# ![@johnloeber Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::166226734.png) @johnloeber John Loeber 🎢

John Loeber 🎢 posts on X about matter, if you, the most, ai the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  10.58% [finance](/list/finance)  #958 [countries](/list/countries)  4.81% [stocks](/list/stocks)  4.81% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.92% [products](/list/products)  0.96%

**Social topic influence**
[matter](/topic/matter) 4.81%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 4.81%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 4.81%, [ai](/topic/ai) 3.85%, [in the](/topic/in-the) #1335, [politics](/topic/politics) 2.88%, [united states](/topic/united-states) 2.88%, [money](/topic/money) 2.88%, [the big](/topic/the-big) 2.88%, [environment](/topic/environment) 1.92%

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"New Essay I am begging successful technologists to enter politics. The wealth tax shows that unwise politicians will slaughter the goose that lays the golden eggs. I dont want San Francisco to become Detroit-by-the-Sea or for the United States to lose the AI race to China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2010776542243406296)  2026-01-12T18:11Z [----] followers, 223.4K engagements


"Thoughts on visiting my parents in Europe: [--]. You can instantly drop off the hedonic-financial treadmill by changing your social context. In SF I spend tons of money on and have impossibly high standards for meals. When I'm with my parents I eat boiled potatoes with salt. [--]. An airport is an interesting social environment in that it's basically totally crime-free. Why is this Surveillance The security check A socioeconomic filter in having purchased a ticket "Why are there no pickpockets at an airport" sounds like a banal question but I think there's some depth to it. [--]. Once more I am"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2017367664302154170)  2026-01-30T22:41Z [----] followers, 64.8K engagements


"The Epstein/Gates saga has a funny lesson for utilitarians Gates has given more money to charity than anyone alive and personally accounts for saving 80M+ lives. Yet this has never done anything for him or the perception of his ethics. The public hates him all the same. To the average news reader his legacy right now looks to be "the guy who gave his wife an std from a hooker and tried to surreptitiously sneak her the meds" Make of this what you will https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018247911847678378 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018247911847678378"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2018247911847678378)  2026-02-02T08:59Z [----] followers, 36.5K engagements


"@usgraphics Wait until you find out which modern oil company was founded in San Francisco 😉"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2018799011579482406)  2026-02-03T21:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Maybe We Will Finally Have Good Software Many people are writing about the death of B2B SAAS. Public companies are cratering as rumors swirl of their customers just vibe-coding their products instead or OpenAI and Anthropic's general solutions will make obsolete all these B2B SAAS point solutions. But somehow everyone leaves out: those SAAS products were never good. Most software is hideously broken: terrible UX bugs and obvious functionality that's missing. My favorite is that for many SAAS products even the core flow of giving them money is easy to break. People are upset about SAP and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2019398366472671453)  2026-02-05T13:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In this "no rules" era of politics & policy it really is incredible that Prohibition ever worked. This says a tremendous amount about either the extent to which "rules" have fallen off over the last hundred years or the harms of alcoholism. I don't know which"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020641151020400748)  2026-02-08T23:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Go back in time to [----] and tell them people are slumped over from felony-grade industrial narcotics in the central business district and that politicians are actively defending this as a matter of civil rights or something and uhhhh you'll drop their jaws for sure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020641665682403694)  2026-02-08T23:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Embryo selection is going mainstream: parents will pick the embryos that are smarter taller stronger. But the old joke is that parents will always raise their children perfectly for the prior generation. Similarly they'll do all this genetic work as if it were a pre-AI child. What are the genetic traits that will matter for children post-AGI Quoting my post below: I don't know if intelligence or agency or raw ability to remember are going to matter all that much. This selection may very well come to be pointless but perhaps at the expense of something sacred about the randomness of the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020660537181581341)  2026-02-09T00:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@hopes_revenge bedframe knowers will instantly recognize this as a Thuma frame which is made with japanese joinery (observe the no-screws/glue setup) a fitting pair with the Japanese whiskey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020680919947137389)  2026-02-09T02:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Johnsjawn .Mamahuhu next to Michelin stars Mamahuhu is basically Panda Express and I don't mean that in a pejorative way it's just factual"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020745345970651188)  2026-02-09T06:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My wife: man am I glad we bought in SF Me who has been watching a lot of Clavicular content: SF housing is turbowiped and jesterfied Wife: feels like we got the last train Me: wed be marketmogged. goonminned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020890452984217912)  2026-02-09T16:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RobTerrin There's a hard tradeoff between the two if you want to add more features. Most software is wildly under-featured. You're gonna need to get the complexity in there somehow either by sheer length or by intricacy of abstraction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020985412874011016)  2026-02-09T22:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"a reminder that there is no wealthy country with high electricity prices roll up your sleeves and stop the decay of california Electricity bills in California spiked 39% over six years the most in the country https://t.co/TjZ2gknS0O https://t.co/3yguA2oSdF Electricity bills in California spiked 39% over six years the most in the country https://t.co/TjZ2gknS0O https://t.co/3yguA2oSdF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2021083075346825669)  2026-02-10T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One thing that nobodys talking about: Its been long assumed that one of Googles fundamental moats is their infrastructure: that it is hard to crawl index store and digest the entire internet Basically all the big labs are disproving this. Their crawlers are everywhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1924687749682233638)  2025-05-20T04:44Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements


