🔗 Haiku Heroes: Donald Barthelme over on Sourcefeed

But the task is not
so much to solve problems as
to propose questions

I need to turn this Haiku into a poster.

The date conundrum has been around and discussed forever, although ‘conundrum’ is really a misnomer. Quite simply the correct way to format a date is YYMMDD - or YYYYMMDD - any other choice is just wrong. Opinionated? Yup. Wrong? No.

🔗 How the World Agreed on a Date Format (Except the US) does a really good job of laying out the story and the challenge, ending with the observation that …

Us Americans haven’t adopted it (yet). We still write 06/08/2026 on bank checks, forms and filings, but the machines we all use are on 8601 and they are doing most of the talking.

🔗 The Market Behind the Wall

Which is why I would be nervous, were I sitting atop a five-and-a-half-trillion-dollar valuation built on a story its own executives call the tokenomics flywheel: AI gets cheaper, so people use more of it, so you sell more chips, forever. It’s a lovely flywheel. It also rests on two assumptions standing up indefinitely — that the lookups stay on the graphics chip, and that the hallucination tax, the wrongness, the wall, is simply the permanent cost of doing business, a thing you manage rather than cure. 2Brains is a bet that both assumptions fall in the same afternoon

From a ‘zinger’ perspective, this is a great piece from Bob Cringely.