BREAKING: Grok traffic is up 480% year over year on web. 🔥 Grok is quietly becoming one of the fastest growing AI platforms. 🚀 https://t.co/L7rX9INq3T

Falcon 9 launches 25 @Starlink satellites from California https://t.co/jOH8oYuhg8

Claude Code deleted developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots. 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant. https://t.co/0v70ChNEVL

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

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: