Benjamin Harnett

I interviewed 300 high achievers about their morning routine, and you will never believe, they all have inherited family wealth.

My hottest AI take is that the executive class is petrified of labor and saw that whatever else LLMs are/aren't, they're fine labor-smashers + that a ton of ordinary people find the artificial hyper-complexity and scamminess of modern life and work so unbearable that they'll throw a god-box at it.

Congratulations to new Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow Flavio Bolsonaro

We are still in "could be mode shift and election day votes will be extremely red" territory but you couldn't ask for a better EV for Dems.

Six years later, and everything my brother wrote about how tech journalism failed its mission (to the great benefit of the companies it covered and detriment of the world) is truer than ever. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

On the way home we stopped here

Guy whose Harvard admissions essay was just the words "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr." shares views on comparative cultural accomplishments.

At least it’s Friday

The Trump admin is pro-cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

Six years later, and everything my brother wrote about how tech journalism failed its mission (to the great benefit of the companies it covered and detriment of the world) is truer than ever. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

A question one might ask is: To what extent is Anthropic (nearly) profitable because its VC-subsidized suppliers are selling to it at a loss? (It's genuine question - the answer might be not really at all.)

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Objection 2: Workload Paradox In a corporate context, any efficiency gains from new tech quickly lead to equal or greater increase in the output management expects from workers. And very few companies are measuring “output” in a way that rewards better decisions about what code should exist. So.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Fuck the fascists. A good day!

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

the Internet rn

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

Night and day of our sibling weekend in full force.

"We are past the phase of adopting industry-supplied hype (“AI is inevitable”) and are now in the phase of industry-supplied resistance. Industry loves a conversation. So long nothing changes or pauses while we’re having it." sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/...

I don't want to be forced to disclose what I put in my burgers bc making them with rat meat is so much better for my bottom line as a small food business

The best part of Suleyman's essay calls out Anthropic's circular logic, as others have done (Ted Chiang's most recent piece comes to mind). Train a model with 'what if AI will develop interests, claim rights, or even do crimes?' and you will get a model that capably plays the part. Basically this:

Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

There is little meritocracy or competition when it comes to Democratic consultants—they get paid the same regardless of how their candidates perform in the election.

SLUGGO’S THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY

This is how we win: turnout our voters while theirs stay home.

all the trouble of making a nice edition of my boy and then you put the wrong kind of whale on it?? like how many more whale facts did you need him to put in this thing

yo California, in case you were still on the fence on this one, he's threatening you with a good time

I am spending a lot of time praising authentic voice.

10. BAAJA = Billionaires Ask, Agencies Just Approve.