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Bowl of sliced beef & tendon pho with a plate containing beansprouts, Thai basil, sliced fresh red chilli

Went to Richmond for a sliced beef & tendon pho at I Love Pho (264 Victoria St, Richmond VIC 3121, Australia). #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️

complimentary fruit (water & rock melon) platter

stirfried kai lan with garlic

spicy chicken with Sichuan pepper & hot chilli,

stirfried rice with salted fish & diced chicken

...and other things: seafood hot & sour soup, spicy chicken with Sichuan pepper & hot chilli, stirfried kai lan with garlic, stirfried rice with salted fish & diced chicken, complimentary fruit (water & rock melon) platter. . #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 2/2

Duck chow mein

Peking duck with pancakes.

Seafood hot & sour soup.

Dinner at Bright Palace (Level 1/10/11 Star Cres, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia) was great. We did the Peking Duck special (two courses, duck with pancakes, then duck fried noodles) #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 1/2

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#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1635 Wordle 1,635 6/6*
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How Did We Get Here? Why Did Everybody Buy GPUs? Back in February 2023, I wrote about The Rot Economy, and how everything in tech had become oriented around growth — even if it meant making products harder to use as a means of increasing user engagement or funnelling them toward more-profitable parts of an app. Back in June 2024, I wrote about the Rot-Com Bubble, and my greater theory that the tech industry has run out of hypergrowth ideas: Yet, without generative AI, what do these companies have left? What's the next big thing? For the best part of 15 years we've assumed that the tech industry would always have something up its sleeves, but what's become painfully apparent is that the tech industry might have run out of big, sexy things to sell us, and the "disruption" that tech has become so well-known for was predicated on there being markets for them to disrupt, and ideas that they could fund to do so. A paper from Nature from last year posited that the pace of disruptive research is slowing, and I believe the same might be happening in tech, except we've been conflating "innovation" and "finding new markets to add software and hardware to" for twenty years. The net result of this creative stagnancy is the Rot Economy and the Rot-Com bubble — a tech industry laser-focused on finding markets to disrupt rather than needs to be met, where the biggest venture capital investments go into companies that can sell for massive multiples rather than stable, sustainable businesses. There is no reason that Google, or Meta, or Amazon couldn't build businesses that have flat, sustainable growth and respectable profitability. They just choose not to, in part because the markets would punish it, and partially because their DNA has been poisoned by rot that demands there must always be more. In simple terms, big tech — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta, but also a number of other companies — no longer has the “next big thing,” and jumped on AI out of an abundance of despe…

It doesn’t do anything new, or exciting, or impressive, and even when presented with the opportunity to do things that are useful or innovative (like when it bought Sun Microsystems), it turns away. I imagine that, deep down, it recognizes that its current model just isn’t viable in the long-term, and so, it needs something else. When you haven’t thought about innovation… well… ever, it’s hard to start. Generative AI, on the face of it, probably seemed like a godsend to Larry Ellison. We also live in an era where nobody knows what big tech CEOs do other than make nearly $100 million a year, meaning that somebody like Satya Nadella can get called a “thoughtful leader with striking humility” for pushing Copilot AI in every single part of your Microsoft experience, even Notepad, a place that no human being would want it, and accelerating capital expenditures from $28 billion across the entirey of FY 2023 to $34.9 billion in its latest quarter. In simpler terms, spending money makes a CEO look busy. And at a time when there were no other potential growth avenues, AI was a convenient way to make everybody look busy. Every department can “have an AI strategy,” and every useless manager and executive can yell, as ServiceNow CEO did back in 2022, “let me make it clear to everybody here, everything you do: AI, AI, AI, AI, AI.” I should also add that ChatGPT was the first real, meaningful hit that the American tech industry had produced in a long, long time — the last being, if I’m honest, Uber, and that’s if we allow “successful yet not particularly good businesses” into the pile. If we insist on things like “profitability” and “sustainability,” US tech hasn’t done so great. Snowflake runs at a loss, Snap runs at a loss, and while Uber has turned things around somewhat, it’s hardly created the next cloud computing or smartphone. Putting aside finances, the last major “hit” was probably Venmo or Zelle, and maybe, if I’m feeling generous, smart speakers like Amazon E…

You may be wondering why *so many companies* are buying GPUs, given the lack of returns or reliability or ability to do much with LLMs. The answer is simple: FOMO, and the fact that big tech has run out of hypergrowth ideas like the smartphone or cloud computing.
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My sympathies. For many (me included) losing a parent is like losing an anchor.

