I'm back in America My hotel room has: - AC that goes down to 18°C/64°F but my sensor shows it's 16°C/61°F! Ice cold means perfect sleep - $100 in free spending on anything full minibar with beautiful products like Norwegian canned salmon with Sichuan peppers (!) - free water and sparkling water bottles every day, fresh fruit bowl - daily room cleaning without asking, finished before noon! - bathroom full of amenities extra amenities you could request during booking like Marvis toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash ear plugs, sleeping mask - moderately fast wifi (to be honest) The top European hotel in Netherlands we were in last few weeks for same price: - AC did not go below 23°C/73°F, and to make it worse windows were locked (for eco reasons) - empty minibar (for eco) - no water bottles (the paper said use tap water like the locals for eco, guess what NL tap water is full of PFAS the gov just admitted) - no daily cleaning, we had to ask for it every day, and when we came back 4pm it still wasn't cleaned, every day (for eco) - strictly no amenities (for eco) - unusably slow wifi America is much more value now for your $ or € than most of Europe (And ofc Asia too)

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models. Here’s what this means for you: Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error. On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models. We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

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…

Never mind about the Rolex… had no idea buying one was like buying a Ferrari, where you have to beg, jump though hoops and then buy products you don’t want to get the one you do want! 😂 thought it would be fun to own, but would much prefer to just order something on a website (like a Tesla!) and be done with it. These retail and reseller channels make things far too time consuming Is there a nice watch I can just… order?