The stock price was inflated to start with, due to speculation. Elon was just taking advantage of the situation. "Oh, you want to buy a tiny fraction of my company at way more than it's worth? Sure. I can use an infusion of liquidity." What's bonkers is that if you sell 1% of your company for $20 billion, the talking heads then pretend the whole company is worth two trillion. Who would actually buy SpaceX for two trillion dollars if Elon wanted to sell it? But they call him a trillionaire. He's only worth the net present (discounted) value of all future earnings of his companies. Yes, that's a lot of money, but look at how much these companies make and do the math.

I think there's some nuance needed there.

Pelosi's trading is legal, it's highly problematic from an ethics perspective, but it's completely legal and somewhat common for legislators to do. So she can be criticized for using an unfair advantage, but it's not unprecedented nor a major sin.

Trump's grifts on the other hand do violate laws and precedent, those laws just aren't enforced.

For an extra $100k you get a pardon!

I'm not too worried, as hotels should have these patched within two weeks. Just thank God there's no hacker conference this weekend in a city like Las Vegas, which has the most hotel rooms in America.

You'd think there'll be people solving the easy unsolved problems, but the fact is humans go for glamor. I'll give you a specific example, in my company .. which does biotech .. I mention in passing to every intern the following: "there are about 20,000 genes in the human genome. For many of them, nobody has investigated what it does. You can find numerous lists on this (reference: https://unknome.mrc-lmb.cam.ac... ) .. for example a famous gene like TP53 (which causes cancer when fucked) has tens of thousands of publications made about it (though ironically there's likely still stuff it does that we don't know). Meanwhile as shown in the reference URL there are hundreds of genes that have had no papers published on them. Like zero, no publications .. given the resources available at this company we will let you investigate what those genes do and possibly find out something cool, but, you have to do it on your own time."

Guess how many interns have bothered to do that in the past decade? Zero.

It will eventually be revealed that rsilvergun is a Chinese LLM trained entirely on the complete works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Kim Il-Sung, and Mao.

It's not just "survivable Gs" that matter. Unless you can sprout roots or some kind of mycelium (unlikely until you've gone through rounds of evolution), bacteria/life needs to move from place to place .. motility .. that's a bit tough in high gravity unless you're in a churning fluid or something.

Umm good luck with that. The animals on that planet would need strong muscles. Birds maybe impossible to evolve unless the atmosphere is super thick. And their rocket scientists or aerospace engineers would have to be geniuses.

Itâ(TM)s never alien bees.

Have they investigated the giant casino in Manhattan?

England and Wales recorded 499 homicides in the 2025/26 period, representing the lowest annual count since comparable records began. That's with the huge influx of migrants too btw.

What part of the bill of rights protects your whereabouts in public from being recorded? Are you referring to this: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

You aren't being tracked inside your house. Nor is anyone doing a cavity search on you.

Now I agree "mass surveillance" is creepy, but we can have Flock without mass surveillance. If someone is kidnapped or attacked in a particular location the police should have the right to see what cars or persons were around there. How is that different from the police going around asking neighbors if they saw any vehicle or person leaving a building? That's literally what law enforcement has done in the US for over a hundred years. You know, a detective finding out from a homeless dude that "a guy in a red shirt left the building at 11:10am where the crime took place", and then someone else says "a guy wearing a red shirt ran into apartment 13B across the street at 11:15am" . DA takes the case and red shirt owner in apt 123b;We're okay with people convicted on flimsy stuff like that, but not surveillance that shows the perp's movements clearly?

We should make it illegal for surveillance to be abused or utilized to solve minor crimes. Only major felonies. Make it highly illegal to abuse it -- strong jail times attached, and also make any surveillance obtained information on minor crimes impossible to use. So if they catch you smoking weed they can't use that against you.

You are correct. What's kind of crazy is that a lot of the training data is probably GPL code. So if LLM-generated code retains GPL copyright, that's going to provide a lot of work for lawyering companies over the next few decades. And before any lawyers start cheering, there's no guarantee that the lawyering companies will need to hire any lawyers. LLMs can do most of their work already.

My grandpa told me about a 24 hour flight from London to Australia back during WW2 in which you could experience a double sunrise.

How many passengers died of deep vein thrombosis?