Alex Rampell

One of the main reasons people are running through tokens -- and CFOs are getting upset -- is that it's so hard to monitor token usage/actual costs.

CEO of Flock: "Unfortunately, there’s terrorist organizations like DeFlock whose primary motivation is chaos. They’re closer to Antifa than they are anything else."

Beware the “Extraneous Appositive” I see this all the time when somebody wants to inject bias and make it feel neutral. “Alex went to Starbucks that morning, the same coffee chain that Vladimir Putin frequented before his invasion of Ukraine.” Throw out the whole piece and ignore it when you see this. Clear bias does you a huge favor by revealing itself, even if camouflaged. And don’t forget:

NYC Mayor Mamdani on American exceptionalism: "We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else... The truth, my friends is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place."

New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can. Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment. A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let's ease demand — and get through the heat — together.

Workers need to share in the profits. Right now, $530 billion of $563 billion in profits of top companies with UAW workers went on stock buybacks & dividends instead of to employees. Pete Stavros has brilliant initiatives on worker ownership.

Elon Musk reveals the moment his son Saxon left an entire sushi restaurant speechless "I was living in L.A., and I took my older boys out for lunch to Sugarfish, which is a very kind of uptight sushi restaurant. In fact, on the menu of the restaurant, it says, do not ask for soy sauce, because the chef has put the right amount of soy sauce." "So, like, extremely strict sushi restaurant. And so the waiter is going around asking everyone what they want and then it comes to Saxon and Saxon says I'll have a cheeseburger." "And the waiter takes a moment to recover because no one ever asked for a cheeseburger at this very strict sushi restaurant. It took him like 30 seconds to realize he'd just been asked for a cheeseburger, because you're not even allowed to ask for soy sauce." "So then when he finally recovered, he said, we don't have cheeseburgers. And Saxon goes at the top of his voice, what? Like, what kind of restaurant doesn't have cheeseburgers? He says, fine, I'll have a hamburger."