Bedrock Brains

Went on a date yesterday where I asked what he liked to do for fun and he said “I like thinking”

First, fuck off. Ok, now we’re locked in, I sincerely wish you all the best. The world is brutal. Uncaring, wanting its own at your expense and indifferent to your losses. Leaving no safe haven for reprieve and rejuvenation. Yet the want to interdigitate and be fiercely loyal to each other persists beneath the wreckage. It’s how we are built and what we are built for. Society has strip-mined our togetherness by chopping up our bonds with endless insult. We do best with shared purpose and a common enemy. We are the stewards of intelligent life. Our moral duty is to tend its continuation. Not as martyrs, but as stalwarts. Our enemy is that which makes you smaller. Count me as your ally.

have any of the people advocating for space-based datacenters ever worked in a datacenter and seen how often hardware fails and needs to be replaced?

There's an obvious open secret everyone is ignoring that will become clear around 30 hours from now: Iran has been holding back the entire time.

Snowflake just replaced its entire technical writing team with AI. Not reduced. Replaced. All ~70 of them. If your job can be documented, your job can be automated.