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お願いします！ご存じの通りぼくたち日本は51番目の州です！連邦政府万歳！米帝最高！No Taxation Without Representation！Fable 5のためならボストン湾にいくらでも紅茶を捨てますから許して😭😭😭
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 13
Elon is much like Tom Brady, Djokovic, Belichick, LeBron.
You can hate. You can note very real personal faults. You can say they don’t best represent the soul of the game. You can even maybe find some ways to discount the GOAT stats.
But in the end quibbling just feels futile.
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Jun 12
Eating in Mexico coming from England or Scotland has got to be a transcendent experience. Like seeing colors for the first time
THAT WAS THE BEST FOOD IVE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE OMG 😭😭😭
VAMOSSS CHICHARRONNN! 😍
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Jun 12
There are all kinds of fully valid knocks against the proprietor of this site, but being a founder-ceo of two distinct companies in the top 10 of public co mkt cap *simultaneously* is an accomplishment with exceedingly few analogs
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Jun 12
There are lots of "phones caused X trend" theses.
In many cases, I think it's better expressed as "entertainment options increased in quantity and variety at a steady clip through the 20th century, then accelerated in the 21st."
That is, no single device or year breakpoint.
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Jun 11
So in addition to being poorly reasoned, the new piece from Thomas Piketty, Jason Hickel et al is also AI slop
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Jun 11
NEW: Graham Platner kept his hideous Nazi tattoo to remind himself “the US was the evil bad guy overseas,” according to an ex-girlfriend with whom he cheated on his fiancée in 2021. @nypost @thatkingthing
nypost.com/2026/06/11/us-new…
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Jun 11
Jesus, the innumeracy here.
What is the base rate of achieving "eminence" by these definitions? Orders of magnitude below the 12% achieved by gifted children.
If only the editors at New York Magazine were gifted enough to kill this kind of propagandist hogwash.
Jun 11
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies.
“When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did.
Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
Community note
Eminence is incredibly rare, so 12.3% among gifted students is decidedly over-representative. For example, around 0.023% of Americans are full professors at R1 institutions, yet 22 of 677 (3.25%) of gifted students studied eventually held this position (a ~140x fold increase).
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Jun 11
I don't know what Piketty, Stiglitz, and co. are smoking. Global poverty rates have never been lower. Progress on basic global health and wellbeing measures has been amazing over the past few decades. "End of the road"?!? Come again!?!
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Jun 10
I’d go so far to say college essays are actively pernicious. They incentivize kids who are disproportionately the most well-off to mythologize adversity and develop martyr complexes. It’s ridiculous.
Jun 10
College essays should be abolished. 17 year olds mostly don't have deep interesting things to say ( if what they are saying is even true or written by them) and people shouldnt be at a disadvantage for living a normal middle class childhood.
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We need a term for the practice of inventing a theoretical marginalized person to justify your personal preferences.
Instead of what they mean—they want to be on their phones during the concert—these people say “what if this morally-deserving person NEEDS to be on their phone?”
Jun 7
Do people know that no one is forcing them to go to these phoebe bridgers concerts
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Jun 8
In a two-way race in 2024, Donald Trump got 26.5% of the vote in City of Los Angeles. In a three-way race in 2026, Spencer Pratt has 26.7% of the vote. I'm not sure what the mystery is that demands a conspiratorial explanation.
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Jun 8
NEW: A far-left congressional candidate backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani peddled a crackpot COVID-19 theory that said the virus originated in France – and quoted a Chinese communist propaganda organ as evidence.
nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-new…
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Alan Cole retweeted
Jun 7
We should more seriously consider the merits of a progressive consumption tax
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Jun 8
“Perhaps the reason many billionaires are making permanent responses to a “one-time” tax is that its proponents keep saying they want to make it permanent.”
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Jun 8
It's such a waste of public funding.
Tax academics across Europe scrabble around for funding for actually useful research, but this utopian/authoritarian nonsense gets money thrown at it.
Makes me quite angry.
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