I could never understand why someone would buy a pair of $70 sunglasses. I bought 12 pairs of polarized glasses for $36 on Amazon so have a backup every time I lose a pair (which is often). Plus I can keep a pair in my car, stroller, coat, at home, etc.

Me and my wife: (She can't be the first person to make that joke, right?)

Last, while any challenge to Putin’s dictatorship is historic, we should remember: Prigozhin & Wagner are not good guys coming to liberate Russia & make it a blooming democracy. Remember, Prigozhin troll farms & influence operations targeted U.S. elections in 2016.

What I wonder about with OceanGate is where the engineering team was with all of this. Was there even an engineering or QA? If so, what rationale did they have with the design decisions? Seems a student in ME 101 could have found lots of issues.

Recruiter: "[Unpersonalized cold email]." Me: "Sorry, I'm not interested." LinkedIn: "<Recruiter> wants to connect."

One reason sci fi movies about the future can seem dated is that they overestimate progress in some areas while underestimating progress in others, leading to a lopsided universe where we have e.g. flying cars and magical food hydrators next to 80s clothes and fax machines.

In the future, AI will enable everyone to work 3.5 day work-weeks, which is great for the production of art because everyone will have more time to make music and write poetry that a computer is better at producing anyways. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Twitter is notably more right-wing than it used to be. I also suspect that many of the 'people' posting are bots or paid trolls because the messaging is simply too consistent. Their current instructions are to convey, "I voted for Biden in 2020 but wouldn't do so again because.."

I'm very much liking LLMs like Bard and ChatGPT for doing rapid research, e.g. for rapidly recommending and summarizing engineering tradeoffs for different technical products. But I dread the inevitable day that tech companies sneak sponsored results into their LLMs' responses.

How embarrassing for OpenAI, first for making such a deal and second for being proud to advertise it. The cherry on top: "In addition to providing content, News Corp will share journalistic expertise..." openai.com/index/news-cor…

The most rational thing that Elon Musk could do right now is buy Fox News. Trump has more political leverage here, and Trump has the support of Congressional Republicans, who have their base, who consume Fox. It will be expensive, but Murdoch would sell for the right price.