I wrote about Folarin Balogun. The handshake. The grace. The positivity. The perspective. Remarkable guy.

just in the nick of time! github.com/bluesky-soci...

A striker made a back post run and scored for Portugal. Huh.

me looking for the flag to go up lol

where next?

As a new Fed Chair casts doubt on offical statistics after the Aministration drastically cut their funding, it is worth remembering how and why we created federal statistics agencies in the first place...they reduce scope for gaslighting the public www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf...

worth the read if you missed it

The mythos report for #curl 2026-05-06 made public: https://gist.github.com/bagder/c9b83a19f30e82e41b11f6315465b17a

more of this please

The Danish Foundation Models (DFM) project is adapting our modular FlexOlmo architecture into a lighter-weight system that runs on commodity hardware—putting collaborative model building within reach of smaller research groups & organizations. 🧵

Micron tweet

Maybe one modest bright spot in today's report is that, as the Class of 2026 enters the job market, the unemployment rate for workers age 20–24 fell slightly to 7.1% from 7.2% in May (and 8.2% in June 2025). 11/

would love to know if SpaceX is considered an AI company

The jobs report is noisy but confirms 1) the last 3m of NFP were overstated 2) hiring remains on a solid trajectory 3) the UR remains in the range it has been in for the past 2y 4) cooling wage growth says conditions are on the loose side of balanced w/ cautious demand balanced by falling supply

With a longer view, the 1st half of 2026 is still looking better than H2 2025 w/ improvement in a variety of industries: prof & biz services, edu, construction, mfctg, retail, transportation, govt. Information (includes tech + media), finance, leisure & hospitality are softer 5/

US media explaining Japanese currency intervention:

man, this reads like Claude

all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

Also labor market has stagnated over the last year. Jobs have been stable for employed but tough for small share unemployed and wage growth has decelerated. Weak hires rate is particularly worrisome, falling since Fed's hikes (figure)

wage growth just...oof

participation rate dropped again

will probably get clues about where the payroll breakeven number is this week

Opus 4.5 release date was 11/24/2025

“It’s Summer, it’s Hot.” We hear ya, but this is no ordinary heat. Several all-time heat records are likely to be broken across the Eastern U.S. this weekend, with triple-digit heat up and down the East Coast. Stay hydrated, have a cooling plan and #StayCoolforthe4th

that's pretty early

Are all the CoT steps necessary? In our latest paper, we find evidence for the existence of a commitment boundary, marking a sharp transition from no/mid guesses to the model final answer across various reasoning tasks and model families. Thread 🧵👇

"Data retention is your treasure" and "Controlling your weights is controlling your fate" are actually good lines but Karp is not gonna be the face of this coalition

#$CAT trading like a GPU rental is gonna be studied for a while

the shale ramp is something else

oh, you thought the guardrails were bad before?

On this blessed day, we are all hyperscalers.

this should help with the vibe slop

what a pass from Olise

Vanguard estimates the net hire rate* at effectively zero in June. Net hire rate is also sharply worse for 21–24 yr olds, worst since early pandemic days. *Don't know how well this data stacks up over time, esp bc it's limited to 401(k) workers Source: corporate.vanguard.com/content/corp...

At Percepta, we've helped Summa Health automate the process of fairly scheduling nurse shifts. This is the type of work I'm really proud of, clearly using ML to make folks lives easier and better www.percepta.ai/blog/buildin...

I have not received such information.

need total court reform, expansion, god knows what else voters are going to hate it but if we don't do we won't have a country anymore

got pretty close for needing to revisit this venn diagram

"Held: Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

So they're really leaving birthright citizenship for last, huh?

3/ Before you get excited... after this very small increase, hiring (3.3% rate in May) is still at levels that we saw in the early 2010s, when the unemployment rate was just over 8%. It's really tough out there for jobseekers.

Hires and quits rates were unchanged in May. The April hires rate was revised up to 3.3%. Both remain relatively unchanged over the last year and on the softer side, compared to the 2010s expansion. 2/

red teaming is usually for your own model...