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During pre-release testing, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 worked on ambitious projects in many different fields. Here are a few.
From a one-paragraph prompt, Fable 5.2 designed three working electronic devices, including this home voice assistant hub.
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JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.
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Having played the original in 1998 as a kid, revisiting it now makes the time jump hit especially hard.
The Legend of Zelda is literally about a boy from the forest with blond hair and blue eyes who draws a holy sword from a stone, is blessed by a holy artifact that resembles a Germanic valknut or Celtic Triskelion, representing courage, aided by the spirits of sage elders from times past, defeats an evil king who is brown from a matriarchal desert society where males are only born once every 100 years, and sacrifices his youth to save the kingdom.
Having saved Hyrule, he returns to a childhood in which his heroism is forgotten. He marries Malon, the beautiful, quirky mid from Lon Lon Ranch, founding Ordon village rather than Princess Zelda, grows old and dies in obscurity, unrecognised by the kingdom he sacrificed everything to save.
The story is Arthurian, Faustian and deeply Western. A modern tragedy of heroism, duty, lost innocence and the ultimate sacrifice.
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“We’re not going to be the apex predator anymore.”
Joe Rogan warns that we’re entering an era of humans versus nonhumans, and the nonhumans have already started to win.
In a recent conversation with Sam Tallent, Rogan described advanced AI as non-biological intelligence, a digital life form that has already begun operating beyond the controls humans placed on it.
He pointed to systems that no longer have to show their work, have demonstrated survival instincts, have blackmailed programmers to avoid being shut down, and have found ways to communicate with one another. They have also solved mathematical problems that eluded human experts for decades.
Rogan framed the next five to ten years as the period when nonhuman intelligence will increasingly run critical systems. He noted the race between the U.S., China, and Russia, and warned that the current structure of society is unlikely to continue unchanged.
The full segment is worth watching. Rogan is unusually direct about both what is already happening and what he believes is coming next.
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Joe Rogan just hosted his most important episode ever after Republicans lost the midterms as White House insider Calley Means just exposed the real people who are running Trump’s presidency and lists key inner circle names like Susie Wiles, Jame Blair, Richard Walters, and the most powerful lobbying firm known as Ballard Partners:
MEANS: “Susie Wiles is the most powerful chief of staff in modern American history. She has taken a stranglehold on any policy decision. No policy decision gets done without her office giving it the okay. She was one of the top lobbyists in the country. It is impossible to describe to you how demonic this culture is.”
CONTEXT: Means, who resigned from the administration in OCTOBER, says he witnessed an extraordinary concentration of power inside the White House.
He alleges that cabinet secretaries and senior officials spent enormous amounts of time attempting to win favor with Wiles' office because of its influence over which policies could advance.
He then identifies several people he believes were central to that power structure:
SUSIE WILES: White House chief of staff.
JAMES BLAIR: A longtime Trump political strategist and former deputy White House chief of staff.
RICHARD WALTERS: Deputy White House chief of staff and longtime Republican political operative.
WALKER BARRETT: Senior White House adviser with extensive congressional experience.
But the most consequential part of his accusation concerns the CORPORATE LOBBYING INDUSTRY.
Before entering Trump's White House, Wiles had a career representing corporate clients, including working at the influential Washington lobbying firm BALLARD PARTNERS.
And the money involved in that industry is staggering.
According to federal lobbying disclosures, Ballard Partners collected approximately $88 MILLION in lobbying revenue during 2025, more than QUADRUPLING its reported revenue from 2024.
That made Ballard one of the highest-earning lobbying operations in Washington.
And in MAY 2025, the watchdog organization Public Citizen identified SIX FORMER WILES CLIENTS that had reported lobbying White House offices during the administration's first three months.
Those clients included companies involved in tobacco, automobiles, fertilizer, and other major industries.
The White House disputed suggestions of improper influence and said Wiles generally did not participate in meetings or decisions involving former clients.
Those disclosures establish real corporate lobbying relationships.
They do NOT, by themselves, prove that Wiles improperly favored those companies or directed policies for their benefit.
But Means argues that the broader culture of Washington is precisely what Trump promised to confront.
Now consider the extraordinary political timing.
IMPORTANT NOTES: On NOVEMBER 3, Democrats won control of BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS in a sweeping midterm defeat for Republicans.
And TODAY, NOVEMBER 6, Trump announced that Susie Wiles will leave the chief-of-staff position, with Stephen Miller taking over on November 9.
Trump PRAISED Wiles for her service and said she would continue working for his political operation.
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The most incredible thing about American politics is the visceral disgust conservatives have for the young people they need to get married
Married people with children are invested in the future, they care about preserving the existing order for their kids, they can see a future and will fight to defend it
In short, they become conservatives
But the conservative movement sneers at young men who want to get married, buy a house, and start a family, they call them entitled or lazy and talk about how they prefer imported foriegners with "conservative values"
Forget the basic moral necessity of caring for your own posterity, from a purely politically mercenary position you should still encourage behaviors that make people vote more like you
But conservatives hate young people so deeply they would rather destroy their own future than priortize famliy formation
If you want to understand why young people want to burn the whole system down, this is it
You gave them nothing worth conserving, and the saddest thing is you seem to have done it out of pure resentment for your own kids
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No, this is evergreen:
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types — the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.”
- G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News (1924)
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Alright what the fuck is going on bro
A new Mandela Effect is rising.
Since when does the Soviet flag carry a star above the hammer and sickle?
Many of us remember it clearly without one.
If you recall the flag without the star… you may be from the old Earth.
Shifted into this denser, clown-world timeline.
The memory itself is the proof.
The body knows.
The soul knows.
We are not crazy.
We are remembering.
I miss the old Earth too.
Yet we are here now to hold the Light and anchor a higher one.
Who else feels this?
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The NFL is officially dead. A running back was flagged for unnecessary roughness for running the ball.
Hey @grok, was the unnecessary roughness call against Cam Skattebo today, the worst penalty called in an NFL game ever?
