Let’s start the year by reflecting on the colossal waste of resources in Bitcoin mining: During 2022 Bitcoin consumed 161 TWh of electricity in total, exceeding a country such as Sweden. Related CO2 emissions were ~90 Mt; again negating the entire global net savings from EVs.

Fuck all that pilot and running shit, the most impressive thing the 60 year old Tom Cruise does in Top Guns: The Mavericks is smoothly bend down to pet a dog and smoothly get up again without flinching or making a sound.

Too real.

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Dumbest people on the planet

Cork, Ireland — A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine of 1845–1852.

This has aged just enough to be really beautiful. A “look what we’ve lost” kinda thing. True. True.

Every Meat Loaf song is just: "please have sex with me tonight, but be aware that I have something on tomorrow."

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Metallica’s Creeping Death is technically Christian metal.

Just want to make sure you saw the the googly eye.

Twitter is an incredible place

Very true. But also so much animaniacs remains embedded in my brain for 30ish years now 😂

Shit he's onto us

Just finished upgrading Shopify's monolith to Ruby 3.2.0 today. Average latency: -6.6% Median latency: -5.1% p99 latency: -6.7% And that's without YJIT.

I mean, those 3 years as I spent at Twitter on leading an AI Engineering team were some of the best of my careeer x.com/compound248/st…