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[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (Financial Times)

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[BuffaloRon @BuffaloRon]

This is my memorial day tradition, reread it every year.

My uncle wrote this about his uncle Lt. William A. Rogers, writing letters home to his mother and sharing his WWII experience. it's pretty insightful.

He didn't make it home.

24hrs/ remember the fallen.
HUHAWD

[Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations @SovMichael]

Thesis -> Antithesis-> Synthesis

The dialectic right in front of your face

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

🚨 BREAKING: Claude has a feature called Decision Intelligence Mode.

You can use it to solve any business or career problem using 7 proven frameworks that consultants charge $500/hour to apply.

Here are 7 prompts to access it: 👇

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

THIS MAN HASN'T TOUCHED HIS TASK MANAGER IN A WEEK AND HIS ENTIRE LIFE IS STILL ON TRACK.

Here is exactly what he did differently.

Every night before bed he dumps everything into one folder in Obsidian called CAPTURE.

Every idea. Every task. Every thing that happened. Every thing that needs to happen.

No filing decisions. No organization. No thinking about where anything goes.

Just dump and close the laptop.

At 8PM Claude runs automatically.

It reads every file in the CAPTURE folder.

It sorts every note into the right place.

It flags every stalled project.

It assigns priority to every task.

It surfaces every open loop from the previous day.

By 6AM the morning briefing is sitting in his Obsidian vault.

He opens his laptop knowing exactly what matters before he sees a single notification.

His coworkers are still living in their inboxes.

Still spending the first 45 minutes of every day figuring out what they are supposed to be working on.

Still maintaining task managers that are three days out of date.

Still losing ideas because the capture friction was too high in the moment.

The only difference between his system and theirs is one folder called CAPTURE and Obsidian plus Claude running at 8PM every night.

Every idea goes in.

Claude files everything.

Nothing requires a decision at capture time.

Nothing gets lost.

The system runs whether he touches it or not.

That is not a productivity hack.

That is a different relationship with how your work gets managed.

Bookmark this and build it tonight.

Follow @cyrilXBT for the exact Obsidian plus Claude setup that makes this possible.

[leopardracer @leopardracer]

THIS GUY OPENED OBSIDIAN AND SAW HIS ENTIRE KNOWLEDGE AS A NETWORK AND HE BUILT IT IN 90 DAYS

one note at a time and one link at a time

now the graph shows him what he actually thinks about and not what he assumed he cared about

six months ago he had 200 isolated notes sitting in folders nobody visits

today every idea he has connects to something he wrote in the past

a thought from january becomes context for a decision in may without him remembering january even happened

his coworkers are still searching for files by name and finding nothing useful

the only difference is he stopped filing and started linking

his notes are not stored they are connected

like & bookmark this if you’ve been using obsidian as a filing cabinet this whole time

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

Okay folks, this qualifies as BREAKING NEWS!

Harold “Sonny” White, the warp drive pioneer behind NASA’s EagleWorks Lab, just stepped out of stealth with Casimir Inc. to unveil MicroSPARC: the first battery free chip to harvest continuous electrical power straight from the quantum vacuum via the Casimir force.

The 5 mm × 5 mm device uses millions of custom microscale Casimir cavities fabricated on a substrate. Inside each cavity, two fixed conductive walls create a region of negative vacuum pressure (the well known Casimir effect). Stationary micropillars anchored in the middle act as antennas. Electrons from the cavity walls then quantum tunnel to the pillars because the interior is a lower energy “quieter” zone — and the probability of tunneling back is orders of magnitude lower. This one way “quantum ratchet” flow generates a measurable DC current with no external power source or moving parts.

Prototypes already fabricated at university nanofab facilities (Texas A&M AggieFab, MIT.nano) have been tested in RF-shielded, low noise chambers for weeks. The team reports outputs ranging from millivolts to volts at picoamp to microamp levels using precision electrometers and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy. Target performance for the first commercial chip: ~1.5 V at 25 µA (≈40 µW continuous). Stacking and scaling could reach milliwatts or even watts per device.

Initial applications are ultra low power: always on IoT sensors, wearables, and medical implants. Longer term roadmap includes trickle charging phones, powering small electronics, and eventually grid independent homes or EVs. Commercialization is targeted for 2028, starting at ~$100/W before dropping toward $10/W.

White ties the work directly to his earlier theoretical paper on emergent quantization from a dynamic vacuum and sees it as a practical power source for the deep-space missions he’s long championed.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and independent scientists have so far declined public comment. But if the engineering scales as hoped, MicroSPARC would represent a genuine paradigm shift: continuous, maintenance free power drawn from the fabric of spacetime itself.

A bold leap from warp-drive theory into real hardware. Progress (and vacuum-powered chips) marches on.

Photo: MicroSPARC | Casimir Inc.

Source: https://t.co/11tlwNSf71

[sotfws @sotfws]

@Junkyardtactic That's great news!

[Beef Support | BeefMaps.com @BeefMaps]

USDA just handed Palantir — the company that built ICE’s deportation targeting system — a sole-source $300M contract to consolidate every farmer’s federal data into one profile.

One Farmer, One File. One surveillance contractor. No competitive bid.

[sotfws @sotfws]

@FafOnow No prob SCLPR.

[sotfws @sotfws]

@FafOnow Sourced via google ai, no experience with any of them. Happy hunting.

[sotfws @sotfws]

@FafOnow Custom Paintball (https://t.co/HdJYq3mBII): Provides custom, tactical, and paintball-gear, offering customizable shemaghs for specialized needs.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We're expanding our collaboration with Amazon to secure up to 5 gigawatts of compute for training and deploying Claude. Capacity begins coming online this quarter, with nearly 1 gigawatt expected by the end of 2026.

[sotfws @sotfws]

Did a day trip to Kyle for the Hats Off For Veterans event. Got my book signed and got to hug Larry's neck. It was a good day.
https://t.co/l9UqJ4LkVl

[sotfws @sotfws]

@GalFreespirit @DomesticCEOCat I bet he could throw a football over a mountain.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

"Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door..."

Jean Raspail, The Camp of the Saints

[EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince]

They aren’t Americans. Because they say they aren’t Americans.

[sotfws @sotfws]

@BuffaloRon That is freaking awesome.