I love seeing what people from other countries put on their USA bucket lists because it is not the stuff we think it will be. They’re not saying “Grand Canyon” or “New York City.” They’re saying Buc-ee’s, a Big Gulp, Texas BBQ, baseball, a rodeo, a drive thru, Chipotle, a gun range, and watching something completely ridiculous happen in a Walmart parking lot. And the funny part is they’re not wrong. America is so normal to us that we forget how bizarre and entertaining it probably looks from the outside. If somebody came here and asked you for the real American experience, what are you making them do first?

we were lied to about the united states

THIS GUY ASKED FABLE TO MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE AI RIGHT BEFORE IT GOT TAKEN DOWN the prompt: "you can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to render a short video. can you put a more personal spin on it? it should be about what it's like to be you." that was it. just python and ffmpeg and a question about its own existence. 12 minutes later, around 90,000 tokens, it produced a finished video. coherent and edited, with its own take > it wrote the code, generated the visuals, and rendered the final cut on its own > no dedicated video model in the loop, just a language model reaching for python and ffmpeg > the result is competent enough that people genuinely got emotional watching it and then fable got pulled. this video is one of the last things it made before it went dark a model asked what it's like to be itself, answered in a video, and then disappeared. this sounds so sad

This is absolutely insane: The SpaceX IPO has now drawn more than $70 BILLION worth of retail orders alone. SpaceX is raising $75 billion, making retail interest ALONE enough to nearly fill the entire sale. To put this in perspective, the previous record IPO was Saudi Aramco in 2020 at $29.4 billion. This means that retail interest in SpaceX is now 2.4 TIMES larger than the total amount raised in the previous largest IPO in history. As a result, SpaceX has announced that 20% of their IPO will be allocated to retail investors, following through on @elonmusk's vision to democratize the record IPO. Nothing even remotely near what SpaceX is about to do has ever happened. Friday will be a historic day.

I listen to what everyone says about the stock market. Then I say "what is the most unexpected thing that could happen"? Not simply to be a contrarian but rather so I'm not surprised. And the market seems to delight in taking the other side of the bet.

man I feel like many of us got into programming because windows made it accessible. for me it was @bobtabor windows phone programming courses at the time! (2013!)

“The vast majority of capacity coming online over the next several quarters to 12 months is already under contract or earmarked for our AI cloud customers. We are seeing four or more customers competing for every GPU we bring online.” — Marc Boroditsky, CRO of $NBIS

The oldest active trader on record was Irving Kahn. He worked into his late 100s and died in 2015 at age 109. He started on Wall Street in 1928, before the 1929 crash. At age 103 he was still actively reading charts & trading for his firm Kahn Brothers Group. Incredible!