Richard K
@rkemb.bsky.social
A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
One of the most informative floorplans.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
One of the most informative floorplans.
Your kids will figure you out some day.
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Your kids will figure you out some day.
Imagine thinking pecan pie is the goat when there's steak and kidney.
imagine thinking pecan pie is the goat when pumpkin is right there
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Imagine thinking pecan pie is the goat when there's steak and kidney.
Just use a stellarator and those stabilisation issues go away; control problem is a lot easier.
*Vibe fusion."
*Okay, if the Trump Administration boots up fusion in a year and powers all those giant LLMs, I promise to stop whining and buy my own personal NVIDIA supercomputer
*Okay, if the Trump Administration boots up fusion in a year and powers all those giant LLMs, I promise to stop whining and buy my own personal NVIDIA supercomputer
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just use a stellarator and those stabilisation issues go away; control problem is a lot easier.
Daredevil Dennis
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Daredevil Dennis
Reposted by Richard K
tested the monty hall problem. my brain can't accept it though the count says something else 🤯
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
tested the monty hall problem. my brain can't accept it though the count says something else 🤯
Bring back the Bennie Railplane, I say.
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Bring back the Bennie Railplane, I say.
Still waiting for a Chancellor to do tax and spend announcements in a Price is Right "Higher! Lower!" set of reveals.
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Still waiting for a Chancellor to do tax and spend announcements in a Price is Right "Higher! Lower!" set of reveals.
OBR should replace that link with a Rickroll, at least make someone smile.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
OBR should replace that link with a Rickroll, at least make someone smile.
Go west young man.
This hex-map breaks down the share of 15-24 year-olds in Germany and the regional contrast is hard to miss.
Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Go west young man.
It would be my contention that the UK constitution doesn't actually allow for rights in the sense they're discussed elsewhere. /1
Re-upping this. Trying to explain rights to the median Brit is like trying to explain feminism to someone from the 16th century. The fundamental building blocks and frame of reference just aren't there
We are just, in many ways, a people that the 20th century didn’t happen to. We‘ve never really slid into overt tyranny, we haven’t faced a mainland invasion for over two centuries, and there hasn’t been a successful one for over three. There has been little soil for respect for rights to grow
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It would be my contention that the UK constitution doesn't actually allow for rights in the sense they're discussed elsewhere. /1
Sure, American Pope sounds like a gritty 70s street movie, but turns out he's pretty conventionally Catholic after all.
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
Pope Leo and the Vatican reject polygamy in sweeping doctrinal praise of monogamy
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
www.sltrib.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Sure, American Pope sounds like a gritty 70s street movie, but turns out he's pretty conventionally Catholic after all.
Alphaville: financial Popbitch.
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Alphaville: financial Popbitch.
They'll keep making Star Wars sequels until they finally make a good one.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
They'll keep making Star Wars sequels until they finally make a good one.
How much do you reckon he has hidden away?
I was wondering how long it would take our broken, desiccated, decadent culture to rehabilitate this guy.
Sam Bankman-Fried Goes on the Offensive
Two years after he was found guilty of fraud, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is pursuing a legal appeal—and firing up his X account.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
How much do you reckon he has hidden away?
Sigh
No, again?
I think Duncan Weldon termed this "the stupidest chart" once.
I think Duncan Weldon termed this "the stupidest chart" once.
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sigh
Loving the implication that he tried telling the Board that the pizza market was saturated, and they responded by firing him for not loving pizza enough.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Loving the implication that he tried telling the Board that the pizza market was saturated, and they responded by firing him for not loving pizza enough.
This fundamentally comes down to where one's own lines are as a commentator or as a politician. How closely are you, yes you, willing to work with a racist?
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This fundamentally comes down to where one's own lines are as a commentator or as a politician. How closely are you, yes you, willing to work with a racist?
Also eagerly anticipating this running up against whether milkshakes count as a dessert, or what happens if they are for some reason served hot for take-away.
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Also eagerly anticipating this running up against whether milkshakes count as a dessert, or what happens if they are for some reason served hot for take-away.
DO AVOCADOS NEXT, GO ON
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
DO AVOCADOS NEXT, GO ON
I have just seen the simplest book title.
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I have just seen the simplest book title.
In all this discourse everyone's forgetting to slip the Christmas Special in there above Rise of Skywalker.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In all this discourse everyone's forgetting to slip the Christmas Special in there above Rise of Skywalker.
"Memento ridiculi."
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Memento ridiculi."
They raised $700m, a sum of money that Amazon could just have given them, and that almost certainly isn't enough to deliver the first of a kind SMR. I'm always bemused by the big noise made about investments which are neither particularly generous not enough to do the job.
Amazon’s X-energy closes one of the largest fundraisings by a reactor developer, as investors bet big on nuclear energy. It has signed deals to deliver almost 150 SMRs in the US and UK on.ft.com/49D7TpB @financialtimes.com
Amazon’s X-energy gets backing from Jane Street as investors bet big on nuclear
[FREE TO READ] Reactor developer closes fundraising round as markets expect atomic energy will power the AI boom
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
They raised $700m, a sum of money that Amazon could just have given them, and that almost certainly isn't enough to deliver the first of a kind SMR. I'm always bemused by the big noise made about investments which are neither particularly generous not enough to do the job.