And firing "woke" professionals in the area. bsky.app/profile/kris...
And firing "woke" professionals in the area. bsky.app/profile/kris...
I have a 5-year old and, let me tell you, I am treasuring those moments curled up together watching Bluey. So glad you got those moments with your grandson. I'd check back in a few years. He might come back around to watching together.
Bluey is some of the best media produced in any format in the last 40 years. It's astonishingly good. Sleepytime, S02E29, is impossibly good story telling in 5 minutes. Makes me cry every damn time.
[1980s Maxwell House ad by Moebius.]
The NYT has been pro Nazi since...the Nazis. www.vox.com/2015/2/11/80... They've been on the wrong side of history on almost every single important issue. What's astonishing, is that people keep thinking they're some liberal source. They're the establishment, and the establishment is pro-Nazi.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
The annual cost of keeping someone in prison in CA is over $100k. Imagine if we spent just 80% of that on getting homeless people care, housing, and treatment. But, no, put them in prison and make them suffer while the tax payers pay more for the privilege of making someone suffer.
It went from 148.8 to 148.3. It technically "dropped" but the scale of measurement on the right is barely a single dollar.
ICE horror is a perfect analogy for US policing being *systemic racism*, not interpersonal racism. It also illustrates what some cops mean when they say that *You civilians are way more racist than us cops!*. The cops don't have the vocab to express the point. But they are right. Let me explain.
There is 100% a path to profitablity. The cost of inference has gone down about 1000x in the last couple years.
I wasn't arguing that.
And now it's literally the largest retailer. Point is, profit is not the measure in the starting years. Never has been, never will. Which makes articles like this have very little credibility when they keep harping about profit. The capex for AI is now larger than all retail spending *combined*.
No. It took 9.
And now the retail business is more profitable than Walmart while employing a fraction of the people.
Today, it is the largest retailer in the US, surpassing Walmart, the largest employer. It is the largest cloud computer provider *and* the largest retailer. Profitablity is not the measure. You should know that. Growth is the goal, for now, not profit.
Imagine writing an article in 2000, Amazon has been on business for six years. It's not profitable at all. The Dotcom bust is now in full tilt. Clearly it is doomed. There's just no path to profitablity, you say. 1/
Yeah, doesn't look abnormal. You can see the entire trend going back to what looks like the 1990s here: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU0113
This is entirely the language of abusers. "If you didn't do X I wouldn't have to smash your face, now."
It's the most efficient and cost effective method to address it. Putting it on consumers is wasteful.
Agreed. We should be building massive industrial battery storage.
"We" is Americans, since this article is specifically about a program in NYC.
"out of their own pockets". This is my point: it's a privatization of what was once done by public utilities.
Consumers shouldn't have to deal with decisions around power production or storage. That's *why* we have public utilities.
Putting generators in everyone's home would also provide more flexibility. But we don't do that. Because we came up with public utilities long ago who are supposed to provide power to everyone at reasonable cost. This solution is, again, privatizing something that the utility should be doing.
This sounds like an experiment to see if they can privatize what Con Ed should be doing (managing the grid properly through industrial battery storage) and instead make consumers all buy their own little (less efficient) batteries.
Also, of the Big 5, the buffalo is the most dangerous. It's literally known as "The Black Death" and "The Widowmaker". They will hunt you down for miles and miles. They've been known to attack hunters they saw years ago. They gore you to death then literally peel your face off with their tongues.
Fair enough.
So, you'd rather we went back to physical media, where it requires factories to manufacturer the media and the packaging, and then the packaging and media get thrown out and are made of hard plastic that lasts centuries in landfills?
Netflix accounts for far more energy and water consumption that AI. Don't meat for a week and you basically covered an individual's years worth of AI. andymasley.substack.com/p/individual...
If you think AI is using drinking water and energy, wait till you hear about...Netflix. andymasley.substack.com/p/individual...
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I literally have to hide the Nutella from my partner or she'll eat it entirely, with a spoon, huddled in a dark corner.
They're going to deport everyone who knows how to build.
Who is going to build the McMansions when they're done?
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Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.
"Clerks" but "Stormtroopers". Has to include a scene on the Death Star with two Stormtroopers discussing the politics of two retail clerks working at Jabba's palace on Tatooine and how they are or are not complicit on the activities there.
Looking good!
So.... they're admitting gender dysphoria is a thing?
Absolutely not. Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. đ¤ˇđżââď¸ Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score. Police don't kill too many Black kids." Score: Not toxic.đ¤Śđżââď¸ "Police kill too many Black kids. Score: 80.28% toxic.đŽ
Swalwell says the House Judiciary republicans just voted to allow Trump to deport US Citizens. From IG:
We went so many times over a single year the servers knew our order when came in. We came back one time and the place was gone. We were devastated. Then we found it had moved down the street. Three months later we came back and it was gone. Gone forever. Along with the greatest ramen ever. 2/
In a ramen place in Bangkok's Japanese section on Thong Lor street, they served a Tom Yum Seafood Ramen. Squid. Shrimp. Deep rich and spicy Tom Yum broth. Spicy so you sweat but not too spicy so it was uncomfortable. 1/
Hopefully it's this guy. Mostly...okay, entirely because of his name. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbat...
