imagination is nothing but belief

I contribute to xkit rewritten and palettes for tumblr (@addons!)

the ways for a piece of media to get my attention should probably not consist of "girls" and "be the consensus greatest piece of media of all time," but

Why is there not a no-AI index fund? I mean, not literally. Keep Nvidia and Alphabet and the flavoring company and the toilet company; every company is an AI company now. But: 1. In the next few months, SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI will all probably go public at massive valuations. 2. They will be fast-tracked into the major stock indexes, because those indexes are designed to reflect the stock market, and reflecting the stock market, in 2027, will absolutely require big allocations to those three companies. 3. A lot of people are happy about this, because they like AI, Elon Musk, rockets, etc., and are excited to finally be able to own SpaceX/Anthropic/OpenAI in their index funds. 4. A lot of people, however, are unhappy about this, because they do not like AI, Elon Musk, etc., and/or because they are morally offended that the big indexes are adjusting their rules to fast-track these companies, and/or because they think that the whole process is about pumping up an AI bubble and then dumping it on index investors. 5. If you’re in the happy camp, life is easy: Your index funds will buy these stocks in fairly short order (not that short, in the case of the S&P 500), and you will own them. 6. If you’re in the sad camp, there is very little you can do about it. Your retirement money is probably in index funds. You will have to write a sternly disappointed letter to, like, Vanguard, saying “I have been a loyal user of index funds for 20 years but I cannot abide SpaceX, please send me my money back.” And then invest it in stocks you pick that are not SpaceX. (Not investing advice!) This is a market failure, all those stern letters are inefficient, and someone — Vanguard and BlackRock — should offer, like, the Total Market But Not SpaceX or OpenAI or Anthropic Fund, or the S&P 500 But None of Those Guys Fund, or maybe even the S&P 500 But Under the Old Rules Where You Had to Be Profitable and Wait 12 Months to Get Into the Index Fund. I realize that there are copyright issues here but, you know. Honestly S&P should offer those indexes. – Money Stuff: Opting Out of the AI Boom

idea: refined github feature that doesn't let you merge a PR if any other PRs in the same repo target that branch (so that you can change their targets to the branch you're about to merge into, preventing them from being instantly closed with no way to reopen them if you have PR branch autodeletion on)

“What the fuck are you doing?” the US president shouted at the Israeli prime minister during the phone call on Monday,

does anyone else observe that turning off media autoplay on tumblr also means your videos are muted when you click to play them

But not just short selling! One of the charges against Left was that he told his followers to buy Nvidia Corp. stock in November 2018. I would be retired if I had bought Nvidia stock in 2018. “We see $165 before we see $120,” he tweeted, when Nvidia was trading at $143.64. In fact Nvidia never again fell below $120, and it hit his $165 price target within two weeks. Also since then it has been Nvidia. It’s up about 6,200% since his tweet. Basically the criminal case against Andrew Left was that he tweeted honest correct opinions about stocks, but for bad reasons. - Money Stuff: Google Needs More Money