Stopped for a while in Albany. 🚂

Mohawk River in Schenectady. 🚂

A few more details in this Fortune story about the short-lived coup against Matt Mullenweg, but still no real explanation for why it happened:

A remarkable level of secrecy surrounded the drama. None of the board members have publicly explained why they suddenly wanted him out of the company. Mullenweg has declined to describe why he was all but fired, or how he quickly got back control of the company.

You come at the mad king, you best not miss.

Matthias Pfefferle blogs about a clever way to render OPML in browsers using JavaScript, via @jlelse. I’m going to look into doing this for Micro.blog’s OPML too.

Working on more layout fixes for the iPhone Duo. I’m not sure Apple made the right trade-offs with the design of this thing. Vertical nav controls still feel weird. And with the device backordered for months, hard to justify the time to rethink everything.

Last morning on the train, along Lake Erie. 🚂

Chicago Union Station. 🚂

In other Anthropic news today, I’ve been thinking about this bill that Anthropic proposed where it’s not a show-stopper if only 50 people might be killed or seriously injured:

The bill would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people, according to the report.

It’s weird to even put a number on this. But also, if gun manufacturers had to meet a similar standard before putting semi-automatic rifles on the market, the world would be a better place.

Anthropic announces a new public benefit fund, beyond what the existing b-corp can do:

The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will have increased flexibility and scale, enabling us to pursue our mission in new ways: for example, we might explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.

A little mysterious. I wonder what they have in mind (or if they know).

There’s a fun site that keeps track of Codex resets. OpenAI is in the middle of a nutty 28-day challenge to ship new features every day or give resets. Feels like a “bank error in your favor” every few days.