Passion: grandsons. Online recruitment, ux & usability, AVG/GDPR, AI Act. All on @RecruitMatters. And economy, climate, paleontology, politics and Ukraine. And

Voorschoten, The Netherlands
Joined June 2007
Hey Gavin, I mapped the contract flow and gigawatt pipeline across the frontier labs, hyperscalers, and neoclouds. The split between funded guidance and uncommitted options highlights the actual supply-chain exposure vs the noise.
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Ed Zitron
@edzitronOct 6
Joined @GaryMarcus @JG_Nuke @gnoble79 and Julien for an hour and a half long conversation about a little thing called "The AI Bubble" youtube.com/watch?v=es4FfRU8…
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Ed Zitron
@edzitronOct 5
“We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.” In a conversation for the first edition of Decoded, a new daily newsletter and podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked with POLITICO’s @BrendanBordelon about trade-offs, AI safety, and how his company is different from Anthropic. Subscribe to Decoded for the full conversation with Sam Altman: politi.co/4yxilIS
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No bot is going rogue and hacking other sites. Bots can't do that. Bots will only do what they're programmed to do. It's like a boxer punching an opponent and saying 'this glove is out of control'.
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I work in CRISPR discovery research. This is one of the most exaggerated nothing-burgers ever and would be laughed out of the room if a human scientist attempted to publish something like this. (cont.)
Min Choi
@minchoiSep 23
This is wild. Claude just found something humans missed. It spotted a hidden repeat pattern in raw bacteriophage DNA… …and uncovered a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophages with CRISPR-like repeats. 🤯 950 agents. 21 hours. 210M tokens.
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👀 This chart, from the tail end of my explainer here 👇 might be about to become one of the most important issues in UK politics. How and why did the government allow its emergency stockpiles of diesel to drop to one of the lowest levels in the developed world...?
📽️ What happens when the world's biggest exporter of one of the most important substances for modern civilisation decides to stop exporting it? We might be about to find out. 🛢️Primer on US diesel and the coming fuel crunch, inc why it could be especially grisly for Britain👇
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🚨BREAKING: Jensen Huang just EXPOSED Dario and Altman’s "Rogue AI" grift to avoid getting sued into oblivion under EXISTING law “Don't let this doomsday narrative cause somebody to relieve them of the laws that currently exist. Go and read between the lines. They're actually not asking for more laws; they're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have.” ABSOLUTE TRUTH NUKE
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Contracted ARR meets real ARR
🤖 Made with AI
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JustDario
@DarioCpxSep 9
“this entire staged event serves a desperate financial agenda in a pre ipo panic facing the slowdown of scaling laws and growing investor skepticism over the profitability of foundational models” - Bingo 🎯
go fuck yourself @sama claiming that you solved navier stokes because 10000 agents ran in circles for 88hours on a multimillion dollar gpu cluster to formalize in lean a blowup case under controlled external forcing is pure scientific vulgarity the clay mathematics institute millennium prize does not ask m whether you can artificially force a singularity in a fluid by injecting an ad hoc smooth external forcing term f(x,t) to twist the vortex until it breaks the real problem questions the fundamental stability and global smooth existence for 3dimensional incompressible euler & navier stokes equations under natural conservation laws and viscous dissipation alone using a mathematical loophole on forced equations to parade a century old victory is a major conceptual scam Altman technically & epistemologically what you present as an agi breakthrough is nothing more than bruteforce combinatorial autoformalization the ai did not understand fluid mechanics it simply navigated a continuous search space previously mapped out and constrained by the monumental work of human mathematicians like tristan buckmaster/ levent alpöge / diego córdoba or tarek elgindi coordinating 10000 agents to check the logical consistency of a 100 page proof via lean is a software engineering feat and computational parallelization triumph not an intrinsic scientific discovery it is the victory of the compute bulldozer over abstract human intuition repackaged for the public as a higher mathematical consciousness to this theoretical imposture you add a disgusting ethical and industrial cynicism taking advantage of private codex sessions and informal preprints from academic researchers to siphon their research leads and then trying to redact or erase the contribution of levent alpöge under the pretext that he works at rival anthropic is intellectual serfdom openai behaves like a feudal lord of silicon appropriating the cognitive subsistence of independent scholars threatening their careers behind closed doors if they protest and turning community academic labor into a privatized pressrelease this entire staged event serves a desperate financial agenda in a pre ipo panic facing the slowdown of scaling laws and growing investor skepticism over the profitability of foundational models openai needs to manufacture an artificial sputnik moment claiming to solve a millennium prize without immediately submitting the proof to traditional peer review means using the prestige of fundamental mathematics as cheap marketing fuel to inflate a delusional valuation!!! real science is not a clout chase on social media or a compute spike spent to rob the clay mathematics institute it is a quest for elegance physical truth and universal rigor to decode reality true artificial intelligence will not emerge from hostile corporate takeover of academic work hidden behind computational bruteforce but from architectures capable of generating new conceptual paradigms by masquerading constrained formalization as the collapse of physics greatest mysteries you did not solve navier stokes you only proved how far silicon valley will go to prostitute scientific integrity for capitalist spectacle
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A climate crisis walked into a bar. So they set the bar higher. What's your "A climate crisis walked into a bar" joke?
