Tim @timzhu.io · 4hI still occasionally have people introduce themselves at events with "lodgepolepines?" and I was only a minor Twitter poster in the late 2010s. 0120
Tim @timzhu.io · 6hSocietal development and the invention of writing broke down the ancient bicameral mind roughly 3000-4000 years ago and created consciousness, we already figured this one out 040
Tim @timzhu.io · 6hAlso literally one year ago many of the same peripheral hypemen were all in on convincing us NFTs was the future 1110
Reposted by TimVincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 6hLook this isn't exactly a brilliant insight, but one of the reasons why some people tuned out new information about what LLMs can do is because people were extolling LLMs in 2023 the exact same way they extoll them today. 710610
Tim @timzhu.io · 6hNYC DSA is GOATED because it pulls numbers like this right now for non-electoral canvasses 1190
Tim @timzhu.io · 8hYou're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database 1060489
Tim @timzhu.io · 9hThe technology is absolutely nuking a segment of workers who had relative power and privilege from being able to code or understand a spreadsheet and it's causing much existential gnashing of teeth. I'm more ambiguous on other workers 030
Tim @timzhu.io · 9hVery useful and even revolutionary for a segment of the knowledge worker class, myself included, but if you read through this list it's a bunch of stuff that most people don't actually want or need or will bother with all that much 170
Tim @timzhu.io · 12hIt's funny to see South Asians try to be MAGA only for Ramaswamy be down several extra points with his own voter base because of his name and face 080
Reposted by TimTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13hThe NYT dropped 5 major Senate polls this morning — and they tell you exactly why the GOP is freaking out about the Senate. Alaska: Peltola up 50/43 Texas: Talarico up 51/45 Ohio: Brown up 49/46 Kansas: a 45/45 tie Iowa: Hinson up 48/47. 381393297
Reposted by TimDj @djsoke.bsky.social · 14hNYT/Siena in AK: Peltola +7 | JKT + 4 | Begich +6 TX: Talarico + 6 | Hinojosa +4 OH: Brown +3 | Acton +4 IA: Hinson +1 | Sand +11 KS: Sen Tied | Gov: Masterson +4 1113218
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026with the forecast of a week straight of 60 degree sunny days autumn heads are practically cumming in their pants 060
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026this is not zen because my beautiful will be away but zen because I am not sitting in a car for 4 hours to pay $30 to pick apples with a hundred people from Brooklyn 070
Reposted by Timfreecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026nolan odyssey was pretty cool but just imagine if the credits roll and he hits em with steely dan “home at last” 1252
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026my zen for the weekend: I made a promise to myself that I was never going to go apple picking again, and my wife just agreed to go with her friends to go apple picking somewhere 2 hours away from the city 2100
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026there's only one use case yet and no one has been able to solve it. it's "something that is as intuitive and easy to use as a spreadsheet but with the robustness of an actual database." the smartest minds of our generation have tried to solve this, even made billions, but it all still sucks ass. 272
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026Man I really wanted to make this little Xteink X4 Pro reader work for me but the dictionary loads toooo slow which is a nonstarter for trying to read Chinese books as a learner. Might actually spend big money on the Palma 3 soon 030
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026Was also watching the episode where he turns the bar into a theatrical production so everyone can smoke indoors. Incredible. 060
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026I was laughing so much watching the Nathan For You episode where he meets the guy from Ohio who has threesomes with his brother. Shout out to J-Squad! They don't make guys like that anymore because of social media. 260
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026Being so busy you forget to check if your wife was a +1 to your dinner with Xi Jinping >>>>> 070
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026Lol this rocks. I love living throughout Deus Ex / Cyberpunk 2077 but stupid 1131
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026If someone lives in Auckland or Christchurch or Wellington that's like "Oh I'm in Astoria" or Crown Heights or Sunset Park 270
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026just realized New Zealand's population is the same as Brooklyn and Queens combined 1151
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026Not my beautiful wife finally getting got by @rickpaulas.bsky.social... 161
Reposted by TimMorgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In this place of extreme cognitive dissonance where I think this AI-enabled discovery is amazingly cool and also want to smash my head through a wall when I have to read the Claude-isms in the write-up of the amazingly cool AI-enabled discovery. 151
Tim @timzhu.io · 02/10/2026The DSA Doug Emhoff Caucus condemns this betrayal of the socialist movement. 0343
Tim @timzhu.io · 01/10/2026You never hear about what public university anyone ever went to except Michigan. You always see or hear when someone graduated from University of Michigan. 2100
Reposted by TimCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237751248
Tim @timzhu.io · 01/10/2026Happy October! If we were South Korea there would be another week until campaigning would officially begin for the midterms. 050
Reposted by TimEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026With a lot of AI things you just need to extrapolate the tiniest bit to see that things will obviously be very different 4565
Tim @timzhu.io · 01/10/2026I love geographic exclaves. I think it'd be great to have more of them. Let a million exarchates bloom. 0275
Tim @timzhu.io · 01/10/2026there's a great part in my grandfather's very thoughtful memoir where decades after the war he visits Japan on a business trip and is like "everyone was very nice. but I still don't like Japan and don't agree with normalization" but tbf he was from Nanjing and lost his mother to the invasion so 0392
Reposted by Timfrank @panndder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026and remember: a lot of "serious" people plan to rely on yet to be invented carbon capture technology to solve this 063
Reposted by TimMatthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is hard for me to take AI "existential risk" people seriously when they do not care about things like this www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...wsj.comGoogle Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too FarThe risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash. 091
Tim @timzhu.io · 01/10/2026>>> “I think if you keep betting on ‘Nothing happens,’ you’re only wrong once, and then it’s like, ‘Well, great. I’m glad I was wrong,” Farrar said. “But until then, I’ve racked up a million victories on ‘Bad things don’t happen to powerful people.’ That’s how the world is organized, you know.” 051
Reposted by TimAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“LMAO” zeteo.com/p/top-republ...zeteo.com📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a DudSwin’s conversations with Trumpworld insiders reveal alarm at just how badly the plan to make the leftist streamer the main midterms character is misfiring. Also, Pete Hegseth beclowns himself again. 54966120
Reposted by TimComputational Cosmetologist @dferrer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I miss how wonderfully deranged the first gen reasoning models could be 3472
Tim @timzhu.io · 30/09/2026Note: some of the polling was taken *before* the Judge despoiled the populace of Nacogdoches and the Rio Grande borderlands (!) 0100
Reposted by TimThe Sanders Institute @sandersinstitute.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is power in a union. @flyingwithsara.bsky.social 13510
