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Cute how twitter is rediscovering Dune Waiting for folks to get to God Emperor

According to the latest @Frontex figures, only 30 Syrian nationals were detected crossing into the EU irregularly in January 2026, the lowest monthly figure recorded in nearly 30 years (January 2009). This number may be revised upward as data is refined, but the broader 2025 trend is unambiguous: irregular crossings by Syrians have fallen to their lowest level since 2012 (lower even than during the COVID-19 pandemic). Time and again, the data confirms what researchers have long argued: the primary driver of irregular migration is conflict, not the economy. Syria remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with catastrophic levels of deprivation. Yet poverty alone rarely compels people to risk dangerous, illegal crossings. When the immediate threat of violence and arbitrary detention recedes, so does the impulse to flee. The December 2024 transition has not made Syria prosperous... just yet. But it may have made it survivable, which is, in itself, enough for many to stay.

Asked Claude CoWork to do some research for me. It opens a Chrome tab and starts Googling things. Top search results are all AI summaries. Begs the question: does inter-model referencing increase or decrease hallucinations?

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

Mark my words: if James Talarico does the unthinkable and somehow flips Texas blue, he will be a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for President in 2028.

Wars: you always know how, why, and when they start. You never know how, why, and when they end.

Assad is probably playing video games from some fancy ass Moscow penthouse while all his allies get assassinated one after the other. Meanwhile, Jolani is working overtime to clean up Assad's atrocious mess in Syria. If that's not 3D chess, I don't know what is.

“You’re fine? Really? You need something? No problem you’re safe, you’re safe… Everything good, no problem.. Thank you for helping us.” Remarkable footage, as #Kuwaiti man approaches female U.S. F15 pilot after her jet was downed earlier today.

A spox for the mayor tells me that it was indeed Mamdani who brought the NY Daily News graphics and presented them to Trump.

@Dr_Atshan When/where can we preorder?

The cover for my book is now finalized and I'm thankful to Sliman Mansour for the permission he granted for use of his breathtaking painting, "Temporary Escape" (هروب مؤقت). It'll be published in Nov and my heart is filled with gratitude for everyone who has made this possible.

Why yes, I am a professional risk-taker. I take dangerous risks on a daily basis: [hits the "Dangerously always allow" button on Claude CoWork in PowerPoint] #VentureCapital #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #ClaudeCoWork #powerpoint #futureofwork #VC #Tech

If you're not burning through all your Claude CoWork credits before noon are you even AIMAXXING?? And if Claude isn't MAINFRAMEMOGGING you by crashing your poor little machine on the regular, are you even trying to do anything real with AI?

** TRAVEL BAN FOR NYC ** All bridges, highways, and streets will be closed to traffic from 9pm Sunday thru noon Monday. No cars, trucks, scooters, or e-bikes. Limited exemptions for essential and emergency movement. This is projected to be NYC’s worst blizzard in a decade, with extremely dangerous conditions. Please take this seriously. Stay home if at all possible.

The President responded to yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling that his IEEPA tariffs were illegal with new 10% tariffs based Section 122, yet that still left a net ~3 percentage point reduction in average tariff rates. Tariffs on countries like Brazil/Vietnam were reduced significantly.

It's fun to vibecode excel models with Claude I now spend my time writing out assumptions and telling Claude to fix things vs coding fancy formulas I'd say it operates at the level of an analyst with 6-12 months of decent training. Let's see how fast it learns from here

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The mimetic urge to share the same twitter blog post again and again (and again)

Told my mom how it feels like negative 2 degrees in New York today. She says “that’s not too bad” so I say “Fahrenheit” to which she says “Oh. Brrr. How much is that in Celsius?!” We ask Siri and it’s negative 16 Might be the coldest weather I’ve ever experienced

You may be familiar with the "banality of evil." Let me introduce you to the "ennui of evil."

What even is a fair gerrymander?