After many, many years of presuming good faith, I’m finding myself increasingly drawn to a Konmari curation policy: if the prospect of further interaction with a commentator does not spark joy, regardless of whether they are benign intent, block/mute and move on with life.

Beyond excited about this forthcoming book from @yalepress by Holly Stephens, which is sure to be a key text for years to come on the history of capitalism in the Japanese Empire, and the transformation of Korean rural society under empire.

Someone is selling a 55-room château around two hours from Paris for €735k ($850k). That works out to about €322 per square metre, or roughly $35 per square foot. For a castle. You get around 2,283 m² (24,570 sq ft) of living space across three floors, set in 3.68 hectares (9.1 acres) of grounds, with a moat, a dovecote and a row of outbuildings around the main house. It was built between the late 1500s and the late 1600s, and it sits in the Puisaye, the quiet green part of Burgundy where the writer Colette grew up. It's this cheap because of the condition. This is a restoration project, not a ready-to-move-in home. The structure is described as sound and the bones are all there, but the inside needs real work and the heating still runs on fuel oil, so the new owner will have to splash the cash. Shops and restaurants are in Toucy a few kilometres away, and Auxerre is about thirty minutes by car. As with all châteaux at this price, you're buying the space, the setting and the chance to bring it back. The walls and the land are the cheapest part here :) How much would a place like this cost where you live?

Buying Meituan for its 10% stake in Unitree the new SKM/Zm anthropic trade

Probably works. You're either a player or you're not. $100 billion USD is not ridiculous if you're China's one hope at the top of the stack.

No doubt @Silicon_Data has a way better grasp on this than me. But I don’t get why usage is always framed as “expensive SOTA models vs cheaper open weight ones.” What about cheaper, closed, non-SOTA models, which keep getting better and can ably handle many tasks?

Looks like the former is happening. Have to wonder if $GOOGL spoiled the party and took SpaceX's liquidity