Jeff Giesea
@jeffgiesea
Notes on a world in flux — politics, culture, tech. 🇺🇸
I cannot express how stupid, arrogant, and ignorant someone must be to need a ‘eureka’ moment about kindness and respect—for their own family, neighbors, or anyone.... Can't wait for the follow up on what "right-wing" means. congrats, @davidlitt nytimes.com/2025/07/13/opi…
Big thanks to @realDonaldTrump, @mkratsios47, @sriramK, and AI Czar @DavidSacks for the vision in their bold AI Action plan. Gutting red tape on infrastructure and AI model development, especially by blocking a patchwork of misguided state regulations, will let companies build…
Quite frankly if I were forced in a presidential election to choose between voting for AOC and a candidate who supports this guy's worldview I would quite frankly vote for AOC. Quite frankly.
If podcasts had been around in the 1990s Bill Clinton would’ve absolutely cooked on them
Banging the “chief people officer,” adds an extra layer of poetry to being outed by Coldplay. It’s like the start of a Reece’s Book Club novel. Almost too on the nose.
👇 These AI videos exemplify the way hyperreality warps our senses. I wrote about this in an essay called, "How to thrive in the simulacra." jeffgiesea.substack.com/p/thrive-in-hy…
People are making AI videos of obese people doing crazy things And these videos go EXTREMELY viral on social media Here I collected TOP 7 recent examples: 1. Grandma collapsing a glass bridge (almost 100M views in 24 hours on IG)
Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google for under $1m so they could return to their PhDs. Paul Allen had to convince Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard took day jobs until pushed by a professor to start HP. Steve Wozniak wanted HP to build…
The idea of convincing people to become entrepreneurs is ridiculous. If you need to be convinced, you shouldn’t do it. Starting a company is totally irrational—you need to be obsessed and committed to a painful, decade-long grind. Most people are better off as employees.
Drone firefighting when? We need it across the country ASAP to save lives and protect forests. #AutonomyNow
Small brush fire Runyon Canyon 🙏🏼
The people getting the most out of AI Agents right now are creating hyper precise prompts to describe what they want, and embracing the fact that their job is to review and edit the output. The moment you stop expecting perfection, your leverage goes up massively.
The normalization of antisemitism is alarming, even to this non-Jew. I’m not talking about criticisms of Israel or academic discussions of power. Just … outright bigotry and scapegoating. It’s everywhere on this platform. Not a fan. It’s bad for the soul.
You're not depressed, you just need a quest.
What’s the steel-man case for the State Dept layoffs? Is there a bold vision for upgrading U.S. diplomacy that this is part of, or is this another case of wanton destruction for its own sake?
The State Department began firing more than 1,350 US-based employees as the Trump administration proceeded with an unprecedented overhaul of its diplomatic corps reut.rs/44JBcCI
