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@NOELreports pathetic commie

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the MAGA movement does not align with Germany’s understanding of democracy, criticizing its approach to culture, media and political conduct. #Europe

@IAPonomarenko she's Ukrainian Navalny

Sorry, but talking about Yulia Tymoshenko as a significant “Ukrainan opposition” figure by now belongs to the realm of political paleontology.

Can you see my posts?

Now I’m laughing my ass off over the fact that he’s got an LGP system on his old Daewoo, and he’s in Donbas and can’t get any LPG fuel and has to pay a shitload of money to fill his tank with gasoline at these inflated prices.

My veteran friend was laughing his ass off not long ago at my desire to install an LPG system on my 2014 Chevy Cruze.

we had a good run, remember all the good code we used to write by hand? i never wrote good code, did you? nah

@jakluge suicidal commie

Germany's nuclear phase-out would not have happened, had there been a crystal ball in the chancellory. But it's all water under the bridge now. It was wrong in hindsight - but it doesn't mean that going back to nuclear now would make any sense.

Marc Andreessen just dropped ~105 mins on Lenny's Podcast covering AI, jobs, careers, and why everyone is panicking about the wrong thing. Just the clearest macro framework I've heard on where AI actually lands. My notes: 𝟭. 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝘁. US productivity growth has been running at half the rate of the 1940-1970 era and a third the rate of 1870-1940. The global population is declining below replacement in dozens of countries, including China. Without AI, we would be panicking about economies shrinking from depopulation, not job loss. The timing is almost miraculous. This is what Andreessen means when he says the real boom has not started yet. We have been in a 50-year productivity drought, and most people do not even realize it. 𝟮. 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲. Isaac Newton spent decades trying to transmute lead into gold and never succeeded. AI does something more powerful: it converts sand (silicon) into thought. The most common material in the world is the rarest output. This one metaphor reframes the entire AI conversation. You do not have a job loss problem. You have a philosopher's stone sitting on your desk that you are not using enough. 𝟯. 𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁. The best coders right now are not reporting 2x productivity. They are reporting 10x. The gap between "pretty good with AI" and "elite with AI" is widening, not narrowing. This is the most important signal for career planning right now. If you are just using AI to do the same job slightly faster, you are leaving the real leverage on the table. 𝟰. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗠𝘀, 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀. Every engineer now thinks they can be a PM and designer. Every PM thinks they can code and design. Every designer knows they can do both. And they are all correct, because AI enables each role to absorb the tasks of the other two. I have seen this firsthand in the investing world. The analyst who can build models and write narratives is 5x more valuable than someone who can do only one. The same convergence is happening in the product. 𝟱. 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗧-𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗘-𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿. Scott Adams could not have created Dilbert by being the world's best cartoonist or the world's best business mind. He needed both. The additive effect of two skills is more than double. Three skills are more than triple. Larry Summers puts it differently: don't be fungible. The person who can code, design, and ship a product is no longer a unicorn. They are the new baseline for "extremely valuable." If you are only one of those three things, you are increasingly replaceable. 𝟲. 𝗝𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀. 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲. 𝗝𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁. Executives never typed their own emails in the 1970s. Secretaries printed incoming emails and hand-delivered them. Both roles survived the transition, just with different task sets. The same will happen with AI and coding, PM work, and design. Everyone obsessing over "will my job disappear" is asking the wrong question. The right question is: which tasks in my job are about to rotate, and am I ready to pick up the new ones? 𝟳. 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿. We went from human calculators to machine code to assembly to C to scripting languages. Each layer was dismissed by the previous generation. Each time, the new layer won, and total coding employment grew. AI coding is the same pattern, not a rupture. The Perl programmers of 2005, laughing at JavaScript, are the C programmers of 1995, laughing at scripting. History rhymes, and it always rewards the people who adopt the next abstraction first. 𝟴. 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. One-on-one tutoring is the only method proven to move a student from the 50th to the 99th percentile (Bloom's two sigma effect). It used to require being born into royalty. Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle. Now, any kid with a phone can access the same quality of personalized instruction. This is the most under-discussed consequence of AI. Every parent reading this should be supplementing their kid's education with structured AI tutoring right now. Not next year. Now. 𝟵. 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱. Progress in bits masked stagnation in atoms. The built world is barely different from 50 years ago. Same bridges from the 1930s, same dams from the 1910s. Cartels, monopolies, unions, and regulations prevent the rate of change that people had 100 years ago. This is also why AI will not transform everything overnight. Institutional sclerosis is real. Healthcare alone could take a generation. If you are building in atoms, budget for a war of attrition, not a blitzkrieg. 𝟭𝟬. 𝗠𝗼𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻. Within a year of ChatGPT's launch, five American companies, five Chinese companies, and open-source all had roughly equivalent models. DeepSeek emerged from a hedge fund in China and basically replicated the American labs' work. The smartest AI insiders privately admit there aren't many real secrets among the big labs. This is the most honest take I have heard from a top-tier VC. No one knows if the value accrues to models, apps, or infrastructure. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you certainty they do not have. 𝟭𝟭. 𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝗤 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀. Human IQ caps around 160 because of biology. Current AI models test around 130-140. There is no theoretical ceiling stopping AI from reaching 200, 250, or 300. The concept of AGI as a "human equivalent" will be a footnote because AI will race past that threshold. This is the frame that makes the "will AI take my job" debate feel small. We are not building a replacement for human thought. We are building something that will be better than the best human thought has ever been. 𝟭𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀. Layer one: AI redefines products. Layer two: AI redefines jobs within companies. Layer three, which has not dropped yet: AI redefines the very concept of having a company. The holy grail is the one-person, billion-dollar outcome, and the best founders are chasing it. Satoshi did it with Bitcoin. Instagram and WhatsApp came close with tiny teams. The question is no longer if this is possible with software. The question is how many of these we will see in the next five years. AI is the philosopher's stone. The question is whether you pick it up. The full podcast is worth your time. Link in replies.

