When buying interior for our house we discovered most sofas, chairs, rugs, carpets, curtains now use materials that are almost without exception fully plastic And of course they shed all this plastic in their lifetime that they sit in your house, and you just end up breathing in nanoplastics over 10-20 years It's very hard to find stuff with natural materials, these days and if you do find it, it's super super expensive Also most times the sales people look at you like you're high when you ask for it But sir this is "ultrasuede alcantra olefin", all those terms are bullshit, and it's all plastic Unless they say cotton, wool, linen, silk, cork, or actual natural latex, it's generally just plastic and you'll be breathing it in (or worse) They often use fancy names to cover up it's all plastic: - "vegan leather" that's literally just polyurethane (PU) or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic - "leatherette/pleather" same PVC - "air leather" perforated PU - "bonded leather" leather scraps glued together with PU - "alcantra" luxury sofas use this and guess what: it's polyester and PU blended - "ultrasuede" synthetic microfiber plastic - "olefin" stain resistant polypropylene (PP) plastic - "polyamide" a mesh of synthetic polymers - "lustrous" or "trevia cs", both used in curtains, both fully polyester For our house we mostly have cotton, wool and leather finishes and it wasn't easy to get that, most is custom finishing because almost nobody asks for it!

I keep it humble but I’m proud of my career. - Busboy, Mexican restaurant - Cook/dishwasher, Little Caesars - Waiter, Red Lobster - Associate Recruiter, Heidrick & Struggles - Yale MBA - product roles reaching VP, First Data - Sr Dir, Payments, Walmart - VP, Emerging Tech, InComm - 18 month full-time world traveler - a little VC work - COO, Yellow Card (hot stablecoin company) - Exec, CodexFX (earlier stage hot stablecoin company)

The winner in all of this AI token spend isn’t: 1. More revenue growth 2. Less OpEx It’s: 1. Leisure time - go home early, work on a side gig, play video games etc etc etc My suspicion is that people are using blower token budgets to do their job in less time. Not so more work in the same time. This may change but humans are not motivated to do more work and see upside accrue to a few. Take this to the bank as Wall Street starts demanding specific data about AI enhancements over these next 18 months.

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

Google just made a $2,000 AI education free (and most people will still choose to stay illiterate). They quietly launched Google Skills, a hub with 3,000 technical modules that replaces "prompting" fluff with actual DeepMind research workflows. You can now access the exact curriculum used to train their internal teams on transformer architecture for $0. If you don’t use this, you’ll eventually complain about the people who did.