Interesting insight from Andy Lapsa of Stoke Space: If you're running a hard tech startup, you should be able to fabricate everything you need yourself. You may choose to farm something out to a supplier, but you shouldn't need to.

"It's lovely to be useful." — Jony Ive

This prediction turned out to be all too accurate.

Absolutely unbelievable: the sitting HHS Secretary tried to pressure the Annals of Internal Medicine to retract the major Danish study of 1.2 M kids that found no harm from aluminum in vaccines. The journal refused. This isn’t just anti-science it is political interference.

A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that 88% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically.

Emergency powers are the lifeblood of authoritarians. Once established in law, they’re nearly impossible to revoke because a president can veto any bill curtailing the power. We always live under dozens of active “national emergencies,” almost none of which are true emergencies.

A friend's mom sent her an email full of anti-vax conspiracy theories. She didn't have the energy to refute her point by point, so she asked ChatGPT to write a response, which she said was actually pretty good.

This one is going to be great.

Kinda wild and sad that Americans bought between 1.2 and 1.5 billion movie tickets every year for 30+ years and realistically speaking, that’s just … never going to happen again?

I've been in crypto for over 10 years and I’ve Never been hacked. Perfect OpSec record. Yesterday, my wallet was drained by a malicious @cursor_ai extension for the first time. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. Here’s a full breakdown. 🧵👇