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🚨An ICE agent hit a U.S. citizen with his car… A man is walking down a public sidewalk… doing nothing illegal… simply filming. An ICE agent turns into a gated entrance, and instead of waiting for the man to cross, instead of honking, instead of yielding like literally every driver is required to do… He drives straight into him. We have already seen ICE agents kill people when someone moves a car near them… …but this agent? He drove his car directly into a U.S. citizen walking on a sidewalk. And when the man says, “You just hit me”… The agent responds: “Move out of the fucking way.” That alone tells you everything about how this agent views the law, and the lives of U.S. citizens. The agent then he tries to twist reality, claiming the man is “interfering” with operations… For walking on a public sidewalk. Filming federal agents is legal. Walking down the street is legal. Running someone over because they’re recording you? That’s reckless endangerment, and assault with a vehicle. And then, it spirals into straight intimidation… The agent starts at the man saying, “Do you want to do something? You ain’t gonna do shit.” A federal agent, taunting a civilian, after hitting him with a car… Trying to provoke a reaction. ICE agents claim fear when it benefits them… …but show none when they’re the ones behind the wheel. This is exactly how people end up dead. And it’s happening with zero accountability.

The biggest crime perpetrated on you was somebody stole your wonderment,.. and even worse, they convinced you that it made you weak and naïve. Over the next 5000 days I pray deeply that you discover your wonderment, your curiosity it is your superpower.

Now that we know the doxxing issue was 100% fake we can be sure that when they go back to their normal jobs it’ll be because they want to get away with violating constitutional rights

🚨BREAKING: The 9-year-old who pleaded to go to his state spelling bee, is released from ICE detention. But, the fact that this headline even exists is the problem. This child, Deiver Henao Jimenez, and his family, are asylum seekers with a pending case. They were following the process, showing up to a routine immigration check-in… not hiding, not accused of any crime… But, they were thrown into the Dilley Detention Center anyway. A 9-year-old CHILD… a strong student who qualified for his state spelling bee… was sitting in a detention facility telling Ms. Rachel on a video call, “I don’t want to be here anymore… nothing is good here.” A child… begging to get out of what is essentially a concentration camp… so he could go to a spelling bee. And his family didn’t get out because the system worked… They got out because people saw the video. That video call with Ms. Rachel is the reason this child is not being held in this terrible facility… And to make this all even worse… After the videos went viral, CHILDREN had their ability to video chat taken away. The moment the public saw what was happening, ICE shut it down. And let’s talk about why this is even happening… because detaining families like this isn’t about safety…. It’s about a system that profits off detention, where holding people, even children with pending asylum cases, generates money for private contractors and those at the top. It took public pressure, media attention, and a child pleading on camera to fix something that never should have happened. And that’s the point… this wasn’t normal before. We did not used to detain elementary school kids with pending asylum cases like this, then silence them when people started paying attention. Yes… he’s free now. But the fact that a 9-year-old asylum seeker had to go viral, by talking to Ms. Rachel on camera, just to get out… Should tell you exactly how cruel this administration is.

I cloned my voice in 10 seconds and I'm still not over it. Not a generic AI voice. Not a "slightly sounds like me" voice. My timing. My pauses. My quirks. I ran it against the most popular TTS tool out there. Wasn't expecting much of a difference. There was a huge one. The reason most AI voices feel slightly off isn't audio quality. It's that they never sound like they're thinking. Real speech has micro-pauses, irregular pacing, emphasis shifts… because a brain is working in real time. Somehow Lightning V3.1 from @smallest_ai captured that. The clone doesn't just copy my timbre. It copies the irregularity. The small imperfections that make a voice feel like a person. Watch the comparison at the end. You'll hear exactly what I mean. For creators: one piece of writing, your voice, podcast clips, reels, multilingual versions. At scale.

A chilling story leading the Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning this morning. ICE agents followed Minnesota Democratic lawmakers who had been critical of ICE in the state, stopping multiple times to take pictures of their houses. This is what a police state does

This girl’s mom & brother who are both U.S citizens were stopped by ICE & detained & when she got there she told them they were Citizens & that her brother has Autism & they didn’t care & were taking them.She called the cops who came & made them look at their IDs & release them!

A U.S. citizen separated from her young children by ICE testified that armed agents barged in without explanation, began grabbing her, threatened to blow her head off, then threw her to the ground, kicking and punching her until she couldn’t breathe.

I asked Claude to build my daughter an app that plugs into our piano, can read live key strokes, can show her sheet notes and key view and ends with a Guitar Hero style game. All while giving progressively harder songs. Today she’s using It and crushing It.

Naive introspection yes. Skilled no. Developing a neutral observer deepens awareness and allows release of old, unhelpful, or unconscious patterns. The goal is to witness without judgement - not to report or judge. Creating a self-model merely confines awareness to the ego’s imagination. A richer and more wholly integrated awareness emerges. “The unexamined life is not worth living”

My big conclusion from this week: Introspection causes emotional disorders.

I hit 69 GB/s streaming MoE expert weights off an SSD on a MacBook. For context: Apple's "LLM in a Flash" paper: 6 GB/s llama.cpp mmap: 3.5 GB/s flash-moe (M3 Max): 17.5 GB/s rustane pread (M4 Max): 69.3 GB/s.

