Bank of Japan has just increased interest rates to highest for the past 30 years. New rate is 0.75% Can anyone share links to explanation why cryptocurrency holders seem to freak out about this announcement?

Marshall Islands paid the first universal basic incomes using the Stellar blockchain. A first at such scale.

Looking for a link to an old Celebrity deathmatch video featuring RAGTM, top links were reports of the death of Zach de la Rocha. All the reports were hoaxes. Apparently same for many artists.

Tiny robots with embedded compute and extended autonomy for a penny a piece.

Whether or not you want to pay for LLM services. From GH mailing list: “introducing a new $0.002 per-minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage” So we will have to pay for using our own compute. Sure part of it is GH software, but steep price at scale. Enshittification’s c... Show more

Good bye iRobot.

“Experimentally, financial incentives for commenting reduced participation differentials, whereas we did not find effects from a civility norm treatment. These findings support preference- and incentive-based accounts of participation but suggest that light-touch interventions are unlikely to bridge participation gaps,... Show more

The OpenAI label is 10 year old today. The company looks like now stable in its intentions and actual choices for the future for about what, a year? For founders, their story may better be understood as an exception, more than an example to follow or even aim at. Very complex geopolitical, climato-weirdness underlying context.

When you start thinking that making the legal system free may well *reduce* the volume of procedures. Suing parties are often lions with a sheepish coat. They believe that their superior resources will allow winning by exhaustion. And that happens more and more, even for big tickets like Paramount, medias who are supp... Show more

A bit sad Japanese cies do product trials and launch outside Japan. Correction. I feel some enlightenment on Japanese culture and economics. It seems innovation in Japan is about trying something outside the blessed land, succeed there or just get noticed with a "come back". It looks more like a crusading abroad camp... Show more

Is sugarcoating the best definition for lying?

To put your mouth where the money goes is not business courage. It is plain business. Business courage is to refuse the money and hold on your values. So for most people, courage is in fact non-sensical border line craziness. And yet there are cantos about heroic entrepreneurs making the hard decision to opt for whe... Show more

www.climatenobelprize.org Wondering if that might help.