interesting to see feature launches are coming via official website while usage restrictions are coming in with a team member's twitter account - https://x.com/trq212/status/2037254607001559305.

also, someone rightly predicted this rugpull coming in when they announced 2x usage - https://x.com/Pranit/status/2033043924294439147

To me it makes perfect sense for them to encourage people to do this, rather than eg making things more expensive for everyone.

The same as charging a different toll price on the road depending on the time of day.

Funnily, Anthropic's pricing etc. why I'm using GLM-5 a bunch more outside of work. Definitely not Opus level, but surprisingly decent. Though I got lucky and got the Alibaba Coding Model lite plan, which is so cheap they got rid of it

I've been doing something similar. I use Claude for analysis and non-coding work, GLM for most coding tasks (GLM's coding plan) and when I need to do a larger implementation project I use GLM&Claude to build out an in depth plan and toss it to Github Copilot to Opus the implementation.

I was trying to get The alibaba plan but missed the mark. I'm curious to try out the Minimax coding plan (#10/mo) or Kimi ($20/mo) at some point to see how they stack up.

For Pricing: GLM was $180 for a year of their pro tier during a black friday sale and GHCP was $100/year but they don't have the annual plan any more so it is now $120. Alibaba's only coding plan today is $50/mo, too rich for me.

MiniMax 2.7 through their lowest plan is quite impressive too! I’ve not tried the Kimi ones yet

Does GLM-5 have multimodality or are they still wanting you to load an MCP for vision support?

Text only still, sadly, though qwen3.5-plus on the same provider (Model Studio) is

If you use the cloud providers you accept this and more.

If you want stability, own the means of inference and buy a Mac Studio or Strix Halo computer.

And if you look closely at the usernames, you see that the same engineer from link 2 that said "nah it’s just a bonus 2x, it’s not that deep" (just two week ago) is now saying "we're going to throttle you during peak hours" (as predicted).

Yes, it was FUD, but ended up being correct. With the track record that Anthropic has (e.g. months long denial of dumbed down models last year, just to later confirm it as a "bug"), this just continues to erode trust, and such predictions are the result of that.

Anthropic fixing that bug way faster than Apple fixing iOS keyboard "bug". Anthropic even acknowledged it, Apple gave us the silent treatment for years.

I'm not sure it's a rug pull when their stats show 7% and 2% subscription-level impacts. We're back in the ISP days, and they never said unlimited.

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Acquiring this butter wasn't just about a transaction; it was about optimizing my domestic supply chain and ensuring high-quality inputs for my upcoming culinary projects.

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How low we have become to do nothing about it? No arrests no convictions?

What do you mean?

I understand the reporting is like "LOOK AT ALL THESE CRIMES" but the files themselves are stuff like "Tee hee I know some girls for you".

How do you get from that to an arrest or conviction? If you unredacted that person, identified them and called them would they tell you that the girls were all 18 or older? Or would they incriminate themselves? Do you know it hasn't already been followed up on?

I honestly dont understand what people are expecting here.

> How do you get from that to an arrest or conviction?

You do an investigation

> Do you know it hasn't already been followed up on?

Yes because that would be a part of these files. It’s not disputed that at minimum any leads, including victim testimonies, were not followed up.

>It’s not disputed that at minimum any leads, including victim testimonies, were not followed up.

I would love a source that discusses this.

There's an great photo of Pam Bondi avoiding looking at all the Epstein victims when they raise their hands to indicate that they have not been contacted by the Justice Department to follow up their complaints, it is only a day or two old.

Watch the Pam Bondi video this week where she is getting grilled about the Epstein files, and her rebuttal is that we should thank Trump for the Dow Jones being over 50,000. Watch the interaction with the Epstein survivors in the room.

So is the issue that, the files were released and we now have 100000 people to lock up.

Or is the issue that, now we have some transparency, we can see the FBI is misallocating resources?

Because I keep hearing the former, but if the issue is that theres a bunch of crimes that have been reported that werent investigated, thats more of a process issue.

Just some examples. If you watch the hearings from two days ago, you'll see that DOJ refuses to interview or speak to the victims to gather more info, and ignored a report from DJT's limo driver that he spoke with a (now deceased) victim that was murdered (head blown off, cops said it couldn't be suicide). That report asserts that DJT and JEE raped her, but they never even spoke to him or followed up.

There is a clear pattern of inaction, going back several administrations.

In the files there are scanned documents from the FBI reporting direct testimony from the victims of rape, violence, murder from prominent politicians, bankers, et cetera.

Start with... investigating that?

Ask them: why this person should be going around telling people you raped her? Have you ever met?

You know, like law enforcement does when there is the suspect of a crime.

>>but the files themselves are stuff like "Tee hee I know some girls for you".

Really? Like the multiple "thank you for the pizza" e-mails which the sender was censored, or the whole obsession they have around "jerky" and how to cook jerky, "walk the jerky", or when it was mentioned that Epstein would eat less jerky because he was having some intestinal issues? Even mentioning these things, it still is such a small portion of all the sick shit that is on the files, pictures with literal children, a video of Epstein using a magnifying glass to burn a woman, and you're literally calling it a nothingburger?

Still pushing the pizza shit?

> I honestly dont understand what people are expecting here.

