Zakaria Kortam

Republicans are going to get smoked these midterms. And they did everything to deserve it. This is what they get for focusing on rubbish identity politics and sucking up to Israel over making tangible and logical policy proposals. What happened to the party of facts & logic?

Saw Steve Hilton and Xavier Becerra Billboards clashing in Santa Clara. This might actually be the best chance that a Republican has had in over 16 years. If you literally have Republicans campaigning in the Bay Area and Democrats being threatened enough to put counter-billboards, then it's definitely a tight race, which is crazy for California.

There is a strange habit forming in technology right now. Every product seems to need AI, whether or not anyone using it has asked for it. A new button appears in a familiar interface. A search bar becomes a chatbot. Something that used to take one tap now asks you to have a conversation. We have seen this with platforms like Instagram, where Meta AI has found its way into places that worked perfectly well without it. None of these additions are necessarily bad on their own. The problem is that they often seem to exist because the technology is available, rather than because there was something worth fixing. This gets the order of good product design backwards. You are supposed to start with a problem, understand why it matters, and then find the simplest way to solve it. Instead, we are watching companies start with a solution and go looking for somewhere to put it. AI becomes the requirement, and the user's actual needs become something to work around. But not every interaction needs to be intelligent. Sometimes a search needs to return a result. Sometimes a button needs to do exactly what it says. Adding another layer of technology to an experience does not automatically make that experience better. It can just make something simple feel unnecessarily complicated. None of this is an argument against AI. There are genuinely useful things it can do, including things that would have been difficult to imagine a few years ago. But that potential is exactly why it deserves more thought than being placed into every available corner of a product. The question should never be where we can fit AI. It should be whether the person on the other side actually benefits from it being there. Good technology earns its place by making something easier, clearer, or more useful. And sometimes the most thoughtful decision a team can make is to leave something exactly as it was.

Today, Tesla and SpaceX are going to re-invent the Car.

The new Tesla Roadster is going to be insane!

Why has X become so cringe bruh

It's so cringe seeing all the Islamophobes blame Muslims for the protests in France. It's like they've never seen a French protest before. The French have always been passionate and intense protestors.

This whole situation makes 0 sense. Oman is literally the chillest country in the region. Yet all of a sudden you have an Omani co-pilot who goes haywire and stabs his pilot and tries to kill everyone onboard a flight to Israel? Doesn't add up

I like how all the Islamophobes are focusing on the pilot and ignoring the fact that Saudi Arabia literally gave hundreds of Israelis (who are normally banned from entering Saudi) a place to land, refuge, and free treatment. Muslims literally saved their lives.

Honest thoughts only. What do you guys think about Surf?

The merger between big tech and big government is becoming quite interesting.

We’ve recently made some significant performance improvements. While Surf is still web-based, we’re working to make it as fast as possible, close to native speeds. In the meantime, we’re making progress on the Surf Mobile App for iOS and Android.

Thank you all for bearing with us on Web. Surf Mobile App coming soon 👻

Over the past two days, I've been binge watching every Apple keynote since 1984. In person events are really irreplaceable. Magic has been lost with the switch to prerecorded videos.

It's super cool btw

Working on some really big intelligence improvements to Surf. You will all hopefully be noticing much smarter and more personal touches in every Surf Vision interaction.

Went through TSA at San Diego Airport Terminal 1. Their Full Body scanners were a complete joke. I followed the instructions of TSA agents multiple times. They claimed it should have worked, but it simply didn't. My possessions were all deemed completely clear. I had nothing in my pockets and not an ounce of metal on me. But yet, they decided to pull me to the side, take my shoes off for separate scanning, make me stand there and wait for my shoes as a TSA agent glued their eyes on me, then pull me completely aside and do a full extensive 5 to 10 minute pat down of every inch of my body to find that I was 100 percent clear. I understand being careful, but it's not my fault that their technology is dysfunctional and that they made poor choices about what scanners to use.

Guys, the gas prices are absolutely insane. Holy

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