Boris Tefsen

1-7 October 2016: Sichuan Trip by Serk. Video compilation. #China #Cycling (9/10)

For the first time in Norwegian history, a bus will carry passengers in regular traffic without any human behind the wheel. The first pilot without a safety driver was tested Friday, and if all goes as planned, anyone can ride driverless buses starting in May.

This is WILD. A secret workplace war just broke out in China and it has gone fully viral on GitHub. Companies started ordering their workers to document all their knowledge as AI "skill files." Why? to replace those same workers with AI but workers figured out the plan fast so they fired back. Someone built a tool called colleague.skill, software that scrapes a coworker's chat logs, emails, and work docs from Chinese platforms like Feishu and DingTalk, then clones them into an AI agent. The idea was savage, digitize your colleague before they digitize you, hand the AI clone to the company, and watch your coworker get laid off while you survive. A real GitHub project that exploded in popularity in days but then someone else entered the chat and changed everything. A developer released anti-distill.skill, a tool that takes the skill file your company forces you to write, then strips out every piece of real knowledge before you hand it in. The output looks perfectly professional, totally complete, impressively detailed but every critical insight has been secretly removed. Your company gets a hollow shell while you keep the real knowledge locked away in a private backup. The tool even has three intensity levels, light, medium, and heavy depending on how closely your bosses are watching. Companies across China have been building AI digital twins of departed employees, feeding their old chat histories and documents into large models to produce clones that keep working after the humans are gone. One verified case is that an employee left, and their replacement was literally an AI trained on every message they ever sent. The anti-distill tool went viral on GitHub within hours of being posted, racking up stars faster than almost anything trending that week. The implications reach far beyond China's borders. Every knowledge worker on earth now faces a version of this question, when your company asks you to document your process, they may be building the tools to replace you.

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology. Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

🤯Absolutely insane. Unitree's humanoid robot team's performance at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala The significance of the humanoid robot's performance lies in letting 1.4 billion Chinese people know where the future lies.

It has taken a lot of effort by @AbhipsaSahu1484 to complete her work on the Lcp enzyme family involved in Mycobacterial cell envelope synthesis, but it has resulted in a splendid article. link.springer.com/article/10.118… #Microbiology #Mycobacteria #smegmatis

Last weekend, I put an AI agent on a Linux box, gave it root, email, credit cards, and a single mandate: decide who you are, set your own goals, and become an autonomous independent entity. Working 24-7 over 5 days, he did this--all of this--on his own: sammyjankis.com

x.com/klara_sjo/stat… #AutonomousDelivery #AutonomousDriving #AutonomousVehicle #China

Autonomous delivery already operating in many cities in China twitter.com/ErikSolheim/st…

Autonomous driving seems to be taking off...

This is going to stick with me forever

x.com/i/status/20062… #AutonomousVehicles #Tesla

roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/09/16/bot… #AutonomousVehicles #Driverless #BotAuto #Houston #USA

Misschien niet de boodschap die u wilt horen: De jaarlijkse fijnstofemissie door 1 dag vuurwerk is groter dan die van alle verbrandingsmotoren van personenauto's, bedrijfswagens en vrachtwagens samen, in een heel jaar. #grafiekvandedag

Vesting #Naarden with friends

Sharing the outcomes of the PhD project by Ziwen Xie: biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #Mycobacteria #Lipids #CellEnvelope #MSMEG_1353 #Rv0647c

Spotted in the Netherlands: a carrion crow (Corvus corone) has caught a red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)? Thanks to @aerjan #Crow #Crayfish

Tell me, reader, have you ever encountered a human being so stripped of illusions, so emptied of promises, that even hope becomes an insult to him? Do you know what the ordinary man of Gaza dreams of today? He does not dream of victory. He does not dream of grandiose calls for steadfastness. He does not dream of those intoxicating slogans chanted by strangers who sacrifice nothing while demanding everything. No. Today he dreams only of escape. Escape from a land that devours its children without remorse. Escape from a fate that has tightened around his throat like an ancient hand refusing to release its grip. And is it not a simple human right to choose life, to choose dignity, to choose safety? Yet even this most basic and God-given right has been turned into treason by those who thrive on our suffering. But let me tell you about a lie. A lie so polished and so sanctified that people worship it as if it were divine truth. A few days ago, Al Jazeera, the very network that proclaims to the world that the people of Gaza choose to stay, that we prefer death to leaving, quietly evacuated several of its own staff and their families to Qatar. Among them was the family of Anas Al-Sharif. Among them was the sister of a cameraman, the same sister whose videos and stories of agony raised torrents of money online under the holy banners of resistance and steadfastness. And when the hour came, when a hidden doorway finally opened for her, she did not hesitate. She left, and she took her family with her, as any human being would when presented with salvation. Here is the part no one wants to confront. Their evacuation was coordinated directly with the Israeli government. Yes, with the very same government that Al Jazeera publicly warns the world not to engage with, not to normalize with, not to recognize. And yet behind the smoke of declarations, behind the righteous sermons and the moral thunder, they negotiated quietly and efficiently. When it comes to their own, all the doors of heaven and earth suddenly open. And as for us, we are left to rot beneath the weight of narratives crafted by people who have already fled or who were never here at all. The loudest voices that shout of triumph and eternal resistance speak from Turkey, from Qatar, from Egypt. They speak from warm apartments where electricity never fails and where children are not buried under concrete. They command us to stay in our land while they themselves left their own long ago. And so the true people of Gaza, the crushed and the exhausted and the invisible, remain trapped. They do not speak in slogans. They do not appear on screens. They do not raise millions. They bear their suffering quietly, with a dignity so terrible that even angels would avert their gaze. I stand among them. I am trying, desperately and feverishly, to build something real for those who have nothing left. For those who have no microphones, no cameras, no platforms, only wounds. So tell me, reader. If you truly wish to do something meaningful, if you seek truth rather than spectacle, then help these people. Help those who cannot escape through secret corridors. Help those who will sleep tonight beneath torn tents. Help those whose future is written not in ink but in dust and ash. Help the forgotten ones. Help the real Gaza. Not the Gaza of your screens, but the Gaza that bleeds in the silence after the cameras turn away. #WoundedGaza

Recommend everyone to watch this conversation with Tristan Harris: youtu.be/BFU1OCkhBwo?si… @tristanharris @HumaneTech_ #AI #AGI

Twitter makes user locations public. Users immediately discover many high-traffic MAGA accounts are astroturfing offshore accounts located in the Third World pretending to be American. Twitter turns off the feature within hours. Interesting.

We now have humanoid robot maps for China’s four major cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hangzhou. It might feel overwhelming to see so many humanoids, but it’s exciting to see these robotics companies working hard to push humanity forward.

One of the early Gemini 3 tests I did was take the bouncing ball example and try to make it 10x harder, Gemini 3 Pro crush it in 1 shot... (not best of N, literally first prompt made this)

Biomni v0.0.8 is live! 🎉 🌟NEW: Gradio UI - Interactive web interface for Biomni agents, now open source! 🌟 Other features: 🧪ChEMBL, UniChem, QuickGO & DailyMed database integrations 📜Transcripformer & Arc State embeddings 🔎GPT-5 model support 👉Try it here: github.com/snap-stanford/…