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Chomsky and his followers proposed a model of language which relies the application of rules. This model became the ruling consensus for decades. The Chomsky model is refuted by large language models. But before OpenAI even existed... Dan Everett had challenged Chomsky's ideas by using evidence from a specific language used in South America, but he was smeared. Chomsky called him charlatan. We see live in front of our eyes how progress is made. Today, Chomsky and his followers are still holding firm and they will continue to do so. They held the consensus for so many years. But they will gradually fade. It may take a few decades, but younger people will increasingly move to better models. It underlines an important point: large language models are very much a scientific breakthrough. And it tells us that progress often comes from outsiders. So what are the lessons ? 1. Focus on the evidence. If you are patient and diligent, and observant, you will find the important facts from which you can build new theories.. 2. You won't convince (maybe ever) people who made up their minds. But there are always many people who have not yet made up their minds. Give them the evidence. Focus on the young people, they can be convinced. 3. Scholarship is not primarily driven by reason. Only through the pursuit of evidence can you find the truth. Consensus can be merely a sign of political power.

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What happened in Spain yesterday? On April 28, 2025, Spain witnessed a major energy event: a nationwide blackout. What was the cause? A massive overload of the electrical grid due to a huge spike in solar production. What happened? At around 11:00 AM, Spain’s solar power production reached a record peak of over 20 GW – a huge amount, rapidly injected into the grid in a very short period of time. Normally, the electrical grid maintains a fine balance between production and consumption, in order to keep the frequency constant at 50 Hz. But today, the solar peak seriously disrupted this balance. How did the collapse occur? 1. Solar energy flood: Solar panels delivered a huge excess of current, dramatically reducing the need for energy from conventional power plants (gas, hydro, nuclear). 2. Turbine acceleration: -Conventional power plants (especially gas and hydro) are equipped with turbines that rotate synchronously with the grid at 50 Hz. -When energy demand drops suddenly (because solar energy covers all consumption), these turbines cannot slow down instantly. -On the contrary: being still mechanically driven by engines or the flow of water, they begin to accelerate spontaneously. 3. Frequency increase: -This acceleration leads to an increase in the grid frequency above 50 Hz. -From a small imbalance, the frequency began to climb towards 50.5 Hz, 51 Hz or even more. 4. Confirmation of the phenomenon: Further analyses showed that immediately after the solar peak, the energy injected into the grid by gas and hydro turbines increased sharply. This behavior confirms the theory of turbine acceleration and frequency increase: -the turbines, having accumulated mechanical energy and sensing a decrease in load, injected even more energy into the grid, which amplified the imbalance and accelerated the collapse. 5. Activation of protections: The electrical grid has automatic systems that protect equipment. If the frequency goes outside the safe range (usually 49.5–50.5 Hz), automatic disconnections begin: -power plants are shut down, -sections of the grid are cut, -entire areas are isolated to prevent catastrophic damage. 6. Generalized collapse: Because the system was unable to compensate for the surplus energy quickly enough, protections were triggered in a cascade, leading to the collapse of the electricity supply in almost all of Spain, Portugal and the south of France. Why was the system unable to control the frequency? Although modern grids have: -Smart inverters (which can regulate the current), -Fast Frequency Response batteries, -Automatic generation reduction systems (AGC), -their capacity was not enough to handle: -the huge size of the solar peak (20 GW is enormous), -the speed with which the surplus energy entered the grid, -the lack of real mechanical inertia (which renewables do not offer). Simply put: Electronics can regulate the frequency in small and slow variations. But in a brutal energy shock, like today, only the mechanical mass of the turbines can stabilize the grid, and this has been overcome. Spain already has a high percentage of renewable energy, which, paradoxically, makes the grid more fragile if there are not enough: -huge batteries, -high-capacity hydro pumps, -fast export lines to France or other countries. These are problems that we have publicly anticipated, including for Romania, that very violent photo and wind fluctuations can strongly disrupt the grid of conventional sources that have a different rhythm, a different inertia!!!! It is a fragile balance that can be especially supported with huge batteries or high-capacity export lines! Let's learn from such huge problems!!!

