I guess I missed the point of your earlier tweet about “you definitely don’t want to overcharge,” which seems moot if you it’s not possible.

You said the last segment had to be slower to avoid overcharging, which you definitely don’t want to do.

So if I go by that, the analogy would be setting my max running distance to 1 mile because if I go 1 1/4 miles I have a much higher chance of cardiac arrest.

It seems to me that it “overcharging” is still a risk; then 100% is sort of an arbitrary quantity, and it might just as well occur at the best maximum instead of another maximum that’s reasonable but not the best.

Why don’t they just call whatever the recommended maximum is “100%”, then, and call anything beyond that “overcharged”?

How long does that next 2% take? Wouldn’t “100% in 8 minutes” be just as impressive, and maybe not raise this kind of ignorant question?

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

I got to see psycho for the first time a couple of months ago. What a good film it is!

And also minus any sense that the US is the kind of country that will negotiate honestly and hold up its end of a deal.

An onion will do well for such a shift

(I feel like everyone who has visited Chicago has a version of this photo. I’m pretty sure I have one from every visit.)

I suppose this ties in with Alabama’s new tenure law which bars accrediting agencies for compelling universities to not comply, or from punishing them if they do.

arc-sos.state.al.us/ucp/L2117651...

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Terrible is more fixable than blankness.

When he says “elite” he doesn’t mean multi-billionaires with yacht fleets. He means elite anthropology professors driving their Toyota Yarises to teach at small bankrupt liberal arts colleges.

Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES

This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote

But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows…

The “crisis” is white people.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

Bulls..t! Alabamians need to ask themselves if they want a governor who wants to end social security? Tuberville makes a fortune playing the stock market on inside Senate information but clearly doesn’t have a clue how Alabama seniors worked hard…

It’s not that he fiddles around in trombone that’s funny. It’s that she doesn’t immediately run away.

I reckons she’s even madder at him.

The absence of basketball on tv is what took Isaac Newton so long to concoct his law of gravity.

Maybe one of them will bless me with a token.

There's a name for this: it's called "schismogenesis": when one group of people define themselves in opposition to someone else. If the other team does X, then your team has to oppose X, even if you all liked X until a couple minutes ago:

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A hand dropping a ballot in a box; the box is a complicated, many-geared machine. On its faceplate is an 'I voted' sticker that has been modified to read 'I voted?'

After Bush v Gore, I got involved in a bunch of ugly tech policy fights over voting machines. The hanging chad debacle prompted Congress to appropriate funds for states to purchase new touchscreen voting machines based on a robust, open standard. Problem was, those machines didn't exist.

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2026 (planned) Data centers vs. megaprojects Inflation-adjusted costs, billions USD SIT- 2025₽ Data center capex =$930B in 6 years $750B- Interstate Highway System ® S620B, 37yr US Railroads $550B, 71yr $500B- F-35 Program $400B, 25yr (to date) $250B - $O Apollo Program $257B, 14yr Marshall Plan $170B, 4yr Manhattan-Project -$36B,Syr- 10 20 International Space Station $150B, 27yr- 30 40 Years from start of program 50 60 70 Sources: Company reports, Epoch AI • FHWA • NASA • CRS • GAO • Brookings Al capex = estimated data-centre share of global reported capex at the big-5 US hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle; Epoch AI+ Platformonomics). Assuming DC share scales from +55% in 2020 to =80% by 2026. Excludes Chinese hyperscalers. All costs in 2024 dollars.

Absolutely insane numbers on data center buildout. I haven’t vetted these by they’re about right based on memory/back of the envelope.

That rich fuck is stealing our money straight from our own coffers.

Is there something about sloping floors and a single curved wall that seems inappropriate for the display of visual art objects?

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Poor Richard 88

I was in my 40s before I ever even heard of anyone ever doing it.

Well he’s not. In case anyone didn’t know.

Thank god AI will be trained on how overextended failures compose their emails.