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I had read roughly one zillion sneers and scoffs by leftists complaining about the jet car doing a flip. That was before I realized I had not seen the whole demonstration. The thing can drive straight up walls and cling to surfaces like Spider-Man. Instead, the left is complaining that Elon Musk has not cured world cancer, cured World hunger, cured all diseases, installed a light rail system in California, irrigated the Sahara. You malicious fools. What is delaying our future is exactly attempts to cure incurable problems by using the exact opposite of the means needed. Socialism does not generate wealth. Public schooling does not generate education. We could have had Spider-Man jet cars two generations ago, plus the reusable space rockets, plus the moonbase, plus the robots, and the self-driving electrical cars, if only we had not wasted so much time with socialist schemes and public education. The future we were promised on all of the magazine covers in the 1940s and 1950s was always there for the having.

I don’t get the whole personifying a disease thing. Is cancer a brutal disease? Of course. Does it have agency so I should yell at it? No. It’s just a thing.

Roger Waters is always mad. It’s his thing. Insufferable.

You’re right, we can do better

We will make sure that it’s legal — at a minimum could be used to leapfrog golf carts in the Villages.

Three immediate thoughts come to mind. First, this is awesome. Second, most people are terrible drivers and should not be entrusted with this technology. Third, I’m a good driver so I should have one.

Cavemen Issues Dire Warning That The Wheel Is Going To Eliminate Countless Jobs

the problem is to measure "impactful" and optimize for it. academia has defined "impactful" as "other academics like it". Academics like string theory because it is mathematically "rich" in the sense that you can write lots of papers about it.

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent, My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov. The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison. I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return. I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something. Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act. Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged. Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working. A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats. This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried. There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go. Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him. I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them. This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one. Three things would change the math overnight. Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined. End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them. Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine. I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it. Respectfully, Everett A. Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

This is the least surprising graph in the world if you understand how gradient descent works.

The fields that fall first to AI will be those that most humans think of as the realm of really smart people. Why? Humans aren’t wired to think logically over large data sets. So it takes a LOT of training to learn to do this reasonably well. Hard sciences. Medicine. Law. Long reasoning chains with perfect memory and probability are exactly what machines are good at. The most educated humans will be obsolete first. The least educated will be obsolete last. There will be much gnashing of teeth. The crocodile tears have only just begun.

Back in the gym the last few weeks after several months away. Fourth deadlift workout since Aug 2025. 10th since Jul 2024. Today’s goal was a single at 515. Felt strong in warmups and decided to take 545 instead. Smooth like scotch whisky. Three sets of 5 at 425 after. Grab the bar, brace, and PUSH THE WORLD AWAY.

I love Starlink, but if we nationalize it, Musk should go full Atlas Shrugged. Deorbit every satellite, then post a message to X that says, "I leave it as I found it."

The thing about James Bond is he’s not the best at anything. He’s just damn good at a lot of different things. Once upon a time we called this being well rounded and colleges went out of there way to recruit these people. And when Bond is out of his depth, he stays calm and relaxed so he ends up figuring it out. The villains? Neurotic specialists who fall apart when things go as expected. That’s why they always die.

String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding. For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems. The bottleneck is iterated contact with reality.

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Eugene Stoner wrote a personal letter to the USMC Commandant, asking to he buried at Arlington with full-automatic salvos from M16 rifles. Legend.