Zander
@zander13.bsky.social
Director of long-term futures at Automattic. Builder of BattleBots, flame throwers, The 10,000 Year Clock and communities. Formerly at Long Now. More at https://rosefutures.com/
Years ago in a conversation with Black Swan author @nntaleb I asked how he would invest for the long-term (eg: retirement). He said to put 80% in the safest options (like t-bills & bonds), and 20% in speculative stocks. You can see why this is smart in this comparison...
April 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Years ago in a conversation with Black Swan author @nntaleb I asked how he would invest for the long-term (eg: retirement). He said to put 80% in the safest options (like t-bills & bonds), and 20% in speculative stocks. You can see why this is smart in this comparison...
The new WordPress AI site builder is now out and you can try it for free! Very cool way to rapidly prototype new site designs through a conversational interface. wordpress.com/ai-website-b...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The new WordPress AI site builder is now out and you can try it for free! Very cool way to rapidly prototype new site designs through a conversational interface. wordpress.com/ai-website-b...
Hey Friends, I am officially on a support rotation at @wordpress.com (we all do an annual week of support to connect with customers). If you have a site you have wanted to update, migrate or get going I can offer free migrations and potential discounts. wordpress.com/support/impo...
March 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hey Friends, I am officially on a support rotation at @wordpress.com (we all do an annual week of support to connect with customers). If you have a site you have wanted to update, migrate or get going I can offer free migrations and potential discounts. wordpress.com/support/impo...
I just the last message sent from the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost Lunar Lander 😢
March 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I just the last message sent from the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost Lunar Lander 😢
A reminder that the legal use of the autopen by the president has already passed legal tests. Interestingly, this decision has been taken down from the DOJ website, but I found a copy on the @waybackmachine.bsky.social @archive.org
web.archive.org/web/20110228...
web.archive.org/web/20110228...
March 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A reminder that the legal use of the autopen by the president has already passed legal tests. Interestingly, this decision has been taken down from the DOJ website, but I found a copy on the @waybackmachine.bsky.social @archive.org
web.archive.org/web/20110228...
web.archive.org/web/20110228...
Today I learned that a leading theory about our entire cosmological existence is that everything we perceive as the universe is all within a black hole, and that recent Webb telescope observations support this...
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind
"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole."
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March 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Today I learned that a leading theory about our entire cosmological existence is that everything we perceive as the universe is all within a black hole, and that recent Webb telescope observations support this...
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
Bamboo factory and the houses and furniture built by the Green Village outside of Ubud Bali.
March 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Bamboo factory and the houses and furniture built by the Green Village outside of Ubud Bali.
It's going to get worse, before it gets even worse... Could not have happened to a nicer guy🤣
March 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It's going to get worse, before it gets even worse... Could not have happened to a nicer guy🤣
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
March 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
I am living in fear that the cuts at the NOAA will reach the network of water level measurement systems that are used to predict flooding and tidal waves. We have over 150 years of tide days at this station alone. We are shooting ourselves in the face.
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome....
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome....
March 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I am living in fear that the cuts at the NOAA will reach the network of water level measurement systems that are used to predict flooding and tidal waves. We have over 150 years of tide days at this station alone. We are shooting ourselves in the face.
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome....
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome....
In 1994 Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal with assurances from the US, UK, France, China and Russia that we would all protect their sovereignty. We are now proving to the world (Iran/N Korea) that they should for sure build and deploy nukes...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia
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March 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
In 1994 Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal with assurances from the US, UK, France, China and Russia that we would all protect their sovereignty. We are now proving to the world (Iran/N Korea) that they should for sure build and deploy nukes...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
So what our country is saying is that if the US was invaded by Russia, we should cede all land and resources in order to stop the invasion, and not expect any help from the rest of the world?
March 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
So what our country is saying is that if the US was invaded by Russia, we should cede all land and resources in order to stop the invasion, and not expect any help from the rest of the world?
I wonder what 5 bullet points Elon is emailing his board and shareholders at Tesla this week?
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I wonder what 5 bullet points Elon is emailing his board and shareholders at Tesla this week?
For those of you wondering about the results, China soundly beat France with their performance at tonight's 12th annual International Pyromusical Competition in Manila. Hard to compete with the inventors of gunpowder i guess...
February 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For those of you wondering about the results, China soundly beat France with their performance at tonight's 12th annual International Pyromusical Competition in Manila. Hard to compete with the inventors of gunpowder i guess...
Imagine if the Internet was being invented by DARPA today, DOGE would shut it down. The $9m Reuters contract @elonmusk is raging about is with their research division (not news) in order to learn how to defend our country from info attacks. www.highergov.com/contract-opp...
February 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Imagine if the Internet was being invented by DARPA today, DOGE would shut it down. The $9m Reuters contract @elonmusk is raging about is with their research division (not news) in order to learn how to defend our country from info attacks. www.highergov.com/contract-opp...
This is what I've been working on with Automattic and WordPress. Love to hear your thoughts!
