Blake Dodge

I harvest grain for the billionaire media tycoon and former mayor of San Francisco @PirateWires. prev @BusinessInsider. DMs open.

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

@IM_Aeneas Bari joined the newsroom in October 2025. Any short-term boost from wanting to watch the fireworks would've been over prior to the Spring of 2026. People tuned in because the programming was good

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

“This spring… 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.”

As in, Opinion Journalist Bari Weiss has overseen an unprecedented jump in viewership?

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

@andrewarruda *listening*

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

semafor, a new new media company, founded by an old new media guy, operating, in the model of most "new" media things, in an old way (owning distribution, breaking news), is... doing well. an underdiscussed story! I sat down with ben smith and talked about it:

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Talked to @micsolana & @dodgeblake about @semafor & my most optimistic take, the gravitational pull of good journalism

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

Do we think Nvidia's massive investments in both OpenAI and Anthropic have a historical analogue?

What are the more meaningful risks of such an arrangement?

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

featuring just possibly one of the best quotes that has ever graced my recording device

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Talked to @micsolana & @dodgeblake about @semafor & my most optimistic take, the gravitational pull of good journalism

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

@TexasChance @micsolana no but should I ??

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

the issue is we should probably all move back to our hometowns and run for mayor and write about it for pirate wires

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

👀

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It’s Building God

@Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.

@bgurley:

“Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most negatively outspoken commenter on what they do.

And my initial theory was the regulatory capture theory. Quite frankly, I think they're very close to achieving that.

But then they just got so loud that I've literally, in the past 30 days, read everything I can about Anthropic, and I've come up with a new theory.

I call it the Dr. Frankenstein theory.

The more I dig, I've met people who, I dare say, think it's their responsibility, and they're excited about, building a species that's superior to humans.

Dario wrote this blog post called ‘Machines of Loving Grace.’ It was based on a poem.

The last stanza of the poem says, ‘I like to think of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors, and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.’

Sounds like an overlord to me.

And then in Dario's post, he says, ‘It could be a capitalist economy of AI systems which then give out resources to humans based on some secondary economy of what the AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans…’

So I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here.”

Jason:

“These are delusions of grandeur. Let's call it what it is.

They believe that they're so powerful, these individuals, that they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species.

It literally is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.”

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

https://t.co/l3do4KyrtJ

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

pope said AI "alignment" (without the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frameworks involved and subjecting them to shared standards of social justice) is just another form of monopolistic control 👀

“A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.” 👀

just saying 👀

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

We read the pope’s entire 74-page encyclical on artificial intelligence.

Contained within the 40,000-word manifesto was a theologically sophisticated and somewhat practical idea for how to approach AI:

“Alignment,” Leo XIV writes, can be another form of monopolistic control: “A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.”

As @dodgeblake explains, the pope may have accidentally made the libertarian case for AI development. Based on a close reading of scripture, he believes the way forward is not regulation, nor “alignment,” but distributing responsibility beyond the labs of SF.

Full story 👇

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

This is not a polarizing topic. Shibumis have been a thing for a decade, and they are beloved by beach ppl. Because they don't fly away in the wind. We love Shibumis. We talk about the guy who invented them. He has lore. He was a student or something. He is rich now. He deserves it. This is not a situation. Go back to NY.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The most polarizing topic on on America’s beaches this summer isn’t loud music or open container laws. It’s a lightweight sun shade known as a Shibumi. https://t.co/YialEGz0io

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

53. The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified. The recent Declaration Dignitas Infinita offers a summary of the Church’s thinking on this subject: “Every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably grounded in his or her very being, which prevails in and beyond every circumstance, state, or situation the person may ever encounter” [62] — in other words, always and without exception. The dignity of every human being can be described as infinite, as Saint John Paul II stated, [63] for two reasons: first, because the love of God, who calls us to friendship with him, is infinite; and second, his love is absolutely unconditional, in the sense that, even if we search endlessly, we will never find anything that can erase or deny it.

