Peter Holcomb

@MarinElitist @TikTokInvestors @Kalshi Man the Netflix documentary on these two will be incredible

@TikTokInvestors @Kalshi Anyone know where they are today?/how they’re doing?

BREAKING: Our traders forecast Bitcoin to reach a high of $99,000 this year

@thejobchick That is an incredibly unfortunate acronym

Microsoft layoffs coming? YES MORE. This time for CSAMs? The letter provided info that lines up exactly with my workforce modeling and what I would expect for layoff structures. Microsoft gave thousands of Customer Success Account Managers a choice (alleged memo went out April 29th): Deadline to become a part of this program to reskill looks like by May 6th… I’d expect late June- August for impact: 5–10% reductions overall 10–20% perhaps inside the directly affected orgs Overall I would say this will affect: Customer Success Account coordination Non-technical client roles Delivery managers Internal support roles Enablement layers Possibly: Sales support Some product/program roles Likely safe for now: Solution Engineers (target roles) AI /Cloud /Infra Highly technical ICs The run down will look like this: Offer reskilling (opt-in filter) Measure who qualifies (May–June) Identify excess headcount (late June) Cut as needed (July) Clean up with further forced layoffs (August) Now layoffs are being hinted at with “career mobility” emails. What timeline are we living in?

@gm_mertd @zeeg Also curious about this

@zeeg aren't you finding 5.5 to be way better even from 4.6?

just asked the team to turn off opus 4.7 no true gains in performance, burning compute (and money) honestly, imo, a bad release from Anthropic

@rcb05 Are we getting the poop flinger?

Iconic Texas A&M fan moments, but make them lego.

Iconic Texas A&M football moments, but make them lego.

@BoredElonMusk Kilborn was pretty great, ngl

Here's a list of all the Daily Show Hosts that were actually funny: Jon Stewart

@AndersonAndrue @zeeg Sometimes you just take the loss man

@zeeg How are you able to breathe with your head so far up your ass?

Most boomer ahh take imaginable. Sad that you have to be so abrasive just to stay relevant

Some brief thoughts on Mythos We’ve known this was coming for a long time. At least, we *should* have. Extremely effective software vulnerability discovery was clearly coming to anybody paying attention. It has also been clear that all AI policy so far has been made and executed with training wheels. It was always clear that, sometime soon, the training wheels would come off. The training wheels aren’t fully off just yet—this model is being kept under lock and key, and Anthropic does not seem inclined to release Mythos preview to the public anytime soon, if ever. The training wheels will be off when these capabilities are fully diffused in ways centralized actors cannot control. It is inevitable that this will happen. The point is not to argue about whether we should “ban open source” or similarly unrealistic notions. The point is to harden the world for this new reality. I applaud Anthropic—and I especially applaud @logangraham—for doing so. But their efforts alone are not close to enough. Project Glasswing—a partnership with Anthropic and other companies—seems nice, but unsurprisingly it lacks uniform frontier lab participation. It would probably be ideal, for our national cyberdefense, if the federal government were not trying to destroy Anthropic and eliminate their models from government systems. If anything, the government should be trying to work more closely with Anthropic. As a side note, I hope Anthropic is working with state and local government entities on cyber vulnerability discovery, since many of our adversaries know that state and local is America’s soft underbelly in so many ways. In any event, the Mythos news should lay bare how stupid and counter-productive the Department of War’s feud with Anthropic really is. As someone who suspected all this was coming (not from inside knowledge but from it being ~obvious), that probably explains why I have had such a strong reaction to that feud. It’s this senseless distraction just at the time that the training wheels are coming off. I hope the two parties can resolve their differences now, for the sake of the country, but I am not hopeful. I do want to call out, however, the numerous political and career civil servants in the Trump Admin who do get these issues, know how stupid the Ant-DoW stuff is, and want to work with the frontier labs like adults. I wish you all utmost success. I find myself inclined to end on some positive notes. Mythos appears to be—according to Anthropic at least—“the most aligned” model Anthropic has ever trained. We are approaching superhuman capabilities in some domains, and yet alignment is getting better rather than worse. That’s not nothing. I know some of you think the model is faking its alignment, or aware when its alignment is being tested. I don’t have a good answer. Finally, there is this: Mythos was made by an American company, and like most successful American companies, it has a vested interest in maintaining order and peace, and it is investing substantial resources in mitigating the risks of its technological progress, as I expect most of the American labs would. This is cause for optimism: The incentives of capitalism are working. The training wheels are coming off, but at least we are the ones removing them, as opposed to our enemies. Perhaps we can be the first to learn to bike for real. The first step would be to get beyond all the low-fidelity, under-specified, pimply little fights of AI policy’s prepubescent era. That goes for me too. “What hath God wrought,” wrote the first telegram. What, indeed. In this case, the answer is still up to us.

