Years ago in a conversation with Black Swan author @nntaleb I asked how he would invest for the long-term (eg: retirement). He said to put 80% in the safest options (like t-bills & bonds), and 20% in speculative stocks. You can see why this is smart in this comparison...

Hey Friends, I am officially on a support rotation at @wordpress.com (we all do an annual week of support to connect with customers). If you have a site you have wanted to update, migrate or get going I can offer free migrations and potential discounts. wordpress.com/support/impo...

I just the last message sent from the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost Lunar Lander 😢

A reminder that the legal use of the autopen by the president has already passed legal tests. Interestingly, this decision has been taken down from the DOJ website, but I found a copy on the @waybackmachine.bsky.social @archive.org

web.archive.org/web/20110228...

Bamboo factory and the houses and furniture built by the Green Village outside of Ubud Bali.

It's going to get worse, before it gets even worse... Could not have happened to a nicer guy🤣

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I am living in fear that the cuts at the NOAA will reach the network of water level measurement systems that are used to predict flooding and tidal waves. We have over 150 years of tide days at this station alone. We are shooting ourselves in the face.

tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome....

I wonder what 5 bullet points Elon is emailing his board and shareholders at Tesla this week?

For those of you wondering about the results, China soundly beat France with their performance at tonight's 12th annual International Pyromusical Competition in Manila. Hard to compete with the inventors of gunpowder i guess...

Imagine if the Internet was being invented by DARPA today, DOGE would shut it down. The $9m Reuters contract @elonmusk is raging about is with their research division (not news) in order to learn how to defend our country from info attacks. www.highergov.com/contract-opp...

"Tesla’s profitability at its core cars division fell to its lowest level in five years in the fourth 1/4" -Forbes
So it begins. This is the 1/4 that all the liberals that used to be his customers stopped buying @Tesla. If they get written out of the tax rebate, that will be it

If we ever connect with the other timelines it is going to be so embarrassing to be from this one...

Thank you David Lynch. Seeing Dune at 12 right after reading the books, my mom's first date with my step dad was to Eraserhead, & that time you arranged for me & some friends to hang out at the amazing club you designed in Paris, Silencio. All were life changing.
-Rest In Power

Great chat with Neal Stephenson the other night about astronomer Percival Lowell who reported seeing "canals on Mars" through his telescope, but was actually just seeing reflections of his own optical blood vessels :)