47 years ago today, Rocky II hit theaters and reminded Gen X that nothing motivates a comeback like being broke and surrounded by bad advice.

On this day, 40 years ago, in 1986, Back to School, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey Jr., and Sam Kinison, taught us that higher education was expensive, ridiculous, and run by weirdos. So basically, a documentary.

The Anthropic Fable/Mythos access drama feels like the Crypto Wars reboot. As an old Gen-Xer, this feels familiar. Back in the 1990s, we had the Crypto Wars (not cryptocurrency) where strong encryption was treated like a weapon and developers fought over whether publishing code counted as free speech. The Bernstein case helped establish the code as speech argument. Now we’re watching the argument rhyme again, only this time it’s not encryption code. It’s access to advanced AI models. Different decade. Different technology. Same government instinct to show up late, misunderstand the machinery, and start labeling everything hazardous.

Nothing says “tax the rich” like an estimated $90M member of Congress yelling at a richer rich guy. Taxable income and paper wealth are not the same thing. Start with unrealized gains in Congress and watch “fair share” become “let’s form a committee.”

Nothing says “wake up, peasants” like delivering the message from the back seat of a rolling VIP lounge.

Jurassic Park was released 33 years ago today. 33 years since we all learned that recreating extinct animals with DNA was a terrible idea unless you had a great soundtrack, a rainstorm, and Jeff Goldblum warning everyone while dressed like chaos had a modeling contract. Now we’ve got companies like Colossal Biosciences working on de-extinction. Not amber mosquitoes and full dinosaur cloning, but gene editing living relatives to bring back traits from extinct species. So, not exactly Jurassic Park. More like Jurassic Park with compliance meetings, investor decks, and fewer velociraptors opening kitchen doors. Probably... I Hope

Highest rate since 1995 and just 1%? Congrats Japan, you finally escaped the 90s. At this pace you’ll hit 2% by 2057.

The deal was never the whole story. The route was. This week’s TWIMM follows the lanes, accounts, balance sheets, dark tankers, side doors, and market tape behind the memo.

New TWIMM is live: The Ceasefire Has Too Many Crime Scenes Markets priced the off ramp. Lebanon found the tripwire. Russia found the cash register. This week’s edition follows the cascade: Iran, Hormuz, Lebanon, oil, sanctions, Russia, India, Ukraine, and Europe pretending contradictions are strategy.

Sure, who wouldn’t trust the ex-CIA lady who casually ran a global coronavirus pandemic simulation 2 months before the real thing showed up. @MikeBenzCyber is always worth a watch and your time

RT @anasalhajji: Ok, this Chinese oil tanker carrying 2 mb of Iraqi oil made it through the US blockade.

Watching Krazy Kaja Kallas explain EU foreign policy is like hearing your drunk uncle say I’ll start the diet… after the holidays.

“CALIFORNIANS SHOULD BE OUTRAGED!” We are beyond ‘concerned’ when most people commuting to work and school cannot afford the current prices. Prices will rise beyond $8 per gallon this summer as Sacramento does nothing to support local energy production. This is criminal.