Many of the cliches (time is a healer) are true too, which I find deeply annoying. The other thing I found helpful to know is that the stages of grief are not linear, so be kind to yourself?

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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In contrast, I've been catching up with family in Melbourne where got up to 33C yesterday...

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Sunset sky red, with beacon in the Port Melbourne sea & Webb Dock in the far distance.

And also saw sunset today. Sunset sky red, with beacon in the Port Melbourne sea & Webb Dock in the far distance. #MelbourneScenes #somethingBeautiful #sunset #beach

I’m just gonna refer to AI as “Big Autocorrect” from here on out.

Government finances worse than expected as tax take falls Treasury figures show a deficit about $700m higher than forecast.

<SIGH> Can we finally kill the "National are Better Economic Managers™️" myth now.

It's always been bullshit, and this current incarnation has really highlighted this. And two years in, voters need to stop buying their "It's Labours mess" lies. #nzpol

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Long shadow of me on Princes Pier.

Morning sun on piles at Princes Pier, with sun coming over Station Pier in the background

Sandridge beach at sunrise.

Last full day. Was early enough at the beach for sunrise & for a few minutes, had the place to myself. #MelbourneScenes #somethingBeautiful #sunrise #beach

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Plate of saganaki with a wedge of lemon.

VEGETARIAN PLATTER $26.00 Includes tzatziki, hommus and eggplant dips, dolmadakia, spanakopita, feta cheese, olives, Veggie and Feta fritters served with pita bread (on a separate plate).

The pita bread on a separate plate.

SOUVLA ON SKEWER $45.00 One lean chicken and one lean lamb fillet skewer, marinated in Greek herbs and spices, served with tzatziki, Greek salad and chips

Finally made it to Stalactites (177/183 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000) for some Greek food with cousin Kerry for lunch today. #MelbourneEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️

Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!

My poetry brings all the boys to the yard
And they're like, you're a wonderful bard
Damn right, I'm a wonderful bard
I could teach you, as it's not that hard

Scientists created a dolphin with legs.
Animal rights groups want the legs removed.
But that would defeet the porpoise

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It was excellent as was everything else. Except the chicken red curry which was a bit bland but only in comparison to everything else being so flavourful.

Pork Belly, Chilli Caramel, Black Vinegar, Apple Slaw

Passionfruit Pannacotta, Pandan Ice-Cream, Caramel Popcorn

Red Spice Road (Asian fusion)
#MelbourneEats #thread #kai #food 🍜🍽️

Pork Belly, Chilli Caramel, Black Vinegar, Apple Slaw

Passionfruit Pannacotta, Pandan Ice-Cream, Caramel Popcorn

Cauliflower Kung Pao, Cashews, Sichuan Pepper, Chilli, Green Onion.

Rockling, Green Papaya, Herbs, Pickled Carrot, Nouc Cham.

Chicken Red Curry, Pumpkin, Thai Basil.

Red Spice Road (Asian fusion)
#MelbourneEats #thread #kai #food 🍜🍽️

Cauliflower Kung Pao, Cashews, Sichuan Pepper, Chilli, Green Onion.

Rockling, Green Papaya, Herbs, Pickled Carrot, Nouc Cham.

Chicken Red Curry, Pumpkin, Thai Basil.

Betel Leaf, Prawn, Lime, Coconut, Chilli, Lemongrass

Corn, Green Onion, Cheese Croquette, Wasabi Mayo, Pistachio Furikake

Salmon Tartare, Yuzu Pickled Grape, Wasabi Soy, Chives, Crispy Potato

Red Spice Road (Asian fusion)
#MelbourneEats #thread #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Betel Leaf, Prawn, Lime, Coconut, Chilli, Lemongrass

Corn, Green Onion, Cheese Croquette, Wasabi Mayo, Pistachio Furikake

Salmon Tartare, Yuzu Pickled Grape, Wasabi Soy, Chives, Crispy Potato