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  • Cool story bro

    There are many disappointing things about working for an a16z funded start up (which I have done). Near the top of list is the depressing experience of having a breathless all hands just so you get to hear Marc Andreesssen bloviate. Here is a perfect example of his vomitious commitment to his own profundity: Andreessen…

  • Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid

    The slow inexorable decline of fossil fuels continues… and remains a sole bright spark. Given that renewable growth greatly exceeded demand, there was nowhere to go for fossil fuels but down. Overall, they saw a drop of about 3 percent year-over-year, with an absolute change similar in magnitude (if not sign) to the growth in…

  • Musical Break: Eastside Girls – Muna

    Muna has been consistently awesome, release after release. Their latest is no exception. https://youtu.be/vT-Nd5I10iE?si=0znBh1KhDhLRgGPV

  • Being rich makes you dumb

    … Bezos doesn’t understand the most basic facts about taxes, nor did he make any effort to inform himself. He went instead with some numbers he thinks he heard somewhere — numbers that tell a story he wants to hear. As I said, billionaire brain. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bezos-backlash-and-zombies Evidently the man who owns the world’s biggest library…

  • The best Thiel money can buy…

    A charisma-less Vice President JD Vance was met Friday with humiliating silence when he tried to transform a memorial event into a political stump speech. https://newrepublic.com/post/210542/jd-vance-crowd-stays-silent-speech The billionaire class are way over their skis… and it’s starting to show

  • Chinese Astronauts Create Rocket Fuel in Space Using “Artificial Photosynthesis”

    The team used semiconductor catalysts to turn carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and ethylene, a hydrocarbon commonly used to produce spacecraft propellants, according to the SCMP. “This technology mimics the natural photosynthesis process of green plants through engineered physical and chemical methods, utilizing carbon dioxide resources in confined spaces or extraterrestrial atmospheres to produce oxygen…

  • *Now* you fuckers are all about IP laws…

    If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people’s work — and getting sued for copyright infringement left and right — OpenAI is sobbing that the buzzy Chinese AI startup DeepSeek did the same thing on its AI that it built on all that pilfered content.

  • The fallacy of “doing life right”

    I was taught that here was a “right” way of doing life… I shook some of that off, but the ghosts still haunt me The way we’ve been taught to “do” life is all wrong. “Destinational living”, by which we pursue recognisable outcomes based on the lie that these will guarantee security and happiness, is…

  • What’s cooler than a billion dollars? Dignity.

    “You may not have a billion dollars but your dignity is all yours. No one can take it from you. Compared to some you can already be ahead of the game.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-moment-of-calm These gents aren’t going down in history like Rockerfeller et al. It’s a very different media eco-system capturing their actions. Their stories will…

  • I “got” classical music at the ripe old age of 49

    I’ll admit it, I’m munter-adjacent. There are some things I never really got when I was younger – classical art, classical music and literature. I’m a pop culture kid of the early eighties, stuff like this gets my blood pumping: I think I have finally found my “in” when it comes to classical music… As…