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Lina, you don't know the honest truth.
In the military, you got your POGs... Person Other than a Grunt. Guys who don't shoot anything. You need them, because you need all sorts of specialties, but you can't trust their big-picture judgement, because the overall mission of the military is shootin' people, and they don't do that.
In civilization, we have POMs.
Person Other than a Maker. Dudes what don't build things. You might need them. But you shouldn't take them too seriously, or listen to them too much, because on some fundamental level, they are never going to get it. They are never going to understand. The fundamental task of civilization is making things, and POMs don't do that.
"This is just a mash-up of existing technology" is the most POM-like typing you could ever hope to see. It's a tell that someone has never done a significant engineering project in a technical role.
Experienced engineers not only understand differently, we eat, sleep and breathe the basic reality that 99% of engineering challenges are "get mechanism to work with other mechanism". Without breaking, shaking itself apart or blowing up.
Every basic scientific principle behind the internal combustion automobile was understood by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
And yet they were not only unable to harness those principles to make a primitive steam-powered automobile, they were unable to conceive of the very idea, because their ability to implement and integrate wasn't advanced enough.
If you look at everything that Elon Musk has ever done, every company he has ever built, every technology he has ever brought to market, none of it was a purely new invention.
It was ALL taking stuff that already kinda worked, and making it do new things. And not just do them, but do them so well that they actually became practical.
SpaceX didn't invent the rocket. They made it reusable.
Tesla didn't invent the electric motor or the battery. They made them practical for ground transportation.
Neurallink didn't invent electrical nerve interfaces. They made them control a computer UI.
This shit is incredibly hard. If you try to use the known principle of a cold-gas thruster to make a car fly, you're going to crash and blow up a lot. You're going to have to make mistakes, and fix them, one by one, until you run out of mistakes and the thing flies.
Real engineers, real makers, know that this is what the word engineering means. POMs don't get it. Lina doesn't understand what she saw.
She thinks she saw a publicity stunt to impress yokels.
No. That was a publicity stunt to impress engineers.
It wasn't a demonstration of a flying car at all. It was a demonstration of the engineering capabilities of team.
It was a flex.
"Look," they said, "we can reify the Gernsback continuum. Give us your silliest, low-effort science fiction meme tech, and give us enough time, and we'll make it real."
The purpose of making a flying car isn't to let you do a jetpack leap over traffic. It's to learn all the little implementation details and balancing tradeoffs and gotchas that you have to master to make a car fly.
It's not the big scientific discoveries that build civilization. By themselves, they are nothing but curiosities.
What builds civilization is all the little discoveries that you make when you try to get the big ones to stop crashing and blowing up.
When someone does that on a unprecedented level, you either help them, or you stay out of the way and keep your ignorant POM opinions to yourself.
I'm not an Elon hater.
I'm just telling you the Honest Truth:
This is a marketing stunt.
The technology is quite old.
Just nobody ever thought of bolting it on a car.
Because it's pointless.
Porsche or Ferrari could also build something like this if they wanted, but they don't, because it's not worth it for them.
It's worth it for Elon though, because his entire brand is all about having the halo of futurism.
His marketing scales especially well with tech gimmicks like this, which is why he is financially incentivised to do them, while others aren't.
Again, I'm not hating, but actually educating yall.
This is not engineering genius.
It's marketing genius.
Maybe we should stop blaming people for incorrectly using Starlink when it's Starshield if even Zelensky himself makes the mistake 🤦
It's not that big of an issue but it's a real difference. Starlink, the commercial service, already had those speed limits imposed, and it's against the TOS to do all those things he described. That's why they have Starshield.
And that is exactly how it is supposed to work. Military stuff is for the military, with military hardware and contracts.
Civilian stuff is for civilians.
We don’t use Starlink for our responses inside Russia. We use Starlink to intercept jet-powered “shaheds” that attack our civilians and kill families.
Starlink wasn’t turned off – its speed was reduced. And when the speed was reduced, we were unable to intercept a certain number of jet-powered “shaheds.” We couldn’t use a tool that helps protect people. That’s very painful and frustrating.
We also use Starlink for mid-range strikes against enemy military targets in our temporarily occupied territories. We couldn’t do that when the restrictions were in place. And third, what matters most is people. Our warriors, who spend weeks and months on the front line, receive food and water delivered by drones using Starlink.
Has the speed been fully restored to what it was before? No. Is it being restored now? Yes.
From a conversation with media representatives in Brussels. (2/3)
Configurations
– Performance: road ready, seats 2
Active aerodynamics & multi-mode suction system for next-level performance on & off the track
– Thrust: race ready, seats 2
Multi-mode suction system paired w/ rear-mounted cold-gas thrusters that enable 0–60 in <1 second
– Rocket: air ready, seats 1
Multi-mode suction system plus perimeter-mounted cold-gas thrusters supporting forward & upward acceleration plus lateral rotational movement. So...yes, it can fly
Range >300 miles
Top speed up to >230mph (Rocket)
0-60
Performance (<1.6)
Thrust (<0.9)
Rocket (<0.59)
Reserve now –
Tesla.com/Roadster
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Zamieszanie wokół terminali Starlink na Ukrainie.
