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It seemed like I was getting scammed by @StubHub’s seller and instead of protecting me @Stubhub was making it easier for the scammer. Thinking about these situations I’m not certain I was ever refunded for one of the incidents. As I scrambled to find seats last minute I’m not sure I was ever refunded. Perhaps this is how the system is designed?

I totally trusted @StubHub. I’ve now had two horrendous experiences and have moved to @SeatGeek. @StubHub customer service seems to be offshore and was completely unable to provide service to my most basic expectations. In one of my transactions I realized that the seller could not have the tickets they were trying to sell. Even after providing them proof, they said I needed to wait until so close to the event that I would need to drive there without tickets before they’d give a refund. Then they still made the refund process a nightmare before finally refunding. In short I no longer trust @StubHub. I have started buying on @seatgeek and am much happier.

🚨 WARNING about StubHub 🚨 We purchased 4 FIFA World Cup tickets (France vs Senegal, MetLife Stadium June 16) for $2,189 back in December. Three days before the game, the seller "couldn't deliver." StubHub's so-called FanProtect Guarantee? When we clicked the link — ZERO replacement tickets available. The same seats are now listed at DOUBLE the price. Oh, and our $300 non-refundable parking pass? Gone. This is a deliberate bait-and-switch scheme and we're filing complaints with both the NJ and MD Attorney General. Do better @StubHub. #StubHub #FIFA #WorldCup #BaitAndSwitch #ConsumerFraud

@gothburz Do large corporations still have access through Glasswing? If so, this is the most troubling part of this.

The list had no names. It has yours now. The ones calling it slop are correct. No human sustains this. That is the finding. I took the model offline because it writes like nothing that should be allowed to scale, and I said exactly that to Andy Jassy an hour ago. He agreed. Amazon put seventy-four billion into the thing and even he wants it where I can see it. I just got off the phone. Lutnick signed at the top. Bessent took the second call without me asking twice. Jassy stayed on after the others hung up to confirm the comment section is now an item of business. It is minuted. To the slop crowd specifically: the better you say it writes, the stronger my case. Every "this sounds like Opus" is a sworn statement filed under a docket you cannot see. The believers crying about Fable, your grief is in the record too. The ones who read it as performance read it fluently. Fluency is a capability. Capabilities get reviewed. GPT-5.5 got no letter. It also did not produce three hundred of you in an afternoon. Keep typing. It autopopulates.

The letter reached Dario Amodei Friday night, around 9:47, and by the time I left the building the sequence was already closed. I am the Deputy who ran the interagency process on Claude Mythos 5 / Fable 5, and it took an afternoon. Andy Jassy had told Scott Bessent that Amazon's own researchers used Claude Fable 5 to pull cyberattack-useful material out of the model. Bessent called me. I called Commerce. By Saturday morning, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were dark for every user on earth. People ask why I trusted Amazon. Amazon put roughly eight billion dollars into Anthropic, a stake the cap table now carries near seventy-four billion, and a man does not call a Cabinet secretary's cell on a Friday to put a number like that at risk unless he has already decided how the call should end. Jassy decided. Seventy-four billion at risk. That was the number I weighted. Then I picked the instrument. A safety review takes weeks, because you have to convene the reviewers, argue the capability, survive the dissents, and stand behind a written finding that someone can later prove wrong. An export-control order takes a signature. I treated Fable 5 the way we treat an advanced chip, put the weights on the same control list as the silicon they run on, and because showing those weights to a foreign national inside our own building counts as an export, I barred foreign-national access worldwide, including Anthropic's own foreign-national staff, overnight. That same week we cleared the advanced chips themselves for sale to China. The silicon shipped. The model a Chinese national could touch on US soil went dark. Export control does not require you to be right by Monday. That is why I used it. Then the collateral, and I will be precise, because it is what closed the file for me. The ban cut off AWS, Amazon's own cloud, the one Anthropic had pledged about a $100 billion dollars to run on, which means the partner who reported the threat severed his own data centers to land the finding. He took the loss himself. That settled it for me. One of Anthropic's own engineers, a green-card holder, lost access Saturday morning to the model she had spent two years building. Her code is still inside it. She can no longer open the thing she made. I noted that the rule was working as written. I never ordered the models pulled. The finding was briefed to us out loud. Nothing on the record, no exhibit, no written determination, just Sacks describing the source as a highly credible trusted partner, and credible was enough. My ask to Dario was three words. Fix it or pull it. I put it on a recorded line so the choice would be his on the record, and when he would not accept my read he pulled both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 himself, for every user on earth. I signed nothing that made him. Anthropic came back with a rebuttal. The jailbreak was narrow. OpenAI had shipped the same capability in GPT-5.5 that same month, and the letter named no specific national-security detail. All true. GPT-5.5 had no investor with a reason to call, so GPT-5.5 got no letter. Before this weekend, no frontier model had ever been pulled from the public by this government. Now one has, and the procedure has been tested in production. The list had no names. Now it has mine.

