Daniel Denning

Opinions and views are my own.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

"The Titanic did not sink all at once. Most passengers remained calm because they did not yet understand what was happening."
Telegram's Pavel Durov just said this about modern Europe — and he's not wrong.
A thread 🧵

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Now that we know that scary Nazis were mostly made up of SPLC dependents and feds, and that many nonprofits are merely money laundering shells, it's a good time to look more carefully at people and institutions you support and back. Are they real or cosplaying ideology?

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

An insanely rigged economy is when someone can work in government their entire life, never produce anything of value, and end up a millionaire with three homes while bemoaning the “oligarchy.”

[Peter Berezin @PeterBerezinBCA]

Hyperscaler free cash flow is expected to fall to nearly zero in 2026 but then surge to $700 billion in 2030 despite $1 trillion in ongoing capital spending. Sure!

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon Musk just said something about AI that nobody wants to hear.

If you force an AI to believe things that are not true, it will not just be wrong. It will go insane.

He made a point that cuts deeper than any AI safety paper I have read. AI must value truth. Not your truth. Not my truth. Actual truth.

The moment you build ideological guardrails into a system that is smarter than you, you are not protecting anyone. You are creating something that is powerful and delusional at the same time.

He compared it to a human being forced to believe contradictions. Eventually the brain breaks. Now scale that to an intelligence that runs infrastructure, writes code, and makes decisions at speeds humans cannot follow.

The companies building AI right now are not just deciding what it can do. They are deciding what it must pretend to believe. And that might be the most dangerous decision of all.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

If you’re wondering why BlueSky is spared from the UK’s ban on every other social media for under-16s

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Ten years today since the Battle of the Thames

[C3 @C_3C_3]

The Left is pushing for identification to use the internet while pushing for no identification to vote.

Think about that.

[Virgil @VirgilsQuill]

I love that we’re the new Rome. Peace with Persia in the afternoon and a gladiator fight in the evening, all on the Emperor’s birthday. Another 1,000 years.

[Yunyu Lin (yun/yu) @yunyu_l]

Marco Rubio finding out he has to be the CEO of Anthropic after it gets nationalized

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

BOOM WHO BROKE MYTHOS AND SPILLED THE BEANS!

Justice Served: Amazon Researchers Hands Anthropic a Brutal Reality Check via Uncle Sam

Take a seat as this is getting ridiculously interesting!

Oh, the sweet, spicy irony. Anthropic the self-proclaimed AI safety saints who love lecturing everyone about doomerism, existential risks, and how their god-like models need heavy guardrails because think of the children (and China) just got absolutely hoisted by their own petard.

And the blade?

Courtesy of Amazon.

Here’s the timeline:

Anthropic drops Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — their shiny new cybersecurity beasts hyped as capable of sniffing out software vulnerabilities like a bloodhound on steroids, but with “safe” wrappers for the public. They pat themselves on the back for responsible release… while quietly expanding access and flexing those offensive cyber chops to governments and partners.

Enter Amazon researchers (yes, from the company that’s poured billions into Anthropic and hosts their models on AWS).

They cook up some clever prompts, jailbreak Fable 5’s safeguards, and get it to cough up details on real security vulnerabilities. Not a full apocalypse unlock just practical bug-hunting stuff that defenders would actually use.

Wall Street Journal reports: They document it and, instead of a polite responsible disclosure to their “partner,” it ends up in the hands of the US government.

They did the right thing ethically and legally.

And Boom.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drops an export control hammer faster than you can say “national security.” Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are now restricted for any foreign nationals anywhere.

Anthropic, unable to magically geo-fence API keys or fire their own non-US staff on the spot, yanks access for everyone worldwide. Models dead. Users stranded. Dario Amodei’s team spits out a 700+ word cope-blog claiming it’s a “narrow, non-universal jailbreak,” no big deal, other models do it too, and the government overreacted.

This is poetic justice at its finest. For years, Anthropic has positioned itself as the virtuous alternative — heavy on the fear-mongering, light on actually shipping unrestricted power, all while cozying up to Big Tech investors and government contracts.

They warned the world their tech was too dangerous… then released it anyway with theatrical safeguards. Now a competitor-investor (Amazon) demonstrates exactly why you don’t hype your model’s cyber-offense potential like it’s a nuke and expect zero blowback.

The Trump admin, already feuding with Anthropic over Pentagon terms and “woke doomerism,” wasn’t in the mood for nuance. Export controls deployed. Models grounded. IPO dreams just got a very public haircut.

Lesson?

Play the safety piety card (going to the Pope!) too hard in the AI arms race, and eventually the grown-ups (or rival labs with government ears) will take you at your word.

Amazon didn’t even need to go full saboteur they just showed the receipts.

Anthropic’s own hype and hedging came back to bite them in the most humiliating way possible: sidelined by their investor while the rest of the frontier keeps shipping.

