Generalist AI has a new blog post detailing their "harmonic reasoning" model GEN-0 generalistai.com/blog/nov-04-... Video is autonomous

Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait. It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists. As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.” But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻

This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

It's fascinating how language shapes behavior. In Switzerland, all-you-can-eat restaurants are called "à discretion" - literally meaning "at your discretion." "All you can eat" frames it as a challenge: how much CAN you eat? It's almost inviting you to maximize consumption.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

This paper was referenced by @Andrej Karpathy in recent podcast. Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677

"Senza un’informazione basata sui fatti e non manipolata, la libertà d’opinione diventa una beffa crudele." Ricordando Hannah Arendt, nata il #14ottobre 1906.

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

“Images are becoming so realistic, we now question everything we see online,” @Gruzd.ca, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, said. “Society cannot operate if we don’t know what’s true and what’s not.”

The state of LLMs is messy: Some AI features (like vision) lag others (like tool use) while others have blind spots (imagegen and clocks). And the expensive "heavy thinking" models are now very far ahead of all the other AIs that most people use, capable of real work None of this is well-documented

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Final blog post on the visualization medium.com/@mark-riedl/...

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

There’s a widespread misconception in Western society that repelling Russian provocations would lead to war. It’s a narrative fueled by Russian propaganda. In reality, the opposite is true: Russia will continue escalating its aggression and provocations until it is stopped.

Thoughts & prayers to the people who said grocery prices were the main reason they voted for a guy who campaigned on clear and specific economic policies that would very obviously raise grocery prices if he implemented them in exactly the way he promised he would, which he did.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Figure just raised over a billion In this blog post i estimated that building robot GPT would be a ~$1 billion USD project for a major company if you wanted to do it all in the real world so i guess here we go open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Denmark is truly leading the way forward for Europe. We just can't defend ourselves against the US with US-built weapons. EU must continue on the path of not relying on US arms from now on.

Yet more of the levers slipping into the hands of the few.

EU's Kallas: "Territorial concessions to Russia would bring more war, not less" Kaja Kallas identified a deliberate Russian pattern of demanding non-existent rights, issuing threats, then mobilizing Western voices to offer Moscow exactly what it never possessed euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/13/e...

I see why NATO members don't want to call this an armed attack, ie an Article 5 contingency. But @phillipspobrien.bsky.social is right. 17 yrs after Russia invaded Georgia, Western leaders still don't understand that Putin is provoked by weakness, not strength. Deterring him will require force.

No hyperbole this is what the Supreme Court just authorized ICE to do.

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

We remember #RejoinEU

This paper finds LLMs' ability to understand that others have different beliefs (Theory of Mind) comes from 0.001% of their parameters. Break those specific weights & the model loses both its ability to track what others know AND language comprehension Interesting implications for models (& minds?)

Very-very final wake-up call for Europe.

Si chiede/pretende di avere esperti con visioni diverse (tipo credere nell'efficacia dell'omeopatia, negare l'efficacia dei vax ecc) per parlare di vaccini. Quindi la NASA dovrebbe considerare anche il parere dei terrapiattisti e ascoltare la loro opinione quando si tratta di missioni spaziali? 1/2

Sure, you could use AI to summarize papers and explain them at a level anyone could understand... or you can turn the abstracts into music videos for no reason. The tools are obviously not perfect yet, but the disparate elements (consistent characters, lip syncing, etc.) are evolving fast

Every American needs to remember that Russia is only able to invade and terrorize Ukraine because, in 1994, the US and UK convinced them to give up their nuclear weapons. They voiced specific concerns about a Russian invasion. We promised to protect them. Trump wants to break our promise.

Marco Rubio says Ukraine-Russia conflict is ‘not our war’: Full interview - NBC News Yes, this is our war. In 1994 we promised Ukraine that if they give up their nuclear weapons, we would guarantee their security.

Every company is posting a clothes-folding video now. This is because clothes folding is the kind of thing we basically couldn't do before, but is really well suited to modern techniques for a few reasons

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Another group of "patriots" selling out their country. "From 2019 to 2024, Jian G. allegedly passed on everything he knew, read and heard to Chinese intelligence services, even going so far as to hand over European Parliament documents considered sensitive." archive.ph/2025.08.05-1...

GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container... and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs ... here it's running my LLM CLI utility

AI’s business model is apparently (a) emotional support, and (b) cheating on homework. The former kind of justifies why OpenAI is working on a physical device.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

The fact that nobody around him has told him this isn’t how numbers work shows you how afraid of him everyone who works for him is.

STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”

It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.

"Oh my God, they deported Kenny!" “You bastards!"

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.