THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
The show definitely encourages you to identify and sympathize with both. But my sympathies moved toward the parents a lot more after I had kids. :)
A progress bar that's 18% complete.
2026 is 18% complete.
Watching the first (and only) season of Freaks and Geeks was like this for me. I watched it at 24. Loved the high school characters. Watched it at 34 as a new father. Realized I would have a teenager eventually, and all my sympathy went to the beleaguered parents. 😂
Dang. “MacBook Mr. Anderson.” Stepped on my own joke. Ah well.
Hugo Weaving walks into an Apple Store.
“I’d like one Mac Mr. Anderson, please.”
As I said the other day: It’s only a war if it comes from the war region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling military conflict
I mean, when there was a functioning government, I don't think that would have been an unreasonable expectation. You live in a region surrounded by military bases and airfields. At one time, they could absolutely have arranged flights for American citizens.
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
openai.com/index/our-ag...
User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic Sam Altman: I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation. *First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here. *We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one. *We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here. *I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did
I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.
Sorry, it's only 10% among Democrats. Typo on the chart fixed now.
Publishing my normal Sunday polling article early (for obvious reasons):
Trump starts a war with Iran that few Americans support.
Overall support for Trump in early post-strike polling is below that for Afghanistan and Iraq, including among Republicans.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-trum...
Good for Anthropic.
Who called it the French museum director resigning instead of 50 ways to leave your Louvre?
I loved this take on the Arthurian legends. Recommend!
I have an ORCA card but this is so great to see. Helps expand the service.
This is well worth a read.
Poker Face if you like Columbo too, I’d say.
Get 100 climate and environmental reporters into a room and I suspect there’s a pecking order, etc
My wife is part of a fandom. Mostly online with an annual con. They wouldn’t have found each other otherwise. Shared values/interests bond them even though the show is over.
I think there’s some of what you say there. But any good of 100 people will display some of the tendencies you call out.
North American Treasure. ;)
Longevity of career plus their high cultural impact? Plus, I think you have to be a certain age. 70+
Rob Reiner. Joni Mitchell. Paul Simon. Shirley McClaine. Etc.
I’ve done this with a can of tomato paste. Table spoon size tomato paste servings are very convenient and I don’t feel bad about wasting the rest of the can. Great idea to do lemon and lime juice!
image from wallace and gromit, a calendar showing February 12th labelled on a calendar as "Gromits birthday"
baby gromit with a pink boneshaped cake with one candle
everyone shut UP it's gromit's birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT
I love listening to Oldies and early rock and roll. And guess what. There are some great non-English oldies! Here’s my favorite.
youtu.be/ti9h_gIwPtA?...
Is that the longest we’ve ever gone without a TD in the Super Bowl?
/6 [Seeing conflicting claims about whether the kid was Liam, but he was clearly meant to represent Liam, which gets the point across.]
