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My spiciest deeply-held view is that being on welfare should void your right to vote until you are off of it (not counting retirement benefits and certain Veteran's programs). The status quo is too busted. Politicians are incentivized to try and purchase votes by handing out free shit that is paid for by the taxpayers (or increasingly, unsustainable debt). Then people on welfare are incentivized to vote for whoever will keep handing it to them. It's perverse.

just found out the milky way flies at 600 km/s and flaps its wings like a butterfly at the same time. > there’s 1.1 billion atheist btw.

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The plan? At dusk, 50 people went to San Francisco's longest dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time. The world's first: WAYMO DDOS

While at Guinness, William Sealy Gosset developed a statistical method to infer population means from small samples, minimizing lab work and cost. Since Guinness forbade staff from publishing research, he signed his paper "Student". That's how the Student’s t-test, one of the most important tools in statistics, was born.

I’d be totally content if my X feed were filed with posts like this.

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU). Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy. A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away. We’ve been fed a lie. We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological. So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

This explanation is incredible!!!

1/ Senate Democrats are trying to kill market structure. A group just sent a counter-proposal to the RFIA and it is deeply unserious. These Senators claim to be pro-crypto, but what they propose is basically a crypto ban. It's hard to imagine a good deal happening right now 🧵

Short explanation of the physics Nobel Prize 2025 In classical mechanics you can know where a particle is and its momentum at the same time. In Quantum mechanics you can't. All information is in the wavefunction. Even if a particle is trapped, part of the wavefunction.. 🧵1/7

Soon no one will even know how to talk to another human in person...

We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM. 💬When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up 🗳️When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch’s Bargain

Head-tracked “Window Mode.” Your front camera finds your head. The view reprojects in real time so the screen feels like a window into the 3D scene. True3D, no glasses.

🇲🇩 About a year ago, while I was stuck in Paris, the French intelligence services reached out to me through an intermediary, asking me to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels ahead of the presidential elections in Moldova. After reviewing the channels flagged by French (and Moldovan) authorities, we identified a few that clearly violated our rules and removed them. The intermediary then informed me that, in exchange for this cooperation, French intelligence would “say good things” about me to the judge who had ordered my arrest in August last year. This was unacceptable on several levels. If the agency did in fact approach the judge — it constituted an attempt to interfere in the judicial process. If it did not, and merely claimed to have done so, then it was exploiting my legal situation in France to influence political developments in Eastern Europe — a pattern we have also observed in Romania 🇷🇴 Shortly thereafter, the Telegram team received a second list of so-called “problematic” Moldovan channels. Unlike the first, nearly all of these channels were legitimate and fully compliant with our rules. Their only commonality was that they voiced political positions disliked by the French and Moldovan governments. We refused to act on this request. Telegram is committed to freedom of speech and will not remove content for political reasons. I will continue to expose every attempt to pressure Telegram into censoring our platform. Stay tuned. 🤝

👨‍🏫 A month ago, my father — a leading expert in Ancient Roman literature — turned 80. I asked what advice I should pass to the next generation. He gave me 3:

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Gavin Newsom talks about the “consent of the people” like he’s some guardian of democracy… But in California, Harris won 58.5% of the vote in 2024, yet Democrats hold 82.7% of the state’s House seats. Now Democrats want to redraw the map to grab 5 more seats, giving themselves 92.3% of the delegation while GOP voters get just 7.7% of the seats despite 38.3% of the vote. Don’t let them lie to you. They don’t care about being moral or virtuous. They just care about winning.