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To Live and Die in L.A. was directed by William Friedkin. Featuring William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro, Darlanne Fluegel, and Dean Stockwell.
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Upon reflection, it makes sense that the British are reading Breakneck and Abundance. Every problem in the lawyerly society is worse in the UK. I thought that California’s high-speed rail project was an embarrassment; then I learned about the Leeds tram network.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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h/t @tampa_bre
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The people building these systems—Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis—have made it clear that everybody from writers and actors to tax accountants and war strategists are on the chopping block. Of all the wizards of modern AI, Dario Amodei, the theoretical physicist who founded Anthropic, maker of Claude, is the most publicly anxious about the impact of his product on the world at large, seemingly spooked by his own predictions.
~ Joe Hagan via Vanity Fair.
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