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Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@paulg super score counts?

I agreed to get a Phil Foden haircut if 17 yo gets 1550 on the SAT. For people outside the UK, this is the risk I'm taking here:

@elonmusk so the leader being an outsider is a necessary condition for innovation in every field?

Indeed, it was *because* I was not from the aerospace industry that SpaceX made such radical breakthroughs. Same for Tesla. Those in the industry would have if they could have.

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@PeterJ_Walker showing the two series as if they're stacked is not a good choice..you should at least have the two series side by side or have them tornado style (left and right)

A universal truth: most radar charts should just be bar charts. Love your stuff, Anthropic!

@pitdesi at least they didn't call it a 'smart' chai maker

Cool product for chai lovers. I always end up babysitting chai on the stove to stop it from boiling over, and half the time I still make a mess. The Loka solves that in a clever way and makes great chai. $150, but it is a really nice product weareloka.com

@BTC_for_Freedom @grok what's the source of this data?

Very cool overview of who owns Bitcoin.

@paulg what's the actual practical advice here?

Something I told 17 yo and 13 yo: There are things on the internet that you can't unsee, and it truly is better never to have seen them. (I don't think they believed me, but I tried.)

Nice weekend project open.substack.com/pub/mispriceda…

@LynAldenContact What do you say about societies where any given “truth” is only true for half the populace

Cultures have many differing views of morality, but all around the world and for thousands of years, being truthful is arguably the most common one. A culture cannot long persist on falsities. On open lying. This cycle ends only when truth becomes principal currency again.

@dadiomov There’s already a lot of tools like objects problem (and not just with notion etc). People use code as a tool to pretend to be productive and produce absolute slop. If the AI bots can save us from these hand written slop I’m all for it

This is an incredible essay that hits on something I’ve never understood but often observed. The time that people put into setting up tools often surpasses any output they get. This is Notion, Linear, Claude. Setting them up is 80% of what people do with them. Amazing framing 🎯

@ModernDad need to start sharing a secret word with the family

My wife calls me, panicked. The call is from her number, and her voice is unmistakable- that’s my wife. ‘Babe, our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. I’m at the emergency room but they won’t take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me 3000 dollars as soon as you can, he’s really not doing well.’ Me- ‘Wow, that’s scary. Tell me our passphrase and then I’ll send the money.’ Her (it) - ‘What? What passphrase? This is your wife, our son is hurt. Send the money now!!’ Me- ‘I’ll call you back. I don’t believe that this is my wife. If it is, I’m sorry, but we discussed this.’ The number? Spoofed. Easy to do and there’s no way to tell if a phone number is being spoofed aside from hanging up and calling back to confirm. The voice? AI generated. Easily done. A few seconds of audio is all it takes to create a realistic audio deepfake. What can you do? 1) Create a family safe word or passphrase. Ours is definitely not ‘Keep Going’ although we considered it. Discuss the passphrase far away from phones or any recording device. This is as analog as possible. Don’t forget that the trigger for the passphrase is just as important as the phrase itself. So instead of asking ‘what’s the safe word?’ have a separate triggering question. For example, you could say ‘I’m eating banana cream pie’ and this would trigger your spouse to respond ‘purple velvet pillows’ if that’s the safe word. Make it fun, silly, and easy to remember. And DON’T WRITE IT DOWN. 2) Cognitive security is an essential skill in 2026. Assume every image and video you see online is fake until proven otherwise. Expect scams and spammers, and be pleasantly surprised when it’s not. 3) Figure out a backup communication option with people who you absolutely need to be able to reach. Don’t just rely on a phone number for communication. Have redundant, ideally encrypted methods of communication with family. What did I miss? I think (hope) Nikita is wrong on the timeframe- agentic bots like Claude bot are impressive but not quite ready to flood the phone lines in just 90 days. But I think it’s going to be a huge problem by the end of the year. I already get dozens of increasingly realistic spam calls and texts daily- it’s only going to get more annoying. Have a plan to keep your family and your finances safe!

@NaomiSeibt @grok is this accurate?

15 years ago you would have never seen this coming. This is ridiculous.

@upholdreality @grok is there a link to where this video was originally posted?

The Chinese are reading the US like a book. Top Chinese scholar sums up Trump's foreign policy with a Chinese idiom: "outwardly tough but inwardly weak." Lost the tariff war. Lost the tech war. Couldn't close Ukraine. So he picked on Venezuela.

@paulg while students who read a lot tend to do well in SAT English, it is not a necessary condition. You can "game" it and prep just for the test

Your social status ≈ your college. Your college ≈ your SAT score. Your SAT score ≈ your SAT English score. Your SAT English score ≈ how much you've read. ∴ Your social status ≈ how much you read in high school. (Successive ≈s leak a lot, but still rather surprising.)

@paulg so wrestling in proper attire would've been acceptable?

Interesting grammatical ambiguity. I'm 99 percent sure I know the correct interpretation, but not 100.