An investigation...?

The investigation should have been when those allegations were made, not when a bunch of "lets order pizza and play xbox live" emails were released to public 10 years later.

Pam Bondi said if the DOJ went after everyone the whole system would collapse is why.

Actually, no she didn't, but a lot of people are saying she did.

Which is a weird thing to make up given that there’s already so many horrible bytes to choose from that aren’t fabricated.

Snopes confirms this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system...

But everyone knows Snopes is leftist propaganda, so it's probably false. /s

It is amazing that this has to be confirmed on a website...

Wouldn't there be a clip of her saying it?

No one has even bothered to spend the 25 cents on an AI generated one as far as I've seen.

> It is amazing that this has to be confirmed on a website...

I think it has a lot of memetic power because it’s plausible given the other things she’s said, like trying to deflect to economic “success” by pointing out the DOW ~is~ was over 50,000.

It also doesn’t need to be an attributed quote in order to reflect the countering sentiment: “Yes, prosecute those in the Epstein files no matter the geopolitical and economic cost.”

It also has a certain whiney, servile tone to it that makes it just annoying enough to trigger the leftist “ick” instinct.

Idk, I hope the 50,000 dol- meme picks up and people stop spreading this fabricated quote.

Paywall

If that's the case, the system deserves to.

She is more worried about her own exposure. She can picture the ship sinking but doesn't want to drown with the other rats she helped protect.

Don't be naive, do you really think Pam Bondi has a choice in the release of these files?

She is just a figurehead, her or her family's life is almost certainly under threat

Spot on. Unclear why this is being down voted. Underneath everything related to this "administration" is the implied threat of violence.

Because it's based on no evidence, and framed to imply a government official openly breaking the law is somehow the victim here (The files are already meant to be released by law, many of the redactions are illegal).

If Bondi doesn't want to execute the duties of the office she can resign.

> If Bondi doesn't want to execute the duties of the office she can resign.

This is an incredibly naive view of a world in which people get blackmailed and murdered all the time at the whims of extremely powerful people.

It is very strange that you can't imagine a situation where someone is forced to play a role.

She's the head of the Department of Justice: and you are arguing that it's okay to not do her job because the criminals might threaten her.

I'm not arguing anything is okay, that is you in your political anger shoving words into my mouth. I am simply saying that it is easy to understand.

And again, you're being incredibly naive - there's no chance you'd be doing anything different in her position unless you are totally fine with sacrificing yourself, your parents, wife, children etc.

It seems that you think "criminal threats" from elites are something that only happen in TV shows, not real life. I'm not sure why this is your perspective because the Panama Papers murders were real, whistleblowers are killed all the time, etc.

She’s won so far, already got away with this twice as Florida AG, didn’t try to go after Epstein when he lived there and after Trump donated 25000 to her, she stopped the prosecution of his TrumpU fraud in Florida. GOP owns Justice Department for three more years and Dems were pretty toothless in previous administration.

> Pam Bondi said if the DOJ went after everyone the whole system would collapse is why.

This is a criminally colluding Pam Bondi saying this. I guarantee that every single person on the Epstein list is replaceable many times over. There is not a single person on that list that is indispensable in any role they play in society. Full stop. Don't fall for it.

It's just the way the system is built. Even Pam Bondi is replaceable (and should be replaced) by many, many actual qualified people.

she, like every other member of the administration is a DEI hire

> the whole system

If there were democrats on that list, they’d already be in jail.

THERE ARE! BILL CLINTON! NOAM CHOMSKY (if they'd acted faster they could have nabbed him before he died!)

Democrats WANT to see the pedos in our party getting justice! We have no loyalty to our party. We are the party of purity testing and infighting.

Anthony Weiner went down quickly. Cuomo went down quickly. Even folks who didn't deserve it like Al Franken go down quickly!

> We have no loyalty to our party. We are the party of purity testing and infighting.

Or as the rest of the world calls it, “not being a criminal organization”.

> NOAM CHOMSKY (if they'd acted faster they could have nabbed him before he died!)

He's still alive.

Mandela effect. He died in 2023. Look at him now, the guy is a walking skeleton.

Pam Bondi is trying to play the clock until the hot potato falls in someone else's hands.

Save the Borgias !

that was a shock to us all

damn that’s one greatly designed website.

On the other hand, my parents did not realise they needed to scroll down to read the article. :)

It's okay, but the scroll bar is broken and is super jarring every time it decides to hijack it. Could be easily improved by fixing the user experience by having the page scroll when the user does.

> Not everything has to be AI

well, not everything has to be workers or serverless :)

Haha. Been enjoying developing on the Workers platform. Can't go back now, lol.

it affected CDN services as well, i don't know or understand why that's not mentioned in the status page.

CDN was also affected for some customers. we were down with 500.

it's not

> "Google come to their senses on this"

it's

> "Google was forced to their senses on this"

"For now."

> Sounds like they're rolling back the mandatory verification flow

absolutely no. this is for the user side. but if you're a developer who is planning to publish the app in alternative play store/from your website, you have to do verification flow. please read the full text.

That's only if you don't want your users to have to jump through whatever hoops are needed to bypass the verification requirement.

But it's not mandatory anymore because people can install it without it being verified.