At the macro level, data centers are a definite factor contributing to increases in electricity prices, creating a divergence from their local rate-lowering effect.

“At the local level, data centers seem to uh on balance probably decrease electricity prices currently. And at the macro level, they are definitely a factor contributing to an increase in electricity prices.”

The US does not have a problem with energy generation for AI; it has a problem with speed to power, driven by permitting, transmission, and regulatory bottlenecks.

“the US doesn't have a problem with energy generation. It has a problem with speed to power.”

The National Guard is not deployed in the census tracts where 82% of DC murders occur.

“the census tracks where they were not is where 82% of the DC murders happen, right?”

ORC-related violence has resulted in injuries and deaths inside Home Depot stores.

“And they will do violent things. And they have done violent things. And not only has it happened in retail, it's happened specifically to us. And we've actually had people injured. We've had people killed in our stores in these types of incidents”

In C. elegans, there is now clear proof of inheritance of acquired traits, and this is widely accepted in the epigenetics field.

“In the worm, we now have very obvious and clearcut proof that there is inheritance of acquired traits. So much so that I don't think that anyone pretty much in the epigenetic field argues against it.”

Alex Honnold does feel fear; however, after 20 years of practice, his brain does not light up the same way in response to fear stimuli, which is why he would not show a fear response inside an MRI, contradicting the popular Free Solo brain-scan narrative.

“The real takeaway is that if you practice something enough, your brain just doesn't light up the same way for it. So like with the fear response thing, it's not that I don't feel fear. It's that, you know, with 20 years of getting scared all the time, you're just not going to feel fear while you're inside an MRI”

Freelancer.com's human workers are reframed as '20-watt inference engines with free pre-training'.

“these humans are effectively 20 watt inference engines with free pre-training.”

Tokenflation is ongoing: a token buys less output than before even after adjusting for model quality improvements, according to BigSpin's Claude Code CPI data.

“Seems to be continuing. Yeah. Yeah. That's certainly the picture that we get from the CPI, a picture of token inflation. Yes, your token is not buying you what it once did according to everything we can think to measure here. And even adjusting for models getting better, right? That's critical there.”

Tony Hawk's Birdhouse Skateboards is currently not a profitable business despite being a major skateboard brand for decades.

“It is not a profitable business.”