https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/

On the cover it's a story about the failed production of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune script but the deeper story was the aggregation of an unbelievably talented pool of visual artists including Jean "Moebius" Giraud (mentioned as central artist in 5th element), H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Salvador Dali, & Dan O'Bannon.

That group would go on to centrally influence the visual style of a huge body of science fiction work including Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Star Wars, The Matrix, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc etc.

The art and creativity on display in the film is absolutely sonic.

Kind of like the original PayPal mafia!

Anybody have a good solution that's utilizing actual traveler data vs the (non existent atm) TSA data?

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https://closingline.substack.com/p/the-takeaway-kalshi-non-s...

PS - Christopher Cantwell - one of the writers and showrunners - has written a library of wonderful comic books worth investigating

PPS - ATX TV did a 10 year anniversary interview with a handful of the cast and crew that's worth watching if you're a fan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6L1suN-mGE

But mortality credits (pooling) don't solve the math of the discount rate - they add 100 - 150 basis points of reduction so retarget to 5.5% vs 4% if generous

So they are still structurally designed where they HAVE to allocate towards risk to meet their targets which is at core of issue

The "Safe Withdrawal Rate" assumed by many private individuals planning for their own retirement assumes a withdrawal rate in the 3 - 4% range based on the "trinity study" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study

Meanwhile, American public pensions are structurally engineered around a 7%+ SWR - this was recently confirmed again by the median goal by the National Association of State Retirement Administrators.

The perpetual "under funded" nature, and all the return hunting etc in pension fund management can be explained by that disconnect.

But this then belies a very uncomfortable acknowledgement which is that we cannot afford the government workforce currently in place requiring us to either:

(a) Raise taxes to increase contributions.

Or

(b) Somehow make due with less government :)

"The best technical analysis anyone has done on bitcoin."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OxO-4YLRk

This is a fascinating point - if Neo / Tesla deliver a teleoperated hybrid at their <$30k price point the low-skill US labor force is going to be significantly disrupted on a shorter timeline than I would have previously estimated.

These are being pitched as "home robots" but clearly corporations will go all in - 24/7 operation (with multiple remote operators), no labor law / healthcare / pensions, spin up / down at will.

This is a quote from Alex Proyas (director of Dark City, irobot, the crow etc), he has long observed that humans are biologically under-adapted for a modernity of silicon-fueld complexity

https://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/alex-proyas-dark-...

And that's very apparent even in this article which leads with the logical fallacy of moral equivalence

". . . and America’s preeminent real estate fraudster who bankrupted six rigged businesses is all of a sudden concerned with supposed mortgage fraud"

BOTH are guilty, BOTH are crooked!

This directly leads to a lot of "the whole system is broken, may as well get mine"

eg - GPT-5 beats GPT-4 on factual recall + reasoning (HeadQA, Medbullets, MedCalc).

But then slips on structured queries (EHRSQL), fairness (RaceBias), evidence QA (PubMedQA).

Hallucination resistance better but only modestly.

Latency seems uneven (maybe more testing?) faster on long tasks, slower on short ones.

UX 101 taught by George Carlin

https://www.cultofmac.com/news/pinot-w-ichwandardi-flatiron-...

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Premium Telegram users get to try for free, will move to a subscription model

Telegram has 12m premium users up from 4m in 2023, and 1b+ users

Not unreasonable to think a 5% take rate from just premium users at say $10/month extra

Which - at 50% revenue share to GROK - would be a ~$36m a year run rate for Grok

At $36m in this category of AI SaaS that's something like $400 - 500m in enterprise value out of the box

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