max mccarthy's Avatar

max mccarthy

@maxmcc.com

People always tell me that I’m tall. I work on interaction prototyping at Apple. SF; he/they.

472
Followers
957
Following
327
Posts
01.12.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by max mccarthy @maxmcc.com

this is unrelated to the other whole foods discourse that is apparently happening here today

09.03.2026 21:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

today they had a sign declaring "soup containers are for soup ONLY" and they really should not have set me a personal challenge

09.03.2026 21:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

one of my simple pleasures is visiting the whole foods hot bar and constructing the most incoherent meal ever seen in human history

09.03.2026 21:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Every day the economic experts get up and are like “we think today is the day the racists will use logic”

09.03.2026 15:25 👍 868 🔁 189 💬 9 📌 4

i love that this is the same shape as the february–march 2020 coronavirus graphs

09.03.2026 00:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

while we’re on the subject of egypt, thought you might enjoy this

bsky.app/profile/4kit...

06.03.2026 04:30 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Markwayne. Why not just name your kid Toilet

05.03.2026 19:00 👍 418 🔁 40 💬 23 📌 5

just saw a giant christmas tree in someone's window on march the fourth and it has completely shaken me

05.03.2026 02:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AI writing is like store-bought cake. It might be perfectly fine, maybe even as good as something you could make yourself, but it’s weird to give it to someone and say it’s homemade

03.03.2026 19:03 👍 523 🔁 66 💬 16 📌 8

bought a domain name and actually deployed a thing with only 72 hours in between… unheard of

03.03.2026 07:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When I am President I will order every frontier AI company to subtly lace all responses to venture capitalists with basic concepts from political science and philosophy, or be designated a supply chain risk. Vote Patel

02.03.2026 18:51 👍 434 🔁 31 💬 8 📌 0

it’s funny because i immediately went “oh micah must be talking about that one tweet i saw” and probably so did everybody else and it’s all different tweets

01.03.2026 16:54 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

one good thing about being antiwar is you will never be wrong. one bad thing about being antiwar is no one who matters will ever listen to you

28.02.2026 17:33 👍 1643 🔁 384 💬 9 📌 9

it's 70° and i am listening to for emma by bon iver. my most confusing move to date

28.02.2026 20:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

28.02.2026 17:50 👍 9988 🔁 1430 💬 53 📌 83

ellen, i am so tired. will this day never end

28.02.2026 06:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it’s so much fun reading when you can tell the author is having fun writing

28.02.2026 01:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

he has William quote Wittgenstein lol

28.02.2026 01:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

there is one… anachronism… attributed to a “german mystic” that i found particularly funny. like Eco couldn’t help himself

28.02.2026 01:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

aside from the AI angle, what makes the Anthropic case important is that it is -- unless there is something I am forgetting -- the first time a major tech company has stood up to Trump instead of accommodating him

27.02.2026 22:23 👍 672 🔁 90 💬 8 📌 9

please do not negatively polarize me into liking anthropic ughhhh

27.02.2026 23:05 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

"500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives"

24.02.2026 22:38 👍 558 🔁 354 💬 15 📌 35

so he understands consent, is what I’m taking away from this

20.02.2026 20:47 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

what if we put tariffs on the supreme court

20.02.2026 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

29.01.2026 09:29 👍 4718 🔁 1056 💬 37 📌 18

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

10.02.2026 21:11 👍 5964 🔁 2750 💬 45 📌 55

if we’re going to hear these kind of histrionics anyway we may as well be airing actual gay pornography

10.02.2026 17:11 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have always found this construction incredibly corny but yes, we, as a human race, ”do not deserve” Benito. tasteless piggies hurtling toward a world of pure slop, how is the ~biggest pop star alive still a talented, idiosyncratic, humane, stylish person

09.02.2026 02:17 👍 103 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

wow i can’t believe the racist piece of shit president could possibly find it in him say something derogatory about the halftime show

09.02.2026 02:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

señora gaga !!

09.02.2026 01:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0