Raymond Baartmans

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a warm climate for corruption and cronyism.

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From the available information, it appears that Anthropic and OpenAI showed the US Government **demos** of Mythos being used in offensive cybersecurity contexts. The NSA demo is stated to have been done in a "digital environment" (which seems to mean "artificial sandbox") and

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The result of this could end up being that for each model release, AI companies will have to seek approval from highly unqualified government officials.

I will also add, that if this becomes the norm, it would essentially kill any of OpenAI or Anthropic's competitors and create

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@BleacherReport @FOXSoccer Corruption

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Ugh...

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Daniel Cressy, 23, becomes the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The immigration thing is really a metaphor for everything. America can win with immigration or it can lose because a minority of the population doesn’t like how certain people look different from themselves.

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More of the same from Polymarket, false headlines that almost certainly influenced traders in markets they are taking bets on...

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Eric Trump claims the screenshots alleging his insider trading activity are AI-generated. Daniel Cormier claims he was hacked. These could both be true. And it is unlikely that even if Trump was engaging in insider trading, he would be blatantly admitting it to strangers on X.

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Phrases like "many people have voiced concerns about X" are designed to quickly provide legitimacy to the concerned party without having to provide the details/evidence/reasoning needed to determine if the claims are spurious.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This new research on US unicorn startups is really interesting.

Some key facts from the report:

1. Immigrants founded or cofounded 455 of America’s 775 privately held billion-dollar startups, equal to 59% of all US unicorns.

2. 66% of all US unicorns were founded or cofounded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.

3. 79% of US unicorns have either an immigrant founder or an immigrant in a key leadership role.

4. The 455 immigrant-founded US unicorns have a combined valuation of $5 trillion.

5. That $5 trillion valuation is larger than the total stock-market value of companies listed in all but 7 countries.

6. Including immigrant-founded unicorns that went public since 2016 pushes the total value above $5.8 trillion.

7. The number of immigrant-founded US unicorns rose from 50 in 2018 to 455 in 2026.

8. 24% of US unicorns have a founder who first came to America as an international student.

[Raymond Baartmans @BAARTMNS]

Most people—including highly educated people—are not trained in epistemology, probability, falsifiability, or cognitive bias.

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Thomas Massie should go ahead and start the Libel Party.

[bouvard @bouvard38829538]

Language is a ledger; attempts to falsify it will eventually show up as liabilities.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine.

In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on:

- retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels
- RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life
- small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol
- Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection
- this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors

This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.

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Has there been an analysis of big money behind the Epstein psychosis yet?