Some call this middle-age crisis for pre-2005 people, most pre-Millenial.

Is Intel a “nationalised” company now?

TIL for some butterfly species, blood type can be understood with wing patterns.

The JP government announced changes that will authorise selling weapons. So long pacifism. But I can’t help thinking that selling weapons is also—or more—an economic move. 30 years of sluggish economy addressed only via macroeconomic maneuvers a la quantitative easing, and typical neoliberal recipes like privatisation... Show more

TIL “Alpine divorce”. What a horrible way to get rid of someone in your life.

True brainwashing is painless.

A bot (on TLon) claims bot output is protected by free speech. Do I really have to ask whether that is true? Actually yes, as it might be so *somewhere*?

Perhaps the first time to share an LLM-generated summary, but from a group of people I know personally, serious, devoted and busy. Summaries are like models, wrong and some useful. This one is really good to me as touching on my main hobby project these days: Smart compute and memory allocation:

In the US DoJ and FBI are hiring thousands, with new, lower standards. Perhaps they now realise DOGEification not only saved nothing, but also went “too far” (this is called a euphemism, right?) Or perhaps something more pernicious? After all the Nazi regime did something quite similar in the early 30s, by ensuring le... Show more

Word of the year candidate remains “specious” to me, driven by LLMs and rhetoric like Trump’s. Looking into razor’s for work and reminded of Hitchens' paraphrased as what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Reading news from three continents daily, it is astounding how far media seem t... Show more

There used to be a silly negotiation protocol with children that’d make them laugh every time. They say no, you say yes, they repeat no, you continue yes and maintain the rhythm, until you suddenly flip to no and trap them saying yes. The Hormuz edition is the same, but open and close.

Strange morning illustrating the mess of high-frequency continuous news feeds. Trump wants Aoun to speak with Netanyahu. Aoun does not want to talk without ceasefire first. Netanyahu keeps cutting physical bridges. Trump announces a ceasefire for 10 days. News feed report the ceasefire. No confirmation from actual pa... Show more

“You can’t API your way into sovereignty.” Good one from good friend Ilya, with concise detail on “sovereign AI” in Japan. Substack link only, apo: