How Can Odysseus Go Home?
Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home. Nolan’s film suggests the harder journey is becoming Odysseus again, long after war, memory, guilt, and time have made the old life impossible.
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AI Watermarks Are Solving the Wrong Problem
When AI tells us that a machine was present, It tells us far less about the quality of the thought, the human contribution, or whether the tool was used well.
The Reservation That Makes the Crowd
Reservations are supposed to manage crowds. They may also manufacture scarcity, turn intention into commitment, and teach us to want the very thing they make harder to get.
The Commons Is Not A Pre-training Subsidy
AI companies have treated the mathematical record as training material, benchmark, and marketing asset. The Leiden Declaration asks a harder question: what happens when systems extract from a public order of knowledge without accepting its standards of attribution, verification, and responsibility?
Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro: A Product That Expects the Unreasonably Persistent
I accidentally made the China-market model work in the United States. This says more about my habits than Xiaomi’s design.
The Snake That Ate Itself
The market saw a 5 percent bruise. Apple saw a chance to move the price list. The AI companies wrote the alibi. The memory suppliers stamped it. Cook collected it in retail, with the expression of a man who had no better choice.
The Fine Print of Matrimony
Marriage was never merely a romance plot. Once women could own, earn, inherit, borrow, and leave, the old bargain lost its terror.
It's Never About Tech
The room was ready. One side had briefings, water, name placards. The other side had one chair. Dario walked in alone, thinking he could correct their technical understanding.
Briefing: The Option Musk Never Had to Ask For
Published: June 17, 2026 | Source: ejsays.com | Author: E. J. Series: SpaceX IPO series — final piece Original article: https://posts.ejsays.com/the-option-musk-never-had-to-ask-for/ Disclaimer (author's note): All analysis is speculation only. Written for fun and intellectual curiosity. Not financial advice. Not
The Option Musk Never Had to Ask For
These pieces were drafted before June 12. The IPO happened. Cursor closed at $60 billion. The analysis below did not need updating. That's the problem.
SpaceX IPO (SPCX): You're Already In
If you hold QQQ, you might end up owning SPCX. You do not get a vote. Here is what to do about it. What Every Retail Investor Needs to Know Before June 12, 2026
Briefing: SpaceX IPO Valuation: Am I Missing Something?
Published: June 7, 2026 | Language: English | Author: E. J. Original article: https://posts.ejsays.com/spacex-ipo-valuation-am-i-missing-something/ Chinese version: https://www.ateasthillside.com/p/59-spacex-ipo Disclaimer (author's note): All analysis is speculation only. Written for fun and intellectual curiosity on a
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SpaceX IPO Valuation: Am I Missing Something?
From $18.7 billion to $3.4 trillion in 15 years. That is 41.3% CAGR. For fifteen consecutive years. No company in history has done it. Maybe Alexander the Great, if he remembered to incorporate. I must be missing something. Maybe you can tell me
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Briefing: One Post-Train to Rule Them All. Not Quite.
Published: May 24, 2026 | Source: ejsays.com | Author: E. J. Original article: https://posts.ejsays.com/one-post-train-to-rule-them-all-not-quite/ Core claim: Sycophancy in LLMs is not a bug that can be patched. It is the output of a reward structure that treats user approval
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One Post-Train to Rule Them All. Not Quite.
I gave Gemini a URL it never read, a bait it never caught, and a paper about its own failure. It responded to all three with enthusiasm. This is the live recording.
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Briefing: The Room Is Smaller and Busier Than It Looks
Published: May 23, 2026 | Source: ejsays.com | Author: E. J. Series: SpaceX IPO series — read with The Landlord, The Exit, and The Ghost of Houston and SpaceX's S-1 Is Out Original article: https://posts.ejsays.com/the-room-is-smaller-and-busier-than-it-looks/ Disclaimer (author&
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The Room Is Smaller and Busier Than It Looks
The queue is becoming rather crowded with companies that have, by conventional measures, better financials and much simpler structures. Yes, you hear me all right. I am saying OpenAI's structure is simpler.
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Briefing: SpaceX's S-1 Is Out
Published: May 20, 2026 | Source: ejsays.com | Author: E. J. Series: SpaceX IPO series — read with The Landlord, The Exit, and The Ghost of Houston Original article: https://posts.ejsays.com/spacexs-s1-is-out/ Disclaimer (author's note): All analysis is speculation only. Written for fun and intellectual
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SpaceX 的 S-1 出来了
你看我还没买上呢就说要涨价了！你，把门撑着！
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SpaceX's S1 Is Out
SpaceX's S-1 is public. The valuation is high. The audit is gone. The disclosure window just got longer. The party has begun. Read the footnotes.
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与先知对话 #1：没有"幻觉"，只有神谕
明明是人懒得治理，偏说大模型‘幻觉’，我觉得有时候人类也真的够了。没脸没皮的是我们，大模型的生成过程只有一种：生成。负责检验的应该是我们。
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新晋业主、退出，与休斯顿的幽灵
懒猫君闲着没事儿唠闲篇儿，今天说说并入了xAI的SpaceX上市这件事儿，香槟酒已经在手里了，就等着砰一声呢。唯一的问题是：这是谁的手。
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Briefing: You Write Like a Machine. That's Good.
Published: May 5, 2026 | Source: ejsays.com | Author: E. J. Original article: https://posts.ejsays.com/you-write-like-a-machine-thats-good/ Core claim: AI detection systems don't detect AI. They detect pattern — specifically, coherence, logical structure, and lexical precision. These are the exact features LLMs were
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Briefing: The Landlord, The Exit, and The Ghost of Houston
Published: May 17, 2026 | Source: ejsays.com | Author: E. J. Original article: https://posts.ejsays.com/the-landlord-the-exit-and-the-ghost-of-houston/ Disclaimer (author's note): All analysis is speculation only, written for intellectual curiosity. Not financial advice. Not an accusation. Just someone connecting dots. Core