Oh, we’re a bit ahead of schedule – we’re only in the Year of Our Ford 120

This should have been the headline.

My vote: Moxie Marlinspike

I’d say he looks like a live-action version of Beaker from the Muppets, but I would never slander Beaker like that.

I call this a win-win. The Pentagon loses access to some of the best and brightest minds, and the universities learn not to take money from a fickle, political body. It sucks for the people who had research depending on this funding, but with the exception of the 2 schools in blood-red Oklahoma these schools were all in blue states on Trump’s shit list, they probably saw it coming.

Who’s to say they didn’t though? With the possible exception of not checking the IT company’s financial health (and maybe they did but decided it wasn’t a risk), the process worked as intended. They outsourced their storage and backups. The data is still stored and backed up. They were able to follow a remediation protocol (ie speaking to the judge) to regain access.

Having worked with huge, slow organizations before, they probably had a mandate in place to outsource this kind of thing, and nobody in-house to evaluate the solution, so they picked an “expert” company who then went out of business.

It’s a shame. Everyone looks good in pink.

Listen, I love biscuits n’ gravy, but if they come for my avocado toast they’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

Sapiens is so heavily overfitted that I almost couldn’t finish it the first time I read it through. You could say the same about Dawn of Everything , except that Dawn 's purpose was to show that there were not just counterexamples for many generally accepted things, but in some cases new evidence that totally overturns some of that “common knowledge.”

One of my favorite books. Though I have to read it with 10 Wikipedia tabs opened.

I don’t like this headline. A human from 60,000 years ago would be anatomically identical to a modern human, brain included, so of course they mind would be able to produce sophisticated ideas. A better headline would have been about there are few examples of abstract mathematics from that long ago.

I will be using “tendentious hellscape” in all of my meeting notes going forward. Thank you.

• A recent report from the London Stock Exchange Group Plc found that “green economy” companies have a total stock market value of $10 trillion.

So about the same size as the AI industry, but actually produces something of value.

The ponies I’ve met have all been right bastards, so this tracks.

Oh wow. I just re-read Drexler’s Radical Abundance recently after coming across an ancient job application I sent in to his lab like 25 years ago (I didn’t get it). I sort of assumed by this point I wouldn’t see real progress in my lifetime.

Cars with big numbers aren’t really about performance, they’re about being performative. They’re entries in a dick-measuring contest.