I think Florida should subsidize the introduction of CyberCab by taxing all non-FSD vehicle owners. Anyone with any citations or points on their license pays $10,000 a year or they surrender their vehicle. A great cleansing.

Before the sexual revolution, and what @HMDatMI calls the inversion of the sexual default (an expectation of premarital and nonmarital sex), dating was plural, high frequency, low involvement, and quickly sorted young people to their best partners:

This is just so. In fact taking the old “stochastic parrot” argument to the extreme, not only will the behavior of these AI systems be best modeled as a bunch of little guys in the computer, but as some linear combination of *these* specific types of guys:

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the real reason nobody can build an american shenzhen is that western capital fundamentally despises low-margin physical infrastructure we spent 30 years financializing our economy & replacing hardware engineers with software middle management so now we have infinite capital for app wrappers but 0 physical muscle memory left to assemble the world you cant legislate industrial density when your entire elite class is trained to extract yield instead of moving atoms

china has already won the hardware war & most of the west just hasn’t processed the lag yet the whole gap is architectural shenzhen built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where thousands of specialized nodes iterate in parallel compounding knowledge horizontally every single day while a founder in europe spends 12k & waits two months for a single board revision you burn through four iterations in a week in huaqiangbei for a fraction of the cost the game is already over the fundamental disconnect comes from viewing manufacturing as a back office cost center to optimize & outsource while China treats it as a high density real time learning organism when your supplier modifies your injection mold tooling before you even open your mouth because his local network has already seen a hundred founders face the exact same thermal bottleneck the intelligence no longer lives inside a single company it lives in the ecosystem itself trying to out compete that level of information density with legacy corporate processes is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side just invented the combustion engine we are watching the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history & western leaders are still trying to solve an ontological crisis with management level tweaks tier 2 cities like hefei & Wuhan are already replicating this hyper dense hardware model at scale scaling ev & semiconductor infrastructure while europe debates its next regulatory committee you cannot patch a broken architecture with longer hours until the west stops optimizing variables that china stopped tracking years ago it will keep arriving at the wrong destination just slightly faster

Criminal records in four states, facing 11 misdemeanors, and now a father is dead. We need to triple the prison population. Vastly more need to be put in prison, earlier in their criminal disposition, for much longer.

my mom sent me another pic of me as a kid in this suspenders and tie combo and I asked what the occasion was and she said "I don't think there was one, you just wanted to dress like this" lmao

a16z's @jkhamehl says the US is being outpaced on AI adoption by countries you'd never expect: Bukele put Grok in schools for free while America fights over data centers "El Salvador, President Bukele has been super aggressive around utilizing AI. They implemented Grok in their schools for free. They're utilizing AI doctors." "City-state countries like Singapore or UAE, where it's easier just given the population to adopt technologies and then also make it subsidized or free. You see these different examples around the world where they're accelerating their AI development and adoption way faster than in the US." "In the US we've been seeing a lot of political tail-headwinds with data centers, and in some instances around surveillance, that are just falsehoods." "@elonmusk's building data centers in space. We might also see the influx of a lot of this data center supply chain build-out happen overseas because of the sentiment in the US." @a16z

Falcon Heavy sent Psyche toward a metal-rich asteroid, Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s Moon, and GOES-U into transfer orbit to improve NOAA’s weather forecasting. Falcon 9 launched NASA’s PACE mission to study Earth’s ocean and atmosphere and SPHEREx to map the history of the universe. The Falcon family has enabled NASA to reach farther and explore more of the universe, and missions like Roman continue that work

My hottest take is that even now, if Australia went full bore on nuclear power, data centers, industrialization, militarization, dense urbanism, natalism, migration enforcement/restriction, etc. all as variations on the theme of “get rich & strong” it would come to surpass the US

Sicilian surnames starting with Im- or In- generally refer to a founding widow. In this case Mr Bruglia died and his wife became head of the family. In Sicilian usage she would have been known by her maiden name plus “In Bruglia”, later surnamed Imbruglia for the children. Several such surnames exist, e.g. Ingrassia, Incalcaterra, Inpinna, Ingrasciotta, Indelicato, each pointing to a widowing event. There are exception, e.g. Indemburgo is from the Prussian Hindemburg, not from a widowed Signura In Demburgo 🫣

Here's Yahoo Japan vs Yahoo USA/West today. Note how as with much of JP internet the web design is still elegant, sharp and beautiful, with real edges instead of blobs and eye-stabbing colors. I notice Asian design retains traditional fonts, designs, etc. We don't have to be ugly