Mike

Crude joke

*API calls

Saturday evenings with Anthropic AI calls

Digitizing marginalia...

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"Fascism was triumphantly anti-liberal. It also provided the proof that men can, without difficulty, combine crack-brained beliefs about the world with a confident mastery of contemporary high technology."

Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes p 118

Loser

OpenAI is a zero

what is happening?

slatestarcodex's unmasking is what prompted balaji's jihad against the nyt

here for scott alexander's sentiments

Some Simple Economics of AGI For millennia, human cognition was the primary engine of progress on Earth. As AI decouples cognition from biology, the marginal cost of measurable execution falls to zero, absorbing any labor captura...

Currently reading

Worth digging into it

arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946

Après Block, le déluge

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Stripe worth $159 billion or more than

$PYPL $ADYEN.NA $XYZ $GPN $NEXI.IM $STNE $ACIW $FOUR $DLO $PAGS combined

With ~1/10th the revenue

Excellent essay

The future is blue books

Great piece Josh

Is Balaji’s bet in the money yet?

OG Yang Gang here

There are category errors in this chain of responses from users of the tools who seemingly aren’t employers of labor

Agentic fraud

bits.caseyjr.org/agentic-fraud/

porticoadvisers.com/2018/07/19/a...

The Ivies Are Having Second Thoughts About Investing in Private Equity A crowded field and subpar returns have frustrated America’s wealthiest universities, some of private-capital firms’ most-loyal clients.

Private markets have become an acceptable grift and the allocators are very slowly waking up to that fact

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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Everyone’s talking about AI datacenters needing more power.

But the real problem isn’t just how much power they use.

It’s how they use it.

Off-grid data centers won’t work, so most are looking at hybrid approaches.

This is totally bonkers

Finished my online book from my twitter archives. With a preface chapter chronicling my twitter journey.

Heaviest lift vibe-coding project I’ve done so far.

Next steps: turn this into epub and pdf versions.

Book: venkateshrao.com/twitter-book

Repo for the curious: github.com/vgururao/twi...

Made a delicious dinner tonight

Thank you for your attention to this matter

Clever move from Finn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

What a finish to this game

Try ☘️

Great match

Love Six Nations 🏉

Happy Friday. Thank you Claude.

A free BJJ progress tracker I've been training BJJ for a while now, and I've been pretty terrible about tracking my mat time. I have a composition book filled with notes diligently scribbled after watching videos, participating in seminars, observing lessons while injured, etc. But the gaps between entries is measured in months. It's embarrassing tbh and it's holding back my progress. I wanted a minimalist app that I could easily update in the car after a training session, without bogging me down in bs.

A free, open-source BJJ training tracker that logs mat hours, techniques covered, etc. Searchable technique library with 50+ moves. Works on iPhone and desktop with cross-device sync. No passwords, no ads, fully private.

bsky doesn't like it (as @emollick.bsky.social knows firsthand)

but AI's deep research capabilities are incredible (using claude max + gemini pro on an off-market investment)

a few hours of work compared to days

it's an absolute game changer