"Billionaire sells company to himself, potentially inflating his net worth" should be the headline here, since, IIRC, Musk owns controlling stakes in both companies. Possibly all of xAI? I don't remember.

Fifteen sounds high. I'm thinking they'll get seven, maybe eight.

Finally! Something for @carlfranklin.bsky.social to do with notamollusc.com! A list of recent(ish) books that aren't part of the cosmic mollusc movement in literature. (Not that literature is Carl's thing, but he did own that domain for a long time.)

Given some of the things I've read on the Internet from women, sex is definitely an act of service for some men. As a service provided TO them, rather than as a service that they provide.

Yup! They have "milk pads"! So they're weird in many ways.

This leads me to ask: Is a nipple a pore? If so, milk is an exudate in all cases. If not, milk is only an exudate for monotremes (platypuses and echidnas)!

As a fan of both Heinlein and Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series: if I had a ton of money to throw around, I'd commission someone to write that! (Not you, necessarily. If you don't want to write another Heinlein tribute, then don't.)

I just watched Elf for the first time a few days before Christmas (no idea how I avoided it this long) and very much same on that one. Was good to see once to understand references people make to it but it will not be going in my regular Christmastime rotation.