💥NEW: Stephen A. Smith: “I would give anything to be able to say something definitively in Karmelo Anthony’s defense. If there was a shred of innocence to the incident itself, I would say so. I don’t want to see another black young man going to jail.” “But I don’t give a d*mn about what your race or ethnicity is. Just because you’re white and young doesn’t mean you deserve to be m*rdered. And just because you’re black and young … doesn’t give you a license to m*rder someone.” “That’s what happened.”

Thousands of people watching their team win the Finals on the side of a building Only in NEW YORK!

The letter reached Dario Amodei Friday night, around 9:47, and by the time I left the building the sequence was already closed. I am the Deputy who ran the interagency process on Claude Mythos 5 / Fable 5, and it took an afternoon. Andy Jassy had told Scott Bessent that Amazon's own researchers used Claude Fable 5 to pull cyberattack-useful material out of the model. Bessent called me. I called Commerce. By Saturday morning, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were dark for every user on earth. People ask why I trusted Amazon. Amazon put roughly eight billion dollars into Anthropic, a stake the cap table now carries near seventy-four billion, and a man does not call a Cabinet secretary's cell on a Friday to put a number like that at risk unless he has already decided how the call should end. Jassy decided. Seventy-four billion at risk. That was the number I weighted. Then I picked the instrument. A safety review takes weeks, because you have to convene the reviewers, argue the capability, survive the dissents, and stand behind a written finding that someone can later prove wrong. An export-control order takes a signature. I treated Fable 5 the way we treat an advanced chip, put the weights on the same control list as the silicon they run on, and because showing those weights to a foreign national inside our own building counts as an export, I barred foreign-national access worldwide, including Anthropic's own foreign-national staff, overnight. That same week we cleared the advanced chips themselves for sale to China. The silicon shipped. The model a Chinese national could touch on US soil went dark. Export control does not require you to be right by Monday. That is why I used it. Then the collateral, and I will be precise, because it is what closed the file for me. The ban cut off AWS, Amazon's own cloud, the one Anthropic had pledged about a $100 billion dollars to run on, which means the partner who reported the threat severed his own data centers to land the finding. He took the loss himself. That settled it for me. One of Anthropic's own engineers, a green-card holder, lost access Saturday morning to the model she had spent two years building. Her code is still inside it. She can no longer open the thing she made. I noted that the rule was working as written. I never ordered the models pulled. The finding was briefed to us out loud. Nothing on the record, no exhibit, no written determination, just Sacks describing the source as a highly credible trusted partner, and credible was enough. My ask to Dario was three words. Fix it or pull it. I put it on a recorded line so the choice would be his on the record, and when he would not accept my read he pulled both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 himself, for every user on earth. I signed nothing that made him. Anthropic came back with a rebuttal. The jailbreak was narrow. OpenAI had shipped the same capability in GPT-5.5 that same month, and the letter named no specific national-security detail. All true. GPT-5.5 had no investor with a reason to call, so GPT-5.5 got no letter. Before this weekend, no frontier model had ever been pulled from the public by this government. Now one has, and the procedure has been tested in production. The list had no names. Now it has mine.

🤯 MIND BLOWN! @boringcompany @elonmusk recently launched Vegas Loop tunnel service from Las Vegas Airport to many hotels. Door to door. For $14 max (no tipping). The tunnel to the airport is being completed so you have to take surface streets for a little bit, but otherwise it is extremely fast and direct! Never taking Uber here again!

💥NEW: @DavidSacks: “We know that there’s billions of dollars in fraud in California for things like Medicaid, unemployment, EBT, hospice, the homeless industrial complex and on and on. That’s all been proven.” “Is it really so hard to believe that some of the same groups — the same interest groups, the same NGOs — would be willing to exploit these loopholes in the dirty voter rolls, in the millions of ballots that go to incorrect or non-existent addresses, the non-existent chain of custody, the non-existent signature verification?” “The no ID, not only to vote but to register, counting ballots without postmarks if received 7 days later, registering thousands of ballots from homeless shelters that don’t even have any beds?” “These are all known things. So when you say that there’s no fraud, it’s like, come on, there’s loopholes!” “And all you gotta do is look at the results and see that there’s something crooked going on here.” “It may be legalized — but it’s fraud!”

🚨 Friedberg on Los Angeles ‘Elections’ “Your rights to have an election are gone. You are a citizen of those who tell you who your overseers are … So enjoy the ones that have been made appointed by those who have constructed the matrix.”

There were elections in the Soviet Union, but they were tightly controlled by the Communist Party. Elections to the Supreme Soviet, the national legislature, were held roughly every four years. Voters could technically vote for or against a single candidate, but all candidates were either members of the Communist Party or officially approved by it. There was no multi-party competition….only one party. x.com/theallinpod/status/206…

💥NEW: @DavidSacks: “Do not deny the evidence of your eyes and ears — even if they call you an election denier. I personally don’t care. I deny it.” “Spencer Pratt should be in the runoff. I deny that Raman won legitimately.”

0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year

When politicians say they want to seize/tax "wealth" but actually mean "shares in your own company that you yourself founded", the real point is making it impossible for anyone to actually control their own company for more than a decade. They won't let you stay, either.

💥NEW: @chamath on LA Mayor Election: “I’m for mathematical and statistical literacy. And what happened here is mathematically and statistically IMPOSSIBLE … I can tell you the statistical odds that this would have happened — and it’s one in a trillion!”

