Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass)

U.S. data centers require: 30x less water than U.S. golf courses. 100x less than California almonds. 200x less than U.S. home lawns. 2,500x less than U.S. crop irrigation. Who is protesting almonds? Golf courses? Lawns? Nobody. China does not feel threatened by your lawn.

Just a reminder that deepseek v3 came out 18 months ago and was considered revolutionary at the time but is basically unusable today There was a fierce debate at the time about vibe coding and the argument was that LLMs can never create anything new because they are limited by their training data Those engineers were partly right and vibe coding was a real nightmare, I cannot believe what we used to put ourselves through with Sonnet 3.5, but we also knew real new things could be made and that the detractors were wrong I guess us non-engineers saw it most clearly (I would like to think so at least) because we were astonished at the new things we could do without the programming background, and we had nothing to lose and everything to gain in our enthusiasm Then came Opus 4.5 earlier this year which changed everything Suddenly real production code became possible with so much less friction and headache Everyone complained endlessly about models being nerfed or quantized but there was a steady march of progress from 4.5 to 4.8 Now a completely new crop of models is coming out that is not quite a 4.5 moment but something close We are not only getting more polish but things are becoming a little freaky, entire isolated domains become possible to combine with small teams or even just one person into new applications that would have required large infusions of time and capital in the past My wife back in 2021 told me about AI but I was in healthcare, I thought she was being a little nutty, and she talked like something from a science fiction film was coming and she got involved in it early on She never stops letting me know that she was right, and she was The next year is going to be wild, the world is truly going to change over the next few years, the scale of disruption will be a combination of astonishing and awesome, but also catastrophic There are many amazing things ahead and extraordinary challenges and opportunities We are living inside one of one of the biggest revolutions in human history

It is racist to make white characters non-white to devalue whites. It is sexist to make characters female to devalue males. We are not racist or sexist. The film is anti-white racist, and it is anti-male sexist. And so are you.

The Bolsheviks were a tiny extremist group nobody took seriously. They could have been crushed at any time. Until one day, they couldn't. Soon they had control of all of Russia. They were insane. But that did not matter. They were organized and committed. They ruled for 74 years.

I love this guy. Muslim former Prime Minster of Scotland. When a white person attacks brown people, he goes into a frenzy posting about racism and hate. When a brown person attacks a white person, he calls for an end to "division". Same act. Two standards. Anti-white racism.

Last year DOJ published a report. For every 10,000 blacks, 153 violent crimes are committed by a black person each year against a white person. The same figure for violent crimes committed by whites against a black person: 3.4. A black person is 50-times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white person than for a white person to commit a violent crime against a black person. This is an extraordinary difference in the rates of violence committed between these two groups. We are told that whites are systemically racist. We are told that whites are successful because they oppress others. But the facts tell the opposite story. Blacks are not the ones being victimized. Whites are. Western civilization has been successful not because it was oppressive. It has been successful because whites created, starting thousands of years ago, systems that are impartial and fair. Today these systems are being dismantled. Criminals are being released because of their skin color. Law-abiding citizens are punished because of theirs. All in service of an ideology that is simply false. This puts everyone in danger.

The truth is called hateful in Belgium. Therefore speaking it is against the law. This is more frightening than calling the truth "misinformation". They have stopped pretending completely. They are openly admitting that they have criminalized the truth.

Now an innocent man is in prison. He followed protocol. The suspect died of an overdose. Happened to be black. Woke mob hated Trump. Middle of COVID. Stressed and wanted blood. The justice system facilitated the lynching. But it wasn't Floyd who was lynched. It was Chauvin.