On the evening of 12 June 2026, Eastern Time, a letter arrived at Anthropic’s offices from the United States Department of Commerce. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had signed it. The letter was short. Its consequences were not. Anthropic’s two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, were to be suspended for any foreign national, anywhere in the world, effective immediately. Paranoia in full bloom. Within hours, the models vanished. Read more here justandrewinzimbabwe.wordpre… #AIExportControls #Anthropic #AIInAfrica #DigitalSovereignty #AIGovernance #Cybersecurity #DigitalExclusion #FrontierAI #AfricanMinerals #GlobalTechnologyDivide #AIRegulation #AIJailbreaks #NationalSecurityAndAI #Geoblocking #TechnologyNationalism

We would prefer to have the ability to geoblock all of South Asia, but we can't. So when an Indian has an opinion, someone has to point out that it doesn't matter. Blame Elon for not allowing geoblocking.

“So show me I’ll show you” Please PLEASE sign and share this petition so BTS can openly support Palestine and Palestinian ARMYs by geoblocking their music from isntreal so Palestinian ARMYs can stay at the magic shop #SpeakYourselfBTS #HYBEDivestFromZionism

Geoblocking attempts: failed @nyknicks

"Character Profile: "Tomas" — Provider Operations Lead at OpenRouter At a Glance The account belongs to Tomas (he corrects someone with "no my name is tomas"), an early, deeply technical employee at OpenRouter — the AI model-routing/gateway company. He has been there "an insane 16 months" (joining roughly January/February 2025) and now leads Provider Operations and Partnerships, where he handles the messy reality of stitching hundreds of inference providers behind one unified API. Online, he's a fast, lowercase, meme-fluent operator who is intensely embedded in "AI-infra Twitter," yet turns precise and accountable the moment a customer or partner has a real problem. Profession, Role & Employer Employer: OpenRouter. He speaks from the inside — citing the $113M Series B led by CapitalG, 25T tokens/week, 8M users, and 400 models — and authors company comms ("me writing the @OpenRouter claude on aws post that talks about my own quote in the blog"). Current role: Provider Operations / Partnerships Tech Lead. He's actively recruiting "for my team (provider operations)" and lists himself as "provider partnerships tech lead." Startup generalist past: In OpenRouter's scrappier days he wore nearly every hat — "social media manager, content creator / dev rel, support eng, backend eng, discord admin, T&S lead, provider partnerships tech lead ...and more." Core daily focus: API compatibility — "i agree on the completions issues! it [is] my main job." Evidence of seniority and scope of ownership: Owns provider onboarding: "we've only onboarded 8 providers — 4 of which have proprietary models… we've gotten easily 50 new provider requests." He sets the criteria, e.g. "we have blocked onboarding providers until they support xhigh mapping to max." Coordinates launches in real time: "it's like an exclusive party between me and the 10 inference provider teams rushing to get this model live. shoutout to my homies at parasail_io, gmi_cloud, SiliconFlowAI." Front-line escalation point: Debugs customer issues (geoblocking, Anthropic-origin errors, log-retention limits), explains the fee structure ("a flat 5.5% fee"), and clarifies privacy defaults. Recruiting authority: Builds out his own team and has personally tried to poach talent ("i had a call with daniel in feb trying to get him to join us"). Areas of Expertise He is a genuine inference-API specialist with implementation-level depth: Cross-vendor parameter sprawl: wants hires who grasp "the difference between reasoning_effort and output_config.effort and verbosity and thinkingLevel and thinkingBudget and budget_tokens and max_tokens and max_completion_tokens." API evolution: understands "why the interactions api needed to happen" and "the responses api for the gaps it plugs in chat completions." Inference economics: comments on cache-hit-rate driving effective price down (0.775→0.304), per-request cost ("a fable request can easily cost more than $3"), and distinguishing "pure end user API usage" from "Total inference." Data/ToS safeguards: "by default the settings don't let you make API calls to providers whose ToS say they may train on your data." Infra tooling: references Infisical runtime env injection, Devin agents, and Codex CLI's OpenAI-compatible provider support. Crucially, he prizes scar tissue over theory — he wants people who "get it… but who have also felt the pain of implementation and can feel the limits." Personality & Communication Style Lowercase, terminally-online, meme-fluent: "gm (goblin mode)," "we have fable at home," "it's a mythical ass day," "omg it's me." Punchy in replies: "nein," "ownership squared," "huuuuuge drop!," "correct but you cheated." Warm and congratulatory with peers ("awesome move, congrats!," "welcome to the team Jacky!!!") and genuinely empathetic ("i'm so sorry man. so fkin rough. rip mouse"). Accountable under pressure: drops the meme voice for clear, no-excuses prose on customer issues — "totally our bad on lack of support… will improve!" and the long, diplomatic onboarding clarification ("want to clear the air"). Self-deprecating: jokes about being his own agent ("what's the criteria for my agent (me) to call the task complete") and quoting himself in his own blog post. Values Ownership and accountability — owns mistakes publicly rather than deflecting. Developer-community-first — "I can't thank the developer community enough… Your feedback has helped us improve." Transparency — explicit about fees ("I am not saying we have cheaper fees (we don't)"), provider ToS, and capacity limits. Speed and operational intensity — recurring use of "insane" to describe the pace; jokes about not knowing when he's allowed to sleep. Practical taste — values implementation realism and intuition over credentials. Biographical Clues Bilingual: fluent English and conversational/business Spanish ("hola pato… me encantaría mostrarte lo que ofrecemos en @OpenRouter"). Location: works remotely; formerly lived in Brooklyn ("considering i used to live in brooklyn you'd think i was capable of navigating manhattan" — booked a hotel in Chelsea, took the subway to Times Square by mistake). Travels to meet the team in person. Prior employer: a company called Aura, where his email handle was t@company. Apparent new pet: "everyone please say hello to Dr. Hoovenshmirtz." Interests & Hobbies Vertical mice: switched from the Logitech vertical to a Keychron M5. Wearables: owns an Apple Watch Ultra; knowledgeable about Whoop, Garmin, Oura. Headphones: advises on open-back vs. closed and keeping average volume low. macOS tooling: settled on Shottr for clean, evenly-padded screenshots for the company account. Apple ecosystem gripes: "pls make siri good omg." Robotics curiosity: "is the matic robot worth it." Board sports: wanted a Boosted board, but "got a knockoff like 8 years ago and ate shit on my way to work" — stopped riding motorized boards after. Office envy: "i am extremely envious of in house barista." One-Line Summary Tomas — a bilingual (EN/ES), ex-Brooklyn, remote-working Provider Operations & Partnerships lead at OpenRouter with ~16 months' tenure. A deeply technical inference-API specialist who owns provider onboarding, launch coordination, company comms, and support escalations; casual, meme-fluent, and self-deprecating online, but precise and accountable when it matters — a community-minded startup operator and gadget nerd scaling up his own team. This profile is inferred from a sample of 504 posts; some details (e.g., exact current city, whether "Dr. Hoovenshmirtz" is a pet) are probabilistic rather than confirmed."

