the coolest conspiracy would be if one of the other companies betting their future on AI bribed the administration to kneecap current-leader Anthropic via its own sanctimony. (sanctimony which, by the way, i fully support!)

Gack! I've managed to quote the second essay in the series, but link the first one. Both are great! Here's the link to the second essay: syntropic.xyz/posts/2026-0... Thanks, and sorry, to the author for pointing out my error.

Anthropic should name their next model “Opus DEI” just to fuck with everyone.

“This isn’t the hill I would have chosen to die on, but I’m encouraged that they even have a hill.”

don’t mock his susceptibility to @mayor.nyc.gov’s charms against Trump or hold it against him. it is one of the man’s few redeeming characteristics.

matthew rhys absolutely has to play this guy when they make the movie.

the net effect of IEEPA tariffs, after refunds, will have been a govt coordinated cartel to raise consumer prices, negotiate lower vendor prices, and increase profitability among domestic firms that import goods. not what the administration claimed it was doing, but kind of a Republican happy place.

“A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible.” www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

snowballs are a gateway drug to cream pies. everybody knows that.

the internet of AI simulated loved ones will be called the deadiverse.

i still haven’t ascertained the facts of snowballghazi.

when you are not carefree, people who appear carefree are like a different species.

Outside the US, are SMS messages also a site of rampant spam, or do other countries regulate to prevent that?

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

this is maybe good for the possibility of high quality journalism, you don’t want a newspaper’s finances to be levered to whether the news flatters the audience’s priors and prejudices. but in the absence of (counterproductive) market accountability, how can it be made (more virtuously) accountable?

the idea of a “distillation attack” is quite rich from people whose product is precisely a distillation of all of our creative work. (i favor distillation! but what’s good for the goose…) drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/h...

This one’s beautifully written.

sass can be fun, but meanness is just boring.

would you rather be part of something exclusive or part of something inclusive?