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...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Not another Cushing post, but Cushing-relevant

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  First, let's get some important disclaimers out of the way. Neither Joseph nor I are any kind of experts on international energy marke...
Monday, August 10, 2026

The Ides (ish) of March -- checking in on the Ellison Media Empire

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By the standards of 2026, March is a long ways away, particularly with respect to this story. For starters, there is that ticking fee, a pen...
Friday, August 7, 2026

Not Enron, but not good either.

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[Picking up from this and this ] I realize that my recommendations for Patrick Boyle videos tend to be a bit heavy-handed, but even by his ...
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Thursday, August 6, 2026

Is it a bad sign when people start making Enron comparisons? It seems like a bad sign.

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Following up on yesterday's post . If you're not interested in the AI bubble, you might want to come back next week because this thr...
Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Why would some of the most profitable companies in the world feel the need to load up on debt? Why would some of the most creditworthy companies in the world borrow money at a higher interest rate?

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Back a couple of years or so ago, when the evidence of an AI bubble was just starting to accumulate, the standard rebuttal to skeptics broke...
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

“Today is August 4, 2026”

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In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, sever o'clock! as if it were afraid t...