the masculine urge to grab your laptop, a starlink receiver, clear your schedule and go to a cabin in the woods for a few weeks to strictly vibe code and lift weights without human contact
Marketing: “we need a 12th logo for this slide.”
Biz dev guy: “Anthropic.”
Marketing: “we’ve…partnered with ourselves?”
Biz dev guy: *shrugs*
Marketing:
U.S. official to Axios:
This isn't 3D chess — it's 12-dimensional.
He contradicts himself regularly, so nobody knows what he's thinking. It's on purpose.
@VladTheInflator Let me enlighten you and tell you that the codebase is open source and anyone can fork away from it if a government were to seize control. It has the ultimate escape hatch for a global citizen led order, it's called the consensus algorithm.
This is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of VLC media player. He turned down tens of millions of dollars to ensure VLC remains completely ad-free. Thank you, Jean!
@KobeissiLetter It’s funny how people are surprised that governments find new ways to “tax” companies and people that have money, when they are in massive debt and a fiscal deficit…like seriously what did you expect to happen?!
@PeterMcCormack It’s really hard to convince a generation with NO capital that capitalism is better than literally any other option (which always includes socialism). It’s just rationale from their perspective even if the outcome is bad for the entire country.