The future will look upon touch-tone call trees with the same sick fascination we currently reserve for medical leeches.

The wealthy would do better to give something sane now than to suffer something insane later.

Guessing that what the Dept of Defense was asking Anthropic to do in past was a lot of cyberhacking and that is what led to Mythos. Once Dario saw it work so well, he decided to warn the world about it, rather than secretly put that power in Trump's hands. If so he is a first order hero.

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Who was the most recent king to be excommunicated by the Pope for moral failings? Hint: he was unfaithful to multiple wives Hint: he became excessively paranoid, anxious, and narcissistic with age -> Did you guess King Henry VIII? Yes that is correct for now. But... stay tuned.

So happy

Lololololol

These are lasting somewhat longer than we expected.

Less two countries and more two realities. In rural areas, an extractive cabal owns the media (Fox, Sinclair, Meta, X, Megachurches) and deliberately creates wedges for political power. The populace is bamboozled. Democracy dies. Any road to sanity must begin with media reform.

When "Gulf Funds back Paramount $81B takeover of Warner" (WSJ) we are watching our domestic news media sold out to biased foreign interests. Democrats should be aggressively blocking and promising to bust up any such deals. The road to sanity starts with media ownership reform.

No war crimes

Christianity is the biggest, most profitable scam in America.

That’s one hell of a cover…..

The rich are smarter to give something rational now than suffer something irrational later. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Chinese firms blocked from firing workers to replace with AI. open.substack.com/pub/chinatal...

Japan spends $4K per person on healthcare. The USA spends $15K. They live longer.

No masked army

If indeed Trump is manipulated by enemies of the USA (unproven yet much data fits) he may very well launch "excursions" that will strand the creme of America's fighting forces deep in hostile territory, where their strength and morale can be drained away.

Given federal debt and coming white collar displacement, it is clear the capital gains tax rates must rise. Here is @vinodkhosla.bsky.social with same view and connecting that to a proposal that could attract popular support. www.implicator.ai/openai-backe...

China increased AI engineer share from 11% to 37% in the past six years. In part because USA has not found a way to retain Chinese talent that comes here to study. Meanwhile Dario warning that AI developed by a totalitarian state could destroy humanity's freedom. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Make homework great again www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Classy. 🤡 @politico.com

The FDA regulates addictive products. We should expand that to cover digital products. Rate them for addictiveness, likelihood to cause delusions, spread falsehoods. And then we should outlaw the absolute worst, and block children from the harmful ones.

Engineering teaches you how to build any product. Humanities teach you which products are worth building.

The effort to quash mail-in votes has nothing to do with fraud. They want to make voting harder and more controllable.

About 18% of poor voters lack a government photoID, often urban dwellers who use mass transit. That is why a photoID requirement would be biased and nakedly self-serving for GOP.

What a lede by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Apprehensive about Japan visit to White House. Respect and honor are so vital in Japan. It calls for a light touch. Trump is certain to horribly offend.

My favorite VCs are all super busy yet still find time to sign their documents within hours, often minutes.

In a sea of election races, the single best focus is flipping the House. Control of the House is enough to force White House to the table. There are many House races spread across country. It will be harder to interfere. Stay focused on the House.

Once any LLM maker relies on government revenue, the demands will come... backdoor access, following their talking points. This is a special case of be very careful what you wish for.

Private credit weakness is a leading indicator for future dominoes to fall. Blinking yellow right now.

Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Accords, cut EV subsidies, and disarmed the EPA... but if he invades Iran the whole world will be eager for energy efficiency projects.

Quality of political leadership matters www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article...

The Economist disagrees that we are in a K-shaped economy (gift link) #EconSky Would America be in recession without the super-rich? www.economist.com/finance-and-...

I admire independent journalists who sense misjustice and dig for the truth. This reporter got the actual tapes.

"Is this the Epstein War?" ...first time hearing that

"You've been unsubscribed."

It's not just who places the ads, it's which media gets paid. If it's Fox, Sinclair, etc then these dollars go mostly to media moguls who like Trump. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Imagine starting a war in the Middle East but not bothering to fill America's petroleum reserve beforehand.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Team Anthropic. There is a clear role in our society for conscientious objectors. They should not be forced to take actions their founders deem immoral.

TRIVARIATE: “.. Current gross margin trends are turning negative .. market-wide multiple expansion this year will only happen if the gross margins expand, or if the market starts to change in the way it rewards net income growth ..”

@gallego.senate.gov crushing his speech tonight

Republican voters remain pro-Trump even though independents are 80% thumbs down. This shows humans will believe whatever the media says. They are under the spell of Fox/Sinclair/Facebook. They are 60 million brains controlled by 3 men. That is why the path to sanity must begin with media reform.

Over past 90 days Claude has become rather quite good, especially at Max level where you can have an extended conversation. If they can make a few more leaps like that it will be AGI by Christmas.

Interested to see the Discord S1 whenever it releases. Have read they are taking share from Meta.

Shame on you @gallup.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...