Musical Chairs

Chuck Yeager broke Mach 1 with two cracked ribs and a sawed-off broom handle taped to his right arm. Andrej Karpathy quit a running company on Tuesday morning to take an individual-contributor research role. Six CTOs went before him. Anthropic's Mercury Seven is complete. The only question left is whether you have it too.

Fred Thompson told a parable about Japanese inspectors letting a fish rot on the dock while the clipboard caught up. Monday morning the court took two hours to dismiss Musk on a technicality. Anthropic bought the rails in the same news cycle. Twenty-nine years to break up Standard Oil. The next one finished before lunch.