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We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.

a lesson from building oxify: the roadmap lives in the support inbox, not in my head. the features i was proud of got ignored. the ones merchants asked for twice became the whole product. what did your customers teach you that you didn't want to hear?

The problem with the FIRE movement is that it is a bet against yourself, and yes, this is coming from someone who used to be a part of it. The whole strategy is to save up as much as you can in index funds, and generally be extremely frugal. If you're in your 20s and 30s, this is the time to take massive asymmetrical bets, not to follow investment strategies that are originally intended for pension funds. You are limiting yourself from having a growth mindset to a scarcity mindset. A mindset where you believe you can't be better than the average man. I think people who are so extreme that they seek FIRE in the first place are so driven that they're already way above average. Not everyone can double their net worth every year, but people in this corner of Twitter at least have a shot of doing better than 7-10% per year. Take that risk.

A Bonnie Tyler no le hacía falta ni música. Tengo especial cariño por los artistas que se van y que, en algún momento, nos han dado felicidad.

(1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.

Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace. The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication. What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required. That is the democratic scandal. When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick. And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive. This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause. A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion. Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters. This is a dark day for Europe. Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together. Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this. Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.

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JUST IN: 🇪🇺 European Parliament passes Chat Control proposal allowing private messages to be monitored.

AI is redefining cybersecurity. We must keep pace. Advanced AI models have the power to both create and stop cyber threats. They are remodeling how we protect and defend our digital infrastructure. In the EU, we want to create our own path toward safe and responsible advanced AI to strengthen our cybersecurity capabilities.