Imagine thinking that building a conter-drone AI-powered robotic gun isn’t incredibly cool.

I think a fundamental issue when people debate about the middle class is that they don’t talk about the same thing. For some middle class is an absolute level (midsized home, 2 cars, kids, vacations, college), and for others it’s being average. The average moves up every year.

Everything is computer. Everybody transgender.

How did these dysmorphic designs become the standards corporate way to draw people? They look terrible.

In Europe and in the UK in particular there is a huge problem of arresting and punishing the *victim* (for simply defending themselves) more than the *attacker*. Complete moral inversion.

In the UK if you tackle a guy stealing a bike and he breaks his arm, he will get off with a small fine for attempted theft and you will be charged with much harsher assault charges. And then people wonder why no one does anything when criminal behavior happens in broad daylight.

There was a meeting at some point where someone -maybe Trump- said “let’s have a low pass with a B2 it will be cool” And then they discussed the timing, how many planes, etc. Someone was probably against it and they had to debate a little bit. I find It very wholesome.

In the south of France they removed the showers at the beach to “save water”, so people end up using the water fountain to clean the sand and salt off, which uses a lot more water. The correct and non decel answer should be water-efficient showers and water desalination plants.

Great website to check out Robotaxi rollout!

Weekly launch update from Flight Atlas.

Both of these things are true: >China has an order of magnitude more heavy industrial capacity than the US, top tier city / transportation infrastructure, and some leading tech companies. >The US is much richer per capita, and is still the leader in most techs.

We live in the future

I was being a bit disappointed by the weather today and it dawned on me that I’m on a planet with the perfect conditions for life in an infinity of deadly space, and I’m upset because it’s a bit too cold for swimming.

100 Falcon launches and 3 Starship launches!

I genuinely do not know how Marc Andreessen looks like anymore.