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“Stop naming things after people, living or dead. No schools. No streets. No courthouses. No fountains. Just quit it.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/stop-naming-buildings-and-streets

Stop naming buildings (and streets, and parks, and ships, and mountains) after people

Eventually, inevitably, someone will decide that your well-meaning gesture was a terrible error.

Fritinancy

Stephen Crosby Mar 12

Mike Perham

Mar 9

Really interesting post with details about the downfall of Huy Fong/Sriracha in 2015/16. Their Sambal is still a personal favorite.

https://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1ro61g2/how_the_sriracha_guys_screwed_over_their_supplier/

Stephen Crosby Feb 28

Philip Feb 28

Now is a good time to establish every detail of your plan to vote this November.

Stephen Crosby Feb 14

Simon Willison Feb 13

I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-statement/

The evolution of OpenAI’s mission statement

As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Stephen Crosby Feb 11

What would I do if I had a million tokens? I'll tell you what I'd do, man. Two agents at the same time.

Stephen Crosby Feb 2

Finally got a DAC for my new TV, where I stream my music, to run some actual speakers. Its night and day to be back on a pair of bookshelf speakers. Down with sound bars! Down with TV speakers!

Stephen Crosby Jan 21

rands Jan 21

You're either getting stuff done or talking about getting stuff done.

Stephen Crosby Jan 18

JA Westenberg Jan 17

The philosopher Bertrand Russell remarked that the fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

I think the discourse has broken this relationship. It's not that intelligent people have become stupid. It's that the incentive structure of public conversation rewards cocksureness regardless of actual intelligence...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack

In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured with default passwords that nobody ever changed, all simultaneously requesting his homepage. No single request was malicious. Each packet was

Westenberg.

Stephen Crosby Jan 13

Flipboard Science Desk Jan 13

A company called GRU Space is taking bookings for trips to the moon, with a deposit of between $250,000 and $1 million required now. @arstechnica's Eric Berger talked to founder Skyler Chan, a recent Berkeley graduate, about his plans — an inflatable structure launching in 2032, and, later, a moon-brick building in the style of the Palace of the Fine Arts, San Francisco.

https://flip.it/WIDqAp

#Space #SpaceTravel #Science #Travel

You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000

We can't keep everyone living on that first ship that sailed to North America."

Ars Technica

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