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Trump: The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor. If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign. The good news is that there are plenty of other places that want them. If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame. China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement. Actually, they can’t believe it is happening!
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Kyiv region is increasingly targeted by jet-powered Geran-4 drones: turbojet engine, protected navigation, mesh comms, AI camera. Each contains ~100 US, Chinese, Japanese & European components—some Western-made in 2026. We identified them all and shared data with partners.
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Replying to @MTSlive
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Sabine Hossenfelder
@skdhAug 1
I have tried many times to get ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini to write scripts for my YouTube videos. It is still a complete failure. For one thing, they are unable to come up with interesting topics. They will inevitably suggest topics that have already been widely reported and been discussed to death. Far worse though is that even if I give them a topic, they are unable to write a script that even makes sense. The sentences sound coherent one by one, but read the entire thing and it's incomprehensible, repetitive, and complete junk. They are not even good at doing as much as writing down a structure for a video. On some level I am glad that I am still useful. On another level I am frustrated that they have not just not improved in the past 2 years, but actually gotten worse. The two things that they are good for is (a) finding relevant references and other sources and (b) fixing English grammar problems. They are still not any good for fact checking my scripts. Ironically not because they accept false statements as correct, but because they simply do not check the statements and flag even correct ones as wrong! Tl;dr: if my videos suck, it's my fault.
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As of July 19th update, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature is now more than 3.7 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean. With the warming just getting started, this El Nino is still in charted territory, but just barely.
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Veel jonge mannen die in een islamitische omgeving zijn opgegroeid, dragen vrouwonvriendelijke ideeën mee. Uit een onderzoek van de VRT blijkt dat veel jonge mannen vinden dat een man een vrouw mag slaan. Maar hoewel de onderzoekers perfect weten welke culturele en religieuze achtergrond deze jongeren hebben — want die gegevens werden ook verzameld — laten ze dat cruciale onderdeel bewust weg. Onder het excuus dat men niemand wil “stigmatiseren”, wordt essentiële informatie verzwegen. Een onderzoek dat belangrijke factoren bewust weglaat uit angst voor politieke gevoeligheden, verliest zijn geloofwaardigheid. Nog gevaarlijker is het systematisch vermijden van elke eerlijke discussie over religie. Door de vrouwonvriendelijke elementen binnen de islam steeds te verzwijgen of te camoufleren, creëert men een taboezone waarin vrouwenrechten juist het hardst worden ondermijnd. Ironisch genoeg gebeurt dat vaak door dezelfde linkse en zogenaamd “progressieve” groepen die zichzelf presenteren als de grote verdedigers van vrouwenrechten. De realiteit is dat zij de schending van vrouwenrechten binnen islamitische gemeenschappen vaak negeren omdat het niet past binnen hun ideologische verhaal. Daardoor laten ze precies die vrouwen in de steek die het meeste bescherming nodig hebben: vrouwen die slachtoffer zijn van islamitische onderdrukking. Ik ben geboren en opgegroeid onder de shariawetgeving in Iran, een land dat gegijzeld wordt door islamisten. Ik ken de islam, de koran en de sharia van binnenuit. In de 21ste eeuw zijn vrouwen daar nog steeds juridisch en sociaal ondergeschikt aan de man van het gezin. Zonder toestemming van haar echtgenoot mocht een vrouw vaak niet eens vrij naar buiten, laat staan werken, reizen of studeren. Dat Iraanse vrouwen vandaag zo strijdvaardig en vrijgevochten zijn, komt niet door de islam, maar ondanks de islam. Het komt door de diepgewortelde Perzische cultuur die nog altijd leeft in onze harten en die weigert zich volledig te laten vernietigen door de islam. De islam bevat teksten en regels die vrouwenonderdrukking legitimeren. In de koran staat letterlijk dat een man zijn vrouw moet opvoeden en, indien nodig, slaan. Het hoeft dan ook niemand te verbazen dat een aanzienlijk deel van jonge mannen — vooral zij die met zulke ideeën zijn opgegroeid — geweld tegen vrouwen normaliseren. Wat werkelijk walgelijk is, is de hypocrisie van een deel van links-progressief Europa. Dezelfde bewegingen die vroeger vochten tegen religieuze controle over vrouwen, die zich verzetten tegen opgelegde moraal en zogenaamd streden voor vrouwelijke emancipatie, beschermen vandaag kritiek op moskeeën en sharia alsof die boven elke discussie verheven zijn. Vrouwenrechten mogen nooit selectief zijn.
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Useless Britain threatened to detain Russian shadow fleet tankers in March. At the time, Prime Minister Starmer promised to deliver “another blow” to Russia’s shadow fleet. At least 184 sanctioned oil tankers have passed through British waters since then, making 238 voyages.
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