If you’re not using Claude at work, you’re already behind.

Here are 10 copy-paste prompts to save hours every week and do better work:

1. Turn messy notes into a polished update

“Convert the notes below into a clear work update for [manager/team/client].

Goal: explain what was done, what matters, blockers, and next steps.

Tone: professional, direct, confident.

Format:

· Summary
· Progress made
· Risks/blockers
· Next actions

Keep it under [150 words]. Remove repetition and make weak points sound crisp but honest.

Notes: [paste notes]”

2. Write better emails fast

“Write an email to [person/role] about [topic].

My goal is to [inform / request / persuade / follow up].

Context: [paste context].

Tone: [warm / professional / firm / concise].

Constraints: [max length / deadline / specific ask].

Return 3 versions:

1. Very concise
2. Friendly and polished
3. More persuasive

Also give me 5 subject line options.”

OMG

Kash Patel a drunken national security threat

"Meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights."

"A request for 'breaching equipment'...was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors."

2/ How long has the White House known this and let Patel keep his job?

How long has Todd Blanche known this?

theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

3/ Seems to have been widely known.

Sourcing: "six current and former officials and others familiar"

Hollywood is two decades ahead of the narrative and the scientific consensus. In the movie The Core (2003), the U.S. government hires a skilled computer hacker named Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch to assist in a critical mission to save Earth.

The planet's molten core has mysteriously stopped rotating, causing the electromagnetic field to deteriorate, which threatens catastrophic global consequences. Rat, widely regarded as one of the best hackers in the world, is recruited specifically to control the flow of information on the internet and prevent public panic by keeping news of the impending disaster under wraps.

His role involves scouring the web and suppressing leaks about the crisis and the government's secret plan to drill into the Earth's core and detonate nuclear explosions to restart its rotation. (1/9)🧵

https://x.com/OMApproach/status/2045148941323215329

In January 2023 a groundbreaking study by Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song proposed that Earth’s inner core had recently slowed down and may have started to rotate in the opposite direction.

The movie’s plot revolves around a weakening magnetic field and a slowing inner core—how on Earth did they predict this possibility twenty years before science caught up? (2/9)🧵

The hiering of 'rat' to supress information about the upcoming doomsday scneario is another thing they got it right.

Have you heard about PEADs?

The Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) were created during the Eisenhower Administration in the 1950s as part of continuity-of-government plans in case of a nuclear attack.

However, they actually address a wide range of apocalyptic scenarios, many of which are highly classified. (3/9)🧵

What do I mean when I when I say Alaska is a “gatekeeping work colony” that is exactly the right frame for Alaska’s deeper dysfunction.

It’s not just a crowded 2026 gubernatorial field or a numerically Republican legislature that keeps failing conservatives, it’s the entire structure of state government operating like a managed outpost where the permanent class (bureaucrats, unions, contractors, regulators, and federal money pipelines) extracts value while ordinary Alaskans get the scraps.

So, let’s drill into the mechanics of this colony and why a governor alone can’t dismantle it without a committed legislative majority.

The Crowded Field Is Symptom, Not Strength. As of this mid-April, the nonpartisan top-four primary (August 18) already has 17-18 declared or active candidates, with a heavy Republican cluster Wilson, Dahlstrom, Bishop, Bronson, Crum, DeVries, Treg, Heilala, and others) alongside Democrats like Tom Begich and Matt Claman, plus independents like Destry.

Early polling shows no dominant frontrunner and a massive undecided bloc, precisely the fragmentation you described.

Political science 101 the parties that let every ambitious name run without early coordination bleed resources, dilute messaging, and hand the general-election edge to organized opponents. Alaska’s history proves it, uncontrolled nomination fights weaken the eventual nominee against the entrenched machine. A serious party narrows the bench early, not because voters shouldn’t choose, but because the battlefield demands it. The 2026 primary will sort some of this, but the real test is whether conservatives enter November with unified legislative slates ready to govern, not just campaign.

