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Equity demands more data centers in my city. It's not fair that all the others are reaping the benefits of enormous investments in their community instead of me.

It may be unrealistic to expect the world to become vegetarian (at least not until synthetic meat is produced at scale), but that doesn't mean we must treat farm animals with vicious cruelty. Small protections can reduce massive harm at tolerable costs. Tell your senator to vote NO on the Farm Bill if it includes the "#SaveOurBacon Act."

A 2005 state-designed worm designed to corrupt physics simulations sat undetected on VirusTotal for nearly a decade. Fast16, intercepted executable files at the kernel level and silently rewrote floating-point calculations to make them produce slightly wrong answers. Targets: high-precision engineering suites used for structural analysis, crash simulations, and physical process modeling, including LS-DYNA, a tool cited in reports on Iran's nuclear weapons research. The sabotage vector relied on deployment of the driver across a network via worm, corrupting calculations on every machine, and eliminating the possibility of cross-checking results against a clean system. Stuxnet got the documentary. Fast16 got twenty years of nothing. sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-my…

We finally got the results of a trial of GLP-1s for alcoholism! At 26 weeks, alcoholics on semaglutide had 13.7pp fewer heavy drinking days than placebo, they drank ~500 fewer grams of alcohol/month, had 1.5 fewer drinks per drinking day, and saw 10.1pp more alcohol-free days!

New update from Scott Aaronson. He continues: 'And I’d say that that makes my own moral duty right now ironically simple and clear: namely, to use my unique soapbox, as the writer of The Internet’s Most Trusted Quantum Computing Blog Since 2005TM, to sound the alarm. So, here it is: if quantum computers start breaking cryptography a few years from now, don’t you dare come to this blog and tell me that I failed to warn you. This post is your warning. Please start switching to quantum-resistant encryption, and urge your company or organization or blockchain or standards body to do the same.'

@captgouda24 OK, agreed, but what if were tradeable? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

We need a crash effort to cure sleep. It’s appalling that we have to waste a third of our life insensate. If we were able to cut everyone’s sleep from 8 to 4 hours a night, this would be the equivalent of raising life expectancy from 80 to 100!

@cowboy_postbop @rSanti97 source? thought it was Monk via Dylan: "I dropped in there... told him that I played folk music up the street. 'We all play folk music, he said. Monk was in his own dynamic universe even when he dawdled around. Even then, he summoned magic shadows into being." --Bob Dylan

there's precedent to this idea

@ryandelopez Claude will return in Avengers: Doomsday

claude is down?

@cblatts does the council deep research automation require real-time authentication interventions by you? I tried mightily to implement this in an autonomous way so it happens overnight on a schedule but it always got stuck on permissions and auth. Ended up needing a Linux VM environment

But why limit yourself to just one AI? It's possible to link in Codex, Gemini, and Grok and send out agents to do parallel tasks to be members of your council or to do a deep research report so that you can get a completely different AI perspective. claudeblattman.com/system/ai-inte…

Okay, it's been 3 months since I took the plunge into Claude Code and 2 months since I created Claude Blattman to help other non-coding, non-technical, forever-behind people like myself learn how to use these tools. This is a Here's what I've developed and created since then. 🧵

@geoffreyirving We tried that! The vintage models can just barely start to do simple things with Python, purely from in-context learning:

Listening to radical-chic pundits like Hasan Piker and Jia Tolentino, you start to understand how Lenin & Stalin left millions of corpses in their wake. Ideas have consequences, and when people are utterly convinced they know how the economy works—based on gut feeling, half-baked theories and recycled leftist memes—the results can be catastrophic. Never give these people political power, please. As usual, great analysis from @Noahpinion: "Making excuses for terrorism and murder is a lot more consequential than deciding whether to steal a few lemons, and yet Piker and Tolentino are just as comfortable doing the former as the latter. Their mental models of economics and politics are a dense tangle of undergrad-level misunderstandings, leftist memes, and political talking points — victims of American progressives’ increasing epistemic closure. And yet they are arrogant enough to feel comfortable discarding all of society’s rules on a case-by-case basis in favor of their own personal calculations." noahpinion.blog/p/why-shoplift…

@BastienFachan @redbull a tennis ball mostly reaches its terminal velocity after falling 30-40 meters so the difficulty tops out pretty quickly

Jakub Mensik seemingly breaks the world record for highest tennis smash ever made: 100 meters! (via @redbull)

@firstadopter "Listen, I just think you speak in absolutes.... Both of those things can simultaneously happen. It requires some amount of nuance, some amount of maturity instead of absolutes. The world is just not absolutes."

Oh look! Anthropic's entire "we are delaying Mythos" narrative was marketing hogwash. Kudos to FT for confirming what was obvious. Anthropic simply doesn't have the compute. FT: "Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers."

@_Dave__White_ tennis? since when?

sometimes i wonder what i could write about to be the highest signal way to bring like-minded people into my life it's so weird because so many of my primary identity markers -- math? meditation? breakcore? satoshi kon? pilates? tennis? indie games? -- are things that, i guess define other people so much more than they do me, and while most of the people i've connected with in life share some interest along one or two of these axes, more than that is rare i guess there's some hope that the *way* i think about things or something like that will shine through? like even this kind of style of meta-reflection (and now meta-meta- and etc. etc.) is super characteristic and i guess people that think it's interesting rather than intolerable might vibe with it. increasingly i think the way through might be art, which is or should be talking at some more vibe-based bandwidth and which is kind of more fun to make anyway like i really really enjoy just improvising songs with one or two chords on the piano and sending them to friends, but i don't think that's the right medium for twitter. maybe i should get more into ai video? or one medium i've been wondering about is just the story sketch, where you sort of paste together a handful of ideas and then have people dump it into opus if interested. could be the foundation of an interesting app actually. meta-substack. where it's like tuned to your vibe and you can kind of get "raw ingredients" from other people it re-packages for you.

@StatisticUrban Speaking as a VA voter, it's certainly good evidence for me that there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat and, however they label themselves, I should assume any Democrat I might ever have the chance to vote for will approve anything and everything the party likes.

@BastienFachan @ayejayy86 was gonna say, couldn't be recent--they haven't made a good commercial in years

@ayejayy86 Came out just before the 2015 Masters!

Rory McIlroy: First man to go back-to-back at the Masters since Tiger Woods. As the prophecy foretold ✨

Imaginary exchange with a state legislator: Me: Why did you vote to legalize online sports betting? Them: It will generate $100 mln/year for programs that benefit our residents. Me: Where does that money come from? Them: A 10% tax on total gaming revenue. Me: What does that imply about total revenue? Them: Easy, $1 billion. Me: And where does that $1 billion come from? Them: Umm...

Rent control is the original sin of housing policy, requiring a thicket of rules to manage 2nd and 3rd order effects, more rules to deal with the unintended consequences of those regs, and more for those. Then add a large bureaucracy to enforce it all, and still no one is happy.

The minimum wage literature has completely changed in the 2020s. Almost all evidence point to the econ 101 model being correct.