Non Fungible Toads

Edit: this is a nonsequitur, but my wife just shared this with me and it is delightful

Class inheritance

France did a great job bullying the Telegraph guy, didn’t they?

Classic orange cat move

Didn’t steemit already fail horribly trying to do this?

Why is Labour like this?

This has worked out so well for trains.

As a side note, it’s inevitable that you’re going to end up explaining all of this on all of my favorite disaster-adjacent podcasts one day

Tired: Propaganda of the deed

Wired: Propaganda of the Sneer

Also, cognitive dysentery

If only Tombstone were here to help

Stands to reason

Tired: Sand Hill Road

Wired: Treacle Mine Road

This would be a fantastic hook for a scifi novel

What if America built a Death Star, but it was 50% exhaust ports by surface area?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/how-the-eu-could-target-us-big-tech-with-its-tariff-response.html

We need something like Bare-faced Messiah, but with fedoras. People will stick with a bizzare, complex story with lots of moving parts as long as it’s told well.

OpenNutrition – a dataset an LLM that allows you to play “vibe nutritionist”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569190

First response is good quality:

This is not a dataset. This is an insult to the very idea of data. This is the most anti-scientific post I have ever seen voted to the top of HN. Truth about the world is not derived from three LLMs stacked on top of each other in a trenchcoat.

Financial Times agrees with this analysis

https://archive.is/6JGEI

Those tariff rates, and especially the targets, were 100% pooped out by grok.

Lots of politics outlets have been linking his recent work. He’s done a great job documenting the consequences (and gravity) of the ongoing grant apocalypse for the AAAS journal Science. I’ve loved him for years for being the FOOF guy.