"Browsing Design Within Reach and okay some of these pieces of furniture really do constitute exceptional craftsmanship but man i don't know that i'd pay thirteen thousand dollars for this wooden bench"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1984856948249149760)  2025-11-02T05:35Z [----] followers, 26.8K engagements


"Twelve Recent Thoughts [--]. It's remarkable that GitHub Copilot blew its lead to a bunch of small startups. Should've been a slam-dunk. [--]. Despite the ubiquity of vomit bags in airplanes I've never once seen them used. [--]. One time I saw a Series B founder shoplift and that really told me everything about how his company would go. [--]. In the past year I've been running into more and more people saying "X is my life's work". Maybe it's an early-30s thing or maybe it's that everyone is trying to stake out some core areas of meaning before the AI wave washes over us. [--]. As we're living through"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020276679244148906)  2026-02-07T23:21Z [----] followers, 24.7K engagements


"What happened to Llama Is Meta still pushing any AI models I haven't heard from this organization in a while"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2021460218664870277)  2026-02-11T05:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Signing up for Garry's List like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2021709434490433881)  2026-02-11T22:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"New Essay Open-source software is heading for a golden era: written by machines funded by people. Data is moving from the cloud back to the user's disk. And people will run AI models locally. Old visions of personal computing are alive again. https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/31-open-source-software-in-the-age https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/31-open-source-software-in-the-age"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2019643316833538151)  2026-02-06T05:24Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements


"Jubilee There's a tremendously important concept in the idea of declaring bankruptcy on something and then moving on. People have [---] tabs open in their browsers. They carry huge lists of things to do or remember or write about or whatever. They accumulate all this baggage. In ancient biblical traditions people would celebrate a debt jubilee: over time all kinds of people would have made promises they couldn't keep and everyone would be in debt to everyone else and it'd be a big mess. So every now and again the king would declare all prior debts null and void so that people could reset and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2021841756539826425)  2026-02-12T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In American law there is an admirable principle for protecting the innocent: innocent until proven guilty and proven guilty only if beyond a reasonable doubt. The system optimizes strongly against the accidental punishment of the innocent. And yet reading these occasional news headlines feels like theres another side to it: when innocent people are routinely killed by acts of violence is that not also a suffering of the innocent What is a senseless murder of a starbucks cashier if not an unjust punishment The great inequality is of course that the perpetrator had a state-appointed public"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2021976383061471583)  2026-02-12T15:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DeificConjuring precisely. awful deeply unwise policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2022417848069755248)  2026-02-13T21:09Z [----] followers, 12.4K engagements


"Mayor Frey of Minneapolis said a similar thing and I'm just so confused. [--]. Obviously this is logistically impossible; no the United States cannot handle eight billion people tomorrow. The infrastructure would collapse. [--]. How did full open borders become a left position Historically left parties worker labor movements were always strongly opposed to immigration because it competes so aggressively with the labor of the working class. Famous San Francisco labor organizer Cesar Chavez used to run his own border control force. Bernie Sanders used to be an immigration restrictionist. Even the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2017796120202674197)  2026-02-01T03:04Z [----] followers, 1M engagements


