Y2K Truther

@nikitabier @phl43 @NateSilver538 @nytimes As long as Nazis are still allowed here, c i s, is flagged as a slur, and paid bots are promoted in the algo and comments, this is just lip service. You’ll never achieve any substantive progress under those constraints.

@phl43 @NateSilver538 @nytimes Thank you for correcting the record (your original post triggered a hate mob). The team at X is earnestly trying to make this app better everyday.

After the exchange between @NateSilver538 and @nikitabier, I did a little test to check whether that was true and, to my surprise, what I found suggests that link deboosting was indeed reversed. What I did is randomly sample 15 tweets by @nytimes between 2019 and today, compute the weekly average number of likes and retweets they got and plot the results along with a trend line. The idea is that likes and retweets are probably a decent proxy for reach and @nytimes only posts tweets with external links, so by looking at this, we should be able to see any changes in the algorithm with respect to how links are treated. As you can see, it's pretty clear that, starting around the spring/summer of 2023, posts with links started to be penalized and eventually they were completely nuked until the spring/summer of 2025, when a reversal of that policy seems to have started. To be honest, this isn't what I was expecting to find, so even if that's just a quick and dirty test and it's hardly a definitive proof, it's good news and I thought I should share the results.

@phl43 @NateSilver538 @nikitabier @nytimes Didn’t Elon explicitly state that links were deboosted and that people should add links in the comments for some reason?

@readwithai @bratton Me too

@izzydizzyono @bratton I would describe that as being next to a power plant...

"Data centers use all the water" is "vaccines cause autism" for people with graduate degrees

I move my mouse so fast that my 1993 Compaq can’t even keep up. I am the fastest man alive.

@awwstn Didn’t he sexually abuse his sister?

i've never met him, but sam altman has had many positive impacts on me over the years. so, i would like to weigh in with some counterpoints that were ignored in ronan farrow's lengthy op-ed about how he is the devil: - when SVB was collapsing, sam spent the weekend wiring personal cash to startups that feared they would miss payroll. no ratchet terms, no written terms at all, just money out the window and trust that it would work out - when VCs tried to destroy parker conrad, sam stepped in and leveraged his influence to get them to leave him alone - sam created a free course at stanford on entrepreneurship that has been watched by millions and helped inspire many thousands of entrepreneurs - sam took YC from a small (albeit dominant) accelerator to a scaled machine that deploys hundreds of millions of dollars supporting an entire generation of founders, most of whom show up as outsiders - when sam was fired, he had such deep loyalty among employees that 90%+ were going to walk out the door if he didn’t return. that is not the norm for an ousted leader, by a long shot - ronan farrow would have you believe sam is a master manipulator who takes advantage of everyone around him. who exactly is he manipulating and taking advantage of? his employees who are on the ride of a lifetime building products loved by millions? his investors who universally boast openai first and foremost in their portfolios? his customers who happily pay billions of dollars for said products? - sam literally helped brute force an industrial revolution into existence. without his perseverance you do not get chatgpt. what did that give us? an explosion of innovation, GDP growth, a domestic manufacturing and construction boom. a global reduction in friction to create things, build products, and get work done. the most promising path so far to curing cancer and solving climate change and countless other humanity-scale problems. ironically, without sam you do not get the essay Machines of Loving Grace, let alone the abundance that essay promises so instead of dwelling on the fact that in 2011 some employees at sam’s company weren’t happy that he misrepresented his ping pong skills, i think i’ll bask in awe at the future we are living in, which sam helped pull forward

Is Elon intentionally obfuscating information critical of his company or is his website and LLM just that bad?

@readwithai @bratton xAI is using giant gas turbines

@izzydizzyono @bratton I mean.... are they that bad. It's just electricity and water.

@bratton @glproductions Are you both willfully ignorant or is it a cognitive deficiency of some kind? NO, NO2, SO2, CO.

@glproductions @izzydizzyono "toxins"

@NinaDSchick It’s not.

Claude Mythos. Ten trillion parameters: the first model in this weight class. Estimated training cost: ten billion dollars. On the hardest coding test in the industry (SWE bench) it scores 94%. It found a security flaw in a system that had been running for 27 years, one that every human engineer and every automated check had missed. It found another bug that had survived five million test runs over 16 years. (It did so overnight.) It is so capable in cybersecurity that Anthropic will not release it to the public, instead it is launching Project Glasswing along with 100m in compute credits to help secure software. Only twelve partners currently have access: Amazon, Cisco, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, JPMorgan Chase, Crowdstrike, Palo Alto, AWS, The Linux Foundation, Broadcom. (I'm sure the Pentagon is on the line?) This is not a product launch: it is a controlled deployment of a system too powerful to distribute freely. Tell me this isn't (very expensive) AGI?

