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@mweinbach And you can actually trust they’re not going to dumb it down on you. They’ll just charge you more money/ give you less usage before they silently degraded it (I hope they stick to that)

Great for Microsoft! GitHub Copilot has become way better in the past few months. Anthropic and Claude are going to become hard to justify with their egregious pricing, especially as other models are simply better and happen to be cheaper

@DanielleFong Had to call it on Claude Code for the foreseeable future which sucks. They really massacred something beautiful

what is wrong with opus 4.7 really trillion dollar company. doesn't know how to search itself without prompting. something is wayy over tuned in training sometime, and undertuned on stuff you rely on tool calls to load in awareness off

Elon getting thrown into Chinese prison for Ketamine possession would potentially be the single greatest achievement of the second Trump administration

Musk's lawyer brought a big monitor (maybe 36 inches) into the courtroom. OpenAI's lawyers asked to use it. Musk's lawyers said no. The judge told Musk's lawyers they have to let OpenAi use it. Then OpenAI said it might not be possible to connect their laptops to it.

I just don’t get how a spy, traditionally meant to blend in, could be 6 foot 5

@bdsams I do love how for nearly 25 years of my life whenever I get some whiff of Microsoft related news, my most reliable place to go is still @neowin. Lil child like feeling every time I go pull it up to look at some rumor (like this one)

How it started vs how it's going

@cullend Like no Windows, I don’t want to pin a new emoji to my taskbar who wants that who asked for that!!

I like how they did the old “give your little brother a controller that’s not hooked up” it was definitely hooked up and he was doing surgery like a real doctor

Democrats have let a bunch of dumb losers with podcasts and YouTubes hijack the party at the cost of their loyal base and it’s all coming to a head now. So predictable. It started with the Pod Save Bros a decade ago. Now here we are.

The whole “interns running a billion dollar company’s social media” lasted AT MOST like, 3 years. This joke just really gets under my skin

@conorsen 7% of my upper middle class High School’s graduating class died from Opioid overdoses BBC did a documentary on it. Part they left out due to libel laws was the football coach who lead us to state championships every year handing out Oxy’s so they could “play through the pain”

Two kids I knew in high school died in alcohol-related incidents before they were 20 and I don’t think there was anything special about my high school — there was definitely too much teen drinking in the ‘90s.

This is what happens when you eat Ketamine for dessert

The Cleveland Clinic called me a few moments ago to say the robotic hands were disconnected to the patient as Kennedy sat at the console. I asked about his use of the machine in the OR and was not told it was disconnected. We'll update the story soon. cc: @bobjherman

.@Target are yall fucking serious

A new DNA study has revived a long‑running theory that Christopher Columbus may not have been Italian at all, but actually Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior, a Galician nobleman also known as Pedro Madruga. Researchers compared genetic material from remains believed to be linked to Columbus with DNA from documented descendants of Madruga’s family line, finding striking similarities. This theory argues that Madruga disappeared from historical records after a regional war in Galicia, the same moment Columbus suddenly emerged in Portugal with a new identity, nautical expertise, and connections that would later launch his Atlantic voyages. Supporters of the theory point to additional clues: Columbus named over 100 places in the Americas after Galician towns, and 80 handwriting experts have concluded that Columbus’s writing style is virtually identical to Madruga’s. If true, this would radically reshape the accepted biography of one of history’s most famous explorers, suggesting he may have concealed his origins for political survival. While the theory remains debated, the new DNA evidence has pushed it further into mainstream historical discussion. One of the strangest supporting clues is Columbus’s 'obsessive use of Galician‑Portuguese language patterns', even in private notes. His letters contain idioms, spelling habits, and grammatical structures that do not match Italian dialects of the era but align closely with the writing of nobles from southern Galicia. Even more intriguing: Columbus repeatedly used Galician nautical terms that were not common in Genoa or broader Italy, but were standard among sailors from the exact region where Pedro Madruga ruled. Linguists argue this is nearly impossible to fake, especially for someone supposedly born and raised in Italy, and it quietly strengthens the case that Columbus was hiding a past tied to Galicia’s political conflicts. © The Historian's Den #drthehistories

we literally need to build an inverse art education model that begins with the now unintuitive fact that paintings are real objects that you look at in a room, they are not images you see on your phone.

@ArisTaylor2000 @whal_bait @_6signxxx Not in America (for now)

@whal_bait @_6signxxx Saying stuff like this could get you in prison mind you

She owes everything to the person who came up with the spirit tunnel idea.

Personally I would enjoy watching Vivek lose the gubernatorial race and then get demolished in a presidential primary (again)

We should go back to that. I know we won’t, but we should. Banks stop working when they aren’t accountable to their communities

I'm Austin Ahlman. Nebraska is my home. This is our fight. You are my people. Let’s take Nebraska back.