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Protestors are taking to the streets of Biddeford, Maine after ICE murdered a 26-year-old Colombian man. This is the 11th person fatally shot (murdered) by Federal immigration officials since Trump took office.

🇺🇸 US Secretary of Defense: “Whether Sunni or Shia, our enemy is Islam.”:

Some observations on Kimi: 1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also seemed very token hungry. It's not obvious to me that this model is actually that cheap to run. 2. I am personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good, given potential risks. To be clear, I *myself* might be fine with models presenting this level of marginal risk being open weight, but I am surprised that China is fine with it. I suspect the reason they are is 75% explained by strategic blindness/lack of AGI-pilledness (the CCP is very Yann Lecun-y in its views of AI). The other 25% or so is their lack of compute for customer inference (making China's open-weight strategy an unintended byproduct of US export controls) and the normal Chinese strategy of aggressive exports. For the companies, as opposed to the government, the decision to open source is partially ideological and partially because they are behind, and they know that very few people would pay for sub-frontier models from China. 3. Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist, and I'm continually surprised to see the so-called "accelerationists" so excited about open-weight models. I suspect the reason they are is that they know open-weight models are effectively ungovernable, and they simply like the overall cloak of ungovernability open-weight models create over the whole of AI. It's not a bad strategy; it reminds me of James Scott's recounting of the hill people in "the art of not being governed." Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex. 4. One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I've never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn't ultimately concede this is where things end. You'd be surprised how many 'accelerationists' lobbied me, while I was in government, to support an eleven or twelve-figure federally funded data center so that startups could train models at a subsidy and then give them away for free. There was no other way for AI to progress, they said. Perhaps this is the logical end state of things. Nonetheless, I find myself surprised to see supposed accelerationists excited about such an outcome. I think many of them just don't know what they're doing. Many accelerationists do not view the creation and serving of frontier models as a legitimate business. 5. I would guess that the Trump Administration will at some point realize that their best strategy here would be to create large amounts of regulatory risk around the use of open-weight Chinese models. You don't need to "ban open source" (one of the dumber motifs of AI policy discussion). You just need to direct every agency to issue soft law that creates FUD. "A Federal Reserve Advisory Bulletin found that there may be backdoors in Chinese AI models." It needn't be that well justified. You just create enough regulatory risk that every regulated enterprise backs off. You probably don't want to create so much regulatory risk that you scare off the hyperscalers from serving Chinese models; this will just drive startups to sketchier providers. There's a happy middle ground here. I'd assume they will do some version of this. 6. It's probably true that open-weight models of this capability make the world a bit more dangerous, but not so much more that you'll really notice. At some point the models will be capable enough that you will notice. "A nonliving, invisible, dangerous, and infinitely self-replicating agent escaped from a Chinese lab," you say? Color me shocked.

On this day in 1979, the Sandinista Revolution triumphed in Nicaragua after decades of CIA-backed Somoza regime. Soon thereafter, the CIA organized Iran Contra.

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Trump se gastó ya más de 120.000 millones de dólares en una guerra contra Irán, en defensa de "Israel".... mientras las vías de trenes de mercancía en EEUU aún se ven como en el siglo XIX. Este es el gran modelo de éxito de EEUU, que según el director de la CIA, China les copia.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: 'Iran's ULTIMATE LEVERAGE is its nuclear programme, any ground campaign by Trump to destroy it would be DISASTROUS.' 'The reason Iran has strategic headway over anything Donald Trump does is twofold. Ultimately, it’s the nuclear programme and the Strait of Hormuz. The Omani foreign minister categorically stated that the real problem in the region is Israel, not Iran. I think he’s right. Oman holds a key to the continued control of the Strait of Hormuz, such as it is. And that is their channel, and we are trying to strong-arm Oman into letting us use exclusively that channel, the one Oman has closest to its territory, and thereby negating a lot of Iran’s leeway with regard to the Strait of Hormuz. But the ultimate leeway, the ultimate instrument here is what you just suggested, their nuclear programme. And what’s laughable about that, and sad about it, is that that’s what Donald Trump started out on, and that’s what Donald Trump said was his principal focus. Well, he’s lost complete focus on that now, unless he’s planning on putting land forces on the ground and scouring up their nuclear programme as best he can, and that would be disastrous. I don’t see any way he’s going to affect that. So Iran remains in the catbird seat, and they have Russia and China on their side too, and I think China is ultimately on their side, which means they have the number one economy in the world on their side.' —Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff at the US State Department Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇

🚨Breaking: U.S. Strike Hits Desalination and Power Facilities Near Jask, Cutting Water to Villages Iranian officials said U.S. forces struck power infrastructure and desalination plants at the port of Bonji village near Jask at 4:44 a.m., cutting off water supplies to several surrounding villages. Hormozgan’s deputy governor for political and security affairs said several missiles hit the facilities. Authorities said further details would be released after an initial assessment. Source: Khabar Fouri

Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818. Few thinkers have shaped the modern world more deeply or more destructively. 🧵 What Marx got wrong, and why it matters today:

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