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spking··on Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools
https://archive.ph/borIf
spking··on Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents
I love this! Thank you OP.

Feature suggestion: Invite another parent on the Family page. It would be cool if both my wife and I were able to add approved videos.

spking··on Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else
https://archive.ph/fRwM4
spking··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
Unfortunately we’ve got one of these people across the street. He is training to be an electrician and starts his modded Toyota apparently with an amplified kazoo welded into the muffler at 4:15am every weekday. Shakes the entire house like a B-17 bomber.
spking··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
Warren Buffett famously said IPO stands for “It’s Probably Overpriced”.
spking··on Airplane Boneyards List and Map
Also if you’re talking specifically about the planes in the boneyards, would not recommend doing that in the desert. You will find some other “visitors” like rattlesnakes, scorpions etc. that have made the plane their habitat.

https://www.holloman.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/31...

spking··on Airplane Boneyards List and Map
Depends. Taking pictures in front of or around the planes is no problem, but majority are pretty much sealed off. That said, most of the bigger aerospace museums have several planes and helicopters with cockpit and cabin access.
spking··on Airplane Boneyards List and Map
If you’re ever in the Tucson area, highly recommend Pima Air Museum.

Would not recommend visiting between May-September as it feels as if you’re walking around in an outdoor blast furnace.

https://pimaair.org/

spking··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
https://archive.is/PZO0r
spking··on From Hallmark to neon signs: A look at Jim Parkinson's career in letter art
If you like the aesthetics of Jim’s lettering you might also like Herb Lubalin’s lettering work.
spking··on The brain was not designed for this much bad news
Neil Postman called this the “Peekaboo World”.

“What steps do you plan to take to reduce the conflict in the Middle East? Or the rates of inflation, crime and unemployment? What are your plans for preserving the environment or reducing the risk of nuclear war? What do you plan to do about NATO, OPEC, the CIA, affirmative action, and the monstrous treatment of the Baha’is in Iran? I shall take the liberty of answering for you: You plan to do nothing about them.”

https://www.nateliason.com/notes/amusing-death-neil-postman

spking··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
If this subject interests you, and you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

spking··on Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?
Nothing wrong with being a solo founder and I doubt the two “90%” reasons you cited are true the majority of the time.

https://solofounders.com/

spking··on Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance
At least until robotic dexterity catches up.
spking··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
And this SNL sketch from a few decades ago:

https://youtu.be/NWIlScfHwOU?si=64xMCQf8MHtho44H

spking··on The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
Non-paywalled link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-american-rebellion...
spking··on Cursor Camp
Touch virtual grass
spking··on Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions
That was a thing already, in the 1960s and 1970s lots of pulp paperbacks had ads for cigarettes and cheap cologne between chapters, for example.
spking··on America's never had such high national debt heading into an economic shock
https://archive.is/wfGKF
spking··on Humanoid robot: The evolution of Kawasaki’s challenge
I think this is the podcast you mentioned:

https://youtu.be/SRZ9E48B6aM?si=K_wwvu97agBZpFTa

spking··on Thought-Terminating Cliché
I agree, many of these clichés are just verbal shortcuts to a pretty useful filter:

"This is not important for me to think about or discuss right now."

spking··on Running a business means contact with reality
Sounds like a personal organizing business, i.e. decluttering and home storage solutions.
spking··on AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
https://archive.ph/DbFXY
spking··on OpenAI executives rattled by campaigns to derail for-profit restructuring
https://archive.ph/CeNFl
spking··on Hollywood Has Left L.A
https://archive.ph/4gn0d
spking··on The Fannie and Freddie Stakes Are High
https://archive.ph/XHuGW
spking··on AI is not our future
If you use Procreate on an iPad, I highly recommend a Sketchboard to save your posture and wrist!

https://sketchboardpro.com/

spking··on AI is not our future – Procreate
You will be fine with the Air.

https://www.creativebloq.com/buying-guides/best-ipad-for-pro...

spking··on Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?
https://archive.ph/tlRGI
spking··on Experiments to dim the Sun will be approved within weeks
https://archive.ph/zbVQQ
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