Will they not go after Emerson?

Predictable. Awful. The fear is driving people back into the shadows.

OTOH the IPO provides lots of opportunities for litigation over PBC governance laws 😬

A lesson they should’ve gleaned from the co-op hippies before them :)

A child stepped forward from the crowd and exclaimed, “the immigration judge is not wearing robes!”

I mean… not here to defend it, but this just describes the rise of impact investing and the ability of mission-driven private investors to deploy capital more quickly and with fewer legal/tax constraints, which is what the Knight Foundation has also started doing (see eg Bluesky investment)

Not everyone needs to be a Speaker. It’s a good role for some people. Other people are Doers. And in some spaces—immigration law, trans care, prison reform, refugee work, eg—the Doers are doing work so emotionally and mentally difficult that it is not realistic or healthy for them to be Speakers.

Cool. But helmets? :)

No. But we shouldn’t have to. He formed a public charity and a PBC. Those entity forms are supposed to embed legal safeguards at the level of fiduciary duties. So far they’ve failed, and public trust has eroded. Anyway, looking forward to reading this! :)

Planet Labs “doing all we can to balance the needs of all our stakeholders” Interesting nod to stakeholder governance embedded in the PBC model :)

I love writing. I also find it is energizing. But I also feel the anxiety of writing. It is not always easy. I never use AI.

When I try to explain the PBC corp gov issues to non-experts, they often veer off into the metaphysical within a couple of exchanges, and I have to pull them back down to earth by saying something like “you’re talking about the tech, but I’m talking about how Board decisions about the tech are made”

As a non-expert, I am struck by Cecilia Wang’s repeated note that citizenship rights initially applied only to white Americans, which feels like a powerful way to cut to the core of the issue.

It’s a clear and thoughtful read, and I think this is my favorite rhetorical bit: “Claiming that the [anti-citizenship] position is incompetent and ridiculous is a kind of promissory note redeemed by carefully pointing out the way that the arguments fail.”

The argument is that Stephen Miller cannot carry out his white nationalist project without relying on brown bodies to do the ugly work

Ezra Klein writes “A.I. systems… are ultimately controlled by corporations that seek profit, power and market dominance.” But the biggest are NOT traditional corporations. They are PBCs that are required to balance “the interests of those materially affected by [their] conduct” alongside profit. 😤

Found a fresh tail in the garden this morning

Grammerly can have this one

I suggest circling every use of “mere” or “merely” in legal arguments bc it flags a weakness in the argument

One funny thing is all of the experts seem to be public personalities, who are very often not actually experts

If anyone is wondering whether Grammerly used their name…

So odd, just like DOGE

Planet Labs - another PBC

Having operated a mine in Sierra Leone, this is so gross

Litigating life and death consequences in front of fake judges

So corrupt. Run these guys out on a rail

Woah! I missed this somehow. Awesome. Love the title too :)

fun yikes

I know but at 43 this stings just a bit

Was AI involved?

I will abandon all my plans to build a wind farm off the east coast for half that

Ah man that feeling when you send a pitch to a new publication and then have to … just wait for a response 😬

Interesting that the issue of how the directors and officers are (or are not) fulfilling their PBC fiduciary duties never comes up in this

Once you understand that Bluesky is just UCSC circa 2005, then things get much simpler

Was the round open for a year?

As an atheist, I see immense value in religion as a force for good

I have a social media joke but it will demand your attention

If VCs lack the ability to engage in introspection how do we know they experience consciousness?

Such a critical point. So much is due to the inability of our companies to consider risk in an adequate manner. People should really read up on Rick Alexander’s work at The Shareholder Commons theshareholdercommons.com

Went camping with ex-PDX lefties. Radicals. But wouldn’t you fcking know it, one of them said ”even given everything with Elon Musk, Tesla is still a net good for the world” like it’s a tradeoff he would repeat. And I don’t think I’ll be invited back camping with those guys again real soon 😬

Great @planetmoney.bsky.social piece today on our work at @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social with pretty detailed interview of founder Ken Doctor: www.npr.org/2026/03/16/n...

This company has the best kids clothes :) princess-awesome.com

As a species, chickens have adapted to thrive alongside humanity. As individuals, eh, not so much 🍗

If only there was a corporate structure these AI companies could adopt that would require them to consider and balance these interests as part of their fiduciary duties,,, oh wait

Ok. And why should we trust Anthropic if they are not transparent about how they fulfill their fiduciary duties as a public benefit corporation?

Per @klonick.bsky.social AI companies are racing to land The Big DOD Contract. So it’s reasonable to think that Anthropic is prioritizing profits, and as a PBC, they are allowed to do so under DE law. But they still must go through the balancing process below and I’d like to know how they did so!

This is my chance to recommend Burden of Dreams — a highly entertaining doc about the making of Fitzcarraldo, in which you get to see Werner Herzog slowly go insane as he forced the cast, crew and locals to physically haul the 320-ton steamship over tbd mountain :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_...

I’m new to the field but my newco is engaging to dig a quick tunnel under the strait of Hormuz so crude and sulfuric acid can get to market. Need some seed capital for equipment. $$ Shovels. Flying group to Oman early next week. Please help spread the word. Anyone got John Henry’s contact? We a PBC!

That such visceral harms of regulatory capture don’t piss more people off is just bizarre to me

Contracted with OpenAI you say? The tax-exempt public charity that “controls” ChatGPT?