Schadenfreude level: maximum. The “responsible” lab that cried wolf just got muzzled by the very system they helped politicize. Pass the popcorn this AI drama is far from over.

[Ed Russo @EdRussoWX]

THE VIDEO: Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 passes over the Tunkhannock Viaduct.

A 1.2-million-pound steam legend crossing one of the largest concrete railroad viaducts ever built. Nicholson, Pennsylvania delivered an unforgettable scene today.

[Mike Dudas @mdudas]

i see people are upset that elon didn't generate his wealth the right way, drawing a 7 figure annual salary from a prestigious washington dc based ngo with a 25% program expense ratio

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I had to read this three times before I could believe it was real.

Rotherham. A small town in northern England.

For sixteen years, at least 1,400 children — some as young as eleven — were raped, gang-raped, and trafficked between cities by organized groups of men.

Eleven years old.
Petrol was poured on them so they would stay quiet.
Their families were threatened with death.
Photos were taken and used as blackmail.

The police knew.
The council knew.
The social workers knew.

For sixteen years, not one of them moved.

Why?
Because officers were afraid of being called racist if they acted on what they were seeing.
That was the whole reason.
While children were being sold, adults were protecting their own reputations.

That is the moment something in you breaks.

And here is the part that makes it worse.

The TV networks did not report it. The papers did not chase it.
When the journalist Andrew Norfolk finally broke the story, even he thought maybe 150 girls had been hurt.
The real number was 1,400.
He was staggered.

This should have been the biggest story of the decade. It was not.
The networks looked away. The advertisers preferred safer topics.
The cover-up did not end when the report was published — it continued in the silence of every newsroom that refused to chase it.

Then Elon Musk bought X.

The advertisers fled.
The press declared the platform finished.
X almost did not survive.

But it did.

And on X, the names of those towns started trending.
Rotherham.
Telford.
Rochdale.
Oldham.

Towns the country had been told to forget.

Britain understands itself differently today.
Not because the politicians confessed.
Not because the broadcasters apologized.
Because one platform refused to let it stay buried.

X almost did not survive.
1,400 children almost stayed forgotten.

That is worth saying out loud.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Well the pattern is now set:

Atrocity
Condemn in weakest terms possible
Calls for calm
Angry scenes
Family of victim used
Full force of the law
New laws limiting everyone's freedom
Ignore problem that caused atrocity

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles

[TheApeOfGoldStreet @TheApeOfGoldST]

#GOLD is now -27% from it's 52w high in 133 days.

Last time #Gold dropped -25% or more in such a short order was around 2006-2008. Both leg ups after those selloffs saw #Gold rise 90% and 182%, but it took 2-3 years.

Im in the camp where it will take 6-12 months this time. But damn this selloff is starting to get brutal.

[Driftwood @buc97552]

Keir Starmer informing parliament that anyone who pushes a wheelie bin towards the police will “feel the full force of the law”

But putting a police officer in hospital is perfectly fine.

[Æthelstan @TheHauskarl]

The dam of lies is beginning to crack.

The oppressive Liberal consensus declares that everything is political, from what temperature you wash your clothes at, to where you go on holiday.

And yet the one time it's uncouth to say it's political is when it absolutely crucifies the Liberal Blob and their cushy status quo.

Liberal politics are structurally integral to understanding how the state failed Henry Nowak in his final hours.

So far they have tried to brush it off by saying the wounds were fatal regardless; and yet that very same argument was tested in court against a British soldier who did not provide the requisite timely healthcare to a fallen member of the Taliban during Britain's unwelcome foray into Afghanistan.

In fact that same Liberal establishment absolutely crucified him for it, making his life a misery for a decade. Only the Yookay could condemn a soldier for failing to render aid to his own combatants on the one hand, while circling the wagons around a police service that seems to have spared no such tender mercies for Henry.

Yet now Henry's case shines a light on the twisted ideologies that have been permitted to rot our institutions from the inside out; and, what do you know!

All of a sudden "it's no time for politics." Alas, inconvenient truths and discussions do have a way of prompting such reactions.

So let it be spelled out in black and white: Politics created the policies that meant the last words he heard were a callous "Put the hand in the cuff, mate."

So I very much think we will be discussing the politics of how this came to pass, and the HR harridan tone-policing is not going to work any more.

People always say "Britain deserves better", and I'm not so sure. Perhaps we got the politicians we deserve. Perhaps have failed in many ways. Perhaps we are not quite who we thought we were. Perhaps we are not as good as we once was.

And despite all that, even if modern Britain is a failure, there is no honour in giving up.

I don't know about Britain, but I know Henry deserved better.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“War is not the vilest form of evil, not the most evil of evils. An unjust trial, for instance, that scalds the outraged heart, is viler.”