With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope. wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-i…

The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.

LLM training is built on fast MatMuls. But many surrounding ops still run as memory-bound kernels. CODA reparameterizes them to hide in the matmul’s shadow, fused into its epilogue before results leave the chip. Bonus: LLMs can write fast CODA kernels too (approaching SoLs).

INCREDIBLE quote from the 1976 movie The Network

This is wild. theaustralian.com.au/busines…

You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life)

If Democrats want to stay relevant, and to deliver for the public, they cannot wait for unions to change. They need to break more often with their friends. nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opini…

One thing that's become clear to me over time is that a certain proportion of Americans would rather be european. It's not that they're wrong per se about the tradeoffs but that to them the other side feels better. Sanders' response captures this, he rejects the premise of prosperity on basic terms because they have x y z protections. The floor simply matters more. I don't think however that this is limited to leftists yearning for European healthcare. There is an acute philia on the right for a sort of idealized Europe, not the EU and open borders but for the sort of clearly delineated nation state, a place where my people live, have lived, and always will live. And it is not just the political arrangement but also the village - my grave in the family plot - and the tradition - our cultural passed down - that is a decidedly european yearning. I would suggest that all these tendencies on the left and right are not so different from each other. They are all a desire for a more certain and assured place, less to gain perhaps but less to prove. You may not transform the world (did it need to be transformed anyway?) or elevate your family's position (dont you want to carry on their honest rooted legacy?) but you will not have to carve a place. You have a place. You are valued for you. You will have healthcare because we care about your health, a reserved spot in a town where you belong, a role which if you fill half decently is assured to you, food on your plate. A place for every man. These are not unnatural desires but i cannot stress enough that we do not do that here. We are the country of people who left their place, braved uncertainty, restarted their family legacy from scratch, drove off natives and the wild to create a spot and then generation after generation drove on further to do it, or cast roots in merchant communities and took back to the sea anew. This is a country where people made places. That is our culture more assuredly than any food or song or church. And that has faded bit by bit along the way. The ancestors forgot it, mean reversion of culture if you will. They found their yards idyllic and their extended families helpful. I will even throw the nativists a bone and say that it is not clear to me that later migrants shared the same experience. Did the 1899 arrival see the country as an ordeal to surmount or as a country much like theirs but richer and with more jobs, a place where a palatine with higher gdp might rise on the ohio? A mix i am sure but differences i expect. But one way or another here we are. The through line on the demands of left and right is assured place where you belong, where you dont have to compete, where being you is assurance of being valued and cared for and being a part, an appreciated part, of the place where you belong. Where not more is asked. Where we do not prioritize ambition over certainty. An old country ashore the new. That's the vision on which a verdict must be passed.