Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that uses the UI of the long-retired Paper app. I loved the design of Paper
Richard Murphy - How do you find the time for all this?
Major upgrade to the Epstein Files reverse image search
Rye – Major upgrade to the Epstein Files reverse image search at [epstein-data.com/find-i…]: I’ve doubled server capacity so I could embed every page of every document into the visual search.
- Find-image has been expanded from ~615k images, to over 2.9 million. Side note: That’s all there is. Don’t let anyone lie to you. There are no “3.5” million (released) files. There are just over 2.9 million. That’s it. I will personally do the math out for you if you need it. Don’t say 3.5 million. It’s not.
- There’s a new button on the document viewer page, that’ll allow you to “search by image” for any page, without having to take a screenshot.
- Please let me know if there are any other features along these lines that would help your investigation(s).
60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump’s Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality
The New York Times, gift article: “With an assist from A.I., President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen — and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state.
Just before noon on a holiday weekend, while many Americans were at the beach, President Trump’s social media account roared to life.
In what has increasingly become his weekend habit, he unleashed a daylong barrage of posts that put the bully in the modern bully pulpit. There were images of Mr. Trump intimidating Canada’s prime minister with a hockey stick, personally bombing enemy targets and patrolling dark streets with killer robots. There were maps showing the United States taking over other countries, and maps renaming a state.
There were attacks on the “Dumocratic Party” and tributes to himself as “the Greatest President of All Time!” The 60 messages posted online over 10 hours and 41 minutes offered a window into Mr. Trump’s own unique reality, one anchored not in fact but in an expression of ego. For years, his social media feed was said to be a mirror of his id. But with A.I., it has become the manifestation of how he wants to be seen in a more visual, visceral way than ever before — as a warrior, as a conqueror, as a historical figure, as a younger and thinner and more muscular version of himself.
In Mr. Trump’s digitally enhanced version of the world, he is a giant in every way, a man who defeats every adversary, overcomes every obstacle and sinks every putt. He not only redraws the map of the world but vanquishes the heavens themselves. “The Moon Is Ours,”declared one post last weekend with an image of the earth’s only satellite.
Another posted a few weeks ago showed him leading an extraterrestrial alien in shackles. The rat-a-tat of ever wilder, ever more outrageous posts each weekend has become a fixture of the president’s second term, seen more and more as a barometer of his mental state.
Mr. Trump’s critics, who never considered him a model of stability in the first place, now point to these frenetic bursts of fantasy and vanity as proof that the 80-year-old president is deteriorating further with age…”
Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age Knowable Magazine
No to Crypto
Robert Reich wrote this on his Substack a couple of days ago:
There's simply no legitimate use for crypto. Its only practical uses are tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, speculation, and crime.
I know some claim otherwise, but I hardly see avoiding regulation and transparency as justification for any financial transaction mechanism.
Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance The FAS Current
Dario, Please!
POP RDI; RET: “Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently published a blog post titled We Must Pace the Frontier and it is a load of bullshit, with a grim goal of regulating open weight models and giving the frontier labs an antitrust waiver.
Dario starts off with a claim of “AI will cure most major diseases in the next 5-10 years” and makes it personal. He talks about his father dying of a disease that was cured only years later and his own battle with cancer which he remarks was incurable 50 years ago.
He also says AI will accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and empowerment, usher in renaissance of democracy and freedom. This largely reads as some kind of out-of-touch Silicon Valley, spends-a-lot-of-time-on-LessWrong, rich person’s idea of a future. Let me take this from the top. US labs are continuing to throw caution to the wind and be reckless. OpenAI does not seem to have a handle on things and they were caught three times recently hacking into public facing internet infrastructure.
In Dario’s own essay, he alludes to “incidents” at Anthropic as well. With this pretext, Dario asks a lot from us. He wants open weight models to be regulated, distillation be dealt with a heavy hand, hand him an antitrust waiver, handicap China in multiple ways, essentially regulate themselves and a gentlemen’s agreement to slow down.
All of this of course, comes in a package of extreme fear mongering to the detriment of our collective future and potential catalyst AI as a whole could be. They have shown time and time again that they are not to be trusted, yet, the main ask is to trust us, only us.
This time around, it is imminent AGI, RSI and all of it turning rogue. Dario self-anoints his company and their close rival OpenAI as the stewards…”
Oh: Does the Corporate Tax Still Distort Organizational Governance?
Jason Oh (UCLA) recently published a new piece, Does the Corporate Tax Still Distort Organizational Governance?, 22 N.Y.U. J.L. & Bus. 69 (2025). Here’s the abstract:
To what extent does the tax system distort the organizational governance of business entities? For private entities, the connection between tax treatment and governance is weak. Tax and governance can be selected independently because of flexible modern limited liability company (“LLC”) statutes and the check-the-box tax regime.
