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[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

@lyndagorov Haha. 🤣

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

What exactly are you trying to say here? I’m an older American who has paid taxes and Social Security contributions out of virtually every paycheck I’ve ever earned- money I could have saved, invested, or spent elsewhere.

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there’s still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.

It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.

Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

4/ But framing this as one generation defrauding another is not only unfair, I think it’s dangerous. It fuels generational resentment rather than focusing on fixing the system and could ultimately hurt millions of Americans, especially the most vulnerable who depend on it.

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

3/ We didn’t design the system; we paid into it for decades.

Every generation is required to finance government decisions it may strongly disagree with—wars, immigration policies, waste, corruption, and countless other priorities.

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

We don’t hold individual taxpayers responsible for those decisions simply because their taxes funded them.

If your argument is that Social Security is financially unsustainable and needs reform, say that. I’m interested in that argument.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Remember the Dad who was being interviewed by MSNOW and CNN about his son…who was struggling with his mental health on the USS Lincoln?
This man…Luis Manuel Aviles…revealed ship conditions that Pete Hegseth is denying…and lying about. He was likely instrumental in helping get these sailors headed on their way home
He’s been arrested by immigration officials.
Trump is rolling back immigration protection for military families.
This is what retribution looks like.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

BREAKING:

When today’s jobs are automated by AI, what will great human work look like?

This is the most important question of our time.
Introducing Thesis Statements, a new project from @every bringing together 100 builders and thinkers to call their shot:

We asked them to make a specific prediction about what great human work will look like after automation.
Today we’re launching the first 25 Thesis Statements from an incredible group including:

• @karrisaarinen
• @cjpedregal
• @neuranne
• @yash_tek
• @komorama
• @fkpxls
• @jonnym1ller
• @p_millerd
• @sariazout
• @tomcritchlow
• @SimoneStolzoff

And 14 more amazing builders and thinkers.

At @every we believe there is a bright future for human work after automation. And we believe that there’s a small group of humans who know what it looks like—because they live the answers every day.

But their ideas are still largely missing from the mainstream discourse about AI. That’s why we’re creating a public record of what people at the frontier are seeing now, so we can get these ideas to as many people as possible.

We’ll also revisit them over time, and ask: Which claims held up? Which didn’t? Which became more useful as the technology changed—and which dissolved on contact with the world?

Read them, argue with them, share them, and submit your own:

https://t.co/8BdBmmocRi

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

@donwinslow The Game

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

@emollick Gov't waits to release until:

A. Other (cooperating) models catch up to Fable's lead.

B. Anthropic agrees to some form of payola, or signs a contract letting the War Dept use AI for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons

[Ridark @ridark_eth]

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet

Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain.

You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets.

Here's the whole thing:

> Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code

> Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it

> Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it

> Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this"

> Ask questions across everything, forever

Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again.

Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below.

Bookmark this

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

I told you, Bob leaves for a month and the next thing you know… That indoctrinated echo chamber isn’t in your ear and you start thinking for yourself…

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

@ihteshamali Anthropic has been consistent about their mission: roll out frontier AI cautiously, study how it’s used, and put guardrails in place where needed.

You can disagree with that philosophy. But portraying it as some unprecedented surveillance scandal is a reach.

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

@MatthewBerman Anthropic was trying to be transparent and self regulate. I can think of several reasons why this administration would harm Anthropic. All frontier model should be subject to the same regulation. And restricting foreign employees? Give me a break.

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

@TheraPantis @ishkabubbles Totally disagree with Brian. Govt is targeting Anthropic

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

Sounds like govt retribution

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Adam Khoo @adamkhootrader]

As everyone watches the SpaceX IPO today, its worth remembering this advice from Buffett

"The idea that a newly issued security (IPO)—brought to market at a time of the seller's choosing and surrounded by massive hype—is the single best bargain among thousands of global businesses is absolute nonsense.

When an offering carries a ridiculous 7% commission just to incentivize salespeople, it simply cannot be the most attractive investment available.

While people easily get caught up in the excitement of a new launch, look at the reality: you have thousands of existing public companies whose prices are set by a natural auction market, free from aggressive promotion or hidden fees.

It makes no sense to buy a security precisely when an insider decides the timing is perfect to sell. Frankly, it isn't worth spending five seconds thinking about IPOs."
- Warren Buffett

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

I can't wait to learn more about the implications of these findings

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game.

Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it.

This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality.

It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there.

A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs.

The implications for UAP and alien life are immense.
Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it.

The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up.

Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop.

Full conversation is live now.

[mindybrandon @mindybrandon]

@EricTopol Are there valid reasons to continue with these supplements?

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Mark Cuban says AI will split every company into 2 categories within 3 years

"When it's all said and done over the next 3 years, there's going to be two types of companies. Those who are great at AI and those who went out of business"

"The biggest challenge for a company is going to be for the CEO to make that decision that we're going to have to blow up a lot of what we do to recreate our company"

"We hear a lot of stories about huge public companies that spend a lot of money to try to implement AI and it doesn't really get them a return on investment."

"Because you already are running your business the way you've always run it."

"The things you've considered outsourcing, your customer call centers, AI agents are perfect for. The stuff you would give to an intern, AI agents are perfect for"

"But to really take advantage of AI you have to reformulate your business completely to build it on AI"