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BREAKING: Enoch Burke’s mother and sister arrested and jailed Martina and Ammi Burke were arrested by Gardaí today at Castlerea Prison after visiting jailed schoolteacher Enoch Burke, their son and brother. Judge Brian Cregan sentenced them to two weeks in prison after they spoke out against his lies and unlawful actions in the case of Enoch Burke. Martina and Ammi Burke had been teaching in Castlebar this morning before travelling to Castlerea for their scheduled visit at 2.15pm. As they left the prison after concluding the visit, Gardaí were waiting outside to arrest them. Lies have been told from the bench since September 2022 when Enoch Burke was first taken from his teaching post at Wilson’s Hospital School and thrown into a jail cell. He refused to call a student by a new name and the “they” pronoun. He was subsequently suspended and has now spent over 600 days in prison. Ireland’s church leaders have maintained a treacherous silence on this issue. Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell speak frequently about battlefields far away - Gaza, Ukraine, the Middle East - but are silent on the battlefields in the schools of Ireland, on their own doorstep. Children in the classroom are being educated in every form of sexual perversion. Martina and Ammi Burke have now been sent to Mountjoy Women’s Prison because they refused to be silent in the face of gross injustice from the bench. Parents, rise up and speak out for your sons and your daughters.

Throughout history, mankind has periodically gone through periods of insanity. The 30 Years’ War and the witch trials of the 17th century are examples. Mass psychosis seemed to take over the whole world in the 1930s and ’40s. The recent great COVID hysteria is another. What the world is going through now is equally serious. For instance, Britain is prosecuting over 10,000 people for simply saying something that might make somebody else feel bad. Europe is simultaneously de-industrializing and turning into a police state while it learns to hate itself and imports millions of indigent people from alien cultures, races, languages, and religions. Wokeism is entrenched as a mass psychosis throughout Western Europe and North America. The U.S. launching a sneak attack during negotiations, starting an unprovoked war against a country on the other side of the world because it was using harsh language, is a sign of the times. Hopefully not the End Times. But it appears that elements of the three Abrahamic religions believe they’re following orders from Jesus, Yahweh, or Allah to Immanentize the Eschaton. Whether you like it or not. My view is that, when the world is going crazy, you want to get away from the craziness. Physically distance yourself from irrational people and unstable places. This is a bad time to be in most stocks. Limit your exposure to fiat currencies and bonds. Avoid living in big cities. This is a good time to keep a low profile. If I valued the opinions and likely reactions of Boobus americanus, I wouldn’t write articles like this. If only because, as a fan of Homer, I’m aware of what happened to the Trojan princess Cassandra.

@SchmidhuberAI @grok Verify and distill this.

Mercury beats the moon! See Sec. 20 of [1]: "Our moon seems like a reasonable starting point for colonizing the rest of the solar system. It has no oxygen atmosphere to corrode metal-based life. Electromagnetic coilguns or maglev trains could economically transport (with relatively low escape velocity 2.4 km/s) lots of material into space, to construct huge space-based factories and other things (while current inefficient Earth-based rockets waste 99% of their energy on lifting fuel through the atmosphere). The planet Mercury (escape velocity 4.5 km/s) seems even more promising though: it has no atmosphere either, but (unlike our moon) lots of heavy metals for building machinery and infrastructure, and an enormous density of solar power next door. Although Mercury experiences significant temperature variations, it should be easy to cool or heat places as desired using mirrors. (Even without such tricks, there is an elliptical ring around each pole where the underground temperature is a pleasant 25°C [BAL22].) Electromagnetic mass drivers will shoot more and more material from Mercury into space, where it will be assembled into many products including robot factories and solar-powered spacecraft. The latter may include huge, rotating, hollow cylinders containing human-friendly worlds with artificial gravity—a concept that is ancient in science fiction [CLA73]. This stuff will be sent to convenient locations across the solar system via solar sails, or faster means when necessary. Much of the machinery near Mercury's orbit around the Sun will initially use solar energy for computation, construction, and mobility. This will cause thermal energy to radiate into space, making the Sun appear slightly redder to outside observers over time. However, the infrastructure near the sun (mirrors, lasers, etc) will also focus energy directly on distant robot colonies (e.g., in the freezing Kuiper Belt). Consequently, less and less of the sun's light will be wasted into interstellar space. Mercury seems ready to be dismantled and transformed into the next industrial center of the solar system!" [1] J.S. Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning. Technical Report IDSIA-22-22, IDSIA, Switzerland, 2022 (updated 2025). Preprint arXiv:2212.11279

Joe Kent on why we actually went to war with Iran.

Them: “It’s an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory to say there is a strong Israel lobby in America!” Trump last year: “My father would tell me, the most powerful lobby that there is in this country is the Jewish lobby. It's the Israeli lobby."

When you discover the CIA has been reading your texts in order to frame you for a crime.

@GeoffreyHuntley Is it because the AI Agent writes it?

tbh. i’m starting to fall in love with ocaml again

Isn't it ironic that many Brits voted for Brexit because they wanted immigration to go down? How did this happen?

@MichaelAArouet @KuittinenPetri Probably dumb, but they feel ashamed to admit it. A couple of clowns managed to convince them that there is a lot of talent in the third world, and they should be open to it... Average IQ in the UK is indeed very low.

@KuittinenPetri How do the Brexit supporters feel about that?

All of these patterns as an example are just matters of “org code”. The IDE helps you build, run, manage them. You can’t fork classical orgs (eg Microsoft) but you’ll be able to fork agentic orgs.

I use this analogy a lot. This is what a room full of computers looked like in old times:

Stephen Ireland, who targeted me with endless abuse on here because I oppose the chemical castration of children and the removal of protected spaces for women and girls, has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for child rape.

@CharlesMBrenner @grok @fs_fra @grok confirm the above. Check Tru Niagen recommendation dose and the studies cited.

@CharlesMBrenner @grok @fs_fra All tests seem to suggest doses > 1g, while Tru Niagen recommends 300mg (one pill per day). How come? Would such a low dose make any difference?

ppl have been asking for head to head comparisons of NR v NMN in humans the data show that at 1.2 g/day, NR had 2.3x the blood NAD-boosting activity versus NMN the paper and the details in this 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

@OriolVinyalsML But Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite >> than Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. How is it possible?

3.1 Flash-Lite 🔦 > 2.5 Flash ⚡️ It happened again. Our newest Flash-Lite model outperforms the previous generation's Flash tier. Smarter. Faster. Cheaper. blog.google/innovation-and…

dostoevsky said if you gave people everything they wanted, cakes, entertainment and nothing to worry about except the continuation of the species, they’d start breaking things out of boredom he was right we got comfortable enough that people started manufacturing their own suffering and building identities around the invented problem, to the point where mutilation is seen as healthcare. because a life without struggle felt like a life without meaning. the idea of being broken gave them something to solve and someone to fight, an identity and a sense of community but, once the problem gets “solved” nothing changes, obviously. the emptiness was there before the “problem” (it’s always there), and it’ll be there after. the cause of the problem is never fixed these people never wanted to be fixed, they wanted to feel special

yes we over-hired during covid because i incorrectly built 2 separate company structures (square & cash app) rather than 1, which we corrected mid 2024. but this misses all the complexity we took on through lending, banking, and BNPL. and that we’re now targeting $2M+ gross profit per person, 4x our pre-covid efficiency, which stayed flat at ~$500k from 2019 until 2024. we have and do run an efficient company... better than most.

@jack @blocks Finally @jack . Companies like @xai and @bendingspoons have shown the way.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack