NEW: Tons of recent news reports have mentioned the fact that Claude works inside war tech from Palantir to help the Pentagon select its targets. But how does this actually work? What specifically is Claude doing vs not doing? I broke down everything we know. Link in reply.

Dispatches from Beirut https://t.co/QbHwM9Bhb7

Private credit has been a house of cards waiting to topple. These funds guarantee debt for private companies against esoteric line items that banks won't. It's been spoken about by finance types in hushed terms as a disaster waiting to happen. The perfect storm is about to hit

One brother at Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Miami had some valuable information. Evan Whitesell, Jeff Bezos' stepson, was in the fraternity. In February, the online prediction market Kalshi was offering wagers on which celebrities would show up at the Super Bowl. The

It couldn’t be clearer that we will never stop fascism unless we defeat liberal imperialism.

This case raises more questions about enforcing insider trading - If MrBeast's company didn't have rules on trading, would this still violate? - If the person wasn't an employee would it still violate - What is "material non public information" outside the context of a company?

david noble was such a gd boss, the only way to start a book today is the same as its been for the past ~50 yrs

hello. here is a very crazy sometimes funny piece on how the LA Review of Books is being run into the ground by the very people who own it. i hope to read it https://t.co/K23B8VfMSs

few types of writing have higher hit rates than "paul ford explaining the lebenswelt of the software engineer"

on the Left's supposed silence on AI: the concrete things happening at the moment conform in a pretty granular way to the picture Marx draws of technological innovation in the process of capital. the center, liberals, and the hype people all seem surprised, where no Marxist cd be

"Perhaps what the score most resembles is a topographical map, with the arcs like a distant outcropping of mountains and the arrows at the bottom right bringing sketched-­out directions to mind"

"Epstein’s case is more instructive than Musk’s because it combines the two economies of sexual property that Freud discerned in the primitive unconscious – fratriarchal and patriarchal"

giovanni arrighi vindicated

“For a brief season, both sides shared a Marxist-Leninist vocabulary and a romantic faith that they could transform their societies”

Michael Parenti, the path-breaking Marxist scholar, historian and political scientist, passed today at age 92 He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family ���Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis. appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

as part of it, i'm going to maintain a regular blogging practice and email newsletter, please sign up if that's your thing https://t.co/BoWc0iBY7I

new year, new personal website

Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile (Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything")

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