Matthew Link

There's a skill that predicts success nearly 2x better than intelligence. It takes no talent. It costs nothing. And you were never even taught that it exists. 🧵

Hey @Tim_Walz and @IlhanMN one of the biggest fraud bust in Minnesota history took place this week and you guys said nothing Shouldn’t you guys celebrate when fraud is exposed in your state and district? Or are you upset because it was exposed? Silence speaks volumes.

🚨Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session, and nobody, including Anthropic, seems to fully understand why it keeps doing it.

@jain_harshit You motherfuckers wouldn’t listen to me so I had to get claude involved

I always think of this quote on memorial weekend.

Want some truth? Not releasing Police Bodycam footage is an admission of guilt. The British Police are not releasing Henry Nowak’s. What’s that tell you…

Canada’s Liberal government is planning to borrow so much money they will be forced to spend $80 BILLION each year just paying interest on the debt. That’s taxpayer money that can’t go toward health care or education or infrastructure - that is instead being wasted. That's more debt and more money squandered than even Justin Trudeau was planning to spend! It’s time to bring fiscal responsibility and fiscal sanity back to Canada ASAP! 🇨🇦

Enhanced Games but it’s Tiger Woods faded on Percocet vs John Daly loaded on 15 Jack & Cokes

@CTVNews Are these people in the room with you right now? Can anyone else see these people?

Highest proportion of people since 2017 say Canada is on the right track: poll ctvnews.ca/canada/article…

It’s missing my wife and children, but otherwise a decent start…

Greatest speech in history? Alexander the Great addressing the mutiny at Opis

This is unironically the right way to build a startup

There was a 40 year period in history when samurai, pirates, and cowboys all technically existed at the same time.

Thinking Machines is impressive. In a couple hours I just fine tuned my own Qwen3.5-397B model this afternoon. Fast usable multimodal is also going to enable very mind-blowing personal AI.

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore. "American companies have been hollowed out." "We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore." "We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured." "We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work." "People are turning into architecture astronauts." "They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout." "But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers." Via @HooverInst

.@PalmerLuckey: "Patents are Chinese instruction manuals" and we need to reinvent the US patent system: "Stop patenting everything." "The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you'd have a globalized economy, and the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning, ripped off, and then used to fight a war against you." " We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system." "I think we need to massively expand the national security patent process. You can obtain a classified patent. You can get a patent on something that you are not allowed to disclose to anyone, but you still maintain the exclusivity on those rights." " We need to massively expand that program." Via @HooverInst

Prediction: if GOC puts this into effect, streaming services will raise Canadian prices by minimum 15% as a result. This will just be put onto the consumer…

@mcuban Yeah, that is why we need to let the free market compete and get the government out of healthcare.