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July 14, 2025 - Money Stuff: Musk Has Money and xAI Wants Some

The Musk Mars Conglomerate

What is the point of investing in Tesla, if not to also invest in xAI or whatever else Elon Musk is cooking up?

Pest Control Stuff

Wharton MBA to packaging …

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Matt Levine's Money Stuff

July 3rd, Money Stuff: AI Is Bad at Snacks

AI Rollup

Anthropic partnered with Andon Labs, an AI safety evaluation company, to have Claude Sonnet 3.7 operate a small, automated store in the Anthropic office in San Francisco. …

I am always wrong in my intuitions …

Mode of transporation - fear

Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner - two of the funniest people collaboration work that I discovered recently.

Carl Reiner : What is the mode of transportation in those days?
Mel Brooks(as 2000 year old man): Fear (as he zooms past chasing by a lion)

Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner


Stalag 17

1950s World War II drama, thriller …

AI Wars

Matt Levine's magic mixture of phrases from Jun 30 & Jul 1st newsletter about Meta's poaching of OpenAI employees

I don’t know, man, Mark Zuckerberg has found the least creative imaginable way to recognize and reward top talent (give them $100 million), and it sounds pretty good to me.

One …

The Great Race

Push the button, Max!

The Great Race - A really fun movie with great cast, Natalie Wood stole the show with her quite a chirpy, vibrant character. Very charming Tony Curtis. Jack Lemmon does the best as over the top evil professor as well as a goofy prince. Have a soft …

Malaysian Fryer Oil Arbitrage

Matt Levine a genius mind that writes about finance in the most entertaining way possible. For many it might be educational as well, but for me I probably grasp about 20% of what he writes in his newsletter called Money Stuff. I will try capture some out of context quotes …

Nature vs Nurture

Russ Roberts is a fantastic explorer of human condition, though an economist by trade, his podcast Econtalk has an extraordinary collection of high quality discussions around all aspects of life.

In this specific episode Nature vs Nurture, he talks with psychologist Paul Bloom about the widely debated topic of Nature …

A moth goes into a podiatrist's office

Norm Macdonald has crazy creative capability to take an ordinary joke(perhaps a dad joke very often) and make it into miles long journey, he often infuses some odd old-timey language into the mix. A joke that can be told in 30 seconds, he can it milk for a good …

Father's Day

A lovely personal gift from annoying monsters (I meant to say munchkins) who makes life more challenging than it needs to be, but of course makes it up by adding color and vigor to it!

Father's Day gift

ప్రేమతో పిల్ల రాక్షసులు ( రత్నాలు ) ఇచ్చ …