Elliot retweeted
I recreated subvocal in 9 minutes with one prompt for AirPods Pro 3.
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Elliot retweeted
This neon sign is gone.
I photographed the Sun Land Motel sign on Main Street in Mesa, Arizona, at sunset in February 2013. A red neon starburst sun, MOTEL in big block letters, a glowing VACANCY oval, and little signs promising COLOR TV and PHONES, back when those were reasons to pull over.
It stood there since at least the 1960s, when Main Street was the old Apache Trail, with more than 60 motels and over 100 neon signs fighting for your headlights.
In 2016 it came down, replaced by a plastic panel sign. The motel is still open. The sun is not.
Two blocks away, the Starlite's Diving Lady blew over in a 2010 storm and was rebuilt and relit in 2013. As far as I can tell, nobody saved the Sun Land's.
These signs are Americana. They're part of our shared history and heritage. They're expensive to keep lit, and weather, neglect and redevelopment take most of them in the end.
I'm going to keep preserving as many as I can, photographically, until I'm gone too.
Elliot retweeted
42 years ago tonight, a boy named Daniel Larusso was brutally attacked by a gang of masked thugs.
Two months and one illegal crane kick later, young Daniel would exact his revenge with the help of a maintenance man from Okinawa.
Please remember the true meaning of Halloween.
Elliot retweeted
Sweet. It's a 1 megawatt nuclear microreactor that fits in a shipping container.
Gas-cooled, first by helium, then air.
Runs for five years, then you ship it back to the factory, where they take care of the spent fuel and refuel it.
Elliot retweeted
This is getting a lot of attention so for everyone seeing this the main point from the article was that it’s likely from tech strength continuing mixed with labor reduction post covid, *NOT* AI
My initial post title was somewhat misleading in that respect
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Elliot retweeted
Sorry to all but deleting the thread on the FT screenshots. IMO it was misleading & getting too big, my fault. The article mostly about how big tech strength + labor reductions post-covid = > productivity gains, & likely not *conclusively* AI
Article: ft.com/content/7f27aa5f-5994…
Elliot retweeted
Happy Anniversary to the insane way Kirstie Alley’s parents were dressed when they died in a car wreck
Elliot retweeted
Here’s a story for you. We started filming without owning the title and had to do alternates.
Taft Broadcasting owned the title Ghostbusters as part of their half-hour sitcom starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker (F-Troop) and a gorilla chasing ghosts. I had never heard of it. They didn’t have proton packs or Bill Murray. Columbia paid $500,000 to buy the name, but they really should have paid Dean Martin, from whom I first heard the term.
In the film Scared Stiff (1953), he and Jerry Lewis (check out his acrobatic stair descent) are in an old haunted castle, and Lizabeth Scott asks Dean: “Who are you guys?” And Dean answers: “You’ve heard of Trustbusters and Gangbusters, we’re Ghostbusters!”
For my research writing the first movie, I watched every single ‘ghost’ comedy ever made. Bowery Boys, Hope and Crosby, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis all did such films.
Happy Halloween 2026.
Elliot retweeted
Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard aka Sir Patrick Stewart laps the Top Gear test track in the Suzuki Liana. Rest in Peace, Sir.
Elliot retweeted
現代になってスイスのチーズ（エメンタールチーズ）の穴が消え始めた話。この穴はチーズが発酵するときの炭酸ガスが「核」に集まって膨らんだものなんですが、実はこの「核」の役割を果たしていたのが、昔ながらの牛舎で搾乳中に混ざり込んだ空気中の微小な干草の粉塵であることが2015年に特定された。
Elliot retweeted
Ten million people have watched a comedian accidentally destroy the entire TED talk industry.
He filmed the talk once at TEDxNewYork in 2014 and openly admitted he had nothing to say.
Speaking coaches charge $5,000 to teach the exact tricks he used in 6 minutes to say nothing at all.
His name is Will Stephen. He is a comedian from Late Night with Seth Meyers who was invited to give a real TED talk and used it to prove the format is a costume anyone can wear.
Every TED speaker opens with a question, tells a personal story, cites a scientist, and shows a chart. Stephen did all four in six minutes with zero content.
His entire formula fits on a napkin.
Gesture with both hands. Ask the audience a question anyone can answer. Tell a mildly embarrassing story so they say aww. Point to a stranger on a slide and call them important. Flash a chart of random numbers. Wear glasses with no lenses. The audience will think you are brilliant.
That last trick alone has probably cost the public speaking coaching industry a hundred million dollars in sessions clients should have skipped.
"If you watched me on YouTube with the sound off, you would think I was a genius."
That is Will Stephen on the TED stage, three minutes into the talk he was paid to give. He wasn't lying.
Executives pay $15,000 for a keynote coach and still open with a joke the room never laughs at. Founders rehearse their pitch for weeks and still sound like Stephen at minute four, saying "wagga wah, gabba gabba" with authority.
The talk is free on YouTube. The method is written across every TED speaker's playbook for ten years.
Stephen still writes for Seth Meyers. Almost none of the ten million viewers have stopped nodding at empty slides since.
The formula is free. The willingness to actually say something before your next keynote, pitch, or townhall is the entire edge.
