My annual tweet.
The best thing ESPN has ever produced.
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Boston College hosts the Red Bandana game tomorrow night.
Please watch if you haven’t seen it, or even if you have.
There is a ceramic turtle in @basepowerco's office. Justin Lopas (@JLopas), its Co-founder & COO, told me it moves to whoever is holding the company up.
"We've used it as a way to signify and sort of make light of the slowest person or group basically."
Constrained on installs, it goes to the head of deployments. Waiting on an engineering change, engineering. Waiting on parts, supply chain.
"Slow is boring."
The next Louisiana Purchase? Here’s an idea: the United States acquires the Baja California Peninsula from Mexico for $1 to $5 trillion.
Every Mexican citizen living in Baja receives dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship, plus a $50,000 investment account.
Then America gets to work: world-class infrastructure, deep-water ports, desalination, nuclear energy, housing, universities, and industry. Tijuana and Mexicali could become major reindustrialization zones.
In return, the United States gains nearly 1,800 miles of some of the most spectacular coastline on Earth and the chance to build the great new economic region.
Is this a crazy idea? Of course. But so was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
I was clearly wrong about Anthropic. They are obviously currently the leader in AI. No company has released a model as good as Mythos/Fable and they will undoubtedly have Mythos 2 ready soon.
And I would never cut them off in a way that hurt them badly, even as a competitor. That’s not my style.
Tesla open sourced its patents and we made the Supercharger network available to all competitors, even though we could have made it a walled garden.
SpaceX launches competing satellite systems with no increase in price or use of unfair terms.
Even my worst enemies can attack me on this platform.
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