TooTall

The good news: The labs have started to hire undergrads again. The bad news: The labs in question

Turns out the 0 gram shoe is that time Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila did the 1960 Rome Olympics marathon barefoot and set a world record of 2:15:16 while winning Gold. He was late addition after another runner got injured and the shoes they gave didn’t fit, so he went shoeless.

The Jetson ONE personal air vehicle. Priced at $128,000

Google already owns ~14% of Anthropic and it eye-ing another $40B investment: “Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic at its current $350 billion valuation, and could invest up to $30 billion more if the company meets certain performance milestones.” Amazon own ~20% of Anthropic and a recently announced a $25B new investment ($5B commitment with another $20B based on milestones).

More than 300,000 people stood outside for hours to listen to some dude in a suit read names off an index card. The European mind simply cannot comprehend this.

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit - then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max - temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges hyperstitions.