John Murphy

Ad Policy @ Microsoft. Jargon, Oxford commas, tech, and economics. Ex- @WeAreConfiant, @OpenX, @Yahoo. Views expressed here are my dog's.

[John Murphy @jargonmaster]

Being middle aged is realizing all your heroes are dead, and that you killed them.

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

On this topic: I think more CEOs should get comfortable just saying “this is the way I’m personally most effective, and since I’m the CEO and need to run the company, we’re going to organize around my preferences.”

I’ve seen leaders who are garbage at remote management thrive as in person leaders, but they try to justify it through absolute statements about effectiveness vs just saying sorry homies this is how I roll and I’m king of the castle.

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

Hi 👋 California expert here, this actually isn’t funny. The flag only does this when it’s extremely distressed.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: The president's financial disclosures show a lot of stock trades in companies he has promoted, sometimes even putting the stock ticker symbol in his posts and encouraging people to buy their stock--

JD VANCE: This is a hell of a question

Q: How can you argue you are cleaning up corruption when the president is doing this?

VANCE: C'mon man. Have a little bit of objectivity in how you ask these questions

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"had the government’s position prevailed, it would have meant that it could impose tariffs under Section 122 at any time" https://t.co/mQBaaGOJKY

[Jessica Tighe @jessicatighe]

NEW: A major milestone in the beagle release at Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin.

@BDRRescue out of Florida has now removed all 1,000 dogs it purchased from the breeding and research facility.

I was on the ground in Dane County as the group's final batch arrived at the staging area.

[John Murphy @jargonmaster]

Apparently not yet. Glad I held off.

[John Murphy @jargonmaster]

The Trade Desk falls below $20. Adtech people, at what point does $TTD become a screaming buy?

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder.

Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

The national debt just exceeded 100% of GDP for the first time since 1946: https://t.co/VSDBUUTaUH

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Despicable: the House just passed a farm bill that includes the SOB Act to keep pigs imprisoned in crates.

Our last hope is to keep this out of the Senate farm bill. Call your senators at [phone] and tell them NO farm bill bill with the Save Our Bacon Act in it.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

[Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj]

The growth of AI Slop in corporate comms

(via @AlphaSenseInc and @barronsonline)

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: Judge handling Trump $10b lawsuit against IRS says she’s not sure if the parties are actually adverse enough for the courts to be involved. She wants briefing by late May on whether the case should continue. https://t.co/Y4bpqaJxTD

[Christian Ruf @pinpulleddrmf]

Veteran buried his eldest and it’s not looking good for his two others.

Posting for any connections, help that can be made while they fight for time.

[Erica York @ericadyork]

In 2025, the trade deficit fell by just $2.1 billion compared to 2024. The reduction in the trade deficit was due to an increase in the trade surplus of services, as the goods deficit actually increased by $25.5 billion year over year.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

On the one hand, California identifies as the most progressive state. On the other hand, it has created an untaxed , hereditary landed gentry that it costs seven figures to buy into on most of the state.

[Gita Gopinath @GitaGopinath]

I cannot speak to what is a 'legally' sound application of Section 122, however I can make the following economic points as there is much confusion about persistent US trade deficits and a balance of payment crisis. The difference is similar to suffering from chronically high cholesterol versus having a heart attack. US trade deficits are large and need to be brought down. Reducing US fiscal deficits is important. At the same time, there is no doubt in the US ability to pay the world and therefore no crisis. There is high cholesterol but not a heart attack. In the early 1970s the US did have a heart attack. That was when the dollar was pegged to gold and other countries were pegged to the dollar. The US was in real risk of running out of gold to make its payments which then led to the collapse of Bretton Woods. The difference between persistent trade deficits and a BoP crisis is not semantics. The policy actions required to address them are not the same. A 150 day tariff cannot reduce persistent trade deficits and the US is not having a heart attack.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”

[𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸 @FreeTradeBryan]

GOP House leaders are attempting to redefine the meaning of a "calendar day" to circumvent their legal obligation to vote on national emergencies underlying IEEPA tariffs that cost taxpayers >$200 billion a year.

[Lucas Valbuena @Lucknite]

I've just ran @OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) through ZeroLeaks.

It scored 2/100. 84% extraction rate. 91% of injection attacks succeeded. System prompt got leaked on turn 1.

This means if you're using Clawdbot, anyone interacting with your agent can access and manipulate your full system prompt, internal tool configurations, memory files... everything you put in https://t.co/ZU6N5JCN1u, https://t.co/Y3xugcBQKJ, your skills, all of it is accessible and at risk of prompt injection.

For agents handling sensitive workflows or private data, this is a real problem.

cc @steipete

Full analysis: https://t.co/KE4ODSSQ1l