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Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Looking forward to learn more about midjourney’s innovative full body AI scanner!

Gift link ;) www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is by far the best analysis of what’s happening in climate politics right now. Everybody read, please.

Very convincing longread from John Carreyou claiming that Bitcoin creator Satoshi is likely Adam Back www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

Amazing full moon in NL( very Van Gogh 😁) foreshadowing # Artemis launch. #nasa

Pleasantly surprised to see the advanced smart stores that #Zara has built. In NL, order can be picked up same day from an automated chute. Awesomely efficient!

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth (David Jeans/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The results of Musk’s chainsaw.

Greetings from Kyiv, where the night brought missiles and drones. Explosions still continue this morning. Emergency power outages. Heating problems. Residential buildings hit.

Insane how institutions around the world let Trump bully them into submission even when they, like the #bbc don’t have any US dependency.

Twitter was very entertaining this past weekend. Feels like a positive vibe shift after the swift and broad backlash when andreesen mocked the pope, to joyce carol Oates’s poetic tongue lashing of Musk basically stating he has no soul — which has him crashing out.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

I give Sam Altman A+ for how he has figured the Elon rage bait. hehe

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

As usual, Europe is reactive instead of proactive. This acquisition should never have happened. + there are a few more semi con companies in Eindhoven that were sold to Chinese companies. But seizure of assets escalates everything. Should have bought back ownership. #nexperia #semiconductors

Interesting graphic. China is the only country where food prices have dropped since COVID.

China is doing the inevitable and is now flexing its super power muscles. #exportcontrols #tariffs

Enjoyed Jane Goodall’s posthumous Famous Last Words interview on Netflix. What a legacy! Re: the witch doctor, as an African I got what she was saying — this part clearly went over B Falchuk’s Hollywood head hehe. #janegoodall

Odd this isn’t a bigger story. Means China has done (or close to) effective cost down engineering across the semiconductor stack needed for Ai. Huge implications.

#Anthropic seems to be more compatible with EU values than its competitors.. but has low awareness. Dario should do an EU-wide relations tour targeting government bodies, academia, public research hospitals and some corporations.

A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a critic of Trump and David Sacks' AI agenda, arguing its hands-off approach could steer AI down a dangerous path (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Interesting panel at #TechExEurope on boosting efficiency and greening #ai data centers. Most are at only 10% IT utilization and don’t measure emissions, water usage, harvest heat generated for reuse. Surprised these aren’t licensing requirements in the EU. Should be! esp for #hyperscalers.

Free-market reformer needs a bailout.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

i love this. Cursor is anthropic's biggest compute customer, and sends 100% of their revenue to Anthropic so that Anthropic can buy ads to sell Claude Code, a competitor to Cursor, which they are going to make better by buying data off of Cursor created by Cursor using Anthropic's models

Impressed by how knowledgeable insightful, articulate and .. free Hunter Biden is. Didn’t expect it. Hope he runs for the Senate. Great work by this journalist, Andrew Callaghan. youtu.be/XBbkt2vYC4M?...

EU is demanding that every site use age verification technology, while insisting it do things it cannot do, and behave in a manner it cannot behave. This is not policy making. This is wishful thinking, with a side of "we'll just blame the tech companies for not waving their magic wand."

Redstone joins Iger, Paul Weiss and others in enabling the mob politics that defines this administration. When did the wealthiest become the weakest?

Almost 10.30pm CET, still light outside. Love it! #summersolstice

One of the most beautiful pictures of Jupiter ever taken. Credits: NASA

Read and weep: sfstandard.com/2025/06/09/c...

#visualintelligence looks cool. But wish they made bigger improvements to the photo app which really sucks as it is. #wwdc2025

Shady character forcing the Founder out. Founders deserve to run the companies they Found. #amc #gme #verticalaerospace #hedgefund www.wsj.com/business/mem...

No reason to leave the credit out of an image post, imo. There’s plenty of space to say that the bright blue dot is Earth seen from Saturn, and also credit the folks with the attribution they requested. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

A family living in Khartoum agreed that they had to leave the city. But fighting had broken out across Sudan, and they were hearing reports of atrocities: mass rapes, mass executions, torture. Nicolas Niarchos reports on their attempt to find safety.

This right here. They all intersect. Ecosystem approach. #Ai #drones #iot #climatechange #cleantech

Musk did irreversible damage to the US civil service, soft power, science, education. His teams stole data and broke the law."I was on drugs and had family trouble" is not an excuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Toxic pesticide levels found in tampons 40 times higher than legal limit for water

Reposting this in honor of the Republican Senators who have allowed Trump to usurp Congress's right to determine tariffs www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...