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The 1960s were bad. The late 2000s traumatic. Right now, though, might be the lowest ebb for Pakistan cricket. espncricinfo.com/story/the-1960…

All 13 episodes of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation are available to watch on archive.org Here's the link archive.org/details/kennet…

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude. Taught by the people who built it. Free. No registration. No paywall. I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes. Watch it and bookmark it now.

Open Spotify on your phone. That app was built in Stockholm. Same goes for Minecraft, Klarna, and Candy Crush. The cobblestones in those photos have produced more billion-dollar tech companies per person than anywhere on Earth except Silicon Valley. Sweden has just 10 million people, roughly half the size of New York state. But it has produced more than 46 billion-dollar tech companies, with 11 of them based in Stockholm right now. The latest two arrived in 2025. Lovable, an app that lets anyone build software just by typing what they want, was worth 6.6 billion dollars by December. Legora, a tool that handles paperwork for lawyers, was valued at 1.8 billion dollars in October. Three things explain how this keeps happening. The first is what Swedish people grew up with. In 1998, the government launched a program called the Home-PC reform. Employers bought personal computers and let workers pay them off in tiny chunks taken from their paychecks over three years. About 850,000 computers ended up in Swedish homes that way, reaching nearly a quarter of the country. By 2005, when Klarna was started, Sweden had 28 broadband connections per 100 people. The US had 17. The world average was under 4. A generation of Swedish kids grew up online before most countries even had reliable internet. The second is the safety net. A founder whose startup blows up in Sweden still has healthcare and unemployment support. Risk feels different when failure doesn't mean homelessness. The third is the money cycle. The people who got rich building Spotify and Klarna twenty years ago keep pouring that money back into new Swedish startups. Former Klarna employees alone have started 62 new companies. Today, the Swedish tech scene is worth around 345 billion dollars. The country pulls in more startup investment per person than anywhere else in Europe. Spotify alone now has 293 million paying users. About 30 of them for every single person living in Sweden.

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Boris Becker dropped some powerful wisdom on the High Performance Podcast: He discovered Stoicism in prison and it changed everything. The story that hit him hardest? Marcus Aurelius — the most powerful man in the Roman Empire, basically Trump and Putin combined — was miserable despite having it all. Meanwhile, his slave Epictetus was always smiling and at peace. Aurelius asked him: “I have everything. You have nothing. How are you happier than me?” That moment birthed a core Stoic truth: the only thing you truly control is your own thoughts. Not your wife, kids, job, reputation — just your mind. Master that, and you master your life. Becker learned it the hard way behind bars: when you’re completely alone with your thoughts, you’d better make them beautiful… or they’ll destroy you. In a world full of noise, comparisons, and things we can’t control, Stoicism reminds us where real power and peace actually live — inside. I’ve found this idea quietly life-changing during tough seasons — the freedom that comes from focusing only on what’s truly yours to manage. What about you — what’s one thing outside your control that you’ve had to let go of, and how did it change your peace of mind?

Remember this scene A shareholder named Abhishek Kalra holding just 1 share lectured the management of GKB Lenses for 3 minutes. 😂 Incredible

Nearly 30’years gone by, but the result and how it all ended still hurts!

🇮🇳 Factory workers in India are wearing head-mounted cameras so AI can watch exactly how humans do physical work. Every hand movement, every adjustment, every shortcut. The workers are training their own replacements in real time, on the job, getting paid to do it. The most honest description of this is also the most uncomfortable one. Source: longliveai on IG

Former Secretary of State @ABlinken told me why President Biden did not rejoin the Iran nuclear deal after President Trump withdrew during his first term. Part 2 of our conversation:

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🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails. Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day. Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair. Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential." 96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail. But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical. Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it. Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own. Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path." The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way." It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway. When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack. And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it. Anthropic published this about their own product.

🇺🇸 Donald Trump on Iran, 1980 → 2026: 1980: “We should have gone in with troops… taken their oil.” 1987: “Go in and grab one of their big oil installations and keep it.” 1988: “One bullet shot at us and I’d do a number on Kharg Island.” 2011–2016: “Iran cannot have nuclear weapons… I will stop them.” 2020: “I’m ready to take whatever action is necessary.” 2024: “If they touch me, we’ll blow their largest cities to smithereens.” 2025–2026: “We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Age… they can never have a nuclear weapon.” Trump’s position hasn’t changed in 46 years. He’s been saying the same hawkish things since the Reagan era. Anyone claiming he got “tricked” into this war simply wasn’t paying attention. The man has been consistent as hell on Iran. Source: @TheMilkBarTV

Quantum entanglement and the illusion of time, in 79 minutes | Jim Al-Khalili: Full Interview @jimalkhalili 0:00 Chapter 1: Does time flow? 2:42 Why Time Feels Faster as We Age 3:56 Time and Change in Philosophy and Physics 5:28 Einstein and the End of Absolute Time 6:19 Time in the Equations of Physics 7:50 Chapter 2: How do we reconcile quantum field theory with the general theory of relativity? 12:10 Evidence for Time Dilation: Muons 14:29 Gravity Slows Time: General Relativity 19:22 Space-Time and the Block Universe 21:55 Does Time Really Exist? 26:33 The Debate: Eternalism vs Presentism 34:12 Chapter 3: Is There a “Now”? 40:40 Chapter 4: Why Does Thermodynamics Have a Direction in Time? 49:38 Quantum Entanglement and the Direction of Time 55:10 Did Time Begin at the Big Bang? 45:00 Will Time End? 1:05:40 Chapter 5: Is Time Travel Possible?

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