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Is that Pat Broderick cover art I see?!?
I mean, -ish? "I'm going to get this PhD and become a tenured professor somewhere cool!" and "I'm going to ride this to an exit and make a ton of money!" are in some ways very similarly unlikely outcomes
Grad school was a fucking cult, man.
This kaiju denialism will not stand.
“It depends.”
"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks."
"Because of nukes, right?"
"No, because we decided logistics was woke."
Solidarity, Comrades.
Map showing a ship dropping off oil in the UAE. Next there is a picture of a 12.8" bendy straw and text reading ~385,920 interconnected bendy straws. Next there is a ship on the eastern shore of the UAE at the pickup point.
Could this be a solution?
Each bendy straw is 12.8" long when extended. If we assume an overlap of 0.9" on each side, that leaves 11" per straw.
It's 67 miles from the port of Dubai to the port of Fujairah. That means we need ~385,920 interconnected bendy straws to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
I know someone else who has an "endorsement" for Jake Paul he'd like to offer...
An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable
I think I may have cracked it
Fuck off if you don't like my Cozy Future. I'm getting Old. And old consultants never die, they just fade away and enjoy the fruits of their labors.
Maybe I'll write music again. Maybe the Garden Shed will be big enough to build a little studio.
I'm a simple man with simple needs. One day I'd like to retire to a little cottage in the woods with a garden where the cats can run free without fear of cars & convert the old garden shed into a little writer's shed where I can enjoy a good cigar and a great glass of bourbon at the end of the day.
Look, next you're gonna tell me all Irish don't go around with a little pipe in their mouth, and I'm not sure I can handle that level of disappointment today.
Gail, are you seriously telling me that every Russian doesn't go around shouting BOZHE MOI when they're surprised?
I feel like I've been lied to for 50 years now.
I was talking to someone yesterday about waiting for that particular EO to drop once the SPR release failed to move the market. Just the grossest incompetence with these people, Andrew.
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
an AI generated image of the Strait of Hormuz and mocking a diagram that originally showed trucks going across the land, but now I've put two stargates there instead
can this be a solution
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.
wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it
MOMENTS LATER... THE ROBOT WITH THE ADULT LUTHOR, FACE HAS "DIED"!...GREAT SCOTT! LOOK AT THESE HATE TAPES INSIDE HIS CHEST COMPARTMENT: NO WONDER THE AUTOMATON LOATHED US!
This is exactly how A.I. works
Strong Fredo Vibes, tbh. youtu.be/5Weaop_aiTg?...
It's almost like we've been through this before with other industries, isn't it?
www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/07...
Software (coding assistants) were really the low-lying fruit & one of the few relatively successful product areas (though AWS, Crowdstrike, Windows, etc. are all figuring out the downsides of putting that slopcode into Prod right now). RPA is a smaller TAM than people want to admit.
So: Education.
Of course they are.
There are really only two remaining economic targets for AI: Defense (of course) and Education. And education only because its leaders seem to be so easily fooled (as they were with MOOC Madness).
They love Defense customers because they can burn tokens faster than munitions.
There has not been a single day in the last week where I have not had to encourage my wife to 1) get off Instagram and 2) if she can't do that then to at least assume that every video she sees on it is AI Slop at this point.
Meta's platforms are just one big slop factory now.
Also: video avatars of faculty are the clearest, most hit-you-over-the-head example of AI as labor substitution, deskilling and de-powering we could possibly get in higher ed. I would suggest faculty be even more vocal about that than bullshit like Einstein (which are best understood as malware).
People are suckered way too easily by the close-up magic of "AI-generated video." All too often, a shit-ton of clips have to be generated, fixed and edited to get to even a short video that still looks pretty craptacular.
Was the video generated in real-time? Were there segments longer than 10 seconds before a smash-cut? Was it, like Seedance, a skinning of pre-recorded greenscreen captures stitched together to make it seem awesome?
Did Pete Hegseth write this copy?
