Just so we’re quite clear, the President is insane: https://t.co/f248IpFY4q

Had to doublecheck the date on this https://t.co/EBgRiq63OL

Had to doublecheck the date on this https://t.co/EBgRiq63OL

@crampell https://t.co/1HZzo5tWvD

@crampell https://t.co/1HZzo5tWvD

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce

Tweet of the year? https://t.co/npeXHLqs5l

Tweet of the year? https://t.co/npeXHLqs5l

@JamesTate121 Kind a like this. Will there be the same outcome? https://t.co/Gmg3zRsgSd

@JamesTate121 Kind a like this. Will there be the same outcome? https://t.co/Gmg3zRsgSd

Unreal numbers 👀⚡️ "JPMorgan estimates that, had Germany not phased out nuclear power, the country would have generated 50% less electricity from fossil fuels and 84% less electricity from natural gas in 2024. Electricity prices in Germany would have been around 25% lower, and the country would have imported half as much electricity.."

🚨 46 MILLION PEOPLE STUDIED… AND THE RESULTS SHOCKED EVERYONE For years, many people feared that COVID-19 vaccines might increase the risk of heart attacks or strokes. But when researchers studied the medical records of nearly 46 million adults in England, they found the opposite. The data showed that after vaccination, the risk of major heart and artery problems actually decreased by about 10% after the first dose. With booster shots, the protection became even stronger around 20% lower risk for Pfizer-BioNTech recipients and 27% lower for AstraZeneca recipients. Researchers, led by Samantha Ip, also tracked rare side effects like myocarditis, but these cases were extremely uncommon. In contrast, catching COVID-19 itself is known to significantly raise the risk of serious heart problems and blood clots. The conclusion from the study published in Nature Communications is clear: vaccination doesn’t just fight the virus, it may also help protect your heart.

Social scientists working with materials requiring digitization can only study what machines can read. In practice, that means printed Latin-script documents from well-funded archives. In a new working paper, I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900.

Coasen Singularity - firms exist to minimize transaction costs. If AI agents reduce these transaction costs to near-zero, economic need for large firms disappears, potentially leading to a "singular" economy of individuals or "one-person unicorns." https://t.co/0tvbpaqEDI

A masterclass from @jeremyphoward on why AI coding tools can be a trap -- and what 45 years of programming taught him that most vibe coders will never learn. - AI coding tools exploit gambling psychology - The difference between typing code and software engineering - Enterprise coding AND prompt-only vibe coding are "inhumane" i.e. disconnecting humans from understanding-building - AI tools remove the "desirable difficulty" you need to build deep mental models. Out on MLST now!

New NanoGPT Speedrun WR at 86.1 (-0.7s), by replacing partitioned hyperconnections with a simple idea: feed the exact same context vector into the last 3 attn layers, so late stage attn doesn't get polluted by prediction MLPs. Opinion: AI research agents are handicapped until they have a mech-interp toolkit. Many sub-3min architecture improvements came from analyzing weights. https://t.co/o9WeUF7PHl

In an alternate timeline we’d be using Evangelion GUI designs rather than CLIs https://t.co/BrdceCRuld

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I am humbled to be among the courageous leaders from Abrahamic religious traditions who put out this important statement about the @DeptofWar-@AnthropicAI dispute: https://t.co/3lbzyP3NQR. A short summary of the substance:

This is what every GPT release feels like https://t.co/QC2217RZq3

insane sequence of statements buried in an Alibaba tech report https://t.co/rr6P1ilLNc

🚨Let me explain what just happened because I don't think people understand how insane this is. > A woman asked ChatGPT for legal help. It told her to fire her real lawyer. She did. > Then it wrote 40+ court filings citing laws that don't exist. Cases that never happened. Judges that never ruled. > The other side spent $300,000 responding to completely made up legal documents. > An AI hallucinated an entire legal career and nobody noticed for months. > OpenAI is now being sued for $10 million. And this is the same company that just signed a deal with the Pentagon. They can't even stop their AI from faking court cases. But sure, give it access to military intelligence. What could possibly go wrong.

🚨BREAKING: Berkeley researchers spent 8 months inside a tech company watching how employees actually use AI. The promise was simple: AI will save you time. Do less. Work smarter. The opposite happened. Workers didn't use AI to finish early and go home. They used it to take on more. More tasks. More projects. More hours. Nobody asked them to. They did it to themselves. The researchers sat inside the company two days a week for 8 months. They watched 200 employees in real time. They tracked work channels. They conducted 40+ interviews across engineering, product, design, and operations. Here's what they found. AI made everything feel faster, so people filled every gap. They sent prompts during lunch. Before meetings. Late at night. The natural stopping points in the workday disappeared. People ran multiple AI agents in the background while writing code, drafting documents, and sitting in meetings simultaneously. It felt like momentum. It felt productive. But when they stepped back, they described feeling stretched, busier, and completely unable to disconnect. 83% said AI increased their workload. Not decreased. Increased. 62% of associates and 61% of entry-level workers reported burnout. Only 38% of executives felt the same strain. The people doing the actual work absorbed the damage while leadership celebrated the productivity numbers. Then came the trap nobody saw coming. When one person uses AI to take on extra work, everyone else feels like they're falling behind. So the whole team speeds up. Nobody formally raises expectations. But the new pace quietly becomes the default. What AI made possible became what was expected. The researchers gave it a name: workload creep. It looks like productivity at first. Then it becomes the new baseline. Then it becomes burnout. AI was supposed to give you your time back. Instead it's eating more of it. And the worst part? You're doing it to yourself. Voluntarily.

Openclaw is one big grift. Nobody is building anything real. It's just grifting influencers telling YOU how to build stuff (but never build anything themselves). Interesting how you can be building 24/7 but have nothing to show for it... Check the track record of these snake oil salesmen. Same type of person who polluted crypto with their grifty ways. Selling a false dream and taking money from innocent people is disgusting. You can't change my mind.