The chart for $CVNA is wild. Everyone thought they were dead in 2023.
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Your TV should weigh 100 pounds, make a high frequency sound only your dog can hear, take thirty seconds to warm up, and leave a lingering bright dot in the center when you turn it off.
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Jason Furman on AI vs human economists: If he were running the CEA today and had a choice between 20 highly qualified staff members “versus the AI systems that we have today, I would somewhat regretfully and sadly choose the AI systems.” axios.com/2026/10/23/ai-econ…
Sometimes I miss the the 0.3 BTC I lost in the ColdCard hack and wonder if it ever made it to a good home
Hopefully letting AI direct more scientific research won't result in science getting manipulated for nefarious purposes
I'm not really a goldbug, but it's absurd to paint this as portending the end of gold's supply scarcity anytime soon.
I'm still waiting for commercial fusion (first proposed as early as the 1940s)
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
Wayback Machine was also extremely important in patent litigation. If I wanted to invalidate a patent by showing that the claimed invention already existed before the patent's effective filing date, Wayback Machine would sometimes save the day.
The founder of the Internet Archive explaining why their work is critical and news companies are wrong to fight against them.
- Journalists rely on the Wayback Machine. It preserves histories so when people try to cover things up by changing a website, those histories are available
- Pew found over a 10 year period, a FOURTH of websites they tracked disappeared. That's histories and knowledge lost, without Wayback.
- I didn't realize, but IA isn't a fan of scraping for building AI, and the piece gets into why. I don't exactly agree, but it also makes sense why their tool is built more for human use for capacity reasons.
But this is another good example of news orgs fighting the same tools their journalists use religiously
@TheAtlantic
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The fact that it's late 2026, AI is hacking the world, and Apple is continuing to maintain an easily avoidable obstacle to software supply-chain verification on a platform of global security importance tells you everything you need to know about security culture in Big Tech.
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Sony built an AI that discovers scientific facts on its own.
And it reportedly discovered actual previously unknown facts about "aging"
It's called "Hakken"
Hakken analyzes millions of research papers, maps how scientific facts evolve over time, and predicts exact, undocumented relationships that humans haven't found yet.
It generates a mathematical confidence score for scientific facts that do not currently exist in any literature.
Researchers pointed it at the biology of aging. The AI generated 1.5 million brand-new hypotheses.
But they didn't stop at the computer screen.
They took the AI's best predictions and physically tested them in a real-world wet-lab.
And the results are historic.
Physical lab confirmed two previously undocumented biological interactions in the human body (involving TP53, BAMBI, RAF1, and TNF).
the AI successfully saw the invisible mechanics of biology that human scientists had missed. And the lab proved it was right.
We are crossing a massive threshold.
We used to build AI to read scientific papers faster. Now, AI is writing the next chapter of human knowledge before we even run the experiments.
The bottleneck for scientific progress is no longer human intelligence.
It is how fast the physical labs can keep up with the machine.
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Atlanta is by far the most surveilled city in the US by camera density, averaging 124 surveillance cameras per 1,000 residents. Next on the list is DC at 55 per 1,000. – at Atlanta, GA
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After November 6 in the UK, merely possessing porn showing choking could land you three years in jail
I think it's interesting that 1970s science fiction often concerned overpopulation, whereas today infertility is the predominant anxiety.
Whatever our optimal numbers are, we're always worried we aren't getting it right.



















