Dylan is 85, but the NYT asked a few celebrities about turning 80

QuoteThe best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It's freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don't chase the parade anymore. You're an old king from some vanished country. You're harder to program. You're not rushing to become anything and you're not haunted by things that you did. You're haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.

The worst thing

The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it's not, and also you've run out of illusions. People treat you like either you've solved something or you've lost something, and you haven't. You see life repeating itself everywhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opinion/trump-turns-80.html

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Yeah, it must have been here.  Thanks!

His excitement is infectious, I hope they continue to have a good time.

Fun thread.

Oh! They found Waffle House and Walmart, real 'Merica, they will be okay.

German soccer fan who cannot contain his excitement for EVERYTHING. Even the lowly Taco Bell in Atlanta gets dubbed The Holy Land

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While Debbie says AI needs some sort of serious oversight, her first thought was that this is a vindictive, punitive measure.

They're probably still stewing over anthropic saying no to adding Claude to all their weapons

I think there are currently multiple AI factions in government and Anthropic didn't donate enough to one of them.

There has been tacit recognition sooner or later the government would have to regulate AI.  I think every AI CEO has said as much at some point