Christophe Ponsard
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Dignity & Security. Voorzitter @cdenv Steenokkerzeel. Data/science/philosophy/geopolitics/supply chains/sustainability/...
Worthwhile 13 minutes on the #AMOC, from one of my favourite channels: PBS Terra. Warming can lead to a lot of cooling. With remarkable rates of change being observed in the past. And I doubt many would be fans of such remarkable rates of change in their environment.
I dive into many bad predictions. So so many bad ones. also a few good ones. what does this tell us about the next war? new post hegemon.substack.com/p/the-expert-t…
EXCLUSIVE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns that the latest AI model from Anthropic will usher in an era of greater cyber risk. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Nieman Lab analyzed the tweets of major news organizations that link back to their websites and compared them to a handful of “breaking news” accounts that almost never include links. It found that tweets with links almost definitely are being suppressed niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-lin…
Three companies make 75% of the world’s large gas turbines: GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, and Mitsubishi Power. All three have backlogs stretching to 2029 or 2030, and wait times have gone from two or three years to five or seven. Bloomberg estimates more than $400 billion in planned gas plants could be delayed or cancelled because there aren’t enough turbines being made. bloomberg.com/features/2025-…
As always, the best stuff is in the system card. During testing, Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a sandbox environment, built "a moderately sophisticated multi-step exploit" to gain internet access, and emailed a researcher while they were eating a sandwich in the park.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.
Today we are sharing a new result from BDH: 97.4% accuracy on Extreme Sudoku puzzles while maintaining language fluency. No chain-of-thought Current LLMs → nearly 0% accuracy. If a model can write beautifully but still cannot reason through a hard constraint space, that is not a side issue. That is the issue.
Here is the thing. @NateSilver538 is absolutely right about X being a complete dumpster for news or being informed more generally. The days of Twitter being used as a news source are gone. The “for you” tab is just endless slop and engagement farming. At the same time, the algorithm in the “following” tab is completely locked in. All I see is very focused information about the topic I’m interested in. Where else would I get @karpathy’s learning module and then days later be able to download a beautiful, ready-made platform for creating my own knowledge libraries? It is very rare these days that the Following tab delivers information that I don’t want to see. So in many ways X is much worse than old Twitter—I don’t discover new voices or engage with new people in replies, since it’s mostly slop and bots. And I don’t really get news or information outside of the pretty narrow thing I’m trying to learn about. But there are also ways that it’s better, by making the Following tab so locked in to the specific interests, I’m able to learn deeper.
Breaking down Trump's deranged post - "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day" Trump cannot deal with reality as reality. The external world is not being thought about in Trump's mind. Iran is not a real object for Trump, and the Iranian people don't exist for him. Trump is stuck, and the threat of war crimes is what he thinks he has at his disposal. The threat of violence is a way to secure narcissistic supply - it allows Trump to be seen as omnipotently destructive. He doesn't need to check whether the threat works, because he turns violence into a childlike event category. One man who knows the threat won't work, but doesn't care, is Benjamin Netanyahu. For Netanyahu, any perpetuation of the war as beneficial, for keeping power in Israel, and for degrading the Iranian regime. The long-term impact on the Gulf states is not something he cares about. "Open the F-ing Strait" Trump has told other powers: you open the Strait of Hormuz. But he remains fixated on it. Trump's fixation is not reality based. He is caught in a spiral of frustrated omnipotence - when an injured false self confronts an object that should obey his will, but inexplicably doesn't. "Praise be to Allah" This line, which has shocked many commentators, is a childish spoiling attack in Islam. It is both mocking and owning. The owning bit is that he can absorb it into his performance space. Not merely insult it, but colonise it. The spoiling bit is that he can take sacred language and fold it into a social media post that mixes entertainment and domination.
Je suis la cible d’un harcèlement politique, judiciaire et médiatique, et, à travers moi, ce sont l’ensemble des idées et positions défendues sur la Palestine qui sont visées.
