from his "personal life" section on Wikipedia:

As of October 2026, Forbes estimates Huang's net worth to be over US$200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world.

While at Oregon State University, Huang met his future wife, Lori Mills, who was his engineering lab partner at the time.

they got married years before he became wealthy, so I've seen speculation (which seems quite plausible) that they don't have a pre-nup or post-nup agreement...

meaning if they divorce, his wife Lori Mills would get ~$100 billion (maybe a little less, depending on how badly Nvidia's stock price goes down from this)

fingers crossed that she takes the money and runs, and follows in Mackenzie Scott's footsteps after she divorced Bezos, and starts yeeting that money to charities that can put it to good use.

that looks to me like they fold in order to meet some height restriction to fit under a bridge or something, not in order to unload cargo?

this is the setup I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship#%2Fmedia%2FFile%3AMAERSK_MC_KINNEY_M%C3%96LLER_=&_MARSEILLE_MAERSK_%2848694054418%29.jpg=

and you can see from the way the top deck is built, with or without the folding masts, that this ship is not designed to be unloaded like that.

meh...this is just reprinting their press release: https://www.neoline.eu/en/neoliner-origin-70-fuel-savings-and-a-first-year-confirming-the-industrial-potential-of-wind-powered-shipping/

it sucks, because it'd be great if it was more feasible, but anytime you see news about wind-powered cargo ships a "this is greenwashing" alarm should go off in your head

that 70% number in the headline sounds really promising, right?

The 136 metre roll on roll off vessel, which entered service in October 2025, completed nine commercial round trips, sailed more than 62,000 nautical miles and transported 12,063 tonnes of cargo during its first year.

one ship, 9 trips, 12,000 tons of cargo

meanwhile, Panamax carries ~50,000 tons, and neo-Panamax carries ~120,000 tons. in one trip.

so you build 10 of these ships, sail them for a year, and it replaces one trip by one neo-Panamax ship.

except, it doesn't even really do that. the press release talks about the ship being "roll-on / roll-off" like it's a feature. which it can be, for certain niches.

but modern cargo ships all use big stacks of shipping containers, and handle them at ports using giant overhead cranes. that's effectively the worldwide standard.

and ships with huge sailing masts are either impossible or very difficult to make work with those overhead cranes. so this isn't just a question of building new wind-powered cargo ships, it's also retrofitting every existing cargo port in the world to handle them.

is all of that technically possible? sure.

but we have 12 years to prevent a climate change catastrophe...according to a report published 8 years ago. "check it out guys, we built one sailboat" just ain't gonna cut it.

"don't build the torment nexus" is a meme that's repeated so often it's becoming a cliche, and yet

Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.

from a Terry Pratchett book published in 1997.

those who forget history are condemned to...something something.

not normally a fan of Raw Story, but I like that their headline frames this fucking thing correctly.

this is the "GOP megadonor Brian Heywood thinks your 5 year old girl needs a genital exam before she can play soccer with her friends" act of 2026.

regardless of whatever else you think about AI, it's a good idea to be very wary about security-sensitive apps that are written using LLMs.

there's a self-hostable S3 replacement called RustFS, with development that leans heavily on LLMs.

they had a security vulnerabilty last year.

one LLM-written commit added a complete authentication bypass to the code. literally, you could just send rustfs rpc as the auth token instead of an actual token.

it was fixed in a pull request named fix: Prevent panic in GetMetrics gRPC handler on invalid input which claimed to fix a different auth problem and just coincidentally removed the hardcoded auth token.

security stuff is hard, and LLMs are prone to over-confidence. that's a bad combo.

the best encapsulation of this is a tweet from Ilan Wurman:

A year and a half ago a federal judge in Washington basically said the Trump Administration view was borderline sanctionable. That view just got 4 votes on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wurman is a right-wing nutjob law prof at U of MN, and is essentially the main guy providing academic legal justification for Trump's attempt to dismantle the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship.

In his dissent in Trump v. Barbara, Justice Clarence Thomas cited Wurman's scholarship three times.

he lost. his position only got 4 votes. and yet that tweet is him doing a victory lap - he's bragging about "even though I lost, look how much I was able to accomplish in 18 months".

conspiracy-brained people are all seizing on this as evidence that supports whatever conspiracy theory they already believed about Kirk's killing.

but really, this is not surprising at all. from 2022: The Field of Firearms Forensics Is Flawed: The matching of bullets to guns is subjective, and courts are starting to question it because of testimony from scientific experts

Skepticism of firearms identification is not new. A 2009 National Research Council (NRC) report criticized the firearms identification field as lacking “a precisely defined process.” Guidelines from the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE) allow examiners to declare a match between a bullet or cartridge case and a particular firearm “when the unique surface contours of two toolmarks are in ‘sufficient agreement.’” According to the guidelines, sufficient agreement is the condition in which the comparison “exceeds the best agreement demonstrated between tool marks known to have been produced by different tools and is consistent with the agreement demonstrated by tool marks known to have been produced by the same tool.” In other words, the criterion for a life-shaping decision is based not on quantitative standards but on the examiner’s subjective experience.

also, pay attention to the wording:

could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during Charlie Kirk’s autopsy to the rifle

they're not saying they concluded there's no link between the bullet and the rifle. they're saying they can't conclude there is a link. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

the actual news here is simply that his defense attorneys asked for a delay to the trial, so that they have time to prepare to rebut all the possible evidence the prosecution might present.

park it in the Strait of Hormuz you cowards

military concepts like "standoff" and "beyond visual range" were invented by woke Marxist generals who were afraid of getting their hands dirty

the Ford is a gigantic ship, Iran only has small wittle boats. they'll definitely run away and be scared of it.

to some extent, this is "yeah, everyone knows they've given arrest quotas, and told to use bullshit AI apps that fabricate arrest reasons" - but it's still important, for the historical record if nothing else, to have contemporaneous, under-oath statements about it.

In the hearing, an ICE agent identified as JB testified that his team was given a verbal order to target eight arrests a day.

...

JB testified that officers had started the day by surveilling an apartment complex. He suggested officers choose the location in part based on intelligence from an app called Elite. It’s unclear the exact role Elite played in identifying the area as a target – another officer testified that the ICE field office in Portland had provided “intelligence” that led them to visit the site. But JB explained that Elite was a “newer app” given to ICE agents. The app, he said, is “kind of like Google Maps” and shows how many individuals with an “immigration nexus” are believed to be in a certain area. Another officer testified that a “nexus” could mean any history of contact with immigration officials, which could include a naturalized US citizen.

yep, absolutely. this reeks of desperation and an overly-rushed attempt at ratfucking Kat.

this only made the news because one person (Amanda Informed) got sent the offer, and decided to tell a journalist about it rather than simply accept or decline it.

the lesson that they're going to take from this is not "don't use influencers to ratfuck candidates" it's "be more cautious about which influencers you try to recruit"

someone who is likely LGBTQ

...

this likely trans girl

oh hell no cut this shit out right now.

the person in these ads has, AFAICT, not said anything about their gender or sexuality.

this is a random person in an ad you saw on the internet. speculating about what genitals they were born with, or who they like to fuck, is fucking creepy. don't do it.

(and no, there is no "oh, but if my speculation were true it'd be a heartwarming story" exception)

But, damn, some times you gotta look for a little light.

yeah shit sucks right now, but that's a reason why we need more critical thinking, not less of it.

falling for, and spreading, obvious propaganda like this does not make the world any better.

from the article:

She’s been making videos highlighting her job at Staples since the end of January and has blown up big time.

wow yeah the end of January huh? did anything else happen on TikTok around the end of January?