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Wood is the rarest material in the Universe.
SpaceX will capture an asteroid with more gold than Earth's crust and land Optimus robots carrying American flags on Mars within 8 years.
Starship parks Psyche in geosynchronous orbit over an American Pacific atoll. No humans within 50 miles. Optimus robots extract the metals. Delivery to Earth is free though some burns up on entry.
Bezos said 15 years ago Earth gets zoned residential as heavy industry moves to space. Vast distances make emissions irrelevant.
The same fleet lands on Mars in 8 years max. Optimus robots deploy solar panels, batteries, compute, and Starlinks for 4K video before humans arrive.
SpaceX moves the factories off the planet.
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Posted up at the northern entrance of the Bolivian Salt Flats. Heading out in the AM for a 2 day crossing.
Timed this entirely around the New Moon.
Gonna be absolutely mental. Been dreaming of this for years.
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"Damn I wish instead of looking at a simple list of flight options I could make a phone call to an ai bot and verbosely describe my requirements and have an extended back and forth"
- Me, never
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These are the best rappers and NBA players from every city on combined greatness:
1. Chicago — Kanye West × Michael Jordan
2. Los Angeles — Kendrick Lamar × Kobe Bryant
3. Toronto — Drake × Vince Carter
4. New York — Jay-Z × Jalen Brunson
5. Detroit — Eminem × Isiah Thomas
6. Philadelphia — Will Smith × Allen Iverson
7. New Orleans — Lil Wayne × Chris Paul
8. Atlanta — OutKast × Dominique Wilkins
9. Oakland — E40 × Steph Curry
10. Cleveland — Kid Cudi × LeBron James
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DOOM The Dark Ages Producer Andrew Willis praises Nintendo as a Tree where they feed it fertilizer and water it and as a result the company bears fruit.
Where as western companies are just cutting the tree down and then are like where are all the apples?
It's why I say Nintendo will long outlive both Xbox & PlayStation.
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$15m to help get a generation of kids hooked on gambling is a choice.
LeShame.
SCOOP: LeBron James will be paid $15 million per year under his endorsement deal with Polymarket.
That's roughly $11 million more than the 76ers will pay him this season to play basketball.
Reporting with @sportsrapport for @FOS:
frontofficesports.com/articl…
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Palm trees are a scam.
They drink more water and provide less shade than other trees. They're also highly flammable and dangerous in high wind.
Time for LA to replace Palm Trees with trees that provide actual shade and cool down our city.
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Having an Onion nostalgia trip today. Hard for the youngins to understand how a satirical newspaper captured the zeitgeist so well in the early aughts. I’d almost forgotten this banger: a 9/11 conspiracy theorist squares off against Al Qaeda.
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Deciding whether or not I want a third child is such an immense power that it’s almost intoxicating.
Just casually exercising free will over a metaphysical cleft in the universe, over two utterly different lives for me, two different worlds for everyone, a human existing or not.
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Every once in a while you work at a company that only hires people who know what they're doing, and suddenly its 20 people doing the same work as 400 somewhere else. There's zero meetings, everyone talks once a week on slack, and you go huh, how much garbage is there actually.
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I'm surprised how much of The Odyssey goes "And then they all got very sleepy, for it had been a long day. So they prepared lovely warm snuggly beds, and they went in those beds and had a nice lovely sleep. Then the rose-coloured dawn came, and they woke up nice and refreshed".
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it’s me. i’m that guy.
building more housing does depress prices (because the housing market uses prices to allocate a scarce good)
building more lanes doesn’t relieve congestion (because highways are free and rely on traffic to allocate scarce roadspace)
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Consumers don't
- plan vacations using spreadsheets
- have a personal notion doc with life goals
- journal
- track flights every day. They fly a couple of times a year.
- Use Google docs to manage their family
Just talk to people not in SF once in a while.
Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok.
These frontier AI models are *insane* (as are the harnesses & tool calls & the like). And every large tech co has an AI agents platform, not to mention all the YC startups doing vertical agents. Yet all of your friends and family outside of tech — who spend all day staring at their iPhones and get paid to work in browser tabs — don’t really care or find themselves using any AI agents yet.
Yes ChatGPT, Claude, etc. are extremely popular… but if you look at the engagement data the vast majority of people are still using these aI chat tools like a glorified Google + Grammarly. That’s why the AGI labs are all pushing desktop apps for Codex, Cowork, etc. so hard to non-technical ppl. And yes exceptions for lawyers and customer service but even those have some asterisks and exceptions to rule.
Look I’m not saying the ChatGPT moment for AI Agents is not coming… it most definitely is! Remember we pivoted from Arc to Dia precisely because we believe computing is going to be radically reimagined around these AI primitives. No doubt. But that’s my point: it’s just so surprising it hasn’t happened yet because all of the tech you’d need is there.
Again if you stop for a second and think about it… for all the press and money and hype and models and crazy ARR numbers… this “AI Agent” moment does not *feel* like the other breakthrough tech moments we’ve lived through (e.g. think the shift to Stories via Snapchat & Instagram, or shift to on-demand via Uber/Airbnb/Doordash).
Which is a long way of saying: if you can figure out the answer to “why” most people don’t care about AI agents yet (and have no enduring interest in using them) — especially since the models and harnesses are here and ready — the answer to that question will allow you to capture a lot of marketshare and make a lot of money in 2027.
Theoretically, the tech is ready for AI Agents to totally transform how we work and live our lives… but alas the general public dgaf… that’s the generational puzzle to solve for the next 12 months for anyone not working on the models themselves.
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The secret to happiness is playing pickup basketball
Really enjoyed this article by @rustindodd and couldn't agree more.
"There is a reason sociologists have spent decades studying pickup basketball. The sport is naturally physical, aggressive and competitive. The stakes are clear: The winner usually gets to stay on the court and play again. Yet, the activity is orderly, efficient and overwhelmingly positive, the players almost solely concerned with the collective whole."
Hope I'm still hooping at 81!
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