i feel pledgy! is that good enough?

bad news was good news but all of a sudden it's bad news.

i thought i'd just ask Xi for some printed organs.

in my logs, i see a lot more organizations than in the past apparently indexing my sites, organizations quite far afield from search engines. i'm tempted to interpret these as organizations experimenting with training their own LLMs, though it's just a conjecture.

will great trains be the Sputnik Moment for a declining America?

so, do we fire the new guy?

the man didn’t know the value of his own franchise. nice guy, i guess, but not much of an entrepreneur.

we did gray goo millennia before the machines.

cancer is by definition a form of abundance, no?

are any of these new stories?

why don’t they rename it the “department of lethal”?

actually, scaling by moore’s law at constant cost was lots more hopeful and exciting than scaling by a hockey-stick graph of compute expense.

can a president “enact”?

defying the court would mean ignoring its precedents when they are unconscionable and unfaithful to the constitution as the judges understand it. the Supreme Court can overturn all it wants. they themselves will have to enforce their overturnings if lower courts refuse.

i know the feeling…

“‘Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,’ [Gorsuch] wrote.” // WTF is he going to do about it if they do, except take up each and every defying case to overturn them? they absolute should. ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

you just have to print some spry organs.

republicans may finally succeed at manufacturing the sovereign debt crisis they’ve always warned us about.

cowardly and dovish aren't the same thing.

not all heroes wear capes.