This makes me think of the Vorlon's living ships.

Can you buy a position on Ploymarket predicting that the Polymarket HQ will burn down, or that their CEO will get run over by a bus?

Why do you need the degree if you have the followers?

reg, howardjp - I'm just glad there are some of us 4-digit types still creeping (creaking by this point?) around here still. Nice to meet you!

IBM provided them with a server with all the required information WITH detailed instructions on how to setup the server (down to how to plug it in) and access the data. No evidence was used from this server, no reason to believe that SCOG ever set it up.

Now that would be an epic retro-unboxing video, LGR should get right on that.

Neat! I'm pretty sure I created my account the day that that account creation was possible, as did you apparently!

Ohh good point! In fact, we shouldn't even tell them there might be hallucinations at all. I'm sure the IRB will be fine with that, I'll get right on it!

Of course this invites the wacky hypothesis that the mushrooms enable the person eating them to perceive something that is real but hidden somehow. I propose to test this by having multiple people take it in the same time and place, and then independently produce detailed descriptions of the specific tiny people that they see. They will either match or they won't, and then we'll have the answer.

We must get to the bottom of this!

The Atari VCS was $199 on launch in 1977, which is $1139 in 2026 dollars. By no means does this excuse the collusion and price gouging that is going on with PC component pricing, though.

Most large corporations hugely benefit from public subsidies of one form or another, it's time for an accounting of that and that should be translated into public equity.

AI companies in particular are standing on the shoulders of massive public investment in technology and infrastructure, it's time for the public to directly benefit from that investment.

I'd like to see it more diverse than just AI companies, though.

well once they crossed 2 billion the signed integer representation made losses into profits

$499 is pretty nuts for this. Kids will hate it no matter what*, but if it were $99 they would probably sell way more than 5x the units. Seems like they think they are marketing to adults that have enough self awareness that they have a "problem" with social media, but something like this would make more sense as a first phone for a kid, but the price is too high for that.

For a $499 "minimal phone" I would want something crazy like an iPhone style form factor but with a color e-ink display and an open source OS, not this.

*Also, kids hating it is, you know, bad for the brand.

they don't have to make a profit on the investment. The investment is defensive. The goal is not to be outside the moat.

instead of explaining to my boss why he caught me spinning on my chair and stacking office supplies into Jenga towers as "I'm waiting for the compiler to finish" I can now tell him I'm waiting for claude to get back to me.

I was looking forward to tokenising the Swiss citizen. There would be fewer of them than bitcoins and not growing in populations, so by the same logic bitcoinETF use they would appreciate. And they are even backed by gold. Dang.. I'd have made a fortune.