Denis Baranov 🤍❤🤍

How to help Ukraine right now, a thread. One easy task for everyone and four more to chose from. 1. Share cont content about Ukraine instead of just liking it. This is the simplest way to amplify the message and build support. Start with this thread.

@mikewchan Who's to blame Anthropic for this? They had a market inefficiency where their revenue suffered and they fixed it.

Anthropic recently told Claude Code subscribers they can’t use their normal subscription limits with OpenClaw and other third‑party products anymore. If you want those workflows to keep running, you now have to either pay extra via add‑on usage bundles tied to your login, or move to a separate Claude API key and pay per token. For companies building products that leverage Anthropic's models, this is fundamental platform risk - if you integrate other platforms into your product, you run the risk of getting cut off. Moves like this may push builders toward open‑source models. You trade some convenience and raw capability for control over pricing, routing, and decreased risk of getting dropped. Long term, the real moat won’t just be who has the best model, but who has the least platform risk baked into their stack.

@XfinitySupport I already did that

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@XfinitySupport I'm moving to a new building, which has both Xfinity and @astoundconnects. They are offering me a much better deal. Which team can provide me a competing offer: here, retention by phone, or in-store?

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@danberger Wealth has always been an indicator of success. We love to be inspired by wealth but we never question the special circumstances that helped these people.

Is there a podcast without billionaires, unicorns, and their vc’s? Asking for a friend

@levie Just because you can produce more code, contracts, or other knowledge work in a unit of time, it doesn't mean that your company becomes more productive. Downstream bottlenecks still exist and block you from actualizing the gains despite tokens spent: lean.org/the-lean-post/…

Without getting into the specific numbers, this underlying concept and trend is going to be very real. For any worker who is able to wield AI agents effectively in an organization, their compute budgets are just going to monotonically go up over time. This will of course start in engineering, where we already know developers can run multiple agents in parallel, or have projects going over night. But this eventually hit the rest of knowledge work as well. Lawyers that can create and review more drafts, marketed that can build more campaigns and test more ideals in parallel, sales reps that can reach out to more customers and process more leads. Many of these activities will essentially be token-dependent in how much work a single person can do. These aren’t chatbot workflows answering a simple question, but agents that are running and processing through incredible amounts of data at scale, and generating all new forms of information. Companies will have to figure out how they budget for this, and it likely won’t be an IT budget item over time, but ultimately owned and allocated by the business. Maybe the CFO is ultimately the head of AI :-).

America’s political landscape is more complicated than it used to be. Here’s my attempt to depict what I see as the seven broad camps today. Most people I know fall pretty cleanly into one of these circles (each of which has some common ground with the two adjacent circles). Some additional points: - The top two circles (green/yellow) are concerned first and foremost with the rise of illiberalism—disregard for the constitution, cancel culture, mob behavior, political violence. They see liberal vs illiberal as more critical right now than left vs right. In 2020, they agreed that wokeness was bad but today they’re divided on whether Trump or Harris/Biden are the lesser of two evils. - For the middle two circles (blue/red), left vs right is the main thing. They’re not illiberal themselves but tend to focus on illiberalism from the other side while ignoring or condoning illiberalism from their own team. Both skew older and are the main consumers of traditional media, whether it be cable news or newspapers. - The two lower circles (pink/orange) share a strong sense of grievance, place utmost importance on identity, tend to view identity groups (race, religion, sex, etc.) as monoliths, and are prone to believing conspiracy theories that fit with their worldview. Both skew younger, with woke skewing feminine and upper class and groyper skewing masculine and lower class. Both use revolutionary rhetoric, seeing the establishment as rotten to the core, and readily employ illiberal tactics under the belief that desperate times call for desperate measures. Thoughts?

@boristrumpoff @HannaLiubakova How did sanctions force Lukashenka to sign the road maps in 2019?

