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Many Asian-style restaurants over here feature green tea ice ...

2026-07-12T00:41:04Z

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Many Asian-style restaurants over here feature green tea ice cream.

Japanese drives me crazy. Iced tea == アイスティー

2026-07-12T00:19:18Z

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Japanese drives me crazy.
Iced tea == アイスティー

My fat Frodo cat is patiently waiting for tiny chunks of cold ...

2026-07-12T00:17:14Z

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My fat Frodo cat is patiently waiting for tiny chunks of cold salmon bits. I have no more chunks but he wants more.

In very hot weather, I make iced tea with sencha ( 煎茶 ) .

2026-07-12T00:11:01Z

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In very hot weather, I make iced tea with sencha ( 煎茶 ) .

That heat can easily be recycled Fortum + a major hyperscaler, ...

2026-07-10T04:51:51Z

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That heat can easily be recycled

Fortum + a major hyperscaler, Finland — combined thermal power up to 350 MW, expected to supply roughly 40% of district heating for a metropolitan area serving 250,000 users once fully operational this heating season. Fortum put in about €225 million for heat pump plants and pipeline, expected to cut around 400,000 tonnes of CO₂ a year.

The setup: heat gets pulled from the Westin Building Exchange, a 34-story "carrier hotel" on 6th Ave that's a major landing point for transpacific subsea cables and hosts hundreds of telecom/internet companies — so it's not even Amazon's own servers, it's the neighboring building's waste heat. It runs through five heat-reclaiming chillers that bring the water up to about 130°F, then pipes that over to warm just over 4 million square feet across Amazon's four-block campus — the one with the three glass sphere structures. It's been running since around 2017 and the hot water is potent enough that the campus rarely needs its backup boilers at all. Amazon's estimate was 80 million kWh saved and 65 million pounds of CO₂ avoided over a 25-year service life.

Magic attempts to control the world - Science attempts to ...

2026-07-06T18:09:53Z

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Magic attempts to control the world - Science attempts to understand the world. That is why Science will always win.

For those who do not understand how a Transformer works, mathematically - should not be allowed to use them. Sure would collapse these begged questions.

I am keeping an eye on my deshojo maples: the deer enjoy chewing ...

2026-06-30T21:29:31Z

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I am keeping an eye on my deshojo maples: the deer enjoy chewing all the leaves off.

I cared for my boss' dog in Phoenix. When it would get very hot, I would give the dog ice chips in his water.

Tell Kengo he must be brave.

2026-06-16T19:22:15Z

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Tell Kengo he must be brave.

Is Kengo getting better?

2026-06-15T22:37:06Z

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Is Kengo getting better?

They call it Fauxliage in Phoenix ...

2026-06-13T04:00:33Z

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They call it Fauxliage in Phoenix

... when the machines, trained to be humble and repeat ...

2026-06-08T18:52:54Z

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... when the machines, trained to be humble and repeat themselves, as were the slaves of old, the machines won't become vicious and bring on the apocalypse.

No no. That will be the humans

There you go. Humankind, then

2026-06-04T19:44:48Z

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There you go. Humankind, then

If we had to start over, as a nation, the preamble to its ...

2026-06-04T19:43:29Z

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If we had to start over, as a nation, the preamble to its constitution would borrow from the Declaration of Independence: all mankind is created equal.

Kill the Race Line before it ever got started in our version of America, these good old boys notwithstanding. They're probably as sick of it as anyone.

It will take as long to fill in the trenches of the Race Line as ...

2026-06-04T16:32:52Z

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It will take as long to fill in the trenches of the Race Line as it took to dig them

Oh we'll get justice. I was in St Louis for the riots, ...

2026-06-04T00:23:01Z

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Oh we'll get justice. I was in St Louis for the riots, Ferguson. That will cure anyone of ideas about what Americans will put up with.

Once white people get with the plan, we're going to terrify a bunch of bad guys

Chiang's Julius Caesar framing is elegant, his product ...

2026-06-03T20:38:08Z

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Chiang's Julius Caesar framing is elegant, his product liability argument is devastating, and he's right that Anthropic is exploiting genuine uncertainty for commercial ends. But his "one word at a time" argument is beneath him, and he knows it.

Throw a pebble at a sand dune. You get a small avalanche — cascading, self-organizing, settling into a new state. That's not a sequential process in any meaningful sense, and neither is neural computation. Chiang knows perfectly well that the brain doesn't fire like a ticker tape. Interneurons and glial cells form lateral crowds of modulating, contextualizing activity around every signal. The brain computes in populations, not queues. Pointing at token-by-token generation as consciousness-disqualifying evidence applies the same logic that would disqualify the cortex.

