Bart Wyatt

Why don’t we talk about pay when we point at the blue collar gap between needs and workers? Strong early earning, but no growth. The “save now, rest later with an old broken body” era is gone. It’s the money!

reacting to @joannastern.bsky.social and Jim Farley on Decoder (@reckless.bsky.social)

Every time sycophantic or overly flirty AI hits the news, i am reminded of how easy it is to manipulate people by being nice to them. AI just shows us how reliably mechanical it is.

Summoned for jury duty. Justice is blind but the other drivers really seem annoyed that I’m wearing this blindfold.

🤣 Callsign: “whiskeyleaks”

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The strangest uno reverse of this timeline is apps that rely on people for curation when all the content is coming from AI.

How does one sign up to be a billionaire’s export?

Asking for a friend

My partner said “I’m really into this porcupine who won’t share his corn”

So, don’t let anyone tell you social media has no value

My partner tells me we elected “permission slips” for our bad behaviors. With that in mind how much #pickleball do you think you’ll play in 2028 @petebuttigieg.bsky.social ?

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And what do we do when we see a predator online, kids?

That’s right, Duck and Cover!

And that people are reaaaaalllly slow readers.

Give it time. The cockroaches may worship it as evidence that “misguided wealthy individuals inevitably bifurcate society causing an existential collapse” is, in fact, a viable solution to the Fermi Paradox

#ATL was slammed by college champ traffic before the winter storm hit and I’m flying there today(*). I assume this is what waiting to board the boats to Normandy felt like.

(*) actual travel not guaranteed

#thisisfine

So far 2025 is a song of ice and fire? Is that what I’m getting?

#lafires #enzo #asoiaf #got

I hesitated… it really seems like dumber is the winning move these days.

Can we not just silently enable AI features because we say they are safe?

Seems like we could… just not.

Silently launched opt-out AI-powered features set a terrible precedent.

I actually trust apple’s engineers when they say this is privacy preserving BUT

They still need to ask my permission.

It was silently launched & on by default. Even if I trust apple engineers to have done this well, I don’t like the precedent that they don’t have to ask permission as long as *they* think it’s okay.

This article spends more time on that aspect than privacy.

Is it that the friction on the outside of the ecosystem is so great in your opinion that these efficiencies on the inside are dwarfed?

Or is it just the reputational damage done by the scammers that occupy the same ecosystem that makes extracting these innovations intractable?

In Crypto, I can discover arbitrage opportunities. Others can provide the liquidity. there is no risk because the transaction only succeeds if we all get paid.

I don't even have to ask because the liquidity pool only cares if its terms are met: there isn't even discovery friction in this market.

As an engineer, I have limited options to innovate in finance. In essence, find a wealthy benefactor or work for a large institution.

What do you think about innovations "inside" crypto?

For example, liquidity pools -> flash loans -> risk-free arbitrage?

IMO its an example where an equivalent non-crypto product would have to reinvent a lot of the crypt-rails. If it did, then crypto's use case would be discovery/innovation.

Here is another way to see it: it’s a financial brand. One that says something about the bearer. Something you don’t like which is probably the point.

Bitcoin is Pepsi to Gold’s Coca-Cola.

It’s the choice of a new generation.

Can’t it be all those things? digital gold.
speculative asset.
crime facilitator.

What is the prize at the end of the rainbow for caring about it? Just ignore it. It’s easier to trace than Benjamins so, we should welcome the crime. Should be self-correcting.

I guess tyranny is in the eye of the gun holder.

I don’t like it but what exactly did we expect?

Am I naive thinking that the demand-side argument would have to flow through normies?

Who was out there buying all the milk if demand was the reason its price went up?

Do you know anyone who got a stimmy check and was like “hot damn, i am buying 2 dozen eggs this time!”

#teachme

Opponent shows a Straight Flush… the poor fool. I’ve been throwing planets at my two pair for days.

This is the “blue check” we really want.

I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t trust this.

#verified🥧

Let’s hope it’s a “method” not a “form”. They can have an official form but the spirit of this place is that I can take my account and one day my verification(s) when I leave.

“Blue checks” are a failed institution. Don’t tell me who to trust, give me trustworthy information!

This must be an open system at the DID level. Users need control. I want to see real CPAs in tax season and verified first responders in the next disaster.

If only there were a larger group of isolationists they could join and learn from... 😶