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Microsoft is ending its Claude Code licenses because it no longer wants to rent the intelligence inside its own products. Instead, it is pushing developers onto a homegrown coding model built for Copilot, a shift that signals where the company believes power in AI will actually accrue. In San Francisco this week, at its Build developer conference, Microsoft will show off that model — a coding system it build for one purpose: to sit at the center of GitHub Copilot. For two years Copilot was the default AI coding assistant, bundled into the platform most of the world’s developers already use. Then the market moved. In the nine months after Anthropic released Claude Code in May 2025, developers followed it, and in one major survey nearly half of respondents named it a favorite. The incumbent got overtaken. Here is the part worth slowing down on. Microsoft lost on model quality. Instead of putting the better model inside Copilot, Microsoft is building its own. That choice only makes sense if you believe the thing that decides this market is not the model. Microsoft is betting that distribution beats the best model, and the early enterprise data says the bet is reasonable.

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

the only reason ammar is still alive right now is because a doctor took pity on him and bought him the injection before we raised enough money. the extended delays made ammar have his first seizure.

israel has also been bombing the hospital again, photos on this post - and their planes + drones are still circling the hospital now, threatening to shoot people. ammar, samah, and mahmoud are all outside in the courtyard and will be immediately wounded if they do so

we need to raise $1471 by tuesday 4 pm at gazan time, which is roughly about 50 hours from now. this is for his food, as well as his injection, and the iv fluids. this is now the bare minimum required to be urgently raised

if he doesn't get this by tuesday, he would need an intensive injection that costs $6k+ total alongside the fact he would need extra medicine and this original injection too

i have nothing else to say. donate as little as $3 or $5 for him, or you'll be letting him die. this is extremely time sensitive.

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thank you so, so much to the person who generously donated $1400. this was enough to get the money of everything we needed at the bare minimum, and it's now guaranteed that ammar's digoxin injection will not be delayed

our next intermediate goal is to raise the money for his immune globulin injection, as well as the rest of the costs for his iv fluid last week (i undercalculated how much it would be, so we still need more), by tuesday 4 pm, and then this will have been raised on time as well. this is in about 26 hours, i believe

this is $1,137 more - that will have us at $2654. then the remainder will be the transport cost, and this will allow ammar and samah to finally return home

ammar's birthday is on thursday, so i hope we'll be able to raise the money before then and he will be able to go home for his birthday instead of being threatened in the hospital

apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.