@henrywinter In 5 years it will be in every league and tournament for the rest of time. No sport ever stops anything revenue generating once they get fans used to it. Ever.
This is an interesting way to think about AI and jobs. The more intertwined your routine and discretionary tasks are, the more resilient you likely are to it. https://t.co/krMufl6CmU
@ClueHeywood the Mrs and I have gone to a different part of town at 1am to have wine at our friend's place. They are playing Steely Dan. I thought you should know.
@ClueHeywood Perhaps not the first time you're hearing this, but content about your sister is what your following really needs. The idea there is a female facsimile of you in the wilderness is jaw dropping.
@neoavatara “But I think it's a race to the bottom"... did he write that from his $3m home in Alabama or his $17.5m ocean front vacation property in Florida?
The ramp up of cancer immunotherapy is remarkable. Now we're seeing vaccines achieve some cures or remissions in the most refractory cancers: pancreatic, melanoma, glioblastoma, renal, triple-negative breast cancer.
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@ClueHeywood@ClemensDesert I floated to some buddies that a guy absolutely would with her under all circumstances and got lukewarm reviews. Was totally shocked, this is the most obvious thing in the world to me.
If you pitched this as a screenplay every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.
A 73-year-old architect walks to confession in 1926 and gets hit by a tram on the Gran Via in Barcelona. He's mistaken for a vagrant because of his worn clothes and left at a pauper's hospital. He dies three days later. His name is Antoni Gaudí. The cathedral he leaves behind is less than a quarter complete. The plans to finish it sit in his workshop as plaster models and detailed drawings.
Ten years after his death, in July 1936, FAI anarchists break into that workshop. They smash the plaster models. They burn the archive of drawings and calculations. They pry open Gaudí's tomb. For the next 50 years, architects piece together a destroyed playbook from photographs and broken plaster fragments.
The geometry was the real problem. Gaudí designed the church using upside-down hanging-chain models because the math for hyperboloid intersections did not yet exist on paper. He had solved it physically. Computers finally caught up to him in the 1980s. By 2010 the project was 50% complete. By 2015 stone elements that took months to hand-carve were being modelled digitally and machine-cut in days.
Now the kicker. The building is funded entirely by people paying admission to see scaffolding. €134.5 million of income in 2025, all private, none of it from the Spanish state or the Vatican. About 4.7 million tourists a year buying €26 tickets to watch a cathedral get built. The unfinished state was the product.
On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years to the day after Gaudí died, the cross goes up on the Tower of Jesus Christ. 144 years from groundbreaking. 172.5 meters tall. The tallest church building in the world, beating Ulm Minster, which took 513 years.
When asked why his project was taking so long, Gaudí said one thing: "My client is not in a hurry."
Turns out neither was he.