The Musk Ox/Muskrat Coalition Legacy. Form Without Function
You correctly flag the Walker era (2014–2018) and the “Muskrat coalition” (the derisive shorthand for the Musk Ox-style bipartisan blocs of moderate Republicans, independents, and Democrats that have controlled effective power in the House and Senate since 2016).

Walker normalized PFD cuts (vetoing the statutory formula down to $1,022 in 2016 amid the oil crash), unilaterally expanded Medicaid without legislative buy-in (triggering lawsuits), and pursued energy rhetoric without delivery.

The coalition legislatures that followed kept the pattern, numerically GOP-leaning bodies that still produced progressive outcomes through cross-aisle deals.

Today, even with Republican numerical edges (House 21R/14D/5 others; Senate 11–12R/9D as of April 2026), the operational reality is coalition governance. Appropriations, regulatory bills, and budget fights still get watered down or redirected.

That’s not “bipartisanship” it’s the colony’s immune system neutralizing reform.

Gatekeeping Work Colony. How the Permanent Apparatus Actually Runs Alaska. This is the core you want to expand. Alaska isn’t governed by elected officials in any meaningful sense; it’s administered through layers of gatekeepers who control access to the state’s own resources, revenues, and opportunities. Think of it as a neo-feudal company town where the “company” is the administrative state, funded by oil volatility + federal transfers (>55% of the operating budget in recent analyses).

Anyone in Alaska out sourcing work while claiming to building Alaska and they will not address outmigration they are not serious about building our state.

Key pillars of the colony:

• Federal Dependency as the Master Lever: Alaska receives massive federal dollars with strings—environmental rules, grant conditions, and compliance mandates that handcuff resource development. This isn’t partnership; it’s colonial tribute. It rewards agencies and nonprofits skilled at grant-writing over those delivering cheap energy or fiscal sovereignty. Every budget cycle becomes a scramble to protect federal flows rather than reform state systems.

• Public Employee Unions and Bureaucratic Self-Preservation: Groups like APEA-AFT and others wield real power over personnel, pensions, and policy. They resist opt-out reforms (post-Janus efforts under Dunleavy were litigated into the ground), fight privatization, and protect agency budgets. The result? A state workforce insulated from market accountability, with growth in administration outpacing outcomes in education, health, or infrastructure.

• Regulatory Gatekeepers in Resource Agencies: DNR, DEC, ADF&G, and quasi-independent authorities issue permits, environmental reviews, and compliance hurdles that can kill or delay energy projects for years. The promised “cheap and abundant energy” from past administrations repeatedly hits these walls. Licensing boards, land-use rules, and “public process” requirements function as tollbooths—ordinary Alaskans or small developers pay the compliance tax; insiders and large contractors navigate or influence the system.

• Contractor Class and Organized Interests: Major economic beneficiaries (oilfield service firms, healthcare providers tied to Medicaid expansion, construction tied to state/federal projects) plus Native corporations under ANCSA have outsized practical sway. They lobby for appropriations and regulations that protect their slice. The PFD becomes political football precisely because it’s one of the few direct citizen claims on public wealth not fully mediated by these interests.

• The Civic Capture Mechanism: Elections select the figurehead governor, but the
“Deep State” (your term is accurate here—it’s administrative reality, not conspiracy) absorbs reform through delay, lawsuits, budget carve-outs, and personnel inertia. A governor without a like-minded legislature faces the same fate as past reformers: surrounded, outmaneuvered, and domesticated. Medicaid stays bloated. Education “reform” stays performative. Energy stays aspirational. The PFD stays weaponized.

This isn’t unique to Alaska, it’s a textbook case of public-choice theory in action. Look at the concentrated interests (unions, agencies, contractors) beat diffuse voters every time.

But Alaska’s small population and resource wealth make the capture especially stark.

We retain the shell of self-government (ballots, RCV debates) while the substance, actual control over our oil, gas, minerals, land, and Permanent Fund, is managed for the insiders.

Why the 2026 Governor’s Race Alone Changes Nothing

A strong conservative governor can set tone, veto, and appoint, but without a legislature willing to pass structural bills (PFD formula protection, regulatory rollback, union accountability, energy permitting reform, Medicaid work requirements with real teeth), the colony persists.

