🇲🇼⚠️ Malawian girls in Russia were taken into slavery and forced to make Shaheds in the Alabuga industrial zone. Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…

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One thing I commonly use LLMs for is finding the words for things that I don't know / can't remember. Unrelated, I also hate those "quadrant" political-ideology graphs, as politics is way more complex than that. I decided to combine these two: having a LLM generate a freeform political quiz...

The level of compassion US citizens can expect from their President

The shareholder questions at the Tesla meeting are so cringe. The last guy introduced himself and the whole audience as "Tesla's soldiers, or I should say, Elon Musk's soldiers!". The current questioner seems to be implying that he thinks Elon is prophetic.

What’s the problem? We’re just displaying a historical fact that this person is a Jew by forcing them to wear a yellow star.

So, kinda unsurprising, and not good news, but here's the results of the Tesla shareholder meeting vote: ==== Board proposals: ==== Proposal 1: Election of directors All three (who have done nothing to check Elon's power) were reelected.

Watching the Tesla shareholder meeting. Denholm seems pretty upbeat. If she knows the numbers, then that's bad news, and Elon probably got what he wants. But I'll wait for the actual numbers.

Sleepy parrot, wakey parrot.

Nice choice of plane, and nice choice of paint scheme on it :)

I would argue the insane part has already happened, and by default his own logic, the 2nd part has to occur

Even better, using options you can not only own Tesla shares to vote against Elon, *and* have a bet Tesla being overvalued, to still profit on declines), *and* actually get much *more* voting power than a person who doesn't have a net short position. Here's an example with no risk from TSLA rising:

I love Zohran y’all, but posting “Proven: politics not about compromise and we never have to compromise again” because the Democratic nominee won the election for … mayor of NYC … might slightly overstate available evidence? Still, 💕 and hugs.

Google's DeepMind model (GDMI), which started releasing forecasts in June, has been utterly crushing the performance of traditional weather models. (Of particular embarrassment, the US's most "mainstream" forecast model, the GFS (AVNI), performed *awfully* - often *double* GDMI's track error)

"Time, not major battles, would cripple Hannibal."

~8kg / 350 pieces of a ~22kg / 950 piece order done. It's good to be a defense manufacturer for Ukraine 🙂 #DrukArmiya #ДрукАрмія #3DPrintArmy

🧵 The worst damage that can be done to a refinery is often that which you *can't* see. Consider for example the Motiva Port Arthur accident in 2012, for example, where a minor valve leak (less than a barrel) destroyed a good chunk of the refinery. They had just completed a five-year $10B project..

The judge ruled: “An AI model such as Stable Diffusion which does not store or reproduce any copyright works (and has never done so) is not an ‘infringing copy’.”

Example: when my Amazon was less than one year old, I was trying to get him to climb on a toy he didn't want to climb on. So I used a really thin branch like a fishing rod to dangle a treat at the end of a string, so he'd have to stand on the toy to get it. But my then-partner kept removing the...

The argument doesn't just misunderstand LLMs, it also misunderstands parrots. The fact that parrots can and do "mimic" doesn't mean that they're not also reasoning; they have thought-out meaning behind their vocalizations.

Oh, sure, you can mock the record of the Russian army, but there's nothing bad you can say about the brave and noble tradition of the Russian navy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi...

About to start reading it, but browsing the conclusions it appears to be mostly a victory for Stability AI.

Internet Marxists are amazing. 😏

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble. You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”

Maybe not this time of year, but...

Draw your own conclusions on this, it doesn't appear to be sourced, but it certainly sounds good... Tesla $TSLA $TSLAQ

Norway's fleet of hydrogen fuel-cell passenger cars has halved in size since its peak less than three years ago. The all-time peak was 0.0084% of the fleet.

some of you are saying the same words and meaning very very opposite things

Many have said it, but what’s great about Musk is he reads hard sci-fi and takes the exact wrong lessons from it

Read every word! "You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one... dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...

And yet, most retail-turkeys holding Tesla stock are voting for Thanksgiving in the upcoming proxy vote.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

the underrated impact of safetensors is that **ANY** custom code for a model effectively has to be peer reviewed by a whole lot of people across the globe in order to release anything deemed close to SOTA

To be fair, turning a blind eye to bloodshed because it's profitable to do so has a long tradition in Belgium.

It gets richer as the models improve. Compared to Haiku 3.5, we find a trove of interesting features in the Sonnet 4.5 base model. From various animal body parts, to “motor” neuron features like “say smile” that activate ahead of the ASCII mouth, to features that perceive “size”!

FOR SALE: Garden shed Disassembly required. Located in France. ht/Þóra

The location is here: www.google.is/maps/@46.659... The Russian CEP here seems to be around a kilometer. At *maximum range* with unguided munitions you should see a CEP of ~250m. 50-100m is not uncommon with modern systems at typical engagement ranges. Are they even aiming?

To anyone who is confused as to how this is supposed to work:

"I'm building the robot army from that famous sci-fi novel, 'Don't Build The Robot Army' !"

Those are some meaty numbers, but hopefully they get even METEOR. ;)

I keep seeing people sharing this "F-35s contain over 400kg of rare earths" (seemingly sourced from here - sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/R...), but I'm yet to see a good explanation as to how an F-35 is over 3% rare earths by mass, when *rare earth magnets themselves* are only ~25% rare earths by mass.

The "Nuh Uh, You Can't!" jailbreak.

I want to watch the ballet. Let the swans dance

To be clear... they named a small park/square in a slum after him. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/nafn... One could readily take it as a burn ;)

It just amazes me how investors put up with this. electrek.co/2025/10/15/t...