The governor of Maine has vetoed a bill that would have banned datacenter construction in the state until November 2027.

She said while she shares the concerns about the impact of data centers on electricity prices and the environment, the bill did not exempt a specific project which was supposed to bring jobs and investment to a town that’s going through economic hardships after a mill was shut down in 2023.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/maine-gov-mills-vetoes-data-center-bill-00891762

While we’ve had many disruptions of jobs due to tech in my lifetime such as what the internet did to print journalism, this moment feels entirely different.

This feels more akin to the Industrial Revolution where entire modes of working are swept away not just individual jobs switching form.

Europe over-regulated its tech companies making them non-competitive on the global stage and is now upset it’s dependent on American & Chinese companies.

While this is an oversimplification given both China & America are richer and more unified economies for companies to build their base, it isn’t entirely wrong either.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/04/22/how-europe-regulated-itself-into-american-vassalage?giftId=OWRhMDA0NTktZmUxYS00MzVjLTg4NGMtODQ5NTM3NmViZTgx

Senator Josh Hawley is encouraging Republicans to shun the $300M in lobbying money from the AI industry and instead regulate the industry to avoid the ire of their voters.

AI is now viewed so negatively that I can see a Trump-like populist candidate rising up just by being anti-datacenters and anti-AI.

https://www.ft.com/content/3fd0a5d9-99cd-41a1-af79-7987c73d9fd3

I’m taking my so on college tours and it’s shocking how few men I see on campus.

I’ve been reading about the male achievement gap for years and how it’s fueled the “male loneliness epidemic” but it was still shocking to see in person.

No wonder these young dudes are so resentful of women.

While it’s clear that Claude Code has disrupted software development, it isn’t yet guaranteed that Anthropic will monopolize agentic coding.

Every software company with a competent CFO & CTO must realize the risk of turning R&D costs into a bill that can be raised by Anthropic each year.

The question how many software companies go agentic but use tools like Claw Code and DeepSeek or Qwen to control costs versus Claude in the long term? We won’t really know until token prices stabilize.

OpenAI recently turned heads with its $850B valuation during its last funding round and now it’s Anthropic’s turn to impress.

Claude’s parent company is now trading at $1T on secondary markets based on how much people are willing to buy shares from insiders.

Sucks we have to wait for the IPO.

My favorite Claude tip from a coworker.

Do you have upcoming meetings an invitee hasn’t accepted so you don’t know if they’ll show up, reschedule or no-show at the last minute?

Create a Claude skill that sends reminder messages hours or a day before asking them to accept, decline or reschedule.

Based on what I’ve heard from peers at startups and big tech, these are rookie numbers.

People were skeptical that AI writes 100% of the code of top engineers at Anthropic & OpenAI but now that we all have access to Claude Code, that is quite believable.

The job of a software engineer has changed forever.

Prediction markets are doing a better job of policing insider trading by government officials than the actual government agencies whose job it is do that.

From “drain the swamp” to “fill it with monsters”.

Anthropic’s CEO makes the case for OpenAI going bankrupt.

Since it takes years to build out data centers, you have to assume a growth rate then start building.

So if you build out for $1T in revenue over the next few years but it’s only $800B then no force on earth can keep you from going bankrupt.

"We have built a bomb, we’re about to drop it on your head, we will sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million. You need it to run across all your stuff, but only if we pick you as a customer." - Sam Altman describing Anthropic’s rollout of Claude Mythos as fear-based marketing