https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-issu...

If Costco were circumventing the ban it'd be a pretty big deal. I couldn't google up any indications that they are, so on balance I'd say it's "possible" in the same way my winning the lottery is possible. Can't rule it out, but reasonable people should probably bet against it.

TIL: Xinjiang tomatoes are something like 15% of the global market!

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

(There were a dozen other, unrelated things ranking higher on Google.)

But then how thick does that layer need to be?

I think the real win from these models is enabling well-funded/profitable companies to not be beholden to the big closed-weight providers. But I like the idea of letting a hundred flowers bloom for under $20M/y each.

I suppose "blocking the view of surveillance cameras" is probably illegal though.

https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/

https://marginalrevolution.com/

I follow a fair number of people who would, back in the day, have been classic bloggers, but are now doing Substack, and rarely even mention AI. Here's one I like enough that I actually pay for it:

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/

Safari on iPad lines these up almost perfectly - the second line is a tiny bit wider, I didn’t even notice it at first.

That example had a tone mark but no vowels, so I will try one with both. E&OE.

    |ดื่มน้ำอยู่|
    |abcdef|

https://biztos.com/hey/thai-mermaid-chart.png

To my surprise, Sublime Text gets it almost right:

https://biztos.com/hey/sublime-thai-mermaid.png

I tried finding a Thai monospace font and using that in the HTML but it was worse, probably didn't have the box drawing chars.

Still a fun tool and useful for lots of ASCII cases!

After about a month of reading his stuff I started to notice the Claudisms. And once you see them you can't unsee them, they start to pop up everywhere. I have no idea if he was using an LLM to "improve" his writing, or was "vibe-authoring" the whole thing.

I unfollowed, and now I have this creeping feeling that much of what I see in any given day on the Internets is actually AI slop, and I just haven't seen the signs yet.

In Asia I was paying $50 for very fast fiber, but that was in a major city; out at the farm you're on the mobile networks. So if I build a house out there and can do Starlink, I will do it.

Plus, there's the whole Starlink Roam thing: in California this summer, I see more and more vans with the little Starlink rectangle on top. "Work from Campsite" is pretty compelling, honestly.

I could absolutely justify having that machine for the actual work I do, and I'm not even doing any of the really hard AI things. If I were, I might prefer a Thelio Mega workstation from System76, which is $90,383.00 fully loaded.

Alas I can not afford a 10K personal computer right now, which is not the same thing.

How did you find the festival-booth experience?

I still hope this will be a shared goal in at least some tech companies long-term. But the headwinds are strong. "Not better, but faster" is starting to look like a job requirement.

It truly is a pain in the butt. But if access to (US banking | Fable) is worth it, you do the annoying work, and the customers accept the annoying limitations.

That part is up to Anthropic. KYC[0] is not exotic, it's just a pain in the butt: if Fable is that good, they can do the KYC.

I don't think this is the right move from the government, but we shouldn't pretend that "citizens only" is an insurmountable hurdle for a company that just got a $65B capital infusion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

Your manager will look at your token usage and the number of Jira tickets you closed, and if you have not increased both 10x in the past year then you will be let go. 10x is the new 1x.

Whether that's early retirement depends on how much money you have.

(I'm surprised to see it actually, since my own use of Claude has mostly yielded well-structured code. But I'm not doing proper vibe-coding, more like friendly Socratic arguing with another engineer who happens to be a robot.)

[0] https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/blob/main/datas...