Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

From 1840 to 1850, private Britons cumulatively invested 40% of British GDP into the country’s first rail network. For reference, the equivalent today would be the tech industry spending like, $10 trillion dollars on a single thing

Anyways it’s confirmed, guess we’re all doing this again guys

The grimmest realization is not the very old one that Trump is a hyper-sensitive narcissist who thinks criticizing him should be illegal.

The grimmest realization is that a substantial number of Americans are born serfs, best suited for a monarchy, who thinks that’s manly and admirable and right.

The Visigoths we elected are raiding Rome.

The Maximum Leader has spoken, so his Republican lickspittles must now reconfigure their positions.

Madness

As others have noted, the life of Carl Bosch is worth a look in these times. Fritz Haber demonstrated that nitrogen could be reduced to ammonia, but Bosch’s work turned that into a technology that changed the world with sudden new supplies of fertilizer (and of explosives). (1/8)

It’s upside down, with its landing gear pointed toward the sky. I’m just curious what possibility needs to be hedged with the “appeared to have flipped over” language. Like, maybe it took off that way—is that the thinking?

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? If it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
—A. Lincoln

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

While it's true that large X communities have migrated to BlueSky, sadly the AI community - and esp. the community of developers who use models - largely hasn't migrated yet.

If you want to stay atop of what's going on in AI, X remains better at the moment.

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Speaking purely as an economist, I am all in favor of banana art. If artists can figure out ways of getting the wealthy to give them large sums of money by offering them cultural status, it is just a very efficient form of income redistribution.