Sister and BiL are here so we have 8 kids at my house this weekend. It's wild. Makes me wish we could have had more kids. If you're a young guy have ten. I don't think you'll regret it.

Here's what you need to know about HB2320: Teenagers and young adults across the state of Washington are very quickly going to be put into two camps: compliant and noncompliant. The teenagers and young adults Washington state needs for its future are going to be almost

We all can agree on what's actually good.. or at least find enough people to agree that something is good to make a market segment worth pursuing. Most cars sold today look like half-dissolved throat lozenges and people only buy them because the sticker prices for new cars are

I've been experimenting with consulting AI for recipes. It's been teasing out some of AI's nagging weaknesses. The "smarter" AI gets, the more it questions its sources and its training. But the more it does that, the more bumps into its boundaries of being stuck in a purely

It's very possible that Dexter Taylor will eventually be vindicated and freed. But that's not the point. He might beat the rap... eventually... but he's not beating the ride. We're at the point where legislators will create laws that ignore reality, cops and prosecutors

Scenes from today's PDB.

A few months ago this wasn't on anyone's radar, now it's popping up in multiple states at once... almost like it was part of a larger plan. Maybe you're not into guns, maybe you're even anti gun. This isn't about guns though, it's about control.

You can believe that Israel drew us into starting this war in Iran when we did and believe that eliminating the Iranian regime leadership is a net good for the world that just happens to also be a net good for Israel. You can believe that Iran is a major state sponsor of terror

Meanwhile, in America. Police raided rapper Afroman’s house. They didn’t charge him with anything, but they trashed his home and stole $400. He captured the raid on CCTV. He then dropped diss tracks roasting them. They sued him for defamation, and he won.

A lot of new technology right now isn't much more than a demonstrator model looking for an investor or customer to fund future development or buy them out. But, if you talk to enough older manufacturing founders who made it, you find out that their successes weren't much more

A 30-year-old in 1980 owned a house like this working at the local factory. Married six years with three kids. Weekends meant Little League games. Both sets of grandparents lived within five miles. The kids would attend the same high school he did and grow up with the children of

When I joined the Army, there were still a lot of folks enlisting out of post-9/11 patriotism. It wasn't unusual to see guys in their late 20s or folks going enlisted with a college degree. I met one 36 year old (then the max age). Guy was older than every person in the basic

Profoundly stupid. Everyone involved in this legislation, including the voters who sit back and accept this, is profoundly stupid. Every maker in the state of Washington can now be treated as a criminal if the state of Washington wants to treat them as a criminal. Every

A FB page that I help run for a local veteran's club got flagged for "community violations". Couldn't figure out what was actually contradicting the standards and practices rules, the note just said our whole page was a problem in some unspecified way. Also couldn't figure out

Holy shit... Stanford just proved that GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude can't actually see. They removed every image from 6 major vision benchmarks. The models still scored 70-80% accuracy. They were never looking at your photos. Your scans. Your X-rays. Here's what's really going

Kind of an extreme scenario, but this is our stupid future. AI bots decide you need to be blocked from accessing something, either because you're naughty (or you fit the behavioral markers of someone who is about to be naughty). The thing you're blocked from is linked to

Let's just, for a few minutes at least, enjoy scientific achievement for once. The government is doing something positive, completing a long-term project, asserting its leadership role in the world in a non-political and non-military way, and taking a step toward the future of

ok, I know this is a post to get folks interested in AI music, but this bassline...

This is magical.