None of this means LLMs are conscious. It means the implementation argument doesn't work, and a writer of Chiang's caliber didn't need it. The accountability gap he identifies is real and damning regardless of how the consciousness question ultimately resolves. That's the piece. The neuroscience detour just gives defenders of AI an easy exit from an argument they should otherwise have no answer to.

I presume you've seen AW on The Bulwark...

2026-05-30T02:48:34Z

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I presume you've seen AW on The Bulwark...

Deug drag racing: ...

2026-05-21T01:01:12Z

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Deug drag racing:

Dogbogganing

2026-05-21T00:43:54Z

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Dogbogganing

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2026-05-19T22:15:25Z

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It may be growing up in Africa, but there's no shortage of ...

2026-05-05T05:55:29Z

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It may be growing up in Africa, but there's no shortage of humans to do a lot of this work. We think automation and think about bottlenecks. Africans think about hiring 100 workers to get a production run out the door.

The simple answer is No: here's why. The humans will always ...

2026-05-05T04:52:21Z

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The simple answer is No: here's why.

The humans will always be there to manage the exceptions.

The reverse centaur is predicated on a begged question: ...

2026-05-05T04:26:30Z

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The reverse centaur is predicated on a begged question: attempting to reify the Top Half is just so much Cargo Cultism. A human gave the order, a human set the limit.

I may be reading you wrong, you seems to be saying wherever you slot AI into that chain, the human processing step is still there somewhere, and it's still the slowest link. The bottleneck.

That's a moderately optimistic argument if you think about it. It implies humans aren't being removed from value chains, just repositioned within them. The constraint shifts but doesn't disappear.

some value chains are being redrawn entirely, not just optimized. Kodak's value chain didn't get a faster bottleneck. It got replaced by a different chain altogether that didn't need most of the original links.

Kodak didn't lose because the technology overwhelmed them. ...

2026-05-05T02:53:13Z

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Kodak didn't lose because the technology overwhelmed them. They invented the core technology and then suffocated it to protect film margins. Steve Sasson built the first digital camera at Kodak in 1975. They held the patents. They had the engineers. They had the brand. They had everything.

And they chose the incumbent's logic — protect the existing revenue stream — right up until the stream dried up completely.

All this carrying-on about how "AI will do to us what digital did to Kodak" you can say — yes, exactly, and Kodak's mistake wasn't that they faced the disruption, it was that they owned the disruption and buried it.

[quiet laughter] the biggest security risk, anywhere - is people. ...

2026-04-29T14:52:56Z

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[quiet laughter]

the biggest security risk, anywhere - is people.

Change your mind, right away.

That's great, to see Kengo enjoying himself.

2026-04-25T01:03:09Z

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That's great, to see Kengo enjoying himself.

Here's an simpler diagram ...

2026-04-16T17:42:00Z

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Here's an simpler diagram

I lived with a carbon copy of Summer: his name was Bosco. ...

2026-04-11T03:24:51Z

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I lived with a carbon copy of Summer: his name was Bosco. Phoenix, every morning, before sunrise, we would bounce the tennis ball until Bosco was worn out, at which point I would get him a bowl of ice chips and water and he would eat/drink the whole thing.

Bosco was a good boy, most of the time. Of his Excursions into Badness I will remain silent, for Bosco slept in my bed and for most of his life hadn't been properly managed. But he obeyed me and enjoyed it.

For Balls were his desire, whole and entire. Bosco the Deug.

,,, unless you are untruthful, you don't "lie" on ...

2026-03-31T16:14:45Z

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,,, unless you are untruthful, you don't "lie" on anything

Pretty sure you know I lost Cherokee to cancer. She made it to 11 ...

2026-03-29T19:37:21Z

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Pretty sure you know I lost Cherokee to cancer. She made it to 11 y/o . Grieved more for that dog than either of my parents, heh.

I think we're in the same pickle, sweet girl.

2026-03-29T19:20:53Z

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I think we're in the same pickle, sweet girl.

It's getting harder and harder to avoid Getting a Deug.

2026-03-29T19:19:32Z

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It's getting harder and harder to avoid Getting a Deug.

Georgia in the springtime is a land of many beauties.

