Folder: War SKILL.MD No chatbot ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb chatbot die for his country.

An investment banking tradition like no other has made it to the NYP

Just finished homemogging some rentcels at the lawyer’s office, time to celebrate with fifty billion BOGO sushi rolls

Dario just say Roon this is taking forever

The new iOS is terrible, something simply Must Be Done about Apple's insistence on making everything rounder and more transparent to the point where I can't read any fucking text on the screen

Elon has now completely given up on pretending Grok is actually a competitive model on benchmarks or task performance and the entire release PR is just hyping how anti-woke it is

<—did not vote in the primary award, I’m leaving it all in the boomers’ hands

Gavin Newsom going on the Adam Friedland show is so funny. This man has an addiction to podcasting that’s worse than most cokeheads (and probably more damaging to his career lmao)

We really gotta get locked accounts and group DMs on here ASAP, it’s not healthy for the Discourse that everyone on here can act like this in public and anybody can screenshot.

Stonks green on the day, S&P +0.02%

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

SPX -75 bps

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Trump is retweeting what appears to be page after page of a PDF of tweets praising his SOTU. Is this how he interacts with social median now?

We are only a few hundred more cruise missile impacts on Dubai away from me approving of this conflict

Without defending the naked racism of X, I’m pretty sure this particular genre of post is just as or maybe even more popular on Bluesky, so let’s not clutch our pearls too hard here

Calling it the “Department of War” is perceived as a nearly totally costless signal of pro-Trump leanings, which is why it’s so interesting to me to figure out the line dividing who does and doesn’t (Anthropic and Lockheed generally do, Boeing generally doesn’t, RAND uses a slash to use both)

one of the funniest things to keep coming out of the anthropic reporting is that the pentagon was trying to convince amodei by proposing elaborate hypothetical scenarios. buddy do you think an EFFECTIVE ALTRUIST has never considered a bizarrely specific and elaborate hypothetical scenario??

Look I don’t mean to alarm anyone but the more I think about it the more I believe Hegseth wants to try and use Claude as part of some kind of domestic election interference tool in time for the midterms, that’s the only reason why you would go nuclear over a TOS dispute like this

I wonder what we can deduce from the fact that Elon Musk offered Grok to the government for free for any use but Hegseth and Trump are still committed to getting Claude to work

It’s an article of faith among many people on Twitter that I lost tens of millions of dollars betting on Kamala on Polymarket, so it’s pretty funny that my haters’ conspiracy is that I’m a secret centi-millionaire and not like “he’s a LARP living in his mom’s basement”

It would be annoyingly heavy handed writing to have these headlines scrolling on a muted TV in the background of the opening scene

EAs when Elon kills several million African children: I sleep EAs when a drunk guy wants to be mean to a computer program: REAL SHIT

Listen as bad as the vibes there are it’s simply undeniable that Miami has enough tall buildings close together to qualify as a Real City, unlike pretenders to the title like Los Angeles or London

We will be giving the actor from Heated Rivalry who’s definitely straight the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The one who might be bi or whatever, he gets ZILCH though, absolutely NOTHING.

Drinking Ace of Spades in the Miami Nobu, but in a deeply ironic fashion with a 4th wall breaking wink and nod at the camera, so it’s OK

I went to the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center and Francis Fukuyama knew you

Not to pick on my dear sweet large son George, but: #$DASH does not have network effects because it’s straightforwardly a regulatory arb; they turn a blind eye to undocumented workers in exchange for underpaying them in a way #$UBER #$CART etc. do not, and consumers like that they capture the savings.

Wait hang on, Elon astroturfed a different far-right populist group contesting Reform’s contesting of the Tories? Lmao, genius move, sir.

I’ve spent a grand total of 10 minutes in Miami and I can’t believe they built an entire city out of the “Latinos for Trump” song

Ed Zitron must be absolutely seething that “guy who wrote a blog post so good it wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars of growth stock market cap in a day” is in fact a real job you can do but it turns out it’s not him.

IBM? The quantum computing and AI stock? What do they have to do with COBOL?

Time to spin up Bluesky Semiconductor ASAP to fend off a hostile takeover

The Citrini piece is mechanically correct in that it only takes a fairly small shift upwards in US household savings to absolutely nuke corporate profits. However voluntarily saving money inflicts massive psychic damage on Americans so we will never ever ever fucking do it and that won't happen.

FL property tax stuff probably won’t do real damage to state finances, given the actual policy is “elimination of water and sewer assessments on primary homes of year-round residents”. Student loan forgiveness for minorities with Pell grants who start a business in a disadvantaged area-ass policy.

I didn’t expect the Canadian government psyop to make Americans like hockey would be willing to go quite so far tbh.

It’s actually pretty easy to figure out where to spend $500 billion on the military, what’s much trickier is figuring out how to steal that much money for yourself & your buddies

I think it’s more likely that Ed Zitron doesn’t know GAAP than that AI companies have negative 1,300% gross margins

Neopronouns of xir own design + a poly relationship with Kevin Warsh and at least one woman with Mar-A-Lago face

“Sir, I'd love to lick you”—this is a very powerful gith. I don't want to be licked by that woman. But a very powerful, STR 18 woman... she said, “Sir, I want to lick you so badly.” I said, “No thank you.”

Presumably the tariff ruling was delayed because Gorsuch needed more time to be a catty bitch to his colleagues

I will be renovating a kitchen imminently and am open to suggestions for appliances (budget: anything not obviously insane; no La Cornue). The stove is already taken, but I need an oven (ideally combi/steam), hood, microwave, fridge, and dishwasher. Hit me with your best shot.

I'm listening to Medea and all I can think about is the David Perdue "TOTALLY EXONERATED, NO WRONGDOING" ad and laughing my ass off

First, AI demand came for chips, and I did not speak up, because I had a 4090 Then, AI demand came for memory, and again I did not speak up, because I had 128 gigs But then, AI demand came for luxury heated toilet seats designed by Japanese perverts, and there was no one left to speak up for me

If we do end up going to war with Iran it will be impossible to explain why without sounding like the world's most racist and antisemitic crank

Judging by the replies I think many people are unaware of the progress made since Ozempic. In Retatrutide’s P2, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of high-dose participants had weight loss greater than a placebo. The effect size was FOUR standard deviations. This is functionally unprecedented in medical research!

The difference between this and right wing agitprop is that we know as a result of extensive study that GLP-1s are a public health intervention only slightly less effective than indoor plumbing or antibiotics. Opposing them from a strict QALY perspective is worse than being a RFK style anti-vaxxer.

1. Unfunded purchase orders with unknown terms are not the same as debt. 2. Companies with unsustainable debt will reorganize, leaving the operating business intact and debt-free. 3. 2008 was bad because everyone thought the debt was money good and it was not. Nobody thinks XAI debt is money good.

There's so many stories like this that sound unbelievable to people today. If you were buddies with the guys on a block trading desk you could just ask them to fax you every order they got that day and then frontrun them all like Steinhardt did, perfectly legal.

As far as I can tell, the actual financial skill of Epstein was that, prior to the tax code change in 1986, you could do tax-free "constructive sales" of stock by selling combos, which takes roughly 0 skill or financial knowledge and explains why he moved from option trading to tax planning at Bear.