Daron

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Today, hundreds of our colleagues on the technology side of the company announced the formation of @wapotechguild.bsky.social (1)

This was always my dream retirement plan btw, the dream being that I could ever retire

Yes! They also have cacao popsicles there made from the raw fruit white gooey part (which is actually texturally really gross but tastes amazing)

It’s… so expensive. The chocolate is not much cheaper, but oh man the dark chocolate with rum is the best I’ve ever tasted

Looks like it’s a good time for me to move to Hawaii and start farming cacao and vanilla orchids

Hawaii grows some excellent vanilla. Lydgate Farms on Kauai is a standout (the tour there is fantastic). To be fair their vanilla is $45/bottle… lydgatefarms.com/on-the-farm-...

John Green’s brand is optimism. On book tour, he’s fighting despair. The author of “Everything Is Tuberculosis” is trying to find hope on the road as medical research funding disappears.

A great interview with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social not least because of his casually dropped ~extremely apt~ poetry references. I can only aspire to having the same level of mental furniture in my brain wapo.st/3XvVEo3

We are so cooked.

This investigation is the product of dogged reporting by colleagues from across the Post newsroom.

What we found is heartbreaking. But I hope it contributes to a conversation about ways to prevent this from happening again.

I ask as I sit in my very grey doctor’s office waiting room

When you ask someone their favorite color, they’re probably not going to say grey. They’re most likely to say blue. So why is grey the default or at least the decision-fatigued resigned option?

It’s why greyscale colors are the most popular car colors, with grey pulling up to white as one of the top car colors (white is a very common color for rental cars) www.basf.com/dam/jcr:0ddf....

The house color that tells you when a neighborhood is gentrifying A Washington Post color analysis of D.C. found shades of gray permeate neighborhoods where markers of gentrification have spiked.

Grey is the color of not making a choice. Purposely abstaining from any feeling or perspective that could alienate a potential buyer, meaning grey is the color of commodification. wapo.st/41GNkUM

I’m talking about parenting, by the way.

The idea of creating and training another intelligence, through a process so opaque people who work on it often don’t even fully understand how it works, giving it all of our important stuff to do, then expecting to be able to understand any of its decisions seems completely unreasonable.

Opinion | The Government Knows A.G.I. is Coming (Gift Article) The Biden administration’s A.I. adviser Ben Buchanan discusses how the U.S. government is preparing for artificial general intelligence — and all the challenges that remain.

Ezra Klein’s casting of the race for AGI as a “summoning an…almost interplanetary ally…but we don’t understand that ally” is the most lucid analogy of it I’ve heard. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Using my “personal liberties” to repost this

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job. I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction. I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void. Jeff

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos just emailed the paper's staff to announce a "change coming to our opinion pages."

Hell yes to this 🌎

Exclusive | How the Trumps Turned an Election Victory Into a Cash Bonanza The first lady’s documentary deal with Amazon, the president’s legal settlements and other transactions near $80 million so far, with the Trump library a major beneficiary.

Amazon's $40 million to license the Melania Trump documentary, two weeks after Jeff Bezos dined at Mar-a-Lago, was nearly three times the next-closest offer. The president's wife gets a 70% cut www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Now this, this is why I come here

You’ll be missed Tracy! Best of luck!

YouTube video by Washington Post How to win a Trade War

Made this during the first Trump administration and didn’t think there’d be a need to post it again. But I guess we’re playing all the old hits youtu.be/_seO_BL5GJg?...

Excited to lurk and never post over here now.

“During the crypto boom of 2021, Riot Platforms was raking in cash from bitcoin mining. Now the company is losing so much money that it's counting on energy credits from selling power back to the Texas grid to keep its costs under control.”

O, I could divide myself and go to buffets

Aw man :(

A true legend

this is the money face it happens only once every 5000 years (the money face) repost in the next 20 seconds or you will never have money again