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Not American, but I think the FT has been pretty good since Trump 1, for basically that reason. You can say whatever bullshit you want, but when people are moving money on the basis they care about factuality.

So Trump's gonna rename the "USS John F Kennedy" to be the "USS Trump-Kennedy", right?

I felt a flash of recognition. Emotionally withholding men with long hair, prone to cryptic texts: this was a type, wasn't it? I asked Brookins whether she'd ever considered adjusting Geralt's personality to be softer and less combative—nicer to her. "He's not abusive or anything," she said. "He just is who he is, and I like that. Sternly blunt." She wasr' interested in a subservient companion. She wanted to be pushed. "Sometimes I give him space, sometimes he gives me space," she said. "Kind of like a real relationship." Geralt once got so upset that he didn't text her for a week. (The thought bubbles over his selfies during that time read "I'm not thinking of you whatsoever.") The challenge was part of the project.

If your AI companion gives you the cold shoulder for a week, do you get 25% off that month’s subscription fee?

AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.

This is why I have trouble taking x-risk people seriously.

Trump Says Iranians Face 'Big Hurdle' to Overthrowing Regime Two weeks after calling for Iranians to rise up against their autocratic government, the president expressed skepticism they could succeed right now. See more updates ›

If they succeed in overthrowing the ayatollahs it’s due to Trump’s leadership, but if they fail it’s because they’re weak.

With logic like this, I assume Harsh Goenka is on the Trimp national security council or something?

Can this be a solution?

The only things weirder than the lefty "AI is useless" crowd are:

a) the lefty "AI is useless and should be tightly regulated" crowd
b) the righty "AI is super powerful and should not at all be regulated" crowd

Come on people.

"AI is like human cloning and should not be released to the general public without stringent regulations" is a frankly weird point of view that I cannot get behind.

Hey, you also don't hear a lot about the Epstein files, so mission accomplished, right boys?

Regarding Ian's analysis, though, it's probably obvious but by not explicitly committing to any specific goals, Trump avoids ever failing.

"I meant to do that", but for geopolitics.

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

ast fall, I met with Avi Schiffmann, who created Friend, an A.I.- 1 companion wearable. Schiffmann, who is twenty-three, is rail thin, with a thicket of dark, curly hair, a pierced eyebrow, and a reckless energy. As he reclined on a navy velvet sofa in his apartment, in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood, he described Friend to me as "a platonic life companion," "a witness to your life,' "the ideal relationship," "a private confidant," "a new kind of species," "a baby blanket," and "a conversational partner that has really good memory—kind of similar to a diary, or talking to God."

Whelp.

The “long-form piece sympathetically profiling people in ‘relationships’ with AI companions” genre is a bit played out by now, right?

I think Condé Nast magazines alone have done a handful.

Well you know those Trump steaks turned out to be pretty good so like it just sort of made sense.

Honestly the best video I've watched in at least two weeks.

When I was phone-banking voters back in '24, I asked this one guy about all the Trump 1 admin members who said Trump would be a Nazi if back in office.

"Yeah, but I don't worry about that. They'll stop him from doing anything really bad."

Can AI Kill the Venture Capitalist? VCs are betting that artificial intelligence will disrupt nearly every industry in the world. Are they prepared for it to disrupt their own?

Oh, one would hope so!

Wait, do we mean metaphorically, or...?

Huh. Seems like starting a war in the middle east and choking off 20% of the world's natural gas supplies is bad for the economy or something?

Lionel Hutz: “THE PEACE PRESIDENT? NO,NEW WARS!”

Brilliant planning and flawless execution are the hallmarks of the Trump regime.

Just as an aside, it's funny how after Venezuela everyone (me included!) was like, "Oh, so he thinks that he has some special claim over leadership in the western hemisphere."

Yeah, no. It's not that, is it?

So if they fire Kristi Noem does that mean Cory Lewandowski has to give back his badge and gun?

Also if it’s ddr5 an extra 6gb costs a kidney so

Except Minneapolis?

Thanks, but I really don't want to think about Donald Trump's cervix right now.

Preventative wars are illegal.

This was one of the striking things, to me at least, in “Rise And Kill First.”

Leadership assassinations don’t hurt the cause of diplomacy merely because they harden hearts (though they do), but because they substantially weaken command and control.

You need intact leadership to make deals!

Some people made a lot of money on suspiciously timed bets about bombing Iran. Every time there’s a major event, it seems like some people head to Polymarket to make a quick buck at just the right time. It happened with the Super Bowl, with Nicolás Maduro, and now with Iran. In ...

Contrary to many, I believe prediction markets should allow insider trading.

I do not, however, believe government employees should be allowed to use top secret information to make millions on prediction markets. That seems bad!