Jon L

I’ve been thinking a bit about the Peter Thiel comment about democracy and freedom being something he doesn’t believe are compatible anymore and what’s striking me is that he’s really saying “self-determination” isn’t what he believes in anymore.

"Right now, we’re living in Trump’s world, in Vance’s world, in Hegseth’s world. This is what a world without empathy looks like. It’s a world of constant othering, of constant rage, of a constant belief that life is a zero-sum game. But nothing flourishes in that world." — @snipy.bsky.social

Hot take. A startup or company being valued as a "unicorn" is a meaningless metric that is a poor stand-in for being a profitable company. Especially if those driving the valuation are doing so at the expense of the founders and early employees via terms like liquidation prefs.

I don’t really do much discussion about pop culture content… but Season 2 of Dark Matter on Apple is really fucking excellent.

Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…

Reminder of the day: Soft power is not called that because it is weak. It’s called that because it costs less than hard power does and achieves the same or better outcome at a far lower cost.

I’ve been watching the AppleTV show, “Invasion,” and am wondering if all the writers are Gen Z or later, constitutionally incapable of understanding that pain and mistakes can equal growth and not everything that hurts should be set aside?

I’ve long thought that while you can get rich (small “r”) through hard work, the only way to become truly Wealthy is through exploitation. Sometimes that’s exploitation of an idea, which is good (assuming it’s yours), but most of the time it’s exploitation of people. Which is bad.

A fun (admittedly AI) exploration of alternatives to the "nationalize AI" stocks currently being yapped about, whose proposed architectures may leave the US taxpayer holding the bag again on boom/bust cycles: claude.ai/public/artif...

"We didn't anticipate that spying on everybody would become the number one business model of the internet," EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @nytimes.com's Hard Fork podcast. "The minute we stop this business model, the better." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/...

Doctor?

What is the upside for founders of getting to market "first" if you give away all your upside to finance that velocity? 👎 to punitive liquidation prefs (this didn't happen to me, it's just a question).

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

True fact. I’m much funnier than people think I am.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

At this point, as I read “defund Palantir” trope, it’s worth noting that getting civilian oversight (with teeth?!) is probably more achievable that completely getting rid of it. This is a pattern we should be considering for a number of transformational technologies emerging.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social - not sure if anyone else is reporting this, but Facebook isn’t loading your posts:

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

Four years, five rounds of layoffs. I feel like I’m on a season of Survivor.