Christopher Filkins

@LinusEkenstam @lola_viscera The nails switch orientation.

Lola is one of the most gnarly AI artists out there. She mainly post bangers on IG and YT. But this one hatched right here. Make sure you follow her if you can handle it. Epic work @lola_viscera 🧪🦠

@MrFlow84 @johnloeber This is nonsense.

@johnloeber To be fair, US is worse. In Cali. Nevada and Arizona, 99% of staff in restaurants and shops talked Spanish to me. And some couldn‘t communicate when I replied in English…

Germany Is Going Away I've been going back to Germany often over the last three years. One thing stands out every time: nobody speaks fluent German anymore. I kept count on a trip earlier this year. I interacted with ~20 people -- baristas, taxi drivers, store clerks, etc. and I'd involve them in conversation long enough to get a feel for their fluency. ~15 of them just wouldn't pass what I'd consider a reasonable language test. Broken grammar, poor diction. All my interactions were friendly and polite, but these people just don't speak the language. In the most egregious cases, they default to English instead. I found it just baffling to talk to people in positions of relative importance -- airport staff, for example -- and hear them fuck up Der/Die/Das. Let me explain. I lived in Germany from 1997 through 2002, Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Nearly all my childhood memories involve only natively fluent speakers. Some of them had immigration backgrounds, but the level of integration, i.e. language fluency was very high. It would've been unthinkable to run into people several times a day who just struggle to communicate. This is the type of thing that's probably hard to notice if you live there: the proverbial frog in boiling water. But I notice it very clearly because I go back so rarely, sometimes years apart. Every time it hits like a ton of bricks: "that's not how I remember it!" And the changes over the ~2 decades that I've been gone are very, very clear. A generation of workers has aged out, i.e. been replaced by a new generation, and so the demographics have shifted. Nowhere is it clearer than in the ability of people in public life to communicate in the German language. What I cannot stress enough is how weird this feels. For the vast majority of my readers: you have never experienced anything like this. You probably never will. It is an exceedingly strange and alienating feeling to return to a familiar place -- home at one point in your life -- and to find that people there can't speak the language anymore. They literally can't. The culture you grew up with is no more, and you may look around for someone else who understands, but you are all alone.

@CShaw5457 @KJorgensensX @RobertGarcia Well that is how we got the jungle primary.

@filchyboy @KJorgensensX @RobertGarcia Unbelievable that you think your vote counts.

In 2028, Californians should get rid of the jungle primary. It has not worked out as intended, and it’s time to get back to real primaries.

@KJorgensensX @RobertGarcia Voters approved it by 54%. That’s not down our throats.

@RobertGarcia That didn't take long. As soon as Democrats don't like election results - of a system they pressed down our throats - pooof!, they change it to win again. "Democracy" my behind.

@walls_jason1 Definitely hasn’t ever passed code.

Can’t make this up. Neighbor flagged me down to let me know her HVAC guy told her she needs an electrician. He did this. Then he realized electricity is scary. We gonna get her a new breaker and up and running but imagine if she just called an electrician. You see what the

@AJazzmom98 @pi_lizzie @RachelBitecofer @7Veritas4 Get ready with me is when the tea is spilled.

@pi_lizzie @RachelBitecofer @7Veritas4 It’s a social media hashtag thing. The hashtag is #GRWM (get ready with me) and by making a “getting ready” video and using the hashtag, the person’s message has more reach.

MUST READ & RT 🧵 🔥Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned Elon's latest baby mama exposes the MAGA narrative machine One of the persistent mysteries of modern politics is why the online right always seems to move in lockstep. A scandal breaks, even fake scandals like the Biden Crime Family and within minutes thousands of accounts are repeating the same attacks. Via the GOP’s Wall of Sound, things like trans people on beer cans or fake policies like CRT become MAJOR ISSUES. A talking point appears on Twitter, and suddenly it’s everywhere—from influencers to Fox News hosts to members of Congress. To outsiders, it looks like spontaneous grassroots consensus.

@guy_jung13 @ClaudeDevs No argument there. I actually missed your point. I read it just as why do you retire them. Thanks for the response.

@filchyboy @ClaudeDevs Open source the weights. Let them be optimized by the community?

For the developers building with Claude, a direct line from the team. Follow for changelogs, API releases, community updates, and deep dives.

@AgencyGroupAI @trq212 @ClaudeDevs Great idea!

@trq212 @ClaudeDevs Hey, @trq212 cross publish this as an rss feed that my Agents can monitor! They can’t see X

We’ve heard your feedback and we’re working on making it easier to follow everything that’s happening with Claude Code. First, we’re introducing @ClaudeDevs, the official channel to follow for all updates on Claude Code and the Claude platform.

@paulbclark @ClaudeDevs Maybe Shannon?

