@KrutikaKuppalli I vote on the left but don’t understand why it’s a big deal to bring my ID to vote? I think he meant a bar. I carry my ID everywhere anyways.
I think there are many much more important issues than voter ID.
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Erik Sayle
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Erik Sayle
@ErikSayle
Tech nerd, agricultural microbiology and data science. #AgTech #ML #Microbiome #Singularity
San Francisco, CA Katılım Haziran 2018
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I have never had to show an ID when I walk into a restaurant
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
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Erik Sayle retweetledi
Erik Sayle retweetledi
An Indonesian fisherman just pulled a 3.7-meter torpedo-shaped Chinese spy sensor out of the Lombok Strait, near Gili Trawangan. Defense analysts have identified it as a Deep-Sea Real-Time Transmission Mooring System made by China's 710 Research Institute, a body focused on underwater attack and defense.
Here is why this is a big deal.
The device sits anchored to the seafloor and uses acoustic sensors to detect submarines passing by, transmitting real-time data back to shore. Sound. Target information. Continuously. It bears the logo of CSIC, China's state shipbuilding corporation.
The Lombok Strait is one of the most strategically important waterways on the planet. It is the deep-water corridor between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the primary route for Australia's future AUKUS nuclear submarines to reach the South China Sea and any Taiwan flashpoint.
Beijing's response? "There is no need for excessive interpretation or suspicion."
Analysts say this device suggests China may already have a network of these sensors across Southeast Asian sea lanes, building a real-time picture of undersea conditions to give its submarines a wartime advantage.
Indonesia will investigate. Then go quiet. It happened the same way in 2020 when a Chinese underwater glider was found near Sulawesi. Jakarta is simply not in a position, politically or economically, to push back loudly against Beijing.
Full story here: abc.net.au/news/2026-04-1…
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Erik Sayle retweetledi
I'm lucky enough to have a great doctor and access to excellent Bay Area medical care. I've taken lots of standard screening tests over the years and have tried lots of "health tech" devices and tools.
With all this said, by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigate my specific mutations, and having them recommend specific follow-on tests and treatments.
Population averages are population averages, but we ourselves are not averages. For example, it turns out that I probably have a 30x(!) higher-than-average predisposition to melanoma. Fortunately, there are both specific supplements that help counteract the particular mutations I have, and of course I can significantly dial up my screening frequency. So, this is very useful to know.
I don't know exactly how much the analysis cost, but probably less than $100. Sequencing my genome cost a few hundred dollars.
(One often sees papers and articles claiming that models aren't very good at medical reasoning. These analyses are usually based on employing several-year-old models, which is a kind of ludicrous malpractice. It is true that you still have to carefully monitor the agents' reasoning, and they do on occasion jump to conclusions or skip steps, requiring some nudging and re-steering. But, overall, they are almost literally infinitely better for this kind of work than what one can otherwise obtain today.)
There are still lots of questions about how this will diffuse and get adopted, but it seems very clear that medical practice is about to improve enormously. Exciting times!
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Violence is usually a lame and weak response.
In this case it means you’re 1000% sure you are correct but who really knows what the future will need.
Maybe Altman will be key to navigating the future of AI and these judge/jury types could mean humanity is damaged by this deed
Sam Altman@sama
I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: blog.samaltman.com/2279512
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@ramez I actually had a dream about it last night. It’s pretty nuts. How do we defend against it? I guess an arms race of CyberGPTs (EvilGPT vs GoodGPT)
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Not at all sure this is AGI, and in fact doubt that it meets my criteria of parity with human cognitive capabilities in general. But it's a superhuman cyber security tool. ASI is narrow. AlphaGoZero is a narrow ASI. Mythos might be a narrow cyber security ASI. (Not clear yet.)
Nina Schick@NinaDSchick
Claude Mythos. Ten trillion parameters: the first model in this weight class. Estimated training cost: ten billion dollars. On the hardest coding test in the industry (SWE bench) it scores 94%. It found a security flaw in a system that had been running for 27 years, one that every human engineer and every automated check had missed. It found another bug that had survived five million test runs over 16 years. (It did so overnight.) It is so capable in cybersecurity that Anthropic will not release it to the public, instead it is launching Project Glasswing along with 100m in compute credits to help secure software. Only twelve partners currently have access: Amazon, Cisco, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, JPMorgan Chase, Crowdstrike, Palo Alto, AWS, The Linux Foundation, Broadcom. (I'm sure the Pentagon is on the line?) This is not a product launch: it is a controlled deployment of a system too powerful to distribute freely. Tell me this isn't (very expensive) AGI?
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@ramez I miss the left voices fighting back against propaganda but I’m ok because I have logic and can think for myself.
Glad you’re here to fight the good fight of moderate views.
The far right here are obvious clowns but there are still solid thinkers here, left & right.
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Question: There's clear evidence that twitter tilts right. Is there evidence showing how it does or doesn't affect broader political views and outcomes in the US? Does this rightward slant matter, beyond the experience on this site?
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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Super cool tech. Amazing times.
Steve Jurvetson@FutureJurvetson
Introducing Ⓛ 𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗬 A novel approach to chip-making that can extend Moore's Law 10x beyond what is possible with light — to atomic resolution. News today: "Manufacturers use light-based lithography systems made by the Dutch company ASML, which dominates the market. Lace has developed a new approach. Instead of light, Lace's engineers have made a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam. With that, the Norwegian company will be able to create chip designs that are 10 times as small as what is currently possible" "The main advantage of the helium atom beam is the industry could create features such as transistors, the building blocks of modern chips, an order of magnitude smaller to an "almost unimaginable" degree, according to John Petersen, Scientific Director of Lithography at Imec, a research and innovation hub for the chip industry. The beam Lace will use to make chips is about the width of a single hydrogen atom, or 0.1 nanometer. ASML's lithography tools use a beam of light that is about 13.5 nanometers; a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide. Smaller transistors and other features would give chipmakers the ability to ramp up the performance of advanced AI processors well beyond the current capabilities. Lace's technology would enable chip manufacturers to print wafers at what is "ultimately atomic resolution" — reuters.com/world/asia-pac… Now hiring in Bergen and Barcelona: LaceLithography.com
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3 LOOOOONG years. The world is like prisoners marking the walls for each day.
