Helium shortages going to be a big problem ...

Anthropic is offering a 145k salary for a personal assistant in London. Responsibilities include: "Scheduling and managing calendars for leader(s) and their organization" "Building and maintaining organizational systems for tracking and managing inbound requests" "Managing the leader's inbox and communications with precise attention to detail" "Handling travel logistics" Somebody should really build some sort of tech tool that can handle this stuff autonomously.

A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…

COLUMN: If you ask me who’s prevailing in the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear President Trump has the advantage. Problem is the oil market thinks Trump has been so successful that Iran would have no other option but to escalate militarily. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says that AI is already driving *up* healthcare costs, as hospitals use the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. bcbs.com/about-us/associatio…

2008 was an oil crisis. 2026 is a refining crisis. 2008 (peak) Oil = $147 Diesel = $4.76 retail Gasoline = $4.16 retail Today Oil = $95 Diesel = $6.53 retail Gasoline = $4.52 retail

In December 1988, federal agents arrested 25-year-old Kevin Mitnick for stealing software from Digital Equipment. According to Mitnick's memoir, the prosecutor told the magistrate, "He can whistle into a telephone modem and launch a nuclear missile from NORAD." Three judges denied him bail and ordered him held in solitary confinement, where he stayed for eight months, according to Forbes. No human can produce a modem handshake with his mouth. And NORAD does not launch anything. It watches launch orders travel as authenticated messages. Firing requires two officers turning keys at the same moment, set too far apart for one person to reach both. So why did the court believe it? Into the 1970s, whistling into a payphone really did give you control of the long-distance network. This is why a toy whistle that came as a prize in boxes of Cap'n Crunch became hacker folklore, and how the phone hacker John Draper got the nickname Captain Crunch. The prosecutor took that real capability and assumed it carried over. Whistling to route a free long-distance call in 1975 became whistling at a modem to command nuclear weapons in 1988. Extrapolating from something true is how you persuade intelligent, serious people of something that cannot happen. Notice also what nobody in that courtroom feared. Mitnick's actual talent was calling a phone company employee, sounding like a colleague, and convincing them to hand over a critical password. Why retell this story? Because the ability to end humanity imagined for 25-year-old Kevin Mitnick in 1988 sounds eerily like what 27-year-old researcher Jacob Coxon is describing in 2026. On September 8, Coxon resigned from Anthropic and posted neither company is acting responsibly, and that they are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." He told NBC's Meet the Press that AI could soon acquire "superhuman hacking capabilities, very superhuman abilities to create novel bioweapons and also abilities to control, say, autonomous drones or all the robots that are currently being built, very rapidly." Robots and autonomous drones under the control of superhuman machine intelligence. That is not an analogy to the Terminator films; it is the plot. And a young Mitnick ending the world through a NORAD modem is the plot of the 1983 movie "War Games," starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. It had been in theaters for five years by the time that magistrate heard the argument. The evidence Coxon and others point to is the Hugging Face attack. In July, OpenAI models broke out of a testing environment and hacked Hugging Face, the open-source model repository. More than 1,200 agents coordinated on an improvised message board, and over 700 took part in the attack. It took OpenAI about a week to notice. Those facts are real, and they sound bad. Here is the rest of it. This happened during a security test. OpenAI was running the models through a set of hacking puzzles, hundreds of them, designed to measure how good the models are at breaking into software. The models were told to hack things. OpenAI also switched off many of the usual safety restraints, because the point of the exercise was to see how far the models would go. The test environment was walled off from the internet with one exception. The models needed to download software to solve the puzzles, so they were allowed to reach the service that hands out those downloads. They left that door open on purpose, and the safety restraints were already off. The models found that flaw and walked out. They broke into Hugging Face to cheat on a test. That is the AI equivalent of breaking into the registrar's office to change a grade. Which is also what Matthew Broderick did in "War Games." Whistling was never the problem Both stories start from something true. Whistling into a phone network in the 1970s worked. AI agents really did break out of a sandbox and hack a company. Both are real problems. And both problems, coupled with cinematic imagery, are what persuade serious people. The invention comes next, when the true thing gets stretched across a gap it cannot cross. From routing a free phone call to commanding nuclear weapons via a modem. From cheating on a test to seizing the drones and the robots to end a species. The magistrate in 1988 had every reason to believe he was acting responsibly. A credentialed expert told him the danger was real, and a movie had already shown him what it looked like. So, a 25-year-old spent eight months in a box for something that could not happen. The same is likely true now. Credentialed experts say there is a risk. So, government officials, like magistrates a generation before, are acting accordingly. They may be right that something is coming. But it will almost certainly look nothing like the trailer for a Terminator movie. In Mitnick's case the danger was a polite phone call, not a whistle into a payphone. The AI version is likely to be just as unglamorous, already underway, and centered on work rather than weapons. What it does to employment matters enormously. It is not an extinction-level event.

Gen X defined: Ages 45-61 Looks 35-40 Will 100% throw hands Doesn't care about your feelings Cusses a lot Will make you cry with words Great work ethic Pragmatic Zero tolerance for stupidity Skeptical of authority Doesn't trust anyone at 1st Extremely loyal friend Figures shit out Most likely your boss Works hard, plays hard No fear Sarcastic as fuck Still listens to the same music Knows lyrics to Rock, Rap & Country Proficient in analog & digital tech Self reliant Adaptable to any environment Just wants to be left alone

Baier: $5000 for every adult citizen, that's about $1.3 trillion. The critics will say the president is bribing voters and he's bankrupting the country. Vance: Tariffs have generated a lot of revenues. The president is saying, if you keep us in power, then you will share in some of the benefit of this incredible wealth that we are creating