Utopian

Anthropic is nothing without its principles

Spent a whole month setting up Claude Code on VS Code.

Was finally ready to write my first line this weekend.

Now ChatGPT refugees are flooding the app and I’ll hit max usage before print(‘hello world’) even compiles

The Department of War may have decided to use second-rate AI ChatGPT but I will continue to use the best AI Claude to chat with my Hinge matches

Retired #1 DemChad Barack Obama needs to endorsemogg Kamala Harris and boost Talarico up the chad rankings ASAP

In the dumbest timeline, Trump in his State of the Union speech talks about government taking control of Claude to use it in the Iran War and DoorDash, Visa, Mastercard and SaaS are up 10% tomorrow

A hyperscaler should find a local council that rejected a data center and pitch them one dedicated exclusively to curing cancer. The ultimate natural experiment.

What does Abundance offer to the local car dealers who are getting wiped out from direct to consumer car sales ?

Restaurant: Buy a $100 gift card, get $20 bonus!*

*Valid Jan-Feb only, when you're eating rice and beans to recover from Christmas, everyone's on a diet, and we desperately need customers

Me, knowing this is predatory: *pulls out credit card*

El Grande Americano and Rey Fenix making history today as the first wrestlers to have a one on one match at Wrestlemania on the same year as their WWE debut

They can keep markets up on Monday by leaking that a Trump Xi call happened

Who picked it in the box office draft? You or Matt ?

I’m a quarter of the way through and it’s a good book

Read more of the book and there are no graphs. It’s just less content than I expected

I’m opening the Abundance book and my first thought is why is a book that 2 people wrote for 2 years is only 250 pages long ?

Is the book short because people don’t read anymore?

Tbh a San Francisco based non-profit charging 200$/month for a product China makes for next to nothing should not surprise anyone

American AI labs talk big game about AI discovering new materials but they spend most of their time on ad optimization and SaaS

Chinese AI labs may actually discover new materials as physical innovation is a priority of the CCP

It insane that @bsky.app is labeling this as "intolerance." A very bad sign for the future of this app's approach to content moderation.

They are so damn good at acting I almost teared up

The Hunter Biden pardon will not age well.

Pete Buttigieg could make a bold move by resigning as Transportation Secretary in protest, positioning himself as a principled leader for 2028.

Nate’s 100% right. There’s zero downside for 2028 hopefuls to criticize the Hunter pardon—plus it shows they’re not scared of an intra-coalition fight. Exactly the kind of course correction Biden failed to make.

“if newspapers are to be belived”

“Just for fans”

It sucks that this is how a Supreme Court justice, one who is supposed to be somewhat reasonable, talks

While we’re still doing 2024 post-mortem, here’s a take:

Voters would’ve liked Kamala Harris more if Biden had picked her as VP without announcing he was only considering Black women

Had a crypto booster account and an OF model/bot account follow me today.

This site is truly taking off!

Northvolt files for bankruptcy, CEO quits Europe’s “green dream” Northvolt has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US after a rescue package failed to go through, leaving the battery maker with just one week’s worth of cash in the account.

I’d love an Odd Lots episode on what happened to Northvolt and implications for Europe’s electrification. @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social

New York City is the United Arab Emirates of America

Calling it now.

Jay Graber is 2025 Time Magazine Person of the Year

Professors will back every radical leftist cause, but mention grad student pay and suddenly they’re channeling Mr. Burns.

I used to buy wine at Target thinking I was saving money, then I walked into Trader Joe’s and realized Target’s been robbing me.

Kaiser Permanente has the second highest installed battery storage of any corporation in America per 2024 Solar Means Business Report

Yup the ~100 billion in IRA investments have created only ~67000 jobs so far.

IRA’s impact on job market may not be not large enough to make red state republicans reconsider repealing it.