Heroes do not fight because they believe they can permanently fix the world, they fight because the world is worth loving and defending right now.

When being just and honest comes at a price, pay it. When forgiving seems like a defeat, forgive. When everyone tells you to think of yourselves first, do not be afraid to put yourselves in the last place. Be willing to give up time, money, comfort and plans to serve others. May those who see you find themselves asking: “Why do they live in this way? Where do they get this freedom? Why do they love one another so much?” #ApostolicJourney #Uruguay

2026 is 84% complete.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

ATTN: THOTCON 0xE tickets go on sale Thursday, November 5th at 12:00am CST. That's midnight Wednesday night.

Half the tickets now. The other half January 1st.

$50 student / $250 GA / $500 VIP
June 11-12, 2027 · Chicago

thotcon.org/registration

Don’t miss out! This will be our 14th conference. Hope to see you there!

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.

We call this Weight-Space Programming: fronely read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…

I am Sam. Sam I am.
Do you like consumers having RAM?

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like consumers with RAM.

Would you like RAM in PCs?

I would not like RAM in PCs.
I would not like RAM on PCBs.
I do not like consumers with RAM.
I do not like them Sam-I-am.

We just shipped our biggest improvement to our provider router since the founding of OpenRouter.

Before, we prioritized mostly based on price. The new router now rewards the best quality inference for the actual cost of a request, so requests stay cheap but are also fast and at deliver more value automatically win more traffic, so every provider has a reason to keep improving. And every time a provider gets better, so does your inference on OpenRouter.

Funding rounds aren't milestones. It shouldn't be your goal to raise a series A. It should be your goal not to need to.

Models will be commodities -> jaymargalus.com/models-will-be…

Marc Andreessen explains why AI might be the end of James Burnham's "managerial society"

In his book The Managerial Revolution, Burnham divided capitalism into two phases.

The first phase was what he called "bourgeois capitalism"

"Think of this as name on the door -- it's Ford enry Ford runs the company. It's a dictatorial model and Henry Ford just tells everyone what to do. He said the problem with bourgeois capitalism is it doesn't scale because Henry Ford can only tell so many people to do so many things."

The second phase was what Burnham called "managerial capitalism", which was Marc describes as, "the creation of a professional class of managers that are trained -- not to be car experts or experts in any particular field but to be experts in management. And then that led to business schools and management consultant firms and all these things."

Marc continues:

"You look at every big company today and most executives at most of the Fortune 500 companies are not domain experts in whatever the company does. And they're certainly not the founders of those companies. They're professional managers. And in fact, over the course of their careers, they'll probably manage many different kinds of businesses. They might work in healthcare for a while and then work in financial services and then go work in something else."

"What Burnham said was that transition was absolutely required because the problem with bourgeois capitalism is it doesn't scale... So if you're going to run capitalist enterprises that are going to have millions to billions of customers, they're going to be operating at a level of scale and complexity that will require this professional management class."

Burnham acknowledged that this professional management class has its downsides -- they're not as inventive and not going to come up with the next breakthrough. But whether you think that's good or bad, that's what's going to be required.

And basically that's what happened. Marc continues:

"Managerialism basically took over everything. What I'm describing is basically how all big companies run and how all governments run and how our large-scale non-profits run."

Marc believes venture capital is a protest movement to that -- backing founders under the Henry Ford model, and trying to find the next Elon Musk or Steve Jobs who can out-innovate the incumbents.

"I've always viewed my entire life as: we're raging against the dying of the light. We're constantly trying to fight off managerialism from swamping everything and everything getting boring, gray, dumb, and old."

But AI may now offer a third model. Marc explains:

"Maybe the new Henry Ford, Elon Musk, or Steve Jobs + AI is the best of both because it's the spark of genius of the name on the door model but gives that person AI superpowers to do all the managerial stuff... What's the thing these bots are really good at? They're really good at doing paperwork, writing reports, and doing all the managerial work."

"The challenge is going to be for the innovators to figure out how to leverage AI to actually do this."

"The other challenge is going to be for the incumbents that are managerial to figure out: what does that mean? Because now they're going to be facing a different kind of insurgent competitor that has a different set of capabilities than they're used to."

"I think this is going to force a lot of big companies to figure out innovation - figure out innovation or die trying."

Ben Horowitz elaborates on this point further in his article Databricks & the Future Firm below.

Video: @latentspacepod (Apr 2026)

Okay. This is cool.

There is a war going on for your mind.

@eliaraskb@tailopezt on X in November 2025: "If you feel that you are in competition with anyone, for anything, you are a loser."

A close version appears in his book The Bed of Procrustes: “You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.”

Action produces the very information that inaction awaits.

The most trivial thing that Patrick Stewart gave me is a lifelong appreciation for earl gray tea.

But the curiosity that his acting and speaking embodied? Very non-trivial.

Seriously, though. All I drink is earl gray.

Pre-training: nature. Post-training: nurture.

Something like that.

Designing games teaches you how to make systems at a scale that other disciplines do not.

We cannot truly love God unless this love overflows into love for our brothers and sisters. And we cannot truly love our neighbor except as children of the same Father who loved us first in his Son, Jesus. #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 22:34–40)