Anthropic is on track to be profitable early next year and has rather soundly demonstrated that inference is a profitable business, counter to what folks like Zitron repeatedly claim.

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In today's newsletter I wrote about Patrick Stewart. He played a character who, after my father, served as the most important model of masculinity for me when I was young. I know that may sound silly, but it's true. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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And the fight was never his first choice. But I also appreciated the nuance they treated the character with. He was still human. He just wanted a vacation without Q showing up. He hated Wesley Crusher. His hobbies informed his work and vice versa. And he hated Wesley Crusher.

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This is precisely how I felt about Patrick Stewart and Star Trek too. Saturday nights I got to stay up late with dad to watch the new episodes. Dad, and Captain Picard, were my models of positive masculinity. When Picard chose to fight, he did so to protect the weak, or the morally correct.

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Been thinking about Picard a lot in the context of this ongoing discourse about who young men have to look up to, a character who managed to perfectly bridge stoicism and compassion because his stoicism wasn't about disdaining emotions but having other people who depended on him.

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