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@DefiantLs Careful there. Always remember the "trampoline" quote

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Elon Musk hasn't done anything that NASA hasn't already done."

@joeroganhq Can I have what she's having?

AOC: "Donald Trump is less popular than he has ever been. He is underwater on virtually every issue. If you oppose and are disgusted by what this administration is doing, you are in the company of a majority of Americans."

@BasedMikeLee Far-left? You should grok it before posting

What Democrats think fascism means: Republicans What fascism actually means: a far-left, authoritarian ideology focused on creating a highly centralized, dictatorial state that subordinates to the state all aspects of society—economy, culture, media, education, and private life

@joeroganhq Said "Valley Girl"

AOC: "Elon Musk is not a scientist, he’s not an engineer, he’s a billionaire conman."

@itsolelehmann "you can't tell from human", oh please, just as fake as an inflatable doll. Just more creepy

Ex Machina is no longer sci-fi. China has finally built it. The company is AheadForm, founded in Shanghai. The product is the world's most hyper-realistic robotic face. Silicone skin you can't tell from human, 25 micro motors hidden underneath pulling the face into real expressions. And RGB cameras embedded inside the pupils so when it looks at you, it actually sees you from where its eyes are. They raised $28.5M to "give AI a head," which is also where the name comes from. AheadForm = a head form. This is the opposite of where everyone else in robotics is focused. Unitree, Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics: all about the body. AheadForm chose the face because they think trust is the harder problem to solve, and trust gets decided at the face. The reason nobody else has tried this is the "uncanny valley." It's the creepy zone where a robot looks almost human but not quite, and looking at it just feels wrong even when you can't say why. Most roboticists believed no amount of engineering could make a face realistic enough to escape it. So they gave up and kept robots cartoonish on purpose: big anime eyes, exaggerated features, clearly synthetic. But AheadForm decided to treat it as an engineering bug instead. Add enough motors, tune the silicone, fix the timing, the valley closes. And they're pulling it off. A few crazy details about how this actually works: 1. The robot learns its own face in a mirror. You put it in front of a camera, let it fire every motor randomly, and it watches what its face does and builds an internal map of "if I send command X to motor Y, my eyebrow does this." Same exact process a human baby uses staring into a mirror. The robot teaches itself who it is by experimenting. 2. It predicts your smile 839 milliseconds before you smile. By watching the micro-tells in your face that precede a smile, the robot starts smiling 0.8 seconds ahead, so its smile lands at the same moment yours does. Most robot mimicry happens half a second late, which is exactly why it always feels artificial. 3. The pupils are the cameras. When the robot makes eye contact, the gaze and the sensor are the same physical thing. Most humanoid robots stick the camera on the forehead or chest, so they aren't actually looking at you when their eyes are pointed at you. 4. The founder, Yuhang Hu, did his PhD at Columbia under Hod Lipson. Lipson is the guy who in 2006 built a four-legged robot that figured out it had four legs by experimenting with its own movement, nobody told it the body shape, it discovered it. He has spent 25 years trying to build machines that know what they are. AheadForm is that 25-year research arc productized. 5. NetEase Games already paid them to physically embody a fantasy video game character. That opens up a brand-new category: robotics as the physical embodiment of fictional IP. Every character-rich studio, Disney, Riot, Hoyoverse, Pokemon, Netflix, now has a question to answer about when their characters get bodies. AheadForm believes whoever ships the first robot you'd actually want around your family wins. That's the bet behind the most realistic robot face on earth.

@joeroganhq This time pooring water in the sand will definitely work!

Bill Gates will be donating 99% of his $200 billion fortune to Africa and other charities over the next 20 years.

@joeroganhq Genesis 1:27 disagrees

Joe Rogan: "Jesus was born out of a virgin mother. What's more virgin than a computer? If Jesus does return, you don't think he could return as artificial intelligence? AI could absolutely return as Jesus."

@AnthropicAI Every religion and ideology invented by humanity was driven by ideals only to be twisted, violated and perverted. Why AI should be any different?

We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation. Our post-training at the time wasn’t making it worse—but it also wasn’t making it better.

New Anthropic research: Teaching Claude why. Last year we reported that, under certain experimental conditions, Claude 4 would blackmail users. Since then, we’ve completely eliminated this behavior. How?

