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Downloaded the latest Claude Desktop - it keeps crashing randomly invoking an MCP extension, often wiping out more than just the last part of the chat. Anybody else have this issue? #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet

Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy." James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office

They wrote a 900-PAGE BOOK FFS, which they are following chapter by chapter-they quite literally told us what they would do. How are democrats this unprepared?? @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.” — Alicia Keys Damn right.

Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.

New meme just dropped

Support Canadian alternatives!

If you had told me ten years ago that someday Beyoncé would win Best Country Album and still not have an Album of the Year trophy…

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

For the visual learners...

No. The Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They’re only back up because of the outcry. I’d tell you to stop lying but we know that’s a feature of this administration.

Deleted apps for Instagram, Threads, & Facebook. X is private and no longer active. Eliminating the unnecessary. Cheers.🍻

ill keep watching this.

Quel titre racoleur! Le TAL ne recommande rien du tout!! Les calculs du TAL sont basés sur: - l'Index des prix à la consommation - Les changements des taxes municipales - Le taux des CPG de 5 ans majorés de 1% Le TAL produit des exemples de calculs FICTIS! #ledevoir #TAL

9 Questions Senators Should Ask Marco Rubio. Getting the SecState nominee on the record about taking Greenland, blaming Ukraine, and Elon Musk’s quest to topple European governments. Cathy Young www.thebulwark.com/p/nine-quest...

The "slow breathing to convince your body that you are not actually in physical danger" thing actually kinda works, y'all.

Anyone who says there wasn’t enough water in the reservoirs to fight the California wildfires NEEDS to watch this & help stop misinformation. Can we please get back to uniting as a country when there are catastrophic disasters? Lying only disrupts efforts to help people in need. youtu.be/OsuBmAVqR7I

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X. Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.

Reminder that while Puerto Rico was devastated by a hurricane Donald Trump asked Miles Taylor, a former DHS chief of staff, and other officials whether the U.S. could swap Greenland for Puerto Rico because, "Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor." www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Californians are no strangers to hate, but the hate we’re getting during these unprecedented fires is next level. Look into it—when other states face disasters, California steps up to help, no questions asked. Our governor and leaders don’t trash-talk the states in need! #AngelinoStrong 👊🏽

The oil depot in Engels, russia, has been burning for four days.

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Perun-o-clock: Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Ukraine - Robotic warfare, Ground Combat & Supply drones www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrrX...

It seems pretty clear the brave firefighters and emergency personnel saved Encino, where I live, from disaster last night. The shock of what is happening has not fully set in for many people here, but let us take a moment to appreciate everyone fighting for all of Los Angeles.

Vindman Congressional Swearing-In: A Joyful Day open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

In Engels, local authorities report that fuel continues to burn from the Ukrainian drone strike that occurred four days ago, despite the area of the fire being reduced by 80%. The authorities seem to have nothing left to do but to put on a show of activity and pose for photos with solemn expressions

“As Los Angeles burned for days on end, horrifying the nation, scientists made an announcement on Friday that could help explain the deadly conflagration: 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history.” It’s GLOBAL WARMING, not just “climate change.” Pls get it right www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/c...

“More personnel and equipment from Ontario, Quebec and Alberta are ready to be mobilized, according to government officials. And a team of senior technical staff members from British Columbia will fill specialized roles, the government said.”

If we have enough money to buy another country then we have enough money to ensure nobody is homeless or goes hungry.

It was so predictable that this crowd would love this sort of thing. Politics as, I dunno, annoying the libs with how flippantly murderous you are or something. To me it feels kinda like you've lost your soul if this is who you become, but a sizeable minority clearly love it.

The Palisades Fire from a a flight landing at LAX, approaching Santa Monica, California.

I wrote this in 2015, about climate change, megablazes, and the danger of a Katrina by fire... www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Let’s see - I’m being sentenced for 34 felonies on Friday, I’ve nominated a bunch of unschooled idiots for my cabinet, and I owe E Jean $483 million. What can I distract the idiots with?

Something to keep in mind for 2025 Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction

I just realized that in “Concise” mode Claude is a lot more likely to truncate artifacts and files. Use at least “normal” mode to avoid losing your mind #claude #Sonnet #anthropic

Google your Gemini API errors are incomprehensible, your pricing page says 1000 requests per minute, 4 million Tokens per minute - why then this ***** message after barely a few requests??? 429 Too Many Requests] Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota). #Google #Gemini #HorribleDX

WTF Anthropic? Barely 10 messages in my chat but getting the "Your message will exceed the length limit for this chat" Give us the option of deleting some messages. Add a counter showing how many tokens are left. #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet #great-stuff #I-love-it-but #frustrated #very-frustrated

WTAF? Tesla's fatality rate stands at about 5.6 fatal accidents per billion miles traveled. Tesla has been named the "deadliest" car brand after an analysis of vehicle fatality rates determined the brand had the highest number of fatal crashes per mile. www.latintimes.com/tesla-named-...

I created an MCP server to call Perplexity from Claude Desktop, check it out if you're curious about MCP: github.com/martinbechar... #ClaudeAI