#Belarus It's deeply troubling to hear Maria Kalesnikava argue that sanctions don't affect Lukashenka. Sanctions were exactly the leverage that made her release possible - that was the price offered. This wasn't a sudden act of mercy. Yes, Belarus's GDP grew in recent years, but that growth has slowed, just as in Russia. Lukashenka publicly berates officials for failing to expand export markets - a clear sign the situation is far from "stable." Isolation is not a comfortable state for the regime either. It's time to increase that leverage and use it strategically to ensure transformation to democracy. I'm sorry her bank account was blocked in Germany, and I hope this is resolved quickly. But individual cases do not mean sanctions against the regime aren't working - or that they should be lifted. Leverage works precisely because it hurts.

@Ms_EmmeEmme @AlexCTaliadoros This isn't ice: instagram.com/p/DUDuY7ODki4/ Most roads have been like that.

@dnbrv @AlexCTaliadoros For a margarita? The sleet lasted longer than the snow. They can’t plow ice. This is the top half of the ice. Ya trolling now. HAGD!

I don't know what the issue is with plowing in DC this year, but it's likely not funding. DC's snow removal budget is the same as last year and higher than years past. 📈🌨️ The District boasts "more than 500 plows," but only 54 are out right now according to the @DCDPW tracker.

@Ms_EmmeEmme @AlexCTaliadoros All streets were salted before the snow. I'm talking about salting ice before plowing.

@dnbrv @AlexCTaliadoros They did salt and pretreat in my neighborhood. However, you fail to acknowledge the small window to plow before it turned to sleet. I shoveled at 8am on Sunday and it was sleeting. The snow started at 12:39 on Sat. They need two inches to plow.

@Ms_EmmeEmme @AlexCTaliadoros @DCDPW In addition, salting snow prior to plowing breaks down the crust. Yes, it's more vehicles and time, but it solves problems. DPW doesn't explain how ice caused delays (speed, equipment failures, driver availability). They just shift all responsibility to weather conditions.

@Ms_EmmeEmme @AlexCTaliadoros @DCDPW Even fresh fluffy snow gets compacted into hard ice. Intact snow drifts in parks are barely 5" deep, of which ice isn't even 2". That's manageable. Digging cars out of compacted ice by hand is different than running a multi-ton vehicle through it.

DC Snowballers: We are ON for Sunday@11am on the National Mall at 12th St, near Smithsonian Metro station! More details of our season kickoff: facebook.com/events/1410281… NB: time/location are subject to change depending on actual conditions (hoping to avoid a sleet-fest!) -#DCSFA

@blancpain Me and Windows 11

Thanks but no thanks

@Leopeva64 This is so dumb. I've been using collections as a read it later list after Reading List had been deprecated. Tab groups, which don't work the same way are now the only other option to temporarily store pages.

There is further evidence that Microsoft could indeed be deprecating Edge’s “Collections” feature; In Canary, there's a new feature flag that mentions "Collections" and "unship." In browser development, “unship” typically indicates deprecation 🤷: x.com/i/status/19919…

@ELuttwak It sounds so far that hangings have been replaced with just mowing crowds down with machine guns in the middle of the street. Until the fog of war is pierced, we all are assuming a lot.

Under Obama and Biden the Khamenei dictatorship suppressed protests with hangings. Trump's threat has stopped hangings so far. But now Erfan Soltani, 26, is facing hanging for 'waging war against God', ie for demonstrating. If he is hanged Trump must act or silently retreat

I get that @wcp is doing whatever they can to generate revenue including RSS feed injections, but they really need to check in with their provider on how appropriate the content is.

@destraynor At some point in 2025, one of the AI tools told me that Kamala Harris was president 😂

It’s frustrating to get halfway through a weird chat about power + pendulum swings in the US only to realise I forgot to tell the model to first… get its facts straight, I guess? Often makes me worry about previous chats I’ve had, and what broken assumptions they were based on

@Czah_U Калі грошы даюць Пазьняку, то гэта ганарары. А калі грошы ідуць Георг-Вікаўскай псэўдаапазыцыі, то гэта гранты.

@dnbrv На гранты, якія даюць на выданне кніжак

Апошняя кніга Пазняка выйшла накладам 40 асобнікаў 😂