Curious to see if there will be a push by activists for universities to divest from SpaceX in the coming months and years.

I think the key question to ask yourself is which will be bigger in 25 years, the aviation industry or the space industry? There’s a clear answer there. Like Tesla was for EVs, SpaceX will be for Space.

It’s kinda weird knowing for a fact that today is the last day without a trillionaire.

Famous gorilla Kiyomasa falls into deep contemplation after spat with mate — caught on camera in Japanese zoo

recession indicator

“To eliminate suffering entirely would mean, in the end, extinguishing love and desire as well. Those who love and desire cannot avoid passing through trial and suffering; and over the years, we carry within us lessons that leave their mark like scars, the memories of a journey shaped by freedom and failure, dreams and disappointments. It is only thanks to the interplay of these elements that the wonders of the soul occur within us, allowing us to sense the richness of our humanity. To renounce this adventure, both tragic and splendid, in the name of a presumed transcendence of all limits, could mean many things, but it would no longer be human.” Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (par. 120) (May 15, 2026)

What problem is this even solving? There's dozens of flight booking websites and apps already.

Introducing Libramen. The agent economy is here. Headless services and buy-now buttons are trivial; transactions are already happening. But real-world services don't work that way. They require a scoping and qualification process before a transaction can take place. Libramen solves this so agents can transact autonomously with IRL services. Now your agents can do anything from booking an event space with catering for your hackathon to hiring a contractor to clean your pool. Link below.

How lucky we are to live today, when anything seems possible.

This is insane, Musk must be giving Anthropic a massive amount of compute.

Ken Griffin at Milken: “What the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners, and principally my New York partners, is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami"

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early. The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record. The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold. The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up. That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax. In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.

Was looking around for design inspiration and came across the website of Brevan Howard. So much going on, scrolling up and down the page is enough to give you whiplash. brevanhoward.com/

Every time I see a post that evokes a negative emotion in me, I immediately stop reading it and tell X that I’m not interested in the post and not to show me more from the poster. Don’t let yourself be emotionally manipulated by people who only care about upping their X payouts.

Every post, I block and report a couple accounts using AI-generated replies. It feels much the same as picking up litter on a city street; I don't know if it has any effect, but it feels like I ought to at least try to keep the site clean.

Very relevant right now.

Thank god for the Claude Code update, I was this close to forcing myself to switch to Codex. thenewstack.io/claude-code-d…

This is disgusting and more harmful to society than whatever insignificant amount of revenue it will generate.

A full-scale US Waymo rollout would cost ~700 full-time jobs in the funeral care industry (by saving around 35 thousand young American lives per year). Will no one think of (some of) the morticians!

Regulation idea: Allow companies to hire independent inspectors to inspect their competitors for regulatory violations.