🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋

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@yuvalkansal @claudeai That's very cool. I've managed to escape Tableau for client work thanks to Claude helping me make better interactive data viz dashboards 🙃

So @claudeai can create diagrams and images now? This is so cool. Asked it a model architecture question and it drew the full pipeline from embedding to inference!

@FreedomofPress Thank you!!

The government could build a centralized database of your most intimate details, fully searchable by AI. FPF is suing to see what’s happening to your data before it’s too late. Read the full update in our latest secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds. freedom.press/the-classified…

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

@owocki That being said love to see any references to Jack. Thanks for being one of the mad ones "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved… the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing... "

@owocki Don't think Jack would be on board with this train of thought 🙃🖖🏽 x.com/i/grok/share/0…

the only people for me are the ones who are mad to understand, mad to ship, mad to build what doesn’t exist yet but should, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never wait, hedge, make excuses, or ask permission, who know that luck is preparation meets opportunity and act accordingly, who burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles across the stars. jack kerouac, if he lived in 2026 & had claude code, probably

@TBSocialist Peep

Ridiculous how much this has started to happen to people in Europe from American companies and not a peep from the broader crypto world that preaches financial sovereignty

you're probably underestimating how crazy things are

@deeparocks Personally I don't think consciousness will emerge from "AI" if we just throw more and more data/ tokens at it. Sentience isn't a scaling property. Feedback loops tied to knowledge graphs, where retrieval signals update edge weights over time, that's a path to genuine learning.

@deeparocks Decentralized knowledge graphs tied to smaller models (potentially even running locally) is so much less energy intensive but also distributes power away from monolithic corporations with far too much power already. Each tool does one thing well. Composable and interoperable.

This is an important and thought provoking paper.

For decades, First Nations people in British Columbia knew their ancestral homes—villages forcibly emptied in the late 1800s—were great places to forage for traditional foods like hazelnuts, crabapples, cranberries, and hawthorn.⁠ ⁠ A 2021 study revealed that isolated patches of fruit trees and berry bushes in the region's hemlock and cedar forests were deliberately planted by Indigenous peoples in and around their settlements more than 150 years ago. It's one of the first times such "forest gardens" have been identified outside the tropics, and it shows that people were capable of changing forests in long-lasting, productive ways.⁠ Learn more on #InternationalDayOfForests: scim.ag/4dtVm9Q

SCOOP: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sold his company to his children, the crypto company Tether gave them a loan. w/David Kocieniewski and @_ToddGillespie bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Age verification puts all users at risk of data breaches, EFF’s Rin Alajaji told @business, and requiring ID for social media could chill speech, particularly from whistleblowers or activists who rely on anonymity. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@yuvalkansal This is the Unix philosophy at scale 👀

6/10 Hot take: We may not even need AGI. Imagine a "Society of DSS models." A lightweight orchestrator routes your query to a Legal DSS, a Medical DSS, or a Coding DSS. They collaborate, debate, and solve complex problems modularly, outperforming monolithic models. 🧩

🚨 The scaling race to AGI is hitting a brick wall. Energy grids are collapsing, high-quality data is running out, and true reasoning is stalling. Time for a radical paradigm shift! Just dropped on arXiv from @Princeton : "An Alternative Trajectory for Generative AI" – our vision for Domain-Specific Superintelligence (DSS) societies as the bottom-up path forward. What if AGI emerges from collaborating specialists instead of one giant model? (co-authored with @accross_stars , @YihaoLiang01 , @JiaxinXiao82282 & Niraj K. Jha) 🧵 1/10👇

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

@Polymarket Is open claw for the new metaverse?

JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.

The FBI just admitted publicly that they buy your data from data brokers to get around needing a Warrant. Now age verification and a digital ID law are being pushed in the Senate. You can hope that politicians will protect you or take matters into your own hand and protect yourself.