The American Sun

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This is one of the most astonishing pieces you will ever read. @patio11 digs into the SPLC scandal and finds that it is, in the details, 10X worse than you thought it was

@deanwball Management is more moral because they have the correct consensus moral education. Capital owners are leveraged beta scum with disgusting index funds

My cynical theory of stakeholder capitalism is that it was actually about management--PMC--telling capital owners to go fuck themselves. It was an assertion of PMC "stakeholder manager" primacy over corporate owners.

It is such a fascinating quirk of history--the sort of thing that is not at all structural but is entirely contingent--that OpenAI and Anthropic were both founded during the heyday of "stakeholder capitalism" as a theory that would replace "shareholder capitalism." The idea was basically that the people who own companies shouldn't be in exclusive control of what companies do, and that we need to bring in the "stakeholders" (which include ~everyone) to govern the corporation. Like a lot of ideas that came out of the left at the time, it was somehow both remarkably half-baked and also a new way of talking about a very old idea (socialism). If they had been founded in any other time period, OpenAI and Anthropic still may have opted for novel corporate governance mechanisms. Their founders would have believed that AGI required a novel institutional form no matter what, I suspect. But the fact that they were contemplating all that when "stakeholder capitalism" was very much in the water among US elites was not at all fated, and probably contaminated the whole "frontier lab as novel institution" project from birth. Both companies have made significant progress away from the naive model since their founding, to be clear, but the sins of the father are hard to wash away.

This week in Bits about Money: bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/nonpro…

There is a red and a blue button. If you press the red button, you decide visually if the man is actually tall enough to speak to. If you press blue, you are condemned to an existence of femceldom unless 51% of your friends can draw a line at 6 feet off the floor +/- 2 inches

"I bet your little Asian fish head wife doesn't have these cannons."

@CSandbatch He made the first rap album from what I can tell. This predates the sugarhill gang by 9 years

Criminal policy guy: unions are good, police unions just happen to be bad Transit policy guy: unions are good, the teamsters just happen to be bad School policy guy: unions are good, teachers unions just happen to be bad Maybe these guys should meet!

The Voting Rights Act redistricting discussion, particularly the dissent in Louisiana v Callais, pretty heavily depends on an assumption that blacks suffer some kind of slight to their racial honor by voting in a Republican primary in an 80% GOP district supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…

I wish I had conceived of going viral on x dot com by filing lurid fake double reverse metoos about my jewish vp demanding I submit to her contrived racialized sexual advances

First 2 chapters of my newest science fiction novel (not paywalled). Chapters will be added as they're published. patreon.com/posts/madregal…

I remember a 70s vintage science fiction story where some alien tried to mind control a guy by directly wireheading his brain's pleasure center, but it didn't work because the guy in question was essentially a divorced stone cold volcel. Ahead of its time.

Fascinating to watch the apparent consensus converge to "democracy is great except for the part where these people vote" x.com/i/status/20492…

Death Valley National Park is experiencing its first major superbloom in a decade as of March/April 2026, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5+ inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers.

Palantir - The Eye of Sauron (Myth20c - Ep321) - theamericansun.substack.com/p/palantir-the… , myth20c.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/pal…

@NewAtlantisSun @LMFHistorian The United States Is a gun Yes YES America is a gun

In a rare on-record statement, Sergey Brin tells me: "I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don’t want California to end up in the same place.” nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…

@WrappedInThFlag If they haven't figured it out by now...

@NewAtlantisSun unless your underlings consider you immortal (the bit in The Man Who Would Be King comes to mind) suggesting such a strategem still implies that they might be *trying* to kill you, even if you know they can't succeed.

This would only be the case if you were not functionally immortal, which Trump seems to be