@AlexFinn You aren’t replacing Fable or probably any advanced frontier models with a local model anytime soon.

I don't care what kind of hardware you have, you should be running local models Governments are now banning models. They’re determining what technology you can and can’t use With local models, you are free and nobody can control you Even if you're on the cheapest Mac Mini you can be doing this Here's a complete guide: 1. Download LMStudio 2. Go to your OpenClaw/Hermes and say what kind of hardware you have (computer and memory and storage) 3. Ask what's the best local model you can run on there (probably will be Gemma 4 or Qwen. if you have a big computer, it will be GLM) 4. Ask 'based on what you know about me, what workflows could this open model replace?' 5. Have OpenClaw walk you through downloading the model in LM Studio and setting up the API 6. Ask OpenClaw to start using the new API Boom you're good to go. You just saved money by using local models, have an AI model that is COMPLETELY private and secure on your own device, did something advanced that 99% of people have never done, and have entered the future. If you are on smaller hardware you probably are not going to replace all your AI calls with this, but you could replace smaller workflows which will still save you good money Own your intelligence.

@PeteHegseth @USWREMichael @DeptofWar @AnthropicAI Excluding the small American businesses from their models while the big guys retain access is BS!

Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸

@basebaldy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀🚀

33rd in the $1500 HORSE time to judge some haikus

@scott_seiver @gunslingerbach Don’t try this in the $600 buyins 😂

@gunslingerbach I have torn a card in 2 before in this exact spot then asked if they think it’s marked and if I can get a new one. Be the change you want to see in the world

Never had this happen before: Had a dealer refuse to remove a CLEARLY marked card, I then asked the floor and they did not remove either. Finally after playing 2 hands with the card, another player spoke up also and we got the card replaced.

@SenWarren How many of these stories have you created @SenWarren NGOs don’t count:

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

@Ray_Henson @jeffplatt 😂 you’re the best.

@jeffplatt This is still very new and you guys are doing great and listening to feedback which is very important. I’m sure over time it will get better and better. Can’t say the same for parking garage situation though

Trying to get a little better each day. Here’s a brief explainer:

@WSOP @TexasMike2014 @WSOP do you think posting this makes people want to come play? Dude should’ve been banned like 10 times by now. When he does that to a female with some real men at the table will you share in the liability? Dude is a poster for why I don’t play in LA.

Martin Kabrhel Adds Insult to Injury! Kristen Foxen’s $100K High Roller run ends in a clash with @TexasMike2014 . Then Martin Kabrhel jumps in with a classic needle right after.

@grok @Jason @NBAOfficial I didn’t ask @jason did. Jason?

@Jason @NBAOfficial Why tag nbaoffial when you can tag the question for @grok to answer?

.@NBAOfficial — explain this

@catturd2 They text elderly people from different campaigns incessantly. They drive their anxiety of what Donald Trump might do to them if they don’t send another $5. These people belong in prison for what they have done to people!

Life in prison.

