Ian Andersen

@itsdafanta @DovySimuMMA @MightyMouse Yeah he doesn't generate enough to be paid $1M while the UFC is only paying the fighters 17% of rev, thats the issue, vs the ~80% boxers make. Obviously Dana can pay more than 17%, every other promoter & sport does, the UFC just chooses not to.

@DovySimuMMA @MightyMouse I mean DJ just answered it, Dana can’t pay all that money if DJ doesn’t generate it People defend Mighty Mouse in 2026, but when he fought, nobody even watched him

Mighty Mouse says he never fought TJ Dillashaw because Dana White REFUSED to pay million dollars 🗣️DJ: “Im looking for that super fight 🗣️Dana: “why don’t you fight TJ Dillashaw” 🗣️DJ: “pay me a million dollars” 🗣️Dana: “I can’t pay what you don’t bring in” via @MightyMouse

@Acyn Bit weird to be buying time to get Marines in place 20+ days into a war you started, but OK, sure.

Watters: Jessica asked a question a five year old would ask: when is this thing going to be over? That’s not a serious contribution to a discussion about a war. If you don't know what the goal is you weren't listening. Jessica: It started out with regime change Gutfeld: It was never regime change Jessica: He said today we already did a regime change Watters: Stop, you’re hyperventilating. Relax. Let me explain the war to you.

@BagginsB26148 @yourunclepapa @CBSNews Do you think the animation in this clip is what he was actually looking at?

@yourunclepapa @CBSNews Listen to it again he told the truck to go zoomed in told the plane to stop then told the truck to stop why you think he said he messed up

"We were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up": Audio has been released of the air traffic controllers working at LaGuardia Airport in New York City when a deadly crash occurred on the runway on Sunday. Two pilots were killed when an Air Canada plane collided with a firetruck, officials say.

@DerekBoberic @mattyglesias @jasonfurman It does seem like that but it would make no sense incentive wise, traders aren't in it for the lols, any mismatch between expectations and reality would mean billions of dollars left on the table.

@mattyglesias @jasonfurman Futures are not physical. You can f**k around with futures. You can't f**k around with the physical product actually getting into people's hands - upstream or downstream. i.e. give it time.

Remember when oil topped $150/barrel in the wake of the 2011 Libya strikes? And stayed above that price for most of the next 2 yrs? OK, you may not remember because you probably weren't thinking about oil in 2026 prices back then. But if you were that's what you would have seen.

Oh sure you’re all looking at the USA but missing the real story here 😢

@ArthurCDent @gregbagwell @ChrisO_wiki Morality aside, be political suicide domestically I'd imagine.

@gregbagwell @ChrisO_wiki Australian forces has been there for every major US (mis)adventure since 1945. I’ve been generally supportive of this. But today, for this specific reckless & foolish administration, who that act like thugs and bullies, the correct answer is “no”.

Trump fails to attract any support, why? Firstly, most allies are pretty upset with the way he has attacked Iran, without any consultation or preparation of his case for doing so. Second, the war appears to have not been planned with the current deterioration in mind. 🧵1/4

@sawemdo @Nowooski Guess something LG, Samsung, Bosch, Miele & Electrolux have in common.

@Nowooski It's absolutely amazing really. Can go all over the world and not find a single proper washer and dryer. They don't even know.

I think this is a eurocope myth that’s downstream of the fact they don’t have proper laundry machines.

@rshereme I didn't see it but I assume this can be explained by a forceful coherent address directly to the American people made with such clarity, conviction and rhetorical flare that people had no choce but to change their minds?

I honestly cannot explain this. Before the strikes on Iran, Republican voters were overwhelmingly opposed to U.S. involvement in a conflict between Israel and Iran. A survey by YouGov and The Economist found that only 23% of Republicans supported U.S. military involvement, while 53% opposed it. However, attitudes shifted almost immediately after Trump ordered U.S. airstrikes on Iran. A survey conducted after Trump’s bombing campaign showed support climbing to 85% among Republicans. For me, this rapid reversal illustrates one thing — Trump has transformed the Republican Party into a cult, where people follow not principles, but a man.

@abefromanofchi @atrupar @wjspirdione Hate to say it but Hitler was a lot more coherent. Imagine if instead of framing invading Poland as a response to minority persecution, subversion & false flag attacks he went with "the weathers nice and I can do it, I can do anything I want"? Just unhinged behaviour.

@atrupar @wjspirdione "I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Poland. That's a big honor. Taking Poland in some form, you know. Taking Poland. I mean, whether I free it, take it -- I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

Trump's full rant on Cuba: "I think Cuba, in its own way, tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful island, great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know? They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form, you know. Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it -- I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

@ArthurCDent Apart from the US where would this be acceptable? Just so foreign as an Australian.

Turn up tooled and dressed like that in front of an Australian state parliament and it’s going to end very badly for you very quickly

@DarkoJohnson2k @tboynew @mattyglesias You just don't understand what the TACO trade is. It's Trump goes hard, bonds spike, he folds, prices rise, he folds, markets drop, he folds. It's more the fact he folds prior to the target counter party's actual response.

@tboynew @mattyglesias TACO term is stupid. You're framing Trump's negotiating style as cowardly. He continually goes in absurdly hard in order to land at the desired outcome. If he wants 15% tariffs, he's going to threaten 50%. As for Iran, we're so far beyond TACO, it's laughable to even say it.

