@richp8970 @BenjaminDEKR i had that thought too but something not right about it.
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@BenjaminDEKR Seems like his point is about AI for all three and he is saying Google has this small section, China has the Earth overall but Spacex (includes xAI) has the galaxy and beyond. I don’t think he is conceding.
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Is xAI just being disassembled for spare parts at this point?
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@bindureddy Google will win the AI race in the West, China on Earth and SpaceX in space
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@bindureddy Google will win the AI race in the West, China on Earth and SpaceX in space
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Gemini 3.0 didn’t quite work out and most of us are still stuck with 2.5
Sometimes I don’t get it - what’s preventing Google from ditching all the side hustles and training 100 models from 100 teams in parallel
Pick the model/team combination that produces a decent model!
That way, they will at least stay in the AI race 😅
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As a user, it's simple. I open the @X app. Here's what I hope to see — and I suspect many of you do too:
1. Great, informative, useful, or entertaining content (by humans, machines, or companies)
2. Real, authentic — even “boring” — posts from the people and networks I actually care about
3. No spam, bad bots, or reply farming
As an X employee who uses it every day, I believe we’re actively building toward exactly this.
Does this match what you want when you open X?
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@elonmusk can you put some kind of visionary algorhythm wizard artist at the top of the algo team so that their is more focus. theres going to be trade offs, twitter cant be everything to everyone and i dont think it should serve slop viral videos when it knows i dont watch them
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I feel like the beauty of afroman is that he’s come back to public view 100% maintaining his old kayfabe in what could’ve been presented as something serious. Like there’s not a sense of “actually, Afroman has something serious to talk about” he’s just continuing the bit.
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@NotDrDeath One novelty song? Someone has clearly not partaken in Colt 45 and two Zig Zags.
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As someone who worked at Reality Labs: the Metaverse had real legs but was obliterated by middle management completely out of touch with how young people actually use technology.
I built a V1 tool that game developers genuinely needed, and the moment it was done, it got shipped to a team in London (to die), and I was reassigned to a "higher-priority project" that zero developers asked for.
Multiply that by every team, and you'll understand why this never took off yet cost 80 billion.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
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@DGartifact @pwk @alexstubb ‘Selectively believe’? Your president said they’ll have ‘Greenland one way or another’ & using phrases like “whether they like it or not.”
So what kind of ally do you think you are to us? The insults to our war dead who died in another of your wars, the tariffs & the threats! 🤡
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Iran 🇮🇷, USA 🇺🇸, Israel 🇮🇱, and the Strait of Hormuz.
Been quite silent lately. Not because I don't care. Just very busy. But I'll take 🇫🇮 @AlexStubb's latest words just to reaffirm a base concept: the only interests I care of are Europe's (reminder: Russia is not Europe).
The rest of the world doesn't give a sh.t of us and will play whatever "world order" tune as far as it fits its own interests (or the local despot's tantrums). That's fine. But, starting now, that's precisely what we Europeans will also do.
So, if Trump really wants European ships to go and clean the mess he caused in Iran (it helps that Europe is the only one capable since the US dismantled all of its mine-sweeping vessels), "providing military support to Ukraine" is not going to be enough.
Here is the full drill:
1. remove all unjustified (and unfair) tariffs laid upon Europe.
2. enshrine in law (= Congress ratified) the principle that the US will never ever threaten the territorial integrity or sovereignty of our countries (including not messing with our own national politics).
3. Fully support Ukraine. No playing here. I want to see the military support that will help Ukraine win this war. And I want to see the US paying just as much as Europe pays to help Ukraine now (real money, not military depot scraps...).
4. Fully support NATO for the next ten years and help Europe transition to full defense autonomy.
These are my conditions for helping Trump. Else, as far as I am concerned, Europe can already start negotiating with the Mullahs...
P.S. Sorry World, Ukraine has been an eye-opener for us Europeans. And, yes, you should have paid a little bit more attention to how Russia was throwing whatever remained of "International Law" down the trash bin - too late now to complain.
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@pegobry_en you would think the other countries would be supportive of using what they have to help control their own energy security-which undelies their whole economy and therefore prosperity.
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@pegobry_en because hes asking for some token support? your last post was that the vast majority of power is concentrated in these countries. if the u.s. is failing all of the other countries are failing worse. and it can only mean relative to china.
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I don’t remember who first came up with that analogy but increasingly I think the best explanation for Trump’s behavior is that failing empires try to shore themselves up by demanding more tribute from their provinces; but this causes the provinces to rebel and only makes the empire worse off.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en
The countries in blue on this map (I picked countries that sanctioned Russia after invading Ukraine but I could have picked something else) are, to varying degrees, but profoundly, integrated economically, politically, technologically, and culturally. The idea that this doesn’t *enormously* benefit the biggest country in that group, America, is insane. The idea that if the blue blob in the middle (Europe) went its own way it wouldn’t have massive ramifications for the US and the average American is insane. The US + Europe + Japan + South Korea + ANZ together *dominates* the world. At everything. Military, technology, economy, you name it. The US cut off from all of this? Would it eventually be fine because it’s a great country with a great people? Sure. Would there be a lot of pain, a lot of reduced horizons, in the meantime? Yes. Again, these are just facts about the world. I am presenting them to MAGA Republicans. They can do with it what they will. This has been the role of the French in our beautiful 250 year old alliance and friendship: tell you bluntly the truths you don’t want to hear.
