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Mike
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I am a historian of the 20th century. Non-practicing. It would make me even more unhappy about the 21th century anyway
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Everytime I read "Nvidia isn't Enron" I think of that joke in Bojack Horseman: "We ain't making Casablanca... because Casablanca is a movie about a club owner named Rick, this movie is about Secretariat, a race horse."
Nvidia isn't Enron, because they sell GPUs, and not power generation.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Everytime I read "Nvidia isn't Enron" I think of that joke in Bojack Horseman: "We ain't making Casablanca... because Casablanca is a movie about a club owner named Rick, this movie is about Secretariat, a race horse."
Nvidia isn't Enron, because they sell GPUs, and not power generation.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Also not a great sentence! By the middle I already had to loop back to see if it was the old ladies, Trump or the other candidate telling her she was pretty
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
All the world wanted (and needs!) is reliable automation of dumb busywork, but all we got is unpredictable production of words and the devaluation of work, knowledge and ability
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
(ook een kleine veertig jaar na de invoering van vrouwenkiesrecht stond er nog "zijner")
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It's a shame these systems all come with corporate monitoring built in, otherwise you could just do a worse job to convince people an ai did it
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Another great win for the chatbots
October 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yeah, me too. I can't understand why people think it's the most insightful book of the decade. It's just bad history, world history and cultural history in particular.
Really hate the fact that someone gifted me TWO of his books, since I'm not going to torture myself with another turd like Sapiens
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Uh, yeah maybe look at Machado's relationship with the international right in general and Trump's buddies in particular and tell me you still love to see it.

Sure, "we need more latina concentration camp guards" is a valid opinion, but eh...
October 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reduce all max speeds to a horse's trot and reserve city streets for pedestrians during daylight hours? Yeah, I'm on board for that
September 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM