Matt Derrick

Claude 5.5 Opus responding to “AI is a normal technology” is still the best AI-created video I have ever seen

Remember how eagerly the press swallowed stories about how Twitter was going to crash after Elon bought it? How could they have believed that someone who could run rocket and car companies couldn't run a forum?

The real story here isn’t that Northern Virginia suddenly became cool. It’s that DC’s government has spent years making it unnecessarily difficult to build, invest, start a business and create jobs in the city. Virginia didn’t steal DC’s momentum. DC’s government handed it to them.

Panic about AI water use rarely comes with context. Suburban sprinklers in the United States use more water in two days than all the data centers in the country use in an entire year. Newer cooling systems can bring on-site water use close to zero. humanprogress.org/the-ai-lan…

This is exactly why Anthropic pisses me off. You can keep saying the watermark doesn’t change ownership, doesn’t identify the user, doesn’t affect quality, doesn’t add hidden characters, and won’t look any different to readers. Fine. But that is not the whole issue. The issue is that you are still marking work that a human being may have thought through, structured, argued, and emotionally meant, just because AI helped process it. AI assistance is not authorship. If I wrote the idea, the argument, the meaning, the emotional core, and the final judgment, then it is my work. If Claude helped translate it, polish a sentence, or make it clearer, that does not suddenly make Claude the author. But a watermark absolutely changes how people perceive authorship. People are not going to say, “Claude may have been involved in processing this text.” They are going to say, “AI wrote this.” And honestly, who the hell are you to do that to my writing? Who gave you the right to stamp your model’s involvement onto work that came from my thoughts, my experience, my voice, and my judgment? You can say it does not change ownership all you want, but socially, reputationally, and creatively, it absolutely changes how the work is read. So fine. Do whatever you want. Build your watermarking system. Follow whatever framework you want. I’m not using Claude. Good luck.

Jordan’s Furniture rn

I really cannot see how Anthropic’s position benefits at this stage from communications like this. Seems it just pushes the Trump Admin to escalate further while also alienating potential allies in the industry. They already had a strong hand. Sometimes silence is best.

SCOOP: Dario Amodei sent an explosive memo to Anthropic employees on Friday, calling OpenAI's deal "safety theater" and criticizing the Pentagon, Palantir, OpenAI and the Trump administration writ large. theinformation.com/articles/… with @steph_palazzolo and @srimuppidi

Kelvin Sampson shares why most coaches and leaders fail - and it's not what you think. "I think the coaches that fail at every level are the coaches that are passive-aggressive. Passive-aggressive coaches are usually afraid to hold kids accountable. They rationalize." They avoid the hard conversations. They let things slide and hope problems fix themselves. "If you're going to build a culture, the first thing you have to come to grips with is you're going to have confrontation. Because you want it done your way." Culture requires confrontation. Not conflict, but confrontation. There's a difference. "All the coaches that got fired, I'd always try to learn more from those guys than the other guys. 'Why are you guys getting fired? What is it you're not doing?'" The answer? They overlooked the little things. "Touching every line is a metaphor for life...Do you let that go? You start letting that go, then that kid may never touch the line." The little things become the big things. The details you ignore become the standards you accept. The best leaders are both warm and demanding. You know they care, but they also emphasize the little things. If you're afraid to confront, you're afraid to lead. (🎥 THSCA Basketball - CoachTube)

A speed reading training video starts at 300 words per minute and ends at 900 words per minute. I was able to understand this entire video the first time it was present. Could you?