trey
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trey
@Comparativist
#FloridaMan, lifelong educator, lapsed scholar (HKU PhD). 20 years in the Pearl River Delta. writing about systems, AI, infrastructure, history, and theory





This is the Bella Italia where Scotland and England signed the Act of Union in 1707

Our seniors should not pay property taxes.

Former Ferrari chairman Montezemolo tears the new electric Ferrari “Luce” apart: “I cannot say what I really think: I would harm Ferrari. We risk the destruction of a legend. So sorry. Take the Prancing Horse off. At least the Chinese won’t copy this car”


does anyone have any more examples of this


The world’s largest military budget has produced an industrial base that cannot sustain a serious war. How is that possible? Because the system is not designed to produce military capability. It is designed to produce contracts. The five largest defense contractors employ roughly a thousand lobbyists in Washington. They distribute their suppliers across forty-five states deliberately, so no senator can ever vote to cancel a program without firing his own constituents. And here we are. The current leadership will keep fiddling on this as they see our apathy as permission.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andre…


CHINA IS RESTRICTING OVERSEAS TRAVEL FOR TOP AI PROFESSIONALS IN PRIVATE FIRMS SUCH AS ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING AND DEEPSEEK

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas." Read the full text of his remarks: anthropic.com/news/chris-ola…



@ChrisExpTheNews You have got to be kidding me


LOUD EXPLOSIONS HEARD AROUND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ — FARS NEWS

🤑At the moment, the strongest Gemini 3.5 Pro checkpoint seems to outperform even some GPT-5.6 xHigh variants in logical reasoning and inverse reasoning, so I’m not sure whether they’ll position it directly against GPT-5.6 Pro.