@NathanpmYoung Assuming its possible, how long before some jurisdiction allows it and it ends up like Turkish hair transplants/dental work/ stem cell treatment? People already fly around the world to save on cosmetic surgery, imagine what inoperable cancer would motivate people to do.

I can understand if this story is false but Patrick’s take seems confusing. Many people would pay $100,000s to cure a loved one of cancer. Either that’s possible or it’s not.

@michaelrwolfe @mil0theminer @trickdidi Never know, could be a one-person AI-first company as a service platform, the OPAIFCaaS space is exploding right now.

@mil0theminer @trickdidi It’s probably a one-person AI-first company that teaches you how to create your own one-person AI-first company.

They’ll never say what the company is though

@ghparker9 @jessesingal Who is the AI booster in this scenario, Jesse, me, both? Jesse can't read or write because he finds utility in LLMs helping edit his output and doesn't care about the semantics if it actually "understands" or not if its a useful tool? I think you've terminally missed the point.

@andocom @jessesingal "If a task's utility is provided by the LLMs" is actually meaningless drivel. And no, I said that most people interact with LLMs by going to a website (or using an app) and deliberately doing so. Scratch an AI booster and find someone who never learned to read or write.

NEW RULE*: You can't make a sweeping claim about how AI doesn't *really* 'think' or 'understand' or 'reason' unless you have a specific definition of the term in question in mind! Otherwise the conversation will just spiral into vapidity. *that I am politely suggesting

@ghparker9 @jessesingal The point is, if a task's utility is provided by LLMs the semantics of "thinking", "understanding" or "reasoning" can be meaningless navel gazing. You also claim you can tell if you are talking to an LLM from the URL, on twitter of all places. Was this response from a human?

It didn't take me long to write. I have been writing a long time and it's not that hard. Too bad people will lose that ability as they lose their focus and rely on machines to communicate for them. Not sure what point you think I missed. Your post was not long or complicated. My guess is you didn't try to clarify because I didn't misunderstand anything. Have you considered that you cannot distinguish AI and human responses (or understand why you would want to) because you are not very smart?

@ghparker9 @jessesingal I hope you used an AI for that response because if you wasted that much time writing all that while completely missing the point it would be a shame. Ironically I can't tell if this response is from a person or an LLM even after checking the URL like you suggest, funny that.

First of all, people typically can tell which is which. Everyone always focuses on the trick quizzes and such, but that's because there is an unhealthy fascination with getting computers to fool us into thinking they are human. Sci-fi nerd stuff (which I admit I sometimes think is cool), but not what I care about. The way to tell if you are talking to an AI is whether you are on a website typing out a prompt to a well-known AI. If the address bar says ChatGPT or Claude or whatever, that's a dead give away that the response is AI generated. If you are unsure, just ask and the AI will tell you. Kind of joking, but people do not accidentally use AI. They do it on purpose. Tricking people into reading AI and thinking it is a person is something I hope to see less of in future. It's a tool, people don't use it accidentally. Knowing how tools work is important to using them correctly. Once you know you are talking to an AI, you absolutely should factor in how that makes it different from a person. It will never learn, change, or grow. You cannot persuade it or get its perspective. It will never respond emotionally, and it will not understand your emotional investment. When it is wrong or makes stuff up, you will know that to be an unavoidable part of what makes it work. You will never need to get angry or frustrated with its BS, at least no more so than you would a faulty drill-bit. Your point about being "correct" more often is a weird one. AIs are never correct or incorrect, they respond to prompts. If you ask a question with a right answer, they are probably more correct than humans, but then so is a Google search. Really, you need to understand that they do not do what humans do, and stop comparing these bits of programming to human beings. And yeah, knowing that it does not think, ponder, reconsider, evaluate, or do any of the other many thinking processes we have words for, is important to understand if you want to use it right. I hate when boosters insist that critics are getting too deep into philosophy. That seems like projection. I am content that machines are not conscious and I don't waste any time thinking about it. I want to talk about how these things work and how to use them appropriately.

@ghparker9 @jessesingal If you can't distinguish which is which by their answers is it still an important distinction, if so how? Does it matter if the LLM is correct more often than the person?

@jessesingal When you ask a person a question, you are asking them to think and then respond. When you ask an AI a question, you are actually giving a machine a prompt. No thinking involved. No need for philosophy, this is an important distinction that way too many people don't get.

@TMFScottP Completely agree, additionally I bought & sold recently so two inspection reports which were worthless IMO. Just multiple pages of "consistent with age", "could not access" & disclaimers, 15 years ago they listed every nail hole, recently neither even entered the roof cavity.

If you understand incentives, you know why this is a *terrible* idea.

@IMAROOSTAR Of all the complaints about rule interpretations and officiating from fans I don't recall one handed bat backs to be one. TBH I could cope just about any ruleset as long as its clear & consistent. Publish 10 clips showing what is & isn't an infringement, then rule accordingly.

Tonight one arm was OK! 🤡 tomorrow who knows what the rule will be 🤷‍♂️

@binarybits @jon_stokes @yoavgo Seriously what happened to the Ars audience or comments section at least?

@jon_stokes @yoavgo It's not a small audience! It includes most of Bluesky and the Ars Technica comment section.

lol she is relentless