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Everytime the supreme Court does something batshit that allows Trump more power, I wonder if this is what Godel was worried about.

It’s a pyramid scheme, and your place in the pyramid/heaven is defined by how many souls you save.

People that convert the most people, or who’s converts go on to convert the most people go to heaven.

Fun fact. The architecture is more historically accurate than in Lincoln (the serious biopic that came out at the same time).

http://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/blog/more-historically-accurate-lincoln-or-vampire-hunter

To be fair Berlin is 100x better than the rest of Germany.

Ok, so yes it was cool. But even when it first came out the people that were really into it were weird.

Nah, we spend as much time on the American revolution as on our own civil war. Which is basically nothing.

I think I heard about cavilers and Roundheads in primary school, and that’s it. No reason for the civil war, no discussion about what Cromwell did in Ireland.

You absolutely can’t use LLMs for anything big unless you learn to code.

Think of an LLM as a particularly shit builder. You give them a small job and maybe 70% of the time they’ll give you something that works. But it’s often not up to spec, so even if it kinda works you’ll have to tell them to correct it or fix it yourself.

The bigger the job is and the more complex the more ways they have to fuck it up. This means in order to use them, you have to break the problem down into small sub tasks, and check that the code is good enough for each one.

Can they be useful? Sometimes yes, it’s quicker to have an AI write code than for you to do it yourself, and if you want something very standard it will probably get it right or almost right.

But you can’t just say ‘write me an app’ and expect it to be useable.

Follow the money.

In Elon’s case, it’s all about losing money that was going directly to him. Particularly, the loss of ev subsidies.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-01/trump-takes-aim-at-musk-over-ev-mandate-and-subsidies

Musk will not rest until there is a free Tesla for everyone, paid for by the American government.

Privatize profits and socialize losses. It’s the American way.

The Anti-Defamation League notes that though the symbol is popular with white supremacists, imagery resembling the black sun features in many cultures, and that such imagery should always be analyzed in the context in which it appears, as it may not necessarily be intended to serve as a symbol of white supremacy or racism.

i just googled it. Apparently they’re just really into star wars, and didn’t realize about the Nazi symbol until it was too late.

Wow, I wonder if that’s the same billionaire Bill Ackerman who’s hedge fund owns forty percent of the New York property firm Seaport Entertainment Group?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-ackmans-strategic-acquisition-seaport-230404410.html

How many millions do you think a rent freeze would cost him personally?

This is the first thing I’ve read that makes me feel excited about AI agents, and it’s got nothing to do with AI or agents.

These kinds of hooks are why people keep using emacs and what Guile was meant to solve. If we actually end up with a generic API framework across apps and websites it’s super cool.

Everything is text/json is going to be slow but fuck it, we can start slow and optimize when needed.

I mean think about how many thousands of middle managers you would have to kill to disrupt a large bureaucracy.

For a fraction of the same amount of deaths you could kill existing leaders, anyone that tries to replace them, and their rivals.

Commercial versions of these systems exist in the UK.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london

The Gdpr makes these things harder to do, but not automatically illegal.

Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.

Yeah, and some of it is even true.

The British imperial system invades other countries, makes them use pounds and feet, and then leaves.

So a random person on Reddit claimed there’s about 800 million possible uk mobile numbers, some people have multiple numbers so ballpark 80 million active phone numbers. This gives around a 1:10 chance of picking an active number at random. If there’s actual patterns in the numbers this could be even more likely.

What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.

Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.

So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.

This was a deciding factor for me choosing to get Thermoblock rather than a boiler. I keep it on the counter ready, so there’s no unpack time.

By the time I’ve ground the coffee the machine is warm and ready to go, and I use a distributor rather than a tamper because it’s less fuss and I don’t notice a difference.

Espresso takes around 30-40 seconds including grinding, steaming milk another 70 seconds but this can be done at the same time. So maybe 90 seconds plus clean up.

Across Europe there’s different recommendations in every country, and no evidence of different illness/mortality rates related to the recommendation.

France says tap water is safe for all ages.

If you’re in the US, I totally get why you might want to keep boiling your water, but remember that boiling doesn’t remove lead.

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Talk to people and figure out what they use their PC for.

It might be old games or an accounting app, you should make sure that these are working in wine so they can keep using them.