I think every company should have a #fridathon policy, to foster innovation, energize teams and improve morale cazzulino.com/fridathon. I'm realizing the term might actually stick, so I'm giving it a permalink, hehe :)

The British Empire around 1833 Was the seizure of the Malvinas Islands an isolated event? Look at what Britain was doing around the world: 🇮🇳 1803 – Maratha territories — war and territorial conquest 🇿🇦 1806 – Cape Colony — invaded and captured 🇦🇷 1806 – Buenos Aires — invaded and captured; subsequently retaken by local forces 🇩🇰 1807 – Copenhagen — attacked; Danish fleet seized 🇺🇾 1807 – Montevideo — invaded and captured 🇦🇷 1807 – Buenos Aires — invaded again; the second British attempt was defeated and the British forces surrendered. 🇲🇶 1809 – Martinique — invaded and captured 🇬🇵 1810 – Guadeloupe — invaded and captured 🇷🇪 1810 – Réunion — invaded and captured 🇲🇺 1810 – Mauritius — invaded and captured 🇮🇩 1811 – Java — invaded and occupied 🇺🇸 1812–15 – United States — invaded; Washington captured and burned 🇳🇵 1814–16 – Nepal — invaded; territory ceded 🇮🇳 1817–18 – Maratha territories — conquered; British control massively expanded 🇦🇪 1819 – Ras Al Khaimah — attacked and captured 🇲🇲 1824–26 – Burma — invaded; territories ceded 🇬🇶 1827–34 – Fernando Po — British occupation/presence 🇦🇷 1833 – Malvinas Islands — Argentinians were removed and British administration established 🇮🇳 1834 – Coorg — invaded and annexed 🇿🇦 1834–35 – Xhosa territory — invaded; Queen Adelaide Province proclaimed 🇾🇪 1839 – Aden — attacked and captured 🇦🇫 1839 – Afghanistan — invaded; Kabul occupied 🇨🇳 1839 – China — First Opium War begins And we are supposed to believe that what happened in the South Atlantic in 1833 should be understood completely outside this context? Britain was one of the world’s dominant imperial powers and was repeatedly using military force to acquire, occupy or control territory during this period. 1833 wasn’t happening in a vacuum. It was happening in the age of the British Empire.

.@JensenHuang is a national treasure 🫡

RT @levelsio: Jesus christ

Google is starting to build its Dyson Swarm AI supercluster and you're bearing anon??

What's keeping @SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai behind Claude, Codex and even AWS in implementing the MCP 2026-07-28 spec? blog.modelcontextprotocol.io… claude.com/blog/bringing-mcp… codex.danielvaughan.com/2026… aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine…

And @JensenHuang is right: coding was the *task*, it was never the (sole) *job* of software engineering.

El compromiso del presidente Trump y el liderazgo del presidente Milei se traducen hoy en algo concreto: Estados Unidos y Argentina lanzaron el Corredor Andes-Atlántico, la iniciativa que conectará la matriz productiva argentina con los mercados de Occidente a través de inversión de EE. UU. 🇺🇸🇦🇷. ar.usembassy.gov/es/declarac…

"Si no fuera por los crayones, estaríamos en el horno". - Fabricante de velas (~1900) @grok explica la cita ilustrativa

RT @tiffany_russell: @Jason Adjusted so all numbers have 1980 purchasing power.... Is it more -- yes but most of the $800,000,000,000 - is…

We ran fresh Next.js evals. The tally: ① Opus 5.5 [𝟿𝟽%] ② GPT 6 Sol [𝟿𝟽%] ③ Fable 5.1 [𝟿𝟽%] ④ Grok 4.7 [𝟿𝟺%] Notably, Grok is 2x-7x cheaper

This is the way. There's nothing more egregious than sharing a pay-walled article to someone. It's like rubbing in their faces that they aren't paying and are therefore losing on content you think is interesting.

C#/.NET being pushed hard running infrastructure at Ethereum's scale. Nethermind runs on ~3k nodes and accounts for ~33% of staked nodes - supporting a ~$334B native asset, ~$146B of stablecoins and ~$54B deposited in DeFi apps. Nethermind 2.0 has some amazing performance work in it: up to 2.55x block throughput, p99 block processing from 1.65s to 208ms, eth_call RPC 15-27% faster and Keccak-256 ~30% faster with platform intrinsics.

