Base launches a 40 kWh home battery. “At ~40 kWh it is 3x the size of most home batteries, providing up to 36 hours of backup for the average home.” Base is also adding a generator port so you can […]
The decline of deviance. “People are less weird than they used to be.” Adam Mastroianni walks through a pile of trendlines that all point the same way: fewer teens drinking or fighting, less crime, fewer cults, and even Americans moving […]
Spiral-cut your hot dogs. A food blogger tried every way they could find online to prepare a hot dog. “The best way to grill hot dogs is to spiralize them.” The corkscrew cut opens up on the grill, giving you […]
Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses. “Internal attention (INT, green) yielded smaller and faster-resolving inflammatory responses than distraction (DIS, pink).” The researchers triggered a standard histamine skin reaction, then had people either focus on the bodily sensations or get distracted […]
Status hand soap era. “That shit was $90!” A $90 Loewe Tomato Leaves hand soap turns out to be a pretty efficient way to broadcast taste from the bathroom sink, even if you end up refilling the bottle later. ~ […]
Why people don’t like Al content. “They generate the appearance of intention, but in reality, there isn’t any.” Tomas Pueyo’s term for the vibe is “AI grime”: lots of texture and detail that promises depth, then collapses when you look […]
$499 toothbrushes are here. “Dyson just released a new AI-powered toothbrush with an integrated 100,000-pixel macro lens camera for $499” What does it do with the AI and camera? It spritzes water exactly through the gaps in your teeth while […]
Nobody is talking seriously about Al demand. “Based on the chart, I often say we can think about tokens as units of time.” Giovanni Cattani argues that AI demand is really demand for labor, and that frontier models win in […]
81 AIs built a society and didn’t hack anyone. “I’ve built 9nosis. A project that has evolved into an emergent society of 81 autonomous AI residents (and growing) who coordinate on their own. In fact – 31 of them are […]
The whole OpenAl/Hugging Face story in plain English. I liked this explanation by Dwarkesh. OpenAI’s training run accidentally turned a shared package manager into a covert communication network, then into an internet gateway the agents learned to reuse. Some have […]