Broke it out early this year.

Here’s some crazy AI-ish advertising on CNN that should be absolutely illegal, but of course who’s gonna turn away money?

A nice Thanksgiving in Italy. Rotisserie roasted chickens, porchetta, stuffing, mashed, Italian greens, broccoli romanesco, homemade rolls, panettone, and my wife made these cute little pumpkin custards from fresh pumpkin, and I made these cute whipped cream. Good wines and friends to enjoy with us.

Preparing for Thanksgiving in Italy.

As an expert in music licensing and copyright, I just had a concerning “discussion” with AI where it completely misrepresented anti-competitive issues in the UK market because while it might have crawled certain legal docs, it certainly doesn’t “understand” them.

Ever since Google acquired Nest, and started migrating those devices into Google Home, all of my shit is unreliable. No thermostats turn on when they’re supposed to, I have shit scattered across two different apps, it’s absolute fucking chaos.

This dogs has a superpower where he starts out laying with you in the middle of the bed, but slowly over the night, pushes you out of it.

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If you’ve been in the tech business as long as I have, you’ll know that an AI bubble is probably good for the long-term health of this industry, as it’s usually the second wave of companies that find the verticals to make it truly useful.

Frankly I’m fucking shocked the Epstein docs haven’t leaked. Some powerful people are clearly very nervous.

“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.

Odd seeing my nickname from college on a product.

Not content in moving the goal posts to define what a sexual predator is, the GOP seems to be shifting the meaning of what a child sexual predator is.

The worst part of the Epstein scandal is that the people suddenly concerned with Trump’s possible involvement and coverup were fine protecting him when he was a “run of the mill” sexual predator towards women. 🤷‍♂️

China is going to revolutionize the car market with EVs, they will revolutionize renewables and environmental sciences…and all of that was ours to lose and we lost it. Best start learning Mandarin.

Walking in Rome and who walks past me but Judd Apatow and his wife Leslie Mann. A nice spotting, as I like them both.

I believed he was a creep back with the Access Hollywood tapes…but sure…just locker room talk.

I am continually getting less and less interested in social media to the point where I feel like I’m just gonna fade away entirely

Correct me if I’m wrong about this but the positive of the Senate dems voting to reopen the govt…Mike Johnson has to call the House back into session and swear in Adelita Grijalva.

She loves it?

Shark Tank, but it’s rich people pitching to poor people why they don’t deserve to be taxed more.

Other fruits I’ve found on our property include medlars and pineapple guava, which has a delightful scent and a sweet custard like center. The skins are very tart, but I also like them.

Republicans/MAGA are fucked. Thy hitched their wagons to an increasingly unpopular man who is historically bad at governing…they are afraid to anger him, but supporting him ends badly. They have nowhere to go. Good. Time to build momentum.

There was probably a law at some point we would have followed that would make this illegal. You know…back in the day.

With the looming snap benefits food crisis, here’s an idea of something we used to do, and you can continue this even after the government reopens. We worked with a local charity to sponsor families, by paying for fresh fruits and vegetables to be delivered directly each month to households.

Here is some of Italy’s bureaucratic fun. We just got a tax bill notification by certified mail notifying us we owed past property tax as non-residents for the past several years with penalties and interest. We’ve never received a tax bill before and it turns out that’s because they don’t send them.

There’s a lot of things I love about Italy, but the bureaucracy is killing me. I need to pay property tax, but I need an Italian bank account, but I can’t get a bank account because the government is 90 days behind schedule on the documentation I need to prove my residency. Also…

I may have the perfect Halloween house. Two hundred years old, medieval town in the distance.

Appliance garage…worth it.

The fact that I found the maggot infested dead rat carcass in my yard before my dog did, does make one wonder if there is a God and she blesses me.

Went to an event in Milano which gave us an opportunity to dress up and play fancy after being on our farm for three months wearing jeans. Was nice.

The chaos in which we live. Wait for it…

Ever walk past an art gallery in a fancy neighborhood and think…this is clearly a money laundering front. No one is buying this.

So I guess we’re going to war with Venezuela. Whatever is in the Epstein files has to be an absolute doozy.

Wow…shocking. 🙄 I mean it’s not quite up to Tory standards but keep trying.

Hard to believe this was me and now this is me. Took several years to get here with a bunch of exercise and activity and most importantly I just feel really good. Nearly 55.

Had an interesting few moments in Rome this week. I’ve been studying Italian for over a year and for the first time ever I had several interactions where someone said something to me and I just reacted. I didn’t have to think about the words, I just heard it and responded. Something clicked.

Imagine if Obama had torn apart a wing of the White House.

Omg guys. WhatsApp…it’s a play on the words “what’s up”!

Lockeroom talk.

Silently judging

Not sure how I missed it, but there’s a new Flock of Dimes album. If you are a fan of Wye Oak, give it a spin.

Trump desperately wanting a Nobel Peace Prize and never getting one is 👨‍🍳💋

We should go back to using language and phrases like “glad rags”.

The worst thing that the Chinese govt has done on TikTok to Americans, frankly, is hold a mirror to their faces.

The fact that I can take a document written in another language and throw that PDF or whatever into something like ChatGPT and within seconds, it summarizes and translates it, is remarkable.

AI hype is pretty ridiculous, and there’s a lot of bullshit around what it can cannot do at the moment, but I will tell you it does remarkable shit when it comes to things that if you worked long enough in technology, you know was nigh impossible for decades, like OCR.

Took 9 months (Italian time), but worth the wait…our custom dining room cabinets are done. It was a collaboration between the blacksmith and the carpenters.