ICE snatched a boy who was 14 years old while riding his bike in Key Largo,Florida the other day.They didn’t ask him any questions & he kept telling them to look at his ID & they wouldn’t listen to him! Witnesses said it took about 5 minutes from beginning to end. So Sad to see!

@NathanBLawrence Pretty sure the “they” here is marketing. Skills are moving down the stack as part of indexed, evolvable long-term memory

They canceled MCP last week. They’re cancelling skill files now, the cycle is getting faster.

当你的领袖跟你说，别担心，大家都在一条船上，但 实际上。。。

Richard Feynman’s savage takedown of pseudo-science still burns in 2026: “Social science is an example of a science which is not a science. They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws. They haven’t found out anything.” He goes harder: Experts who “sit at a typewriter and make up” claims — “organic food is better,” “this diet cures everything” — as if it’s settled science, when no rigorous experiments or checks have been done. Feynman: “I know what it means to really know something. How careful you have to be. How easy it is to fool yourself. I see how they get their information… and I can’t believe that they know.” The Nobel physicist calls it straight: most of what passes for “expert” opinion is noise dressed up as knowledge. In an age drowning in TikTok “science,” influencers, and clickbait studies — Feynman’s 1:52 rant feels more relevant than ever. Who’s the biggest pseudo-expert that grinds your gears right now? Clip is timeless fire — watch it and feel the clarity.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents knocked down the door of a family home looking for a man who wasn’t inside… then illegally took the people from the house. This happened in South Burlington, Vermont, where agents say a man fled from them earlier in a car, and ran into a nearby house. They then surrounded the home, and flooded the neighborhood with federal agents, while hundreds of activists gathered outside trying to stop the illegal raid. Hours later, a federal judge issued a search warrant. Agents then pulled protesters away from the entrance and knocked the door down to force their way inside the house. And the man they claimed justified the entire raid… wasn’t even there. But, they took the people in the home anyway. So, just to clarify… Federal agents stormed a home, dragged people out of the house, and detained them… even though they are not the person named in the warrant… and authorities still have not even publicly identified who those people are, or what charges they supposedly face. Neighbors say the house belonged to a family with children, and at one point, a child had to be escorted out while armed federal agents prepared to storm the home. Then, when agents tried to leave, they fired flash-bang grenades and tear gas, into a residential neighborhood, to clear the crowd. Even officials in South Burlington, Vermont questioned ICE’s tactics afterward, because operations like this don’t just terrorize families… they push the limits of what federal agents are legally allowed to do inside people’s homes. And once they start dragging the wrong people out of those homes… That’s when raids have no real limits, and the government has unlimited power.

A judge ordered the release of a 14 year old girl detained by ICE in Massachusetts after they moved her from Boston to New York. She was kept awake about 20 hours without food and cut off from contact with her lawyer. The judge said he'd never seen a child treated this way.

ICE used her as bait to pressure her father. Her lawyer said her mother is dead and her father is not part of her life. A 14-year-old girl was taken by federal agents while walking through a Marlborough parking lot with her brothers, and sent overnight to a juvenile facility in New York before a federal judge ordered her returned and released to her aunt. boston.com/news/local-new… PAXIS says there are multiple, significant legal and constitutional ramifications here: Fourth Amendment – Unreasonable Seizure • Was there probable cause or legal authority to detain the girl? • Immigration enforcement is still limited by the Fourth Amendment. Fifth Amendment – Due Process • A person cannot be deprived of liberty without due process. • Special concern when the person detained is a minor. • Use of Detention as Leverage • Detaining someone to pressure another person can be considered coercive or abusive enforcement. Protections for Minors in Immigration Custody. • Federal rules require children to be held in the least restrictive setting and released to family quickly. • Interstate Transfer of a Minor • Moving a 14-year-old across state lines for detention raises questions about necessity and procedural legality. Possible Civil Rights Claims • If the detention lacked legal basis, the family could pursue constitutional or civil rights violations. Legal Claims • Was the child detained for lawful immigration enforcement, or used as leverage against her father? FIGHT ICE - FUCK TRUMP: gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

It’s not all hype tho. I am using an M1 pro, 32B for a talking head avatar with visemes (mouth movement matches voice) connected to my Home Assistant, Always on listening using Escapa-TDNN for voice recognition so it only responds to me, Guest mode for when i talk to visitors requires its name in the command, 100% private, 100% local. I am using Qwen 3 14B running in Vlm-mlx. TTFT is 2 seconds. I installed Kokoru for TTS and Parakeet for STT on the A.N.E. to get blazing fast speeds and to avoid metal contention. Tool calling is json. All in all I happy with it and no heat, noise etc I can let it run 24/7. I think plenty of use cases for macs and plenty for CUDA/Nvdia too. I want it to be just a bit snappier, waiting on the M5 Max. Plus I want to upgrade voice to Orpheus,

“you didn’t speak up” huh? see below lol i replied with educational content to anyone hyping Macs, some engaged in good faith and even shared my posts, others just blocked me my stance hasn’t changed from the very start

@literallydenis Good luck with tool calling tho. The smaller models are quirky and fun but not so much on following the system prompt or making tool calls,

Just tested: llama.cpp on $500 MacBook Neo: Prompt: 7.8 t/s / Generation: 3.9 t/s on Qwen3.5 9B Q3_K_M So, smaller models are even more usable