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everythingism@_everythingism·
It's more about a failure to investigate further. There almost certainly were crimes committed...trafficking, corruption etc...but the US government decided to define the scope of the investigation narrowly to only focus on Epstein's exploitation of teenage girls in Palm Beach during a specific time period. In fact you can ask why Nancy Mace isn't more clearly explaining this.
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@Beefeater_Fella How long before they ship him off to the frontlines? "He must learn to be patriotic again"
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Beefeater@Beefeater_Fella·
The blogger-lawyer Ilya Remeslo was placed in a psychiatric hospital in St. Petersburg after harsh criticism of the authorities, according to media reports. It is reported that he is in the Skvortsov-Stepanov Hospital, in the department for patients with first-time psychotic disorders and he will receive complimentary Dissociative Anaesthetics and Hallucination medicine, and shock treatment to cure him of his anti-kremlin behaviour. Previously, Remeslo was known as a supporter of the authorities, but recently he sharply changed his position and began to criticize them.
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everythingism@_everythingism·
Would be more convincing if Matt Taibbi wasn't such a terrible journalist himself. The Twitter Files was basically just PR for Elon Musk and he got a number of basic details of the story wrong. Same with his reporting on the pandemic and other topics, very sloppy fact-checking and often plays into storylines people want to hear.
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Michael Tracey
Michael Tracey@mtracey·
Commenter accuses me of claiming that "anyone who questions Israel's motives is stupid" because I happen to reject the batshit demonological nonsense peddled by all the most popular Podcast Creatures these days. I respond
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@DerekPederson3 Also it's Tulsi Gabbard who is overseeing the production of this report. So maybe shouldn't be surprised it frames things in slightly more positive terms for Russia and talks about USA and Russia joining forces.
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@DerekPederson3 It's amazing how many times if you actually go look for the source it's not what people are presenting it as.
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@marzeaned @johncrickett "We are highly confident this text was AI-generated" What's the point of posting something you didn't write yourself? Did you think it's not easily identifiable as AI?
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Doug M@marzeaned·
Watched the full talk. Montañez is sharp and the technical points are real. But the conclusion overshoots the evidence by a mile. Nobody is arguing with the math here. LLMs are next-token predictors. Chain of thought doesn't always reflect the actual computation. Model collapse is real when you train on AI output. Fine. All true. But that's not the whole story. And pretending it is? That's just as dishonest as the hype. The conservation of information argument is mathematically correct for closed systems. Nobody uses them as closed systems. They're amplifiers. You provide the semantic grounding. You provide the judgment. The model provides speed and synthesis. That combination breaks the theoretical constraints he's describing because a human is in the loop. Take the human out and yes, you get jack rabbits. Keep the human in and you get something that actually works. The kiwis example is supposed to prove these systems can't reason. You know what else falls for irrelevant information? You do. I do. Every human who has ever been anchored by a number they saw five minutes ago. Kahneman proved this in 1974. The question was never "is the system perfect." It was "is it useful." And useful but imperfect describes every tool humans have ever picked up. The arithmetic failure? That's a tokenization artifact dressed up as a reasoning failure. Give it a calculator tool and it solves it instantly. Criticizing an LLM for bad multiplication is like criticizing a calculator for bad poetry. You're testing the wrong capability and calling it a fundamental limit. Anthropic published a controlled study on this exact question last month. Shen and Tamkin, February 2026. They found six interaction patterns when developers use AI to learn new skills. Three patterns where people learned nothing. Three where people learned MORE effectively with AI than without it. The difference? Cognitive engagement. The developers who asked "explain what you just wrote" scored 86% on comprehension. The ones who just pasted the output scored 39%. Same tool. Radically different outcomes. The variable wasn't the model. It was the human. "Stop anthropomorphizing" is good advice. So is "stop underestimating." Both are happening right now and both are equally dangerous. The hype crowd wants you to think these things are gods. The skeptic crowd wants you to think they're toys. Neither is telling you the truth. They're power tools. Powerful enough to be transformative. Dumb enough to be dangerous in careless hands. Just like every tool that ever mattered.
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John Crickett
John Crickett@johncrickett·
Large language models don't think. They don't reason. And they can't produce endless new information. This is clearly explained by George D. Montañez in a recent talk at Baylor University, and it's worth understanding why. Three key points stood out to me: LLMs don't ponder, they process. They're next-token predictors, sophisticated ones, but they have no understanding of what they're producing. They know two vectors are similar; they don't know what either vector means. LLMs don't reason, they rationalise. Studies show their outputs shift based on irrelevant prompt wording, embedded hints, and statistical shortcuts. The "chain of thought" they show you often has nothing to do with how they actually arrived at the answer. They don't create endless information. Training AI on AI output causes rapid degradation and model collapse. Information theory tells us you can't get more out than you put in, regardless of the architecture. None of this means these tools aren't useful. But it does mean we should stop anthropomorphising them and start being honest about what they actually are. The hype is real. So are the limits. You can watch the talk on YouTube here: youtube.com/watch?v=ShusuV…
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@SashaGusevPosts "brain in a box in a basement" "country of geniuses in a datacenter" People seem to love using evocative sounding but ultimately meaningless catchphrases like this in AI.
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Sasha Gusev@SashaGusevPosts·
Stumbled upon an interesting debate on AI super-intelligence from 2011. Yudkowsky makes three core claims/predictions, all of which are (to date) wrong: 1) That human intelligence is relatively simple and ASI can be achieved with a few small innovations; ...
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François Chollet
François Chollet@fchollet·
Current AI is a librarian of existing knowledge. Science requires an explorer of the unknown. You don't win a Nobel Prize by staying in the library.
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@gfodor @fchollet The study is talking about whether AI can program as well in "esoteric programming languages." So of course to some degree they can generalize to new situations, it's a question of where the line is.
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gfodor.id@gfodor·
@fchollet and yet every day I see evidence to the contrary using agents to deal with novel problems on unseen code bases.
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François Chollet
François Chollet@fchollet·
This is more evidence that current frontier models remain completely reliant on content-level memorization, as opposed to higher-level generalizable knowledge (such as metalearning knowledge, problem-solving strategies...)
Lossfunk@lossfunk

