Decline Management

@AngusTaylorMP AHH yes the VALUES! That can't be deceived, gamed or change like the wind. Genius idea. Australia is not a serious country, it's an economic zone Ponzi scheme. Good luck with social cohesion!

Australia has a non-discriminatory immigration program. We do not discriminate based on nationality, race, gender, or faith. But for an immigration program to work in the national interest it must discriminate based on values. The Coalition is going to proudly put Australian values at the heart of immigration policy. That’s just one part of our broader agenda which will include bringing immigration numbers down to a sustainable level. The Coalition will make the Australian Values Statement a legally binding and enforceable visa condition for all temporary and permanent visa holders. If a visa holder undermines our democratic values, doesn’t respect the law, or demonstrates they don’t respect our core values, they will be booted out of Australia.

RAM prices are not even barely high enough this is better than anything the music industry has produced in the last 40 years

@T_Wrex_Baby @0xSero Buddy, this doesn't mean shit. There's ones of Claude identifying as Deepseek if you ask it in Chinese... It's because they all do some training on each others traces.

@0xSero Fuck Anthropic but this is NEVER okay. Setting up licence over something you stole is something no human should tolerate.

Defending MiniMax I think it’s fine they set up a license. We kind of deserve it. You work on something with dozens of people burning through investment money. Put it out to the world for free. People say you’re benchmaxxing, call you a communist spy, take your models and sell them. Demand more from you. You deal with this for a year, your peer’s models are being used in the west with little to no credits, same story. They released the research, gave us the weights, released the environments, proved you can max 230B params competitive. Thank you MiniMax. I hope you win more and more.

Nobody gave us a 5% deposit scheme. We saved every cent ourselves while raising three children, paying off the mortgage, and managing our investment properties entirely on our own. The pool maintenance alone costs us $400 a month. We're not complaining. We just get on with it. That's what our generation did.

@SandyofCthulhu I have a much simpler answer for you: House prices. Chinese culture is basically such that if you don't have a house, you absolutely cannot get married. Mass speculation into housing market caused huge increases. 2015/16 also had an economic downturn, double pain. No babies.

It is literally probably a change in the way they counted births. Any change in Chinese demographics is so heavily politicized within their byzantine bureaucracy that we really can't tell what's actually going on. Imagine you are Xi Jinping. You want to know how your economy is going so you call in the experts. Your Township administrators ask their factories how things are going. Every factory wants to sound good, so "morale is high! Everything's great!" Your County administrators ask the Townships how it's going. The Townships want to sound like great managers, so they boost their numbers by a little bit to sound better. The Prefectures ask the Counties. The Counties want to sound good too, so they boost THEIR numbers just a bit. The Provinces ask the Prefectures, and the same thing happens. The Prefectures are all reporting they're the best Prefecture. The Chinese cabinet is told by the Provinces how awesome is the Chinese economy. Now you, Xi Jinping, are no fool. And you KNOW beyond the shadow of a doubt that the real numbers have been fiddled with five times on the way up to you. So what ARE the real numbers? You have no way of knowing. All you know is that they are worse than what you're shown, but not so much worse that it can't be concealed. Imagine running a command economy with that type of feedback. No wonder when Xi Jinping uncovers actual gross corruption (water in his rockets, former Ministers taking $40 million in bribes, etc.) he goes nuts and people get killed or imprisoned for life. All he can do is flail, because every single level underneath him lies to him. I'd feel sorry for him if he wasn't a repressive monster who murders Uighurs and Tibetans.

@ollama This is useless for agentic. It continually freezes. Let me write this file: *response ends, nothing happens* You're right, i didn't do it. Let me do it now: *crickets* Sorry for that, I will do it now: *more nothing* GLM-4.7 is dumber but actually acts!

