Blazing Saddles still holds up the best, followed by History of the World Part 1.

Humans can outrun horses over very long distances if they’re marathoners/ultramarathoners, and any reasonably athletic person can outpace a horse on a bicycle. They’re really sprinting animals.

More concerningly: you buy a car for $28k. You had hoped to drive it for 10 years, so that's $2,800 per year. Next year Waymo unveils a driverless car that's a zillion times better and now you need to buy that instead, so now you have to cough up for the new car *and* your used car is worthless.

Total collapse of democratic norms: I sleep
Gold leaf in the White House: AH CA IRA CA IRA CA IRA

I don't think I've seen finance guys complain about Lina Khan specifically outside of a few niche merger arb guys. The people who really hated Khan's guts were always big tech guys and VCs; finance and crypto was mostly busy being mad at Gensler and the SEC since they were their actual regulators.

This is just GPT slop, right? Has all of the tells

There is I think a story to be told about how the crypto narrative vehicle in public markets went from miners (pre-COVID), which is a real business, to trading (during COVID), a financial business, to treasury companies (post-COVID), which are not a business, and now are pivoting to non-crypto.

The thing about crypto is that most people involved in the space are naked opportunists disguised as true believers, which is why so many crypto miners have executed an instant pivot to AI (Coreweave being the most prominent). They are clearly not enthusiastic about the relative potential to scam!

#humblebrag

Turns out if you want to do next token prediction on a time series you should just do that instead of doing next token prediction on human language as represented by the droolers on crypto twitter, who knew.

China is making rapid strides in the physical goonbot space, Bessent is getting worried

I will be the judge of that.

How much of the new funding will be earmarked for the next round of Michelin bribes, given the complete inadequacy of the last bribe?

Took out a bunch of auxiliary buildings and a big chunk of an airport parking lot. Injuries reported and definitely fatalities