"Some Thoughts on Race & Equity Growing up in the 90s and 2000s the enlightened progressive position was color-blindness: treat everyone equally avoid bias and let society be meritocratic. This seemed obviously fair and just. The prevailing thought or hope was that the arbitrary divisions of the past -- borders religions ethnicities etc. -- would gradually cease to matter. Today could not be more different. Meritocratic color-blindness has totally disappeared as an idea. Instead discussions of race are everywhere. Quotas and overt discrimination are back -- "but it's good this time" the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020561133741150486)  2026-02-08T18:11Z [----] followers, 41.9K engagements


"Unless we hit the software singularity the way AI-enabled engineering is going to play out is: [--]. Codebases are going to 10-100x in size and complexity thanks to the AI's prolific ability to write code. Why Most codebases are wildly under-built with endless bugs to fix and backlogs of features to add. [--]. The size/complexity expansion eventually hits some scaling limit in size/taste -- not for fault of the AI but for fault of the engineer's ability to correctly specify *what they want* initially -- and then engineering skill + intuitition matters again just at a much larger scale of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020975269792841866)  2026-02-09T21:37Z [----] followers, 76.4K engagements


"Many people are commenting that this will produce a capital flight and cause the most productive Dutch citizens to emigrate. This is true. However the reality is much worse far more perfidious. Virtually every Dutch citizen is going to be a criminal from here on. A specter of arbitrary enforcement will hang over each of their heads. Why Two reasons. One -- the tax is both severe and hard to administer. Remember without a sale there's no financial trail. Lots of people are just going to chance it and not pay the tax. (They may even forget) Second people own so many different assets and it's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2022392208448713007)  2026-02-13T19:27Z [----] followers, 369.3K engagements


"You could have a lot of malicious fun with this. Find instruments that people own then pump-and-dump them in the few hours around the end of the tax year. Owning any stock in small public companies becomes a very expensive risk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2022393177953755480)  2026-02-13T19:31Z [----] followers, 21.5K engagements


"Worse is Better: Landfills When I was a child I thought that landfills were terrible. Just dumping everything in one spot seems so messy and contrary to the legibility and order that we think of as good. Not to mention the environment: isn't it bad just to put all the garbage in the ground In my childish mind everything should have been cleanly sorted for recycling. Is seemed so dumb to just dump it on one big pile on the ground. Now it turns out that this is probably optimal. We've learned that most "recycling" is a scam where garbage gets sold and resold between recycling venues until"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2020312874024071343)  2026-02-08T01:44Z [----] followers, 347.4K engagements


"The years 1990-2020 were a different paradigm and trained many venture investors in a view that no longer holds Historically incumbents either did not have software or had on-prem Windows desktop software. The transition to software and to cloud and mobile in particular constituted difficult migrations rebuilding that was necessarily slow and often required full corporate reorientations. Many incumbents simply did not have the muscle to pull this off. For that reason in the core start-up question of can the at-scale incumbent with distribution get to technology faster than the technological"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2022473405250130092)  2026-02-14T00:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@GrantSlatton We were in Jiufen Taiwan a few months ago -- rumored to be the inspiration for Spirited Away. Fun to Ghiblify the picture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1904682247963500910)  2025-03-25T23:50Z [----] followers, 352.5K engagements


"@andyorsow https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1904792595299283402 Napoleon Crossing the Alps https://t.co/Ysrc3XZM97 https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1904792595299283402 Napoleon Crossing the Alps https://t.co/Ysrc3XZM97"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1905006116272275751)  2025-03-26T21:17Z [----] followers, 12.3K engagements


"I cancelled my Amazon Prime a few weeks ago. Heres why: 1) Basically no movie I want to see is free on Amazon Prime Video. I always have to pay. 2) thanks to Amazon inflating the minimum cost on any item basically no order is $30 anymore so I always get free shipping anwyay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1921458462489297353)  2025-05-11T06:52Z [----] followers, 271.1K engagements