FIRST CRYPTO PRESIDENT Overnight, the vast majority of the net worth ($59B) of the next President of the United States is now held in cryptocurrency. This will hold true even with a 90% drop. What are the implications? 1) First, President Trump just went from crypto being perhaps 1% of his net worth to 90%+. Many early Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana holders experienced the same thing. 2) Second, this phenomenon — the overnight relative devaluation of all non-crypto holdings — will be experienced by billions globally within our lifetime as fiat dies. 3) Third, every politician, influencer, and celebrity worldwide is watching mouth agog at the phenomenon. They’ll wait to see how it shakes out politically and financially, and if the memecoin shows staying power — big if! — they may do their own. 4) Next, if we do then get a large market with thousands of personal memecoins, it may actually be ok, because every buyer knows what they’re buying: the potential future brand value of the meme. 5) Much depends on how much value the TRUMP asset holds, if any. Other celeb memecoins went to zero quickly, but Trump is Trump, and has the unique qualities of (a) 100M+ followers, (b) daily non-stop coverage, (c) presidential immunity, and (d) unprecedented control over the government. 6) So, whatever form of political counterattack comes his way, Trump is now strongly incentivized to legalize cryptocurrency in the most aggressive way possible. 7) Of course, this will be attacked as a conflict of interest. But Biden took 10% for the big guy, and Pelosi traded her stocks, and Hillary monetized her speeches, and Podesta had his $300B climate slush fund, and Obama got his Netflix deal. All became millionaires via various deniable forms of payola for Democrats. 8) So, Trump’s rebuttal may be that he’s just doing everything in public. His claim may be that disclosure solves the conflict of interest problem. 9) And that may be true, but it doesn’t fully solve the *alignment* problem. As context: the CEO of a company is typically one of the largest shareholders, but he is aligned with all his employees because they hold the same shares. All holders rise and fall as one, ideally. 10) By analogy, you would ideally want the President to be aligned with his citizens, such that they all held (say) USA coin, which gave some dividend from the profits of the USA. Kind of like the Alaska Permanent Fund. 11) So, one way of solving the alignment problem would be for Trump to airdrop some TRUMP to every US citizen. However, it might be easier for him to just send an email in his personal capacity to every Trump supporter offering them some free TRUMP. 12) Specifically: he could give 72 hours notice and all kinds of Democrats would also sign up for his personal email list, just to get the airdrop. 13) Would it be legal? Well, it is certainly legal for politicians to email out *requests* for money. But to my knowledge no politician has attempted a personal airdrop before, to *give* away money — and certainly not at this scale. 13) At current valuations, Trump could give $100 of locked up TRUMP to all 77M Trump voters via airdrop and it would “only” cost him $7.7B in an asset that was worth zero two days ago. Heck, he could give $500 per person and still have $20B+ left over. 14) Yes, it would cost Trump some of his asset to do this. But if you needed to join his email list to get the coin, and if the airdrop could be effected without any cap gains, it would “pay for itself” by turning his base into even more rabid supporters. 15) It could even give him the political support necessary to completely destroy the Democrat patronage machine. Basically, by joining Trump’s email list and supporting his crypto policies you’d get a kind of UBI. 16) And if 77M Americans are also benefiting from TRUMP, charges of conflict of interest go away. It’d be a new kind of social contract, a personal relationship between President & citizen. Worth thinking about.

C.S. Lewis on the internet (before the internet existed)

Slavery was a lucrative trade for West African slaver kingdoms. They'd traded slaves with Arabs for centuries. They didn't see what gave Britain the right to tell them their own business. "Who are you to ban the slave trade? Who made you king of the world?" That was their view.

Pay close attention. If the Synod approves this, it’s the de facto end of the magisterial teaching authority of the Catholic Church. What is sinful in Uganda will be permitted in Germany. Utter collapse, if approved, and schism.

The key takeaway from the European Parliament debate: before you attack Hungary, do your homework! 😎

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Thread of crazy painting details 🧵 1. It's all in the eyes

Going over that NYT list of Best Books Of The Century, I found a description of this one. Looked intriguing. Bought it yesterday, and HOLY COW IT'S GREAT! Red like a madman yesterday. I just woke up and am about to finish it. What a storytelling feat! amazon.com/When-We-Cease-…

Thread of photographers who patiently waited to capture the shot of a lifetime 🧵 1. Leonardo Sens (3 years)

A beautiful and appetizing new restaurant built on the peaceful massacre and rape of 1,200+ people.

What does it mean for the UK if the London police tell British veterans they can waive the British flag only behind barricades? Protester: “When they march down with hundreds of Palestinian flags you won’t say a word.” Officer: “There’s way more of them than there are of us.”

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