Anthropic×{Karpathy,Pope}, Themes Will Pwn You, The Warmth of a Private Subnet, Slack is Back, $100B For Charity

Shai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additiveVS Code extensions as the next attack surface: 50M install themes that can shell out and auto-update silentlyMatt's AI-native package manager pitch: vendor everything, LLM-upgrade your deps by replaying upstream commitsTailscale and Cloudflare Mesh maxing: the warmth of the orange cloud over the cold open internetGoogle's Santa is now Northpole Santa, and Wilhelm runs it on the Mac miniWilhelm is enamoured with atc.com: Enhanced Radar's $7M raise and following his own LAX delay live from the gateAmp Labs' "Software After Software" manifesto and Amp Neo as remote enterprise AI engineeringCloud agent adoption is still slower than we expected, and the amphetamine.app commute hackKarpathy joins Anthropic pre-training Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas: Anthropic's Chris Olah on stage at the Vatican on May 25Chinese token resellers at 3 to 4 cents on the dollar and the RL distillation theory behind itPyCon vibe check: more handwritten Python than expected, and "AI is just a tool" is still a common takeSlack is back: Benioff finally gets it, and messaging is the only sane UI for multi-agent workEric Ries on Incorruptible, founder control at Cloudflare and Anthropic, and the Philip Morris stress testNan Ransohoff's $370B philanthropy wave and the pitch to pay nonprofit talent in Anthropic equityWill Manidis on GrindslopLinksAndrej Karpathy's joining Anthropic: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas:https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.htmlEnhanced Radar: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/enhanced-radarATC app: https://www.atc.com/Amp Labs: https://amplabs.com/Will Manidis, On Grindslop: https://minutes.substack.com/p/on-grindslopNan Ransohoff, The Third Wave of American Philanthropy: https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropyEric Ries on Lenny's Podcast (Incorruptible): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-build-a-company-that-withstandsIncorruptible by Eric Ries: https://www.incorruptible.co/Google Santa (archived): https://github.com/google/santaNorthpole Santa (active fork): https://github.com/northpolesec/santa10k people have the same idea within days of each other: https://substack.com/@contraptions/note/c-255396946