"Thinking about it some more Amazon really was quite clever with Prime. Its a great story of brand-building with a compelling narrative (free two day shipping back when that used to be basically impossible) and then just harvesting that brand equity literally for decades. I became a prime subscriber in [----] nearly [--] years ago It was worth it then but hasnt been worth it now for years. I always kept it because the narrative is so strong like oh free two day shipping and movies and probably paid them a thousand dollars for this fictitious privilege. It took a real wtf moment for me to wake up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1921464977111794091)  2025-05-11T07:18Z [----] followers, 22.8K engagements


"I have always dismissed birdwatching as a hobby but now Im in my early 30s on an 8am walk in the park and I saw a tiny creature with magnificent blue feathers on the path ahead of me so bright and azure that I instinctively took out my camera for a photo Maybe I get it now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1922316883123937347)  2025-05-13T15:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Noahpinion Not trusting but highly trustworthy and one produces the other is a very good insight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1931216269027787024)  2025-06-07T05:06Z [----] followers, 20K engagements


"@SeamusNua @meaning_enjoyer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1932864215234331033)  2025-06-11T18:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Cloudflare down Gemini down Superbase down AWS down . But @dhhs private datacenter and my bedroom server are still UP Once a year the run-your-own-metal crowd gets to bask in smug delight. This is your moment see you in 2026"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1933238215085002762)  2025-06-12T19:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@mttgrmm This may be illegal under the FTCs new rule prohibiting undisclosed fees. This is exactly what the new rule is meant to prevent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1934647733442470359)  2025-06-16T16:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@katewillett Maybe stick to comedy instead of economic policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1935048468470579315)  2025-06-17T18:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@sporadica SSI acquired by Meta might be the move here Meta is bleeding talent and needs a figurehead thats got more cachet than Yann LeCun. Ilya would be the one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1935454029058064404)  2025-06-18T21:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@dealbakerjones The Hurricane of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar is making landfall at the Crypto Dot Com Arena"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1935792430898725201)  2025-06-19T20:10Z [----] followers, 10.2K engagements


"@jiratickets Sorry dude I had to unfollow you here. Not because your posts are bad. This is actually an extremely good troll. Its so good that I can feel my heartrate spike. If I keep reading your work it might kill me. Godspeed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1936101377543229574)  2025-06-20T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If you know a lot about software then you will recognize how poorly most of it is built. But it's not poor by happenstance it is poor by choice. And the choice of the software publisher is that they don't care about you. This is just so sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1937613272955650115)  2025-06-24T20:46Z [----] followers, 200K engagements


"I am on the @FedEx website. I am trying to use their "print and go" service to print and mail a document. This is one of FedEx's main offerings surely used by tens of thousands of people a day. FedEx has a $53B market cap. Using this feature requires me to pick a FedEx office for my print request using their "FedEx Office Locations" picker. It's an in-browser scrollable map that shows a list of location addresses. In the map I try to zoom in on San Francisco to get the FedEx closest to my house. But whenever I zoom in far enough using the zoom button the map resets back to being fully zoomed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1937922669783224519)  2025-06-25T17:15Z [----] followers, 201.6K engagements


"I think Curtis Yarvin's work is largely not very good. It's not very rigorous and hand-waves way too many important arguments. But I get why it's popular -- it's the most visible mainstreamed work that is truly reactionary against the present day. People sense that something is awry so they read Yarvin. I get it. I just think that it's a bit of an indictment on the contemporary intellectual scene: if Yarvin's the best writer to advance your views then what does that say about your views You'd expect much more skilled writers to show up and make these cases but that whole scene is just paltry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1939169141057036320)  2025-06-29T03:48Z [----] followers, 116.7K engagements


"@punished_daniel I could complain at length about his prose but I think the much more important issue is the content of his writing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1939171508607426897)  2025-06-29T03:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@nkulw Consider talking to some Argentinians and asking them what they think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1941986047128383935)  2025-07-06T22:22Z [----] followers, 131.8K engagements


"@nkulw Ah yes the signature arrogance of someone genuinely interested in finding truth. Good luck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1941987235680927847)  2025-07-06T22:26Z [----] followers, 52.8K engagements


"@garrytan A sizable bloc of American voters are in favor of Scandinavian-level taxes in exchange for Scandinavian-level social services. The rub: California and New York already pay Scandinavian-level taxes without anything close to the same level of services provided"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1943338331519226105)  2025-07-10T15:55Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements


