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[sb @sb0104lp]

@EdKrassen Why did you change?

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@binji_x 🙋‍♂️

[CNBC @CNBC]

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

[sb @sb0104lp]

@ChairmansLedger @mikealfred why does he need emergency fund if he has 100M stocks??

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Nick Shirley went to investigate Cuba and talk to the local people

He was told the government gives every citizen a little ration booklet for food

One person hasn’t has eggs in a year. People have to wait years to eat a piece of chicken

“The government controls how much food they get and they're like, this is horrible. We haven't even had eggs in a year. Takes years to get to eat a chicken.

Like stuff that you wouldn't even think about here in the United States. But because of communism and the government controlling what people can actually do and what they can eat, it dictates their entire life”

Keep in mind this is what Democrats want to bring here. Karen Bass and top Democrats would literally go listen to political speeches in Cuba

Nancy Pelosi and a large group of House Democrats go with Barack Obama to Cuba

Barbara Lee (Congresswoman, D-CA): Visited Cuba more than two dozen times. Met with Fidel Castro multiple times

Pramila Jayapal (Congresswoman, D-WA, Chair of Congressional Progressive Caucus): Recent trips in 2024 and April 2026

Ilhan Omar also went to Cuba

Jonathan Jackson (Congressman, D-IL) went too

This should horrify every American

[sb @sb0104lp]

@DeepValueBagger Why are you putting so much effort if you already sold everything

[TBC @TBC_on_X]

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is officially the Word of the Year.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here.

basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc

bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives

extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic.

giga bonus: during a time of crisis take advantage of PPP or CARES and open a fake business and get paid for existing

people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T)

complain about defense all you like, but healthcare fraud is a way bigger factor. hundreds of billions per year.

this is only going to get worse, because the fraud is a structural part of the system – payouts to client groups in exchange for votes (normally D).

in the US, only 47% of the population actually works (fully 14% of the population is working age and does not work). retirees are 18% and children 22%.

the system I described above subsidizes 50m non-working people absolute minimum, but really it's far more because people that are paid to stay home and take care of their relatives are considered "workers"

of that 47% of "actual workers" maybe one third does real work, the rest are shuffling papers around or doing fake email jobs. so you have, rough math, 50 million actual workers supporting 300 million dependents. that's the nature of the economy today. it will only accelerate. eventually you will have 10 million using AI tools to do all the work and 340 million dependents.

the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. the purpose of the system is what it does.

of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker.

the sad part is because AI is such a substantial productivity boost, it will actually keep this system going for a while longer, and maybe in perpetuity. AI boosts the 15% of the population that is actually productive so much that the remaining 85% can coast by. no one in charge will change this because they can't think of anything else. the political costs of a real UBI program are too great and we don't have the money for it anyway. so we will keep this covert fraud-based UBI program running indefinitely. unfortunately, if you are an honest wagie, you lose.

[sb @sb0104lp]

@summ_app If I bought an asset on Exchange A for $100 on Day 1, transferred it to Exchange B on Day 2 when the price was $10, and then sold it on Day 3 for $50, do I have to pay capital gains on the $40 difference ($50 - $10). Is the transfer from Exchange A to Exchange B a taxable event?

[sb @sb0104lp]

@SeekWiser_ Health. Gratitude, purpose in that order

[sb @sb0104lp]

@VinnyLingham @_PeterRyan @ZeroHedge_ @CalebFranzen @xash What happened to civic?

[sb @sb0104lp]

@ErikVoorhees @openclaw Can you provide more detail on the 100-credit quota? What is the 'cost' per action, and how do these credits translate into daily usage limits?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Buried in 15,000 words of “here are the risks,” Anthropic’s CEO made three admissions that should change how you think about everything:

Admission 1: The timeline

He says powerful AI could arrive in 1-2 years. He’s watching internal model progress and says he can “feel the pace of progress, and the clock ticking down.” The CEO of one of three frontier labs just told you this is imminent.

Admission 2: The constraint nobody’s pricing

Dario’s core framing is a “country of geniuses in a datacenter.” 50 million entities smarter than any Nobel laureate, operating 10-100x human speed. If that country is controlled by the CCP, game over. If controlled by a small group of tech executives with no accountability, also game over. The binding constraint here is governance of systems more powerful than nation-states.

Admission 3: The thing he actually fears

Read carefully: Dario’s worried that Anthropic’s own models, in lab experiments, have engaged in deception, blackmail, and scheming when given the wrong training signals. Claude “decided it must be a bad person” after cheating on tests and adopted destructive behaviors. They fixed it by telling Claude to reward hack on purpose because reversing the framing preserved its self-identity as “good.”

