The tennis world Ralph built
The vintage tennis pieces. Some subtle, some collectible, and much better than people expect.

AI Theatre

It feels like everyone HAS to pretend that all this AI shit is gonna change the world (or all of Wall Street will implode). Show even a hint of skepticism, and you might have to put on the donkey hat*.

But here's the truth. I believe most people, intuitively, have doubts about AI. But they are afraid to say so. Nobody wants to be the outcast. 

Palantir Billionaire Alex Karp Calls AI Industry ‘Effing Insane’ In Heated Interview
Somebody had to say it! More companies should be listening to Alex Karp on this topic.

The Strokes Live on Stephen Colbert

Steph got me this killer Nokona baseball glove for Father's Day. It's quickly become one of my all-time favorite things. It's not so much the glove itself, but the idea of playing catch with Sonny in the years to come. I'm already wearing it as I pitch him Nerf balls inside the house. He'll bring me a Nerf ball and tell me to get my glove. He loves baseball. One day, I will take him to the factory in Texas, and we'll pick out his glove together. How can you not be romantic about baseball?

***a string of random life updates***

📁 New Market Research!

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can’t escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI.

Anthropic's safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
Spend months telling everyone your model is too dangerous to release, and eventually somebody with the authority to act takes you at your word. Now it's off worldwide. Not surprised. But this doesn't change the fact that open models from China do the same job, and those we can't turn off.

Charles Barkley calls Spurs the 'dumbest basketball team' after Game 4 collapse
Chuck is the best personality in all of sports commentary. Nobody else just says the thing. Also, can we talk about Wemby for a moment? I've never seen someone's star fade faster. Between the dumb decisions and absolutely DIRTY plays, Wemby has made himself completely unlikable. This dude is NOT the face of the NBA. If anything, he's the villain. Go Knicks.

SpaceX IPO closes up 19% and delivers the world's first trillionaire I remember staying up to watch the first Falcon 1 launches fail, one after another, when this whole thing looked like a rich guy's expensive way to go broke. Now there's a trillionaire and 4,400 new millionaires. Wild to watch a moonshot actually land.