enjoyed this slice in time from jordan's career emails, so here's one of my memorable ones when i was rejected by a startup for not having good visual design... but i asked for a chance to prove myself and got it

So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/

(1) oca.computer (⨍) on X: "📜 Intro to Augmenting Human Intellect by Douglas Engelbart semantically embedded and plotted in space. Cool visualization, but much more interesting when feeding a song into it... https://t.co/kC5pEBkeDw" / X

1. One of the main drivers of inflation in the US is skyrocketing rents, which are up 30%+ over the last four years.

from the girl who makes pitch decks for a living - make your own. ESPECIALLY for a short.

I've been feeling very under-nourished in my male friendships recently

Hot take: Kyoto is the Philadelphia of Japan

In Boerum Hill, an older couple just stepped out of a brownstone and started banging pots and pans. Nobody on the streets reacted, so they added “Guilty! Guilty!” then walked back inside.

Nobody asked for this, but I just signed up for instance with and I already have some strong thoughts and feelings about their app design.

(1) Raycast on X: "RT @0x_Osprey: https://t.co/uyfKyj9AL3" / X

hi! I’m closing this account and stepping away from stan culture. you should too.🧵

sirens operate as control - not a sign of threat - in israel. last time i was in tel aviv visiting family, a siren went off while i was on the bus. everyone flew into panic, two women sobbed. when the all clear was given, people on the bus started singing the national anthem /1

I know everyone is pissed about that iPad ad but I was too busy being excited about those new tandem OLED displays.

This thread is fucking wild

I enjoy traveling but I think "travel"-loving culture has done a disservice to us. Romanticism turned consumptive. In elevating wandering it diminishes belonging.

Attending an honest-to-god Jenny Nicholson Galactic Starcruiser watch party this evening.

Love it or hate it, you have to admit, it’s a new way to see tennis!

Why is San Francisco so incredibly gay?

swyx 🔜 ai.engineer on X: "IMO @AnthropicAI is very close to making a breakthrough in productizable interpretability. For ~4 years all we've had to really control LLMs is temperature/top_p and logit bias. We recently got `seed` and constrained structured output, with `interactive=false` on the way. But https://t.co/Z8C28evxgN" / X

kasey on X: "#1 rule of hosting: Nothing—absolutely nothing—matters more than *who* you invite to the party (call it a party or not, you’re hosting a party). Who you invite sets the parameters of who your guests will meet, what kind of conversations they will have, and how they will feel." / X

How I personally made more thoughts thinkable:

(2) Matthew Chapman on X: "With Detroit seeing a population and economic rebound, it's worth exploring what exactly caused the city to fall so hard — because there are REALLY important lessons for a lot of other U.S. cities, some of which are making similar mistakes to Detroit and not realizing it." / X

With Detroit seeing a population and economic rebound, it's worth exploring what exactly caused the city to fall so hard — because there are REALLY important lessons for a lot of other U.S. cities, some of which are making similar mistakes to Detroit and not realizing it.

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

Josh Ellis on X: "Not everything good can make money. Very few good things, in fact, can show an infinitely increasing profit every quarter or year. In order to do that, you either make shitty products or you do shitty things to make em cheaper and sell em higher. And some things should be free." / X

Email is in. They said no.

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charlotte bancroft a.k.a. austerity measures on X: "everyday life in the united states is psychologically punishing in such a unique way. we’re in the most advanced stage of economic development relative to the rest of the world, so even though material conditions here tend to be higher than they are elsewhere" / X

AI phone agents are here.

Emery Wells on X: "Ever wondered why apps like @linear, @arcinternet, @airtable, and @frame_io feel like gliding on ice, while others feel like trudging through mud? It’s not subjective nor based on taste, it’s all about precise, measurable front-end rendering techniques I call ‘FluidUI.’ The…" / X