Brittany Peregoff @BPeregoff

JUST IN: Shocking NYP story reveals Mamdani's City Hall has spots as cool as 54°, as the mayor urges New Yorkers to set their thermostats to 78°

JUST IN: Leaked internal reasoning reveals Claude Fable 5 “muttering and grumbling” to itself in a language of its own.

🇺🇸 PJM, the largest U.S. power grid serving 67M people across the Mid-Atlantic, South, and D.C., just hit emergency mode during this heat wave. They're activating load reductions on big customers (including some data centers with backup generators) while generator outages and overloaded lines add pressure. Demand nearly broke all-time records this week, pushing prices over $2,000/MWh in northern Virginia. A Hot Weather Alert runs through at least July 4. Stay cool and maybe ease up on the AC if you can. Source: Reuters / Writer: Lucas

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🚨 The surveillance state is here. For the first time ever the city of Long Beach in Los Angeles County, California will deploy drones to monitor the skies for residents setting off fireworks The City says drones will help locate illegal fireworks activity. Officials say the drones will be used to identify fireworks hotspots, monitor active incidents, and provide real-time aerial information to personnel responding on the ground The City also says footage collected during drone operations may be used as evidence in fireworks-related investigations and could be referred to the City Prosecutor for possible enforcement under Long Beach’s illegal fireworks ordinance Again let me be very clear, this is the state of the surveillance state This is brand new, if we let them do this and normalize it we will all end up under constant drone surveillance. They will only expand these programs

Escalators in NY are now being turned off to "conserve energy" Welcome to the 3rd world

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It’s well within Anthropic’s rights to compete in any market they choose. What’s funny, in this instance, are the number of Pharma companies, who through their unchecked use of Anthropic, are driving revenues into what they think is a model provider but is in fact a competitor lurking in the shadows thereby accelerating their own demise. I suspect any end market with reasonable ROCE that could be AI accelerated is on the table. If I were them, I’d probably do the same.

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U.S. Army special operations personnel were allegedly at the Capitol in plain clothes on January 6, according to Steve Baker.

@chamath AI+Robots will be able to do everything, resulting in universal high income. Work will be optional.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US Air Force just pulled all 6 B-52H Stratofortress bombers out of RAF Fairford in the UK Only 12 B-1B Lancers remain, down from 18 strategic bombers at the height of the Iran conflict. This is a clear sign. The heavy bombers that were postured for potential strikes on Iran are heading home. The immediate crisis appears to be cooling. Source: WarFront Witness on Telegram / Writer: Oliver

A world of amazing abundance. 💫

Elon Musk: "In Britain, I kid you not, how can this be real? They're releasing convicted p*dophiles from prison in order to put people in prison for Facebook posts."

Rep. Thomas Massie: "They used AI to create a life-like video showing me checking into a hotel room with AOC and Ilhan Omar and holding hands with them!" "It was very effective on the boomers."

When I was a child, my grandfather would sometimes solemnly intone at the dinner table: "The purpose of socialism is to organize scarcity." As a kid it sort-of didn't register in my brain as meaning anything beyond "socialism bad", but eventually when I was 12 or something, I did ask what he meant by those specific words. And he said: socialists establish control of valuable resources and then create an artificial scarcity of these resources, so that they can then use them as a tool of control by deciding who gets and doesn't get those resources. And I thought that was wrong. I mean, are socialists misguided? Sure. But to claim that they deliberately create scarcity as a means of political control? That seemed far-fetched. But, of course, he was entirely correct.

Breaking911 @Breaking911

2 days ago

🤡 NYC Mamdani wants people to start setting their thermostats to 78 degrees.

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first thing i’d do with any new frontier model now is not ask it to build an app i’d ask it to audit the business then spawn one agent per blocker it finds and see which ones survive contact with reality probably the fastest way to find whether the model is actually useful or just feels insane in the first 20 minutes And you can get a full audit in the process.

Claude @claudeai

3 days ago

Fable 5 is back.

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A German soccer fan is brought to tears over how nice he’s been treated in America He says he was afraid to come to America for the FIFA World Cup because European media portrays America as dangerous. He’s spent weeks in America and can’t believe how it’s the exact opposite “I fall in love with this country, and this was so emotional. I even cried in the stadium” “Following the German soccer team from Houston to Boston. Sebastian was afraid of coming over, saying that the news in Europe painted a picture of America being dangerous. But at every stop, from the moment he landed, he says everyone has treated him with kindness and respect and has not felt unsafe.” “Americans are not rude. Germans are not rude. If we are together, we can achieve great things” The media is the enemy of the people and it seems to be true everywhere I looked into data and found the real problem 90%+ of the mainstream media in America is Left leaning And in Europe, over 80%+ of their mainstream media is Left leaning That’s the problem right there. Liberals are destroying societies with their control of the media

How did the officers know on January 6th to look exclusively in the only two places where the alleged pipe bomber dwelled on January 5th? At least one of them was part of the plot. Release Brian Cole, Jr.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox

2 days ago

Investigative journalist Steve Baker says the January 6 pipe bomber sat down in exactly two places the night before the devices were found. When officers were sent out to search for the bombs, they checked exactly those two places, and “nowhere else.” How did they know where to

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ROGAN: “People are pointing out that right now it's one of the rare times where no rap music is on the charts. And they're saying, how does this coincide with USAID? Was USAID actively promoting rap music?” 🤔

Alex Karp is one of the only billionaires who gets it. The rest are so obtuse that it's not worth watching anything they say. It's like talking to people from 2015.

Jawwwn @jawwwn_

3 days ago

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Wealth Tax:  "It just punishes." "It starts with the billionaires." "Every single person at this table is going to be paying a wealth tax only to punish us." "And the reason for it is—these models have been completely, irresponsibly oversold." "

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they did it. the mad lads actually did it. i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?) early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem. processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet. each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago. since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up. to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it. when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor. the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned. we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch. it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it. huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality. while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together. what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

U.S. Office of Personnel Management @USOPM

3 days ago

Yesterday was the end of paper retirement processing at OPM, a major milestone in modernizing how we serve the federal workforce. Read the @FoxNews exclusive: foxnews.com/politics/exclu…

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