"@NecktieSalvage This is kind of false in the sense that any physical BlockBuster had a much greater selection of films than any given streaming service today. Seriously a given Blockbuster would have 7000-10000 titles Netflix today has 3000-6000 at any point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1944607448943264173)  2025-07-14T03:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@GrantSlatton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1944835889647034821)  2025-07-14T19:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Peter Thiel called it fifteen years ago and I underestimated it then The cost of college even for second-rate universities just keeps expanding exactly according to what the most credulous seventeen year olds with access to a practically unlimited credit line will buy what are some more productive impactful or otherwise useful things a young kid might do with $400k rather than attend UMiami please be creative what are some more productive impactful or otherwise useful things a young kid might do with $400k rather than attend UMiami please be creative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1945581425010368826)  2025-07-16T20:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@growing_daniel A person working at Astronomer told me thats the Head of HR (she reports to the Chief People Officer having the affair)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1946088415822307613)  2025-07-18T06:03Z [----] followers, 35.7K engagements


"My dad bought a book on Carl Jung from Amazon Hes a few pages in telling me how bad it is I look. The cover looks like Dall-E. The text formatting has messy white space. The introductions third sentence is Jung was not X he was Y. The entire book is ChatGPT generated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1946300882678599987)  2025-07-18T20:07Z [----] followers, 47.1K engagements


"I look up the author Olivier Veyrat and its dozens and dozens of obviously AI-generated books on philosophers. Amazon is as usual totally asleep at the wheel and not protecting consumers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1946301452105728412)  2025-07-18T20:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AlecStapp @tylercowen I think this is actually wrong. While many Europeans have wise/tasteful views in many of the small/aesthetic things there are a few common fundamentally deeply mistaken views (easy example: degrowth) that spoil all the rest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1946949063724712033)  2025-07-20T15:03Z [----] followers, 47.7K engagements


"What I mean (and this wasnt well expressed in my prior tweet) is that a lot of European taste/culture/wisdom is somewhat parochial and superficial and thats especially apparent in policy matters of any level of sophistication. Its hard to claim wisdom when they get wrong in a very basic way their personal impact on climate change for example. Memorizing the basic different types of wine or having some articulate historical views on local culture (note: youll find the views are always local) doesnt impress me very much and neither should it impress TC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1946951530491629667)  2025-07-20T15:13Z [----] followers, 14.2K engagements


"@wylfcen "Au weia" is still used in German today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1947575247076557309)  2025-07-22T08:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@daveg Farming already is mostly automated. Farm employment in the United States is down 98% from its peak. Most modern American farms are far more high tech than outside observers would assume"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1949880456171893230)  2025-07-28T17:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@nic_carter Worst part might have been the epic meal time bacon stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1952985776872144924)  2025-08-06T06:51Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements


"@willdepue Is the pre-plane bag check for a flight to the US by any chance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1955296563141677332)  2025-08-12T15:53Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements


"Im always stunned by this asymmetry: - eating [---] calories is extremely easy a snickers two-pack. Just a little snack - losing [---] calories requires a serious sweaty half hour workout (or longer)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1957249901248577969)  2025-08-18T01:15Z [----] followers, 660.6K engagements


"@shakoistsLog Some might say the real trick is spitting out your chocolate to get the flavor but not the calories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1957254037251977244)  2025-08-18T01:31Z [----] followers, 47K engagements


"@krishnanrohit Correct but I cannot add another four hours to my day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1957256725100392859)  2025-08-18T01:42Z [----] followers, 46.8K engagements


"@joeykatzen Hunter (mammoth) gatherer (walgreens)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1957271807020720520)  2025-08-18T02:42Z [----] followers, 46.6K engagements


"There is great alpha in being the guy for X even when X is not popular. You spend years and years branding yourself as the guy for X. Everyone thinks of you when they think of X. And one day when the time for X finally comes everyone turns to you. my palantir mental model is basically: be [--] y/o peter thiel hmm the deep-state will probably need software at some point they're too boomered out to figure it out themselves I can probably do it tell [--] minions "hey you're the deep-state software guys now" ok boss https://t.co/eSJoABptbn my palantir mental model is basically: be [--] y/o peter thiel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1960416905598263379)  2025-08-26T18:59Z [----] followers, 21.6K engagements


