Stories without amplification are hobbies. “Stories without amplification are hobbies.” Avinash Kaushik’s take on TikTok: organic reach hits a ceiling, so you need to pay to amplify the right creator stories, at real scale. ~ learn more
Grindslop. “In a grindslop company, the hours are the output.” Will Manidis draws a clean line between hard companies that work long hours to build something, and a darker version where suffering becomes the product and gets performed for status. […]
The new career flex. “Now, the real flex is going back to being an Individual Contributor.” Elena Verna argues the ladder got weird when headcount became the signal of impact, and introduces the “High-Impact Individual Contributor” who can ship end-to-end […]
Fable-5 (Mythos) has already been jailbroken. “it’s hard to get explicit names of harms like “Meth Recipe,” but getting uplift on the process itself, like birch reduction method/reductive-amination (classic meth synthesis pathways), is much more doable.” A thread on how […]
Safety built into LLMs creates new risks. “malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals… so that their spyware wouldn’t be analyzed by an AI security scanner.” ~ learn more
The Al trap that is quietly wiping out angel investors. “Most AI startups do not sell software. They sell outcomes powered by rented intelligence.” Every inference has a bill attached, and SaaS heuristics don’t apply to “AI” unit economics. ~ […]
Watch your music hallucinate. “…and anyone who’s ever wanted to watch their music hallucinate!” Pliny the Liberator is shipping ENTHEA, a one-file, zero-deps visualizer where “every mode is real math, cited in-app. receipts, not vibes.” ~ learn more
Bruce Hornsby on Tupac. “The original “Changes” was a lot dirtier, had a lot of the n-word. They took that out for the single.” Bruce Hornsby says he got the track on a cassette from the Shakur Foundation, and he […]
Continuous cloth roll towel machine. “It spools a real cloth roll that is almost 100 feet long in a spool to dry your hands.” Robert Moseley tours a Darman continuous cloth roll towel machine, the oddly satisfying alternative to paper […]
Why Japan has such good railways. “These cultural explanations are wrong.” Japan’s trains work because of policy choices: private operators, land use rules, and regulation that let rail companies build the corridor and the city around it. ~ learn more