Once again thinking about all the incredibly talented journalists I know who are out of work, underemployed, or who have left the industry entirely

this is pretty obviously once again an effort to distract from the disastrous policymaking going on right now

cool map of the Bay Area's space community, via bayareaspace.org h/t/ @jetcitystar.bsky.social

GS: Hyperscaler capex will equal roughly 100% of cash flows from operations

Earth eclipses the Sun as seen by Artemis II on Orion. Satellites showing off as usual...

Scoop: Jeff Bezos no longer has a spot on Slate Auto's board, as his family office head appears to have resigned her directorship in the last few months. This comes as Slate raised another $650M and Bezos became increasingly involved in his own robotics startup. techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/j...

I gotta say, watching a bunch of cross examination, the assumption really seems to be that juries are stupid.

A large-scale analysis of wildfires in the Western United States shows that U.S. Forest Service fuel-reduction treatments not only curb fire spread and intensity, but also, for each dollar invested, generate more than three times the value in avoided damages. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uAs5Qc

Elon Musk's expert witness in non-profit law calculates that OpenAI will need to earn $275 billion in profits before it will start paying residual cash back into the OpenAI foundation. OpenAI probably lost more than $8 billion dollars last year and has more than $1 trillion in compute payments due

Police arrested three men accused of driving around an SMS blaster across downtown Toronto, which allegedly blasted tens of thousands of phones with spammy text messages over several months.

SCOOP! DOGE’s Ethan Shaotran, one of the young engineers first identified by WIRED, is starting a post-government second act: defense tech startup that appears to be gearing up to get government contracts. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doges-...

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

Just got the following email from the NYC bar association: "Update: All attorneys from the United States Attorney's Offices have withdrawn from participating in this year's White Collar Crime Conference."

A poetic line from Helen Toner's deposition, on Mira Murati's brief stint as interim CEO of OpenAI: "She was waiting to see which way the wind would blow, but she didn't realize she was the wind."

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Is there some legal import to the title "chief of staff"? Witnesses for Elon Musk in his suit against Sam Altman refuse to admit that was a title used by either Sam Teller or Shivon Zillis and say they were "special advisors." For years, however, Teller did id himself as Musk's chief of staff

This is staggering. DOJ must be totally overhauled.

> be capex heavy firm anchored in low margin sector > want money > IPO! > problem: need big valuation > solution: sell gizmo in high demand! > problem: have to make gizmo > solution: buy company making gizmo > problem: gizmo sucks > solution: sell gizmo input to company making good gizmos >

My latest story is about Greg Brockman's battle with Elon Musk over the future of OpenAI, and what his controversial personal journal reveals about the AI lab's origin story techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/h...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake.

So... a direct expansion of the program created under Biden which the Silicon Valley VC crowd led by Marc Andreessen declared a bigger tyranny that communism or fascism...

Breaking news: The sweeping move from Wall Street’s top watchdog has the potential to shift the balance of power from shareholders to chief executives. ft.trib.al/3ECqhXA

Today's Musk vs. Altman trial begins with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers discussing the true history of Cinco de Mayo and the Battle of Puebla. To celebrate, she brought in homemade tamales for her team, and emphasizes the California-style of more masa than meat.

could write a novel about this but 'make your answers as long as you can' is definitely a choice

Shivon Zillis appears to be Elon's key witness in his suit against Sam Altman, because she was on the OpenAI board, and will describe how the other founders betrayed him. Which, given the rest of their relationship, is going to set up an interesting cross examination.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Mortgage rates jump 12bps today to 6.56% The local high was 6.64% on March 27 6.90% a year ago

wrote about the larger dilemma presented by Professor Stuart Russell's testimony at the Musk vs. Altman trial this morning: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/e...

OpenAI's lawyers say that the organization's non-profit stake in the for-profit subsidiary is worth approximately $200 billion

Sweden has launched its first military satellite (Years ahead of schedule?! What magic is this?) defence-blog.com/sweden-launc...

GOLDMAN: “.. three key ways in which AI is boosting consumer prices. First, .. key electronics inputs, .. “.. upward pressure on software prices .. “.. increasing electricity prices in some US regions, and we expect it to continue boosting inflation over the next couple of years.”

this is off-the-cuff, but I've been pounding the table about it for a while--implementation is and remains the easy part. AI services are the easy part the hard part is *executive strategy* and I am not aware of anyone going even near consulting, etc. for that completely underserved segment

lol

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

🚨 Anyone looking for data to support a view that Nasdaq are gaming ETFs' portfolio construction rules to bolster their business might want to have a look. www.ft.com/content/ed08...

dudes rock

speaking my truth: the guy who ran grinders was a jerk and it sucked to go there

its crazy how I started off this cycle Never Steyer but all the other options have disqualified themselves one by one

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Who could have possibly predicted that Iran would retaliate? www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/w...

Chat is this bad "There is an obvious risk that an unconditional swap line would end up funding a backdoor bailout of the investment vehicles of the Emirati royals." www.ft.com/content/1f93...

walking, I've been. talking these days I don't.

Bernal/Oakland/Marina

Exclusive: Starlink’s revenue per user fell to $81 as SpaceX chased global growth and lower-priced plans. https://thein.fo/4mXleh4

After this exchange, the Judget tells Elon that he can no longer talk about AI exctinction events. "You've made you're little statement and that's fine...they got it, it's enough."