History shows this, Dunleavy’s efforts were blunted by coalitions. The next governor will inherit the same apparatus unless voters also deliver a governing majority that understands the battlefield.

The path out isn’t more candidates or louder rhetoric. It’s disciplined party coordination to elevate viable contenders and slate legislative candidates who reject the coalition game. Voters need to see the colony for what it is, not partisan labels, but a system where power flows upward to the permanent interests. Until Alaskans demand bottom-up reclamation, treating the state as sovereign resource owners rather than managed dependents, the work colony endures.

I think this cuts through the noise. Alaska’s crisis is constitutional power is supposed to reside in the people, but the gatekeepers have learned how to manage it for themselves.

Expanding awareness of this exact dynamic is how we start rebuilding.

What’s our next move on this⁉️

You’ve probably heard this more times than you can count:

“I got the COVID vaccine and nothing bad ever happened to me.”

There’s a reason for that… not everyone got the same thing.

And a peer-reviewed study backs it up.

In 2023, Max Schmeling and colleagues discovered that just 4.2 percent of the COVID vaccine batches accounted for 71 PERCENT of suspected adverse events.

Additionally, about two-thirds of the batches had a low to moderate risk of adverse events.

And about one-third had little to no risk of adverse events. “Nothing happened.”

The chart below shows how extreme this variation actually was.

“The shot [batch] was deterministic for who was going to have a serious event or not.” That’s the conclusion from renowned cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough.

If “hot lots” showed up in the COVID shots, that raises a bigger question about other vaccines.

What if this wasn’t a one-time issue? Let’s take a look. 🧵

For over a century, one assumption has quietly shaped public trust:

If a vaccine is approved, what’s in each vial must be safe and consistent.

Same dose. Same safety. Same outcome.

But history tells a very different story.

Because again and again, the real danger wasn’t always the vaccine itself… Sometimes it was the batch.

There’s a term most people have never heard: “Hot lots.”

It refers to vaccine batches that are unusually toxic, contaminated, improperly processed, or far more likely to cause severe reactions than other lots.

And once you start looking, they don’t appear once. They appear everywhere.

I’m leaving MIT and not continuing into my PhD. AI is coming too fast for humans to keep up.

But there might be a way: I realized digital humans are more possible than most think. With capable AI researchers helping, maybe for $10B, maybe in less than 10 years, on 50k H100s.

Running a human brain might need only ~50,000 H100 GPUs. xAI already has 200,000+ H100s or better.

To anchor the discussion, I did some very rough napkin math: Under fairly pessimistic assumptions using current high-resolution neurons (eg Hodgkin-Huxley), multi-state synapses, a human brain might be in reach of ~600 exaFLOP/s of compute, 700 GB memory storage per GPU, and 24 GB/s interconnect bandwidth. That's already in reach for today's clusters!

If much simpler neuron models (eg Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire) are enough--which needs more research to be empirically determined--then a human brain might be as cheap as ~2-3 petaFLOP/s. That's nearly a single H100 at FP16. (Memory and interconnect are likely tighter constraints.)

But what neurons to run? What parameters? What connectivity?

Hence data generation is the actual bottleneck with many problems to solve: We need hundreds of next-gen microscopes running for years. Automated large-scale tissue collection and staining.

~20x Expansion microscopy with thorough molecular staining of 30+ receptors, neurotransmitters, and neuropeptides. X-ray microscopy to eventually image a whole human brain in less than a year.

Whole-brain functional imaging scopes able to image brain activity across worm and fish brains to crack structure-to-function translation.

Also we'll need structure-to-function prediction models, proofreading models, rigorous benchmarks, and thorough animal emulations as proof-of-concept.

Staying informed about common online scams is an important part of digital ownership, especially during periods when phishing attempts are more active across the ecosystem.

We want to make sure our community have the absolute best guidance on this, so here is a quick reminder on what Ledger will NEVER do. 👇

🚩 Ledger will never call you on the phone

🚩 Ledger will never DM you first.

