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Squirrels are 'vaping' e-cigarettes after mistaking fruity aromas for food trib.al/IvZIB0D

Election in German state Rhineland. ATHEISTS voted "more right" than Protestants and Catholics, who were least likely to vote right. The same phenomenon we see in Eastern Germany.

Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects 02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 - What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 - Second Order Effects of Coding Agents 15:51 - Why AutoResearch 22:45 - Relevant Skills in the AI Era 28:25 - Model Speciation 32:30 - Collaboration Surfaces for Humans and AI 37:28 - Analysis of Jobs Market Data 48:25 - Open vs. Closed Source Models 53:51 - Autonomous Robotics and Atoms 1:00:59 - MicroGPT and Agentic Education 1:05:40 - End Thoughts

The first Dionysian groupie-shagging rock star who went from city to city driving the women into a frenzy and bedding as many of them as he could was not Elvis or even Sinatra but Franz Liszt, who did this in 19th century Europe. They called it Lisztomania

Why have testosterone levels been rising over time? The testosterone levels of American men are up compared to what they used to be, but no one has a good explanation. Let's look through some possibilities🧵

Es casi imposible para alguien de letras, no ya de ciencias, educarse adecuadamente en sus propias áreas en el SXXI. Por otro lado, muchas veces las personas de humanidades no están interesadas en la técnica por mucho que ahora sea mucho más accesible.

La IA es infinitamente mejor como muleta en las ciencias que en las letras, principalmente por la naturaleza intrínseca y más o menos politizable de cada rama. Pero dudo enormemente de que ninguno de los lados pueda expandir adecuadamente su circulo de competencias empleándola.

Adoré el Attila Total War por esto:

@ConejitoMalito Gran parte de la inversión en Metaverso (infraestructura física) se etiquetó después como AI.

The Ancient Greeks and Romans probably did not paint their statues in gaudy, matte, heavily saturated colour as most museums claim. They *did* paint them, but: • A 1st-century AD mosaic from the Villa San Marco in Stabiae depicts a statue of a boxer with realistic shading. • Surviving frescos and mosaics from the Classical period show people painted with shading and highlights, the way we paint people today. • There is no evidence at all that they used the gaudy colours that are claimed they used today. I think there are two reasons that this claim has been made. One is just trolling: it is shocking and subversive to say that these cold, beautiful, austere statues would have been painted in such an ugly way by the Greeks and Romans. The second is as a form of relativism: if the Greeks and Romans really did think this looked good, then it suggests that our conceptions of beauty are not innate and universal, but socially constructed instead. worksinprogress.co/issue/were-cla…

is the future value of "open source" code anymore? i believe it's shifting to data, provenance, protocols, evals, and weights. in that order.

Five more Qatar Airways aircraft are heading into storage in Teruel, Spain.

“Los españoles son más goticos que mediterraneos” es una frase absolutamente cierta.

Big gender gap among young Spanish voters, too

son todo referencias pop para que la generacion charca pueda sertirse pseudointelectual

He can't believe they got him wagegooning like that

🚨🇫🇷 NEW: The location of the French aircraft carrier, FS Charles de Gaulle, has been given away by a sailor using Strava whilst jogging on the ship deck [@lemondefr]

performative bisexual woman at a rave and her dutch boyfriend

Thank you for needlessly destroying our energy supply Mr Trump!

Neon Genesis Evangelismo

What is PedroJ up to? 🤔