IIRC tax reasons made it very much smarter to buy a Tesla in Dec 2025 than in Jan 2026. Norway has had a drop in sales, but stuff like this skews the numbers.

“Gonna buy a nazi mobile yet?”

“Nah, I have ethics.”

“They will be more expensive next year though”

Runs to the dealership

I deleted (not deactivated) my account back in 2014. In 2022 I tried logging in and found my profile exactly as I left it, nothing gone…

I would watch the cybernetic olympics.

Someone wise said that technology wants to spread into every corner of our lives. AI is no different. I just wish we could skip all the hype and realize it’s a useful tool for some things, and that’s it. Just like my fridge doesn’t need to have wifi.

I’ve been thinking about this in the context of research project applications, which often have to be dozens of pages long and every sentence perfectly formulated to show we are competent and tick all the boxes. Now we can just have AI do it. I’m waiting patiently for people to realize this and start an era of post-perfectionism.

I want my applications to be like this:

“So we’ve published some papers in clay chemistry now [1-4], and lots of things have been done by others lately [5,6], so i was thinking i could work together with Mike Hunt over at University of Stoneworthingtonham to expand those ideas and also see what happens when you put the clay in an oven. Could we get some cash for that?”

(Instead of putting the same thing into an AI and have it write it professionally)

I’m good.

We wouldn’t forget this soon. And king Harald is 88 years old, so it won’t be long before his son takes over. If she becomes his queen, she would be an unpopular one.

Ah, I recognize their cool flag from my vexillology days. 🤓

An operating system should only be infrastructure to keep programs running. If I want an AI program, I’ll seek it out and get it myself.

If everyone agreed to move, there would be no problem (as long as the Fediverse can accomodate everyone).

There’s precedent. There was a myriad of social media sites Worldwide at some point. Then in a few years everyone “agreed” to move to Facebook. There are stories of how they aggressively took over markets, but at the end of the day I supposed they had the technically best site. And after over a decade of decay, people are still stuck.

That’s quite a sensible regulation. You’ll more often hear about what things China doesn’t regulate, so I’m glad to hear of a pro-consumer law coming into effect.

The hats from the article are not the same type of hats though. They resemble the Canadian toque, I suppose, or in Norway, “lue”. Similarly we would call the MAGA dome + sun shade kind of hat “caps”.