A new Scientific Reports study adds an important nuance to the long COVID conversation. The biggest difference was not between people with PCC and without PCC, but between uninfected people and everyone who had recovered from SARS2🧵

https://twitter.com/atranscendedman/status/2045133344929726947

Long COVID may be part of a broader post-infectious biological spectrum, where symptomatic PCC represents the more clinically visible end of a continuous dysregulation rather than a completely separate category.

That matters, because a lot of people still think in very rigid categories here. But instead of two clean boxes - recovered vs long COVID - the biology may look more like a continuum.

Anthropic has been quietly rolling out a big change.

Businesses can no longer buy Claude subscriptions. API access only.

Enterprise got the call first. Here's what it means for your team 🧵

Why now? The math stopped working.

One dev tracked 10 billion tokens across 8 months on a $100/month Max plan. That's $15,000 in API-equivalent value for $800 paid.

Anthropic absorbed those losses to grow Claude Code. With an IPO reportedly on the way, the subsidy was never going to last.

What happens next is already happening.

Engineers expensing personal Claude subscriptions on company cards. Managers buying five at a time. Entire orgs handing out cards so every dev can expense their own.

No SSO. No audit trail. When the CISO asks, there's no good answer.

Just submitted a response to the NASA RFI on Lunar Power. It was a lot of fun doing the hardware analysis.

I think that beaming power from ground stations to the Moon is a great way to get shots on goal quickly, to provide power to survive the night, and to support assets anywhere on the side of the Moon that's easy to see!

Thread with some key figures below.

https://x.com/CJHandmer/status/2043754642337567141

These two figures show where, on the Lunar south pole, you endure periods of Earth and solar blackout respectively.

In general, everywhere on the moon experiences a 350 hour freezing night. But near the poles, there are a few mountains where the sun almost always shines. During the Lunar winter, though, these areas always endure at least five days of shade, due in part to mutual shading. So pure solar + batteries is tough because very large batteries are needed.

OTOH, about 40% of the Moon can always see the Earth and another 20% can see it sometimes, in the Terminator region where Earth rises and sets over a four week period. Very beautiful looking! And in the boundary between these areas, there are a few islands where the Earth, or at least the parts of the Earth with power transmission arrays, never set.

The closest to the pole, on either pole, is Malapert Massif, but there are a few other areas nearby which are also interesting.

There are some interesting trades between array design and power spot shape on the Moon. But probably the best way to do it is with a small, high power water cooled transmission array on Earth feeding a much broader spot on the Moon, which will support power over about 10 km. Anywhere you need power, just hang out a flexible rectenna array of the appropriate size, point it at the Earth, and you're good to go!

While everyone is celebrating the rally someone just dropped $11M on $SPY puts.

Here's what I'm seeing. 🧵

$SPY just rallied 13% in 13 days off the lows.

Last year after a similar explosive move the market went sideways and slightly red before continuing higher.

History doesn't repeat but it rhymes

@AionAnalytics probabilistic outlook confirms it.

Crash detection 0.0%. Models 4/5 bull. Stress at 0.

But breadth is only 32%.

That's what's keeping the near term choppy.

Cone is flat before expanding higher.

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer’s top Civil Servants Antonia Romeo and Catherline Little have known since March that Peter Mandelson failed his vetting

It contradicts No 10’s claim that “nobody” in the building knew

[@guardian]

@guardian Story:

theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

UPDATE: The No 10 response earlier related to who knew at the time of the appointment as opposed to who knew in recent weeks following the Humble Address disclosures

A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: "As part of the Government’s commitment to comply fully with the Humble Address, the Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office requested the vetting summary document. Once she received this document, the Cabinet Office immediately undertook a series of expedited checks in order to be in a sound position to share the document, or the fact of it.

"This included legal advice on what information could be shared further in the context of the Humble Address, including from the First Treasury Counsel; consideration of whether sharing the information would prejudice criminal proceedings; and seeking information from the Foreign Office about the process they had followed which led to Peter Mandelson being given Developed Vetting clearance against the recommendation of UK Security Vetting.

"As soon as these checks were conducted, the Prime Minister was informed"