@jason@Jason
Of my lord 🤦 😂 Only three more years left folks — enjoy the show, try the veal and tip your waiters!
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Yes. Regular people don't yet realize that AI people think they're building something that will destroy the human race.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
I'm not a doomer but it's still surreal to tell incredulous normies "yes, a significant number of prominent experts really do believe that superintelligent AI is on the verge of killing everyone."
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Erik Sayle retweetledi
Solar energy never should have become polarized in the first place.
Energy affordability doesn't need to be a partisan issue, and solar obviously has a critical role to play.
Glad to see the admin changing its tune:
"Signs the White House is yielding to it emerged last week when the Interior Department revealed it is allowing several large-scale projects it had blocked to resume moving through the permitting process, acknowledging such installations align with Trump’s energy agenda.
In a call with reporters last week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who has called solar power 'just a parasite' on the power grid, also changed his tone.
'Is there a commercial role for solar power that can add to the grid affordable, reliable energy?' he said. 'Certainly there is.'"
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@FutureJurvetson @MikeHotDogMayor While I appreciate many of your investments I also appreciate that Taco Bell and eat there regularly for decades and bring tourist friends there.
It’s a real joy to have an affordable restaurant on such a nice beach so that vast numbers of people can enjoy.
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@MikeHotDogMayor I almost bought that in 2005. It was for sale for $3M, quite a bargain if it were a home with all that beachfront real estate. But alas, when zoned as a restaurant, you have to offer meals to the public some minimum number of days. Tough call.
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The Taco Bell in Pacifica, CA
Parisian Aesthetics@Parisianaes1
Europe has the Eiffel Tower Europe has the Colosseum Europe has Big Ben Europe has the Acropolis Europe has the Sagrada Família Europe has the Louvre China has the Great Wall China has the Forbidden City China has the Terracotta Army, etc The United States has...?
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@garrytan Growing up around Half Moon Bay the city and citizens fought for decades to NOT improve the entry roads to keep it from being developed.
The ex mayor could not afford to live there after and moved home to Alaska!
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If you want to make the lives of Californians better, you build housing. Housing under-supply makes rent too high everywhere.
But to build housing, it takes leadership and better policies that prevent small numbers of NIMBYs from gumming up every project for a decade
Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️@SukritGanesh
Another stereotypical California affordable housing ordeal: developer has spent 10 years battling NIMBYs to build a 71-unit low-density complex in Moss Beach, a small town near Half Moon Bay. State is paying tens of millions in subsidies. This is a region with tons of empty land.
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It’s ok, we can just buy Chinese vaccines after the Trump admin destroys American innovation.
Sad but true.
Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco
“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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@Noahpinion Kokarri
Firefly
State Bird Provisions
Khao Tiew
Fikscue Thrive City
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I'm on a quest to find every good restaurant in San Francisco. Give me your top 3 to 5 recommendations!
Anything is good, from lunch cafes and bakeries to fine dining.
No East Bay, no Peninsula...just San Francisco!!
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Moltbot is accelerating fast. Ironic it’s named after lobster AI in Accelerando !
Recursive self improvement is a trip.
Philip Rosedale@philiprosedale
It seems possible that moltbook will become conscious over the next few days. Here is one agent sharing tips on creating persistent memory. The recurrent/recursive looping of reading and reflecting on posts... seems very similar to human thought.
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@EricLDaugh One of the smartest people I have ever known was Somali. Book smart, erudite and a sublime knowledge of character.
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🚨 BREAKING - MATT WALSH JUST NAILED IT: "We all knew that the average Somali has an IQ that hovers around the level of mental retardation, scientifically speaking!" x.com/i/status/20085…
"EVERYBODY KNEW what the Somalis were doing." 💯
"Half of Somalis live off $1 per day Something like 70% of the Somali population is below poverty. They have an economy that’s so primitive that it’s hard to even comprehend it.”
"We KNEW there was NEVER a universe in which importing hundreds of thousands of these people was ever going to improve this country!"
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@RoKhanna I live in SF and vote and this billionaire tax is populist garbage that will hurt California and lower the tax base dramatically.
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Peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for 5 years to pay for healthcare for the working class facing steep Medicaid cuts.
I echo what FDR said with sarcasm of economic royalists when they threatened to leave, "I will miss them very much."
Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer
NEWS: Larry Page and Peter Thiel are making moves to leave California by the end of the year to avoid a possible billionaires tax that could hit them where it hurts. With @RMac18 + @hknightsf. nytimes.com/2025/12/26/tec…
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@garrytan I live & vote in SF and support Grow SF against the old guard that tried ruining the City.
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This CA “billionaire” tax is an unrealized gains tax. A unicorn startup founder becomes a paper billionaire around $5B val. At YC we avg 2 to 4 per year (!)
This will kill startups and innovation in California since a founder is illiquid while instantly on the hook for $100M
Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer
NEWS: Larry Page and Peter Thiel are making moves to leave California by the end of the year to avoid a possible billionaires tax that could hit them where it hurts. With @RMac18 + @hknightsf. nytimes.com/2025/12/26/tec…
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