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markpalko.bsky.social @markpalko.bsky.social · 11h

The essential context here is that OpenAI is caught between industry leader Anthropic on one side and on the other side nearly as good and far cheaper open-weight models and Altman sees his chances of becoming a centibillionaire slipping away unless he plays his cards just right.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

Got interviewed by one of the largest Swedish newspapers and they led with the best headline/photo (translates to “it’s easier to see an angry man than the truth”) www.svd.se/a/pB7E0G/ed-...

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”Lättare att se en arg man än sanningen”

Han har kallats galen, bett en AI-vd att hålla käften – och i åratal varnat för en börskrasch. Nu har den högljudda outsidern tagit klivet in i finrummen. Ändå känner sig Ed Zitron fortfarande behandl...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

RHG and his ilk's response will be to do some racecraft, insisting that these are Berbers and thus not really racially Black (while ignoring the ample evidence for dark-skinned Romans) and/or to just botch the chronology and claim that this was part of Roman decline.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16h

If Anyone Shoves Me In A Locker Again We All Die

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 16h

‘Frakes said his Muse agent did a fine job fielding questions for a couple of days. Then, on Monday, he woke up to: “Something went wrong overnight.” The agent messaged a dozen buyers “$1” for properties typically ranging from $20,000 to $100,000.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...

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AI Agents Are Offering to Run Your Life. Should You Let Them?

Personal bots, such as Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct, can now take on your to-do list. Should you let them?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.

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markpalko.bsky.social @markpalko.bsky.social · 23h

Got around to the 4th season of Reacher. A bit of a mixed bag -- someone needs to tell the directors' it is possible to have too many drone shots -- but the closing scene scene with the homeless woman nails it.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“.. The cost to insure the debt of both companies against default .. is increasingly moving in lock-step, a sign investors are beginning to treat the two credits as intertwined. “.. You have to consider your total Larry Ellison risk,” Goodman said. $ORCL $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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markpalko.bsky.social @markpalko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A clear example of bad faith, and why it’s a mistake to indulge bad faith. “Weaponization of DOJ” was always a blatant lie, a made up accusation from people who were eager to do the very thing they were pretending to oppose. Indulging that helped the liars, and empowered them to end rule of law.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The reason I'm so skeptical of the AI industry's latest breakthroughs is they are operating with infinite money and pretending that doesn't matter. So many things become easier when you have infinite money to throw at a problem. The Infinite Money Trick davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-infini...

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The Infinite Money Trick

Guarded skepticism about AI product releases

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

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US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as ⁠the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/10/2026

sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from criminal negligence

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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markpalko.bsky.social @markpalko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Terrible ad from a marketing standpoint. Under the best of circumstances, vote for the party despite the candidate is a tough sell, particularly coming from a walking, talking reminder of what a horrible human being Ken Paxton is.

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markpalko.bsky.social @markpalko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Steve Eisman makes some similar points as Paul Kedrosky about the bond market. youtu.be/PJrq_bw7bPc?...

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“Big Short” Investor: One Company Could Break The AI Boom

YouTube video by Prof G Markets

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

elon musk on: stealth aircraft (for the record: everyone involved with low-observable aircraft is acutely aware that they are not "invisible," they just have an rcs so small they can't be effectively detected until they are close enough to have already launched weapons and that is super useful.)

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SteveG @trenchdiggr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Evergreen:

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss

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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything

I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Understand the implications of this across the country. But in #Michigan u can do this as a charter school and get government funding. The city of #Detroit has many schools started by ppl who would not have been hired or associated with a traditional public school. It’s scandalous.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@anntelnaes.bsky.social (archives 11/18/25)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!

Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/10/2026

the contrast with how Trump treats Mamdani here is killing me

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had to type in my email to read this but it’s very interesting. (Typed it in, bounced me to a sign up, but then I just clicked back and I could read it.) fortune.com/2026/10/01/a...

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AI 'godfather' Yann LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is 'deluded' | Fortune

Former Meta Chief AI Scientist shares his take on recent rogue AI incidents, effective altruism, and his plans for his new company, AMI Labs.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Democrats blast Trump for frequently falling asleep during official events, but we saw the exact same thing from Joe Biden. And by "the exact same thing," I mean he never actually fell asleep in public but it totally felt like he might. by Jake Tapper

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In response to my other threads a very common reaction is why can't I just pay a small amount to read one article? In the business this is generally called "micro-payments". The short answer is this has been tried countless times and it's never worked. The longer answer is that the incentives ...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gundlach. $PSKY

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. How is that .. number bigger than 100%? Apparently because earlier pledges were withdrawn.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 01/10/2026

here's a fun stat for the orbital data center curious: Google's latest analysis of launch prices for space data centers suggests Starship will have to fly 1,800 times to drive the learning curve for cost reductions down to $200 per kg. techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/g...

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Google thinks SpaceX's Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground | TechCrunch

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. Bastian is in Musk’s sights for choosing Amazon.com Inc.’s Leo, the new service intended to be a Starlink alternative. The SpaceX CEO has repeatedly criticized the move and on Tuesday said Bastian ‘will lose his job over this’.” @bloomberg.com $DAL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt. .. The paper losses for the investment-grade notes alone topped $100 million, according to an analysis late Thursday ..” @bloomberg.com $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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markpalko.bsky.social @markpalko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Life in LA. Shrinking is filming a scene with Harrison Ford at the Vons around the corner tomorrow morning. I'm sitting at a coffee house watching the security guards who have to spend the night making sure no one parks on the street.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Under Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy.

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markpalko.bsky.social @markpalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is not as much a travesty as the Turing bot, but it's up there.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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markpalko.bsky.social @markpalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I never thought I'd say this, but of those three names, the least embarrassing is Newt Gingrich.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. My take .. is not that we are on the eve of disaster but that important countries are losing room for manoeuvre .. As the late economist Herbert Stein famously said, ‘If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.’” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/a120...

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026

funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.

Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“.. One idea under discussion is insurance against losses on loans to upstart cloud computing companies, or “neoclouds”, if they default and the Nvidia chips pledged against their debt cannot be resold ..” @financialtimes.com $NVDA www.ft.com/content/d6a9...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei

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