Steve Evans

Bitcoin is at 118k and they're tear-gassing mexicans picking tomatoes

The Houthis of Yemen have blown up their 2nd ship in four days. The dry bulk carrier 'Eternity C' sunk today in the Red Sea, according to a top diplomat of the Philippines (most of the crew members are national of the Asian nation) Details here: x.com/pnagovph/statu…

@RajivDattani, @bradr and I spent the last year exploring how insurance can unlock secure AI progress Informed by our time at Anthropic, McKinsey insurance, METR, Center for AI Safety Our essay: underwriting-superintelligence.com/?july

This afternoons view from the top of the South Downs looking back over #Brighton was spectacular!

As Scooby Doo taught millions of TV watchers: if the deceased villain's best friend tells you there's nothing worth seeing inside the locked closet ... there's probably something worth seeing inside the locked closet.

One thing innocent people don’t typically do is post long, insane, rambling, absolutely psychotic public messages telling people to please, please, fucking PLEASE stop paying attention to the thing you are trying to sweep under the rug

Trust in AI drops the more you understand it (shocker). It’s not so much the AI tech itself, it’s once you understand more about how it’s trained, deployed, influenced at the algo level and filtered. hbr.org/2025/07/why-un…

Going forward, as AI erodes internet content quality, we’re going to need intelligent search that can find accurate, relevant answers to our questions. Chatbots aren’t going to cut it as they are fed on the inaccuracies and low quality AI-produced content. Search isn’t losing its…

The grift in plain sight. No KYC, it’s a robbery.

“Investing $1 in adaptation can yield close to $11 over 10 years in avoided losses and other benefits” wri.org/research/clima…

With so much uncertainty, taco’ing and volatility in so many economies of the world, not to mention geopolitics, why isn’t the VIX sky high? Markets seem broken, or manipulated, or both these days…

Trump just imposed a 50% tariff on Brazil, even though U.S. has a trade surplus with Brazil This is 5x higher than the 10% declared on Liberation Day

Hm, wonder why. Surely nothing macro or tariff related here.

A good deep dive into the pros and cons of stablecoins, beyond the hype. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econogra…

It's easily a once-in-1,000 year rainfall event for west #Chicago (based on NOAA estimates). 7 inches of rain in 3 hours, including up to 4 inches in ONE hour, is nearly unprecedented for the region. Major flash flooding is ongoing (and very localized!). #ILwx #CHIwx

The mRNA vaccine and China's clean energy tech should be the model for net-positive innovation—but the tech industry celebrates their fascist megalomaniacs instead of scientists and our government is openly hostile to both of those things, so

I think it’s great that the main invention of the tech industry this decade is a climate killing automated nonsense machine that makes people cognitively stupider by using it and all of the corporate world is relying on it to eliminate jobs (while killing the social safety net)

Most inspiring chart of the day, maybe of the year:

Catastrophe bond issuance breaks annual record already in 2025 at over $17.8bn artemis.bm/news/catastrop…

“Did anyone check these fundamental threats to democracy before signing up with Palantir?” crikey.com.au/2025/07/08/pal…