GLM-5.1 is here! Try it on OpenClaw🦞🦞🦞 ollama launch openclaw --model glm-5.1:cloud Claude Code ollama launch claude --model glm-5.1:cloud Chat with the model ollama run glm-5.1:cloud

@l1t3rallym3 I think I saw this when I first saw the original

@funmaxxing_ @straceX @grok Is this a reasonable idea and are there any companies actively developing this concept?

@straceX I’ve been wondering recently if a hybrid photonics chip would work where you only replace the clock portion with photonics rather than the logic portion. I’m not a chip guy but it’s a shower/post penjamin thought

Roughly 30–50% of a modern CPU's dynamic power is consumed by a structure that executes no instructions, holds no data, and performs no arithmetic. The clock distribution network. It burns more power than most functional units combined and its only job is delivering a square wave.

@59SouthLee @RealCandaceO @grok Is this factually correct? (Putting aside any moral or ethical judgement)

@RealCandaceO Nostra Atate was written by a gay Jew It's only been downhill since then, your last Pope said all religions are just different languages speaking to the same god

One year ago, during lent, Jordan Peterson partnered with ultra-Zionists to produce a study asserting that the declaration “Christ is King” was antisemitic in which he named me, a new Catholic convert absent any evidence, as an extremist for the public declaration. Today, @BishopBarron partners with his University. With His Excellency’s recent appearance alongside ultra-Zionist heretic Paula White, his public assertion (which he walked back) that a Jew could be saved without Christ, many are seeking clarity regarding his allegiances. Again I ask Catholics worldwide, what is the respectful course of action for laymen to raise concerns that are amassing with Bishop Barron?

@samir I do love his accountability

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@Rana_Biotech @bryan_johnson @BillAckman It's almost like he has experience with exactly this situation and you're evidencing the reputational damage that is caused regardless of findings

@bryan_johnson @BillAckman I believe @bryan_johnson is the last person you can receive an advice from! Giving his history of multiple misconducts with previous employees And his current situation! But you hiring your Nephew just because he is a Harvard graduate is not professional!

I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran. A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity. Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his first term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good. We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that sone D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.

@zephyr_z9 Claude for excel is genuinely very good, I'm surprised I don't see more people talking about it. It's what copilot should have been.

Nice Claude spreadsheet output

@jordanhknight_ Dare I say we should even consider negative migration?

@teortaxesTex Not your avg rightoid, he's a sperg but his heart's in the right place. Australia's two major parties are in lockstep on a plan of managed decline and replacement immigration, so Trump is loved for his disruption of the uni-party.

How are rightoid Australians real? Why do they associate so hard with the American right? Is it just Murdoch's propaganda? He's barely coherent, why would anyone care about his CO2 footprint

@LolOut160461 @oldspeak_books This is AI slop

@oldspeak_books this is so disgusting and creepy why do men think it is okay to just hang around and stare at women in the spa area like that you did the right thing by taking photos and making them feel uncomfortable because that is the only language these creeps understand

I went to the gym earlier. Why are these fully clothed men hanging around the spa area where all the women are? They only left because I made them aware I was taking photos.

@teortaxesTex There are 20-30 Chinese cities with a greater population than Finland and 7-9 with a higher GDP. The delusion is palpable.

Finns sure know a hell of a lot about Chyna Mainly that it's big and "Communist" and kind of aligned with Russia/Soviets, which is all they need to reach a conclusion (that they'd kick its perkele ass) Incredibly parochial people How's Nokia doing btw?

1. Every deportation is a tank of fuel for an Aussie. 2. Every deportation is a roof over an Aussie’s head. 3. Every deportation is a job for a local bloke. 4. Every deportation is a school desk for an Aussie kid. 5. Every deportation is a hospital bed for an Aussie mum. 6. Every deportation is a spot on the train for a working Australian. 7. Every deportation is a slice of the pie back on the table for Aussies. 8. Every deportation is a fair go restored for those who built the place. 9. Every deportation is one less strain on the welfare queue. 10. Every deportation is Australia putting Aussies first again.