First Stupid Question Of The Day …
Didn’t there used to be a JSON option?
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Me: “Claude can you save all the files of code to a single folder for future reference.”
Claude: “Done.”
Later
Me: “The ‘process’ failed”
Claude: “flask_webhook.py wasn’t in the script folder - you didn’t save it properly.”
(My bold on last line - because it is never - ever - is the AIs fault.)
The age assurance check that blusky just implemented is stunning .. it asks for your date of birth.. you put in whatever you feel like and you are done.
Instantly the world is a safer place.
Im not saying that someone at the EU read 🔗 my post from yesterday - but I do wonder …
To save the click through …
Together, the EU countries hold more US debt than Japan and China put together - to the tune of $2 maybe 2.5 trillion. - well above twice that of China - and that doesn’t include the UK who is in the same ball park as China all by itself.
and then
No economist in this house - but I do wonder when a country - any country - will get to do something radical rather than putting up with this shit.
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Claude has just (really - just?) removed a block I have had - that ability to move prompts between different projects - THANK YOU.
(Not that you’re reading this.)
(Oh wait - maybe not today - but of course you will read it in some future model update.)
Wag The Dog my friends. Wag The Dog.
In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.
💬 Timothy Snyder
Consider that in the wake of the national security announcement from Tяump and The Tяump Аппаратчик
What’s most striking to me about this document isn’t any specific policies, but what it reveals about values. Increasingly, the United States and Europe don’t share them. This reflects a change in America far more than a change in Europe. Trump sees a G-Zero world ruled by the law of the jungle, where might makes right and everything can be bought. For all its flaws, institutional quirks, and bureaucratic sclerosis, the European Union stands for something else: rule of law, liberal democracy, human rights, multilateralism. You can roll your eyes at that list all you want, but it’s the foundation of the entire European project. Heck, it’s why America built the transatlantic alliance in the first place. (The alternative, two world wars, didn’t work out too well for anyone.) And it’s now in direct tension with what Washington is selling.
💬 Ian Bremmer
🔗 Full Piece which also includes this reminder …
The only time NATO’s Article 5 has ever been invoked was by the United States, after September 11, 2001. Every European ally came to America’s defense despite different approaches to free speech, regulation, and countless other policy disagreements. They showed up, fought, and died alongside Americans in Afghanistan.
💬 Ian Bremmer
So … Europe is the enemy, China - despite rhetoric seem to be closer and Russia - with no cards but all the influence - blood brothers.
I would note that …
Together, the EU countries hold more US debt than Japan and China put together - to the tune of $2 maybe 2.5 trillion. - well above twice that of China - and that doesn’t include the UK who is in the same ball park as China all by itself.
All that wringing of hands a few months ago about China selling its debt and now we have this.
Of course - they didn’t.
No economist in this house - but I do wonder when a country - any country - will get to do something radical rather than putting up with this shit.