Elizabeth Lopatto

fucking evil

there is a group in America actively being unpersonned right now, and the Altantic has chosen to attack them. embarrassing.

I'm sorry to remind everyone of the existence of hte worst magazine in America, but Kansas is literally taking away trans' people's driver's licenses, and the Atlantic has decided to publish a thumbsucker about whether effeminate boys are feeling pressured to transition

I mean there's a dead simple thesis for an activist investor: spin off the bad parts of the business and/or kill them outright, oust Musk, and take profits

inevitably when I write something like this, I get emails like BUT HE LANDED A ROCKET BOOSTER ON A BARGE SO YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IN HIM okay baby doll but there's a reason the sec makes you say "past performance is not indicative of future results"

I asked grok... I asked ChatGPT... I saw Donald Trump say... they're just generating language! There's no *meaning* behind it. It's just a plausible series of tokens.

the red flag phrase for me in a review is "luminous prose." oh, I am gonna find this overwritten and HAAAAATE it huh

"Data centers in space are the purported reason for acquiring xAI, Musk’s tremendously money-losing home of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and its boutique child porn generator Grok."

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

Whose side are you on, FT?

thank you!

Why is SpaceX going public? Musk in 2013:  “I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”

[furiously smoking four cigarettes at once] I wrote about the SpaceX IPO www.theverge.com/tech/887899/...

until now I had not contemplated how to make the gavins worse. rare gavin gain of function testing.

the gavin strategic reserve runs deep

YouTube video by Kill Rock Stars Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Official Music Video)

I think they ended up just standing www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn04...

you have no idea the urge I just had to say "not so fast mr bond" and then send you a genuinely obnoxious image

it's too bad jack white never again sounded as good as he did on "danger! high voltage"

I just think it's cute when animals do a really big sigh. oh, tough day there?

the cat is on my lap. she was purring and making biscuits and then she sighed real big and now I think she is asleep. unfortunately I need to make dinner

a good thing is when someone posts a picture of a cat, and then people reply with "great cat, here also is a picture of my cat." unsolicited cat pics aplenty. this could be the world we build

diaper bag with "concealed carry function"

good evening; america has been a 249 year social experiment by harvard university that is now complete. thank you for your time

YouTube video by drtchock Helsinki Complaints Choir

can we update this banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV...

I have a minor complaint. when I click on a newsletter from my email to view it on the web, I am never automatically signed in. it's very stupid! how do you think I got here! why am I being asked to authenticate myself by going back to my email! who designed this!

but to your original point: you're correct, he did not become like this overnight. he's been creeping toward it for a couple years now

he is read by a shocking and embarrassing number of product managers and executives

Bamps doing the ⚠️ Trade Offer ⚠️ meme. I get: Food You get: To give me food

rise and grind let's make some deals

my guess is no but I'm obviously biased: I've always thought ben was a fucking idiot

Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company’s concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.

the contortions here are very funny if you're familiar with (a) ben's stance on other tech cos and (b) his objections to antitrust action. do we think he's aware that he's describing and endorsing fascism? stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...

Across social media and the Al industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman's claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to the red lines that it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? The answer, sources told The Verge, is that the Pentagon didn't budge. OpenAl agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, while insisting they protect its red lines. One source familiar with the Pentagon's negotiations with Al companies confirmed that OpenAl's deal is much softer than the one Anthropic was pushing for, thanks largely to three words: "any lawful use." In negotiations, the person said, the Pentagon wouldn't back down on its desire to collect and analyze bulk data on Americans. If you look line-by-line at the OpenAl terms, the source said, every aspect of it boils down to: If it's technically legal, then the US military can use OpenAl's technology to carry it out. And over the past decades, the US government has stretched the definition of "technically legal" to cover sweeping mass surveillance programs - and more.

Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

that's the one I saw Friday. absolute banger, highly recommend