"@maiamindel Richard Hanania is obviously not a Nazi. Consider for a moment that calling public writers/speakers Nazis and perverts is exactly the kind of political animus that got Charlie Kirk killed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1965917133638086922)  2025-09-10T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ejzim No snippy takes in my replies Evan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1972086352561987694)  2025-09-27T23:50Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements


"Chatting with my uber driver Me: so I think Mayor Luries been doing a good job D: yeah hundred percent except the speeding cameras. You hear about this shit Me: no all I know is that during Covid SF dropped its traffic law enforcement to zero D: well now they got these speeding cameras all over town and Im getting all these tickets or whatever Me: uh-huh D: yeah they added all these speed limits everywhere too its bullshit man. Now everythings a [--] mile an hour zone and if Im going [--] in a [--] Im gonna get fined fifty fucking bucks Fucking bullshit Me: uh-huh yeah thats crazy internally: YES"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1972486813727244511)  2025-09-29T02:21Z [----] followers, 104.4K engagements


"@gojomo I think automated speed enforcement is a good thing. Speeding in a busy city gets people killed. Simple as that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1972535072122347635)  2025-09-29T05:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"No I think there are two parts to it: [--]. SF traffic law enforcement really did drop to zero during Covid. (See chart.) And in my experience this led to drivers becoming way more reckless. Making people obey the speed limit is a good way to turn the tide on this. [--]. I think this more broadly fits into a broken windows framework where you have to push back on the Chesa Boudin era and start enforcing the law. And caring about the small things leads the general public to expect a higher standard of enforcement across the board"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1972538755794993186)  2025-09-29T05:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@rak_garg But why wouldnt I just use postgres with pgvector Im sorry. I know its a dumb question and Im missing something but why cant I just use pgvector Listen Im sorry to be kind of a broken record but how does this add to my existing pgvector stack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1977861948453638562)  2025-10-13T22:20Z [----] followers, 37.7K engagements


"The bar for technical interviews continues to fall lower and lower I have taken to asking candidates what version of Python they write (so I can ask them some version-specific questions) Then they tell me nonsensical version numbers which is sometimes indicative that they're being aided by ChatGPT in the background Had this today: me: "what version of python are you writing these days" him: "3.5" me: "are you sure that came out [--] years ago" him: "i um i don't think i'm prepared enough for this interview" my jaw dropped in undergrad when i found out that this fizzbuzz test was real -- indeed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1981506336329519113)  2025-10-23T23:41Z [----] followers, 180.4K engagements


"@allgarbled Python programmers are a protected class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1981527298131267867)  2025-10-24T01:04Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements


"@cullend If you care so little about the tools you use that you dont even bother reading the updates or your memory is so bad that you cant remember a few bullet points then Im not interested in working with you sorry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1981586448601211291)  2025-10-24T05:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I sold my last company and am starting a new one I'm hiring for engineering roles 200-400k cash in person in san francisco looking for experienced backend (python/golang) native android & ios engineers. building a small but senior team DM me if interested The bar for technical interviews continues to fall lower and lower I have taken to asking candidates what version of Python they write (so I can ask them some version-specific questions) Then they tell me nonsensical version numbers which is sometimes indicative that they're The bar for technical interviews continues to fall lower and lower"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1981749219607085406)  2025-10-24T15:46Z [----] followers, 58.5K engagements


"@distributionat Some parts here are pretty funny ngl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1985072975214002443)  2025-11-02T19:54Z [----] followers, 47.3K engagements


"Autocorrect on my iphone: i write: humilit6 i expect a fix to: humility (one letter away on the keyboard) nothing happens i write: congrats well done corrected: we'll done it's like my phone is inhabited by a malicious demon determined to make me look dumb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986240640251011307)  2025-11-06T01:14Z [----] followers, 75.8K engagements


