This hits close to home: private equity just bought my daughter's preschool.

Unfortunately, there have been no announcements about Jason Statham coming to the rescue.

I've been trying to figure out what the voice off-screen says, and I can't hear all of it, but it starts out with, "Just smile..."

Okay, have a slightly more individualized look if that helps you feel better passing the time in the digital filing cabinet in which you're stored when you're not doing a run.

Something I'm fascinated by is how the narrative of the game explicitly disincentivizes the idea of skins: you are a mind-swapped indentured servant in a disposable 3d body. Nobody gives two shits about you beyond the treasure you bring them.

Yes.

That’s a really nice rose, though. Pretty cool that it’s been in your family for a long time regardless.

“America has the greatest road network in the world … [and] includes 10 of the 25 most congested cities.“ Someone in Sean Duffy’s office is both so close and so far from getting it.

He likely won't make it through a single sentence before digressing about how unfair someone has been to him and then never get back on track. This will take an hour. Everyone who should know better will agree he did the task at hand and never bring it up again.

That’s genuinely a fascinating problem. Several lifetimes ago in school I worked on a hand-built grammar for Finnish for a machine translation system, and bolted on a FSM to handle the syntactic changes realized in Finnish morphology. Can’t wait to learn more about how you’re doing it.

Trying to imagine the back and forth with the loc team on this. Or, there are 10x the number of shipped words in the loc docs because of all the context added to each line.

I check my bag whenever I can because trying to wrangle kids in an airport and on a plane is made exponentially more difficult the more luggage you have.

I love that scene so much.

I was afraid of this. 😞

They drove on into the darkness and the moonblanched waste lay before them cold and pale and the moon sat in a ring overhead and in that ring lay a 1995 Lotus Esprit S4 with its own cold gray and nacre seas.

“…while finishing faster than any person in history.”

The robot is not a person. How is this so complicated?

Anyway, he doesn’t seem to fall into the same trap of conflating culture and crime that the sheriff does. I need to watch his ending monologue again, because I think I remember him seeming conflicted about the changing world, which is great: I think we all feel that way.

He’s the only one who mentions the brutal murder or the depute we see early on, and he does it in this passing manner, really matter of fact and dismissive. It’s (darkly) hilarious given the extended sequence we see of Chigurh doing the murder.

Cynical in a way that seems like it helps him keep an ironic distance. But one of the great parts of his character in the film is he is constantly walking around astounded at what he sees. Well, just short of astounded. He keeps that ironic distance.

We get a glimpse of this with Tommy Lee Jones and Garrett Dillahunt in the cafe when Jones is reading the newspaper, and Dillahunt guffaws at a gruesome story. Jones looks at him for a minute and then acknowledges sometimes all you can do is laugh. He’s a bit more cynical than the sheriff later.

His observation is completely divorced from the vicious scene just before, but the way he implied a link between the cultural shift he doesn’t understand and the hotel murders is a beautiful distillation of conservative cultural grievance.

I love the scene near the end of No Country for Old Men, Ed Tom Bell is with the sheriff in El Paso, who says, “…if you'd have told me 20 years ago, that I'd see children walking the streets of our Texas towns with green hair and bones in their noses, I just flat-out wouldn't have believed you.”

I might get a few robots and have them play in multiple leagues, which is more than my kids can handle. (One of the flaws of being human is you can’t be in multiple places at once.)

The robot is here to stay: if you don’t figure out a way to integrate it into your life, you’re going to be left behind.

Gonna train the marathon robot to play little league baseball so my kids don’t have to. Why waste their time on it when a robot can do it instead?

I’m so glad I’m being chased by humanoid robots and not angry dogs. Representation matters.

“Beating the human record” is the dumbest shit imaginable. You know what else goes 26 miles faster than humans? My car. An airplane. The earth traveling through space.

I like taking my kids to the grocery store, because it’s fun to guide them toward what we need, but they like the independence of picking and carting things. I feel nearly invisible when we’re doing this, in the best of ways. People are also really pleasant around them.

This mirrors my experience. Something else I’ve noticed is that sometimes people focus on the child you’re with and seem to view the parent and child as a single unit, or even the parent as secondary like as a minder or chaperone.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

A wild rabbit chillin in a residential garden.

A chill Sunday morning visit.