Not 16 Hours Now

Anyone who cannot be more efficient working from home is weak and pitiful. I get 2-3x as much done at home as I ever did in the office.

In fact, in most jobs I got very little accomplished at my official workplace and did most of my tasks at home (which means I was working 16 hour days effectively).

Ferrarified

“They can cry in a Ferrari.”

Great fucking line. I do not blame her or fault her choices. She’s not my type at all, but If I were that attractive I might consider it too.

No Money, Still Problems

In the election I basically voted against anything that gives the California government more money as it’s an incredibly poorly-governed state that wastes vast amounts of funds.

That means I did vote against Proposition 40, the “billionaire tax.” Mostly because it gives California more money1, but also because it is badly designed by people who do not understand how incentives work, nor how it could’ve been made into a win/win proposition.

Though we do like it here and have no current plans to move, if we’d realized how terribly California is governed I’m not sure we’d have done it. It’s just abysmally bad.

  1. It’s just as likely that California will lose out on tax revenue.

Closing

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models | Hacker News

Eventually, the corporate closed models will just refuse to do anything that even vaguely has the possibility of being against copyright or not authorized by your employer. (The above is about Claude.)

I can tell you this is nearly 100% likely to occur. The frontier closes so quickly now.

Scientists have what they say is one of the oldest Mars meteorites.

Two economists studied California's billionaire tax. They reached wildly different conclusions.

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Boy Names That Became Girl Names (and Vice Versa).

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Anthropic's internal AI use, valued at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay.

No Inflection Point Yet: Near-Exponential Data Center Boom Sends Shockwaves to Industrial Economy, Construction Hit by 2nd Wave of Inflation.

So when he says cooling in space is "easy", that doesn't mean what normies mean by "easy", which is "doesn't take a lot of resources, time, or expense". Correct.

โ€œAt Home in Spaceโ€ opens, caps Air and Space Museum renovation.

Hereโ€™s What the Inca Gave Children Before Sacrificing Them on Volcanoes.

Lawmakers Canโ€™t Ban VPNs No Matter How Hard They Try.

No War

A few things I can definitively say were absolutely superior in every way in the 90s: the genders weren’t at fucking 24/7 war with one another, attraction was seen as completely natural (which it is), and all men were not viewed as default original sin rapists.

That all was much, much better.

Lear

This is the best explanation for what happened to that Learjet 60 in Florida:

A terrible tragedy. It’s hard to tell in the video, but it looks like the horizontal stabilizer of the plane is indeed gone before impact. They were doomed inevitably in a plane that small the moment that stopped generating lift (as the commenter points out).