Honestly, even Americans are better off if European governments starting pushing European tech, because it'll create healthy competition for + give us more alternatives to our own horrible tech companies

All 3 host countries getting to the Round of 16 but no farther seems like kind of a tidy result

There we go, here's hoping he handles it gracefully and keeps his supporters on side for the new person

Fable take 2 insights: - this is very good at finding subtle bounds check errors - I have a lot of subtle bounds check errors - I should really get my remaining C code over to Rust or something

Few know this but almost all the economic news coming out of China for the past half decade -- Domestic Growth Slowdown! EVs! Solar! Exports! China Shock 2.0 etc etc -- is about this dramatic policy driven gear-shift of the domestic economy out of the property sector.

NYC (seemingly) avoiding weather cancellations while DC faces the full brunt of them is a sign of God’s favor

Pretty long line for fireworks but it’s orderly and moving briskly

OK so I've been trying Fable again a bit and basically the safeguards are severe enough that it's pretty much useless for bug audits; something as innocuous as 'finding obscure buffer overflows in my own string functions' sets it off almost instantly.

RIP Victor Mair - certainly one of the biggest influences on Pleco even though I never had the privilege of meeting him in person

just heard on twitter that Victor Mair, the sinologist has died. x.com/AndrewSethMe...

Apple v. Epic seems like it's meant to resolve a circuit split about civil contempt rather than weigh in on the merits - they pointedly skip the antitrust question - so while Apple may get to avoid sanctions for their behavior, they probably can't stop YGR from imposing restrictions on link pricing

Honestly, an Alito retirement would be good news because it would make it impossible for limp centrists to pretend that the court might be fixed through the normal process of filling vacancies; the *only* path forward at that point is court packing

Sea beams glittering in the sun near the Brandenberg Gate

I can't claim to have that deep an understanding of Indian politics, but I have a hard time believing that an American company firing off missives implying a state regulator is stupid + didn't do its research properly is going to play well

Evian CEO warns potable tap water is on a "very dangerous path"

We should seriously start taxing private school tuition in the US, if you can afford to pay Dalton $70k/year you can chip in another $10k or $20k to help public schools hire more teachers

If you can build it with prompts than any other idiot can also build it with prompts and it’s not a real meaningful thing

We should switch to base-16 and celebrate America's 100th birthday in 2032.

“What if socialists were good at marketing and not low-key racist” is an idea that has curiously never been tried in this country before

So my daughter's drama teacher uses clever riddles to hint at the name of the musical this year, I ran them through the three big AIs 6 months ago and it was 0 for 3, tried again and Gemini got it (it was partially incorrect on the decoding but filled in the blanks correctly), other two not at all

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

I knew this would collapse eventually but I didn't believe it would be so satisfyingly fast; I thought we were going to have to endure a year or two of Elon being a trillionaire and then a double-trillionaire and here's how much richer you'd be if you bought SpaceX at the IPO and so on

Changed my password to JJ Abrams and it was rejected because I’d already used it before

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)

This is at least as ominous a sign for OpenAI / Anthropic / Nvidia as companies cutting their AI spend

Guys it's not going to be a lucrative market if you all come in and start bludgeoning each other to death during the limited window before open-weight models are good enough

Having experienced a major earthquake myself (Christchurch, NZ in 2011) I don't think videos quite do justice to how horrifyingly *weird* it all is; the vibration underneath you and the structural failures around you don't even exactly seem connected, it feels like the world is shattering

“Untitled Goose Game but it’s set at the Trump White House” would sell a bajillion copies

Chevalier winning is another data point in support of the idea that Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Reddit Posts From Years Ago

Lasher probably going to win but doing that with < 40% (and falling) is not exactly a massive victory for whatever faction of asshole tech bros is backing him

Open-source Chinese coding models are competitive with Opus for 10% of the price; if Anthropic goes out of business it’s because they deserve it

I don't understand why the DOE literally got the state to pass a law to reduce class size reduction costs by $500M due to a budget crunch, but then maintain a policy that's costing them $300M/year without even starting to take steps to wind it down

This is presumably how they bring Fable back

New Lin-Manuel Miranda musical just dropped

There is no reason for Spring St to have cars on it, the cars aren’t even moving at a helpful speed for their occupants

NY-12 primary is the first experience I’ve had with being the target of a lavishly over-funded political campaign and at the end of it a) I hate all of the candidates b) I hate the rich assholes backing them even more and c) I’m voting for the same guy I was going to vote for before this all started

Honestly, unless Fable is more of a revolution than it thus far appears to be, I'm not sure if even the one really profitable use case for AI - coding - will survive much past the point where RAM gets cheap enough again that every developer can have a 128GB AI accelerator on their desk

McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

Could we please stop ruining delightful things about NYC with f*cking permit fees

Demo out for the crazy new Jonathan Blow game

Over the course of my lifetime US military adventurism has been a force for evil much more often than for good, so if this scares presidents away from trying it again for a generation or two, that aspect of the war at least will probably be a net positive for the world. (weaning off oil is good too)

From my own testing there’s little difference between Fable and Opus with the effort slider turned up to max, except that my Opus token usage is still being massively subsidized

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

The US auto industry has wrought incalculable damage to this country over the past century - from pollution to road safety to the physical design of every American city and town - and it is just that they die and that they suffer as they die

This would be a great deal for Iran which is why it probably will be dead tomorrow after successfully achieving the end of making birthday boy feel special on his special day

Third straight game that looks like California election returns

I love that thanks to playing chicken with the district court they ended up having to do this in broad daylight when everyone can watch