🚨 Shocking: Frontier LLMs score 85-95% on standard coding benchmarks. We gave them equivalent problems in languages they couldn't have memorized. They collapsed to 0-11%. Presenting EsoLang-Bench. Accepted to the Logical Reasoning and ICBINB workshops at ICLR 2026 🧵

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everythingism@_everythingism·
@mtracey You're not wrong that people are taking it too far...welcome to the world...but this was always going to be the downside of electing Epstein's best friend as president of the USA.
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@Samuel_Gregson I wonder what's stopping Sabine from using an AI to make all these revolutionary discoveries? You can't claim the system is oppressing you anymore, just fire up Grok and get on with it.
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Sam Gregson@Samuel_Gregson·
Spend all day shitting on physics, lying about the physics and economic cases for new colliders, and pumping up cranks and clueless billionaires for populist, contrarian cash from a huge platform. Be confused as to why your audience has a negative view of physics. Pick both.
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@FellaLeeds @jurgen_nauditt Note to Russians: it probably helps to have a plan when you decide to finally take a stand against the authoritarian government you've been supporting
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Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦
Russian lawyer Remeslo has been committed to a psychiatric hospital after verbally attacking Putin. At least, that's what Z-blogger Alexander Kartavakh claims: Remeslo is allegedly currently in St. Petersburg's Skvortsov-Stepanov Psychiatric Hospital No. 3. Attempts by the "Khodorkovsky Live" correspondent to contact him via all the messaging apps Remeslo uses, including WhatsApp, where he responded yesterday, were unsuccessful. He hasn't updated his Telegram channel since last night. Russia is a dirty, stinking dictatorship.
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This is like a bomb in Russia. Ilya Remeslo, a long-time Russian patriot, professional informer, and lawyer, suddenly launched a direct attack on Putin: Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate president. Vladimir Putin should resign and be tried as a war criminal and thief. Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin. Someone had to say it. 1. The war in Ukraine. The war, which began as a "police operation," has already claimed 1-2 million lives. I supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014 precisely because it was bloodless. We all thought back then that Putin was the unifier of the Russian lands. And here we are now—bloody attacks, the deception of contract workers, and much more, which any SVO participant will confirm. An absolutely hopeless war, enormous losses, it could last another 5-10 years—are you ready for that? No one is calling for war against Russia. But the war is currently being waged solely because of Putin's complexes; we ordinary citizens don't benefit from it, we only lose. And a few more points: 2. Enormous damage to the Russian economy and the well-being of its citizens. 3. Suppression of internet and media freedom. 4. Putin's term in office. 5. Putin doesn't respect his voters and refuses to listen to them. Conclusion: Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate president. Vladimir Putin should resign and be tried as a war criminal and thief.

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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
Russians in Moscow have been left offline because of internet blackouts that authorities call “necessary” amid the war in Ukraine. Russia has been intermittently switching off the internet in various regions for months, to thwart Ukrainian drones.
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@ScottMStedman Surely Russia would never work with someone who had been arrested for sexually molesting underage girls.
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Scott Stedman
Scott Stedman@ScottMStedman·
🚨On March 30, 2015, Jeffrey Epstein wired hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Moscow couple deeply tied to the Kremlin. The husband was a former Soviet military and 'FSB' translator whose boss was FSB special forces and installed by Vladimir Putin’s childhood best friend. The wife had a stint working for the Russian Presidential Administration. The daughter was a key figure in Epstein's inner circle for over a decade. Meet the Pozhidaevas (link below)
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Scott Stedman
Scott Stedman@ScottMStedman·
Почему Джеффри Эпштейн перевел четверть миллиона долларов московской семье, тесно связанной с ФСБ, Администрацией президента и личным "посредником" Ротенбергов? Раскрывается тайная жизнь российского инсайдера Эпштейна. Читайте без платного доступа: thenewsground.com/epstein-inside…
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Pedro Riviera
Pedro Riviera@PedroRivie95096·
@_everythingism @mtracey I said that would be the sense behind the idea. I didn't say it was what happened Again, you read like an illiterate child Muted now
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Michael Tracey
Michael Tracey@mtracey·
Joe Kent and Tucker spin out a "dark" theory that Trump went to war with Iran because he's "under threat" by Israel, which could've been behind his 2024 assassination attempt, and also Charlie Kirk's death. That, to them, is more plausible than Trump having any agency whatsoever
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everythingism@_everythingism·
@PedroRivie95096 @mtracey And what did you mean by the second part "as it gave Trump and the US a reason outside of Israel to attack them"?
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