The release candidate for MCP 2026-07-28 is out. The protocol is now stateless: no handshake, no session id, any request can hit any server instance. Plus extensions as first-class (MCP Apps, Tasks), auth hardening, and a proper deprecation policy so we don't have to do this again.
https://t.co/XRLTu1BSkB
Turn your idea into a @Roblox game.
Introducing Metain. Now available in Beta.
Metain lets you build directly in Roblox Studio by chatting with AI. Describe a game you want to make and watch it generate production-ready systems, UI and logic live, synced to Studio.
🚨The official poverty line is a lie based on 1963 food prices. It measures starvation, not participation.
When you account for the actual cost of housing, healthcare, and childcare in 2024, the real survival threshold for a family is ~$140,000.
$100k is the new poor.
Link 👇
Tech layoffs are reminder you're just # on spreadsheet, not part of a 'family' or any nonsense HR weasel-speak. Related, never fear leaving a bad situation. Don't let anyone gaslight you about optics of 'job hopping' -it's actually high agency to cut losses. They can, so can you
Here is one of the most easy-to-follow e2e tutorials, by Hubel Labs, of how to setup an advanced RAG pipeline over your data 👇
There are comprehensive diagrams showing you what the entire RAG pipeline looks like, from ingestion to retrieval. There is also a great visualization of what it looks like to decouple the indexed chunk vs. the synthesized chunk in our sentence window retriever technique.
And of course there's also a detailed Colab walkthrough.
It's fantastic and I highly recommend you check it out!
Video: https://t.co/UgLh6q9kUh
An update on @MIT Chairman Gorenberg and his wife's non-profit, https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK.
This evening an email was forwarded to me from a friend who is an MIT alum which was intended to clarify MIT's involvement in https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK. The forwarded email said the following:
"I read the recent posting by Bill Ackman on “MIT’s” donations to https://t.co/fMg1VVqNwz as indicated by the MIT 990PF.
The entirety of those donations were directed by Mark through the donor advised fund Mark created at MIT using his personal financial resources.
Other than the noted donations, MIT does not have a financial relationship with https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK nor has MIT invested in it.
https://t.co/qGfBycdydM
I think the record should be set straight."
I am writing this post to set the record straight with the benefit of this new information.
I was incorrect in my original post that the source of the funding was the MIT Corporation. Rather, the funds that have been used to support Mr. Gorenberg's wife's non-profit, https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK, were not from MIT's endowment or its corporate resources.
This was also confirmed in a Forbes article which appeared earlier today:
https://t.co/39F4qUucbe
in which the reporter writes:
"MIT told Forbes the donation to https://t.co/4dOX2C32hc came directly from Gorenberg through a donor advised fund."
It turns out that in 2018, MIT formed its own donor advised fund, the MIT DAF. Mr. Gorenberg and his wife are named in the press release for the MIT DAF's launch:
https://t.co/wNJKbvOs7Y
Donor Advised Funds DAF are 501(c)(3) entities that allow donors to contribute cash and/or appreciated securities and obtain an immediate tax deduction. The funds are invested by the DAF and grow tax free until the donor elects to make a donation. The donor retains the right to advise the DAF as to where the ultimate donations are made, subject to some important caveats.
From the IRS website: https://t.co/3J8TqCLkiC:
"Generally, a donor advised fund is a separately identified fund or account that is maintained and operated by a section 501(c)(3) organization, which is called a sponsoring organization. Each account is composed of contributions made by individual donors. Once the donor makes the contribution, the organization has legal control over it. However, the donor, or the donor's representative, retains advisory privileges with respect to the distribution of funds and the investment of assets in the account."
There are, however, important caveats according to the IRS https://t.co/3J8TqCLkiC:
"The IRS is aware of a number of organizations that appeared to have abused the basic concepts underlying donor-advised funds. These organizations, promoted as donor-advised funds, appear to be established for the purpose of generating questionable charitable deductions, and providing impermissible economic benefits to donors and their families (including tax-sheltered investment income for the donors) and management fees for promoters."
In this case, the Chairman of MIT made a donation to the MIT DAF, which in turn funneled the money to https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK, the Founder, CEO, and CFO of which is his wife, and where Gorenberg serves as treasurer.
DAFs are only permitted to give to legitimate charities that don't afford a personal benefit to the individual or family of the individual who donated to the DAF.
https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK received IRS approval to be a public charity, a community trust, in 2017. Had Mr. Gorenberg made his donation directly to https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK instead of via the MIT DAF, https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK would not have been able to sustain its status as a public charity because Mr. Gorenberg is https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK's only donor. Public charities are required to have diversified donor bases, i.e., they must raise at least one-third of their funding from the general public.
