Currently reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot.

An old favorite. Profound from the first paragraph. 📚

Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan.

So great! Handed it off to my daughter—she’s 11; I’m sure she’ll enjoy it just as much. 📚

Finished reading: Night Train by A. L. Snijders.

Wonderful microstories, translated by Lydia Davis. Highly recommended. 📚

Currently reading: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 📚

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.

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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:

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Prepping a whole lotta pizza for tomorrow… #pizzaparty 🍕