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I went into a pub in Dublin tonight and every seat was taken, so I stood by the bar. A man sitting there got up and offered me his seat. I said, “Aww, no, you sit,” and he said, “Never.” So I sat.
Men do this. They always have. They give up seats, carry heavy things, and put themselves between women and danger. I don’t understand why this is so often dismissed or ignored in conversations about gender and equality and the framing is that men have always been oppressors. That simply isn’t true.
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Elon Musk flips a vehicle upside down and everyone claps and cheers. But when I do it, suddenly I'm "recklessly endangering children" and "unfit to be a school bus driver".
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Most domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time. Their real function is to fill the God-shaped hole, sized for penance, prayer, and sacrifice, in people's souls. wsj.com/opinion/most-recycli…
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what Elon Musk has done to make my life better:
- electric cars
- satellite internet
- saved free speech
what Jeff Bezos has done to make my life better:
- nationwide next-day delivery
- architecture that powers the internet
what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have done to make my life better:
- made the internet searchable
- online email and documents platform
what Mark Zuckerberg has done to make my life better:
- social media to keep me connected to friends
- online ads platform
what Larry Ellison has done to make my life better:
- database software for my businesses
- data centers for AI and cloud computing
what Jensen Huang has done to make my life better
- hardware that powers the AI revolution
what Bernie Sanders has done to make my life better:
🤖 Made with AI
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Once you understand that the world is full of highly neurotic people who need a doom's day scenario to validate their emotions, it all makes much more sense: Malthusian starvation, pandemic, climate, and now AI. I wish we still had "the devil" to play this part.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all had security incidents that trace back to IRREGULAR: an evaluator tied into the same network that funded Jacob Coxon and invested early in Anthropic.
you must definitely read this:
WOW... Anthropic has a surprisingly dense web of connections to the world’s largest funder of "catastrophic-risk" work (aka AI doom):
> Open Philanthropy → built by Karnofsky + Moskowitz’s Good Ventures
> Good Ventures → funded Jacob Coxon’s scholarship
> Karnofsky → married to Daniela Amodei, Dario's sister and Anthropic's president
> Moskowitz → early investor in Anthropic
> Dario → scientific advisor to Open Phil years before Anthropic
> Karnofsky now works at Anthropic on AI safety strategy
> Open Phil-funded MATS → Evan Hubinger → now Anthropic alignment-science lead
> Hubinger backed Coxon: "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"
> Ethan Perez → Open Phil fellow + ~$1M Open Phil research grant → Anthropic Head of Alignment
> also backed Coxon: "100% agree with [Coxon] that AI poses serious risks to society, and I'm glad he's speaking out!"
is this kind of a dense network normal for a company?
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Google's "Attention is All You Need" paper came from trying to get a 3% gain in Google Translate.
Innovation is a consequence of production. "If you don't make the thing, you cede your opportunity to innovate on the thing."
~ Palantir's CTO @ssankar
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Hot take: They're not subsidized their margins are insane. They are just absolutely raping api customers. Anyone who has used deepseek or hosted anything and done the math on hardware/power costs knows this
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Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home.
Have they considered maybe he just doesn’t want to come back?
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Just came out of Lidl and saw a woman crying her eyes out. She was explaining to people that she’d lost all of her Xmas spending money and didn’t know how she would be able to afford everything! I felt really sorry for her and gave her £50. I don’t normally do this sort of thing but I had just found £2000 in the car park! It doesn’t hurt to be kind at this time of year!
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Just spoke with dozens of VCs
They all agreed: AI is over
No one is putting money into AI startups anymore
I asked what the next big thing is
They all answered in unison:
Regulation.
And the hot spot for the best regulations? Europe.
Meanwhile, America is getting left behind
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BANNING THE BURQA: 10 years ago I would have been horrified. Five years ago I would have been disappointed and seen it as punching down. Now I unequivocally support the banning of the niqab and burqa in public in the West and I would go further: I would ban the hijab on little girls. I do NOT accept the logic that covering is necessary because of men’s unbridled sexual urges toward adult women BUT as a tolerant liberal I will live alongside this when it comes to adult human females. I do not accept that girls under the age of consent should, in any way, have to take responsibility for the sexual aggression of men. Never. In this regard I do feel the rights of women and girls are universal insofar as I will not apply cultural relativism to this issue. Never. This is where, I am afraid, your cultural or religious values are trumped by the host country’s normative views towards women’s rights though you may argue you choose to cover, a child cannot choose and cannot consent and therefore I will always advocate for them unequivocally.
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Signal says it will leave Europe before breaking encryption.
The EU is pushing a law that would force every messenger, including Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, to scan messages before encryption.
Germany’s position is now pivotal. If it wavers, Europe could lose secure communication altogether.
Signal Threatens to Exit Europe Over EU Push for Messaging App Scanning Law
reclaimthenet.org/signal-thr…
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🇪🇺 My fellow Europeans
You have to fight ChatControl đź’Ş
Don't let @vonderleyen read your chats!
metalhearf.fr/posts/chatcont…