Javier Milei – The Proof of Concept. The long march took a century to build. Milei has been dismantling its Argentine expression in real time, with a chainsaw, on television, while calling the central bank a criminal organization. This is not a metaphor. The chainsaw was a campaign prop. The central bank assessment was government policy. 1. The biography is the argument. Born in 1970. Economist. Rock musician – he played in a Rolling Stones tribute band, which is either irrelevant or the most relevant detail depending on your theory of what the counter-march needs. Self-taught in Austrian economics – Mises, Hayek, Rothbard – at a time when Argentine academia was entirely captured by the Keynesian consensus that had been producing Argentine economic crises with metronomic regularity for seventy years. He became a television economist – the secondhand dealer in ideas, in Hayek’s precise formulation – explaining on cable news why everything the establishment was doing was wrong. He was right. Nobody in the establishment listened. The audience did. 2. Argentina in 2023 was the laboratory result of a century of Peronism – the specifically Latin American variant of the long march. Inflation at 211 percent. Poverty at 40 percent. The state consuming everything and producing nothing. The establishment consensus – across parties, across media, across academia – was that the solution was more state, more spending, more management. This consensus had been producing the same results for seventy years and drawing the same conclusions. 3. He ran on the complete rejection of the consensus. Not the modification – the rejection. The central bank is a criminal organization that steals from citizens through inflation. The political class is la casta – extracting value from Argentine society for generations while calling it governance. These were not positions calibrated for electability. They were the Austrian school applied directly to Argentine politics, stated without diplomatic softening, by a man who clearly enjoyed saying them. He won with 56 percent of the vote. 4. What followed was the Hayekian pipeline producing its intended result. Decades of work by libertarian think tanks in Argentina had produced the intellectual infrastructure, the vocabulary, and the trained personnel that made a Milei administration possible. He didn’t arrive in office without a plan. He arrived with economists who had spent years preparing exactly this plan for exactly this country. The pipeline that produces Obama also produces Milei – when run in reverse. The difference is which ideas were in it. 5. The chainsaw was not performance. In the first year: the fiscal deficit eliminated – the first balanced budget in over a century. Government ministries cut in half. Hundreds of regulations abolished. Inflation falling from 211 percent toward 50. The establishment that said it was impossible watched it happen and explained it wouldn’t last. It is lasting. 6. The reaction was the complete toolkit. Lawfare. Media coverage calibrated to delegitimize rather than report. Street protests organized by the unions whose privileges were being dismantled. The Peronist establishment discovering that the institutions it had captured could not stop a government willing to act faster than the institutions could respond. The ratchet being run in reverse. It turns out the ratchet can go both ways. It requires someone willing to turn it. 7. Milei reposts this series. The intellectual supply chain Hayek described is working in real time. Ideas produced in the Polish-French register, distributed on an American platform, reposted by an Argentine economist with a chainsaw and a rock band – reaching people who need the vocabulary to name what is being done to their countries and what can be done instead. The counter-march does not look like the march. It is louder, faster, less elegant, more honest, and considerably more fun. The proof of concept is running. Watch Argentina. 🇦🇷

The Murderbot Diaries is finally done for me. In the latest book the AI protagonist is more emotional than a teenager. What a joke. Platform Decay by Martha Wells on Audible. audible.com/pd/B0GJ6MQLKJ?so…

Nuevo dato del que seguramente no hablará más de 5 segundos (si lo mencionan) ningún "periodismo serio". Buen momento para recordar que el peor de los políticos de hoy tiene mejor imagen que el periodismo: > la confianza alcanza mínimos históricos con apenas el 26%. https://reutersinstitute .politics.ox.ac.uk/es/digital -news-report/2026/argentina

Remember how eagerly the press swallowed stories about how Twitter was going to crash after Elon bought it? How could they have believed that someone who could run rocket and car companies couldn't run a forum?

How it started, How it's going. 20x+ later, he still thinks he's got an insight.

ANTHROPIC BUILDS BIOLOGY LAB TO PUSH AI INTO DRUG DEVELOPMENT Anthropic has quietly established a Bay Area wet lab, moving its life-sciences ambitions beyond computer simulations and into physical biological experiments. The company wants Claude to direct laboratory robots with limited human intervention, potentially accelerating research into rare and traditionally “undruggable” diseases. Anthropic says it will focus on preclinical research rather than clinical trials, avoiding direct competition with pharmaceutical companies.

Verificados históricamente: telegrafía (1881 NYT: cambio de eje terrestre, diluvio, fin del mundo); trenes (asfixia a alta velocidad, infertilidad, railway spine); bicicletas (inmoralidad, bicycle face, daños reproductivos); electricidad (muertes masivas); nuclear (ignición de atmósfera, invierno nuclear); Y2K (colapso civilización); nanotech (grey goo). Ninguno extinguió a la humanidad. Patrón recurrente de pánicos ante lo nuevo.

Another very interesting edge case where a bus blocks half the intersection. The @Tesla has to persist the cars’ motion behind the bus and out of sight. Just before the blue car appears it starts going because it just knows that was the last hidden car and persisted the speed when out of sight 😱. I swear, sometimes FSD just feels like magic. 😍 @teslaeurope @Tesla_AI @AnnickDeRidder