Tomas Sancio

Daily bunny no.3484 has a long night of studying

“Just a Little Longer” (2024)

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear www.bbc.com/future/artic...

‘Druid Quarter’ Excerpt (part 1)

Optimists Achieve Joy Through Renewal, by Jeff Immelt thelongviewjeffimmelt.substack.com/p/optimists-...

Watching David Byrne in the Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan video is like watching the granddaughters of True Stories grow up.

The Venezuelan sports ministry sponsors professional adult baseball but not youth league girls’ soccer (they do pay for some tournaments). That’s cause the baseball league is a distraction for a population that has seen decades of misery. Why invest in the future when you have to quell the present?

A Musk decision caused Ukrainian deaths. The richest man on the planet may be led to believe that there's nothing above his pay grade. Turns out, there is. First he will lose potential clients and growth, and then, he will start being sued by international courts. bbc.com/news/article...

I don't agree with this. Even though Elon Musk received over $38,000,000,000 in corporate welfare from the federal government, he should still be allowed to vote. Once. What he should *not* be allowed to do is to interfere with *our* votes.

Binary political takes in otherwise smart people never ceases to baffle

The highlight of my day yesterday was translating (yeah, it's still a valid skill) a FIFA (yeah, they have non-evil parts) article about a 15 y/o soccer player Abril Alejo, to her non-bilingual mom www.fifa.com/en/tournamen...

"Hey Siri, please play Prince songs that were made famous by other artists" is the kind of AI I'm very sympathetic with. I don't want to try this prompt to not be disappointed. Extra points if it catches "When You Were Mine".

A view of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction from Baker Beach in 1936.

The Beatles and the Monkees were actually good friends.

Elon Musk has admitted that SpaceX deliberately throttled the Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, disrupting front-line military operations for over a week. @deadder.bsky.social

One of the biggest villains in Venezuelan politics is a man called Henrique Capriles Radonski. His biggest crime was conceding to Maduro after the 2013 elections. Maria Corina Machado (a well-deserved Nobel laureate) OTOH, AFAIK has never admitted being wrong about supporting a coup in 2002.

Daily bunny no.3483 sees something in the road

The candies are in the wrong aisle!!

If you want to listen to a master class on bond history, check out the @robinwigglesworth.ft.com interview by @ritholtz.bsky.social promoting his new book. Just the Venice part makes it worth listening overcast.fm/+AA4_yD_ZfLs

She will push for elections to happen much sooner than Donald Trump had in mind

The alternatives are not so good when the least crazy option is a man entering his fourth term as President. Not that we Venezuelans are example of anything, but Brazilian politics seems to be broken.

Absolutely surreal to see the turnout for my book signing yesterday in LA. Got to talk to so many incredible people. Thank you so much for reading my comics!

庭にて In the Garden

Kaoru Yamada artwork

He thought it would sound cool like "I ordered the code red", but he just left a country vulnerable to attacks, with no benefit except to help Putin, and is left now with [more] blood in his hands. Private companies shouldn't make security decisions, they should just deliver the equipment.

According to Polymarket, Lula Da Silva will be reelected polymarket.com/event/brazil...

Mini animals 3 - Green tree frog

To get our bachelors' degree in Mechanical Engineering here in Venezuela, we had to pass an ethics subject. But that's not the main reason why I personally don't cheat in the work I do. First, it's icky, and second, I may lose customers down the line.

Not to play the victim, because there's a lot that can be fixed in Venezuelan agriculture, but one big reason why we import soy and corn from the US, is because growers there get Federal subsidies to keep prices artificially low. It's called dumping, and keeps the Venezuelan farmer poor.

IMHO, the people that are more willing and likely to work longer hours are the ones with empty nests. Obviously, you don't have the same energy in your 50's than in your 20's, and may have stubborn beliefs. But it's not like you're suddenly gonna quit to get married. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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Both US political parties are increasingly frustrated with AI CEOs. They promise unprecedented prosperity but also warn of mass unemployment and catastrophic disasters from their own products. It’s hard to convince the public to embrace a technology when its creators keep warning them to fear it.

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

Meta continuing to update its VR glasses hardware is a great thing, because it gives Apple management an excuse to do the same, while allowing the VisionOS app ecosystem enough time to grow overcast.fm/+AA8XV36ywow...

Another take on "The Hackening", by @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev. Of course it's a cause for concern, especially since the hacking tools are widely available and some technologies like PHP are widespread. However, as Y2K, this will too pass -> The internet breaks open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

Vulnerabilities Galore - Prepare for a lot of software fixes tsancio.substack.com/p/vulnerabil...

Cool, because we're sick and tired of daily 3 to 6 hour blackouts, even with generators www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Talarico is still favorite according to Polymarket, in spite of the money Musk has poured into the Texas Senate election polymarket.com/event/texas-...

Prince predicted Y2K music.apple.com/us/album/199...

“Pink Soda & Pudding” (2023)

Spencer Tracy was like Richard Burton, two fine regular-looking actors in an industry full of more handsome men, that managed to enthrall two of the finest leading ladies Hollywood has produced. It's probably the "He belongs to an era when men were men" thing www.imdb.com/name/nm00000...

Daily bunny no.3482 seeks the Ancient Wisdom