Friday assorted links

1. Michael Magoon has “progress” recommendations for the second Trump administration.

2. Update on LLMs and chess.  And a further update on that.

3. Podcast on speaking to whales.

4. Bitcoin for the sovereign, by Matt Huang.

5. Yes Woke has peaked.

6. Berlin techno clubs are closing in large numbers (Times of London).

7. Stripe: “Adding payments to your LLM agentic workflows“