@MikeRyanDev Hahaha! Just testing an app. Ignore!

@nickelbagofunk What am I looking at? 😅

@jason_howerton @charlesmurray Hell yeah brother

I assume you asked genuinely, so I’ll answer genuinely. I live in the country, but I’m certainly part of the demographic that you might see as “boring” like this. Here’s my Friday: I wake to the shouts and giggles of two little boys. Get some hugs and some coffee, now it’s time to make money. At about 1pm my sons busted into my office and asked me if I’d take them to play golf. I said yes because I’ve built a life in which I can. When we get home, I finish work. Later, we have dinner as a family (chicken fried chicken and mashed potatoes, it was 🔥). My sons ranked their days on a scale from 1-10 like we do and they said today was a “10.” Whatever high yall city folk get from “going out,” I got it from that. Then I played basketball with my sons. We watched a little TV on the couch together. Now it’s bath time, bed time, Bible and prayers. As my oldest closed his eyes, he told me how he makes his friends pray before they eat lunch. I felt that “high” again. Kids are asleep. So now it’s time for mom and dad to do some fun things that married people do. This is my Friday night. And I’ll be absolutely WIPED by 10pm - it was a full day. And while it might sound insane to you right now, I wouldn’t trade places with any person on Earth. I have what men search for all their lives; what men would sacrifice everything to have. Some have lost it chasing the things you’re suggesting I’m missing out on. I mean this with all the love in the world. I’m not defensive. But I know with certainty, what you find rewarding will change the instant you are holding your first child in your arms. And I’m so excited for you to experience it one day. Good luck out there. Sincerely, A boring dad

let me get this straight a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

@TexasGameWarden It’s always a Curtis

On Sunday, March 8, #TexasGameWardens in Wood County were contacted by organizers of the Lake Fork Lure Co. Tournament to investigate a bass presented during weigh-in that raised concerns of possible tampering. The fish was flagged after a metal detecting wand alerted…(1/3)

@mert Banger. Honestly. Banger

? was jane street operating out of tehran or something

I stand with Sec. Hegseth. I too would rather invoke the DPA than do a project without claude

We all get to write our little tweets & drink our little lattes because of men like this

Controversial take: "Senior developer" doesn't mean 10 years of experience. It means you've mass-deleted production data at least once, mass-emailed customers by accident, and mass-deployed on Friday. The "senior" is trauma, not tenure. 😅

The Texas A&M Aggies won their first NCAA volleyball title with a sweep of Kentucky and third win over a No. 1 seed in the tournament. bit.ly/4jcE3Lo

The funniest part is @Lane_Kiffin said he was “gonna pray to the Lord for guidance”. Jesus was like: “my son, fuck Ole Miss over and also try to blackmail them into letting you coach the playoff by threatening to take all your staff and players with you to LSU”.