Od rana 14 pażdziernika 2026 r. niektóre ukr telegramy alarmują że "Elon Musk ograniczył Starlinki" w rezultacie miało rzekomo dojść do przerwania "wielu ważnych misji", jak rozumiem z wykorzystaniem dronów uderzeniowych. Temat zaczął na swoim profilu tg wczesnym rankiem były doradca byłego szefa MON-u Sternenko pisząc:
"Minionej nocy ograniczono działanie terminali Starlink. Łączność zaczęła zrywać się przy prędkościach przekraczających 160 km/h."
Następnie głos zabrał doradca prezydenta Zełenskiego do spraw technologii dronowych Sergij Beskretnow, pisząc na swoim profilu tg: "minionej nocy SpaceX wprowadziło ograniczenia prędkości dla terminali Starlink działających w ruchu. Obecnie ograniczenie to dotyczy pakietu usług wojskowych „StarShield” i ustala limit prędkości na poziomie 100 mil na godzinę."
Następnie post napisał znów Sternenko. Tym razem twierdząc że "Napływają doniesienia z wojska, że właśnie zaostrzono ograniczenia dotyczące korzystania z terminali satelitarnych Starlink przez naszych operatorów. Prędkość, przy której połączenie zaczyna zrywać, to 60–70 km/h."
Temat natychmiast podchwycił Financial Times. W artykule napisano tam o problemach z terminalami Starlink przy prędkości powyżej 160 km/h. Następnie o problemach z łącznością w usłudze Starshield poinformowało także dowództwo VII Korpusu Szybkiego Reagowania
Jednak później pojawiły się głosy że nic takiego się nie dzieje. Jula Kirylenko dziennikarka UP napisała na swoim profilu na tg w komentarzu do postu dowództwa VII Korpusu Szybkiego Reagowania "Informacja ta nie jest w pełni precyzyjna, ponieważ inne jednostki zgłaszają brak jakichkolwiek problemów." Natomiast jeden z obecnych tu X ukr użytkowników Starlinka napisał: "Starlink na Ukrainie działa, standardowe usługi pozostają bez zmian. (...) Jeśli chodzi o plan usług Starshield i zgłaszane ograniczenia prędkości, na tym etapie nie mogę ani tego potwierdzić, ani temu zaprzeczyć."
Warto zauważyć że osoby informujące o problemach ze Starlinkiem mieszają dwa typy usług, być może celowo. Usługa Starlink jest stricte cywilna i od końca 2025 r. jest ograniczona na terenie Ukrainy do prędkości 75-80 km/h. Natomiast usługa Starshield jest usługą wojskową zarządzaną przez Pentagon. To on a nie Musk decyduje o ewentualnych ograniczeniach w prędkości w której działają w jej ramach terminale. Ewentualne ograniczenie ich do 160 km/h nie powinno być aż takim problemem ponieważ ukr drony uderzeniowe FP-2 i AN-196 Liutyj i tak latają z takimi prędkościami.
Na ten moment zaczynam podejrzewać że mamy do czynienia z kolejną próbą wywołania awantury medialnej ze strony obozu Zełenskiego. Dosłownie dwa dni temu Zełenski i jego obóz polityczny oskarżyli Trumpa o brak ostrzeżenie przed wystrzeleniem pocisków balistycznych w kierunku Kijowa. Temat natychmiast podchwyciły i rozpowszechniły w sieciach społecznościowych ukr farmy trolli powiązane z ukr rządem. Jednak potem okazało się że uderzenie na Kijów rus wykonali za pomocą pocisków systemu S-400, który są bardzo trudne do wykrycia za pomocą satelitów ponieważ ich silniki pracują zaledwie przez 10-20 sekund, w rezultacie sygnatura termiczna jest niewielka. Wcześniej także nie były one wykrywane przez amerykańskie satelity.
Poniżej Ukr dron wirnikowy wyposażony w terminal Starlink.
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Through the VOICE trial, Terry is using his Neuralink implant to help fine-tune a brain-to-voice interface for himself and others who can’t speak. He trained the algorithm first by miming speech as best he could, then by simply thinking the words and hearing them come out in his own natural voice.
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Ramon Capra retweeted
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?
3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.
It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.
4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
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Pure dishonesty. The far-left wants to abolish the constitution, capitalism, prisons, and borders. Their interlocutors praise authoritarian regimes and excuse terrorism.
But if this is the game we're playing, well then, the far-right just wants to lower your taxes. See?
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When I was younger I'd read about the Ottoman empire banning the printing press or whatever and I'd think "Why on Earth would they do that? They can't all have been that retarded, can they?" but unfortunately I get it now.
BREAKING: I just signed an Executive Order implementing the strictest standards in the nation for AI data centers — because I will not allow Pennsylvanians to be bullied by greedy developers and bulldozed by the lawyers working for these big tech companies.
Effective immediately, we’re requiring AI data centers to commit to strict environmental and transparency requirements AND receive approval from the local community if they want to build here.