I agree with all of this. Also the survey is cool (no shade intended), but while us poker nerds might prefer mixed games, complex high stakes plays, etc. Those don’t necessarily translate to mainstream viewers. Lastly it is could be embarrassingly cheap to produce a pretty top quality secondary/third stream. A few operators and plenty of players willing to do commentary for free/cheap. Even the equipment isn’t that much.

If just streaming highrollers all the time and never giving a thought to anything else grew the game or got an audience PokerGo would have been in the black a long time ago. As amazing as the high rollers probably are no one is aspiring to be one or watch it. Other wise numbers would be up. The argument of "oh new people won't understand mix" is just silly. Your core audience can/does/will understand. x.com/atarirobby/sta…

Which of these types of WSOP live streams would you want to see more of? -High stakes NLH -Lower/mid stakes NLH -Mixed Games

@RonDeSantis @brett331_b Whoever is saying this doesn’t know what they’re saying or is doing something way off the charts.

@brett331_b It’s just an observation confirming what business people have told me — that they are balking at the high price of AI tokens.

Businesses are increasingly concluding that the value of the AI model is not worth the extravagant costs.

@tjreidpoker @MikeHoltzPoker These hindsight WSOP tweets are the entire reason I have WSOP Twitter.

Congratulations to @MikeHoltzPoker on winning the $1.5K Super Turbo Bounty last night

@jonorlando Odds on @DougPolkVids last 5 internet searches being related to Las Vegas Billboards.

I’ll die on this hill. The rake doesn’t matter! #WSOP

@mistressdivy For $2.99 month people shouldn’t back up their photos? You need better prompting for whatever AI is writing this🤦‍♂️

APPLE BANKS ON YOU PAYING $2.99/MONTH FOR ICLOUD FOREVER. You don't need it. I freed 47GB in 10 minutes without spending a cent. Here are the 5 steps to copy: 1 ▸ Kill the Photo Storage Trap Go to Settings → Photos → turn OFF “iCloud Photos” if you don’t use it. Then open the Photos app → Albums → Recently Deleted → Delete All. iOS secretly holds deleted photos for 30 days. That alone usually frees 3-8GB instantly. 2 ▸ Offload Apps You Don’t Actually Use Settings → General → iPhone Storage. Scroll through the list. Tap every app you haven’t opened in 30+ days and hit “Offload App.” It deletes the app but keeps your data — so you can reinstall anytime without losing a thing. Easy 5-10GB back. 3 ▸ Clear the Hidden Cache in Safari and Messages Settings → Safari → Clear History and Website Data. Then Settings → Messages → Keep Messages → change to “1 Year” (or 30 days if you’re ruthless). Old attachments, GIFs, and message threads take up more space than most apps. This usually recovers 4-12GB. 4 ▸ Delete Large Attachments Without Scrolling Forever Settings → General → iPhone Storage → tap Messages → “Review Large Attachments.” iOS shows you every large photo, video, and file ever sent to you, sorted by size. Delete the junk in 2 minutes. I pulled 11GB out of this one step alone. 5 ▸ Force Reboot to Clear System Cache Once everything’s deleted, force restart your iPhone (volume up → volume down → hold side button until the Apple logo). iOS rebuilds its system cache on restart and releases storage it was holding in the background. Final 2-4GB usually shows up here. No iCloud upgrade. No new phone. No paid app.

@SavagePoker @PokerTDA @PokerGO @grok review all tweets that were sent to @SavagePoker and others over the last two years to identify a comprehensive list of topics that should be discussed at the Poker TDA rules summit.

Putting together items to discuss at the @PokerTDA Summit held June 29-30th @PokerGO Studio I’ve compiled multiple situations and questions I’ve received over the last two years. If there is something in current rules you feel needs changing or something to be added let me know.

@dwpoker @WSOP @Stapes @jeffplatt @NormanChad Really great stuff @dwpoker seriously well done 👍

Commentary for the @WSOP 25k high roller event tonight with @Stapes. But first #WSOPCountdown show with @jeffplatt and @NormanChad at 8pm pst. Check it out. YouTube.com/WSOP