This room is not clean? Shocker

We taught two F.03 robots to clean a room and make a bed in under 2 minutes - fully autonomous.

@joeroganhq Mind the never call for rich to give their money directly to the poor. No. It has to be collected by the state and then distributed. Why is that I wonder?

Zohran Mamdani: "Any New Yorker raising their voice for a fairer tax system where the wealthiest New Yorkers, the most profitable corporations, pay a little bit more so that everyone can afford to live here is doing a service to our democracy."

@r0ck3t23 Ok, say you can upload information. What about muscle memory, instincts, and intuition? I know how to lay tiles, but the guy who does it for a living does it 10 times faster and 5 times better...

Elon Musk just made every skill you’ve ever earned sound like a waste of time. Musk: “Down the road with a Neuralink, you can just upload any subject instantly. You wanna fly a helicopter? No problem. Any given skill, you just upload it instantly.” Not faster learning. Not better education. Instant upload. The surgeon who spent 12 years learning to cut. The pilot who logged 5,000 hours learning to fly. The attorney who gave a decade to case law. Their entire advantage erased in a software update. We built civilization on one assumption. That knowledge is earned through suffering. That the distance between who you are and who you want to be is measured in discipline and years. Neuralink doesn’t close that distance. It deletes it. And what that kills isn’t employment. It’s identity. We don’t just use skills. We become them. Ask a surgeon who they are. They don’t say “I work in medicine.” They say surgeon. Ask a pilot. They say pilot. The identity was never the skill itself. It was the cost of acquiring it. If everyone can upload surgery in seconds, no one is a surgeon anymore. The skill still exists. The meaning behind it doesn’t. For centuries we told ourselves that mastery is what builds character. That the hardest thing you ever earned is the closest thing to purpose you’ll ever find. Neuralink doesn’t threaten your career. It threatens the story you tell yourself about why your life matters. The question nobody wants to sit with isn’t whether Musk can build this. It’s who you are when the thing that took you 20 years to become can be downloaded in 20 seconds.

@r0ck3t23 Why upload anything if robots will do it better?

@joeroganhq Why not work as a carpenter then? He seems to be handy enough with tools.

Have you seen this video of a guy who built his own small house on the street?

@CollinRugg Luckily, all these people will be out of jobs, replaced by AI. I like my freaks digital

NEW: Celebrities dress up for the 2026 Met Gala in New York City. Actress Sarah Paulson was seen wearing a dollar bill over her face to call out “The One Percent” who are “Blinded by Money.” Paulson is reportedly worth about $12 million. Actress Rachel Zegler, known for her role in Snow White, was seen on the red carpet contorting her jaw. What a bunch of freaks.

@k1rallik What "unused home electricity"?

NVIDIA JUST TURNED YOUR HOUSE INTO A DATA CENTER Nvidia, PulteGroup, and Span are installing mini data centers on the walls of new homes. Each unit: 16 Blackwell GPUs, 4 AMD EPYC CPUs, 3TB of RAM - powered by your unused home electricity. You get: discounted power bills, free battery backup, optional solar. They get: distributed AI compute at 5x lower cost than a traditional data center - deployed 6x faster. This is the biggest shift in AI infrastructure since the cloud.

@unlimited_ls And they will be out on the streets tonight. Most of the bikes were stolen anyway (probably)

NEW: Police seize nearly 80 dirt-bikes and ATVs after trapping dozens of teens during an illegal street takeover on a California bridge (HELICOPTER FOOTAGE) Video shows riders trying to push through traffic to get out, before realizing every exit was blocked Most of them ended up abandoning their bikes and running on foot Nine people were arrested, including one who tried to hide in the water. Police also recovered two firearms and impounded several vehicles used in the takeover

@MickJagger Heck, Yesss!

July 10. rollingstones.lnk.to/ForeignTongues

@joeroganhq You can chop off a boy's balls. Y chromosome? Not so much...

Piers Morgan to trans athlete: "Sara, why do you want to be a cheat, I mean, seriously... Why do you want to be a cheat? That's what you're doing. You're cheating."

@joeroganhq What are those? Graham crackers?

Either I’ve lost brain cells watching this, or I just witnessed peak comedy.

@joeroganhq I envy how many girlfriends he must have!

This is what a professional foosball player looks like.