Gammichan

The 1st order conclusion of this is that it's good for AI providers because it reduces their costs.
The 2nd order conclusion of this is that it enables people to run some quite powerful models on just their 32GB Macbook and they'll no longer need to pay AI providers.
I think we're getting close to the point where local models are good enough for most people and I'm unaware of any kind of moat OpenAI/Anthropic has to prevent them from leaving. At least Google has an ecosystem around it so they can provide unique value that ties into those services.

I've talked before about how a lot of technology is hitting up against the wall of physics, this is evident in war as well and I think it's starting to become a problem for American supremacy.
The SR-71 was developed in the 60s and traveled over mach 3. We still don't really go faster than that.
The F-14 Tomcat from the 70s is still a capable fighter jet, the modern F-22 improved in other electronic dimensions good for support roles but not that much as an actual fighter.
The F-117 had stealth in the 80s, its radar signature was the size of a small bird, essentially nothing. Can't get smaller

I think it's helpful for Americans to frame global conflict death tolls in terms of 9/11s.
Iran: 10x
Gaza: 25x
Sudan: 75x (did you even know about this one?)
Ukraine: 250x
Really makes you appreciate the scale of tragedy out there.

Crazy how society spent a century convincing women they need to focus on work instead of family, made up a bunch of new jobs for them, and now are taking the jobs away with AI.

Marathon haters be like: Ew there's a moth on the loading screen, I can't handle this 😭

TikTok has fried this generation's attention span so bad, even the wars only last one weekend now

When BTC is doing well on Monday, it annoyingly is going to be hard to separate if it's because of strength in the face of bad news (war) or just plain strength on good news (they got Khamenei).

A couple years ago I was in Edinburgh and had a rare moment of experiencing a truly new emotion.
For a split second I felt their defeat when I looked up at their castle and saw not a Scottish flag but a giant English one.
As an American I had never felt this before. Unfortunately I have been feeling this lately, that America is owned, manipulated, subverted, conquered...

A couple years ago I was in Edinburgh and had a rare moment of experiencing a truly new emotion.
For a split second I felt their defeat when I looked up at their castle and saw not a Scottish flag but a giant English one.
As an American I had never felt this before. Unfortunately I have been feeling this lately, that America is owned, manipulated, subverted, conquered...

Probably just a coincidence that the 1st US intervention in Iran was 5 years after Israel was founded and the US had no significant involvement in Persia/Iran before then.

Just read this and the redirection is incredible. In three sentences they completely shift from just US to just Israel.
1) Headline is about just US
2) Opening line says US and Israel
3) Opening quote is Netanyahu

Got some UPS invoices (by physical mail) for tariffs and they're making me pay it by phone. I even have a UPS account but can't pay through there. What year is it??