Travis Endicott

#PoliSci PhD @OleMiss #FirstGen Researchs political behavior and military veterans. Avid sports fan (@Eagles @whitesox @NDfootball @SoundersFC)

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

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[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

REPOST for a chance to win an autographed Miguel Vargas baseball.

[Independent Veterans of America @IndyVetsAmerica]

ENDORSED: Navy veteran Jeremy Vaughan for Mayor of Ridgecrest, California.

In 2024, Ridgecrest elected an independent veteran mayor — one of IVA’s first endorsements, and one of the first to win.

Now another Navy vet is…

https://t.co/PIrYq09JIb

[Travis Endicott @travisendicott]

@PaulRieckhoff

[Travis Endicott @travisendicott]

@brownrd5 I can't support this... I wish you to be happy but this can't happen for all of our sakes.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Anthropic is getting hate for this, but it's ultimately an outcome of the same disconnect between copyright law and technology that's been hobbling the Internet for 25 years.

Digital telecommunications drops the marginal cost of replication and distribution of the information contained in a book, or any other media, to zero. Google Books was originally intended as an online Library of Alexandria that would provide access to every book ever written. The publishing industry saw that as a threat, and used copyright to shut that down, as a result of which Google Books is effectively useless.

LLMs are essentially knowledge machines that can digest the entire corpus of human knowledge, rendering it legible and interrogable in ways that no other library does. That's very useful, but it requires, by definition, vast quantities of training data. The best training data is not Reddit posts, but books, because that's where the knowledge is.

Anthropic is destroying, instead of just scanning, the books for essentially the same reason that Google locked down Google Books. Since the original no longer exists, only one copy remains, and the rights attached to purchase of the original copy transfer to the digital copy. It would cost Anthropic nothing, in principle, to make its digital library freely available to everyone, but they'd get sued into bankruptcy by the publishing industry.

Meanwhile, you can go on Amazon and regularly find used copies of out of print books from even just a couple decades ago going for hundreds of dollars. The publishing industry keeps the vast majority of its back catalogue in the vault, with no intention of making it available for sale. And, ok, it isn't necessarily profitable to reprint an old book everyone has forgotten. That's fine, printing is expensive, but keeping the information itself hidden is criminally insane.

[Independent Veterans of America @IndyVetsAmerica]

29 endorsed. 4 already won. The goal: 100 independent veteran leaders on the ballot in 2026 — Senate to school board. The most ambitious plan in the history of the independent movement. Endorsements don't win elections. Resources do. Fuel the pack.

[Independent Veterans of America @IndyVetsAmerica]

Fuel the pack: https://t.co/FuGbgF9X8Q

[Travis Endicott @travisendicott]

I loved #TheOdyssey. I always asked my college students, “Did Odysseus ever really make it home?” Christopher Nolan’s film suggests he didn’t—not the man he was before war. Many veterans know that feeling. We all have our lotus leaves to keep the demons at bay.

[🎙Independent Americans @indy_americans]

Small town. Small budget. Big win.

[Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PaulRieckhoff]

Join me, Max Brooks, Ridgecrest, CA Mayor Travis Endicott and others at 1ET for a discussion that will bring some hope on this Tuesday.

There’s still time to sign up now here:

[MLB @MLB]

Please say hello to your 1st place @WhiteSox 😏

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

Walk-off home run in MLB debut, MLB history:

6/9/26 Braden Montgomery
5/5/2015 Carlos Perez
6/20/2003 Miguel Cabrera
8/23/2002 Josh Bard
9/9/1971 Billy Parker                   

FIFTH EVER!!!

h/t @EliasSports

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

The Spurs went to 6 Finals
Won 5 of them
Lost Tim Duncan
Entered a rebuild
Went 22-60
Drafted Wemby
Changed head coaches
Went from 34 to 62 wins
Made the Finals again

All before the Cowboys made it back to the NFC Championship

[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

Tonight, the Secretary of the Treasury is personally vetting and approving each company that gets access to the most advanced U.S. AI model, because the risks of the model being misused to hurt US national security are so high.

Also tonight, Jensen Huang is flying on Air Force One with President Trump to Beijing to sell China the AI chips it will use to develop its own Mythos-level AI model as soon as possible.

The administration’s AI policy remains inconsistent and incoherent. It is impossible to justify these two approaches simultaneously.

[Travis Endicott @travisendicott]

Doug was one of my students at Ole Miss. Couldn't be happier about this!!! ❤️

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

The Chicago White Sox have claimed left-handed pitcher Doug Nikhazy off waivers from the Cleveland Guardians and have optioned him to Class AAA Charlotte.

[Jordan Powell @Smuphy]

Seems fitting today.

Call to arms - Sturgill Simpson