(Maybe) Dr. Matt

Socio-Economic Historian and Sometimes Philologist. Liberty-oriented scholar of Buddhism. Writing "Was the Buddha a Socialist?". Green light enthusiast.

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

Periodic reminder:

Be a thinker, not a stinker.

[Daryl Fairweather, PhD | Chief Economist @FairweatherPhD]

Ever wonder why there are random parking lots in NYC? It's because our tax system rewards land holders and penalizes building. A Land Value Tax would force development and help solve the housing crisis! 📉🏡

[Stocktwits @Stocktwits]

Trump at 5:59pm on Sunday

[Marian L Tupy @Marian_L_Tupy]

Archeologists recovered over 20,000 cuneiform clay tablets revealing that ancient merchants used complex corporate charters, built credit portfolios, engaged in securitization, and had formal systems for profit splits, commercial courts, and early-investment withdrawal penalties.

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

@EmrickDoc69 Is this my 40 year old ex?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Trump declares “I’d be the greatest communist in history.”

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

“Read” is doing a lot of work here.

They really mean have AI offer interpretations.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Texas becomes first state to require students to read the Bible

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

California's billionaire wealth tax will raise less revenue than promised, and when it fails, the next target is ordinary savers. A wealth tax on billionaires is the first step toward taxing everyone's savings, explains Cato’s @veroderugy.
https://t.co/oTkK7cXwEx

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

Gee, I wonder what the selection criteria will be?

Congressional traders are absolutely licking their chops. No way will there be a ban on trading now.

Horrible outcome.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The Trump Administration has struck a deal with Anthropic which grants the company permission to release its Mythos 5 model to a group of ~100 companies and federal agencies, per CNBC.

Details include:

1. Senior Anthropic staffers flew to Washington DC to meet with members of the Trump Administration

2. Anthropic said earlier this month that it disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with an export control directive from the government

3. The Trump Administration and Anthropic have been in a two-week-long standoff over its latest models

This deal will have industry-wide implications.

[Adam Thierer @AdamThierer]

de facto licensing of AI models has arrived in America. Incredible to see this administration so completely reverse course on this issue. Here's what @neil_chilson
and I had to say earlier about this danger:

https://t.co/SKgqfLmqyE

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

Khabib level ground and pound

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

Not quite #monksgonewild but … that choke slam was trained ngl.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Louisiana pastor beats up a man who allegedly threatened to r*pe and kill his wife and grandchildren.

[Daniel Riaño @danielrruf]

Discutiendo sobre un texto estoico escrito hace 2000 años en un rollo de papiro que quedó sepultado bajo 20 mts de lava en Herculano en 79 dC, rescatado en el s. XVIII y que finalmente podemos leer, sin abrir el rollo carbonizado, gracias a un sincrotron + machine learning

[Stark @RmcfStarkia]

Há 21 anos, Maradona disse a Pelé: “Meu sonho é cabecear uma bola com você.”

Um momento de uma era do futebol que nunca poderemos recuperar. 🕊️⚽️

[Marian L Tupy @Marian_L_Tupy]

As for his legislation, notice Mr. Sanders is not trying to seize AI profits because in general there aren’t any.

https://t.co/a6V2H17c2t

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

CUBA APPROVES SWEEPING MARKET REFORMS IN MAJOR SHIFT

HAVANA — The National Assembly unanimously approved private banks, real estate development and expanded private business, the biggest move toward free markets since the 1959 revolution.

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

@PAHoyeck Que the song...

I'm a bitch, I'm a Professor
I'm a child, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

That said, governments should not mandate such things. That's ridiculous and absurd and downright scary.

Further, not every school/teacher is equipped w/ the faculty to be able to do so at a high level.

Many variables at play here.

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

The solution is obviously to teach important primary sources and the value of higher criticism (for all literary things, not just religious texts).

The value in teaching these skills is insane; ESPECIALLY if done so within the primary sources (here, Greek or Hebrew).

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

The Bible has furnished the Western mind for centuries with analogies, phrases and images. That’s the context for a debate in Texas over whether to add biblical verses to the English curriculum in public schools.
https://t.co/hh5CqUwjNj

[Robert E. Wright @robertewright]

Why stop there? I'm told it has assets already. Why not liquidate them, over several years so as not to have to sell too low, and use the proceeds to buy all sorts of industries. I am sure we will all soon be swimming in free stuff, manna from heaven as it were. As if The Fall never happened.

[Tim Jayas @TimJayas]

Congress just dropped a bomb on the Anthropic ban

Four members of Congress request an explanation of Howard W. Lutnick's export ban against Claude Fable no later than 26th June

Here's few questions they are asking:

- Was Anthropic even given a chance to fix it before you banned them?
- Is this capability truly unique to Anthropic or do other models have the same thing?
- Did you actually follow the required legal process before slapping controls on the model?
- What’s the real factual basis for claiming “military intelligence end use”?

This could be the first real legal pushback

Ignoring a bipartisan letter from Congress won’t look good especially with accusations that Lutnick has financial ties to OpenAI

What do you think might be the explanation behind fable ban?