„Modest Fashion ist eine Richtlinie, daß man sich bedeckt anzieht“, sagt die Verkäuferin aus Nürnberg, wo Grooming Gangs am Bahnhof ihr Unwesen treiben.

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…

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗

RT @FacciniMyriam: Marco Rubio: "European leaders have said the war in Iran is not their war. So trump wonders why is the war in Ukraine ou…

🦔 A creator is running 150 TikTok accounts with just three interns, all posting AI-generated videos. The setup uses racks of phones running automated content generation and posting. One account alone showed a $7,000 payout request. My Take Engagement farms aren't new. They've been a huge industry for over a decade, particularly for social manipulation and content theft. What's changed is the economics. Previously you needed people to steal and repost content, or create something. Now three interns can manage 150 accounts because the content generates itself. This is where the AI video tools we keep covering end up. Not just deepfakes of celebrities or one-off viral clips, but industrialized slop production running 24/7. The platforms pay out based on engagement, and the algorithms don't distinguish between content a person spent hours making and content a script churned out in seconds. So the incentives push toward volume over quality, flooding feeds with generated noise. The creators making actual content are now competing against operations that can produce thousands of videos per day at near-zero marginal cost. I don't know how that competition ends well for them. Hedgie🤗

Kyiv Metro is down because of the blackout. No water or heating in the city either. This is the hardest winter for Ukraine so far. People show incredible resilience but the situation is extremely difficult. Ukraine needs more support now. 🇺🇦 📷 Nastya Nagorna

I’m genuinely shaken to my core by how the Trump administration is ABSOLUTELY FINE with the fact that, right in the middle of yet another round of “peace talks,” literally while delegations are sitting across from each other discussing “compromise,” Russia is launching devastating missile strikes on heating and electricity in Ukrainian cities, leaving millions of people in a humanitarian catastrophe in the middle of a freezing winter. And there isn’t the slightest objection, condemnation, or demand to stop. Nothing. Nobody appears bothered by these mass war crimes unfolding live. Nothing, except regular Trump outbreaks in claiming that “Zelensky doesn’t want peace.” And it’s easy to see why: they think that every Ukrainian apartment block demolished by a Russian missile in the middle of the night, along with the people inside it, helps them “pressure Zelensky into a deal.” It’s astonishing. Down to the darkest depths of moral collapse. I genuinely can't wrap my head around how things could end up this way in this regard.

RT @richardbranson: The utter irony of Putin and Trump meeting soon in Budapest to jointly seal Ukraine’s fate should not be lost on anybod…

John McCain, 2014

Trump, Vance & others either have forgotten or never knew that Zelensky signed a ceasefire agreement with Putin in 2019. Three years later, Putin launched his full-scale invasion. So, signing another ceasefire with no security guarantees feels like suicide for Ukrainians.

5/ "Putin has signed many agreements about Ukraine and he hasn't honored any of them. Aren't you worried Putin will violate the terms of this ceasefire?" That's it. That's the question. And this is where Vance and Trump explode. The trap was set and now the ambush starts.

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky!

We are witnessing a very sad moment in American history. The President of the United States is aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy. Here are my thoughts:

Trump is one step away from declaring that the U.S. will send military aid to Russia to help with its invasion of Ukraine.

Interestingly, NATO has been 130 km away from Saint Petersburg for over 20 years, and it has been totally okay all those years. The half of the Black Sea coastline has been under NATO for decades, and it was totally fine. Russia's Kaliningrad has been surrounded by NATO countries for over 20 years. Sweden and Finland (with over 1,000-km common border with Russia) join NATO, and Putin couldn't care less - no threat at all, in his words. But when it's Ukraine, which NATO refused to accept for like 20 years and doesn't want now, it is a "grave existential threat" to the world's biggest nuclear power, because of which it had to unleash the deadliest European bloodbath since WWII involving the North Korean military. Believe it or not, but it feels like it was never about NATO for Russia.

Meanwhile in Russia: State TV host Evgeny Popov remarks that Trump is effectively advancing Moscow's agenda by destabilizing the Western world—tearing through it just as Russia has always intended. Popov finds it truly remarkable.

@elonmusk please everyone retweet and like this request... sir, i live real close to mccgreggor TX, i drive a tesla 3ER i have the tesla power bank in my house... and i use star link to talk to you... having said that i would love to have 30 min with you when you are here at the tesla facility next, or i could come to austin to talk about ukraine.. or i run one of the states largest military museums with over 10,000 items and 40 vehicles (i would love to show you), and we can talk over a soda. i did 22 years as military intel and air defense.. with 4 combat tours and 100% combat disabled.. i have donated or raised over 400K for ukraine, yes i put my money where my mouth is.. i truly think you are not correct about your stand on ukraine, and i dont think you understand how important it is for them to "win". (for the US and the world). i do a podcast here on twitter every day at 2PM and have over 100K followers, you are welcome to listen. so if you want the truth, please lets talk. thanks respectfully. dave d. central TX again please everyone retweet.

Key points about NATO enlargement: 1. No country has ever been forced to join NATO 2. All new members must first apply and meet rigorous standards 3. The vast majority of new members since 1991 have joined due to fear of Russian aggression 4. NATO has never attacked Russia