Cleaned like a zillion ants out of our mailbox today. (!?!)
Now spending the afternoon creeped out by feeling like I’ve got tiny ants crawling all over me. 🐜🏡
Matt Levine is hilarious & spot-on, exhibit 389247 🔗
Matt Levine is hilarious & spot-on, exhibit 389247 (likely paywalled unless you subscribe to his newsletter, which you should): AI sorting A dumb simple model of artificial intelligence companies is: It would be good to develop good AI (AI that helps humans), but bad to develop bad AI (AI that kills or enslaves humans). If you try to build good AI, there is some risk of building bad AI instead (your robot tricks you into thinking that it’s nice, then enslaves you), so you have to be very very careful.
Currently reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan 📚
The pizzas turned out very well. I made four different pizzas, 5 pizzas of each style—turned out to be plenty to feed 40 people over a couple hours:
- Marinara
- Margherita
- Pepperoni + hot honey (pictured; the fan favorite)
- Prosciutto + arugula
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Father’s Day Special:
Wordle 1,093 2/6
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Prepping a whole lotta pizza for tomorrow… #pizzaparty 🍕
Jeff Koons and T.J. Maxx: a match made in heaven.
Want to read: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 📚
Thomas Chatterton Williams pens another chapter in the story of how every sport is breaking under the twin strains of global spectacle & algorithmic efficiency.
Two options: embrace it (sports betting, fantasy everything) or go hyper local (high school sports, minor leagues, pick-up games). 🔗🎾
Ran my first 10k this morning at the Fargo Marathon. I beat my goal, finishing in 54:25. More importantly, I discovered that these races are a blast and a great way to to structure my training toward a concrete goal. I’ll be back. 🏃💪
