This is some real Oracle of Delphi shit: “If you go to war with Persia, an arrogant ruler will fall.”

"I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had. If you got any benefits from my work, I am asking you to pay it forward as best you can. That is the legacy I want." -- Scott Adams

Just a reminder....as Iran murders its own people...and has blacked out the internet to try and hide the murdering...it sits on the Human Rights committee at the United Nations. It's why the UN is worthless.

British policy elites still talk about hard power and deterrence as if it can be reduced to a single defence spending headline. Mark Sedwill’s tweet and his comments on Newsnight are a perfect example. The Americans do not think like that. Not when the world is this dangerous.

What legacy news orgs had been successfully changed due to staff buy-in for the said changes? I can't think of one.

Great idea. Momentum is building behind the Donald J. Trump accounts.

Matt rode a bus 4 HOURS a day from Watsonville to San Jose for high school on a scholarship. Worked grounds crew to pay his way. Then: Harvard, taught middle school, founded a civic engagement startup. This is what meritocracy looks like. 🇺🇸 latimes.com/politics/story…

I first met my husband DJ Seo back in our school days. He was this brilliant, driven PhD student. I can still picture him waiting for me on the library steps, in that old grey hoodie and Converse shoes. From that moment on, I've witnessed every twist and turn of his incredible

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's Back to Basics: - Build housing - Treatment & recovery - Increase public safety - Better schools - Better jobs - Focus and accountability California needs someone who will deliver results and excellence. Matt Mahan must be our next governor.

If I were reviewing this paper, I could reject it based on this figure alone. Look closely at the y-axis for each state. They’re reporting temperatures to four decimal places. That implies a precision of 0.0001 degrees. One ten-thousandth of a degree. No statewide

How it started: How it’s going:

Nashville Property Taxes 2024/2025 Selected Spaces Downtown Acme Feed & Seed - $129k/$589k Honky Tonk South (Kid Rock's) - $209k/$765k Friends In Low Places - $397k/$839k Honky Tonk Central - $81k/$348k Tribe - $19k/$31k

A 15-year-old girl immigrates to New Jersey from China. Doesn’t speak English. Her parents, both educated engineers back in Chengdu, are now working as cashiers and restaurant cooks. She gets a job washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant to help the family survive. She gets into

I asked Claude to look up the current situation and write a note to Dario Amodei Dario, I say this as a friend: you are making a catastrophic strategic error, and the reasoning behind it doesn’t survive contact with reality. Your two red lines — no mass surveillance of

rules to live by

One striking thing about the Japanese tweets breaking through to the Anglo world right now is how instantly you *feel* the Japanese voice behind them, even though every word is in English. You'd scroll past a dozen perfectly native English tweets and then bam! Something lands

Genuine question: if every major company starts scanning their entire codebase with Claude Code (auth flows, security logic, vuln patches, all of it) isn’t that a massive privacy concern? Anthropic would theoretically get visibility into the core product logic and security

You all have figured out that Mahan is behind the Swalwell stuff coming out, right? Porter would have used this before Swalwell qualified for the ballot. But Mahan didn't have that time. And Porter didn't have access to who some believe the r^pe victim is. Mahan did. (Not

Ro and Bernie discussing AI and robotics is a vegan discussing steak. Everyone wants you to shut up.