"There is a severe and malicious irony in Jackie Fielder using her public platform to demonize Waymo. It ran over a cat. To Fielder this is enough to call for sweeping regulation. But when homeless lifelong felon Troy McAlister used a stolen car to run over and kill pedestrians Hanako Abe and Elizabeth Platt Fielder stayed quiet. A landmark vehicular homicide -- two people dead on the sidewalk -- and neither judgment nor call for regulation from Fielder. As if it never happened -- or as if perhaps that's just fine. What could explain this Thank you @JackieFielder_ #RememberKitKat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1986346098626298126)  2025-11-06T08:13Z [----] followers, 102.3K engagements


"@awhellnawkaren She was already running for public office in [----] though not successfully at the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1986474784264421462)  2025-11-06T16:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"When I was in college at UChicago I dated another student from Appalachia. She once told me she had gotten straight As in high school calculus -- and when she took the AP exam she got a [--] the worst possible grade. (And she was pretty talented she later on pretty well at UChicago's math classes which are not easy) It turned out her school just didn't have the resources -- her high school calculus teacher had just not been qualified or capable of teaching the subject. And so for years her class was getting basically fictitious grades losing time to god-knows-what in the classroom. Of course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1989360237787095435)  2025-11-14T15:50Z [----] followers, 778.5K engagements


"Its the same lesson over and over again: you really cant stop making stuff. Become a service economy theyll be too expensive to compete long term. Financialize manufacturing geographies will grow their own financials. Sell the luxury meme eventually new memes arise. Wealth is sustained by never stopping to make new things. More evidence of European luxury facing increasing competition from home-grown Chinese brands. Bloomberg: "Chinese consumers are losing interest in heritage European and US luxury brands instead favoring homegrown premium labels for their distinctive Eastern aesthetic""  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1990239675521400954)  2025-11-17T02:04Z [----] followers, 71.1K engagements


"@constans I can confirm that this was an explicit change in policy around [----] from Dean Nondorf iirc It was interesting to see as a student: when i was a 1st-year the 4th years had applied before the common app. they had gotten in on a 35% admit rate. When I graduated it was 7.5%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1832487181384061317)  2024-09-07T18:32Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements


"@alitaylor Seeing as Quora has been hot garbage for 5+ years they would be actually kinda justified in shaking things up a bit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1726098742993092887)  2023-11-19T04:43Z [----] followers, 17.1K engagements


"@Biohazard3737 Topologically you are no longer inside the airplane once it has a hole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1745115191258251569)  2024-01-10T16:07Z [----] followers, 53.8K engagements


"@kane Can you imagine that with $3.2M budget the city of San Francisco is able to purchase either (1) one Sea Shadow or (2) just slightly less than two publicly accessible washrooms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1796006330018201717)  2024-05-30T02:30Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements


"One way to interpret Starbucks corporate journey is that starting with the initial value of coffee they have since run gradient descent to determine What The People Really Want the answer to which appears to be some kind of combination of sugar and ice large with a straw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1816979444587811109)  2024-07-26T23:30Z [----] followers, 306.9K engagements


"Online shopping for ultra-cheap manufactured goods exploits your intuition for marginal cost/utility [--] big strainer: $16.49 [--] strainers including [--] of the big size: $16.49 [--] strainers including [--] of the big size: $19.99"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1855854829333258496)  2024-11-11T06:07Z [----] followers, 42.7K engagements


"Napoleon Crossing the Alps Boris Yeltsin visits grocery store in Clear Lake TX leading to the dissolution of the USSR https://t.co/AoXfuuf6Us Boris Yeltsin visits grocery store in Clear Lake TX leading to the dissolution of the USSR https://t.co/AoXfuuf6Us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1904792595299283402)  2025-03-26T07:08Z [----] followers, 13.8K engagements


"US politics (on the extremes) is fueled by two horrible illusions: Left: the idea that the US is racist and oppressive when its probably the most egalitarian country Right: the idea that the US is poor and getting ripped off when it is wildly rich and only getting richer I genuinely believe that America is the least racist country (or at least one of them) which isnt to say were not racist at all but the other countries are worse. A lot of them like to pretend theyre not but then they have nervous breakdowns when [--] Pakistanis move next door I genuinely believe that America is the least racist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1914961959658934590)  2025-04-23T08:38Z [----] followers, 112.3K engagements


