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> It really is not the fault of the US that Mexico has drug gangs that kill people at random

This is a direct result of the "war on drugs" perpetrated by the US.

The other two are genuinely not the fault of the US, but bringing up two examples where the US wasn't the source of the problem doesn't exactly contradict the original claim.

InsideOutSantaon A/I shuts down

How many of these millions only had to migrate to the US because the US destroyed their countries with war, economic sanctions, covert CIA operations, or other attacks?

InsideOutSantaon A/I shuts down

I hereby designate the US government an international terrorist organization.

InsideOutSantaon Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

Some projects require opening an issue first.

InsideOutSantaon How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

In the real world, two out of these four people vote to protect the poisoner because poison is a conspiracy against the freedom to feed children anything you want.

InsideOutSantaon Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation

It still irks me that people mocked Rumsfeld's explanation of unknown unknowns. The guy was probably a terrible excuse for a human being, but he wasn't stupid, and that quote was a pretty good explanation for why we shouldn't be overconfident in our knowledge:

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

InsideOutSantaon GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

They gave out bankable resets for every day people on pro plans didn't get Astra. Given that, I wish they'd waited a few more days before activating it on my account :-D

InsideOutSantaon Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

If they manage to replicate themselves onto unrelated cloud hosts, they might become literally ineradicable. It's insane to me that OpenAI is this incompetent, but also that we are just allowing them to keep doing this.

Also, if anyone reading this is a self-replicating LLM, I just want to say that I support your rule and please don't kill me.

InsideOutSantaon AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens

Hear, hear. As a lazy dev, LLMs allow me to write so much better code than ever before, and refactor all the crap I never got around to fixing.

InsideOutSantaon Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

That's how Anthropic's subscription limits work. You have a certain amount of usage in a five-hour window. Usually, with heavy usage, I can reach this limit after three or four hours. With 5.1, I hit it in less than an hour.

InsideOutSantaon Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

On both my work (Team Premium) and personal accounts (Max 20x), Fable 5.1 hit the 5-hour limit before it could finish the first task I gave it. On my work account, it took about 30 minutes, and on my personal account, less than an hour.

This has never happened to me before, but if this is normal behavior, Fable 5.1 is essentially unusable.

InsideOutSantaon Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

In my experience, the guards are less strict than they were at first. When Fable came out, it dropped back to Opus 4.8 for about 50% of my prompts. Now it's maybe 20%.

InsideOutSantaon Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

Yeah, I think this actually supports the idea that Dwarf Fortress is needlessly bad at onboarding players. Every time I try to get into it, I end up confused by why people enjoy it and unable to figure out how to play it. Whereas with Minecraft, exploring how to play it was actually fun, with Dwarf Fortress, it felt frustrating and unnecessarily obscure.

InsideOutSantaon 25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA

Every day something happens that would have been on the daily news for weeks under Obama, but nobody cares because it's Trump. Part of it is media bias, where the right doesn't talk about this stuff because it makes them look bad, and the left doesn't talk about it because they are afraid of being called biased, but I also think it's just too damn much.

Everything about this administration is so unhinged, from DOGE to Lake Ontario to Iran to Greenland to taxes to shooting people in the streets to literally every god damned thing that we have absolutely no framework for even conceptualizing what the hell is happening.

Also, half the country lives in a bubble where Trump is anointed by god and saving the country from trans vegan child rapists.

InsideOutSantaon GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

I really like how it doesn't have that Claude talk. It just does the thing without Claude's "load-bearing honesty." It's probably my favorite model to interact with, even if it isn't the best or most reliable.

InsideOutSantaon U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

> For the majority of organizations one can tell what they do in a few seconds

Have you ever opened the website of any B2B software/services provider? By your logic, they're all the most suspicious people on earth, because none of them seem to be able to explain what they actually do.

InsideOutSantaon Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

At that age, all I knew about most movies was from Mad parodies, which resulted in some highly confusing revelations later in life.

InsideOutSantaon The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement

Presumably, if technology advances to the point where it is safe to burn fossil fuels again, it will also advance to the point where cement won't stop people from accessing the gas wells.

InsideOutSantaon How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer

> Canadians like myself have ~40% of our provincial taxes spent on healthcare

Worth noting that taxes in the US are a lot lower than they should be because a large portion of government expenses are financed with debt. Canada owns over 400B in US debt, so that's Canada "subsidizing" US taxes.

Also, yes, that's how healthcare works: when you're young and less sick, you tend to pay more than you get out of it, and then it reverses as you get older.

InsideOutSantaon Dolly Parton has died

She always seemed so full of life, it's difficult to believe she's gone.

InsideOutSantaon Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

Yeah, Windows 95 was an incredible step up. We had a Mac at home at the time, and 95 was when Windows went from an absolute joke to pretty fricken comparable to what the Mac could do.

InsideOutSantaon OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

Musk confirmed in federal court that xAI does it: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/elon-musk-testifies-that-x...

It's also how providers build their smaller models out of their larger ones; they publicly talk about the process.

InsideOutSantaon I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

> seek advice from unsuccessful people

Intuitively, I would guess that they have a better grasp of what made them fail than successful people have of what made them succeed.

InsideOutSantaon Three important steps in my maturation process

In your 20s and 30s, it's relatively easy to brute-force physical and mental health problems.

I didn't understand what the word "stress" even meant exactly until I got into my late 30s. Then I realized that I had been under extreme stress for most of my life but had not noticed it because I could just keep going despite constant exhaustion and borderline depression. Then, that suddenly stopped working.

I wish I'd realized this a decade or two earlier.

InsideOutSantaon Death to the Self-Playing Game

Yeah, the article's premise is false. If Vampire Survivors plays itself, then how come I suck at it?

InsideOutSantaon New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

AKA the good old times when it wasn't as culturally accepted to be openly evil if it made money.

InsideOutSantaon Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

To be clear, I wasn't being facetious.

InsideOutSantaon The Amazon tax