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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/02/2025

Could the lasting impact of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show be the return of bell bottoms? A varsity jacket referenced his own career, and a chain inspired some questions. But the cut of his jeans was the biggest surprise of the night, writes our fashion reporter. nyti.ms/4k5sBkX

Kendrick Lamar, in a blue jacket, black shirt and jeans holds a microphone on a stage high above the crowd in front of him. A headline reads: “Kendrick Lamar's Bell Bottoms Steal The Halftime Show.” Photo credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

In #Syria it’s all over but the crying. Will speak with US foreign service people tomorrow morning. Broad feeling seems to be uncertainty. How do you balance the assumptions of Islamic extremism v the self described pragmatism of HST. What’s propaganda? Notably #Russia & #Iran take a massive L.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Successful coups by political figures aren’t generally spontaneous, but the culmination of a political movement, and a sense of overwhelming crisis.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If citizens within a state don’t strongly perceive an acute attack against their ways of life, or institutions they economically rely upon they are likely to perceive the coup as that threat. For an anti-democratic coup to succeed, there needs to be an intense justification to invoke the sovereign.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

There have been a number of poorly executed coup attempts recently. Bolivia & Peru both had similarly ineffectual attempts. Typically, a successful #coup by a political leader is born out of a perceived or cultivated crisis that extends beyond electoral politics. #southKorea

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 03/12/2024

WATCH: Soldiers arrive at South Korea's parliament after president declares martial law

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#SouthKorea president declares #martialLaw to try and keep “pro-NK” elements at bay. The main parties are disavowing the declaration. Korean democracy is so new & so fragile. My mother was in Korea during the student protests for democracy. We can only hope the military refuses this.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Like Israel, it will engage in a long Cold War with its larger neighbor. Displacing Russian weapon sales, fighting Wagner in Africa. I expect that after the war, Ukraine will be aggressively accelerate the dissolution of Russia’s power block. Lack Russian weapon sales will be the greatest threat.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I don’t believe that this is just the information war, or an attempt to make the Russians look weak. I believe it points to a more international perspective of the Ukrainians, and how they will continue the war, after a settlement. Because they won’t be able to enter NATO, Ukraine won’t be passive

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Tbh it’s not clear if this is true — Assad had gone to Moscow last week, returning to Syria after his absence was noted. It’s quite likely that a partial evacuation of the embassy has begun. What’s notable is that this is being pushed by UKR news.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There are reports of #Russian diplomats evacuating Damascus. These stories come from #Ukraine and its (propaganda) news outlets. #Syria became a front in their war against the Russians. As the war in Ukraine increasingly looks like it will resolve in an armistice — a UKR-RUS Cold War seems likely.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

#China plays a similar game. Attacks on Philippine fishermen, colonies in Bhutan, Himalayan skirmishes, South China Sea. Korean War, etc. a long war in Taiwan may trigger massive opportunism amongst its neighbors seeking to resolve things on their own terms. #geopolitics #war #news #military

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Iranian power was never stronger than 10/6, and has totally collapsed into a complete economic, social and political crisis. When the crisis plays out, they will be left with a shadow of their power, and the men and material expended. Their many enemies will be lionized.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If one conflict goes hot, the victim states are likely to force resolution at the same time. Critically, this doesn’t require coordination, but opportunism. This leads to massive system collapse as the cost of fighting all these hot wars are far too high.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Frozen conflicts encourage networks of adversaries as each conflict is maintained at a low cost rather than finding a mutually disagreeable resolution, instigators ensure a permanent crisis in their victim states. Individually the costs of maintaining the wars are low, but have high downside risk.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In #Syria, we are seeing the limits of frozen conflicts. Structurally they encourage over extension of force. #Iran axis was built upon the broad dispersal of frozen conflicts. 10/7 became a trigger for Israel to force an outcome. In turn, Iran’s proxies became overwhelmed. Systemic collapse.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The disaggregating of social media is becoming increasingly apparent. Whereas mod lists and feeds are posed as a technical solution, competition amongst Twitter alts & TikTok Alts shows that platform competition will likely be the future. Particularly after companies fail.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Any good culture feeds? It’d be great to get a film, literature, fashion feed.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 08/05/2023

How much of blue sky’s culture can remain unique? How much is dictated by the structures of a social network (likes, retweets, etc). The choices that a social network has makes it more or less likely to form consensus. This is a bit of an experiment in how much structure forms a culture vs leaders.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

Eat more street meat.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

There is a unique joy to drinking wine with a friend while watching the rain.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

Piggly wiggly till I die

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

I think relearning how to take photos has Been one of the most gratifying experience of my life. Strongly believe everyone should have an artistic outlet.

