December 28, 2025
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[Clever readers will notice that this is a repost from last week...Ace stomped it after a half hour or so]
That's where marijuana should remain. Smoky dorm rooms and basements where stupid kids and their even stupider older siblings hang out and solve the ills of the world. But it doesn't belong on our streets or offices, and relaxing federal restrictions will do exactly that. Hell, it's already everywhere in some cities...it's impossible to walk down a NYC street and not smell it.
Rescheduling Marijuana Is the Wrong CallWhen it comes to drugs, it’s hard to imagine a Republican president deciding to pick up where his Democratic predecessor left off. Yet that is what President Donald Trump did yesterday, directing the Department of Justice to finalize a process, started under former President Joe Biden, that would recategorize how the federal government views marijuana. In so doing, Trump hands a huge financial benefit to the businesses seeking to profit from making pot more mainstream. There’s no way of understanding the decision without seeing it as a triumph of commerce over long-standing cultural concerns, and of the libertarian, podcast bro faction of the Right over its traditional socially conservative wing. It’s also the wrong move. Improving the commercial viability of marijuana won’t make America’s citizens healthier or her cities more livable. If the goal of federal policy is to make America great, rather than just delivering benefits to a well-connected industry, yesterday’s executive order should be contested—and rescinded if possible.
America has too many problems without adding more of us getting high regularly. Sure, I sound like somebody who just kicked you off his lawn, but what is the benefit to our culture? [Yes, there is a song behind the graphic!]
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Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, enjoy a freshly-made batch of Chex Mix, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
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- So what's the real story behind Nvidia spending $20 billion for a non-exclusive license to Groq's (not that one) inference technology?
Definitely not fraud.* (Ossa-ma)
Or so argue Nvidia and Groq's lawyers as the FTC no doubt prepares for a endoscopic examination of their respective corporate records.
Nvidia buying another AI company would lead to messy stuff like regulatory approval, and Nvidia doesn't have time for that. So they paid $20 billion for a non-exclusive license to the technology... Oh, and that also included Groq's executive and engineering teams and all their patents and trade secrets.
But not the company itself, or any duty to support its customers. GroqCloud has been left to quietly die under control of the former CFO, drained of its engineering talent and indeed its entire reason to exist.
What Groq actually does is interesting: They make chips that use hundreds of megabytes of internal SRAM rather than tens of gigabytes of external DRAM, and have staggering amounts of bandwidth - 80 terabytes per second per chip.
Not suitable for training LLMs but great for running them once they have been trained.
As for the deal: Is this technically illegal? Possibly. Will Nvidia get away with it? Probably.
* Though if not fraud, why fraud shaped?
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December 27, 2025
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This holiday season has offered a really limited slate of films, for reasons I don't quite understand. It might be that the third Avatar movie was enough to scare off other films, or it might be that having given up on Christmas years ago (the surviving market being relegated to Hallmark and the lot) and giving up on understanding human behavior, Hollywood's contented to just...give up. And we've basically lost all our Korean exhibitors, so the "seeing a Korean movie on Christmas Eve" tradition died before its tenth year.
Looking through the revivals, I saw two interesting possibilities. One was John Woo's "Bullet in the Head" (35th anniversary). Tempting, but somewhat awkward to get to. The other, in a more accessible theater, was the 2019 movie Klaus—which I was shocked to see ranked #159 on IMDB's top 250. I have more than 250 issues with this list, but that aside—and very cautiously setting aside the Netflix brand name—I was surprised to see this relatively obscure film from Sergio Pablos' Animagic Studios (best known for Despicable Me, which Pablos created) on it. So off we went.
Christmas in Los Angeles.
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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. This is the LAST HOBBY THREAD of 2025!!
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Howdy Katy,
4 out if 5 years I get no blooms, then only one. This year I got about 20 on 3 different plants.
May you and yours be well and prosperous.
