Gavin Mabie

Haha, I can't even do a no-hands on a bicycle.

😂😆 I'm afraid so.

> Step 1: Break a perfectly fine system.
> Step 2: Call it broken.
> Step 3: "Fix" it.
> Step 4: Take a victory lap for solving the problem you created.
> Politics 101.

An army of the screwed marching south.

Fascinating for an outsider like myself. Looks like Pres Trump will be the most consequential US president in the the past 50 years. I suppose the detail lies in the consequences which is yet to unfold and its hard to say exactly how it pans out. Wild times ahead, for the entire world.

Interesting watching the US media on Trump's tariffs. Many of them played along when he misleadingly claimed other countries would be paying for the hikes. Now they're explaining to citizens how it will impact them, talking about short term pain for long term gain. Astonishing.

I'm being pedantic when I say that true liberation means abolishing all tariffs. But I'm right.

Type checking in host bindings with language service support just landed in Angular!

github.com/angular/angu...

Sure, but I don't detect any major diversion from the "amusing yet oversimplified" analogy.

Vibe-coding is like construction wet-works. It's 70% of the material but only 30% of the time. The finishing touches? They take 70% of the time but just 30% of the code. That’s the paradox of AI-powered coding.

Loving it

Fantastic

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.

Is there public information out there that has not been manipulated to suit a particular narrative?

That's how they roll under the dictatorship of the fabulously rich, the podcast bros and the cryto-schemesters.

Except there is no need for this whatsoever. Russia posts no significant challenge to the US in the current unipolar setup, economically or militarily. Elevating Russia seems more transactional than anything else. Voluntarily giving up its influence sphere makes the US the biggest loser in a trios

what a day

Foreign aid is a circular economy, favouring the donor more than the recipient. In-kind donation consists mainly of goods produced in the donor country. Advisory and technical assistance is mainly in the form of consultants from the donor country. It's a two street.

Joost Vd Westhuizen snorted himself silly, but was able to ride it, going down as one of the best ever. Hansie Cronje disgraced himself taking bribes from bookies. They made a celebratory movie about him. Many in the media relentlessly derided Jantjies because he wasn't "cut out to be a Springbok".

Seconded

Is it real or is it Memorex? Sorry, had another's 70's flashback. Perhaps it's the 90's (Matrix) that holds truer analogies ;-) All kidding aside because it ain't a laughing matter!

Is the algorithm programming us? The Ukraine/Russia war is trending here as the 'Ukraine Conflict', but I haven’t seen any actual users call it that. Seems like the algorithm’s choice, not ours. 🤔

Not sure whether it's a reality show or a soap opera or even a telenovela. Could be all of it in one.

The engagement trolling on US tariffs is next level hilarious. Cleary a very emotive and divisive issue.

Thank you, Jim Acosta.
Thank you for leaving CNN.
You have always been far better than that network.

We’re looking forward to your great work on Substack.

These DeepSeek responses seems like it's been penned by a comedy script writer. 😂

That a financial services company can raise this much in a lower-middle income country says a lot about its social structure.

The famous line from the movie Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come," encapsulates the romantic idea that creating something exceptional is enough to guarantee success. However, in the real world, especially in business and marketing, this idea falls short.

Write about you own South African "royals". There's more than enough salacious content.

Like a dying sun, the only superpower in the world is entering it's Red Giant phase. It'd be interesting to see how it's White Dwarf stage turns out, but I will probably not be around.

They're also topping the 10 most hated in the world and it's about to get worse.