History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

*Holding up a bottle of lime juice* 11yo: (grimaces) “I don’t trust that for some reason”

One of the most beautiful product announcements I’ve seen

Opus is the hot girl who is secretly toxic. Codex is the cute friend you weren't into at first but now feels like wife material.

11yo worked all week painting this for Moonrise Market Day. Super proud of him.

Speed of error correction is a massively underrated feature of AI. Sure, it makes a ton of mistakes. But you see those mistakes in minutes instead of days, and AI can fix them just as fast.

The very idea of cheating with chatbots implies school is a game to be won, where the objective is test scores and rank advancement. MacKenzie isn't wrong to think this way. School IS a game, and to the extent kids are playing that game, it makes sense to help them win (fairly). But when school is over, and the incentive to cheat is gone, adults naturally flock to tools that help them learn and solve problems in the real world - like chatbots, YouTube videos, and books. So yes, we should help kids win the game of school. But we should also question the game itself and ask if there are better objectives.

The new competition isn’t Humans vs AI. It’s Humans with AI vs everyone else.

Reed Hastings on building systems for homeschoolers:

One of the reasons homeschooled kids have superior educational outcomes is avoiding the slow-progress-across-all-subjects method public schools impose on every student, no matter how they learn. The evaluation/testing you are talking about would almost certainly prohibit that sort of tailored education, especially since they would be designed and administered by a system that wants to eliminate homeschooling in almost all cases.

"Dear young people, we screwed everything up (lol, our bad), so please make sure to take the misguided moral frameworks we relied on to create this mess and do them even harder."

Sagrada Familia is still the most beautiful man-made thing I've ever experienced in person. I literally teared up when the doors opened.

Please, please pray for a neighbor whose little boy passed this morning after an accident at home

Probably bait, but I’ll bite: 1. Animals can be raised humanely and given a good life. 2. Those animals can be humanely slaughtered and sold as meat to thoughtful consumers. 3. The purchase of that meat is the only reason those animals were given that good life in the first place. 4. This transaction creates sustainable livelihoods for farmers and their families. 5. Those farmers are good citizens who care about animals, people, and their communities. 6. Meat is good for people and delicious. It’s the basis of countless traditions shared around the dinner table. 7. Humans are omnivorous. Yes, we can decide not to be, but our natural state is omnivore. Enslaving other humans, by comparison, is not our natural state. 8. Most animals, like humans, would choose a good life that ends in certain death over no life at all. 9. Factory farming is different in almost every important way. It’s a better and more worthy enemy, but still not comparable to human slavery. 10. I think most people know these things deep down, but we’re taught to hate ourselves and the natural choices we make that make us happy.

In honor of David Attenborough turning 100 years old, here’s a behind-the-scenes clip of him recording narration for a new documentary. 100 years old and still going strong.

Michelangelo never in his life was given an assignment the outcome of which would affect no one and serve no purpose other than to satisfy a credentialing requirement.

every major university is about to look like Blockbuster