Kindest regards Bonecrusher
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[I should have a cup like that. Because it is so true.]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. I hope those who celebrate Christmas had a wonderful and joyous Christmas Eve and Day. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in
2) Be kind. Be nice. The list is starting fresh.
3) Running with sharp objects? Do you have Health Savings money you need to spend?
4) Have a great weekend and see you next year!
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- Is it a bubble? Let's ask the money men lending billions to build these AI datacenters.
They say yes. (New York Times) (archive site)
9.25% interest rates for commercial construction loans that supposedly have paying customers lined up?
Yeah, they're not convinced.
- The people who backed French bugfarm Ÿnsect were convinced - to the tune of $600 million. (Tech Crunch)
And lost their shirts, because the idea was irredeemably stupid.
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December 26, 2025
Say, I know this is a day late, but do you know how Norad came to "track" Santa?
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Shizuoka, Japan
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Ultimate Makeover: Treehouse Edition.
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Couple Turns Their Home Into A Hedgehog Hospital - Complete With A Maternity Ward And 'Hogbulances'
Sharon and Andy Longhurst started Burntisland Hedgehog Haven nearly three years ago after rescuing two sick hedgehogs they found by the roadside. The experience inspired them to learn how to care for the tiny creatures -- and before long, their passion turned into a full-time mission to save them. Since then, the Longhursts have treated 567 hedgehogs, caring for sick, injured, and orphaned ones around the clock. Their garage has been transformed into an ICU with seven incubators and 40 cages, while their garden now hosts a special hedgehog maternity ward. A dedicated team of 18 volunteers helps with cleaning, feeding, and transporting hedgehogs in the rescue's "Hogbulances."
Sharon, who works as a school crossing guard, and Andy, a bus driver, have poured their hearts -- and much of their free time -- into keeping the rescue running. They even fundraise through local events, raffles, and races to cover monthly costs of about £800 for food, bedding, and electricity, plus another £3,500 a year for vet bills. "If there's a hedgehog out there that needs help and it's in pain, I can't say no," Sharon told BBC News. "It's a full-time job -- we always say we have to draw a line, but then the phone rings and we say, 'Bring it in.'"... Of the hundreds of hedgehogs they've treated, 65% have survived and been released back into the wild -- a meaningful achievement given that European hedgehogs are now listed as "near threatened" due to habitat loss and other environmental pressures. "We'll do this until we're unable to," Andy said. "They're adorable -- really lovely animals."
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Google's worthless AI says it's all real:
Yes, jetpacks are actively being tested by militaries, especially the British Royal Marines and Royal Navy, to move personnel between ships or from ship to shore for faster boarding, reconnaissance, and tactical access, using companies like Gravity Industries's suits that resemble Iron Man's tech and offer potential for combat medics and pilot rescue, moving beyond simple transfers to tactical swarmingThey fly now?! They fly now.
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I would call this The Beastmaster thread, but prepare for disappointment: Even the guy compiling this list is shocked that Beastmaster doesn't actually make his list.
But I do have questions. He counts by air dates. Not by times. The difference is that HBO could show a movie on a specific date, but how many times did it show it on that date? He doesn't have that information. I know that kid-friendly PG movies played all day long on HBO, so maybe a listing of airings by number of times actually aired would give some love to Beastmaster. Now that I've prepared you for disappointment...Posted by: Ace at 01:20 PM | Comments (250) | Trackbacks (Suck)
This is insane. He starts off skiing from the top of Mount Everest pretty slowly, but then he hits some very steep areas where slow skiing is pretty much impossible. For long dangerous runs, he's just grinding down on steep ice.
I kept wondering: What happens if he loses a ski? Also, I wonder: What if he goes over the edge? And he is on the edge of a precarious ridgeline a few times. For example, at 6:45 in the video, and 10:00. And around 16:00. For those with vertigo: Content warning. This took place a month ago. Apparently it's a first. At least, climbing Everest and then skiing down without oxygen tanks is a first. Really amazing. Insane! Consider going full screen for this one or watching it on your TV.Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM | Comments (270) | Trackbacks (Suck)
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