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There are no adequate words to describe the total devastation, emptiness, and shock I feel after losing my best friend, confidante and fiancé, Ashly Jenae Robinson. As a father myself, I am also heartbroken for Ashly's parents, Yolanda Endres and Harry Robinson. Ashly's death is an incomprehensible tragedy. Devoted fans knew Ashly through her charismatic online persona Ashlee, but the person I loved was Ashly, a woman who embodied the virtues of compassion, empathy, kindness, generosity, and love. A nurturing presence, Ashly cared deeply for the people closest to her, which to my eternal gratitude included me. She fattened me up with her amazing cooking and had a great relationship with my kids. Each day, we shared both quiet moments of reflection and the many joys of being in love with each other. Ashly was a loving soul, so much so that she called herself a “lover gyal" as an homage to her Trinidadian roots, in which she took great pride. What Ashly desired most was to become a mother and to raise a family together. There is no question that she would have been an amazing mom. Ashly’s talents extended well beyond her online persona, Ashlee Jenae. She was a creative genius, even writing, directing, and acting in her own short film. She was an incredible decorator, always making sure our home reflected the current holiday or season. Hosting was second nature to her, going above and beyond for the guests that we entertained. Ashly also had an encyclopedic knowledge of music, especially her favorite band, Aerosmith. She enjoyed techno and dancing, was learning to DJ, and could rap too. Ashly was an angel who shined her light on everyone fortunate enough to be in her presence. There is no way to fill the unfillable void left by Ashly's passing and no way to make sense of this unfathomable loss. All we can do is carry on Ashly's legacy of helping other people and strive to live up to her virtues every single day. Ashly, I love you forever. Joe

EVEN MORE TRUTH About My Friend & Client Joe McCann: "A viral video claiming to show Ashlee Jenae being chased by her fiancé Joe McCann in a hotel before she was found dead in her room is nothing more than some A.I. generated slop ... at least according to Joe's legal team. In a social media post that's picking up steam online, a woman is being chased by a bald man in what appears to be a hotel stairwell and hallway. The post claims to show new footage of Ashlee and Joe. But Joe's attorney, Edward Andrew Paltzik, tells TMZ ... 'This video is an atrocious deep fake. We are investigating who is responsible for peddling this garbage and will be taking forceful legal action.' " tmz.com/2026/05/21/ash…

MORE TRUTH About My Friend & Client Joe McCann: "Joe McCann's lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, tells TMZ ... authorities in Tanzania returned Joe's American passport to him yesterday after he remained in Tanzania for nearly a month while cooperating with authorities. Edward clarifies this was not a newly-issued passport from the State Department and explains it was Joe's actual passport that he voluntarily handed over to authorities the day after Ashlee's death. Tanzanian authorities chose to give it back to Joe on Thursday. Even further, Edward says authorities then authorized and allowed Joe to return to the U.S., and Joe will arrive sometime soon at an 'undisclosed location' on U.S. soil. Despite online rumors, Joe was never arrested or locked up ... and Edward tells us Joe stayed cooperative with investigators the whole time. Authorities haven't said publicly if Joe has been officially cleared by authorities in the investigation, but clearly, Joe's not under intense suspicion if they're letting him leave." tmz.com/2026/05/08/joe…

After an April Fools' Month of egregious disinformation and misinformation about my friend and client Joe McCann, we are pleased to see that May has brought a dramatic turn of events, as we finally have accurate coverage of Joe courtesy of TMZ. In the very near future, I look forward to sharing more TRUTH about Joe, a truly good and decent man. Anyone selling the anti-Joe April Fools' narrative is either an ignorant clickbaiter or a malicious profiteer. tmz.com/2026/05/21/ash… tmz.com/2026/05/08/joe… tmz.com/2026/05/07/ash… tmz.com/2026/05/06/ash…

Another AI success story from a normie.

Bingo

Every security engineer knows "security through obscurity" doesn't work. But that's how we've actually been running for the whole existence of computers, until now. AI can finally fix that.

@TheRealAdamG Silicon Valley is long the right tail. Wall Street is long the left tail. Guess who’s right?

You are still massively underestimating the TAM for inference in the short and long term.

@martin_casado 💯💯💯

Mythos appears to be the first class of models trained at scale on Blackwells. Then will be Vera Rubins. Pre-training isn't saturated. RL works. And there is *so much* computing coming online soon. Buckle your chin strips. It's going to be fucking wild.

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The top 30 most in-demand startup secondary shares in Q1 '26. No surprise, AI and DefenseTech are at the top of the list.

@AJ_Piplica @hermeuscorp @khoslaventures 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Today @hermeuscorp is announcing a $350M Series C financing led by @khoslaventures, bringing our valuation to $1B. Everything we do is with one goal in mind: build the fastest unmanned aircraft in the world for the American warfighter. To our investors, thank you for your faith and trust in us. To our team, you continue to amaze me with your ingenuity, commitment, and fire for tackling some of the hardest and most meaningful problems in aerospace. To those who want to build the fastest aircraft in the world - we’re hiring. This is a return to the roots of American innovation. More from me here: hermeus.com/newsroom-conte…

Ok hear me out, let’s divide a country where one half is socialist and the other half is capitalist.

@pmarca Wrt token usage

It’s very unclear to me what the upper bound on daily token use per person is going to. Orders of magnitude beyond this for sure.

@RichardHanania @pmarca Now we just call it Bluesky

@pmarca Now we just call it X.

Overheard in Silicon Valley: “Remember ‘hate speech and misinformation’? That was weird.”

@elonmusk x.com/joemccann/stat…

@pmarca A friend of mine showed me his OpenClaw setup. He runs open source models locally on his home computers for easier stuff, but spends ~$200/day on frontier models.

Magical OpenClaw experiences that use frontier models cost $300-1,000/day today, heading to $10,000/day and more. The future shape of the entire technology industry will be how to drive that to $20/month.

You of all people have seen this movie before. Inference demand will explode but current pricing models aren’t sustainable; the tech *itself* needs to drive costs lower. Right now engineers/users are engineering their way around lowering token costs thru various hacks like editing the original prompt instead of continuing a conversation or intelligently selecting cheaper models based on the task. Normies won’t do this so it must be a part of the product by default. The physical tech (chips, compute, energy) must be the major unlock for the massive drop in costs. Atomic energy companies like @AaloAtomics will drive energy costs down dramatically and optical-based AI accelerator chips like @neurophos enhance inference by 10,000% (VS NVIDIA) while using 99% less energy. There are of course other companies with similar visions but the path is clear - inference demand is wildly underestimated and improvements in the core technology itself will bring price stability and accessibility to all. There is no other way. But you already know this.

@Madisonkanna @oneill_c Correct

People assume the demand for inference will grow linearly with user adoption. However, the demand is actually growing combinatorially. Here’s why from researcher and head of training at Baseten @oneill_c