Franklin

[Franklin @franklinanklin]

"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them." Andy Bernard #TheOffice

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

One of the most legendary calls of all time

Rest in Peace, Stacey King

[Nateinthewild | Nate Luebbe @nateinthewild]

I posted these last year and had a thousand chuds in the comments calling me slurs and saying that they would never touch national parks. I’d like to take this moment to say: fuck you.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has opened up part of the Grand Canyon for oil and gas drilling.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

"It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand."

At last, the ballroom we've all been praying for lo these many years.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

"There are no maverick molecules in the universe," says Ben Sasse. https://t.co/Tem7ihHlik

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

The torrent of lies coming from Karoline Leavitt right now is breathtaking

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is completely deranged rhetoric. If you heard this kind of ranting from a family member who possessed no power at all, you'd be worried about them. From the president, it's horrifying. This is obvious 25th Amendment territory, but people are so desensitized that they can't see it.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

sam altman watching ChatGPT hallucinate live on stage is the funniest thing i've seen all week

the CEO of OpenAI, on stage, in front of everyone, watching his own AI just make things up in real time

and his face says it all

this is the guy telling us AGI is coming soon btw

[Alicia Jessop @RulingSports]

I am a devout Christian. I deeply know the Bible and Jesus. And the fruit of that knowledge is clear: on the holiest day of the year (or any day), someone saying they’re going to create a living Hell for a group of humans made in God’s image is the antithesis of Christ.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

It is again worth noting how so many of those who freaked out over this tweet from John Piper have said absolutely nothing about Paula White's statements yesterday at the White House. The Christian Nationalists are more upset at the believer than the heretic.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

C.S. Lewis, if he had to give one piece advice to a young man

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

I have a lot of *thoughts* on the Dorsey piece, but tonight I’ll just reiterate — while I very much love that people are starting to care about org design again,

1) human context is not the same thing as LLM context, and environments of ubiquitous surveillance and documentation do not miraculously transmute one into the other

2) reinventing the flat org for the umpteenth time will not magically make its flaws go away just because you plug in AI. I know tech perennially fantasizes about flat orgs and ‘firing all the managers’ once every two to three years, but there are much cooler and more impactful ways to redesign your org around AI that actually optimize for what the AI’s good at as opposed to trying to force AI to resurrect an undead fantasy

3) strategy, planning, resource delegation, coordination, assignment, advocacy, conflict resolution, mentorship, accountability, and decision-making under uncertainty (collectively: management) makes up a distinct skillset and area of expertise that becomes *more* valuable in an agentic world, not less. when you give every engineer ten agents to assign work to, what you’ve done is turned those engineers into managers of digital workers. this then *increases* the administrative and coordination burden of the org geometrically despite headcount remaining stable.

4) the exciting thing about AI in this moment is that it can empower people to make faster, better-informed decisions, not that you can hand your decisions off to a machine to make them in your stead.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

“What would you say to a young Christian who is nervous about the future?”

I love @TimKellerNYC’s answer. I think about it every Easter.

[Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao]

The loudest story about AI is a lonely one. One person with an army of chatbots. Other humans are friction.
That gets the future wrong. The best things aren’t built alone.
In a moment of change, we want to remind the world (and ourselves) what Notion stands for:
— Think Together

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[JAKEGTV @jakeg_official]

🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has "indefinitely paused" the unsealing of the final Epstein files, citing "regional instability" and "national security" regarding the Iran conflict.

If you had ANY remaining doubts, then nobody can help you.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me get this straight…

OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. “To benefit humanity.”

Then he raised billions of dollars.

Then he closed the source code.

Then he converted to for-profit.

Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone.

Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models.

Now he’s on stage saying you’ll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter.

He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he’s going to bill you to use it…

Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they’re not even hiding it anymore…

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

1) Make people stupid
2) Charge them for intelligence

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

A heartbreaking story which shows just what kind of man Donald Trump is.

Show this to anyone that believes Trump stands for Americans.

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

I finally put my finger on why I have felt so put off by OpenAI’s recent moves with the DoW.

Consider the counter-factual if OAI had stood shoulder to shoulder with Anthropic — not by demanding the same carve-outs (it’s defensible for OAI to accede to “any lawful use”) but rather by demanding that DoW drop the supply chain threat.

What a powerful, hopeful moment of solidarity that would have been. A precedent for cooperation. A salvo against Moloch. But instead OAI seems content to let Anthropic get wiped off the board,* despite lip service to the contrary.

Take the outside view. Are our prospects for a good AI future better or worse with a competitive industry that includes Anthropic? Or are we better off with more extreme concentration of power?

The irony is OAI was founded precisely to safeguard against concentration of power.

I get it, the market is red in tooth and claw and all that. This is the way of the world and it is normally for the best.

But if you consider AI an exceptional technology, as industry participants do, it would seem both rational and good to fight back against the capricious, unjustified “corporate murder” of a key good actor — even if their strength is inconvenient to your IPO.

I’m not advocating charity. I’m just saying, some principles are bigger than game of thrones, or they should be.

*to be clear I don’t think this will happen, but it is the current stated intention of the federal government