2025-04-18

I am finding Google’s Gemini 2.5 model to be really strong in Cursor. Essentially equal to Claude 3.7.
Heard that tomorrow is some sort of “national protest day”. Haven’t heard a specific issue being discussed, but there is certainly lots to be concerned/upset about these days. My lack of awareness of a specific issue made me think about protest, in general, in a democratic society. I feel like protest is good/very healthy as a social thing to do. In the US it seems like the norms around it are to only protest for the most extreme crises. That’s obv a good time to have a protest. But I can’t help feeling that this approach of “only in a crisis” is kind of bad social/political hygiene. I think we would be much better off socially/politically if we treated protest like we treat going to the gym: something that you may not love doing but you do regularly because it’s important and foundational to support other things you do enjoy. Of course, the analogy is a bit tough (or maybe especially appropriate) in the US because so many people also don’t seem to go the gym either. But, I do think few people look at going to the gym as “something to do only in an emergency,” so if we could at least move in the direction of “this is a regular hygiene activity that is part of living a good life” that would be a win.t is part of living a good life” that would be a win.

April 18, 2025