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This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...

This also means - per my reporting - that Anthropic spent $2.66bn (so three quarters of its LIFETIME compute) on AWS between Jan and Sep 2025. These costs came to me through AWS sources and I stand by them fully, as they are direct measured costs vs. investor deck slop.

www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

In a field as competitive as frontier AI, this feedback loop if allowed to persist could result in harm well beyond the immediate consequences of the government's actions. Training and serving frontier-level models like Claude requires extraordinary computational resources. Anthropic has already spent over $10 billion on model training and inference (serving the model to end users) and expects to spend many billions more in the coming years. Although the company has generated substantial revenue since entering the commercial market exceeding $5 billion to date—it has nonetheless had to raise more than $60 billion in outside capital to fund its operations. Anthropic has raised this capital by issuing investors equity stakes in the company.

Based on their lawsuit filed against the DoD, Anthropic appears to be admitting that reports about its revenue and costs are fake, saying its revenue to date “exceeds $5bn” and training/inference “over $10bn.” Previous reports said $4.5bn.

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ah yes, detroit style pizza, or as i like to call it, american zapiekanka

every time i repost a joke about butlerian jihad i turn to my ipad and whisper "not you baby. youre different"

Then you don't support trans equality you Nazi fuck

the idea that people making art has the attitude of "it doesn't need to be special" and that it's the exception to care about the quality of what they make is such a revealing self-own

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

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Yes—all of this, and that’s in addition to the respiratory impact of breathing the related gasses and precipitants before the rain came down.

As expats rushed to leave Dubai, many did so leaving their pets behind. Dogs were found tied to lamp posts, left in empty apartments, or dumped near shelters

Influencers & expats who built brands around luxury living are being called out for abandoning their fur babies when things turned dangerous

Unlike Balkaners and Westerners, the Eastern European has had contact with the Muslim world for the last 1000 years and most of it was, in fact, peaceful.

The curse of consciousness is that it can invent yearnings for things that may not exist

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

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Screenshot of a tweet by Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania). The tweet reads: “Has any theory in international relations been more discredited than blowback? It turns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine.” The timestamp below shows 10:08 PM · Feb 28, 2026

Dunno, folks.

If the intellectual leaders of my movement were the dumbest human beings alive, that might give me some pause regarding their claims of inherent genetic superiority over other races.

Apparently not so for our Nazi buddies, but here we are.

real ones know the real split in the left on economics is not "more state involvement" versus "less state involvement," it's universalism versus "discerning the deserving" and blue labour is easily on the latter end

war ≠ tariffs

Tariffs imposed arbitrarily can be reversed arbitrarily, and removal acts similar to a stimulus. Most who adjusted economic activity can readjust.

People killed in war don't come back to life. Infrastructure destroyed in war doesn't start working again. You can't just take it back.

cold take but the capital of the free world is kyiv. they still believe in everything these thugs have abandoned

watching the way these people wage war just fills me with such a pride in ZSU, an actual people's army that even on the territory of Kursk Oblast didn't commit a single deliberate anti-civilian war crime and immediately brought in humanitarian aid

it's actually really funny he keeps going on about 'the warrior ethos', because the whole focus on lethality is antithetical to basic military honour as it has been conceptualised for thousands of years in every society except the nazis and imperial japan

Ukraine is Europe's heart. I'm not content to live without a heart.

this is a people that loves freedom and knows how to fight for it and we need that fire

this is not articulated enough but the chiefest reason why we absolutely must admit Ukraine to the EU has nothing to do with solidarity and everything to do with what they can contribute /to us/: mainly, a spine

it would be nice if those bemoaning our lack of empathy for the socially conservative left explained what exactly i, as a cosmopolitan migrant whose friends are mostly queer people, should see as redeemable in them

He's very likely to be dead, yeah.
Unless Oda pulls another retcon, but I really don't know how (Bon Clay turned out to survive Magellan's attack, so it's not like it's impossible, but I wouldn't count on it).

And I can safely say that One Piece didn't get more interesting, Wano and Whole Cake Island are a fucking slog (especially Wano).
You can wait a year or two, maybe it'll get interesting.

Ah, in that case it's easier, my apologies for the confusion caused.
Yeah, no, Oda doesn't return him.
However, there are mentions of *man with a burn scar* and there are theories on Reddit that this is the first lieutenant of Ace's.
No confirmation though.

Depends on where you are in the story and how many spoilers regarding Ace do you want (I could also email you, if that's easier, saved it after the comm).

One Piece fan here, is it okay if I DM you? Just to give a balanced answer.

I've got both entries in Frostpunk series too. Thanks for the advice, but doesn't help tbh.

Whiteboard with image labeled MUST HAVE and there's a wizard with a cone hat and wand and book and 6 missiles flying out doing d4+1 to a red frowny face

think this was for pillars