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@AndrewCurran_ Dems are like a dog with a bone. The context is immaterial.

New polling today from Gallup. 71% of Americans oppose local construction of datacenters. Anti-datacenter sentiment is now so strong that far more people would rather have a nuclear power plant built next to them than a datacenter.

Aunt in senior home 3500.00 a month. Surprise! They raised the fee this year to 13,000.00 a month. What a wonderful world.

@AndrewCurran_ Found his customers!

Claude is being joined in space by Gemini. Google is in talks with SpaceX for a launch deal.

@nptacek Hilarious.

this AI has zero chill i need to give it some sort of calendar or clock or some way so it can tell time and not freak out when i'm gone for holidays

@MerriamWebster I still refer to it all the time.

SERIOUS QUESTION Do you have an old dictionary, and/or do you still use it? Pics or it didn’t happen.

@AMAZlNGNATURE Hey @grok is there a way I can make blue ice like this at home rapidly where it takes a month instead of 1000 years?

Penguins on a "Blue Iceberg" caused by thousands of years of compression The interesting shapes are caused from wave action below and wind erosion above, where the waves cannot reach. The blue color occurs mostly in very old ice from a very deep glacier and is the result hundreds or even thousands of years of compression and ongoing thawing and refreezing of the ice. Over time, these processes release much of the air that was originally trapped by the falling snow. As this happens, the reflective surfaces of our "snowflakes" disappear. The ability to reflect light exists only when there is air between the surfaces of  the ice crystals. This very, very old, and very, very dense ice is no longer capable of reflecting light. So it no longer appears white.

@visakanv Nice. I wasn't following or even on x/twitter then. Appreciate the response, I was genuinely curious and prefer pen and paper as well, although lately it's illegible to most but I like it that way.

@KarmaLikeWater yep x.com/visakanv/statu…

sometimes writing feels like the lowest of the arts. music tugs your heartstrings. painting seduces your eye. writing was invented by bureaucrats to tally goods. that's okay i'll still keep producing that garbage

@generativist Wife and I chillin like villains atm and this made us laugh out loud. Too true.

i've never known even one goose to be silly these are flagrantly serious animals

@generativist @QiaochuYuan @alinekaeri I highly agree with that.

@QiaochuYuan @alinekaeri i got ~90 pages into Blindsight this weekend and it had this bit about language that i liked. an analogy for why language is limiting. “you can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.” and well…some things lose much more, and the surviving signal isn’t

no, goddamnit, feynman was just wrong, some ideas are genuinely irreducibly complicated. i know mathematics it would take literally years to explain to a layman, which is literally why graduate school exists as an institution, to do that high-level mathematics takes place in a very sophisticated language where every concept is defined in terms of other concepts which are defined in terms of other concepts etc. etc. etc. and fully unraveling all of these concepts back to what a layman would be familiar with takes potentially thousands of pages depending on the subject. and i'm not talking about stuff with no applications, this is the level of effort it would take to fully explain all the math that goes into the standard model of particle physics, eg other subjects are also like this! you might question whether some of these subjects are mostly fake, towers of theory disconnected from reality, but that's a different conversation entirely. the towers of theory actually do exist and require actual effort to climb

@RetroNewsNow Salvador Dali? That's a factoid and a half.

🍭Chupa Chups expanded into the U.S. market in the 1980s after strong success in Europe and Asia. Founded in Spain in 1958, Chupa Chups became famous for its colorful lollipops and its iconic logo, designed in 1969 by Salvador Dalí

@generativist Frack frack fracking 👉

the water issue for data centers is real in some edge cases but terminally confused in most of them. so let's compromise. all data center usage will continue, but we bomb all golf courses

@generativist Stay gold.

gold plated prius

@AndrewCurran_ I believed you.

In November 2023, after Sam Altman had been fired, it was reported that OpenAI met secretly with Anthropic and asked Dario to merge Anthropic with OpenAI and then take over as CEO of the new company. And that Anthropic turned them down. I posted about this at the time. But it was never corroborated, and so many angry people said it was obviously false and fake that I eventually deleted the post. Today we got testimony from Ilya Sutskever under oath that this actually did happen.

@WilliamShatner Mustn't correct the grammar... 💭🧐

For those wondering what organizations benefit from the proceeds of my charity you can look here: horseshow.org/charity-recipi… 100% of the monies raised go to support those charities. There is no overhead costs for my charity.

@kendrictonn Probably trying to knock that helicopter out of the sky.

No one has explained what the bear was seeking at that altitude

@csharpner @heynavtoor Well that's probably true it's x. By hook or crook.

To be clear, I'm NOT saying the PAPER is misleading. I'm saying the OP about the paper is misleading.

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525