David Litchfield

Sunrise reflected in calm water with trees silhouetted dividing the sky and the water.

Good morning!

🤣

A water tower silhouetted against glowing clouds with stars above

Meteor watching out at Battle Point

Chekhov’s gun really should be Chekhov’s kitchen knives.

ChatGPT repeatedly getting simple math wrong

Holy smokes. This is why people should not be using AI for anything important. A comedy of (repeated) errors.

Hah! Very true 😆

Another thought. Why would anyone build a data center in the US anymore? Like, you import your new Nvidia chips and get slapped with tariffs - or you import them to say Canada or the UK, build the data centers there and avoid the tariffs.

It's being said that Trump is using tariffs to cause uncertainty in the market to drive investors to safer investments like bonds, driving down yields, so the Fed will lower interest rates so Trump can refinance 9.2 trillion in debt with a much better rate. I feel like this is playing Russian roulette with 5 of the 6 chambers loaded. In a recession interest rates are generally reduced to increase borrowing and spending. During periods of inflation interest rates go up to slow borrowing and spending. These tariffs will likely increase inflation and possibly lead to a, or contribute to a recession meaning we have stagflation. So what happens then to interest rates? Typically during stagflation interest rates rise. In the 1970s stagflation caused by the oil shocks lead to a huge increase in rates, peaking at 20% in 1980. If these tariffs cause stagflation or just inflation alone rates will rise and Trump will not get his deal on refinancing the 9.2 trillion at a reduced rate. If we get recession alone rates will fall and Trump will get a better refinancing deal but at what costs? Cause a recession to save a few hundred billion in interest payments? Retirees have already had trillions wiped from their 401ks. I honestly don't see a way out of this that benefits America.

Some thoughts on 4D chess vs checkers

A halo around the sun

Halo kind of day

“The hottest new programming language is English”

“The hottest new programming language is English”

Vulnerabilities Introduced By English - vibe coding.

Invite to the world bench press championships from British Powerlifting

Very happy to say I’ve just received confirmation I’ll be on the British team for the World Championships in May. Let’s do this 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

A white flower with 5 petals

My Venus Flytrap has flowered!

Woohoo! British Champion! New Scottish record! New official PB! 182.5kg/402lbs #bench #benchpress #powerlifting

Promotional poster for the British Bench Press Championships with various athletes featured.

One week to go! 💪

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156kg/344lbs x 6 with 2 and a half weeks to go until the British Bench Press championships 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 #powerlifting #benchpress

😆😆😆

A murder of crows in a tree with the grey sky behind

I witnessed a murder

There is alt txt. It says “Elon Musk gives a Nazi salute”

My double negative is deliberate.

Yes: I believe this is a Nazi salute.

No matter how they spin this I will never not believe this was a Nazi salute.

A beautiful white and brindle spotted greyhound lying in her bed, enjoying the heat from a fire.

We lost our doggy today. Just want everyone to see what a beautiful lady she was. 🌈 🐾

Congratulations to Blue Origin for the successful launch!

#powerbelly

Map of the USA with each state’s trend shown in colors that are too similar to discern.

Any other color blind person here actually able to discern whether states ‘ trends are declining or growing? I’ve not a clue as to what’s going on here. 🤷‍♂️

Boom! 430lbs/195kg - Ugly AF but ground it out 😆 That’s the heaviest I’ve benched since May 2021. Really chuffed with my progress. #powerlifting #benchpress

358lbs/162.5kg x 5 to finish off an excellent session, today 👍 Bit of a foot slip on the 2nd rep had my heart in my mouth for a sec 😆 #powerlifting #benchpress

Congratulations! What’s next? :)