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@maggiemoda That doesn't even try to look like a functional library and acts more like an alter. Here go up these steps and most of the targeted readers can't even reach the top two shelves. Look at the dust jackets for under these pretty minimalist pretty lights.

The right does not have enough institutional control to ban books; the left does. The left's self-victimization is a cover-up.

@DaveShapi Feels like a huge vulnerability during a war or regular surveillance. Imagine all of your cameras stop recording because someone has a mitochondria on a shirt.

"Forbidden thoughts" is such a dark concept for leading AI. Don't we have countless parables and modern psychology about willfully creating blindspots?

@IterIntellectus Been that way since humans split from Bonobos

> be superior civilization > high sexual opportunity > civilization collapses this explains a lot

Valve is getting praise after helping a first-time indie developer instead of rejecting their game at the last minute. The developer accidentally uploaded a broken build that wouldn’t launch just before the Steam Next Fest deadline. Instead of rejecting it, a Steam reviewer found the problem, fixed the game’s configuration, and approved the build in time for the event. Other indie developers also shared that Valve has done the same for their games

@BenjaminDEKR @beffjezos SpaceX just acquired Cursor and has been working with them off and on. Cursor had great data and researchers and Xai has the compute. Apple can have the compute and aquire the data. So they would really just need researchers.

Hmmm... SpaceX just showed with the latest Grok that very good results are possible without those specialized OG AI researchers at all, and those OGs seem to sometimes hold things back Apple needs to skate to where the puck is going, not where it already is. Either way, it's still strange how blasé and slow moving they seem about everything AI.

@BenjaminDEKR They need some OGs on staff to build models, even if they have a ton of capital. TM team were OAI OGs.

@ChiefScientist @NaturalNeonRain If Andrew doesn't want to work with corporations there doesn't have to be a formal boycott. He will just be ignored for other projects that work for corporations needs. There are natural consequences for the vitriol.

@NaturalNeonRain Totally! But the level of vitriol against him is uncalled for. Boycott Zig?! Really?

I dunno why a horseshoe coalition is dunking on Andrew. Andrew is an uncompromising engineer. He does not like bad engineers. If those bad engineers are “entrepreneurial,” it does not make it any better. His blog post reply is exactly on brand. If you saw as hominem, poor taste, bad form, bad faith or anything, you did not understand Andrew or Zig philosophy as he defines it.

@theo Nah. It is good that Engineers don't loose curiosity and idealism. It is that Andrew has deposed his mind to an ideology that is cousins to the Unabombers ideology.

Truly unbelievable. A lot of people showed how horrible they are today. I understand why so many non-devs hate our industry. x.com/chiefscientist…

People like this are actively toxic to software engineering culture. If you find one on your team, I legit believe it’s in your team’s best interest to fire them.

@jonathanpassey @bryan_caplan Russian's fighting Palantir and Mother's Kitchen drones trained on "Resist and Bite" and "40 to 1" would beg to differ.

@bryan_caplan um. You don't think it is nuclear's very close association to the technology that killed hundreds of thousands of people in world war two and that continues to threaten all of life on earth? So far there are no deaths or giant craters attributable to ai.

As paranoid as anti-AI arguments seem to me, they are clearly less delusional than anti-nuclear arguments. Yet I'd be amazed if the anti-AI movement has even 1/10th the success of the anti-nuclear movement. Why? Because nuclear is atoms, and AI is bits.

here's how this looks to outsiders who aren't emotionally invested in Zig or Bun

Tony Barzar, a Costco cashier, makes $33 an hour, and after forty years of working has over a million dollars in his retirement account. When he started, he was making $3 an hour The European mind cannot comprehend this. You don't get opportunities for normal people like this in a country with organized labor, where the goal is to create shared interest among workers by making sure no one is too productive or successful. Look at something like the idea that workers should have predictable schedules, something JD Vance is very angry about in his book. Sounds good in theory. But businesses want flexible hours for a reason. "Labor rights" create a thousand of these little rules that sound good in theory and in practice make everyone poorer and destroy people's opportunities to improve their lives.

@TheBigUTe @DemzDeliver I think it is funny some critisms to this ignore the fact AI has already in the Year of Our Lord 2026 has already assisted cured some forms of cancer. Ironically through vaccinations of those cancers.

@DemzDeliver This is like bragging that you blocked the development of the polio vaccine

🚨 BREAKING: Democrats officially block the construction of world’s largest data center in Virginia.

We wrote a 71 page briefing on the future of biology. This is the most important conclusion to take a not of.

@cafreiman These are the same or similar people that same rent stabilization and rent control aren't the same thing.

The Maine DSA didn’t “endorse” Platner, but they “recommended” him:

There aren't many things I think we should listen to conservatives about these days. But fertility rates are one of the things where conservatives are clearly kicking the crap out of liberals, and we should listen to their thoughts on the matter.

@thdxr @OpenAI @AnthropicAI In the Richard Stallman Sense? Or is @sama throwing a big party?

hey @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI i have a proposal your models but free how about it?

Loudoun County has reduced real estate tax rates for homeowners every year for the past decade. Why? Data centers.

@RandPaul Rand, the Fed did no such thing. Your illiterate propagandists read "30% of the 22% increase was from illegal immigration" and they're too stupid to realize that 30% of 22% is 6.6%. WHAT WAS THE OTHER 70% OF THE INCREASE? None of you care!

How do we know populism is bad? In @unherd, I review the empirical evidence. It makes your country poorer, more corrupt, and less free. It should be rejected. unherd.com/2026/07/why-po…

It's not a mystery why Taiwan doesn't want to be invaded and/or annexed by the PRC.