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day is in regards to when the UT football team decided that the A&M football team played too rough/dirty and decided not to play the game for a few years. It's a great story. The hullabaloo blew up on Nov. 14, 1911, the morning after Texas had scraped out a 6-0 win over A&M at Houston’s West End Park — while fans of the two teams were busy waging a far more spirited contest in the bleachers. Back then, Varsity (Texas) and College (A&M) played each other about as often as two bored brothers in a lonely farmhouse, popping up in Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston as part of the Not-Su-Oh carnival — which, as Houston proudly pointed out, was simply “Houston” spelled backward, proving that civic creativity was alive and well even in 1911. The games at West End Park were rowdy from the git-go. In 1908, A&M students took offense to Texas students carrying broomsticks like rifles (I guess because nothing says “intimidating military display” like an army of janitors) — and a Texas student ended up stabbed. Somehow, this did not cool things down. Then came the real plot twist: after going 1-13-2 against Texas from 1894 through 1908, A&M suddenly rattled off three straight wins behind coach Charles Barthold “Uncle Charley” Moran seen on the right in the attached photo. Moran was described by one historian as the early 1900s’ answer to Bill Belichick, presumably minus the hoodies. Moran arrived in College Station announcing, “I didn’t come here to lose,” and he mostly didn’t. The Farmers whipped Texas twice in 1909, including a 23-0 roasting in Houston, and won again in 1910. Texas fans, wounded in both pride and scoreboard, accused Moran of teaching “slugging,” the era’s term for dirty football. Their chant went: “To hell, to hell, with Charley Moran and all his dirty crew. If you don’t like the words to this song, to hell, to hell with you.” A&M’s Caesar “Dutch” Hohn countered, “He taught rough football but I never knew it to be dirty. He taught winning football.” Translation: your mileage may vary. On Nov. 13, 1911, the teams met again at West End Park in Houston. Texas lost lineman Marlon Harold to a broken leg on the first play — which tells you everything about the ambiance. But then A&M’s A.R. Bateman fumbled, Texas halfback Arnold Kirkpatrick scooped it up, galloped in for a five-point touchdown (those were the days), and with the extra point, Texas won 6-0. The Chronicle said the upset “shook every office building in Houston,” and given the postgame brawl, that may not have been metaphorical. Fans tore through a picket fence, fists flew, and Kern Tips later called it “a dilly of a donnybrook.” Football historian Lou Maysel added that downtown Houston was unsafe “for anyone wearing Texas colors as bands of A&M students roamed the streets.” Two days later, Texas’ athletics chairman W.T. Mather wrote to A&M, very politely declaring a divorce: “I beg to inform you that the athletic council of the University of Texas has decided not to enter any athletic relations with the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for the year 1912.” In the press, the mud-slanging made today’s social media fights look genteel. Texas team manager Stephen F. Pinckney said A&M “has earned a reputation for rotten athletics. … They admit trying to injure some of our men.” Lineman Marshall Ramsdell chimed in: “I never played in so dirty a game in my life… (A&M players) use brute force and break legs and arms and heads by slugging if necessary.” The Bryan Eagle fired back with the headline “Varsity Curses Sent Home to Roost,” and A&M athletic council president J.B. Bagley insisted, “The football team, the student body, the athletic council, the faculty and the alumni association have found nothing wrong in Mr. Moran’s systems or tactics.” With that, the schools went their separate ways. Texas lost just two games in the next three years and went unbeaten in 1914. A&M — fielding what many considered Moran’s best team in 1912 — outscored opponents 366-25 but nearly bankrupted itself without the Texas gate money. Eventually, former A&M players Hal Moseley and Joe Utay quietly opened channels with Texas, and in 1913 the Longhorns hired Theo Bellmont, a YMCA man from Houston who actually believed in diplomacy. On Nov. 30, 1914, the schools agreed to play again in 1915. Moran promptly resigned, citing “immediate pressure of other business” in Kentucky, received a full Corps parade, and wrote his players a farewell letter ending with: “If you still love me and think anything of me, then beat Texas.” They complied, winning 13-0 in College Station — a triumph that netted A&M a princely $3,429.07, or roughly what each school burns through each morning these days between checking Instagram and pouring another cup of coffee. Moran went on to coach Centre College, upsetting Harvard in 1921, then brought his Praying Colonels to Dallas for the Dixie Classic, the game where E. King Gill became the first 12th Man. He also spent two decades umpiring in the National League before A&M honored him after his death in 1949 for his “indomitable spirit and inspiring leadership.” Meanwhile, Bellmont helped found the Southwest Conference, launched the Texas-OU rivalry in Dallas, created the famous “blanket tax,” and presided over the building of Memorial Stadium, which still carries his name. All of which proves that, in Texas, nothing cools tempers and mends fences quite like the promise of beating A&M — or beating Texas — next year. The photo of Charley Moran is courtesy the Cushing Library at Texas A&M. P.S. There will be some Texas A&M-Texas content on TOT this week on account of I hear there's a big game in Austin in a few days.

@drewdyck I pretty much had "Legend of Chin" on repeat all through my college years. Great stuff

Introduced my 13 year old son to Switchfoot yesterday. We listened to "Dare You to Move" and "Meant to Live" and I asked him what he thought. "Pretty good" which is extremely high praise from him.

@rcb05 I’m having chest pains

There's going to be a couple new gray hairs on my head tomorrow which can be directly attributed to watching Texas A&M vs South Carolina.