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29 | forged through fire | ♰

[♰ @warrencbjr]

If your nervous system is contingent upon money, you're not close enough to God

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Your entire nervous system relaxes when your finances are in order. Most anxiety is not a mental health problem. It is a cash flow problem. Fix the money first.

[Ansem 🐂🀄️ @blknoiz06]

just let me cook man

[♰ @warrencbjr]

Amen 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Philip Anthony Mitchell @PhilipAMitchell]

Freed from tyranny. Freed from the penalty of sin. Honorable mention for both——with the latter being immensely greater.

#july4
#independence
#independenceday

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

250 years ago, a group of disruptors decided to create a better system, and the greatest country in the world was born.

Let’s make sure we keep building the future right here.

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸

[@jason @Jason]

The right answer is 10-15% in five years

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, America wakes 250 years later as a beacon of hope, a republic entrusted to its people, an idea that changed the world.

A nation worth preserving. A dream worth pursuing. A freedom defended by every generation.

Happy 250th, America! 🇺🇸

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: King Charles sends his “warmest congratulations” to the U.S. on America’s 250th anniversary.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Elon, this is the moment where you're supposed to wise up and abandon classical liberalism.

If you let takers vote, they will not only take more and more, they will make it more and more rewarding to be a taker, and they will convert more and more makers into takers, forever.

Until the makers cannot carry the takers any more.

Universal suffrage leads to universal suffering.

[♰ @warrencbjr]

🤯

[🥇 @thankyouparlay]

Rylo Rodriguez said “ one day I felt like I was clout chasing to get some pussy, I put women in my close friends I ain’t ever met” 😭😭😭😭😭

[♰ @warrencbjr]

She's a lemon drop legend

[Adrian Dittmann @AdrianDittmann]

There’s always a bigger box to think outside of.

[♰ @warrencbjr]

https://t.co/fSS5xdVX0i

[rylo rodriguez @RyloRodriguez]

No matter how many times you fall down in life get back up an try again #SKATE

[♰ @warrencbjr]

@Prisonmitch These World Cup memes are wild 😂

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

The Democrat Party may never recover from this.

[♰ @warrencbjr]

@flapprdotnet @jarvis_best 😂😂😂😂

[Russ' TD ⚡ @RussFcb]

Brazil ain't real man

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Legacy Media types are calling this Alex Karp interview a “crash-out” so that’s your first clue that he is actually saying something extremely insightful. He is articulating what real “AI safety” looks like in the enterprise.

Not abstract alignment research or certification by a government-run DMV for AI. Real AI safety for businesses is the ability to control their own data, model weights, and compute — so a frontier lab can’t hoover up their proprietary knowledge and turn it into their next product.

As Karp explains, technical customers want “control over their compute, their models, their data stack, and their alpha. They want to know they own the means of production, and it’s not being transferred to someone else.”

Don’t think that can happen? Just look at Figma. According to The Information, Anthropic “blindsided” its then-business partner with the launch of Claude Design. Figma’s founder said Anthropic had not been “consistently honest” with them. Anthropic’s chief product officer had even served on Figma’s board until three days before the launch of Claude Design. Figma’s stock has fallen sharply this year while Anthropic’s valuation has surged.

This isn’t an isolated example. Anthropic has launched Claude Science, Claude Security, Claude Legal, and of course Claude Code — each expanding into categories previously served by companies building on top of their models. The pattern is consistent: watch where value is being created, then move in directly. Dominate the model layer, then use that position to capture the most lucrative verticals.

Dario has argued that open source models powerful enough to compete with Anthropic are “dangerous.” But dangerous to whom? Not to enterprises that want to retain control over their data and workflows. Dangerous to a business model that benefits from customers having few real alternatives at the model layer.

As Karp exposes, true enterprise safety isn’t trusting that a lab’s future roadmap won’t include your business. It’s retaining the ability to choose — at the model layer — who gets to see and use your alpha.

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

This episode says a lot about what Anthropic increasingly represents.

“According to The Information, Anthropic “blindsided” its then-business partner with the launch of Claude Design. Figma’s founder said Anthropic had not been “consistently honest” with them. Anthropic’s chief product officer had even served on Figma’s board until three days before the launch of Claude Design. Figma’s stock has fallen sharply this year while Anthropic’s valuation has surged.”
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Dario has argued that open source models powerful enough to compete with Anthropic are “dangerous.” But dangerous to whom? Not to enterprises that want to retain control over their data and workflows. Dangerous to a business model that benefits from customers having few real alternatives at the model layer”
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IMO, the issue is not that Anthropic launched a design product or they making money. Competition is fine. The issue is the combination of moral branding & partner access, and then sudden vertical expansion into a partner’s territory.

Much bigger issue is that they project humility, caution, and public-minded responsibility. But in practice, they behave exactly oppositely, like a company seeking maximum leverage over the model layer, the application layer, enterprise workflows, and the regulatory narrative around who should be allowed to build powerful AI.

Many well-intentioned people unfortunately have bought into the Anthropic myth because the language sounds ethical. But their behavior has been unethical. In AI, the people who claim most loudly that they alone can be trusted with power are exactly the people who need the most scrutiny. This is what will define a dystopia vs utopia in the age of AI.