Websites vanish, links break, platforms disappear, etc etc etc. But what if we told you yours doesn’t have to?
Lock in your site or domain for 100 years—no stress, no surprises, just a legacy that lasts.
Lock in your site or domain for 100 years—no stress, no surprises, just a legacy that lasts.
February 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is what I've been working on with Automattic and WordPress. Love to hear your thoughts!
So let me get this straight.The US based AI companies whose tools are entirely based on other people's creative work (who they never paid). Are now throwing a fit because they think DeepSeek stole their intellectual property causing them to lose value in the marketplace.That must be so bad for them.
January 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
So let me get this straight.The US based AI companies whose tools are entirely based on other people's creative work (who they never paid). Are now throwing a fit because they think DeepSeek stole their intellectual property causing them to lose value in the marketplace.That must be so bad for them.
"Tesla’s profitability at its core cars division fell to its lowest level in five years in the fourth 1/4" -Forbes
So it begins. This is the 1/4 that all the liberals that used to be his customers stopped buying @Tesla. If they get written out of the tax rebate, that will be it
So it begins. This is the 1/4 that all the liberals that used to be his customers stopped buying @Tesla. If they get written out of the tax rebate, that will be it
January 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"Tesla’s profitability at its core cars division fell to its lowest level in five years in the fourth 1/4" -Forbes
So it begins. This is the 1/4 that all the liberals that used to be his customers stopped buying @Tesla. If they get written out of the tax rebate, that will be it
So it begins. This is the 1/4 that all the liberals that used to be his customers stopped buying @Tesla. If they get written out of the tax rebate, that will be it
If we ever connect with the other timelines it is going to be so embarrassing to be from this one...
January 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If we ever connect with the other timelines it is going to be so embarrassing to be from this one...
Thank you David Lynch. Seeing Dune at 12 right after reading the books, my mom's first date with my step dad was to Eraserhead, & that time you arranged for me & some friends to hang out at the amazing club you designed in Paris, Silencio. All were life changing.
-Rest In Power
-Rest In Power
January 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Thank you David Lynch. Seeing Dune at 12 right after reading the books, my mom's first date with my step dad was to Eraserhead, & that time you arranged for me & some friends to hang out at the amazing club you designed in Paris, Silencio. All were life changing.
-Rest In Power
-Rest In Power
My thoughts on the next 25 years. An Emergence.
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The Emergence
I predict this year as an emergence. We stand at a moment of many contradictions. We have vast access to information, resources, truth, and…
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January 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My thoughts on the next 25 years. An Emergence.
medium.com/@zander_long...
medium.com/@zander_long...
My heart goes out to those in the fire. We should all be thankful of the amazing infrastructure and humans that make fighting these fires possible. Do not believe what is being said about the refusal to fill reservoirs. That undermines our own heros...
www.king5.com/article/news...
www.king5.com/article/news...
No, Los Angeles didn’t refuse to fill water reservoirs prior to fires
Firefighters were experiencing water shortages from hydrants because L.A.'s tanks couldn't be refilled as fast as water was being used.
www.king5.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
My heart goes out to those in the fire. We should all be thankful of the amazing infrastructure and humans that make fighting these fires possible. Do not believe what is being said about the refusal to fill reservoirs. That undermines our own heros...
www.king5.com/article/news...
www.king5.com/article/news...
My end of the quarter century wrap up on predictions, how we make them and how accurate they are. Enjoy: medium.com/p/c9550631d186
2025: Who predicted this?
Tis the season to look over past predictions to see how we got here, and this year being a nice quarter century, inspired me to look back…
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January 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My end of the quarter century wrap up on predictions, how we make them and how accurate they are. Enjoy: medium.com/p/c9550631d186
Wow, we now have flying cars. Except their flight is not evenly distributed yet... youtu.be/QKyHKdpt5iw?...
Self Driving BYD Yangwang U9 Jumping Over Potholes and Nail Strips
YouTube video by DPCcars
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January 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wow, we now have flying cars. Except their flight is not evenly distributed yet... youtu.be/QKyHKdpt5iw?...
1) I thought today might be a good day to review the Jan 6th Capitol Attack.
- 1 Officer killed, 4 committed suicide immediately after - 174 Officers injured, 15 hospitalized
- 1 rioter shot, 1 died of a drug overdose, 2 more died from natural causes.
(contd)
- 1 Officer killed, 4 committed suicide immediately after - 174 Officers injured, 15 hospitalized
- 1 rioter shot, 1 died of a drug overdose, 2 more died from natural causes.
(contd)
January 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
1) I thought today might be a good day to review the Jan 6th Capitol Attack.
- 1 Officer killed, 4 committed suicide immediately after - 174 Officers injured, 15 hospitalized
- 1 rioter shot, 1 died of a drug overdose, 2 more died from natural causes.
(contd)
- 1 Officer killed, 4 committed suicide immediately after - 174 Officers injured, 15 hospitalized
- 1 rioter shot, 1 died of a drug overdose, 2 more died from natural causes.
(contd)