That’s not all: We’re also removing ALL data centers from our Fast Track permit program and stopping any office or agency under my jurisdiction from signing an NDA with AI data center developers.
I’m putting these developers on notice and letting them know that we will not let them bully Pennsylvanians, disregard our constitutional right to clean air and pure water, and drive up our utility bills.
I’m using the full weight of my executive authority to block the objectionable, unwarranted projects and put the nation’s strictest set of protections in place.
Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible
Today’s For You release is in the open-source repo.
Notable updates:
• How ranking weights actually work
• A new filter required for Brazil’s 2026 election
All the details: github.com/xai-org/x-algorit…
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It’s really interesting that there’s basically a bipartisan consensus based on complete and trivially debunkable falsities, namely that
- datacenters consume meaningful amounts of water (they don’t)
- datacenters are responsible for power prices increases over the last decade (they aren’t - inflation and decarbonisation in blue states is)
- datacenters impose costs on local communities (they generally enrich them and make life better)
- datacenters are being built “for flock mass surveillance” (flock accounts for, generously, 0.01% of the DC buildout)
- datacenters create noise and other pollution (they don’t)
- datacenters are being built in residential areas (they aren’t)
- datacenters get tax abatements that entirely eliminate their tax burden (never the case- abatements typically only cover a small fraction of taxes, and DC pay a half dozen different type of taxes that go to the state and city, they are always net and meaningful taxpayers)
Virtually everything your conspiracy minded friend believes about datacenters is false. It’s also completely trivial to debunk using a simple google search or AI query but these people just blindly trust a random tiktoker sitting in their car instead.
Are there real objections? Sure. But the opponents of datacenters aren’t making them. They rely on outright falsehoods like DCs are poisoning the water, or creating droughts, or tripling power prices locally, or paying zero taxes.
Rare to see a popular consensus on both sides of the aisle that is basically a complete inversion the actual fact pattern.
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Buffett is the greatest investor of all time - synonymous w the American Dream. He inspired me to start Invest America | @TrumpAccounts. So as he considers donating all of his Berkshire shares by 2034 - along w Howard, Susie & Peter - there could be no more fitting legacy on this 250th anniversary of America than sponsoring a Buffett dividend of Berkshire shares directly to 70 M American kids accounts to seed the next 250 yrs of American capitalism. @MichaelDell & I look forward to sharing our pitch. 🇺🇸🤍🚀
The path to launch is filled with obstacles and success is only possible through the tireless efforts of many working together towards a common goal. “Critical Path” continues the ongoing Starship series, following SpaceX engineers through the final days before launch of the first Starship V3 and the challenges that come with development of the world’s most powerful and fully reusable rocket.
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There seems to be a conception that if US air defense systems are exhausted then the US has to capitulate. This is fundamentally incorrect. The only way to get any adversary to capitulate is to destroy their will to fight. Air defense systems are actually a de-escalation measure, because they limit damage to allies that would otherwise become a call for escalation. In any escalating scenario, the US has an unmatched advantage. The US can essentially instantly delete any target it wants with zero risk to its own personnel in about 20 different ways, from individual vehicles up to entire cities.
The US's adversaries should pray that the US never runs out of air defense, so they can keep lobbing their puny and obviously ineffective missiles at their neighbors in a spate of infantile rage, because if they were to land enough hits, the US would switch from nation building to nation destroying. This last occurred in 1941 and was a rough time for all involved. The only difference is that now the US is far richer and far more advanced relative to the tiny club of insane despots who treat their own subjects (citizens would be too strong a word for people who have no civic rights) with even more contempt than they do the US, whose wealth and power drives them mad with envy.
It has become extremely clear that 99.9% of the world is thrilled to run some form of peaceful free trade capitalism and get super rich within the more-than-effective deterrence envelope of 2026 norms around rules of engagement. The 0.1% evidently cannot be deterred by sub-meter precision blowing up their stuff or the surgical deletion of their political colleagues, so one might sensibly ask: What will destroy their will to fight or their ability to continue to wreck it all for everyone else?
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Give Mandami credit. He is doing exactly what he said he would do when elected. He is turning New York into a socialist/communist anti American city by getting “politicians” like Darializa Avila Chevalier elected. Here is just a sampling of things Chevalier has said, tweeted or done. (This is not an onion article. These are all facts)
Founded a group at Columbia with the express goal of overthrowing western society
Called all white women ugly colonizers while criticizing interracial relationships
Wishes she could wipe her ass with a the American flag
Waved a Hamas flag the day after October 7th attacks
Wants no borders
Wants to abolish the police
Wants to abolish prisons
Against all deportations. Clarified that even if a non citizen murders or rapes somebody deportation is immoral
Said all of the United States is on stolen Native American land
Things she has not done in her career. Had a job.
On the brightside though at least she never said America deserved 9/11. (At least that we are aware of yet) Unfortunately the other candidate Mamdani endorsed Aber Kawas did say that. And got elected. In NYC. What a world



































