“ AI will replace the artist “

the artist :

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Maybe the fumble of the decade by AnthropicAI.

The most popular and fastest growing open source project of all time is not only named after you, but most users are power users of your product.

Instead trying to collaborate or work with him they chose violence

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OpenClaw is the fastest growing project of all time, by every metric I've seen, yes and it's not close

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The Amish selling their home grown cannabis buds, oils, edibles at a local market in Pennsylvania

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The real story here is worse than a fumble. It’s a three-step own goal.

January 9: Anthropic locks Claude Code OAuth tokens, killing every third-party tool that built on Claude subscriptions. OpenClaw, which recommended Claude Opus 4.5 as its default model, wakes up to a broken integration. No warning. No partner outreach.

January 27: Anthropic’s legal team sends the cease-and-desist over “Clawdbot” sounding too similar to “Claude.” Steinberger complies at 5 AM on a Discord call. During the 10-second window where he releases the old GitHub and X handles, crypto scammers hijack both accounts and run a $16M pump-and-dump scheme. The chaos reflects on the entire Claude ecosystem.

February 15: Steinberger announces he’s joining OpenAI.

So Anthropic had the fastest-growing open source project in AI history (145K+ GitHub stars, 2 million visitors in a single week), built by a guy who sold his last company for ~€100M, whose tool literally recommended Claude as the default model to millions of new users.

Their response was to cut off his API access and send lawyers.

Steinberger spent last week in San Francisco meeting with every major lab. He explicitly said he could have built OpenClaw into a massive company but chose OpenAI because he wanted “the fastest way to bring this to everyone.” Meanwhile OpenClaw has already spread to China, with Baidu planning direct integration into its main app.

This is a project that was essentially a free distribution channel for Claude. Millions of developers installing a tool that defaults to your model. The growth marketing team at Anthropic should have been sending gift baskets, not legal notices.

Sam Altman just got handed an open-source agent framework with global distribution and a brilliant founder, because Anthropic’s legal department moved faster than their partnerships team.

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Flashback to 2021 when vaccine mandates were costing people everything.

35 years in the classroom and she was forced out for refusing the COVID vaccine mandate. Decades of service wiped away overnight.

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Fractional Pikachu Illustrator holders watching Logan Paul sell the card that they own for $16 million dollars

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The 5m markets on Polymarket are being actively rigged right now. But the market appears to have caught on. You can see BTC trading well below the UP price, but people know the rigger bought UP, so the price is incredibly high. Sure enough, as the last second arrives, BTC soars

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Amanda Askell, who has no children, was previously married to William MacAskill, co-founder of Effective Altruism

Dario and Daniela Amodei, CEO and President of Anthropic, used to live in a rationalist group house with Holden Karnofsky, who co-founded GiveWell, an early Effective Altruism-aligned organization

Daniela and Karnofsky are now married.

Anthropic also received significant funding from Sam Bankman-Fried.

SBF was also a prominent Effective Altruism donor, prior to the collapse of FTX due to fraud.

These connections between Anthropic leadership and the Effective Altruism community are alarming and if you go down the rabbit hole and trace the money trail, it will be very interesting…

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Google, $GOOGL, CEO said that they don't know how AI is teaching itself skills it is not expected to have

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DUDE

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LIQUIDATION CONTAGION

Wealth taxes are even worse than you think. Any asset held by Californian billionaires or Dutch citizens is now at risk of experiencing forced liquidation pressure.

So: it’s not just that you don’t want to hold assets as a Dutchman. You also don’t want a Dutchman to hold your assets. Because the logic of forced liquidation is contagion.

Let’s think it through.

(1) First, suppose there is an asset with a total market cap of $10,000, with 10 shares total, of which 1 share each is held by 10 different holders, all in the Netherlands. To simplify the math, assume the Dutch holders bought those shares at par, or close to $0.

(2) Now suppose today is the unrealized cap gains tax day, and the share price is $1,000 per share. Each Dutch guy is hit with a 36% tax, and owes $360. The first guy sells his one share, gets $1,000, and pays $360 in tax while retaining $640.

(3) But the first guy’s sale reduces the market price to $960 per share. So when the second guy sells, he only retains $600 after paying $360 in tax.

(4) Now assume that by the 7th guy, all the selling has pushed the share price to collapse to $200 per share. This is a very reasonable scenario if 60% of the cap table has suddenly been dumped. Indeed it might go much lower.

(5) At $200 per share, the 7th guy actually has to go into debt to pay the tax as he owes $360. He sells his one share, pays all $200 of the proceeds in tax. And still owes $160 more in tax.

(6) The 8th, 9th, and 10th guys are even more screwed. By the time they sell, the price will likely have crashed to $100 per share or less. As with the 7th guy, even 100% liquidation will not cover their tax burden.

(7) So we immediately see many negative things about the Dutch unrealized cap gains tax bill.

(a) First, it will cause large simultaneous forced liquidations. Everyone must sell 36% of their stake near the same time.

(b) Second, it may be literally impossible to pay if a critical mass of the cap table is all subject to it at the same time. In the example above it was 100% Dutch holders, but has it been just 60% the result would have been much the same: a collapse in the share price.

(c) Third, that means it would be disastrous to have too many Dutch citizens (or Californian billionaires!) on the cap table. Their forced sales will crash your share price.

(d) So, you might have to start mass blocking those resident in wealth-taxing jurisdictions from investing in your companies.

(e) This in turn makes the poor Western European guy even poorer, as he gets locked out of high growth assets.

To be clear: I really do feel bad for the formerly Flying Dutchmen, now Crying Dutchmen. They invented much of modern capitalism. They founded New Amsterdam, now New York. They’ve punched way above their weight. I wish them only the best.

Nevertheless…they should prepare for the worst. This may be a tough century for Western Europe. The first ones out might get to freedom, while the slowest may be stuck behind a new Iron Curtain, spending a century paying off the debts their states incurred over the last century.

Because the long run fruits of Western Keynesianism are the same as Soviet Communism, in the sense of wealth seizure and pauperization.

I mean, if you knew the future, you wouldn’t want to co-own a farm with a Russian in 1916. For similar reasons, you might not want to co-own a share of stock with Dutch national in 2026. Or with anyone in a seizure-curious jurisdiction…which unfortunately includes much of Western Europe, Canada, and Blue America.

You instead want assets that are not held by those subject to forced liquidations. Now, I grant that this is an unusual way to rank assets…Dutch holders considered harmful?!? Yet it might sadly cont…]

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Jacksonville, Ill. — A female-to-male-identifying woman named Marissa "Marty" Teubner has been arrested over the shooting m—rder of a woman.

Teubner, who uses "he/him" pronouns, is charged with first-degree homicide and aggravated discharge of a firearm.

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That's gotta be a real cold feeling

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JPMORGAN CEO REJECTS FED CHAIR ROLE

Jamie Dimon said he would “absolutely positively no chance, no way, no how” accept becoming Fed Chair.

He said he would consider Treasury Secretary, but added:

“What they want and how they want to operate would be important to me.”

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"it's a tibetan sign"

"Are you tibetan?"

"I could be"

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Happy (belated) Valentines

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Are you this old!? FVCKING EPIC!

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