the guys just couldn't keep their hands off each other!

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There's a ton of social permission involved in how ppl understand their own experiences also. When does an extended unemployment or failed business stop being a private shame and start being part of a broader cultural phenomenon?

I wrote about the rare propulsion company building a rocket engine around a novel architecture: Portal is working on a solar thermal rocket engine that's aimed at space mobility but could be the first step towards nuclear spacecraft.

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For Gen X, John was the cool Beatle; for Millennials, it shifted to George.

I cannot speak for Gen Z, but I am seeing an alarming amount of Wings content on TikTok.

One of Robert Caro’s notes to himself, from the excellent exhibit at the New York Historical Society

Congratulations!

Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels

Inside the Iran War and the Pentagon's Feud with Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Podcast Episode · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · March 6 · 1h 23m

Seems worth putting down a marker on this, in light of recent events:

“There’s no scenario where we have protracted boots on the ground [as in] Afghanistan and Iraq.” Undersecretary Emil Michael on the All In Podcast, 3/6, (5:30) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

TikTok video by Caroline Polachek

The cows are drawn to her www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkFBo5sg/

$2500 seems like a bargain, honestly

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If you were wondering how bad the information space on Twitter has gotten, a hard seltzer company is now paying to promote a confused aggregation of a Polymarket bet

Everybody loves raiments

Painting by Jean-Pierre Cassigneul. It depicts a pale-skinned woman wearing a wide-brimmed blue hat and a black dress, resting her face on her hand as she leans on a railing. Her expression appears calm and slightly distant, with softly defined features and dark eyes. In the background, a bright green park scene includes trees, flowers, and a smaller figure of a woman walking a baby carriage along a path. The colours are vivid and somewhat dreamlike, with smooth, painterly textures.

Me reading your fascinating Takes

Melville describing that good kush

*I* don’t ofc, but some of these ppl…

Wars are extremely hard things to justify. It is intrinsic to what they are that they tend to death, destruction, and misery. Given this and some knowledge of history, one's default attitude towards powerful people purporting to do the world some great benefit by war should be extreme scepticism.

Also: Shit like this is why you need journalists in courtrooms. You wouldn't even know that this man exists from the court record or even the remote-access phone line.

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physics teaches us that the world itself is wobbly

Open access is so important

Let's not bring IP law into it — let's just see who can make the best semi-solid quasi-food

Clearly I’ve never told you my restaurant idea, Trough

if you accept the gift, ppl will assume you're in the pocket of Big Lube

way ahead of you, ishmael

OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history | TechCrunch The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

The topline is the $110 billion figure for obvious reasons, but it’s unclear how much cash OpenAI is getting from Amazon and Nvidia here, if any. techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/o...

Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate | TechCrunch A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could answer detailed questions about the video game "Baldur's Gate."

I’ve created a test to see how good different models are at giving Baldur’s Gate advice.

I call it BaldurBench.

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I have some major questions about that doctrine

I think AI appeals to Paul Schrader because he sees it as a way for lonely men to isolate themselves, confessing their innermost thoughts as they gradually go insane. That’s his whole deal!

SpaceX's Starbase city is getting its own court | TechCrunch Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.

Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.

The flood of merge requests has gotten so bad that open-source developers are building new tools to manage it. Earlier this month, developer Mitchell Hashimoto launched a system that would limit GitHub contributions to “vouched” users, effectively closing the open-door policy for open-source software. As Hashimoto put it in the announcement, “AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default.”

AI coding tools have resulted in a flood of low-quality merge requests to open-source software projects, making some developers rethink the whole structure of OSS techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/f...