CALENDAR 8
Tue, May 12
2:00 PM–3:00 PMViews / Widget Sync & Demotone
3:00 PM–3:30 PM[Buffer]tone
5:00 PM–5:45 PMJR / TD One Pager Riffingtone
Wed, May 13
2:00 PM–2:45 PMWeekly synctone
3:00 PM–4:00 PMJ&M / Tone - First Week Recaptone
4:00 PM–4:30 PMJosh + Baron 1:1tone
4:30 PM–5:00 PM[Buffer]tone
4:30 PM–5:00 PMSerial Scaling and Tonetone
TASKS 6
OVERDUE
Hazel bat mitzvah - confirm Rebecca Smeyne contract + detailsPersonal · p2
Check outstanding stonehenge invoicesHomes · p2
Reply to Gloria Arce (Two Trees) re: 45 Main security deposit + turn off ACH auto-payHomes · p1
Sign LawPort.com Domain Brokerage AgreementPersonal · p2
UPCOMING
TomorrowOrder yarmulkes for Hazel's bat mitzvah (Amazon)
Wed, May 20Hazel's Bat Mitzvah: Confirm final guest count + submit final payment to TAO Group
METS
15–25
vs Detroit Tigers · 7:10 PM
TRIBECA Clear
67°feels 61° · 29% · 9 mph
TRENDING 7
01Soccer fans are reacting to Al Nassr goalkeeper Bento’s late error on a throw-in that handed Al Hilal an equalizer and kept the Saudi Pro League title race alive, with @FabrizioRomano posting video of Cristiano Ronaldo at full time.
02Elon Musk posted that X should open-source anything influencing recommendations and submit to third-party audits so people can trust the platform is not secretly manipulating feeds.
03Hidden-camera footage of Trump White House officials criticizing the president, calling him a “madman,” describing ad-hoc policy making without formal analysis, and revealing $1B in taxpayer money for retrofitting his plane is being widely shared and discussed.
04New data showing American wages are no longer outpacing inflation for the first time in three years is circulating amid affordability concerns.
05Texas Attorney General @KenPaxtonTX announced a lawsuit against a North Texas company owned by a Chinese national for allegedly running fake childcare businesses to fraudulently obtain H-1B visas. ↗ 06Reports that FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has resigned are being posted as breaking news.
07These reflect the mix of high-engagement sports content, statements from major figures like Musk, political scoops, economic data, immigration-related enforcement, and government personnel news appearing in top and breaking posts.
FOR YOU 7
@sakaccA new arXiv paper demonstrates quantum-enhanced LLM fine-tuning that reduces classification error by 24% with favorable energy scaling in the first measurable hybrid GPU/QPU AI workloads. () ↗ @RLCsciencebossFlagship startup Serif Biomedicines presented first preclinical data (rodents and non-human primates) showing it has solved two major technical barriers to non-viral gene therapy. () ↗ @_vmlopsChrome DevTools now ships an MCP server (one npx command) that lets AI coding agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) directly control live browsers, run Lighthouse audits, analyze network/console/performance traces, and automate interactions. () ↗ @nytimesNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that the city has closed its budget gap with help from the state. () ↗ @kevinlewis4801Isomorphic Labs (Demis Hassabis’ AI drug-design company) raised $2.1 billion amid accelerating biotech IPOs, M&A, and investment in gene therapy, longevity, and AI-driven discovery. () ↗ @TheAITimelineA technique using simple L1 regularization plus custom CUDA kernels achieves >99% sparsity in LLM feedforward layers with negligible accuracy loss, delivering major gains in throughput, energy efficiency, and memory that scale with model size. () ↗ These reflect genuine technical or operational progress rather than announcements or vibes. CX/contact-center and cyberpunk/retrofuturism posts this period were mostly promotional aesthetics or incremental marketing with limited novel substance.