@tolstoybb This is what happens when you put someone in the Epstein files in charge of things

Paris 24 vs LA 28

@sam_d_1995 @MollyJongFast My #1 favorite Elon Musk tweet

this genius predicted that Covid cases would go to zero by April 2020

@AdvicebyAimar Do we know if the video is actually her?

i can spot a grifter from miles away. so i digged into the code to figure out if this is legit or not. guess i was right. ben is a crypto founder who runs some weird bitcoin lending platform, i was pretty sure he knows absolutely nothing about ai and memory so i tracked down the repo myself since i was curious. his website says he likes to build ai powered products and train local ai models? sure man, 80% of your github repo's are bitcoin related stuff. only one ai related project came up you forked in 2024. mempalace has 10k github stars, more than 1k forks but only.. 7 commits ? apparently the best memory layer to date? no git author history, no account connected to whoever wrote the code of this codebase. it doesn't add up.. the account who pushed the original repo, named: aya-thekeeper, under aya-thekeeper/mempal got deleted right after the repo got published. you paid a random guy named lu to build this shit out for you. ( "Written by Lu (DTL) — March 24, 2026. For: Ben." ) - benchmark md file. lu wrote the code. lu wrote the benchmarks. lu is nowhere in the readme. or mentioned in the github history? the git history then got squashed to one commit and published under milla jovovich? seriously? a actress? you say she is a great friend of yours, she has been building this project with you. she does this at night. yet she has.. 7 commits and only 2 active days in her entire github history? you paid an actress and a random guy to promote a product you know absolutely nothing about.

Incredible. Clueless NFT bros reborn

@markhlyon @nikitabier @MikeIsaac @X Apple News already exists

@nikitabier @MikeIsaac I want @x to give me a comfortable, seamless way to browse paywalled content by paying X a monthly amount that gets divided proportionally to the sites I visit.

even if i werent a journalist who worked at the outlet he's referring to, this is such a reductive way to look at the internet and news if you choke out the sources that produce new information, over time that goes away and the void is filled with crap (pushed by paid accts)

@nikitabier @MikeIsaac What a mendacious cop out. Elon allowed Nazis back and promoted paid bots. Of course the content quality sucks. The algorithm and moderation was incredible before he bought it.

For what it’s worth: NYT has not experimented with their captions on posts in 20 years since the launch of Twitter. While the entire world has evolved their posting style to convert people to their newsletters (e.g., threads, etc), NYT still has their social media manager phoning it in: bulk posting 100 links per day with 1-sentence captions. It seems like if they allocated just 1% of their Word Game budget to thoughtfully authoring content here, it would be a huge win for the world and journalism generally.

@kareem_carr Musk stayed early on that paid accounts would get prioritized visibility. You see it in the comments most visibly, with blue checks at the top. Comments are from LLMs or people with similar cognitive limitations.

I think I figured out what's going on. The platform uses "verified" users to compute engagement and decide payouts. Verified users are overwhelmingly right-wing, therefore the platform is literally paying people to be more right-wing.

@thevirdas Why’d they work with a Nazi fuck if the artist doesn’t matter? Speaks pretty poorly of them imo

What the stage designer achieved at the Ye show at sofi speaks to a core philosophy that I believe in, and does it at the grandest level I’ve ever seen. A live concert, or a show, is a singular image. When you attend it, and think back to it years later, that image should pop into your mind. That image is NOT the artist. Not their face. It’s a feeling evoked by a singular image. I’ve tried a blue door, a single ghost light, a tree…but this is just something at another genius level of show design. Think of every concert you’ve ever seen with massive live feeds, massive moving heads, 6000 stage elements, 500 LEDs and pyro and this renders them all gaudy and invalid. It’s grand and expensive, but also so ridiculously simple, a man on top of the world. However you feel about the artist, and there are manu other things to say about him, this is undeniable design vision and the designer has changed the game.

Outsourcing your life 🤦‍♂️

@jamesonhaslam Mental illness

how does ackman even write so many words