There's a historical reason why Ontario universities are tougher For over 80 years, Ontario had a fifth year of high school: Grade 13 (later called OAC) OAC-level classes looked more like 1st-year uni courses than Grade 12 – and they were required for university admission here

The Tartan Army are a credit to Scotland. Here they are in full voice singing ‘Loch Lomond’ in Boston Stadium last night for the World Cup match between Scotland and Haiti. Absolutely glorious.

Current anthropic situation

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named. The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river. The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn. Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound. "Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever. It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin. "Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather. I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet. In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair. And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge. You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain. The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste. I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind. Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again. "Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up. Discipline is a journey.

The headline is misleading clickbait. Gov support (~$38B total in contracts/loans/credits per WaPo analyses) was real and helpful for early SpaceX (NASA grants/contracts Musk himself credited) and Tesla (DOE loan repaid early regulatory credits). But "virtually all" of his ~$1.1T net worth? No. Wealth is overwhelmingly from equity in companies that delivered reusable rockets, EV scale, Starlink, and market bets on future tech. Tens of billions in support is a small seed vs. trillions in value created via private capital, engineering, and execution. Critical timing ≠ dominant source.

Ah, memories.

The United States is no longer the best place to build an AI lab.

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…

My whole timeline is full of millionaires complaining about a trillionaire

bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015. didn't even know what SpaceX was. they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions. that stake is now worth $880,000. and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

Remote work is quietly destroying engineering culture. Not productivity. Culture. The best engineering I've seen happened in rooms where: • A junior engineer overheard a senior one thinking out loud • Someone walked to a whiteboard mid-sentence • A bad idea got killed in 10 seconds because the right person was three desks away None of that happens on Slack. Mentorship doesn't scale asynchronously. Tacit knowledge, the stuff that's never written down, transfers in person or not at all. The engineers who thrived remote were already great. The engineers who needed to become great? Many of them didn't. I'm not saying remote work isn't real work. I'm saying that the craft of engineering requires proximity in ways we pretend it doesn't. The industry optimised for comfort. We'll spend 10 years figuring out what we lost.

OpenAI is considering drastic price cuts as it seeks to win over customers from archrival Anthropic on.wsj.com/4aldd0k

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So annoying.

Broadcom is backstopping a massive $36 billion private credit SPV with Apollo and Blackstone which will help Anthropic buy Google chips made by Broadcom, even as Google is renting compute from SpaceX while Morgan Stanley, which is arranging the deal, lends money to investors

Globe editorial: The half-empty glass of internal free trade theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

cant believe you guys are still on loops

Existential angst in some.

Today I disabled IPv6 on my home router entirely. There are (sadly) too many devices and services with obscure bugs when it's enabled, and I'm tired of playing whack-a-mole sysadmin just to keep a full IPv6 stack. I'm not sure we'll ever see full IPv6 adoption.