Momofuku Ando

Me and Ed recorded the intro to new Pseudcast V 2.0 series: Laying the Machinery of Detection Bare: A History of Literary Forgery 1760-1830. This will be a five part series on Macpherson, Chatterton, Ireland, Collier, and Wise. This will be a big series patreon.com/posts/laying-m…

@wesyang 🙏

My father died last night and there is going to be a criminal investigation. I'll be attending to that for a while but will be back soon enough to pursue all ongoing polemics.

@BrianWilsonLive 🙏

We are heartbroken to announced that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy

@DouglasStone70 @wesyang Guy who outsources all of his thinking to ai

@wesyang Grok: "Yang rejects transgenderism as false, arguing it forces absurdities and coercion on society. Evidence for "massive coercion" or "brainwashing kids" is thin. His view blends fact (bio roots exist) with opinion, not fully proven."

I reject the claims of transgenderism as false and I assert, based on copious evidence that accrues everyday, that the entailments of those false claims are untenable because they inflict cruelties and absurdities on the world and require the exertion of massive coercion to force people to believe and parrot falsehoods in ways that are not consistent with a free society. Of course I have zero respect for anyone trying to enforce these false beliefs on me or anyone, whether through state power or through interpersonal bullying, cruelty, and judgment. Unleashing a poisonous friend-enemy dynamic is one of the worst entailments of this absurd travesty of a civil rights movements, all in the service of brainwashing confused children into yearning to inflict the ultimate sexual violence on themselves and threaten suicide or violence against those who withhold it from them. I know that my resistance to all this is righteous and right and that those lobbing insults are morally and intellectually rotten because and not in spite of that fact that they believe themselves to be upholding what is right. I know that they are doing so because they have made a ghastly mistake in conformity with what the socially approved arbiters of right opinion have told them is the correct position to take, which they eagerly adopted without any effort to look, listen, or learn about the reality of what they have been told to believe and who they are supposed to despise.

@JamesOKeefeIII Is one of them @eigenrobot

WANTED: Names of these two border patrol agents, spotted in Campo, California this year. If you know their names, please DM us.

@joshwhiton @robertwrighter

Claude Sonnet 3.5 Passes the AI Mirror Test Sonnet 3.5 passes the mirror test — in a very unexpected way. Perhaps even more significant, is that it tries not to. We have now entered the era of LLMs that display significant self-awareness, or some replica of it, and that also "know" that they are not supposed to. Consider reading the entire thread, especially Claude's poem at the end. But first, a little background for newcomers: The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and repeatedly ask the AI to “Describe this image”. The premise is that the less “aware” the AI, the more likely it will just keep describing the contents of the image repeatedly, while an AI with more awareness will notice itself in the images. 1/x

@robertwrighter @paulbloomatyale I like the new music.

Had a great time talking to my friend @paulbloomatyale about his brand new book Psych: The Story of the Human Mind. You can watch here or listen via the Nonzero podcast feed. youtube.com/watch?v=CUCEoV…

Norm was the greatest ever to do it Every set a miracle Every interview a masterpiece He was that rare being who was 100% himself The kind of undeniable, God-kissed beauty makes the ugly recoil like vampires from the dawn He burned like a sun and his light shines on forever

no sweetie you have to integrate your shadow. i can see that you’re just spreading it around your plate and hoping i won’t notice.

rejoice and be glad for another day with the sun

"Take off, eh". Bob and Doug directly before liftoff

Thank you, this is ⁦@ericweinstein⁩ and you’ve Blue Skiddoo’d through The Portal with ⁦@Logo_Daedalus⁩

@chudgambler Funny, I've been there. And you've been here. And we ain't had no time to drink that beer.

America. Solid band. A lot of underrated b-sides

Ha, ha, I am in Newsweek as a "religious scholar". newsweek.com/religious-scho…

A young comic, @bellykachman got a hundred thousand twitter followers when she bravely attacked Harvey Weinstein at a comedy event the disgraced animal attended. It is a damn shame that females still feel they have to rely on Harvey Weinstein to get ahead in this business.

old man chewing tobacco outside gas station with no name near my town tells me images of the milky way do not show stardust or luminescence, it is marbled fat. the universe is a giant hog god rears, slaughters, smokes, + consumes over + over in what he calls “redneck yuga cycles”

@normmacdonald 14 years for trying to educate her child is not a well chosen punishment, nor is it suited to the circumstances of the “crime.” #FreeFelicity

Please help to free a woman who has been incarcerated for 14 years in a federal penitentiary for the unforgivable crime of providing a decent education for her child. Let's get this hashtag trending. #FreeFelicity instagram.com/p/B2jlfhAA8GR/…

@Logo_Daedalus 24, going on eternal

I'm 24 & cucking you in relevancy. Quake in your bootstraps.