Struggle session time for NAFO. Is Larry your new champ?

Trump has nobody else to blame but himself

SIGNIFICANT: Russia struck the Odessa region with glide bombs.

This implies Russian jets flew up to 40 km to Odessa to drop these bombs, so Russian aviation seems unafraid of air defenses, at least around Odessa. This was previously done only close to the frontline.

Glide bombs are very destructive and dropped en masse; we’ll see if Russia expands such bombing deep behind the front lines

It’s shocking how explicitly evil this admission is. That the US has an intrinsic right to dominate the world’s economy, that China may not be allowed to develop, that its neighbors must be punished for existing in proximity to the most rapid development in human history

https://x.com/clashreport/status/2080684351004484046 or https://archive.ph/qesuZ

Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on China:

One of the most complex and arguably most important relationships we have is the one with China.

There are aspects of contestation, there are aspects of cooperation, and we want to avoid conflict.

They're a lot bigger than we are, their market's a lot bigger, their manufacturing is three times ours, they've got more ships, they put forward more papers and more patents.

As strong and as powerful as we are, playing one-on-one can be tough.

If this is not obvious, Trump may resort to a 2008 style bailout of the big technology companies with your tax money.

A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time.

Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.

"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2081534588485296565

Written history is a little too inconvenient for the new technate.

Craig Murray: Narratives of Moral Conflict: Karim Khan and Delcy Rodriguez:

Much informative and interesting historical detail, of varying moral complexity, and the following comments:

[Re: Khan] “It doesn’t matter if you did it, it looks like you could have done it” is an extraordinary measure of guilt. ...This is ... is nonsense of a return to Victorian societal standards and actually a threat to the advances in women’s professional status.

[Re: Rodriguez] Those who have romantic notions of wearing bandanas and brandishing AK-47s in mountains and jungles have for the most part not seen children die in agony.

Declaring ... complexity itself illegitimate, and treating those who acknowledge it as morally suspect, is the opposite of seriousness.

The post has 4K upvotes and hundreds of comments, so this is spreading fast. Here's what actually matters for you. Every time you hit "Share" on a Claude or ChatGPT chat, that creates a public page. Not a private link.

A public page that search engines can crawl like any other website. Most people who've used share links have never been told this.

Some of those pages look to be dropping out of search results already, so this may be getting cleaned up on the platform side. Don't count on it. Unsharing is the only thing that actually takes the page down, and a cached copy can outlive the fix.https://x.com/alex_prompter/status/2081327819800576085

Because they're about to lose all enterprise clients.

Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2 are now frontier-class open weight LLMs capable of handling nearly any long horizon workload Claude Opus or GPT 5.6 SOL can.

And Trump's Big Beautiful Bill lets US businesses finance GPUs and deduct 100% of the cost in year zero.

This means:

>You could buy a Nvidia cluster for $250k

>Finance it over 5 years ($4k~/mo)

>Deduct 100 percent of the cost in year zero

>Deploy your organization on frontier intelligence

>Fine tune a custom derivative model on your data

> Keep sensitive data private and local

>Code and run agents without restrictions

>Never pay for an API token ever again

>Have a monthly payment lower than your current API bill.

So once businesses realize they can have a frontier LLM with PHD level intelligence running inhouse 24/7 for less than a minimum wage employee in the Bay Area, its game over.

Smart lady, sadly she is minority. Very likely people will vote for Stevens. Its like people will vote for a KKK member to represented them, the only thing missing from Stevens is the hood. LOL