An image of an older person wearing a face mask. The image is distorted by the soft plastic window it has been shot through.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 20/04/2023

haven't seen discussed: more art-related protocol features we have thought about are attribution and license metadata on post content (eg, creative commons). and alt-text (which is sort-of-there but not in UI yet)

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 18/04/2023

Men don’t want to work, men want to sit in their cement meditation chambers listening to Phillip glass and pondering the evolution of 21st century classical and how to balance appreciate traditional western music without devolving into historicism. Or so I’m told.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 17/04/2023

Off to repost jail with this!

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

Hot take: LLMs are simple enough in their design that economically they will be a race to the bottom. The big winners won’t be the people who build the LLMs but people who leverage it into a definable product with — something that doesn’t seem to have really happened yet.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

From my naive perspective LLMs seem conceptually difficult, but simple in implementation. Their main growth in ability derives from parameter increase. It would be interesting to understand what other technologies are just waiting to be unlocked through increased data/computing power.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

As fake CEO I can only give you fake codes: notarealceo.notarealcode

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 10/04/2023

New to me camera feeling so damn good.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 22/03/2023

P R E M I U M I Z A T I O N

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 22/03/2023

@jay.bsky.social the posts are extended gutters, and all the accumulated accidental misinfo will foam up to our wastes and we’ll look up and shout “let us edit our posts” and you’ll whisper “No.” (or maybe yes?)

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 22/03/2023

@mathew.graydavies.org shared with me that 99% of Europeans go clubbing high on cocaine vs 22% of Americans. No wonder clubbing is a real culture there.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 22/03/2023

Being out in NYC on the first 50+ degree night feels like the preseason. You’re not going full stop like you will in a few weeks, but it’s actually somehow more fun

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 21/03/2023

Some examples of what custom feeds you might choose when that all lands

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 21/03/2023

- “Cats” - “Memes” - “Trending in Germany” - “Close friends” - “One post per person I follow” - “Good vibes only” - “Verified news” - “Gaming VODs” Etc

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 19/03/2023

Nothing like finishing a vacation to make you want to plan your next vacation.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 16/03/2023

Okay there *is* some tech debt but we’re paying it down, we should be fine so long as our users don’t pull out their tech all at once

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 15/03/2023

If I ask GPT-4 it’ll become aware of its own creation, automate it and thus kill the only remaining job — ML engineer.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 15/03/2023

Has anyone transitioned from generalist SWE to ML within big tech? What was that transition like/how would you go about doing so?

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 15/03/2023

Hint it’s not the 70% that’s worth forgetting.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 15/03/2023

It turns out if you take a good enough vacation you can avoid thinking about work a solid 70% of the time.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 12/03/2023

The government moved the clock forward an hour this morning in an effort to get us all to Monday sooner, a desperate ploy to reduce panic among SVB depositors

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 11/03/2023

Now if we could just get rid of the 3 hours wading through security.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 11/03/2023

Airports are this incredible view of 20th century futurism. Lots of car access, monorail between terminals and cheap jets to bring the American middle class to the world. In some ways things are worse, but in this we’ve fulfilled the 1950s future vision.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 11/03/2023

Flying away from all my problems

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 11/03/2023

No more banks, only rivers of wood.

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Tyler @ceo.bsky.social · 11/03/2023

FDIC insures 250k/person or company. Every other deposit is backed by assets. The asset value went down a bit, but the assets still exist so deposit holders will get most of their money back but it could take a while since they need to sell the assets.

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