Anthony Howell 🇺🇸

This is equivalent to trying to sell a cop drugs while he’s in uniform in his police car.

Gmail changed how tracking pixels work, so open rates are reading lower across every email platform Your audience hasn’t gone anywhere—this change has had no impact on actual subscriber behavior. Click-through rates, delivery, and engagement have all remained stable. These, along with new subscriber counts, unique views, and paid conversion rates, are the clearest signals of genuine, high-quality engagement and whether people are truly connecting with what you're making. Email may continue getting less reliable. We can’t control how email providers operate, but this is exactly why we are investing in the Substack app, which delivers posts and Notes directly to your audience. On Substack, you have a direct line to subscribers, on a platform whose business model only works when yours does.

Anthropic said Mythos was too dangerous to release. Then four random guys in a Discord gained access on day one by guessing the URL... This is pretty insane: → Group in a private Discord guessed the endpoint from Anthropic's naming conventions → They figured out the conventions from the leak in the Mercor breach three weeks ago → Used a contractor's legit eval credentials to walk in → Have been using it ever since to build simple websites The AI that finds zero-days in every operating system on earth was defeated by address bar autocomplete... big yikes

A devastating loss for our department. Our prayers are with the family, friends and loved ones of Lauren Bullis.