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BREAKING: Neuroscientists confirm that an under-stimulated ADHD brain will unconsciously pick an argument or poke a sibling just to manufacture a hit of adrenaline—which is why your house erupts into chaos the exact second everyone is bored.
When the external environment goes quiet and flat, an ADHD nervous system scrambles to fill the gap:1/6
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon blasts Washington’s spending culture: “I don’t know anyone, Democrat or Republican, who thinks sending another trillion dollars to Washington, D.C., will actually improve anything.” 🇺🇸
“Give the money to people who will actually use it to further their lives, spend in their communities, and take care of their kids—instead of the government dictating how they spend every little thing.
I don’t think you have to raise taxes. I think it would drive a lot of growth. And if you have to raise taxes a little bit, that’s fine. If you said, ‘Raise taxes and directly give it to the people,’ I’d do it.
But I don’t know anyone, Democrat or Republican, who thinks sending another trillion dollars to Washington, D.C., will actually improve anything.
There are 17,000 lobbying groups. They’re fighting for their own self-interest instead of what’s good for the country.
Look at the CHIPS Act. It was a good idea until it had to include union pay, childcare, diapers. What the hell are we doing?
Then it fails, and we spend more money because supposedly the problem was we didn’t spend enough money.”
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …
Capitol agenda: Dem gavels are coming for Elon Musk politi.co/4dPcGpd
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The fact that Tesla was able to keep the development of the Roadster a secret for so long is pretty impressive.
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Market: all we want is an SUV and a normal looking truck
Elon: best I can do is a flying car
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imagine being John Ternus right now thinking about your next demo “um welcome to Apple Park we have a new iPhone with all new battery life and reimagined camera and we think you’re gonna love it”
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This “excess compute” market sell-off will be remembered as one of the dumbest ever
One of the most nonsensical narratives forged overnight
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A 21-YEAR-OLD FROM CHINA RUNS 300 AI AGENTS AT ONCE. THE PART THAT MATTERS ISN'T THE SPEED, IT'S THAT NONE OF THEM CAN LIE TO HIM
he opens the dashboard and shows the swarm live, 300 Kimi K2.6 agents firing in parallel, then Opus 4.8 checking every single output against its source. this is not just a faster swarm. it is a loop that refuses to stop while anything is still wrong
he pointed it at 100 EV-market companies. first pass: 12 failed. wrong revenue, dead citations, empty fields. second pass: 3 failed. third pass: zero
this is not another agent demo. it is a system that catches its own mistakes before he reads a single row
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Jeff Bezos bought a superyacht.
Mukesh Ambani built Antilia.
Zuckerberg built a Hawaii bunker.
Elon sold all his mansions, lives in a 375 sq ft prefab box worth $50,000 near a rocket launch site in Texas.
And just became the world's first trillionaire.
Consumption vs Creation.
The builder always wins.
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This post by @DavidSacks about the Anthropic/Fable situation is noteworthy, but not for the reason most people think.
Put the details aside for a second.
Anthropic released a blog post with their side of the story a few hours ago. David is responding with a bullet point list in a tweet about a different side of the story.
Years ago both sides would be jockeying to get mainstream reporters to tell their version of the truth and the American public would be fed some edited narrative that was filtered through a bureaucratic media organization.
That world doesn't exist anymore.
Now both sides share their versions publicly so the American people can hear directly from them. It is up to the individual citizens to make up their mind who they believe.
I haven't read a single article about the situation, but rather just read the various players' statements.
Fascinating how fast the world has changed.
I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:
— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.
— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)
— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.
— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”
— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.
— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.
— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.
— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
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I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:
— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.
— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)
— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.
— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”
— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.
— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.
— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.
— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
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It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.
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The higher you climb the corporate ladder, the more relationships matter.
At entry level, your output is visible. You do the work, it shows up. It gets seen and you get a raise and promotion.
At director and above, almost none of your work is visible. You're not doing the hands on dirty work, or at least in large amounts. You're making decisions in a room with a few people and the results show up 6 months later. Nobody can trace them back to you.
So how do they decide who belongs in those rooms?
They pick people they already know.
Not "know of." Know.
People they worked with and have seen operate under pressure. That person gets the call more times than not over the stranger with the better resume.
The stakes are higher, so the trust threshold is higher. A bad hire at $70K is annoying. A bad hire at $300K who controls a $50M budget is catastrophic.
And yeah, it's political. Not in the "office politics is a game" way. In the "if you make a mistake at this level, it doesn't just hit you, it hits your boss, your boss's boss, and so forth.
So people protect themselves by surrounding themselves with people whose body of work they've seen firsthand.
This is why "networking" advice misses the point. The goal isn't to collect contacts.
The goal is to do good work with good people so that when a seat opens at their next company, your name is the first one they think of.
