Neville is Never Normal

I visited Wurster Hall at UC Berkeley today. It was designed by, and currently houses, the architecture faculty. The UC Berkeley website notes that "Wurster is often voted Berkeley's ugliest building." I visited because I was curious about whether it would in person seem as unattractive as it does in photos. And, in short: it does. It's gaunt, austere, and filmed in grime. On an elysian campus, it stands out for its bleak hostility. It reminds me of the German submarine base in Bordeaux. The UC Berkeley page agrees that it was never designed to be attractive, quoting the curator of their design archives: “Wurster and his handpicked architects didn’t want anything romantic, or sentimental — they hated the idea of ‘making pretty buildings. They wanted a serious building.” I guess we have to concede success relative to their stated goals, but it does make one wonder what it all says about architecture as a discipline.

🚨#BREAKING: Absolutely WILD footage has emerged from Atlanta where an apartment complex now uses "robot security dogs" to patrol the area at night. The robot dogs also seem to speak in Indian accents to the residents. I've never seen anything like this before... insane!!!

1/ I WONDERED WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU JUST BUY THE BEST PERFORMING STOCK FROM THE YEAR BEFORE AND DO IT EVERY SINGLE YEAR SO I BACKTESTED IT GOING BACK 15 YEARS STARTING WITH $100 IN 2012: END RESULTS S&P 500 → $800 LAST YEAR'S WINNER → $176,114

Incredible moment 🥹🏅

Important note regarding Grok @Bot: Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs. Whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome.

If you ever arrive to a hotel too early and the room isn’t ready, sprawl out in the lobby, put on a sleeping mask and start loudly snoring. Your room will be ready in 5 minutes.

modern travel is increasingly flying 10 hours to experience a slightly different version of the same globally optimized lifestyle. same third wave coffee. same natural wine bar. same brutalist menu. same sourdough. same beige hotel. same tasteful ceramics. same instagram lighting. what a ridiculous convergence.

I met a guy who makes €50,000 from a train restaurant in Poland 🇵🇱 Long-distance Polish trains have a restaurant car called WARS. Rankings often put it at the top of the world's train food services – unlike other companies that just warm food up, WARS cooks national Polish dishes like pierogi, schabowy kotlet, and pancakes fresh I traveled on one of those trains last week and was amazed at how tasty the food is – I ordered two portions of pancakes in a row, and had to turn off my calorie counter 😅 I said to the guy at the bar that I really liked the food, we talked a bit, and he turned out to be the owner of that restaurant car I was surprised to find out that WARS trains operate like Polish Żabka or 7/11 – it's a huge franchise network where business owners rent 1 or 2 wagons and operate them like their own business The parent company still controls the menu and the look of the restaurant, but they get an owner attitude and A LOT of motivation to make money from the franchisees This business is also quite profitable – in the summer season you can get up to €10,000 in profits after taxes from just 2 cars In the X bubble, it's easy to forget how many ways there are to make money outside of tech, and stories like this keep my belief in capitalism and human creativity high!

🌟 Passed 2000+ concurrent viewers! 🫟 InfiniteSlop.ai ✅ Switched to portrait videos cause most usage on mobile ✅Moved the queue to the left with upvotes, so the most upvoted ones get generated (because limit of 4 videos (15s) per minute ✅ Shows playing next so you know if your video coming up next ✅ Together this makes it a bit more clear how it works: 1) you type a text in chat, 2) it gets put in the queue for people to upvote, 3) most upvoted one gets pulled from queue into generating, 3) when done generating get pu in the stream to play next ✅ Slowly adding some up and down scrolling (go previous videos) also but still a bit buggy Feature requests and ideas very welcome!