Þráinn Guðbjörnsson

@askaya Each to his own I say, but with a spirit of comradery towards other nations. If by America first you mean an inward focus I think that is long overdue. If it means more bullying on the world stage it means less credibility and influence, fast!

America First + Russia as an ally What do we think? 🇷🇺 🇺🇸

@CepedaWilma @elmercurioAON There's clearly some sponsorship involved; career advancement oppurtunities etc. Serious stuff!

@elmercurioAON Pregunta: La formación recibida influye en su raciocinio? Les deja sin capacidad de análisis? Los convierte en completos estúpidos, incapaces de distinguir que lo que les afecta no merece apoyo?

🇫🇷 El nieto del legendario General Charles de Gaulle, Pierre de Gaulle, hace una revelación contundente 👇 Gran parte de los políticos europeos han sido formados por el programa Líderes Jóvenes de la CIA. "Las afirmaciones de que Rusia interfiere en Europa no son más que una ficción que impide a nuestras élites decirle la verdad al pueblo francés".

@arnarvarp Þegar kjarasamningar stangast á við rekstrarforsendur er augljóst að rekstrarforsendur verða að víkja. 🙃

Formaður FÍA er á góðri leið með að keyra annað flugfélag í þrot á stuttum tíma. Það er ekki einleikið. vb.is/frettir/hlutha…

@rochowanski I think the end justifies the means. It's not like the major news networks are doing anything to enlighten us. I also believe that many people in the room reflect on the debates in the same way you do afterwards.

Maybe it's just me, but I can't enjoy this, even if Pompeo and Nuland got fileted. It's creepy to hold a debate, a game of wits, on a stage, with an audience laughing and clapping, about events experienced as catastrophe, ruin, agony and heartbreak by tens of millions.

Possibly the greatest political speech of the decade...

@JackPosobiec Calling you a dimwit is generous.

POSOBIEC: The Trump Iran Deal is 2026 Nobel Prize material We've never seen a President like this in our lifetimes

@ArmstrongEcon People coming to their senses is not a bad thing. Diplomacy has been totally absent, not at least from it's head diplomat. That's nonsensical in my opinion.

Says the former chancellor of Germany, who openly admitted they never intended to honor the Minsk Agreement and only used it to buy time. Not exactly a convincing voice.

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@RealJamesWoods Hmmm ... Trump ?!?

Who is the most notorious liar in modern political history?

@Sndvl1999 @DarwinAwards_ You're a good addition to the duo.

@DarwinAwards_ Why doesn’t the person put the video camera down and help?

@JDVance He's loathed by most I'm afraid and you know it.

There’s a reason President Trump is respected by world leaders, and it’s because he’s consistently shown a level of strength that we haven’t seen from our Commander in Chief in modern history.

@konradgudjons Vísir fer með himinskautunum í umfjöllun um tölfræðileg hugtök.

Takk fyrir þetta

@danielrunars Hvað skal gera þegar kjarasamningar draga úr samkeppnishæfni og grafa undan rekstrarhæfi?

Honum dettur ekki í hug að kannski sé hann sjálfur stærsta ástæðan fyrir því að Icelandair reyni að horfa annað? visir.is/g/20262882729d…

@TheDuranReal Well ... If they sedate trump something positive may result ...

This is not a normal diplomatic trip. This is the American financial and tech empire sitting down with Xi Jinping to negotiate the future of global power. The US and China are not decoupling - they are restructuring the world order.

@MichaelAArouet The picture you posted doesn't mention anything about defending one's family. You just sprinkled that in since it fits your narrative. Probably most of the people asked, thought of country as the government or the ruling class.

This is simply unreal. What happened in Germany? Has the left virus completely eaten their minds? How on earth is it possible to not be willing to defend one's country and family?

The most subversive document in American political history is not the Declaration of Independence. It is Hồ Chí Minh's letter to Truman. Because it takes the Declaration at its word. It says: you said these things. Self-evident truths. Unalienable rights. The consent of the governed. The right of a people to determine their political future. We are a people. We are determining our future. We are asking you to apply your own stated principles to our situation. The letter is a trap built entirely out of American rhetoric. And Truman could not answer it. Because to answer it honestly would be to admit that the principles were never universal. That "all men" had always meant something narrower than it said. That the freedom they were exporting was a product, not a principle, and like all products it came with terms of service that the marketing materials didn't mention. The letter still sits in the National Archives. Still unanswered. Still the clearest possible X-ray of the gap between the American idea and the American reality. Hồ Chí Minh understood America better than America understood itself. He always had.

@Glenn_Diesen I welcome all rational moves towards a peaceful resolution.

Finland's President Stubb argued: "Yes, it is time to start negotiations with Russia." * I would like to know why it was not considered a good time to speak with Russia four years ago. Our political class boycotted diplomacy for all these years while hundreds of thousands of young men died, and put us on a path toward nuclear war that we are still on. Anyone who argued for diplomacy was smeared and censored by our radicalised political-media establishment. So why was it considered immoral to speak with the other side then, but not now?

Yann LeCun closed $1.03B for AMI Labs on March 10. Three days later, this paper dropped from his NYU collaborators. 15M parameters. Single GPU. A few hours of training. LeWorldModel is the first JEPA that trains end-to-end from raw pixels. Two loss terms: predict the next embedding, keep the latent space Gaussian. Previous JEPAs needed exponential moving averages or pretrained encoders to avoid representation collapse. LeWM doesn't. Six hyperparameters down to one. The numbers are the story. Foundation-model-based world models require hundreds of millions of parameters and serious compute to plan a control task. LeWM plans up to 48x faster while staying competitive on 2D and 3D benchmarks. The whole thing fits on a laptop GPU. Look at the trajectory. Yann announced his Meta departure in November 2025 after 12 years and called founding FAIR his "proudest non-technical accomplishment." On March 10, 2026, AMI Labs closed the largest seed round in European history at a $3.5B pre-money valuation. Bezos, Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota all wrote checks. Three days later: a paper showing that JEPA-from-pixels is no longer fragile and no longer compute-heavy. The engineering scaffolding that made it look like an academic curiosity is gone. The authors sit at Mila, NYU, Samsung SAIL, and Brown. None at Meta. Yann's bet was that the path to machine intelligence runs through world models, not language models. He left a public company to build it. Each JEPA paper from his network resets the assumed cost structure for that bet. This one makes world modeling laptop-cheap. Meta still has the GPUs. The architecture left.

@Erickschultz11 @DanDePetris @barnes_law ucdp.uu.se

@Erickschultz11 @DanDePetris @barnes_law We could maybe begin by addressing your assertion that the US has a right to be there? Did the US have the right to kill 38 million people between 1971-2021? You could maybe also brush up on WHY the the revolution took place in the first place in 1979?

(1) Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon. (2) Iran wasn’t close to getting a nuclear weapon. (3) The war could very well convince Iran that a nuclear weapon is its best bet. (4) You can’t bomb a country’s nuclear ambitions away. (5) The admin’s case rests on red herrings.