"The Snakebite guy is a hero but the story is also sort of damning of our own institutions: why did we have to wait for a single crazy dude to do this Why didnt we do this [--] years ago as an organized project People have jeopardized their lives for far less. A man let himself be bitten hundreds of times by dozens of venomous snakes (after years of injecting escalating sublethal doses of their venom) and now produces antibodies that might be a near-universal treatment for snake bites. This man is a hero & proof you can just do things https://t.co/AG2uHsTLCq A man let himself be bitten hundreds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1918536197435211972)  2025-05-03T05:20Z [----] followers, 23.6K engagements


"Explaining the second point: Amazon is not a dollar store. Orders are pretty expensive but they look cheaper because they raise the quantity of items per order. I go for one strainer end up buying three. I look for an extension cord get a pack of four. Feels cheaper on a per-unit basis but Im still spending way more than intended. Happens all the time. Online shopping for ultra-cheap manufactured goods exploits your intuition for marginal cost/utility [--] big strainer: $16.49 [--] strainers including [--] of the big size: $16.49 [--] strainers including [--] of the big size: $19.99 https://t.co/YUIdeW37wB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1921461123360100701)  2025-05-11T07:03Z [----] followers, 41.2K engagements


"@annaarthoe Name & shame"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1925291872299401489)  2025-05-21T20:45Z [----] followers, 41.2K engagements


"Its kind of telling that at every event in SF I go to there are several Very Smart People From Anthropic Totally outclassing OpenAI and all other labs in that respect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1931453150411804782)  2025-06-07T20:48Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements


"I'm on the website of my Internet Service Provider to get a bill statement. The login interface spinning + redirecting motion took [--] seconds. It just shouldn't. There's no reason for this to -- unless the ISP is fine with wasting their customers' time. What an affront. :("  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1937613663424381198)  2025-06-24T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Who approved this I'm going to lose my mind (Also note how the zoom button is all the way on the right even though the user naturally wants their focus in the center of the screen. Just awful every step of the way.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1937923296672243826)  2025-06-25T17:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Reading about Javier Milei paragraphs like this should be internalized by every public policymaker in the west"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1941904012498133122)  2025-07-06T16:56Z [----] followers, 4M engagements


"@Sam_Dumitriu I love how this entire excerpt already falls flat in the first four words. "AC is quantifiably bad." oh Is it Why don't you quantify it Oh what's that Once quantified under any reasonable set of priors it either (1) doesn't matter or (2) is actually good not bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1944771224237719761)  2025-07-14T14:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@jason_kint Thats hardly any substantial water usage at all. Equivalent to a medium sized farm. If you have a problem with this suggest you first pick it up with the Almond Farming lobby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1947026159448854528)  2025-07-20T20:09Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements


"@willdepue This is because Indian airports are so busy that terrorist attacks on the *airports themselves* happened in the past. Hence all the security before you enter proper. Its disjoint from regular airline security"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1955296177018052611)  2025-08-12T15:51Z [----] followers, 35.9K engagements


"This Mississippi thing is so interesting. The TLDR is that the Bush admin was in favor of phonics and so a bunch of left-ideologues reflexively went to not teach phonics but different/partially discredited language learning styles some of which turned out to be bunk. Red states kept teaching phonics and did well. None of this is surprising all of it totally predictable ahead of time. What a waste in the service of ideology and reflexive contrarianism This may be old news among education professionals but it still hasn't reached the general public. When I mentioned on a public radio talk show"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1972070841895866653)  2025-09-27T22:48Z [----] followers, 264.8K engagements


"@Noahpinion This dude has [-----] posts in almost exactly two years. He is tweeting over 100x a day. He is unemployed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1972850289616286120)  2025-09-30T02:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@growing_daniel Me tweeting from my phone and then from my laptop and then from my phone and then from my laptop for [--] hours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1983060182419870199)  2025-10-28T06:36Z [----] followers, 72.1K engagements


"Restaurants always advertise steel-cut oatmeal does it really matter what metal the oats were cut with Arent they all cut with steel anyway Superfluous words"  
[X Link](https://x.com/johnloeber/status/1990061832476729782)  2025-11-16T14:18Z [----] followers, 26.5K engagements

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