Thursday, June 5, 2025

Musk vs. Trump is class Godzilla vs. Rodan

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You can't really root for either, but it's still fun to sit back and enjoy the spectacle. 1. We have two erratic vindictive nar...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Prometheus Unbound and the Great Pumpkin Theory of Technological Innovation

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[I wrote this back in 2023 and only came across it recently, but it still feels relevant, particularly now that Klein is on the talk show ci...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The Unlikely Return of the "Progressives Should Be Nicer to Musk" Narrative

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[Apologies for the gaps. Twitter no longer plays nice with Blogger, which is probably the least of its issues.]   The arguments here aren...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Why the humanoid robot story matters

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 I realize we've had a lot of robot content on the blog recently, and a lot of readers—particularly those who don't follow us regula...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

I'm as tired of the snark as you are. Let's do a fun robotics story.

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Here's to a cool toy (with very clever engineering) that got a lot of kids interested in robotics back in the day.  How a 1980s toy r...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

No one understands and explains the Age of the Business Idiot better than Ed Zitron

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Zitron is one of the essential critics of the AI bubble. He is the essential critic of the business and finance side of the story which is ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Well, you have to admit, he can make things disappear.

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BREAKING: Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after an internal investigation found evidence of potentially bogus sales and the company re...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Trump, the Court and the Calculation: They will do anything for love, but they won't do that.

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When I try to guess how Republicans—excluding True Believers and those who have left the party on principle—will react to Donald Trump, I al...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Memorial Day Repost

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A good day for a recommendation There is, of course, no such thing as the military perspective -- no single person can speak for all th...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Any excuse to post this video

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The dirty little secret of the generative AI bubble is that no one has come up with a business model that justifies a fraction of a fraction...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

When they really want to tell a story...

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Honestly it’s malpractice [image or embed] — Kai Ryssdal ( @kairyssdal.bsky.social ) May 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM I'm going to have to be ...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Humanoid robots are the blockchain of 2025

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There are numerous reasons why a company will jump on a hype bubble. It tends to be good PR and projects an impression of forward thinking. ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Coming to a vineyard near you...

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When you get away from the humanoid personal robot bullshit, the real research is really cool. Evan Ackerman writing for IEEE Spectrum :  Th...
Monday, May 19, 2025

It's almost as if, bear with me here, it's more cost efficient to reduce the amount of carbon you're putting into the atmosphere than it is to try to capture it after the fact.

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I keep being drawn toward the idea of using biochar to simultaneously dispose of forest waste in the West while also creating a carbon sink....
Friday, May 16, 2025

Criticism vs. Reviews vs. Meta-Reviews vs. Non-reviews

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As part of our ongoing thread on critics and reviewers, here are a couple of relevant and enjoyable videos from Bob Chipman. The first is a ...