Adam Dunford

"i just use it to generate ideas"

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.

So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

No War With Iran

To every member of Congress tonight: We don’t need 200+ words. We need 3 sentences.

1. Trump’s strike on Iran was unauthorized & unconstitutional
2. Congress must reassert its war powers—immediately
3. I support the War Powers Resolutions in the House and Senate

No war with Iran. Full stop.

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.

I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

I'm procrastinating, Stancil is getting dragged over it, and the Rewatchables podcast guys finally covered it, so I guess it's time for what I hope is my last thread ever on Star Wars. Let's do this. 🧵

A bar chart titled How drivers' reaction times slow showing the percentage increase in distracted drivers' response times. An undistracted driver typically reacts in 1 second. The chart lists various activities and their corresponding percentage increases: Drink Drive Limit 12%, Using Cannabis 21%, Hands-free Phone 27%, Android Auto (Voice) 36%, Texting 38%, Apple CarPlay (Voice) 38%, Hand-held Phone 46%, Android Auto (Touch) 53%, Apple CarPlay (Touch) 57%. The source is IAM RoadSmart.

Touch screens on cars worsen response time significantly worse than drink driving or being high:

www.wired.com/story/why-ca...

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel I (1977) to Us (1992) or Low - I Could Live in Hope (1993) to Double Negative (2018) 25(!) years later

A little clip from a recent keynote I gave, featuring Refried 🎶

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

Proposal: When discussing automation, replace the notional always-on, maintenance-free robot helper you're imagining with the average real-world printer you've encountered.

The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".

A much better baseline.

Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

IG 3sixteen

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

For people that work in tech *only*.

An important clarification on what federal employees mean when they say "probationary period."

In tech, we're very reluctant to promote an engineer from say, level 5 to level 6, until we have enough time to know that the level 6 performance is sustainable.

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

Right? So he’s been wrong about it for years.

Trump's Tariff Strategy Can Be Traced Back to the 1980s President Donald Trump’s decision to put tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese imports last year shocked the world — but it was nothing new for Trump.

Apparently, he’s loved tariffs for years, way back into the ‘80’s. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

The escalating attacks on Wikipedia from Elon Musk and other powerful figures on the American right follow a familiar pattern. First come the claims of bias, supported by cherry-picked or misrepresented examples. Then the demands for “balance”, which in practice mean giving equal weight to fringe views or demonstrably false claims. When these demands are refused, the attacks shift to the platform's legitimacy itself: its funding, its governance, its leaders, and its very right to exist as an independent entity. We've seen this playbook deployed against traditional media, with Trump labeling unfavorable coverage “fake news” while promoting outlets that parrot his claims. We've seen it in academia, where “viewpoint diversity” is weaponized to demand equal time for climate change denial or historical revisionism. And we've seen it in social media, where Musk himself spent $44 billion to seize control of Twitter after claiming it was biased against conservative views.

Wikipedia’s resilience to these tactics makes it both a model and a target. The very features that Musk and others criticize — its decentralized editing model, rigorous sourcing requirements, and nonprofit status — are what have allowed it to remain one of the internet’s most trusted resources. But these same features make it an obstacle to those who seek to control the narrative. Wikipedia faces real challenges: its relatively small editing community and difficulties attracting new editors, threats from AI-generated content,m and regulatory proposals that could restrict its functioning or threaten members of its editing community. m. Among them: decaying sourcing, the introduction of poor quality LLM-generated content into articles, and the reduced visibility of Wikipedia as people use LLMs trained on the site instead of the site itself. But as other information sources fall to acquisition, intimidation, or other pressure, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from Musk and his allies aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled.

Attacks on Wikipedia from Musk and his allies aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled.