Regional security dinner theater: The bike-sniffing dog on the Staten Island Ferry.

So cheap. This one rents for $4 a day. $10k to buy new.

The majority of all car trips in NYC could be satisfied by this little electric two seater. What public policy changes would it take to get 1 million of these on the streets?

Someone is sitting in a room and they are aware that they are sitting in the room. If you cut their corpus colousum, have you doubled the total amount of awareness in that room? Or does it stay the same?.

Low engagement is high status.

The 2025 R100GS.

This.

For example, take a good person who just happens to have a painful and debilitating deformity. Maybe for not so much money you could fix that deformity and *drastically* alter that single life. Maybe mitzvah calculus is non-communative?.

If the goal is to make the most total improvement across lives, then give to @GiveWell. Making a billion people each 1% happier is very good. But at the other end of the spectrum could be to do the most good per individual, and I think this could also be a very good thing.

The most popular tourist attraction in the whole country of Morocco is a pseudosimulacra.

Pure experience without memory or reasoning.

Is someone with full blown dementia the opposite of a p-zombie?.

The numbers 2 & 3 in Arabic are way too close to each other in the embedding space.

META STARTUP IDEA: .1. Use AI to generate a ton of distinct and quirky potential startup ideas and upload them to 2. Wait for someone to buy one of the potential companies. 3. Use AI to generate the company. 4. Cash check.

Tired: Setting up your induction coil underneath high tension lines to charge your phone. Wired: Setting up your Xylene condenser next to the exhaust shaft of the Holland Tunnel to run your sterling cycle engine to generate power to charge your phone.

If you don't believe in capitalism, visit any Lowes or Home Depot. Astonishing.

This is the first generation of humanity that cannot axiomatically say "I do not have a single ancestor- going all the way back to the down of mankind- who died a virgin".

Is it possible that you actually want some "micronutrients" in the air? Maybe breathing class 1 clean room air is not maximally healthy? We evolved in a world with pollen and dust and smoke and sea spray.

Bernoulli's principle does not apply to cars on roads.

Kinda crazy that they didn't leave some kind of backdoor to get custom code running on these. They could have made it just enough of a pain to get in that they would still have plausible deniability, while still enabling people to find new killer app uses.

Where are all the websites for Oakley Meta glasses livestream FPV porn? Seems like an obvious use case?.