture. The leap in intelligence won't be big enough, and attention will start to wander elsewhere.

Co-ed learning environments are insane. Boys simply cannot learn in the presence of an attractive female.

I have two people in my life that I’ve mentally flagged for high-risk of LLM-induced mental health issues where I am already seeing concerning activity I don’t think society is ready for how much of an issue this going to be at all