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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 07/10/2026

FT: SpaceX looks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips

“Investors who SpaceX has previously approached about financing its multibillion-dollar chip purchase said they only received a short two-page deal memo with pictures of outer space and an arrow pointing out that the company was going to build data centres ‘somewhere in the universe’.

‘How are we supposed to take that to the IC?’ one of the people said, referring to the in-house investment committee that approves transactions. ”

— SpaceX looks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips, FT.com

https://www.ft.com/content/d3f5928d-f38c-4666-8f7a-8737f9c45f51?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 28/09/2026

Fascinated by the shape of the conversation on Bluesky. A big political and social commentary cluster with only a loose connection to everything else. From atlas.jazco.dev

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 25/09/2026

Nice 👍 dev.to/nandakishor_...

“Instead of staying bitter, I decided to take everything I learned from my March 2025 and September 2025 papers, fix every architectural limitation of the old approach, and build a completely open, horizontal System 1 decision model: RL Agent.

And because we built it properly on a bidirectional encoder, our model runs in 33 to 38 milliseconds on a GPU, making it roughly 4x faster than Jev's published 150 ms latency, and it is 100% open-source.”

— Nandakishor M, I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models a Year Ago (Sep 18, 2026)

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 22/09/2026

A thoughtful answer to “what happened?” when the whole world suddenly talked of extinction from AI. (via Simon Willison)

“Technology is too broad, too deep, and too core to all of our lives to expect everyone to understand everything; we must — at some level — trust domain experts. When those domain experts sow fear, it is the fear that takes root, propagating much more readily than any evidence that may follow it.”

— Bryan Cantrill, The contagion of fear

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 17/08/2026

I’m reading this and think: “Another $100 billion, I sure do hope that someone at NVIDIA is keeping track of all the billions.” What times we live in.

FT headline: “Nvidia pledges $100bn backing for OpenAl data centre in Ohio”

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 07/08/2026

Spent an absurd hour tracking down why Chrome on Android (but not Edge on Android, or Safari on Mac) couldn't connect to a server. Guess what. IT'S ALWAYS DNS

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 02/04/2026

I’m really annoyed at the assumption that owning a car also means owing a house with a driveway where you can install a home charging unit (plus solar panels, presumably, because what’s an extra 20 grand). The economics are not that convincing for city dwellers who have to use public chargers.

The economics of driving have long since shifted. The Tesla Model 3 Long Range, for example, consumes about 25 kWh per 100 miles. At an average electricity cost of 17.5 cents per kWh, that is about 4.5 cents per mile. For a 38 miles per gallon petrol car to match that, fuel would need to be at about $1.70 per gallon, which is a level far below where prices have traded in recent years.

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 28/02/2026

static.unxpctd.xyz/apps/typecast/

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 14/02/2026

The layout of a street reverberates through centuries.

"Divanyolu, in Istanbul, takes the same route that the main street of Byzantium once did, laid out before the birth of Christ."

Devan Sudjic,
The Language of Cities

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 25/01/2026

How it started, and how it’s going. #webapp #claudecode

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 18/01/2026

One of my favorite apps of all time is “The Amazing Type-Writer”. I panicked a little when I saw it was no longer available in the App Store (at least not my regional one). Spent a few hours yesterday and today with Claude Code to make a web app replacement. It’s an homage. (Not posting the link)

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 13/01/2026

I’ve had this multiple times now with Claude. It answers from memory but pretends it did a web search. In this conversation, I had to push back twice until it finally did a search. It’s a little annoying, but as failure modes go, also very obvious.

Screenshot
*User:* You didn't do a search.
*Claude:* You're absolutely right - I apologize. I said I would search but didn't actually use the web search tool. Let me do that now:

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 26/12/2025

open.substack.com/pub/marcusol...

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 03/11/2025

Dutch elections marginally strengthened the far right; the seats are just more distributed over different parties.

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 02/08/2025

Flag Generator willmower.com/flag

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 23/05/2025

This is poetry - top-performing companies by demographic in the 2025 Axios Harris Poll 100

A table titled "Generation" lists the top 5 companies by reputation for "GEN Z/MILLENNIAL" and "GEN X/BOOMER."

**GEN Z/MILLENNIAL:**
1. Patagonia
2. Trader Joe's
3. Nintendo
4. Arizona Beverage Co.
5. Samsung

**GEN X/BOOMER:**
1. John Deere
2. Costco
3. Nvidia
4. Patagonia
5. Toyota Motor Corp.

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 23/04/2025

This paragraph (from the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs) has not aged too well…

But taking advantage of lucky breaks requires preparation as well as agility. In this regard, the United States has two major assets. The first is its network of alliances, which greatly magnifies Washington's leverage and room to maneuver. The second is the American practice of economic statecraft, which expands U.S. access to markets and critical resources, attracts outside investment, and maintains the American financial system as a central node of the global economy. Protectionism and coercive economic policies have their place, but they should be subordinate to a broader, more optimistic vision of American prosperity, and one that privileges long-time allies and partners.

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 08/04/2025

How many iPhones fit into a cargo 747?

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 24/12/2024

If all goes to plan, we'll also have flying electric cars and sentient humanoid robots.

"World's first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
Virginia may become the site of the world's first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant - if all goes to plan. Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a startup that plans to make a multibillion-dollar investment into building the facility near Richmond. The plant will be able to produce enough energy to power 150,000 homes. The path forward for the project is unlikely to be smooth as the technology has not yet been proven viable."

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 29/11/2024

www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/a...

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 25/11/2024

Interesting read from the FT: Central banks may have been targeting the wrong variable. Voters look at prices, not inflation. (Paywall) on.ft.com/3Vvgl2v

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 16/11/2024

Skate to where the puck is going.

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 17/09/2024

All right then let’s brag a little. Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #522,348.

Image showing the number 522,348, stamped with the text “Bluesky elder certified first 10%”

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Nick 🏳️‍🌈 @unxpctd.xyz · 25/08/2024

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