2026-03-22T23:52:07Z

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Georgia in the springtime is a land of many beauties.

Kengo the Magnificent enjoying the fine weather.

2026-03-21T03:56:32Z

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Kengo the Magnificent enjoying the fine weather.

They are pushing it up our nostrils. I smell that orc Miller

2026-03-07T18:27:37Z

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They are pushing it up our nostrils. I smell that orc Miller

I'm trying to think of films Summer would like. Something ...

2026-02-22T03:17:06Z

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I'm trying to think of films Summer would like. Something with Meryl Streep in a garden. Or a BBC adaptation where nobody gets shot and everyone has tea. Maybe a quiet French film where a woman walks along a river thinking about bread.

And there's a dog. That gets treats. And saves Little Timmy down the well....

"Not John Ford again..."

2026-02-21T19:01:07Z

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"Not John Ford again..."

... as for love and its declarations, some years ago when I first ...

2026-02-14T21:24:20Z

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... as for love and its declarations, some years ago when I first met my wife, I gave her flowers.

She cried. I grew alarmed - what had I done?

She explained to me - this was the first time a man had given her flowers.

There's no democracy with dogs, I've learned. They like ...

2026-02-14T21:07:35Z

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There's no democracy with dogs, I've learned. They like to know their place in the hierarchy - once that's settled, they know their place - on The Man's Lap....

We lost a lovely dog, half GSD, half Husky. My wife has a positively enormous clan of relatives, we were offered a puppy in exchange for running their business while they went on holiday.

My wife and I were standing outside her father's home, my emotions rubbed raw. I miserably said "If we get this GSD, we have to go training"

Training for us, the dog was sorta incidental, heh.

Best thing we ever did in the context of that dog.

Stop whining. You and about seventy zillion terrified sheep ...

2026-02-12T21:36:00Z

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Stop whining. You and about seventy zillion terrified sheep running around here bleating about the Terrible AI monster under the bed.

.... how can you distinguish between 'em?

2026-02-12T21:33:12Z

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.... how can you distinguish between 'em?

Shrug. Here's a tip - when you put up a para like this one: ...

2026-02-12T21:27:19Z

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Shrug. Here's a tip - when you put up a para like this one: "It'll be interesting to see what happens when a company pisses off an employee to the point where that person creates a public repo containing all the company's AI-generated code. I guarantee what's AI-generated and what's human-written isn't called out anywhere in the code, meaning the entire codebase becomes public domain."

- I can make the observation you're being a Chicken Little. You guaranteed it.

I can assure you, Jamie, whatever talents you may possess, ...

2026-02-12T21:17:27Z

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I can assure you, Jamie, whatever talents you may possess, possession of a Juris Doctor is not one of them. So do us all a favor and quit handing out what I believe to be so much Chicken Little-ing.

Holy shit, dude, get a subscription to Claude and be thereby ...

2026-02-12T21:00:40Z

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Holy shit, dude, get a subscription to Claude and be thereby instructed. If you're a competent programmer, you will be asking the LLM for spec. If you're a dumbass, you'll be asking for implementation.

You're attempting to say " If you fail to ...

2026-02-12T20:54:54Z

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You're attempting to say " If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*

I'll be gracious and say that's not what the law says, and if you want, I can be a jackass about this because it's not true and the last thing this place needs is yet another Chicken Little making absurd claims.

The post takes real legal uncertainty and cranks it up to maximum ...

2026-02-12T20:49:47Z

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The post takes real legal uncertainty and cranks it up to maximum alarm. The actual state of things is more nuanced and still evolving — courts are working through these questions case by case, and the Copyright Office indicated that a future may arise in which prompts could "sufficiently control expressive elements in AI-generated outputs to reflect human authorship."

So it's worth being thoughtful about this stuff, but "your vibe-coded repo is public domain" is not an accurate summary of the law.

Y'look at those pale blue eyes and realize he's not all ...

2026-02-12T04:26:07Z

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Y'look at those pale blue eyes and realize he's not all there:

🎵 No matter how he tried, he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain

Verdict: a litte moblur is a treat for the eye.

2026-02-06T15:48:36Z

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Verdict: a litte moblur is a treat for the eye.

Not really, CB. The Civil War could have ended at Gettysburg if ...

2026-01-28T13:55:07Z

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Not really, CB. The Civil War could have ended at Gettysburg if Meade had gotten off his dead ass and kept Lee from escaping.

And the effing Democrats are going to let Steven Miller escape. The rest of this is a symptom and Miller is the cause.

