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I'm a disabled trans woman with cerebral palsy. I can't walk and can't work. We found me an apartment. I'm days away from getting out of this hotel, but if I can't cover move-in and the hotel bill lose it and end up on the street. Please help if you can
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Revenue of only ~2% of total evaluation is fucking INSANE
BREAKING: Anthropic officially files its S-1 registration statement for an IPO, seeking to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol $ANT.
FULL SUMMARY OF ANTHROPIC'S S-1 FILING:
1. Anthropic posted H1 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion with a net loss of $80.7 billion
2. Anthropic says it does not expect to pay a dividend "in the foreseeable future"
3. Expects to spend up to $120.5 billion on SpaceXAI and Nvidia compute
4. Expects to spend up to $114.5 billion with Google through 2033
5. Revenue growth rate "may not be sustainable" and "may decrease"
6. May be required to seek additional financing "sooner than expected"
7. 5% of Anthropic's shares will go to the "Anthropic Public Benefit Fund"
8. S-1 includes warnings of AI's "catastrophic existential risks to humanity"
Markets currently expect Anthropic to raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of ~$2 trillion.
The company is reportedly targeting an IPO in the week of November 16th.
Holy shit it’s so over for tech and tech workers. 60,000 with Microsoft on their resume are about to hit an already dead job market
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
Holy shit, Matthew is such a soulless ghoul
Me: "Even if it was unpopular, are you saying the Democratic Party should not speak out against the president sending migrants who have committed no crimes to be tortured in a foreign gulag?"
@mattyglesias: "Yeah."
Me: "Just stay silent?"
Yglesias: "I think that sometimes, if you want to help people... you gotta win first."
Me: "They might be dead in three years time, by the time you win."
Despite all the arguments on this hellsite over the exact number of his Piker tweets, this was the part of my interview with Matthew Yglesias that really stood out to me. I was actually stunned by this response. Shouldn't politics also stand for something more than triangulation, polling and 4-D chess strategizing?
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
Because CIA influence in Latin America has gone great in the past…
Fucking incel Nazis made a cute gender swapped fanfiction concept into another talking point for their race war. Please touch some grass dude
A really good DM is basically an author writing in real time. There are moments where the pure chance of a dice roll is crucial, but there are also moments where you can let the DM adapt a story to other actions and ideas. I don’t see a problem with this.
Even though Jubilee videos are a cancer, I love when a debater can shut down an opponent this well. Kudos to Zina here.
ProPublica is doing the A+ quality journalism that risks them getting disappeared.
ProPublica: Trump Appointees Wanted a Voting Machine Hacked
A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.
The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to procure the machine, examine it and report back the findings so they could be given to the White House, according to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request.
propublica.org/article/cisa-…
Using private company stock to fund social programs is such a shameless way to make it politically unpopular to do anything that harms Anthropic or SpaceX. Individual private companies should never be permanently cemented into the economy and wellbeing of average people.
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So under Anthropic's bill, Anthropic can kill 49 people and steal up to a billion dollars before anyone can legally stop them
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
It’s interesting to see certain extremely mainstream establishment politicians (Obama, Harris, Newsom, etc) slowly come around on progressive issues but half a decade late and only when it becomes politically detrimental to not change. Spineless cowards.