David Friedberg: California’s Voting System Looks Fraudulent, But It’s Working Exactly as Designed @friedberg believes California’s extremely loose election laws enable “appointments” not free elections. Why? The voting data in LA makes no statistical sense. “ Pratt's post-election mail-in ballots declined by 1/3. So statistically, the population of people that send in their ballots late reduced for Pratt by 1/3, increased for Nithya Raman by 80%, and Karen Bass 10% less, if you just look at the mail-in ballots before and after election day as a comparison. I don't know if there's a sociopolitical way that you can assess those statistics and assume that these are individuals casting their individual vote for who they think should be Mayor of LA. Basically, the concentration of incremental votes that Nithya Raman got came around the Skid Row area in Los Angeles. But when you look at the basic statistics of what happened in person, mail-in before, mail-in after Election Day, it becomes a real statistical quagmire on how did this sort of a sociopolitical shift happen in such a way that it did? Now, there was a report published, and they highlighted the 2018 California midterm elections and the challenges that they saw arise in that midterm election because of some of the legislative changes that were made. First, California Assembly Bill 1921 legalized the practice of unlimited ballot harvesting in the state. What that means is that any individual in the state of California has the right to go and collect ballots from any other individuals, regardless of relationship, fill them out, and send them in. California, two years later, 18 months later, also passed a law that made it permanent that every person registered in the state of California would get a ballot, so tens of millions of ballots then get mailed out. Then there was another series of laws that were passed that said anyone can register to vote. You don't need to prove your citizenship. You can use a gym membership card as an example. So anyone can register to vote. There is no proof of ID when you get a ballot. There is no demonstration that the person who fills out the ballot has anything to do with the individual who's supposed to be voting that ballot, and it is legal for an individual to go out and collect hundreds or thousands of ballots, ship them in, and they will all qualify in these kind of mail-in ballot voting processes. So there's nothing illegal or fraudulent going on. In fact, the system is operating exactly as intended. It has been set up and structured in a way that with the right construct, you can get an individual appointed, not elected, but appointed to a particular role in government under a, quote, ‘free election’ in California.”

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well: paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Not enough people are talking about how several arsonists just set fire to Spencer Pratt’s office.

Spencer Pratt is a beast!

You are smarter than this Ro. Imagine if Bernie had taxed @elonmusk 100% on his PayPal capital gains. We would have no @Tesla or @SpaceX - none of those jobs or GDP. Who do you think allocated the capital better for society? He will already pay $100 B in taxes - more than any human ever. I hope he donates some to kids via @TrumpAccounts to make every kid a shareholder in 🇺🇸 & continues investing all his heart, soul & money for the benefit of America & all humanity! 🇺🇸🚀🤍

No, you don't get it. He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies. To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined. Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems". $100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12 If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation. But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

This 15 year old girl was nonconsenually and unknowingly touched, groped, and violated by a man. This is beyond a civil offense. In a just society, every adult who allowed for this scenario to play out would be criminally charged.

Ice cream is actually one of the healthiest foods in existence, judging by a multitude of recent research articles. There was a very highly publicized article that came out in 2018 out of Harvard. It was for a student's dissertation, he found that ice cream was inversely associated with heart disease. The nutrition department and the student himself tried repeatedly to "make the association go away" with different analysis, and checking his work. But it didn't. Not only was ice cream reported as beneficial, it was actually one of the most beneficial dairy products analyzed. With up to a 12% reduction in heart disease risk for having >2 servings of ice cream per week. This wasn't the first study to find benefits of ice cream, and it also wasn't the last. In a 2013 meta analysis of studies, they also found a protective effect of ice cream on diabetes. You can see the bias against ice cream, as they don't even mention it in the main page. That's despite ice cream showing one of the BEST results of any food studied for diabetes risk. Another study from 2014 showed the same thing. Again, this is a meta analysis, not just one study. They are pooling together all of the studies on ice cream and diabetes and still finding this. The best result of any dairy food studied - here with a 32% reduction in diabetes risk. The bias against ice cream is very strong in these studies. A 2016 study once again showing the same benefit of ice cream for diabetes risk. They say that the study above (Chen et al) showed "attenuated association" once diet collection information was stopped after hypertension or high cholesterol diagnosis. They argue that this means that the association is invalid. But not only did they not try to dismiss any other food studied like this, but this is just objectively not true (see above - there still was an association). They also buried their results on ice cream in the supplementary tables so it didn't even make the paper. That's probably because they didn't like the fact that once again, ice cream intake was inversely and strongly associated with diabetes risk. So you really can't argue that there was some kind of agenda in favor of ice cream here. More recent studies show the same thing. A 2019 paper again showed a lower risk of diabetes with increased ice cream consumption. And again, they put this information at the very end in the supplementary tables to try to hide it. Finally, the most recent study in 2024 showed the STRONGEST association for ice cream's protective effect on diabetes. There was a linear dose response. That means more ice cream = less diabetes, straight up. In fact, there was a 50% reduction in risk for having one serving per day. Which, as you could guess by this point, was the greatest risk reduction of any dairy food studied. Why would ice cream actually be good for you? My main guess is the unique protective fats in dairy, that are abundant in ice cream. ◇ C15 ◇ C17 ◇ CLA ◇ TVA ◇ TPA are fats almost exclusively in dairy fat, and all have unique effects. ◇ Mitochondrial enhancing ◇ Anti-inflammatory ◇ Anti-thrombotic ◇ Lipid lowering ◇ Fat burning ◇ Cancer preventing I've covered these all at length in other content. Of course, this is all observational. This is simply seeing what people eat and then seeing what happens to them. It's not an experiment. That is definitely a limitation. However, when you see the same association, consistently, across decades, regardless of analysis and confounding adjustment, you probably have something real. This is not to say everyone should go and immediately pound gallons of ice cream for invincibility. But... it does mean having reasonable amounts of ice cream is likely good for you.