Michael LaFrance

The Anthropic Capital Structure, released in the S-1 today. Wow. $ANT Very convoluted.

Anyone surprised that Jared Kuschner has secret overseas bank account used to collect huge payments from foreign dictators seeking policy changes in the USA?

I disagree with this. Shit serves important purposes, it cleanses the body and makes valuable fertilizer. Ramaswamy has no positive attributes.

Meta has intentionally and systematically experimented on the public with truly evil psychological manipulation. One tried to see if they could push users into a state of depression. This case didn't even delve into those actions, 'just' fraud and deception. We need a corporate death penalty.

One does not simply ban ERIC IDLE! What is going on?

No one - left, right, or center - likes corruption. Focusing on rooting it out will have massive public support. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

The news cycle moves at light speed these day, but we should slow it down just a tad and savor the EPIC self own of the GOP and their botched 'gotcha' moment. (h/t @jonsavoy on threads)

🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.

The new folding iPhone Duo is nuts.

Instant classic i.imgur.com/9byQEJY.jpg

They're the same picture. Are we the baddies?

Trump's attacks on Iran's oil tankers, and the subsequent Iranian response, have increased wholesale gasoline prices substantially in a single day. The wholesale cost is now $3.21.

“They said they’d come to put me on the street because I owed four months rent. I don’t owe back rent. The last thing I got from Trump was a bill for $10.20, about two weeks ago, and I sent that. They just want me out because they can get twice as much rent.”

Corporate profits are fat this quarter because they were refunded the tariffs WE paid. Did prices come down? No, no they did not. We're now paying for tariff surcharges that don't exist. www.investopedia.com/tariff-refun...

"…I will literally eat anything… I don't have a gag reflex," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The jokes write themselves. www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-eats-...

The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Setup is insane. I'll likely see it in a regular theater, but I'm tempted to make the pilgrimage to see it on an IMAX screen.

Finally, someone is actually going to speak with Sen. McConnell.

He got both

He used our tax dollars to pay for it. He ruined it. Now we’re being treated like trespassers.

Insightful essay by Mike Madrid. It's worth reading. open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

This is an interview of an American singer and actress, Anna Elise LaFrance, in Korea, and I'm a HUGE fan of her work. They loved that she did a Samsung commercial, immediate street cred in Seoul. (I may be partial, she's my daughter, lol) youtu.be/g8q-EA5gTpQ?...

Providing you don't live in a super windy area, this is a great idea to keep your car cool in the summer.

Today's nature is wild fun fact -- Scorpions glow brightly under UV light.

This newborn freshly hatching baby chameleon immediately tests its color-changing abilities while still leaving the egg. Nature is amazing. (its running a test sequence) 🦎 #nature #chameleon

WTF?

Fibonacci approaches the golden ratio (about 1.618) Mile/km is very close to golden ratio (about 1.609) It works even as the numbers get larger.

System Administrators are reporting even more widespread Internet outages from Cloudflare than the press is reporting. Businesses and websites are down worldwide. Comments from Sysadmins are reporting outages from almost every country in the world. www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...

BLM publics lands are an American treasure. Millions of Americans use these lands annually. They can never be replaced if they are sold off to corporations.

Don't let them distract you. Republicans are trying to sell off millions of acres of your public lands to billionaire developers — all as they take away your benefits. Now is the time to make some noise.

Congrats to Chicago and the new Pope.

Amazon simply noting the new tax on product listings? "Hostile and political act!" according to the White House. Trump is trying to shoot the messenger, let's see if Bezos backs down. (odds are he will.) #tariffs

Guess it's too late to upgrade my solar panels. Trump's new 3,000%+ tariff adds $1,500 in TAX to a $40 panel. #solar #tariffs #greenenergy #prepper #offgrid

The Roman Republic lasted 482 years. Looks like we may blow it in half the time. www.thedailybeast.com/wh-press-sec...

I'm not an economist (although I do have a degree in economics), but it feels like losing MILLIONS of jobs and TRILLIONS of dollars in trade is sub-optimal, to put it lightly. #tariffs

Um — Trump just turned over management of our 🇺🇸 strategic petroleum reserve to a mystery company, who will get $1.4 billion to run it? 🤔 www.devdiscourse.com/article/head...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I'm old enough to remember when one of our techs would forget to update our 5ESS telecom switches for Daylight Savings Time, and it would crash the network.

I've been obsessed with this painting for years. Just ran across it again, and thought I'd share. William Logsdail (1859-1944) "St Paul's and Ludgate Hill" c. 1887 #art #oilpainting #blueskyart

Must-read: Writer & Nobel winner, Paul Krugman, reveals why he left the NYT. Editorial freedom eroded, bold opinions diluted, & debate stifled. A sharp critique of legacy media’s shift toward conformity. Journalism should challenge, not conform. 📢🔥 #Media #Opinion open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

My daughter is an artist (and actress), and I love what she's doing lately. Her take on the Chinese New Year. Anna LaFrance on Instagram... @annalafrance #art #mixedmedia #blueskyArt #yearofthesnake #snake #creative #chineseart #chinesenewyear

This has the potential to be one of the most influential ideas of our time. Perhaps eclipsing the potential of the Transformer architecture. #LLMs #AI #science #artificialIntelligence