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

pope leo's meditations in the equal dignity of all human beings: a thread

51. Saint John Paul II stated that, “this heightened sense of the dignity of the human person and of his or her uniqueness, and of the respect due to the journey of conscience, certainly represents one of the positive achievements of modern culture.” [57] This statement follows the line already laid out by the Second Vatican Council, which had noted a growing recognition of the sublime dignity of all persons, their superiority over material things and their universal and inviolable rights and duties. [58] It is important to ensure that this growth in appreciation of human dignity is not obscured by the pressure of new ideologies or very powerful interests in today’s world. Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them. [59]

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

52. When we speak of dignity, we do not always use the word in the same way. Sometimes we refer to moral dignity, namely the way in which a person directs his or her choices and actions. At other times, we think of social dignity, which refers to a person’s living conditions and the concrete respect received from society. In other cases, we refer to existential dignity, meaning the way in which a person perceives his or her own worth and the value of life. These aspects of dignity can be enhanced or diminished. In addition to these notions, there is also the more profound and important level of ontological dignity. This is the dignity that belongs to every human being simply by virtue of existing, of having been willed, created and loved by God. [60] No sin, failure, humiliation or exclusion can diminish the profound value of a human life that God has willed and called into being. [61]

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

Concerning.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz's patio.

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

It’s like unironically the biggest investment in women’s health ever

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

We now have a female Bryan Johnson.

It’s Kate Tolo.

She will become the most measured female in history.

+$2 million of spend per year
+ Developing a female-specific protocol
+ Sharing everything for free

To start, she will spend 3 months mapping her baseline. Men, in contrast, can get their baseline done in 1 or 2 weeks.

+ 3 months for baseline measurement
+ across 4 time points per cycle
+ doing the same thing every day
+ a dedicated full-time medical team

For context on the extensiveness of measurement, during the past 5 years, we’ve collected 1.5 billion data points on my body. I suspect Kate will exceed that given technology has improved since I started.

The goal is to create a repeatable waveform of hundreds of life-critical biomarkers. Once the baseline is acquired, she will begin interventions.

We will try to answer practically useful questions and share all of the data + learnings for free.

Can fertility be improved?

+ Should women cold plunge?
+ Can PMS symptoms be alleviated?
+ What should a female sauna protocol be?
+ Should dosage change throughout the month?
+ What keeps a cycle regular?
+ Does the body need more iron, magnesium, or protein at specific phases?
+ Should women fast?
+ Should recovery protocol change by phase?
+ What's the earliest detectable signal of perimenopause?
+ Can perimenopause be slowed?
+ How is cognitive load & mood affected?
+ Does stress impact men and women the same?

Kate has suspected endometriosis. 10% of all women do. We will try to tackle this too. I am excited for all of the surprising things we will hopefully uncover.

Unlike me, Kate does not have the innate desire to wake up at 4:30am and do six hours of longevity therapies.

She’s the cofounder of Blueprint, building in the trenches with me since day one. She understands the game and how hard it is.

In many ways, this is a sacrifice for her. She is a creative person, going from a life of freedom and spontaneity to a rigid protocol.

Traditionally, RCTs have been viewed as the gold standard. But RCTs have underserved women. The FDA banned women from clinical trials for 16 years (1977 to 1993), and most "medicine for women" is still medicine tested in men. Demanding RCT-only evidence for women's health is demanding evidence that doesn't exist. There is not enough practical scientific literature for women to reference only RCTs. It leaves half the population without a path to know what to do.

N=1 medicine is gaining ground and picking up where RCTs specifically fail. Individual science experiments give us signals that answer what to do on a day-to-day basis. This is even more important for women.

If you’re new to Kate and my world, I want you to understand that we have your back. Our intentions are to be a sturdy, reliable force in your life. To care for your best interest as we’d care for our own. We want what’s best for you and our loyalty is to your existence.

It’s pretty cool to be living in a time when we may be the first generation to not die. I’m not suggesting immortality, but lifespans so long that we stop thinking about lifespans.

At the end of the day, the one thing we each care about more than anything else is one more breath. I’m proud of Kate for taking on this responsibility. It’s painful, exhausting and costly.

The beginning of the world’s first n=2.