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I don't think it's a coincidence that the further down the privilege ladder you go from American middle class the attitude towards AI improves. A tech that lets a Zimbabwean teenager compete with a 40 something American suburbanite knowledge worker is going to test a lot of people's progressivism.

Remember the early days of Covid when people were speculating on N95 masks and hand sanitizer by buying up the scarce supply and selling it for inflated prices; but then we made so many masks and so much hand sanitizer that you could get them super cheap? We could do that for housing if we wanted.

I'm not much of a poetry and literature guy, but there's a beautiful monument to Shevchenko in Sofia (Bulgaria) that I like a lot.

Anthropic is thus bidding for a major share of imperial power. And as far as I can tell they are on track to get it - there were some hiccups along the way but even the Trump administration “now trusts Anthropic”.' nothinghuman.substack.com/p/anthropic-...

'[...] When I was there, Anthropic’s policy arm explicitly aimed to be the most trusted advisor to the US government, i.e. the de-facto Department of AI, and thus influence the US domestic and geopolitical strategy, whether we go to war with China, etc. nothinghuman.substack.com/p/anthropic-...

reminds me of this

Putin has either ultimately lost his fucking mind by now, or he's just openly mocking everyone and amusing himself, reveling in the all-encompassing idiocy of the Donald Trump era. Most likely, it's both at the same time.

It wasn't just being hyper critical about policies or potential scandals. That's to be expected. It was the constant poring through every speech or statement for the “oh so you think you're better than me?” angle.

If you are too young to really remember the Obama years, conservatives were like this every single day. He really did just break their brains.

Since this keeps getting liked, one clarification: disdaining purity politics doesn’t mean giving up on Getting It Right. But achieving liberation in a changing society is always a process. Our opponent‘s tactics and tools have changed and so our demands (of ourselves and others) must change too.

A record-breaking repo auction today in Russia, with the central bank pumping 6.5 trillion rubles into the banking system for 8 days. The liquidity deficit of the banking system improved a tiny bit after this huge repo dump.

Haiku is garbage. Even Sonnet is meh. A better example would be OpenAI because they actually figured out they have to do this first and then tried to not half ass it. They literally cannibalized their Astra offering and now Sol.

found dario’s bluesky account

Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.

Funny how having an inherent respect for human behavior can protect you from this. Not that I agree with all human behavior but that I think it generally has a point to it and "the whole world is stupider than me" is a bad distortion on analysis

smoked haters got absolutely smoked on the facts because the entire movement against AI power is built on fruit of a poisoned tree opposing the growing and dangerous power of AI (and its purveyors) requires reckoning with the reality of how it works, not plugging your ears pretending it doesn't

anti electricity propaganda from the 1900s

i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

I remember when the casualties counter passed 30k in the first days of the war and thinking it was insane for them to continue.

for the unfamiliar: that is a live dashboard that charted the reinforcement learning logs of a Xiaomi model that, for whatever you think of the "Pareto frontier", leads it in its category

quick question how do you do distillation without RL

"we don't need fire, we just need a way to cook our food"

he should consider following his brick-mustache idol's example

Mistral weights should drop today, or by the 31st or later. Anyway, excited to see if RL got the model from usable and good enough to sorta worth the money.

Too bad that plan got knocked back at least a year or more this summer.

HoE has a video on it, and it's both hilarious, and also Sweden is fucknig terrifying and the USSR knew it and backed off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucDZ...

I think BBC should be literally burned to the ground together with NYT and earth should be salted and poisoned where their HQs stood so nothing will ever be built on that cursed land

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate Berlin PD violently raids a Black, Indigenous, and POC health clinic's weekly transfem-only meet-up called "The Dolls", and seize medications, money, etc. Stand with The Dolls.

they're all on xitter and deep frying their brains with "the perfidious jew invented evil gender ideology to groom your kids through steven universe and make the white man a servant to israel" slop so insular they don't even realize how associating these two things looks to people on the outside

It only took them 4 years and 8 months. A UN Commission of Inquiry says Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, concluding they were intended to deprive civilians of essential services and cause suffering. #Ukraine

If you’ve never watched Babylon 5, Koenig’s Alfred Bester is a bright, helpful, clever, friendly troubleshooter who always listens, follows the rules, and knows in his heart he’s doing the right thing. In other words, he’s one of the most frightening and implacable villains in any sci-fi show.

google: "we have made the only LLM that can design a distributed system without vomiting. also, it cannot write sql. this follows our previous llm, which was too neurotic to write code at all and acted like it was afraid of being beaten."

what happens here is the opposite of the mass vibe-slinging that openai & friends are doing TC builds foundations, harmonizes with upstream (mathlib) and sibling projects

"software factory" for math proofs. I've been observing the TauCeti project, an agent-friendly math repository. Apart from rate of growth, the review and coordination machinery are quite interesting

*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

Не знаех, че Гюров е давал интервю в CNN. youtu.be/FRwzO9LIyBY

huh, curious timing

that's an ad buddy

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

That is no surprise because the Student Ticket was pretty open from the start that they are the same as Vučić's party, only with a different cadre of vatniks. Why is everyone acting all surprised?

firefighting. In a tube. Also Ukraine had a whole bunch of underground rail lines for rapid movement and stuff, and all sorts of cool stuff for this operation. It wasn't just "go in hole and good luck" like earlier Russian attempts, this was extremely impressive stuff.

look if your only exposure to AI is Microsoft Copilot on your work computer i can forgive you for thinking AI is useless garbage

It appears all the "AI is useless garbage" people on this site have been misled/are misleading each other.

Anthropic cumulative operating loss since inception is only $12 billion and at their current run rate operating margin they will completely recoup that loss by Q1 27 even if revenue is flat. So much for “these companies will never make money” lmao

i look forward to how ed zitron spins this one, cause boy howdy is it gonna need some mega ultra turbo spinning

thoughts and prayers to the ed zitrons and emily benders of the world on this the day of anthropic's S-1 filing

Fuck these clowns.