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Kmele 🖐 @kmele Jun 1, 2022

Race, gender, sexuality — these aren't matters of shame or pride. They aren't the substance of anyone's identity. They're happenstance.

I honor the dignity/potential of every individual, but real pride is derivative of character and achievement. Pride isn't trivial; it's earned.

Kmele 🖐 @kmele Oct 1

Societies get wealthier by figuring out how to produce more stuff w/ less human labor.

If you’re worried the tax code disadvantages human labor relative to automation, you could try taxing software and robots… or maybe just tax the humans less.

(Bastiat. Candlemakers. Etc.)

And if AI produces the massive payoff Gates imagines, it should make governments cheaper too.

Ezra Klein Verified account @ezraklein Sep 30

Bill Gates on why we should tax A.I. work: “If you’ve let go of a worker and hired a robot to do that job, why are you so incentivizing the trade-off against the human labor that you don’t ask the robot to also pay into the pension fund? What is it? Is it that the pro-robot union has gotten the tax laws to say: No, if you’re not flesh, then let pensions go bankrupt?”

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Kmele 🖐 @kmele Sep 16

BREAKING: Skynet CEO Warns Company May Bring About Apocalypse, Overshadowing Modest UI Update

Claude Verified account @claudeai Sep 16

Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude.

Ask a quick question or hand over a report, and Claude takes it from there, even after you close your laptop. If something's unclear, Claude asks—you keep the final say.

Rolling out to Pro and Max over the next few weeks.

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Kmele 🖐 @kmele Sep 16

Brian Roemmele Verified account @BrianRoemmele Sep 16

“AI doomers should be held accountable for their doomsday claims. It’s made up… It’s irresponsible. We ought to just keep track of all that and remind people when their claims don’t come true”—@JensenHuang NVIDIA

I agree and hold the CEOs and executives of the companies that make these outrageous claims criminally libel.

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Kmele 🖐 @kmele Sep 16

"We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence..."

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"Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, “Come down to the water.” It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go.

I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames."

- Annie Dillard (April 30, 1945 – September 15, 2026)