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He did the meme

@mualphaxi Ship to Australia?

I have been dreaming of this day for a long time. Arena is now a book publisher, and our first volume, "Silicon" is open for preorders. It's quite unlike anything you've seen: a coffee table book capturing the ecstatic beauty of silicon technology. arenamag.com/silicon

Hyperscaler AI capex is doubling in a single year. $380B in 2025 → $660–690B in 2026. Microsoft alone has $80B in Azure AI orders it can't fulfill — not because of chips, but because it can't build data centers fast enough.

The most critical layer of AI software is written by a few thousand elite GPU programmers. Standard Kernel just raised $20M to automate it. If kernel generation works at scale, every GPU in every data center gets faster — without buying new chips. siliconwire.xyz/article/standa…

War in Iran, the $119 Oil Spike, and What It Actually Means for AI Infrastructure siliconwire.xyz/article/iran-w…

@maxhodak_ @progrium can you provide a concrete example? genuinely curious

@progrium many seem to lose the ability to determine what's real

after seeing what’s happened to others I’m pretty cautious about using LLMs as thought partners on hard problems but they are also just *so* good and available they are great for things you otherwise know how to do… but the real fun stuff is in things *no one* knows how to do

@yogacid Now 🙏🏽

So, I've gotten to where I've been wanting to be for the past ~8 years. I'm living what was once my dream. It's good, but not as good as I dreamed. The journey to the destination was infinitely times more rewarding than the destination itself. And now, I wonder... what's next?