And it’s not even close.

A gov agency shut down Anthropic's Fable 5, fearing it is too dangerous for public use. Neuromancer, by William Gibson, predicted this. The 1984 novel spoke of AI and "Turing Police" whose gov job it was to shut down advanced AIs and bring their creators to justice. Famously, Gibson knew nothing about computers when he wrote the book that launched the Cyberpunk genre and wrote the entire novel on a 1927 Hermes Typewriter. It was before the Internet, yet he talked about the internet "The Matrix" It was before VR, yet he wrote about VR "SimStim" It was before AI but he talked about true AI and "constructs" which were more like our stochastic parrot early efforts. He predicted high RAM prices "Case's girlfriend steals his RAM for drugs" He predicted that the most advanced AI would only be available to giant corporations and rich elite. The number of things he got right makes him seem more like Nostradamus than a sci-fi author.

I do not think there's enough talk on social media that Jim Acosta might actually be mentally ill.

Funny how that works, right?!

Thinking a lot about this PJ O’Rourke quote these past couple days

I want more trillionaires, not less. Because that means more innovation, more jobs, more production, more services, more prosperity, and more progress.

I didn’t expect this but Americans are ridiculously good at small talk. In the UK if a stranger starts chatting to you, you immediately assume they want something or want to rob you. Here people are just… nice?

Release GPT 5.6

The greatest threat to communism has never been capitalism. It’s access to information. That’s why communist governments have historically feared free speech, free press, and open debate.

(AI) Also Indians

Anthropic's Fable 5 safety filter did not work. It blocked things that were completely vanilla, seemingly at random. Then, it could be easily bypassed, which I ended up doing just to get the vanilla things working. Imagine being one of the world's top tech companies, screaming about safety, and then releasing a completely broken safety mechanism. Does a hypercompetent tech company that for years has been shouting from the rooftops about safety and national security release a completely incompetent safety mechanism? Does it release a broken safety mechanism on this model after being warned by the U.S. government not to release the model, because it is unsafe? Does that same company, when the U.S. government points out that the safety mechanism is broken, respond to publicly downplay the problem? One would think that Anthropic would have dedicated a cracked team to get the safety mechanism working properly. But apparently it didn't. It is so bad and so dumb that it feels like it must have been on purpose. I'm not saying it was on purpose. But how can such a cracked company whose core identity is AI safety create such a broken solution -- and then play down how broken it is? I am trying to understand.

One thing I can tell you for sure. @elonmusk is not stealing from me. @SenWarren is robbing me blind.

RT @politblogme: So everything that was revealed by General Kirillov, who was treacherously killed by the West through its Ukrainian puppet…

Doug Burgum is probably the best person in Trump's circle right now. He's gone under the radar, but he's absolutely KILLING IT with reversing decades of decline in American architecture and beautifying our country.

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

His partnership is not with Europe, but with the political gangsters who have hijacked Europe and are trying to destroy it by flooding it with the violent scum of the earth. The EU is a transnational dictatorship and a model for Carney’s new world order, a global dictatorship.

I’ll take It Never Happened for $100.

Free speech is a luxury of a relatively homogenous population that can tolerate disagreement. When you throw people together who genuinely hate each other - it doesn’t work out as well, and may not be tenable.