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@pegobry_en Europe is energy constrained and dependent on norway russia and iran, has some manufacturing but not enough to walk away from the u.s., technology is way behind. not a major military power. both the us and europe would do well to become more independent but not walk away
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@pegobry_en china, and in the future india are the only countries which have some advantage over the u.s.- but they also have issues and its not in all areas. chinese manufacturing and supply chains for example.
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The countries in blue on this map (I picked countries that sanctioned Russia after invading Ukraine but I could have picked something else) are, to varying degrees, but profoundly, integrated economically, politically, technologically, and culturally.
The idea that this doesn’t *enormously* benefit the biggest country in that group, America, is insane.
The idea that if the blue blob in the middle (Europe) went its own way it wouldn’t have massive ramifications for the US and the average American is insane.
The US + Europe + Japan + South Korea + ANZ together *dominates* the world. At everything. Military, technology, economy, you name it.
The US cut off from all of this? Would it eventually be fine because it’s a great country with a great people? Sure. Would there be a lot of pain, a lot of reduced horizons, in the meantime? Yes.
Again, these are just facts about the world. I am presenting them to MAGA Republicans. They can do with it what they will.
This has been the role of the French in our beautiful 250 year old alliance and friendship: tell you bluntly the truths you don’t want to hear.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en
I think it should say something that I’m one of the most pro-Trump, pro-American Europeans in existence, and *I’m* just so pissed off. "I don’t care, your continent is shit, your economy is shit, your military is shit." Ok. Then leave. I’m French, I’m Gaullist, so I can say this. Don’t like NATO? Leave! We have nukes, we have energy independence, we’ll be fine. Leave! Get. The fuck. Out. If you’re so unhappy, leave. You’re like a wife that keeps threatening her husband with divorce even though we both know you’re not going to do it. You’re so unhappy? Door’s here. Leave.
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Trip hop has aged incredibly well. Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack sound great today. Name any other niche time specific genre that doesn't sound embarrassing and clunky 20 or 30 years after its heyday.
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@Inclutus Hätten Sie jemals Fußball oder irgendeinen anderen Mannschaftssport gespielt, wüssten Sie, dass das Team gewinnt und nicht ein einzelner Spieler. Im Gegenteil: Sogenannte Starspieler schwächen ein Team, gerade weil sie sich nicht dem Erfolg des Teams unterordnen…
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Noch weniger im deutschen Interesse sollte sein, wenn der wichtigste Verbündete in diesem Krieg nicht siegt.
Der Preis der Solidarität wäre verhältnismäßig klein. Eine oder zwei Korvetten, zwei Minenjagdboote. Die deutsche Kapazität gegenüber Russland würde nicht relevant gefährdet.
Stattdessen scheinen Teile der deutschen Bevölkerung und Politik sich diebisch zu freuen, dass die Amerikaner unter Druck geraten, bei einem Versuch, einem der widerlichsten Regimes der Welt die Krallen zu ziehen und es möglicherweise zu stürzen.
Eine US-Niederlage am Golf ist inzwischen kein Ding der Unmöglichkeit mehr. Sie würde nicht nur die Machtbalance am Golf zulasten des Westens verschieben, sondern auch die Feinde des Westens ermutigen. Denn alles andere, als ein deutlicher Sieg über das Regime, ist effektiv eine Niederlage. Wenn das Regime kraftvoll übersteht und keine relevanten Zugeständnisse machen muss, erst recht keine, die seine Fähigkeit, die Straße von Hormus erneut zu sperren, einschränkt, ist es effektiv ein iranischer strategischer Sieg. Wenn im Herbst 2027 die Chinesen gegenüber Taiwan aktiv werden sollten, werden die aktuellen Ereignisse damit zu tun haben.
"They didn't even bother to send us one or two tiny ships when we needed them", wird es dann nicht nur unter MAGA-Leuten heißen.
Deutschland und Europa begehen einen schweren Fehler, wenn sie den USA nicht helfen.
Phil Stewart@phildstewart
GERMANY'S FOREIGN MINISTER: CONTROLLED REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN IS NOT REALISTIC, CHAOS IN IRAN NOT IN OUR INTEREST
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@pwk @alexstubb you selectively believe the u.s was going to invade greenland because it underwrites your world model. and the second statement is just bull shit.
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@DGartifact @alexstubb Which ally? The one that threatens Greenland and would be happy to hand half of Europe to Putin?
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@drnk2nd how about stopping a tyranical regime from developing nuclear capacity. liberating the iranian people. weakening the adversarial axis, preventing iranian support to russia, using iranian and venezuelan oil to lower reliance on russian oil- decreasing their capacity to fight.
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@DGartifact the most obvious "goal" is that Israel doesn't want Iran arround anymore and America got dragged into it, but I think that's an even less comfortable starting point, I was trying to be generous
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two weeks after starting a war with dubious motives and no clear goals, Americans have found the party line
once again it's all about Europe and how bad we are; for the past year, every foreign policy maneuver has ended at that conclusion
the purpose of a system is what it does
planefag@planefag
So basically NATO is we defend you for free and you tell us to eat shit every time we need help? Oh right you sent some troops that never left the wire to Iraq so all debts are paid forever, past and future. Fuck this noise.
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