Looking out into the vastness of our light cone thinking hey, life who needs life, what is valuable is a big clump of the 6th and 13th most common elements in the universe

Imagine a small asteroid made of cocaine. The street value of the cocaine asteroid is 10 quintillion dollars. The cocaine asteroid reaches earth. Is it worth 10 quintillion dollars? No. Musk is definitely thinking of asteroids worth quintillions of dollars with that answer.

This is a much better put version of the main concern I have with anti-ai discourse. We will probably have a market bubble burst with a year or two but that doesnt mean the improvements will stop.

The guy should write.

Montana in Yellowstone: The governor is a fifth generation Montana rancher Montana in the real world: The governor is an east coast tech guy born in California who sometimes wears a cowboy hat.

I was on the beach this morning and a guy said "Trump has a course in Scotland?" and his friend said "I don't care for him politically, but he has the most beautiful properties. Only guy not to lose money on Atlantic City."

The common law has always held that you must be able to identify the specific bat that bit you in order to recover.

Going through my untitled google docs to name or discard, one consisted of notes on a foot stretch, named it foot notes, rushed here to tell you that.

chat, should the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrify me?

Trump isn't capable of being president but neither is Biden. The President needs to be utterly lucid, able to consider nuclear war in a few minute window at any arbitrary moment. They can't have bad moments. Before the two of them we'd never elected anyone past 73. He wasn't there at the end either.

What is the point of being afraid to state a clear fact?

A particularly dumb future just occured to me: John Roberts retiring at the opening of a dem presidency. Discourse on how this magnanimous move should mean no packing the now 5-4 court.

There are four votes on the supreme court for birthright citizenship not being a constitutional guarantee.

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

damn it would suck if someone who had committed wrongdoing were making vital decisions concerning the Welfare of the United States

So, Apple DOESN’T advertise, BUT they just yesterday put up a YouTube video featuring “1 Hour of Widows Bay ambience (Fog, Coastal Winds and Bells)” This is great and someone better have gotten a raise for this idea. #widowsbay https://youtu.be/OUfX45m5UBU

The Soviets stopped drilling at the Kola Superdeep Borehole when they translated seismic readings into morse that read THE GORGE HORROR MILITARY ROM COM VALENTINES DAY 2025

I’ve been making this pitch repeatedly but I think the White House post-Trump should - like Buckingham Palace - be relegated to ceremonial use and a new office-slash-residence that’s a better fit for its purpose should be built. (I do concede we need both together for 3am phone call purposes)

Bio of a local party official up for election yesterday included opening the NYPD's office in Singapore. Apparently closed it recently, maybe in the last year.

I can make art

World Cup games are magical. Watching sport in a a stadium with no gambling ads? I thought that was impossible.

FIFA no outside ad policy can lead to funny. Always wondered who owned the concept of a hot dog, turns out to be a family.

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

Got to say William Vaughan killed his two lines in Voicemails for Isabelle, asking for a burrito for his daughter and then saying "you taught her hate"

Ten hours, about the fastest I have seen the FT close comments on a story that previously allowed them.

Callum Turner is 6ft 1 3⁄4 . The exact height of Dalton, well less than an inch of difference from Connery and Lazenby (both 6ft 2) and Moore (6 feet 1 ¼). Daniel Craig (5ft 10) is the outlier

The Sandbaggers, The Americans, why would you ever want to be done with perfection?

Just a reminder of what the Board of Peace is

We start losing daylight in 3 days.

When its one of the most powerful people on Earth, its "a source close to ____." When its some schmuck who faces dire consequences, its "a 44 year old with this first name who lives four miles from a specific place."

Finding it fascinating this video is at 4.5k views. Most listeners to the The Town probably listening to podcast feeds but still, guy who draws millions being interviewed, I would expect tems of thousands of random views. Tap on a clip to paste it in the text box. Internet inertia very odd.

Glassdoor recommended jobs for me include "van driver" and "FBI Special Agent: Data Science & Intelligence Expertise"

I had an idea way back when Google's LLM was named Bard: The Bard is Bard, a project with a human DM and an entire LLM party. Obviously went nowhere but I chuckled at the title several times.

"he'll just continue making products you'll use and you can't live without." One of many electric car companies? The 17th best AI model? Space internet that's useful if you live in a very particular kind of place? Tunnels for cars?

Just heard LL Cool J say "New City, Familiar Universe" about NCIS: New York. Just over 30 years ago NBC cancelled JAG after one season and here we are with a familair universe.

Tremendously gauche to drive an aston martin suv with a college license plate holder.

A trillionaire, yes, but also 19 people* worth more than a hundred billion. Twenty years ago, the richest person on Earth was Bill Gates, with 50 billion. By inflation that would be about 84 billion today. *actually 20 but this is the Bloomberg billionaire index so it is missing one guy.

This could be so much fun on threads

I heard Sean Evans say that Chicago has the best skyline on Earth but how can it possibly compete with New York City?

Found a gotcha on reddit, does not work

Thought of a bit where I rank all the Man on Fire adaptations and put Max Payne 3 in second place (after the originsl novel) but the truth is they are all great, all the men on fire

Suddenly saw a beautiful potential future: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey leads to a Greek Gods craze and somehow Kaos (one of the pefect cancelled one season tv shows) gets renewed

Its fun watching Trump supporters pointing out how releasing frozen Iranian assets is different from paying Iran money. Having a memory is a curse.

- Pinbacker, “Sunshine” (2007)

Cosmic horror is great because it just kinda invents itself. Spend a bit too long thinking about the sun and you realize it’s a radioactive death ball larger than your mind has capacity to comprehend, so inherently dangerous that looking directly at it will harm you, and it’s just sitting there.

Absolutely incredible quote. I don't agree but what a powerful thing to say at a town meeting.

Last night I walked by a guy, "6, 7, 8, this shirt has 8 tags bro," without skipping a beat the friend says "that's how they track you"

To really understand the world, you have to read what capital reads