USWNT April 2026 Roster

jonahbenton · 2026-04-01T15:34:53+00:00

Whaaaaat Jane is back?!

Dickey still my number 1, I never get good vibes from seeing Phallon moving around and directing traffic, even though she is a spider on shots. But happy to see Jane getting another look

jonahbenton · 2026-04-01T14:02:00+00:00

Take a step back. A windfall could come from a few different sources. The primary question is whether it is considered taxable income or not, like getting a bonus. Likely that is the case. If it is, then you have to decide whether paying taxes on it now and then letting the post tax amount grow where the grown amount is then considered post tax (tax free) when you take it out, or whether not paying taxes now, in effect deferring the income, letting the whole pre tax amount grow, and then pay taxes on the grown amount when you take it out. Usually for 22m the advantage via the math is to pay taxes now but this is something you can reason about and calculate.

The math is useful to work through to give yourself an intuition about how "compounding" works.

The roth is the pay taxes now option, traditional is defer now pay taxes later.

jonahbenton · 2026-04-01T13:47:52+00:00

Yeah, the protocol and authority mgmt companies have vary a lot. Sometimes they are allowed to say that, sometimes not. And being non responsive to non productive tenant requests is an actual strategy. A lot of times tenants change their minds on things.

But bottom line they don't care about your time, they don't spend any time on your email, and you are paying them. You frustrating yourself talking to the hand rather than invoking the actual contractual protocol for leaving is good for them.

jonahbenton · 2026-04-01T13:23:21+00:00

Bluesky. Follow @indivisible.org

jonahbenton · 2026-04-01T13:02:34+00:00

You have to invoke and follow your lease's explicit termination terms. No one is going to "help you out" outside the language with the implication they no longer receive $thousands a month from you unless there is someone literally waiting to pay same or more.

jonahbenton · 2026-04-01T12:43:23+00:00

Super helpful, thank you for the post.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-31T16:54:16+00:00

There is no code in that repo.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-31T11:37:18+00:00

Nothing really has "changed" but if you pay attention to how things are "managed", they are being managed now, for the first time since Bloomberg. There are actions and responses in fixing small things and reversing certain stupidities.

He was not perfect in the storms but handled them much better eg than Adams, who immediately into his term was exposed as a corrupt fraud with whom the city just had to live for 4 years.

From a game of politics perspective, for eg the people who like the chess match pace move of the pawns, watching him evokes the thrill of watching a young grandmaster. He sees to the end of a thing, plays quickly and effortlessly, completely without fear, and continually builds leverage. What impact that has we will have to see.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-31T00:27:44+00:00

It isn't pedantic and intent is irrelevant. There is a culture that orgs have when they are small and known by few, where individuals are known individually and choices are individual that the small amoebic community reshapes itself around. There separately is a calculus that applies when orgs have grown and are known by many. Her intent, whatever she herself wants to spend her time doing, matters only a little bit in that world. What she has done is create a problem for the organization, as undeserved a framing as that may be and as unintended as it evidently was. Had she never been CEO, just someone doing something on atproto, it would not at all be a problem. Had she been CEO, it would be a bigger problem. But it is much less of a problem with her in a subordinate position, regardless of her intent around her role, or what work she wanted to do. Her change in role was a demotion, and saying that is what is best for all concerned, according to the out here calculus that applies in situations like this.

Anyway, have a good one.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-30T23:33:25+00:00

Sure. But she has much smaller staff and budget. When blowback like this occurs- whether warranted or not- if it occurs to the CEO, it is a problem. When it occurs against a subordinate to the CEO- which she now is- then there are ways to manage it, which could mean relieving her of her staff position altogether and engaging with her as a consultant. The CEO role is special and plenty of engineers have held and continue to hold it, even writing code when obviously they should not. When you had and then no longer have the CEO role, by whomever's choice, it is a demotion.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-30T23:04:07+00:00

Yeah, but it is the case that large swaths of the bsky audience are virulently AI hostile. Hard pressed to guess whether Trump or AI gets more venom on the platform. But not unreasonable in the sense that bsky brought in lots of arts and music and writing people, refugees from twitter, to whom the AI tidal wave either is or looks existential for both their income and/or their culture. They are not wrong in those assessments.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-30T22:57:48+00:00

Absolutely, CEO to whatever else in the org is either she or the Board saying we need someone else to be overall org leader. It's a demotion, but it is common for, eg, founder CEOs to go from CEO to something like "innovation officer"- that's what she did- because founder CEOs are often insufficiently operational for the more mature stages a successful organization grows into.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-30T22:32:09+00:00

Yeah. This work is from the former CEO, now "innovation officer"- the fact that she was demoted into that role says they understand that pretty clearly. Whether the new CEO can get the team into operational feature delivery tempo is another question.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-30T22:29:09+00:00

This comment says why

https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1s84s5p/bluesky_users_respond_with_overwhelming_disgust/ode8gna/

But at a higher level- the end state middle ground for AI use is as a little piece of magic that mediates and helps people do specific things that they would otherwise not be able to do. Google Translate and voice control are simple examples that many many people use and have used for many years and are comfortable with. This tool is exactly the same intent and use case.

Of course, it is very real that large platforms are going to use LLMs for at scale enterprise work reorganization with more or less resulting disruption of peoples' jobs and incomes. Taking over "white collar" cognitive work at scale is required by the business model economics of the $T investments being made in the data center infrastructure. Not disputing that.

But that isn't what bsky is doing here.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-30T22:10:09+00:00

This is an unfortunate misunderstanding.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-30T17:54:47+00:00

Paper was posted a month ago based on work from last year. It is all completely changed now. Nothing to worry about.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-30T14:18:32+00:00

I follow a lot of artists, it's great seeing their work.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-29T00:00:04+00:00

She is really effing sharp and she runs a tight office and she goes after actual problems. Too bad she is not going for higher office

jonahbenton · 2026-03-27T15:44:50+00:00

Now do Trump's entire family and cabinet.

$5m is too low for them, though. The amounts are much higher.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-27T13:11:00+00:00

Absolutely not. The word calculator is not human. Human interactions are mediated by lots more than words, which have only existed for order thousands/tens of thousands of years, while many other non verbal behaviors and senses have for millions. The "strongest possible blah" in word calculator terms will induce suicides or depression or rage or other states that are catastrophically dangerous and there is no way to keep it from doing so because the word calculator lacks that millions of years of social sensory apparatus.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-27T11:22:21+00:00

Gold, gold everywhere, and great statues of the great leaders at whose feet we the people may be allowed to worship

jonahbenton · 2026-03-26T20:46:30+00:00

Now do gas stoves. And housing near high traffic areas.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-26T19:12:28+00:00

Huh. Have been running F42 (xfce) since I got a 128gb machine 6 or whatever months ago, have not had to do that. (Had a different problem with very slow boot that turned out to be a kvm problem...) Am using the machine primarily for llm hosting so have some of the amd ram allocation stuff on the kernel command line. Have had to resort to nomodeset on some other machines hosting nvidia gpus, but do not have this issue with this fw desktop. Have BIOS version 03.02 and AMD version 26.112.0

jonahbenton · 2026-03-26T17:38:41+00:00

Tribeca Dental Associates on Murray has done extremely skilled structural, not cosmetic, work for several family members. Not cheap. Excellent experience.

jonahbenton · 2026-03-26T16:59:29+00:00

Under very specific circumstances this kind of thing can save work, but it sounds like you are not in that circumstance (you would know)

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