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NEW: Trump discourages Taiwan from going “independent” — says he’s “not looking to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war.”

It literally has the U.S. seal on it. Ban these accounts already.

Anthropic just reset everyone’s 5-hour AND weekly rate limits. Either xAI’s Colossus compute is turning into a big win for all of us, or OpenAI and Codex competition is forcing Anthropic to give users more. Either way: big W for us.

Auditions have officially begun to find the next James Bond. Nina Gold (‘The Force Awakens’, ‘Game of Thrones’) is the casting director.

Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half, 48%, who are strongly opposed.

Mercer and all of her favorite toys! 🐶

The pre-emptive backlash against Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus isn’t because they’re dicks It actually shows audiences are brilliant It shows people love entertainment and they truly want IMMERSION They genuinely want to lose themselves in a story But you can’t do that when there are such palpable obvious dickish moves that deviate from authenticity so aggressively - especially when people know they’re having an agenda pushed on them that has nothing to do with the actual story Again it destroys immersion in the tale And of course people can reinterpret historical source material and give a twist to things - but the kind of woke twist we’re seeing isn’t novel, it isn’t subversive, it isn’t fresh, interesting or thought provoking - it’s just absolutely hack, tedious, passé, boring and utterly yawn inducing Just give people something real - as real as possible - so they can lose themselves Stop pulling people out of a story and trying to make them aware that you’re superior to them because of your dull cultural and political onanism

I watched TROY again and I think the problem is Brad Pitt is the definitive Achilles. Anything below his feral physical perfection comes off like weak ass cosplay. Every man is Elliot Page compared to this guy.

Balancing my final budget proposal for California. Tune in tomorrow.

Why are they only doing 8-hr shifts if they're robots? Why did that robot touch his head? -...It's Indians pretending to be robots again isn't it?

This pattern has a name and nearly a century of research behind it: pluralistic ignorance. Katz and Allport coined the term at Syracuse in 1931. White fraternity members privately had no objection to admitting racial minorities, but each one assumed every other member would object. So they voted to exclude. The private majority and the public majority were opposites. Prentice and Miller replicated it at Princeton in 1993 with drinking. Students were personally uncomfortable with campus alcohol practices but believed the average student was way more comfortable than they were. Male students then drifted their actual attitudes toward what they wrongly believed everyone else thought. Bursztyn, González, and Yanagizawa-Drott ran the cleanest version in Saudi Arabia, published in AER 2020. 87% of married Saudi men in Riyadh privately believed women should be allowed to work outside the home. They thought a minority of other men did. When researchers showed them the actual number, four months later their wives were measurably more likely to have applied and interviewed for jobs. The 80/40 sex gap is the same machine. A loud confident minority sets the perceived norm. The silent majority assumes they are the outlier. To avoid social cost, they project the norm they think exists. The projection becomes other people's data. The loop self-stabilizes at a number nobody actually represents. The fix that works is embarrassingly simple. Tell people the real number. Northern Illinois ran the first social norms intervention in 1989: students personally binge drank at 43% but thought peers did at 70%. The university posted the actual number around campus and real consumption dropped. The data alone did the work. Most of what we call "culture" is a forwarded estimate of what other people are doing.

> Floods his country with cheap Indian labour > Crushes freedoms during covid > Tanks the economy and inflates the housing crisis > Sails off into the sunset with a pop star

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to China wearing the same suit as Maduro when he was captured by the US.