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Years ago in a conversation with Black Swan author @nntaleb I asked how he would invest for the long-term (eg: retirement). He said to put 80% in the safest options (like t-bills & bonds), and 20% in speculative stocks. You can see why this is smart in this comparison...

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I just the last message sent from the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost Lunar Lander 😢

A reminder that the legal use of the autopen by the president has already passed legal tests. Interestingly, this decision has been taken down from the DOJ website, but I found a copy on the @waybackmachine.bsky.social @archive.org

web.archive.org/web/20110228...

Keeling Curve - Wikipedia

Sounds like they are defunding the Mona Loa carbon monitoring station. This was a key measurement outpost that discovered long-term carbon rise and is only $140k/year. Such a travesty. I hope private funding can be found to fill this era of stupidity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling...

Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind "I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole."

Today I learned that a leading theory about our entire cosmological existence is that everything we perceive as the universe is all within a black hole, and that recent Webb telescope observations support this...

www.space.com/space-explor...

The other method is to partially fill the tank and bleed it back to empty until it's nice and frosty. But always worth weighing the tank before and after to make sure you are not over filling. Having the burst disk blow in your kitchen is not fun. (I hear)

The trick is that liquid CO2 likes to travel toward the colder tank. Also you can get full tanks with a siphon tube built in so you don't have to hold upside down 😎

Bamboo factory and the houses and furniture built by the Green Village outside of Ubud Bali.

It's going to get worse, before it gets even worse... Could not have happened to a nicer guy🤣

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I am living in fear that the cuts at the NOAA will reach the network of water level measurement systems that are used to predict flooding and tidal waves. We have over 150 years of tide days at this station alone. We are shooting ourselves in the face.

tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome....

Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia

In 1994 Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal with assurances from the US, UK, France, China and Russia that we would all protect their sovereignty. We are now proving to the world (Iran/N Korea) that they should for sure build and deploy nukes...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...

So what our country is saying is that if the US was invaded by Russia, we should cede all land and resources in order to stop the invasion, and not expect any help from the rest of the world?

The traffic in Austin is some of the worst I have seen in the country and those units are not even filled yet. The other half of building housing is infrastructure to go along with it. I suspect this is a challenge for a state that does not believe in taxes.

Just wait till you digitally check that book out for free from a library... Well if the publishers still let you.

I wonder what 5 bullet points Elon is emailing his board and shareholders at Tesla this week?

For those of you wondering about the results, China soundly beat France with their performance at tonight's 12th annual International Pyromusical Competition in Manila. Hard to compete with the inventors of gunpowder i guess...

Imagine if the Internet was being invented by DARPA today, DOGE would shut it down. The $9m Reuters contract @elonmusk is raging about is with their research division (not news) in order to learn how to defend our country from info attacks. www.highergov.com/contract-opp...

This is what I've been working on with Automattic and WordPress. Love to hear your thoughts!

'Tesla implodes in 2025', warns Wall Street analyst A Wall Street analyst has warned that electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) might face a collapse in 2025.

"Tesla might be facing a possible collapse, citing plummeting sales in key markets and an unsustainable valuation." finbold.com/tesla-implod...

Google’s Super Bowl Ad Accidentally Shows Its AI Simply Plagiarizing Existing Web Copy Google either faked its new cheese-centric Super Bowl ad for its AI, or prompted it to plagiarize existing web copy. Either way: bad!

This is a pretty hilarious turn in this story. Watching the oroborous of tech capitalism eat itself is interesting... futurism.com/google-super...

Tesla Sales Are Tanking Across The World Blame the Musk Effect, declining EV subsidies or all of the above. But Tesla's global sales are off to a very bad start for 2025.

In CA, the largest US car market, saw increases from all EV brands, but @Tesla "All of the decrease in the state market last year was attributable to Tesla, which had an 11.6% decline," it said. "Registrations for all other brands increased 1.4%."
insideevs.com/news/750076/...

So let me get this straight.The US based AI companies whose tools are entirely based on other people's creative work (who they never paid). Are now throwing a fit because they think DeepSeek stole their intellectual property causing them to lose value in the marketplace.That must be so bad for them.

"Tesla’s profitability at its core cars division fell to its lowest level in five years in the fourth 1/4" -Forbes
So it begins. This is the 1/4 that all the liberals that used to be his customers stopped buying @Tesla. If they get written out of the tax rebate, that will be it

If we ever connect with the other timelines it is going to be so embarrassing to be from this one...

Thank you David Lynch. Seeing Dune at 12 right after reading the books, my mom's first date with my step dad was to Eraserhead, & that time you arranged for me & some friends to hang out at the amazing club you designed in Paris, Silencio. All were life changing.
-Rest In Power

- Doors on cars will be made to require an easily accessible mechanical release for all passengers (unlike Tesla back seats)