I’m an RFK guy and so I can’t believe I’m saying this…. but I just donated to Trump ‘24. I just can’t take this anymore. These freaks are destroying our country.

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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…

I’m not entirely sure but I think she hated me cause I took over a large social media account after she was fired from that campaign like 15 years ago. I was 18. It was a lot of beef and yeah I was an annoying immature kid but it was just constant drama that made no sense. I’ll never forget a particular incident with her where she approached me in a restaurant when I was at a meeting with some organizers of a Presidential campaign and was clearly inebriated and heaping needless flattery on me about how great I was or something and asking for my number so I could help her with something or another and said she wanted to burry the hatchet? I didn’t really know there still was one but I’ll forgive about anyone for better or worse so sure. She then proceeded to tell me to work on getting my “friends” to back off of her on Twitter because it was damaging her brand - as if I control any of the opinions of decisions of my friends but ok. (Not gonna name them cause you know them and doubt they wanna be drug into this haha) Sigh. Then naturally the next time I heard anything meaningful from her was when she was referring to me and my friends as domestic terrorists or insurrections or something while sobbing in a TV interview. Fast forward just a few years and she was reading my family into the Congressional record praising our honor and valor for a coordinated effort to evacuate people out of Afghanistan during the failed Biden Withdrawal. To be honest I’m not even sure she was aware she was reading praises of the guy who she’d insinuated was a terrorist like maybe a year or two earlier into the record - it was clearly just something she read in a news clipping. Politics is weird, it’s exhausting, it’s often fake, but the right has to be better about trusting these types of individuals with national platforms. Voters remember and it’s a real liability to the cause and divides the base at a time when even minor divisions have disastrous consequences. Be careful who you put in office folks and what influencer voices you amplify on social media. I don’t really tell stories like this cause in my world it gets messy, people screw up, people have mental episodes, it’s part of being human. None of this is really a secret so I don’t care and honestly I have no bad will towards Nancy whatsoever. It’s just sad and I really do pray she is able to turn things around in her life. The constant invocation of God’s name in defense of her malicious, unstable, and narcissistic behavior though is really troubling to me personally.

I’ve been warning people up and down the party from DC to Charleston about Nancy Mace since 2019. High-profile people, county people, and everyone in between. I warned them when she was unknown, when she was popular, and when she was hated. The damage she did to the party is one thing, but the damage our leaders did knowing good and well something was badly off and then staying quiet was even more discouraging.

I think the new concern is that AI is being propped up by venture capital and if these AI companies run out of money, that $200 monthly bill is going to sky rocket up to $15,000 a month. With that said, you could make the argument that the $15,000 a month is still cheaper than having to hire 5 people for 5 different jobs when a single AI will be able to do all of that in the near future.

A man who earned $28 an hour at SpaceX is about to become a millionaire today because of the IPO. But he is just 1 of 4,400 SpaceX employees becoming millionaires today. SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX, priced at $135 per share and valued at $1.77 trillion. The offering raised $75 billion and drew more than $250 billion in investor demand, more than three times oversubscribed. More than 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees are projected to become millionaires today. Around 400 of them will hold stakes worth over $100 million each. To put that in context, the Google IPO in 2004 created roughly 1,000 millionaires. Facebook's 2012 listing produced a similar number. SpaceX is doing more than four times both of them in a single day. And the majority of these people are not founders or executives. They are engineers, welders, machinists, and launch technicians who took equity over cash and held it for years. Juan Hernandez moved from Mexico and learned to weld for the money. He joined SpaceX in 2015 earning $28 an hour. When he went full time, the company gave him $10,000 worth of stock. He held it, bought more through payroll deductions, and sold a small portion in 2020 to buy property in Texas. His remaining shares are worth $880,000 today. Trevor Hise joined as a launch engineer straight out of college in 2011. He spent 12 years accumulating shares through salary, bonuses, and reinvestment. He is 37 years old and walking away with more than $13.5 million. Gavin Petit started in 2012 on an $80,000 base salary with a small initial grant priced at $13.80 per share. He took every bonus in stock. He has already paid off his home in Denver from earlier tender offer windows and now holds a stake worth several million dollars. J. André Lavoie, an engineer who received grants years ago, is sitting on more than $28 million. He is currently in Italy renovating a hotel. Tom Mueller was SpaceX's first employee, hired in 2002 to build the engines that made all of this possible. He left in 2020 but kept his equity. This week he said: "Elon always said that your salary is one thing, but it's the equity that's gonna be worth something. That day is here." This is what SpaceX's compensation model actually looked like from the beginning. The company paid below market salaries and made up the difference in equity at every level of the organisation, not just at the top. Stock options vested over four to six years. Workers could buy additional shares at a 15% discount through a company purchase plan. Early option grants were priced below $2 per share. Even 2025 grants carried exercise prices between $37 and $42. At $135 today, those positions are sitting at 3x returns minimum. The physical impact is already visible in Brownsville, Texas, one of the poorest cities in the United States, where more than 3,000 SpaceX employees work at Starbase. Median home prices in the surrounding county have gone from $131,000 in 2014 to over $281,000 today. More than 100 SpaceX employees pooled their combined holdings, estimated between $1 billion and $5 billion to negotiate institutional level wealth management fees as individual workers. Today, SPCX opens and 4,400 people find out what years of holding actually pays.

Lindsey Graham will continue to get re-elected until a national public figure with near 100% name ID challenges him. Boomers here will dutifully pull the lever for him over anyone they don’t intimately know - virtually every candidate that has run against him doesn’t can’t understand this. You can waste your time traveling to as many little pointless republican social events as you want, have a big X account, throw out however much money you want, call him gay, allege hypocrisy, throw out insults, run attack ads that just remind people who already know that Graham exists, but until your name is more recognizable to on the ballot - they will go with the devil they know. Most X pundits have no idea how S.C. politics works. Graham has the broadest name ID and reach of any figure in the state. He’s as known to as many voters here as Trump. The older electorate here identifies more with their party than they do any candidate and they can’t imagine a bad Republican. In 15 years of politics and a lifetime in South Carolina I’ve talked to voters constantly who were: generally over 50, had no idea who was on the ballot, and would crawl over broken glass to vote in every election cycle. They walk into the polls, say they’re Republican, look for names they know, hit submit, and feel a sense of pride they did their civic duty. For them it’s as routine and essential as church every Sunday. Mark Lynch may be a great guy, or he may be awful. Frankly, I have no clue because pretty much no one knew who he was. Several just knew him as the “cocaine guy” because of Graham mailers that probably did more to boost his name ID than his campaign. That’s not a knock on him, it’s just reality. Votes he got were maybe 10% passionate people voting for him and 90% Graham protest votes. This is largely the same reason my dad lost to Mark Sanford in 2013 after Sanford left the country while governor to have an affair. In most states, this wouldn’t fly, but people in S.C. knew Sanford. Part of this is due to the fact that the GOP nationally has pretty much written off the state because it’s reliably red. There’s no real voter education or outreach beyond what candidates can scrape together - and the national GOP wanted Graham anyway. Sure, there’s other complicating factors but that’s the bulk of it. Graham’s result is the least surprising of this election cycle.