Monday, August 31, 2026

It is notable that the illustration for the FT article is a literal Pie in the Sky (but given that we're talking about Brits here, it's probably filled with eels or blackbirds or something weird like that)

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From the WSJ : SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric. Anthropic’s could push it even further. The m...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Apparently they don't get MeTV in Florida

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Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida paren...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Which is weirder, the fact that the president just suggested he might use a military intervention to stabilize the bond market, or the fact that almost no one seemed to notice?

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When I say no one, obviously I don't mean social media, where for every event you can find someone who made a note of it. Reporter on B...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

All roads lead to Cushing*

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*Probably the first time in the history of Oklahoma that anyone has attempted to compare Cushing to Rome. Some random quotes and a few stra...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Saying something nice about Claude

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I have been accused of being overly negative about AI, particularly large language models, and I have my share of issues with the technology...
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Monday, August 24, 2026

October 28, 2016, was arguably the pivotal moment in the career of Elon Musk

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From D.E. Rising and The Standard Dispatch & Mail : As announced by Electrek today , Tesla has officially discontinued its Solar Roof ti...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Friday video/podcast recommendations -- Carl Brown edition

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We've recommended Brown's videos before. They are nothing special from a presentation point of view -- you can pretty much just trea...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use while huge corporations try to sue the Internet Archive out of business.

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This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

"I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody." --- James Carville (with the mandatory AI angle, of course)

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This is a big story, certainly bigger than you might have guessed from the coverage. Smart commentators like Patrick Boyle and the Financial...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Cory Doctorow on why centaurs like AI

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 Like we said before, LLMs are tools. They have some impressive functionality and can be highly useful if you understand them and know the j...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Commemorating thirteen years since Elon Musk revolutionized transportation with the hyperloop.

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From Vaclav Smil’s book “ Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure. ” (We'll be coming back to this one.) These sho...
Friday, August 14, 2026

Sure it's a rerun, but it's got a Frazetta cover.

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I'm still finishing up a post on the obscure and convoluted history of the intellectual property behind the eagerly anticipated Coyote v...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

LLMs are not nothing.

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 Given the state of things in 2026 and the two "next big things" that preceded generative AI, this is by no means a trivial poin...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Great video but keep your finger over the mute button. Aschenbrenner's laugh will haunt your dreams.

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Random Patrick Boyle quote:"If I left a million dollars on the table over a non-disparagement clause, I'd bang out a million dollar...