If you missed the news cycle today and need to catch up, here's the anime version:

I don't want a printing press. I don't want clocks in every town. I don't want ships crossing the Atlantic. I want a good harvest. I want my teeth to stay. I want the plague to stop.

Gonna start handing my husband a little stuffed animal when he loses an argument.

The Canadian euthanasia website has crashed.

Coding agents are fundamentally changing software engineering in terms of velocity, role, and org structure. We published a memo to our internal engineering team detailing our growing expectations in terms of role/scope. 🟠 Before, the tasks of prioritization, engineering planning, and implementation were divided between EMs, PMs, senior ICs, and junior ICs 🟢 Now, ICs are expected to handle *all* of product prioritization, product speccing, and implementation This is due to a few trends 📈: - Coding agents have brought implementation costs down to ~0. The role of engineers is writing prompts - LLMs and sub-agents have reduced the PM work of synthesizing feedback down to ~0 too The main job of any “engineer” is to be an e2e product owner: being able to translate requirements into specifications, and delegate tasks to various subagents for implementation. Every engineer is told to offload as much as possible to their favorite tools, whether it’s Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, Codex, regular ChatGPT and more. We celebrate and share learnings around burning tokens, as long as it helps drive additional productivity!

@emollick save the trees!

The hardcover book of GPT-1’s weights that Claude Code designed, produced, and sold (including the cool cover which visualizes the numbers in the volume) actually came in the mail today and it looks really nice. I never touched any code or did any design or any API to make this.

@svtv_news В Финляндии если негр отвернулся к окну во время проверки, кондуктор на него внимательно смотрит и проходит мимо 🤡

Deutsche Bahn отменила обязательную проверку билетов у «агрессивных пассажиров» после убийства кондуктора безбилетником 2 февраля Серкан Ч. был жестоко избит во время выполнения своей работы. Миграционный статус преступника, напавшего на впоследствии умершего мужчину, не раскрывается. В ответ на произошедшее министр транспорта ФРГ Патрик Шнидер предложил отменить проверку документов у пассажиров общественного транспорта. В свою очередь, Deutsche Bahn начала реализацию пакета схожих мер. С 1 марта сотрудники основного железнодорожного оператора Германии будут останавливать только тех безбилетников, которые не могут навредить сотрудникам. Аналогичный подход уже используется в супермаркетах Edeka, где пресекаются кражи только со стороны лиц, не проявляющих насилие, но не действия громящих магазины грабителей, многие из которых являются мигрантами. Теперь за проезд должны будут платить только тихони.

Fascinating insights from senior engineers on how AI is changing their jobs. Interesting how automation also creates all sorts of new tasks and bottlenecks. thoughtworks.com/content/dam/th…

@svtv_news "записали мальчиком". Вызывайте вертолет!

«Медуза» назвала переодетого в женское мужчину, устроившего бойню в Тамблер-Ридж, «девушкой» В материале, описывающем теракт, либеральное издание сделало акцент на том, что 18-летний Джесси Ван Рутселаар называл себя женщиной. Кроме того, в заголовке и подводке к новости не сказано, что у убийцы были проблемы с психическим здоровьем. Они упоминаются лишь один раз в виде цитаты со ссылкой на полицию ближе к концу текста. Зато редакция «Медузы» подчеркнула, что нападение якобы не связано с гендерной идентичностью стрелка. «При рождении Джесси Ван Рутселаар записали мальчиком, но около шести лет назад она начала трансгендерный переход. В повседневной жизни, в том числе в соцсетях, она идентифицировала себя как девушку. Представители правоохранительных органов подчеркнули, что у них пока нет оснований считать, что гендерная идентичность Ван Рутселаар связана с нападением», — сказано в материале. 18-летний Джесси Ван Рутселаар родился мужчиной, однако шесть лет назад начал называть себя женщиной. Из-за этого факта сбитая с толку полиция решила называть преступника «вооружённым лицом». Позже выяснилось, что у Джесси были серьёзные проблемы с психикой. На Reddit он делился подробностями своего транс-перехода и рассказывал, что у него диагностировано множество психических расстройств. Он признавался, что «слетел с катушек» и «сжёг свой дом во второй раз». В результате действий Ван Рутселаара погибли восемь человек и пострадали не менее 25.

If Mandelson had simply just watched Adolescence none of this would have happened

@DarrenMclernon @BGatesIsaPyscho why? to make you comply

@BGatesIsaPyscho Why are these people even given airtime, it's just everything & anything with them. Everything about our culture offends them so why do they come here !

🚨🇬🇧 “One of the problems in the countryside is dogs - Muslims don’t like dogs” Liberal Leftist commentator says the countryside is racist & people shouldn’t take their dogs because Muslims find dogs to be Haram. These people are truly insane.

Peter Dinklage Receives Little Praise After Taking Short Time To Recite Small Poem buff.ly/AnnZ0EH