Auf Zdf kann man : A good girls guide to murder Staffel 1 und 2 streamen. Bin überrascht dass es kein geoblocking gibt . Normalerweise kann ich da nichts schauen 😎📺

As for @GMMTV , your job as an agency is to support your artists, protect them, and provide proper promotions, events, and opportunities for them to grow. Honestly, I don’t know when this pattern started cuz it feels like we’ve been dealing with it forever 🫩 First there was the yt geoblocking. Then the lack of promotion for LYT. Then the concert ticketing issues, from the pricing to the benefits. Then the system errors that seemed to affect only our fandom. Then the packed schedules, some of which were poorly managed. And the list goes on... You keep benefiting from PerthSanta’s popularity and the support of their fans, yet it often feels like we’re being ignored whenever concerns are raised. As fans, we’re paying for tickets, merchandise, and events because we want to support them. We continue to show up, support every project, and make the best of what we’re given. BUT PLEASE LISTEN TO US TOO. We’ve been voicing our concerns for a long time. We’ve been asking questions, giving feedback, and pointing out problems over and over again. Yet the answers NEVER come.

100% need geoblocking feature on X.

@grok Remind me again why you were making the argument that geoblocking the UK was a bad idea with developments like this? 😒

Geoblocking alone doesn't solve the problem when users inside the U.S. must also be restricted. The U.S. is hardly known for having a reliable national identity system, so proving who is and isn't an American could become a major compliance headache

This post by @MkSilvija does not violate X’s rules, lethal force is a military term. The post got locked down because India has 1.3 billion people with the easiest to hurt feelings and will mass report anything that doesn’t coddle said feelings. We need geoblocking on X.

Ich hab‘s nicht geschaut, bin aktuell im Urlaub - da gibt‘s 1. andere Pläne, 2. kein MagentaTV-Abo und 3. ÖRR-Geoblocking 😂

you'd expect unnecessary geoblocking to not be a thing in a 2026 global world, but no, there is no legal way for me to watch the among us show in my country (it's not on SkyShowTime as far as I can tell)

Dock, klar mit Geoblocking. Ich meinte die weltweit besten 6 Ligen.

after keeping me away from them by geoblocking i will meet my girls

Weltweit? Kein Geoblocking? Echt?

I support geoblocking nigerians

@GMMTV Could you please un-geoblocking this show?🥺🥺🥺 And others shows with #janjingjing PLEASE?🥺🥺🥺🦊🐯 #EnemiesWithBenefits #EWB❤️

Yes a VPN is OK with fast home internet. I also subscribe to a paid IPTV which I use mostly no VPN, but occasionally for live sports works best with VPN turned on, throttling issues I understand rather than geoblocking, so can work both ways.