Shai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additive
VS Code extensions as the next attack surface: 50M install themes that can shell out and auto-update silently
Matt's AI-native package manager pitch: vendor everything, LLM-upgrade your deps by replaying upstream commits
Tailscale and Cloudflare Mesh maxing: the warmth of the orange cloud over the cold open internet
Google's Santa is now Northpole Santa, and Wilhelm runs it on the Mac mini
Wilhelm is enamoured with atc.com: Enhanced Radar's $7M raise and following his own LAX delay live from the gate
Amp Labs' "Software After Software" manifesto and Amp Neo as remote enterprise AI engineering
Cloud agent adoption is still slower than we expected, and the amphetamine.app commute hack
Karpathy joins Anthropic pre-training
Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas: Anthropic's Chris Olah on stage at the Vatican on May 25
Chinese token resellers at 3 to 4 cents on the dollar and the RL distillation theory behind it
PyCon vibe check: more handwritten Python than expected, and "AI is just a tool" is still a common take
Slack is back: Benioff finally gets it, and messaging is the only sane UI for multi-agent work
Eric Ries on Incorruptible, founder control at Cloudflare and Anthropic, and the Philip Morris stress test
Nan Ransohoff's $370B philanthropy wave and the pitch to pay nonprofit talent in Anthropic equity
Will Manidis on Grindslop

Links

Andrej Karpathy's joining Anthropic: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas:https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html
Enhanced Radar: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/enhanced-radar
ATC app: https://www.atc.com/
Amp Labs: https://amplabs.com/
Will Manidis, On Grindslop: https://minutes.substack.com/p/on-grindslop
Nan Ransohoff, The Third Wave of American Philanthropy: https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy
Eric Ries on Lenny's Podcast (Incorruptible): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-build-a-company-that-withstands
Incorruptible by Eric Ries: https://www.incorruptible.co/
Google Santa (archived): https://github.com/google/santa
Northpole Santa (active fork): https://github.com/northpolesec/santa
10k people have the same idea within days of each other: https://substack.com/@contraptions/note/c-255396946

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