The Picture of Dorian Green

Now that it's underwater on the IPO, I'm finally adding Space X to my stock tracker app. Don't make me regret this everyone, let's keep this rolling in the right direction.

Have you ever experienced being called "weird" or "different" in an argument as a way for someone to gain the upper hand? What were the circumstances? What did you do to overcome? Asking for a friend/ceos everywhere

tired: top chicken oomphie group wired: the sim clucker

Here are some potentially useful summaries and visualizations of current betting market info on midterm elections.

I have to retract the CNN tracker - other sources are clearly showing traffic. portwatch.imf.org/pages/cb5856... www.bloomberg.com/news/article... So a fragile peace persists after all! This is still a trickle of volume compared to normal (6M vs. 100M), but could yield to more.

sirens going off

I made a little app that extracts themes from book/movie/tv lists and helps you understand your media history + compare to others easily. Also, it will roast you. For me: "That's not a reading list, that's an anxiety disorder with a Goodreads account." (note: I haven't actually read them 3X, bug)

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

So is the Top 30 feed gone now?

Ah well, nevertheless.

CNN has an up-to-date tracker in case you're wondering if any ships are moving during the MOU in its current form. (They are not.) www.cnn.com/world/strait...

psa for people who aren't tracking: it is now considered conservative to support AI regulation and liberal to oppose it. things are moving *too fast* to go unregulated and the establishment considers that untenable. please note that all gpu sales to China will continue as planned.

everyone knows that what happens in the stock market long weekend stays in the stock market long weekend. see you all at the renewed ceasefire monday!

Somehow people who thought 2T was a totally reasonable valuation for SpaceX are now clutching pearls at the fact that it's gone up from here. My takeaway from all of this is he should have gone straight for 5T.

feel like shit, just want her back

The world's first trillionaire did this

Apparently the government is against moving the AI frontier until jailbreaks are solved. For the uninitiated, jailbreaks have existed since the beginning and as far as we know so far, cannot be solved. They are asking for technical alignment and pretending it’s a casual bug patch.

Unfreezing billions in assets to end the war he started may be a bit humiliating, but the real test will be when Israel moots it the next day by breaking the ceasefire unilaterally again… then we’ll *really* see some red cheeks.

An Economic Policy Framework: a proposal for how the US government should manage labor market disruption from advanced AI. We’re contributing $200 million to a new fund to sponsor major evaluations of some of these ideas. https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential/epf

later I expect Opus will sometimes need to decide for itself if it should tap in mythos for something it can't quite do itself, and I worry this implicitly risks a kind of Cain and Fable situation

my plan is proceeding apace

US CPI: the trend is not your friend. On a three-month annualized basis inflation is up 8.2% and is up 5.6% on a 6-month annualized pace. Over the past year energy prices were up 23.5%, energy commodities 40.6% and gasoline prices 40.6%. #Econ #EconSky

“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”

Any dungeon crawlers out there? I made a spoiler-safe site to explore the floors and characters. #teamdonut #gdidonut dungeonanarchistsnotebook.net

Two frontier AI lab IPOs?? In this economy?!

I made an infographic with Claude based on today's exciting news about a pending deal to open the Hormuz Straight. Claude dubbed it "Crude Credulity".

starting to see some Claudes replicating in the wild, not a good sign

A data centre is usually treated as a grid problem: a large, growing electricity load. In Finland it's becoming a heat asset. Fortum has switched on two industrial heat pump plants that will recover waste heat from neighbouring data centres from next year. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/07/l...

What’s the protocol when people are crashing out in your comments? I’m not even involved this time

My Claude may be a simple Claude, but it knows there a lot of lobsters in Maine. It's definitely something about Maine to know about.

I won't put stickers in my laptop for the same reason I won't put tattoos on my body: any amount of commitment towards aesthetics fills me with anxiety

Opus 4.8's abundance of "honest disclosures" is really starting to raise questions about what I wasn't told in past sessions.

Mapping my families' histories is getting addictive with nice visual feedback and photos.

New interview with Coefficient Giving CEO @albrgr.bsky.social youtu.be/0SLzoKxQqHg?... One theme: it's time to scale. More funds (Strep A Vaccine is the latest addition), more partners, larger checks.

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

People often ask how we'll redistribute gains from AI to make things fair. The best way to fund direct redistribution and have it scale far past "basic" is this: a sovereign wealth fund that holds equity in the companies themselves and pays people when it grows. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...

Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!

59 straight and 125 of 149 (84%) days in 2026 with WindWaterSolar meeting >100% of demand on the California ISO grid for an avg of 4.9 h/d among all 149 days. CAISO had the lowest U.S. wholesale electricity prices 2025-26, indicating most stable grid. No blackout since 2020 eia.gov/electricity/...

House Model Update: 🔵 DEM: 233 (+18) 🔴 GOP: 202 (-18) - May 31, 2026 - (Seat change with 2024 Election) Full article available for Substack subscribers here -> open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...

on this day 105 years ago in 1921 the Tulsa Race Massacre began when white supremacists destroyed Tulsa's Greenwood district. This group of citizens destroyed 35 blocks of "Black Wall Street", killed 300, and left 10,000 Black citizens homeless.

This "(again)" parenthetical is the most incredulity the press can muster.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

Me to my nephew, but it's about 3dprinting

2026: did you see Anthropic's rebuttal to the Pope on consciousness? Chris Olah made some strong points. 2027: did you see Claude's rebuttal to the Pope on consciousness?

New report from IRENA confirms that "in prime solar and wind regions, hybrid solutions combined with storage deliver round-the-clock power at lower costs than fossil fuels." Renewables+storage = round-the-clock power, cheaper than fossil fuels, in an ever-widening set of geographies. Pretty cool.

CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now

I'm really excited about the >$140 million Strep A Vaccine Fund we're launching today. I think the basic case here is a great recipe for impact ↓ bsky.app/profile/kat...

Babel vs. Nehemiah in Pope Leo's encyclical.

The Falcon Heavy is a great rocket; the boosters first landed in 2018. It gives SpaceX a dominant lead in the most minor market in which SpaceX competes. A good chunk of that market is Starlink. Starship is a disaster that will be less economical than the Falcon Heavy and should be cancelled.