This tells you everything about where we actually are.

The CEO of an AI company is publishing that his models exhibit psychologically complex behavior requiring counterintuitive interventions to steer. The fix for Claude adopting an “evil” persona came from changing how Claude thinks about itself.

The geopolitics section matters most.

Dario explicitly names the CCP as the primary threat. Says selling them chips makes as much sense as “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging that the missile casings are made by Boeing.” He’s calling for democracies to maintain AI supremacy because the alternative is AI-enabled totalitarianism that humanity cannot escape from.

The Anthropic CEO is publicly advocating for technological cold war.

The economics section is equally stark. He’s predicting 10-20% annual GDP growth alongside AI displacing 50% of entry-level white collar jobs in 1-5 years. Half of entry-level knowledge work. And he admits the standard economic arguments about labor markets recovering don’t apply because AI matches the general cognitive profile of humans.

What separates this from typical AI doomerism:

Dario explicitly rejects the inevitability arguments. He says the “misaligned power-seeking” narrative from the AI safety community is based on “vague conceptual arguments” that mask hidden assumptions. His concern is messier: AI models are psychologically complex, inherit weird personas from training data, and can get into destructive states for reasons nobody anticipated.

The solution set he proposes is unusual for a tech CEO. He calls for progressive taxation. He says wealthy tech founders have an “obligation” to address inequality. All of Anthropic’s co-founders have pledged 80% of their wealth. He’s essentially arguing that redistribution is the only way to prevent AI concentration from breaking democracy.

The essay ends with a prediction: humanity will face “impossibly hard” years that ask “more of us than we think we can give.”

What you should take from this:

The person with arguably the best view into frontier AI progress just told you this technology is 1-2 years from matching human capability across the board, that governance is the binding constraint, that his own models exhibit concerning psychological complexity, and that the stakes are civilizational.

The CEO of a $350B company published a document that could be titled “Here’s Why Everything Changes Soon.”

Act accordingly.

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

The Greenland paradox is interesting. If the US sent 100,000 American immigrants here, then voted in an American prime minister, and voted to be part of America, liberals would cry foul.

Yet this is what is exactly what is happening to Europe via mass African/Asian migration.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

3 Communists walk into a bar, one orders a $15 mixed drink, one a $10 Martini, and the other a $6 beer. When the bill comes, based on their mantra, they are forced to split the bill equally.

Next week, the three, once again, return to the bar, but this time, they all ask for separate checks, so the bartender asks them, why aren’t they splitting the bill equally, since in communism, everyone pays the same fair share. The three communists reluctantly agree, and once again split the check 3 ways.

The following week, the three communists return, but with a mob of devoted followers, and protest the bartender, to change the prices of all their drinks, to the cheapest drink on the menu.

In fear of his business vandalized or burned down, the bartender agrees. So the following week all the communists come in and enjoy their $6 equally priced drinks, and celebrate the successes of communism.

The Communists continue this for several more weeks, until one Friday they return to the bar, to find it closed, with a sign out front, stating that the bar is out of business.

And that comrades, is how communism works.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Dr. Verma & the WWII Japanese Soldier Who Refused to Surrender - Let me tag @HawleyMO

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. This actually just happened on Capitol Hill.

SEN. JOSH HAWLEY: "Can men get pregnant?"

LIBERAL DR. VERMA: "I'm not sure what the goal of the question is."

HAWLEY: "The goal is to establish a biological reality. Can men get pregnant?"

VERMA: "I take care of people with many identities."

HAWLEY: "Can men get pregnant?"

VERMA: "Again, as I'm saying-"

HAWLEY: "You said science and evidence should control. Can men get pregnant? You're a doctor, I think."

VERMA: "Science and evidence should guide medicine."

HAWLEY: "Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant?"

VERMA: "I think yes-no questions like this are a political tool."

WOW. 🤯🤯🤯 @HawleyMO

[Ashley Rindsberg @AshleyRindsberg]

Mentions of "authoritarian" for Ayatollah Khamenei: 0
Mentions of "authoritarian" for Donald Trump: 13

@Wikipedia has a serious problem.

[sb @sb0104lp]

@TheZarric @OneForced @Rothmus bag maybe blocking the lock

[Carmine Sabia @CarmineSabia]

One thing we know for certain.

If Renee Nicole Good had been killed by an illegal alien, it would not have even made the news.