Old Robert Heinlein would have liked Musk. Sad but true.

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In San Francisco, my friends called the dot-com boom "The Liberal Arts Major's Full Employment Act of 1997." Fine Arts BA? Design job! English BA? Get paid to write! Philosophy major (me)? I learned the basics of HTML in a few days and literally doubled what I'd been making at my shitty temp job.

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💯 the internet boom was wildly popular because it came with a job market boom, it was exciting, good for the average person and contributed to inflation going down not up. In so many ways the AI boom is the inverse of the late 90s not a repeat

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"I won't vote for a Democratic candidate who doesn't make my issue their number one issue even it means electing the other candidate will do me great harm. I would rather stick it to my allies who support most of the things with which I agree."

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Yes, I keep hearing iterations of this. Naive idealism is supremely selfish!

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