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@CharlieFleed @ben_finegold A child was born who was to be the bane of Ben Finegold's existence.

@ben_finegold @bonerici wait, what happened in January 2009?

every day he asks for me to unban him. However I'm not a mod. @ben_finegold

@KarenChessPoker @ben_finegold Hi karen! You're too nice.

@bonerici @ben_finegold He can send me a message here on X and I will investigate and make a decision about it

I never block chat. It's always funny. In this case a @ben_finegold stream watcher who has been banned several times decided to send me 5 or 6 messages a day with requests. My guess is January2009 who acts like a 3 year old is probably a teen with no money.

I know somewhere I have a screw and washer that fit the repair I need to do. A replacement will cost me $12 because I have to buy a full set to get that one screw. What is the appropriate amount of time to look for it before I give up and order a new one?

the anthropic pentagon play in one act Pentagon: We love you. Now do evil with your AI Anthropic: We refuse Pentagon: We will destroy you Elon Musk: Oooh oooh ooh, pick me, pick me I love evil Pentagon: Get out of here Elon Musk, Grok sucks

@deanwball @TheZvi Rare earths are not actually rare they are just found in such small rates that to mine them anywhere is an ecological disaster. That's why if you can get away with it you want other nations to pollute their ground water with the toxic by products and not your own.

Imagine that you created an LLC, and that you are the sole owner and employee. One day your LLC receives a letter from the government that says, "here is a contract to go mine heavy rare earth elements in Alaska." You don't want to do that, so you reply, "no thanks!" There is no retaliation. Everything is fine. You declined the terms of a contract. You live in a civilized capitalist republic. We figured this stuff out centuries ago, and today we have bigger fish to fry.

I looked all over polymarket and there's no entry for "Will Trump fall asleep during his own state of the union address?" I also want to bet on who would wake him up. My guess is JD Vance because nobody hates Trump more than Vance.

ok i have my new years resolution. I promise not to post anything about politics unless it's funny. And by funny I mean people that completely disagree with my politics also find it funny. Took until end of Feb to get my new year's resolution but finally did it

why is everyone so crazy about AGI? Current LLM's are already smarter than the average human. At this point we are just figuring out the most cost effective way to use them. I think AGI is just a dumb way to boost stock prices. Maybe not so dumb. It does work.

@dystopiabreaker @AndyMasley Very strange. Why are all the AIs so highly correlated?

I wouldn't have predicted that AI could make completely convincing videos of basically anything way before it could consistently write a blog post that didn't scream AI generated

@TheZvi None of the above

For my next read, from the book recommendation thread...

@CharlieFleed @ben_finegold @anishgiri there's always vegan beef

@ben_finegold @anishgiri I thought you weren't interested in beef.

The problem is not the bad views.📉 The problem is that you are attempting to backstab your colleagues, just to increase your chance of finishing second at the EWC. That is not nice. And I am not scared of your mob. It is not a big mob, as everyone can see.

@AndrewKosz1984 @kmanguward @nytimes good questions

@bonerici @kmanguward @nytimes Those are pretty different numbers from what you just said above ("90% for Trump... 10% for Chase Oliver 0% for Kamala Harris"), aren't they? Is there actual public opinion/election polling you are drawing on for these figures (ranges, ballpark estimates, whatever)? If so, where?

Here's a free link to me in @nytimes today: "No one wished events would prove libertarians wrong more than libertarians themselves." nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opi…

@AndrewKosz1984 @kmanguward @nytimes libertarians have voted for the republican candidate ever since the 1960's and it's usually at a rate of 60 or 70 percent. they do it for the same reasons that communists vote democratic, to not "waste their vote". For Trump libertarians liked him more than most republicans

@bonerici @kmanguward @nytimes I'm not sure that's true, actually. Where did you get those figures?

@MarioMigMartins ty

@bonerici Started with Cursor, now mostly Claude Code. Cursor felt safer when I was learning. Claude Code feels faster now that I know what questions to ask. Pick one and switch later if it stops working for you.

what's the best vibe coding environment claude cursor antigrav or cline? Tell me! I don't want to get stuck in an environment that's terrible and have to switch later. #VibeCoding

@sciencegirl deep fake. Because it doesn't look real

What would you name this cat

@Civixplorer it doesn't really matter. These are all human measurements. The universe measures stuff in terms of the speed of light, planck's constant, Boltzmann const etc, which you should set to 1. Any thing else if purely for human convenience and doesn't have to make sense.

Who’s right: the U.S. or the rest of the world?