Why is https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK's status as a public charity important to Mr. Gorenberg?
The answer is that the amount of the deduction one can receive for a gift of cash to a public charity is double -- a 60% rather than a 30% deduction -- what you can deduct in a gift to a private foundation.
You can also offset a substantially greater amount of your adjustable gross income when giving to a public charity, 50% of AGI, rather than 30% in a gift to a private foundation.
DAFs are required to do careful due diligence on the charities they give to. They must make sure that the non-profit serves a legitimate charitable purpose, and that no personal benefit is being received by the donor to the DAF who directed the donation to the non-profit.
According to the MIT DAF website, the donor recommended grants "will be reviewed by the MIT Distribution Committee." I could not find any information about the Distribution Committee or its membership on MIT's website.
It does not appear that the MIT Distribution Committee did proper due diligence on https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK, and/or received adequate disclosure. Alternatively, the MIT DAF made special exceptions for Chairman Gorenberg in donating to https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK.
As I explained in yesterday evening's post, https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK has only one full-time employee, Mr. Gorenberg's wife; it has never raised funds from anyone other than DAFs affiliated with Mr. Gorenberg; and it has never generated any revenues from its various DEI products and services. As importantly, it is not clear what charitable purpose https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK serves.
The IRS is particularly concerned about the abuse of DAFs, and therefore imposes severe penalties for abusive transactions:
"Examinations of these arrangements may result in the following Service actions in appropriate cases:
disallow deductions for charitable contributions under Internal Revenue Code section 170 for payments to the fund;
impose section 4966 excise taxes on sponsoring organizations and managers of donor-advised funds;
impose section 4958 excise taxes on donors or managers of donor advised funds; and/or (d) deny or revoke the charity's 501(c)(3) exemption."
In other words, if the IRS found that the MIT DAF improperly donated to https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK:
(1) the MIT DAF could lose its tax exemption,
(2) the DAF and the MIT Corporation, as sponsor and manager of the DAF, could become subject to excise taxes, and
(3) the deductions Mr. Gorenberg took in connection with the donations to the MIT DAF could be disallowed, and he could incur severe excise tax penalties.
As a general matter, the tax rules do not allow you to do indirectly what you are not permitted to do directly, and that is what appears to have happened here.
As MIT told Forbes: "the donation to https://t.co/4dOX2C32hc came directly from Gorenberg through a donor advised fund." [Emphasis added.]
Even MIT's understanding which it shared with Forbes is consistent with the facts which emerged upon my examination of these transactions. The MIT DAF was used as a conduit for Chairman Gorenberg to make a donation to his wife's charity that he could not have made directly. This enabled him to receive twice as large a tax deduction, 60% vs. 30%, and to shelter a greater percentage of his adjusted gross income, up to 50% of AGI versus 30%.
So the facts are not exactly as I understood them when I learned of them yesterday, but the substance is just as bad.
MIT's reputation and the tax status of the MIT DAF have been put at serious risk by its Chairman who received a inappropriate personal benefit by using the DAF to achieve substantial tax benefits for himself. And the MIT DAF is at risk of losing its tax exempt status and incurring severe excise tax penalties as a result.
Why would the MIT DAF make a donation to a questionable charity that was affiliated with its Chairman?
The MIT DAF Distribution Committee was either very sloppy, and/or it received inadequate disclosure about https://t.co/rcEh7uG6RK, or the Chairman used his apparent authority to cause the MIT DAF to consummate a transaction that would not have been approved in the ordinary course.
The funds went to a non-profit which promotes DEI ideology, which I have come to learn is not in society's best interests.
As a recent donor to MIT, and one, who up until very recently, was considering substantial additional donations to MIT (To that end, Ed Boyden of MIT's MediaLab made a very impressive presentation on neuroscience at our @PershingSqFdn board meeting just this week), I find all of the above very disturbing.
WSJ with more details on Costco clothing: https://t.co/NiqweXBchy
Sinegal’s convo with MIT: https://t.co/wT4GPhHYZv
And this legendary bit from Sheng Wang (who was interviewed for the WSJ article):
So all a "webhook" is, is just one system making POST requests to another system? There is nothing actually unique happening?
Idk, but I always assumed it was more than that. It seems to simple to be true 🤷♂️
⚠️A while ago I developed Heimdall-WiFi-Radar, only with 3× ESP8266 it was possible to track and position WiFis devices through walls, now with the help of AI we have a new level, it is possible to know where you are and what are you doing! 😱😱
Subjects that should be mandatory in schools:
- Taxes
- Coding
- Cooking
- Insurance
- Weightlifting
- Self-defense
- Survival skills
- Social etiquette
- Public speaking
- Personal finance
- Car maintenance
- Basic home repair
- Stress management
What would you add?