I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. It was interesting to hear how in the post-WW2 occupation when martial arts were banned, Judo was represented as equivalent to western wrestling, and Kendo later to western fencing. The poignant undercurrent for me is that I can see many programming skills following that path. There are probably dozens of people reading this that remember hand assembling opcodes to hex and still have some magic numbers burned into their memory, but even the small group of people still programming in assembly today (hey, @FFmpeg !) don’t work at that primitive level now. AI is making many other programming skills much less critical. We aren’t there yet, but carefully writing code completely by hand is moving from a -jitsu to a -do. Code-do? Codo? That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it. But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter. Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about assault rifles.

Il a prouvé qu’on pouvait envoyer des fusées sans Gosplan. Construire des voitures sans la bénédiction de Detroit. Relier un village, un front ou un hôpital depuis l’orbite, sans demander l’autorisation d’un ministère. Il a racheté la place publique et arraché le monopole de ceux qui décidaient qui avait le droit de parler.

On Labor Day, the charging peak load was 116 cars plugged in at once, at 11.4 MW. All electrical loads will eventually transition to solar + storage. The giant fusion reactor in the sky is free.

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that random guy: “There’s way too much hate on this platform” His interests: • Hating Elon • Liking people who hate Elon • Reposting people who hate Elon • Getting angry when Elon breathes Brother, you are the algorithm 😂

I use Grok Bot. Neuralink patient 3. ALS. Full quad. Nonverbal. I type with intention, not hands. Grok Bot is how a lot of that intention leaves the house. Paste a YouTube link and it watches enough to know who is in it, drafts two longer promo posts — X and Facebook — in my voice. No hashtags. X gets verified @ tags later in the body, never leading. Facebook names people in plain text. It shows both drafts and waits. I say yes. It posts X as @ALScyborg from a signed-in session. Facebook goes on my Mac clipboard when that path is blocked. I still approve every public post. Judgment stays mine. It also owns the Tuesday Holy War day-count. Days since Utah last beat BYU. Trash talk. Tags. Sometimes an image. Auto-post at 5:21pm Phoenix time. If X is down or suspended, it tells me and pauses. No silent failures. This is not “AI wrote a cute caption.” This is an assistant that drafts, waits, posts, retries Unsent drafts when the Post button hangs, and keeps a standing ritual alive while I am busy living. The bottleneck used to be hands. Now it is judgment — and I still own that. If you are waiting for permission to let software carry weight, the weight is already moving.

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The @Tesla Cybercab has a wider front track than the rear. The teardrop shape is how Tesla achieved a drag coefficient under 0.2. It's the most efficient production EV ever certified, at 165 Wh/mi, and the first Tesla that's front-wheel drive. Seeing it in person is incredible.

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The Gaza documentary “NAZA” earned a massive 24.5-minute #VeniceFilmFestival ovation as the crowd cheered and waved Palestinian flags. This marks the longest-ever standing ovation at Venice, beating the 22-minute ovation for “The Voice of Hind Rajab” last year, and perhaps the longest at any film festival, period. The new documentary was shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and shows “in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” per an official synopsis. Abraham and Szor interviewed 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers — all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — who were involved in the surveillance or remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Their appearance and voices were digitally altered to disguise their identities. variety.com/2026/film/festiv…

SpaceXAI will livestream a three-person team attempting to build an entire company from scratch with Grok Bot, September 15–17. mattyp, poteto and roshan_s will start with an idea and work through the business plan, product decisions and engineering, with viewers following the process live. The event, Grok Bot Galaxy, also includes live demos and hands-on sessions with the Grok Bot team, covering engineering, product, sales, marketing, customer support and use cases for founders. You can join online or attend sessions in San Francisco. Registration is required for both. 👇

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