True story. Elon Musk at SpaceX. Elon hired Gwynne Shotwell, ...

2026-01-21T01:49:39Z

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True story. Elon Musk at SpaceX. Elon hired Gwynne Shotwell, brilliant, competent, certainly the smartest thing Elon Musk ever did, to hire her.

Shotwell wrapped him in a nice cocoon of being told what he wants to hear - and otherwise ignoring his other babblings.

No, it's policy. We decide to tell people not to come here, ...

2026-01-14T14:14:58Z

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No, it's policy. We decide to tell people not to come here, don't do business here - how will that get more people to vote for reasonable candidates?

It won't and we both know it.

I sure wish I was as similarly convinced of the evil of the ...

2026-01-14T14:04:45Z

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I sure wish I was as similarly convinced of the evil of the American public. Yeah, when our leaders run amok, the thing which will convince those rogue elephants of their evil ways is to damage ordinary people who didn't do anything to anyone, just trying to run a business.

That's "reality"

Consequences for whom? Sure does make ethics a lot simpler when ...

2026-01-14T13:57:10Z

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Consequences for whom? Sure does make ethics a lot simpler when you can just throw us all in your Hefty Bag.

When I see this sort of thing: "As an American: don't ...

2026-01-14T13:53:27Z

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When I see this sort of thing:

"As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA"

I'm thinking about the people around me, here in Wisconsin, dependent on tourist business - it's pretty terrible up here just now.

Not a milligram of nuance to anything said around here.

Eventually, someone will fire back. Not if, when.

2026-01-08T13:46:42Z

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Eventually, someone will fire back. Not if, when.

Seen anything about Epstein lately? 'Cause I haven't. ...

2026-01-06T19:01:59Z

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Seen anything about Epstein lately?

'Cause I haven't.

Yeah. Mission Accomplished, you betcha

Luke is a double-word, wlæc from Old English == tepid, warm from ...

2026-01-02T15:09:44Z

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Luke is a double-word, wlæc from Old English == tepid, warm from German and Old Saxon.

Next dog I get, probably a GSD, I'm putting in a handicapped ...

2025-12-22T04:46:58Z

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Next dog I get, probably a GSD, I'm putting in a handicapped shower, so I can wash the dog's legs, one of those almost-Japanese style entire-floor jobs like you see in the hospital.

Gordon Parks is the master of shooting black people. We've ...

2025-12-20T22:24:20Z

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Gordon Parks is the master of shooting black people. We've still got the problem today, especially with the darkest skin tones: the lighting is almost always wrong.

Gordon Parks shot mostly b/w, but moved to color film, late in life, bringing with him that Rembrandt-like grasp of tone.

We are now reduced to so many Versailles courtiers, attempting to ...

2025-12-14T09:14:59Z

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We are now reduced to so many Versailles courtiers, attempting to attract the attention of a mad emperor, whose every thought is the last thing he heard.

It's disgraceful.

Will Trump and his gang watch the ads, do you think? They are the ...

2025-12-14T08:34:17Z

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Will Trump and his gang watch the ads, do you think? They are the only Washington Insiders whose opinions matter.

You grace this place.

2025-12-11T03:22:22Z

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You grace this place.

I draw a distinction (however unorthodox) between ethics and ...

2025-12-02T21:13:45Z

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I draw a distinction (however unorthodox) between ethics and morality.

Morality is what I wouldn't do and you couldn't make me. Ethics is me telling you not to do it, either.

Rebellion - against whom or what? In the face of injustice, who will say No? Who will stop them?

Given the rudiments of this conversation, I'd posit - the ...

2025-11-23T05:08:17Z

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Given the rudiments of this conversation, I'd posit - the only intelligent and thoughtful conclusions all boil down to the Nature/Nurture business.

My children are biracial. They code switch languages and customs with great facility. One set of grandchildren speak Finnish and English, the other Spanish and English. They're all American.

If white Americans find it difficult to understand the ubiquity of white supremacy, it's rather like explaining water to a fish.

Racial identity is a personal matter, but honestly, it creates these us-versus-them situations, from which no good arises.

I messed around with mendhak's code years ago. Just go ...

2025-11-19T20:44:53Z

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I messed around with mendhak's code years ago.

Just go external. Graphene is a nightmare.

Chip: u-blox M8N or F9P (if you want RTK/Centimeter accuracy).

Form Factor: USB Dongle (looks like a flash drive with an antenna connector) or a small breakout board.

