T. Hookham

Not advice. Like/Repost ≠ agree.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Semiconductor stocks have now more than doubled on the year.

It's only June 3.

We've officially entered mania territory.

[Diana S. Fleischman @sentientist]

In adults, limiting smartphone functionality to texting and calls and blocking all social media and mobile internet for 2 weeks significantly improved attention, self-reported well-being and mental health. 90% of participants experienced a benefit.

[Bob Ambrogi @bobambrogi]

Huge news for #legaltech today, as @AnthropicAI goes all in on legal, releasing 20+ connectors to legal tech products and 12 practice area plugins, not to mention an explicit commitment to addressing access to justice. https://t.co/RLPpM5s9rB

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

One year into cell phone bans, Dallas schools see 24% increase in library book checkouts.

👏👏👏

"Public school districts in Texas are almost one school year into the first statewide cellphone ban, and a North Texas school district is seeing positive impacts.

Dallas ISD officials said that, district-wide, they have seen a significant increase in library book checkouts, which they largely attribute to students no longer having cellphones with them during the school day.

"I started hearing, 'Oh, I'm so bored. I can't get on my phone after I do my work or during lunchtime,'" Hillcrest High School librarian Nina Canales said. "Once they lock into these stories, they don't seem to care about their phones at all."

From the first day of school to March 31, 2026, the district reported an increase of more than 200,000 additional books checked out compared to the previous year.

A look at the library checkouts for the previous year:

2025-2026 Total Circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2026) – 1,084,837
2024-2025 Total circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2025) – 872,430

Total library book checkout increase: 24.35%

At Dallas ISD's Hillcrest High, students are following this trend.

Canales said there were roughly 500 books checked out in the first nine weeks of the 2024-2025 school year. This school year, that number spiked to about 1,800 books.

"That floored me," Canales said. "I had to re-do the report again because I was like, 'What, are you kidding me?'"

Students felt the impact too.

"Now that I'm busy with a bunch of work and college, I don't find myself missing my phone that much, even at home," said Yamilet Jimenez, 9th grader."

By @laceybeasnews.

@JonHaidt @safe_screens

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY USED CLAUDE CODE TO DESIGN CUSTOM FURNITURE

then handed the PDF to a carpenter and actually built it

he described a full wall unit to claude. wardrobe, drawers, mirror, fragrance display, hidden vault, laundry section. all in one piece

claude wrote 1400 lines of python that generates carpenter-ready technical drawings as a PDF.

front elevation, plan view, construction notes. all dimensioned in centimeters

claude updated the script each time. added LED lighting positions, ventilation specs, push-to-open latches, soft-close hinges

he handed the PDF directly to his carpenter. built exactly to spec. zero modifications needed

this is the most real world use of vibe coding i've seen.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨TLDW: PewDiePie put out a new video saying algos control your life and have infected your mind (he's right).

He suggests 6 things:

1) Intent when you use the Internet
2) A separate profile/phone for social apps to create fiction
3) Self-hosting
4) Disable shorts
5) Don't follow anyone (AC is ahead of the curve)
6) DNS Blockers

Don't let your mind be hijacked. Build protections for your sanity. Don't get algobrain.

[Sultán @elsultanbitcoin]

It's official now! The United States 🇺🇸, through OFAC, has created licenses 48A & 49A, authorizing any American company to supply technology, services, and operations for the Venezuelan electrical system.

This includes generation, transmission, storage, and distribution of electricity.

In other words: U.S. Bitcoin mining companies can invest directly, reactivate thermoelectric plants, stabilize the grid, and prevent collapses, just as I've proposed.

The proposal to finance the reactivation of the energy sector without debt or monetary issuance through Joint Ventures with American Bitcoin mining & energy companies is taking shape.

These licenses are step one to privatize Venezuelan energy markets and eventually be able to lock-in long term PPAs to generate, transmit, and sell energy.

Venezuela needs at least 2 GW and ~$2B to double oil production to 2M bpd. With this, we go from 8 GW to the Guri’s hydro dam max capacity of 10.2 GW. We upgrade and turn on our thermal plants we’ll produce 30-36 GW total, covering the 13 GW max national demand.

This would reactivate our industry and support millions of Venezuelans going back home.

The end result is significant: zero blackouts, Venezuela as an energy powerhouse. Bitcoin mining isn't the end, but the catalyst for a win-win: Venezuelans, industry, foreign companies, and the State.

The sleeping South American Bitcoin mining giant is awakening! 🇻🇪

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

@DoDataThings we should get free tokens every time we buy guac

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

Houston is a serious town with serious people.
Dallas is a serious town with unserious people.
San Antonio is an unserious town with serious people.
Austin is an unserious town with unserious people. -OS

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Tree canopies turn ordinary streets into living ecosystems, cooler, greener, and dramatically better for people and nature.

[Oliver Groß @minenergybiz]

Unreal numbers 👀⚡️
"JPMorgan estimates that, had Germany not phased out nuclear power, the country would have generated 50% less electricity from fossil fuels and 84% less electricity from natural gas in 2024. Electricity prices in Germany would have been around 25% lower, and the country would have imported half as much electricity.."

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨NEW: Buc-ee's announce new flagship location in Tehran, Iran

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

"How many of our 'problems' are just a lack of political willpower?"

All the big ones. Just flip the switch.

[God of Prompt @godofprompt]

RIP "act as an expert" and basic prompting.

A former OpenAI engineer just exposed "Prompt Contract" - the internal technique that makes LLMs actually obey you.

Works on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, everything.

Here's how to use it right now:

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

What happens when you take peoples phones away?

After just 72 hours, brain imaging showed changes in reward and salience circuits that resemble withdrawal.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

Own a home and married by age 30 in the US:

2025: 12%
2010: 25%
2000: 35%
1990: 43%
1980: 45%
1970: 48%
1960: 52%

This is crazy.

[William A. Wallace, Ph.D. @WilliamWallace]

A recent network meta-analysis (192 trials, 17k patients) mapped which nutraceuticals may truly enhance antidepressant response:

- Saffron: the largest improvement observed. almost universally ~30 mg/day in depression trials
- Zinc: large, consistent boost. commonly ~25 mg/day in adjunct trials
- Omega-3s (EPA-dominant): ~1–2 g/day EPA (ISNPR/CANMAT recs.)
- SAMe: typically 800–1600 mg/day in RCTs
- Curcumin: ~500–1000 mg/day (form mattered)

Carnitine (often acetyl-L-carnitine, ~1–2 g/day) also showed large improvements (sometimes bigger than the above) but with wider uncertainty (likely due to fewer and smaller trials).

Some nutraceuticals meaningfully enhance antidepressant response.
Which one(s) (and how consistent the evidence is) matters more than stacking everything.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This result was finally published.

TL;DR: Treating cancer early in the morning seems to substantially beat treating it later in the day.

Just changing patient appointment times is supposedly associated with a ~60% reduction in cancer mortality.

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Reserve replacement is the real scorecard.

Above 100% means a company is growing its future.
Below 100% means it is harvesting decline.

• ExxonMobil is in a league of its own. ~290% RRR. Guyana, Permian, LNG optionality
• TotalEnergies and Petrobras are consistently replacing and expanding reserves
• Equinor and Eni sit in the healthy middle
• Shell is borderline
• BP is the outlier. Sub-50% replacement. Structural shrinkage

Capital discipline matters.
But you cannot buy back what you don’t replace.

Over time, reserve math beats narrative.

#oott