I was reading this this week, right when Artemis was doing a bunch of nothing going around the moon, this empty ass rock we know very well now.
I share Bruce’s feelings. It is hard to know what’s going on in Iran, what is happening in Venezuela or what’s next with that Epstein stuff. But yay, ship in space good right? (it just came back, though it wasn’t guaranteed thanks to this moronic government and its budget cuts).
Meanwhile in San Francisco. Absolutely mind-bending article on young entrepreneurs, AI and business.
Apparently, a thirty-five-year-old wouldn’t be expected to know how to use anything more advanced than a rotary phone. Another employee scrutinized the proposed new layout. “I think it’s bad,” he said, “but it’s low-key not worse. What we have is anyway really bad, so anything is better.” They started arguing about chevrons. Through all this Roy scrolled through X on his phone. Simultaneously baby-faced and creatine-swollen, he was wearing gym clothes, with two curtains of black hair swung over his forehead. Finally, he looked up. “So, number one,” he said, “we’re killing the chat bar on the left.” There was no number two. Meeting over.
LMAO. Jesus.
Social media is shaping generations to be constantly craving things. I’m reading so many books, it does the complete opposite. No craving. Just intense conviction that I’m doing what I should be doing.
I’m using AI and I know the OpenAI story, Sam’s background, etc. It is thorny. They are scary and don’t look very trustworthy to say the least. But AI is quite good to say the least, too. I had a Linux issue last year. It took hours of reading documentation, asking chatGPT (which was hallucinating here and there) and going through it.
This year, the same issue showed up, still the same shitty documentation, and chatGPT solved it in a different way, first try, with four lines of bash. Hours last year. 5mn this year.
UBI and green architecture y’all, that’s all we need. Note: we needed that already back in 1966.