The point of the 2nd amendment is to prevent a tyrant from taking power. From every appearance, it looks like most of the guns will be pointed in the wrong direction.

Top Cop, Kash Patel, head of the FBI, buys stake in Donut chain. 😂

Ai is going to supercharge the rage farming on this and other social platforms. Could easily be the cause of the next major world war.

When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; They’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor. The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions. Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else. And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law.

The more you use the LLMs to code, the more you realize the value of having a vision of the end goal and an intuitive grasp of what decisions are important to get there.

#Thinkorswim platform has been slowly fading into oblivion with every acquisition. Gets more unstable and less reliable while the user experience continues to age without significant updates.

AI video just made a huge leap with Google Veo 3. Creatives are going to have a field day. We’ve jumped from Commodore 64 to the first PC on the timeline.

Watching DeepSeek R1 model trying to solve the NYT spelling bee is pretty funny. Like a panel of idiots having a conversation that finally comes to a conclusion after exhausting every ridiculous possibility with almost no valid words. Not the genius score I was expecting.

Amazing how quickly humanity is blundering forward to the skynet scenario. zona-militar.com/en/2024/05/…

Boeing, FAA, and airlines all colluding to slowly erode safety standards in pursuit of profit until some major disaster forces a reckoning. Sad to watch it happen in slow motion. Having a chunk of the fuselage blow out during flight is another canary in the coal mine.

piped.video/watch?v=OFS90-FX… Nice job of giving a lightweight overview of how Ai is coming to life.

Skynet isn't born with a splashy chatbot, but with a few quiet papers and hardware prototypes that go by unnoticed: spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorph…

nyc: much safer than you think

Cryptopunks still going for $100k. Still a lot of air to let out of the balloon.

I often wonder if the most important and impactful scientific endeavor would be to develop the genetic technology to increase the average intelligence of human beings.

Interesting GPT4 use case, mash up the summaries of any 2 books to get the relevant ways their content intersect and complement each other.

Man it is so crazy to see Google being disrupted and so far behind the curve. gizchina.com/2023/04/12/goog…

The Cognitive Age has begun. Everything is about to change.

I don't think prosecutors bear enough responsibility for driving innocent people into prison. Appears to be no consequences for destroying this mans life and letting a violent maniac roam free. cnn.com/2023/03/05/us/mauric…

Hmmm. Maybe we get some of these to clean up the Everglades python invasion. piped.video/watch?v=JEGF4oH5…