He appointed a majority of the existing cardinals and created something like a dozen new positions, as well. Likely they'll elect a progressive Pope.
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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops arenât marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
You didn't watch the video.
I also posted an article with the same information, if, for some reason, the medium matters, rather than the person providing the information and their expertise.
đ¨ How are DOGE cuts impacting your community? Under Musk's leadership, DOGE has implemented sweeping reductions in grants, contracts, and leases. Hereâs a new tool I built that identifies grant and lease terminations by congressional district.
She literally says they're from Oklo, a company working on how to recycle nuclear waste. They were on the same tour as her so she decided to interview them. I also posted a CNBC article on the same subject that generally agrees with their statement.
She's interviewing nuclear experts. For the video.
Here's a news article then. www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/n...
True. And the waste already exists so we should use it up and then we don't need to store it anymore!
We can power the entire US for 150 years using just the existing nuclear waste we're storing. youtu.be/IzQ3gFRj0Bc?...
I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. đť
Reminds me of the Peacock Room story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pea...
*up
Future are you a bit from 5% now. So not quite as bad. But just give it a few days. The damage has only started.
It's really -13% to date. But what's a percent or two among friends?
Hong Kong market had to put in circuit breakers today. We hit -20% tomorrow (cumulative since tariffs) if the futures markets are correct. Reciprocal tariffs have yet to be put in effect in many places. If the Mad King keeps it up, we're cooked.
"In 1929, the US stock market lost over 20% of its value in two days - and 50% within three weeks. That was the famous Wall Street Crash that ushered in the great depression of the 1930s." We're well on our way. Asia markets just took a massive hit. US futures are showing another -5%.
It's literally from an LLM: www.theverge.com/news/642620/...
First official electric power data release of 2025 is out, and US solar production continues to grow rapidly. It's up 43% from this time last year, nearing summer-2022 levels in winter of 2025
Becoming a âthank you for your serviceâ guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism
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You know, I'm just a lowly tech comms flack, but there seems to be one faction of Dems being screamed at/in hiding, and one faction pulling crowds like this. Maybe the latter should be in charge?
Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. đ§ľ
But please what?
The guy killed about half a million people. Not sure it's possible to overreact to that? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualt...
In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like âyouâre just virtue signaling, youâre just saying you have virtue, youâre just treating virtue like itâs a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being goodâ
But even if transphobia didn't veer into anti-Black racism, I'd still fight against it. Because transphobia is wrong. And because I don't care what "the majority of Americans" think about a topic. I care what I think about a topic. And if 160 million of you gang up on 17 kids? I'm with the kids.
The United States is evolving into an AI-controlled "Network State," says a respected military analyst. Get ready for increased turmoil and "bursts of authoritarianism." www.thenerdreich.com/network-stat...
It's not accurate. The prices are still the first image. www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/w...
Imagine being a teenage girl now. Your male peers are all watching Andrew Tate and doing Nazi salutes and every week the most prestigious magazines in the world run a piece about how itâs a social emergency that youâre not having babies in the 10th grade.
Trump can pardon anyone who commits a Federal crime. He can blanket pardon his entire Administration. There aren't laws any more because his party won't impeach him. The system is beyond broken.
Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three yearsâfar, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!
Also, SpaceX's safety record for actual orbital delivery is the best of any space organization in history. Much better than NASA. See: arstechnica.com/science/2022... Destructive testing is part of it's development process. They *expect* to lose rockets when testing.
It saves money versus the previous and current alternatives. We used to rely on the Russians for orbital launches. We now have a domestic, cheaper alternative. When you buy apples from a new vendor that are cheaper than your old vendor you are saving money.
Elon is terrible. But, SpaceX is literally saving the US government money. Their cost per kilo to orbit is the best of any space organization any time, any where. Those are contracts, not subsidies. And the US is getting a hell of a deal on orbital flights with SpaceX.
New, at Can We Still Govern? Defenders of draconian federal cuts to research say that university endowments can cover the losses. @epopppp.bsky.social explains why this won't work. 𧾠donmoynihan.substack.com/p/no-univers...
Computers: famously known for not being able to do many things quickly.
Now that musk is saying heâs doing the DOGE stuff âbecause the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacksâ maybe we donât have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
Good thread on this for tech people (or anyone!) to understand: bsky.app/profile/mekk...
To be fair to Musk -- but really SpaceX: only in testing. Destructive testing is part of their process. SpaceX has the best safety record for actual launches of any space organization. See: arstechnica.com/science/2022...
This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford. Iâve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elonâs attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
ââŚyou must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone â whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise â to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.â
Unnoticed, as far as I can tell, amidst the other madness news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/bo...
In 2022, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher" envisioned a second Trump administration led by a "CEO" who would be tasked with destroying the government. He wrote down a blueprint. Welcome to the New Reality. www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
Will Bunch 
