Was reading about an 11 year old girl who just graduated with two associates' degrees and is heading off to a 4 year college. She wants to work on AI for SpaceX or Tesla.

My first thought was: Oh god someone keep Musk away from her.

A $56 billion gift card for Elon.

It's partly that and partly a mad dash for market share in case the get it to work usefully. Although this is kind of pointless because AI isn't very sticky. There's not much to keep you from using another company's AI service. And only the early adopter nerds are figuring out how to run it on their own hardware.

Assuming the common use of third world to mean "poor countries", then I suppose a "fourth world" country would be one that is poor and *also *not really a functional state, perhaps with some armed conflict going on.

But to describe NYC as that? Nonsense.

Merriam-Webster says "marked by a wild irrational staring of the eyes"

Which sounds a bit more accurate than a mere physical quirk.

Shovels that are less and less competitive over time.

I hate the energy of That Guy that barges into the room and shouts “I solved X!” without researching for 5 minutes what all the people that were actually hard at work solving X came up with, what hurdles they identified, and which paths were already explored.

Reminds me of the time I was at Barnes & Noble and this lady comes in with her little boy (4-6 maybe?) and they head for the children's section. At the entry to the children's section she tells him to go find a book, and they separate. He walks a step to the first display in the center of the entry area, grabs something, and shouts "Momma I found a BOOK."

I guess we'll just punish random people for random things.

Going by the illustration of characters at the top of that page, "Kelthar" is a dead ringer for 80s Phil Oakey.

Fred Clark (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/) recently drew attention to John Hagee, a Texas preacher who's been preaching about the imminent Rapture since the 1980s. His church recently spent millions of dollars to start a K-12 school. Which really isn't consistent behavior if you really believe the Rapture is imminent.

There's a SCOTUS case that says the government only has to pay a fair market value, not the "inflated by the government's need for the property" value. In the case a guy had bought a tugboat and fixed it up quite a bit. When WW2 started the government sought to buy it, and he insisted on a price well above the cost of the boat and the improvements, arguing that WW2 had increased demand so he should get a higher price.

So Musk would get a lot, but maybe not as much you'd think.

I kinda doubt it'd be a rigid single-purpose ASIC like a miner. AI people like to fiddle with things too often for that I think.