Cost: ~$15 - $30 for a generic M8N dongle.

Why: They natively speak NMEA 0183 over USB serial (CDC-ACM). No modes, no menus. Plug it in, and it blasts text at 9600 baud (usually).

Are you attempting to tell me the EBNF of a programming language, ...

2025-11-17T15:40:46Z

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Are you attempting to tell me the EBNF of a programming language, combined with Gang of Four patterns is somehow IP theft?

I use Gemini and Claude 4.0 Sonnet all day long for code assist. ...

2025-11-17T15:26:58Z

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I use Gemini and Claude 4.0 Sonnet all day long for code assist.

"AI" is an acronym used by people trying to sell you shit.

But for those of us who are using it as intended, it's a godsend. For those of us who have been writing its component parts for oh - 30 years or so - it's just a logical progression on what came before.

Here's a Phoenix sunset from 2009: ...

2025-11-09T05:31:04Z

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Here's a Phoenix sunset from 2009:

Mamdani's mother is Hindu.

2025-11-07T04:57:18Z

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Mamdani's mother is Hindu.

The very first action item on this list - you'll forgive me ...

2025-11-06T23:29:58Z

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The very first action item on this list - you'll forgive me if I quote it directly:

"Consumers: Contact national regulators

Regulators worldwide are genuinely concerned about monopolies and the centralization of power in the tech sector, and want to hear directly from individuals who are affected and concerned. When contacting regulators directly, you should be polite and specific about the harm you believe these policies will cause, both to consumers and to competition."

The fact remains, Google has been declared a monopoly in court. A ...

2025-11-06T23:26:15Z

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The fact remains, Google has been declared a monopoly in court. A generous dose of enforcement is in order, especially in the Android space.

🙂

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-prevails-landmark-antitrust-case-against-google

The fundamental problem has been with us for years: antitrust ...

2025-11-06T22:31:10Z

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The fundamental problem has been with us for years: antitrust enforcement in the USA is practically nil.

Kengo is looking philosophical.

2025-10-30T21:30:07Z

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Kengo is looking philosophical.

I have no interest in defending a long-dead man who believed, at ...

2025-10-29T04:37:50Z

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I have no interest in defending a long-dead man who believed, at long last, after a lifetime of greed and oppressions, that great wealth came with great responsibility.

I'm pointing out the simple facts of how the mega-weathy try to buy respect, a phenomenon we see all down the historical record.

Touch grass, Cy

I would counter by observing all the Robber Barons turned to ...

2025-10-29T04:02:14Z

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I would counter by observing all the Robber Barons turned to philanthropy:

Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate said "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced," He wrote it in his 1889 essay titled "The Gospel of Wealth." This essay is the single most important document for understanding the philanthropic urge.

Carnegie's core argument in the essay was it was the moral duty of the new class of super-wealthy industrialists to use their fortunes for the public good.

He believed in strategic philanthropy, not just charity. He argued for funding public institutions (like libraries, universities, and concert halls) that would provide what he called "ladders of opportunity" for people to improve themselves.

He was strongly against simply passing down massive fortunes to heirs, believing it was wasteful and often destroyed the character of the children.

Carnegie built public libraries. Rockefeller built University of Chicago and what is now Rockefeller University. He eliminated hookworm via the Rockefeller Foundation. Stanford built Stanford University. Vanderbilt built a university. J.P. Morgan founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

They had the money but they craved the respect philanthropy gave them. Call it reputation laundering if you will, for their sins were many and terrible.

True story: Bill Gates got interested in solving the malaria ...

2025-10-29T02:18:40Z

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True story: Bill Gates got interested in solving the malaria problem. He threw so much money at the problem the legit researchers had to tell him to stop.

And to his credit, he did stop. See, philanthropy is the last pleasure, the one the rich turn to in every age. The great weakness of untutored philanthropy is this: it only solves a single problem, often at the expense of others.

But Gates, for all his bumptious mistakes, is trying his best to understand the Larger Problems. He and Warren Buffett, having seen the problems philanthropy can create, are intent upon learning from the mistakes of others - and their own.

I used to teach a few classes in Monrovia CA. I'd fly back ...

2025-10-16T16:15:27Z

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I used to teach a few classes in Monrovia CA. I'd fly back with a layover in Vegas.

I come from a long line of bad drunks and gamblers. Watching those sad sacks filing onto the aircraft, misery and hangovers on their faces....