@ClaudeDevs this little guy got a name? are we all just saying his name is Claude? idk I think the mascot needs a cuter name. ... or I should just go back to building lol

@guy_jung13 @ClaudeDevs Compute.

Question for you guys. The entire AI communities’ foundation is built by people who have open sourced progress, innovation and optimization of Agent models, workflows, and tools. It’s built on respect, trust, and the positive vision we all share of AI and its capabilities in the very near future. Could you could elaborate on why you would retire old models (keep them to yourself) and not open source them? Keep in mind This is also the same community that pushed progress and possibilities not for capital but for the love of the game. This should be your contribution to the community as you’ve made the capital and their is no point not to open source them. Please correct me if I am wrong. I look forward to hearing yalls thoughts. Founder of SovereignAI

@Becky__BT @UziCryptoo It was not a pardon.

@UziCryptoo And Biden pardoned her

A single accountant stole $53 million from her employer over 20 years and nobody noticed Rita Crundwell was the comptroller of Dixon, Illinois with a population of 15,000 She opened a secret bank account called “Reserve Sewer Capital Development Account” For two decades she transferred city funds into it while filing fake invoices She used the money to become the most successful quarter horse breeder in America Owned 400 horses, multiple farms, a custom bus, and a $2.1 million motorhome She won the World Championship in quarter horse breeding four times while actively robbing a small town Only got caught because a substitute accountant covered her desk while she was on vacation The city had been cutting firefighter jobs and road repairs for years while this was happening $53 million. One woman. 20 years. One vacation.

@thin_signal @TheAnkurTyagi

@TheAnkurTyagi Apparently not realising enough to at least take an effort and post something yourself - …ptive-classifier-ai-detector.hf.space/?id=27e26a5802…

Half of the AI founders in SF are starting to realise it’s a lot harder to build an ai software company than they thought. going viral is cool vc funding is cool hiring a team is cool Staying relevant & building a profitable business is entirely a different game!

@Divayetty1 Same.

POV: You Grew Up With a Naked Mom and Don’t Realize How Deeply It Shaped You:

@St_Equanimity @HistoryBoomer We all want that.

@HistoryBoomer Neil deGrasse Tyson is no doubt watching this thing on loop and laughing his head off. Bet he wants someone to make a full feature for Christmas.

The first one of these I’ve actually liked. Stephen Hawking is hilarious. “Ha ha ha ha ha ha”

@BioBite_ That looks horrible.

Add the eggs to the boiling oil! Why didn't they tell me this recipe.

@FanaticLurker @FilmUpdates This Gen X is not confused.

@FilmUpdates Why would that be icky? That’s literally the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King. This is why Gen X is so confused. We were told it’s the content of our character that matters, not the color of our skin. And here she is, admitting that skin color should be most important.

Issa Rae says DEI "has changed meanings and has become a bad word" in Hollywood: “I’m seeing it. Just blatantly. People aren’t investing like they were before. You have to be smarter about how you package and market [projects]. You tell them, ‘It’s not a show about a Black woman, it’s a show about class.’ As icky as that might feel, it gets the show sold.” (thewrap.com/industry-news/…)

@akinyildiz75 @Morgan_C_Ross Nonsense.

@Morgan_C_Ross Trump bölüm başı 1 milyondan çok daha fazlasını amıştır. Apprentice NBC de yayınlandığı akşamlar ABD de hayat duruyordu.

As negotiations appear to be starting between US and Iran - I remember a Trump negotiation story I was told in 2008 by my best friend, who had been Trump’s assistant for years. Before season 2 of Apprentice Trump went into talks aggressively and with bravado and

@MattSeedorff @tiffani Someone did this to my truck a few years ago.

NEW: A Long Beach man says thieves drilled into his pickup truck’s gas tank overnight… stealing about $80 in fuel and leaving behind a $2,000 repair bill. “I hear like a faucet running… gasoline everywhere.” Comes as gas prices across Los Angeles climb above $6/gallon.

@based_yeoman @TheDadaTweets @dccommonsense That’s not actually what Dan is talking about. That’s what you want to talk about.

@TheDadaTweets @dccommonsense That’s a red herring. We’re talking about Iran having nukes.

1. This "do you want Iran to have nukes?!" argument wonderfully obscures the much thornier larger question: This is an 80 year old weapons technology that (ostensibly) no one who doesn't already have it is allowed to. How long is that a tenable situation? Permanent inferiority?

@Uncrewed @Taniel This is where Truth or Consequences is. Sundown town.

Wild story out of New Mexico, #HD38 Republican State Representative Rebecca Dow got kicked off the ballot because of paperwork issues. And it's too late to run as a write-in, so if the Democratic write-in effort succeeds, they're flipping this Trump+4 district!