Wonder how long this stays up…

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there’s a reason this “tech-friendly dictator” fantasy has been bubbling up in VC circles and startup accelerators for years. It’s not just about cutting red tape—it’s about the fundamental belief that techbros like themselves shouldn’t have to deal with the messy compromises that democracy itself requires. They’d rather sweep away all those pesky democratic institutions and let the “smart people” (spoiler: they mean themselves) run things.

The basic pitch is seductive: democracy is messy, slow, and often staffed by people who don’t understand technology. Wouldn’t it be better to have someone in charge who just… gets it?

No. No, it would not.

Fascism For First Time Founders | Techdirt

“Change, when it comes to India, comes not as revolution but as a tidal shift.”

“Corporate cafeterias became inadvertent experiments in managing this complexity. Visit any IT campus in Bangalore: separate counters for vegetarian, non-vegetarian, Jain, vegan, North Indian, South Indian, Chinese (Indianized, of course), and Continental. The logistics would break most societies. In India, it’s Tuesday.”

“Where festival holidays meant everyone got days off for Diwali, Eid, Christmas, Guru Nanak Jayanti, and Good Friday. Where secularism isn’t the absence of religion but the presence of all religions.”

 The Paradox of India – Samir Varma

Daring Fireball: Network Pinheads at CBS Are Ending ‘The Late Show’

If it’s really a financial only decision, let Colbert buy the name and the theatre. My bet is within three years he’ll be worth more than CBS.

The historical tech tree is a project by Étienne Fortier-Dubois to visualize the entire history of technologies, inventions, and (some) discoveries, from prehistory to today. Unlike other visualizations of the sort, the tree emphasizes the connections between technologies: prerequisites, improvements, inspirations, and so on.

Historical Tech Tree

Grok: searching X for “from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)”

What does it do when he changes opinion?

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident – The Onion

Brilliant!

Trump’s Big Beautiful Debt Bomb – Paul Krugman

Amazon’s Robotic Revolution – Marginal REVOLUTION

My daughter asked me recently why I spend so many evenings on the phone talking about school lunches. I told her about the kids who get their trays taken away. Her face scrunched up in that particular way that children’s faces do when they encounter an injustice so fundamental it cannot be reconciled with their understanding of how the world should work.

“That’s stupid,” she said with 7-year-old clarity. “Why don’t they just let them eat?”

I Paid Off A Utah School’s Lunch Debt: My Journey to Change | HuffPost HuffPost Personal