Jesse Freeston

@FoxNews @TreyYingst This is Pravda minus the cool posters.

BREAKING: President Trump sends a new warning to the Iranian regime if it attacks any U.S. vessel working to implement Project Freedom: “They’ll be blown off the face of the earth.” Trump tells @TreyYingst that Iran has become "much more malleable" in talks. “We have more weapons and ammunition at a much higher grade than we had before.” Trump on the U.S. blockade: “One of the greatest military maneuvers ever done.” @AmericaRpts @SandraSmithFox

@YeahYeahOkBro @ShamsCharania @DustinDopirak Maybe he will strip the clips of all their picks for the treeplanting scandal and you'll get it back?? nawww

@ShamsCharania @DustinDopirak Adam Silver if you fuck us over I swear

Clippers are receiving a 2026 first-round pick from the Pacers, protected 1-4 and 10-30 -- plus a 2029 Pacers unprotected first-rounder.

@NetsMuse @ShamsCharania I think the Pacers protect it 1-4 and the Clippers protect it 10-30. Meaning that if it falls between 10-30 it conveys to the Clippers next year (unprotected?) where it could be higher? Though I doubt it, high-pace Pacers with Siakam, Hali and Zu are gonna be strong in the East.

@ShamsCharania How do you protect a pick 1-4 and 10-30?

@valurevolution @Ric_RTP This is what I keep telling myself, but if it gets control of, or builds itself, an army of robots it can theoretically defend itself from all these threats.

"Selling AI chips to China is like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea." The Anthropic CEO just went to war with Nvidia at Davos. And dropped the most terrifying satisfying prediction about AI I've ever heard. Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis sat on the same stage for the first time in a year. The two men building the most powerful AI systems on Earth. The conversation was called "The Day After AGI." And it turned into a countdown clock. Here's what they revealed about our future: Amodei said we're 6-12 months away from AI doing EVERYTHING software engineers do. End to end. Not helping with code. Not writing snippets. REPLACING the entire function. "I have engineers at Anthropic who say I don't write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code." That's the CEO of a $183 billion company telling you his own engineers are becoming obsolete. Inside his own building. Right now. But that's not even the scary part. The scary part is the LOOP: AI writes code → AI does AI research → AI builds better AI → Repeat Once this closes, human progress becomes irrelevant. It's exponential compounding with no ceiling. Amodei's exact words: "If I had to guess, this goes faster than people imagine." Hassabis didn't disagree. Two competitors building the same technology. Same timeline. Same warning. On jobs, Amodei said: "Half of entry-level white-collar jobs could be gone within one to five years." He's already seeing it internally. "I can look forward to a time where on the junior end and the intermediate end, we actually need less and not more people." The CEO of an AI company planning for FEWER employees. While revenue 10x'd. Think about that. Hassabis's advice for students: "If I was talking to undergrads right now, I would tell them to get unbelievably proficient with these tools." Translation: Your degree means nothing. Learn to work WITH the machine or get replaced BY it. Then Amodei went full existential... He quoted Contact. The 1997 alien movie: "If you could ask aliens one question, what would it be?" The answer: "How did you do it? How did you manage to get through this technological adolescence without destroying yourselves?" That's the frame he uses for AI. The guy BUILDING AGI is publicly wondering if humanity survives what he's creating. At Davos. In front of world leaders. Then he dropped the Nvidia bomb. The US just approved chip exports to China. Amodei's response: "I think of this more as like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging 'oh yeah, Boeing made the case.'" He called it "crazy." Said there would be "grave consequences." The man building the technology is telling governments they're making catastrophic mistakes. But nobody's listening. When asked why they can't just slow down: "We have geopolitical adversaries building the same technology at a similar pace. It's very hard to have an enforceable agreement." So basically we CAN'T stop even if we wanted to. The race has no brakes. But it's interesting that both have different timelines when it comes to AGI. Amodei: AGI by 2026-2027 Hassabis: 50% chance by end of decade But both also say the self-improvement loop is the only variable that matters If AI builds AI, everything accelerates beyond control. If it can't, we get more time. We're about to find out which reality we're in. Amodei's final words: "The biggest thing to watch is AI systems building AI systems. That will determine whether it's a few more years or whether we have wonders and a great emergency in front of us." Wonders AND emergency. Same sentence. From the man running the second-most-advanced AI lab on the planet. The day after AGI is arriving. And it feels like the people building it are more terrified than we are.

@NBA @AschNBA I can't find evidence T. Roosevelt said "comparison is the thief of joy"…considering he was more obsessed with competition + comparison than any child you could name, I would be shocked if he said it. But your list matches what I'm seeing. Big what if is Harper with more mins.

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@BillyM2k @SenSanders can you explain where the finish line is?

@SenSanders translation: i want china to win the ai race

I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.

@mirkel @bariweiss @realDailyWire Why don't they let in other journalists??

Real journalism has been the exception to the media rule since the war began. Kudos to @realDailyWire for reminding us what honest reporting looks like.

@dwallacewells Sincere question: when did the panicked wealthy elite rage against Obama, Biden or Harris? I would suggest that the Mamdani-rage is about the bottom line and the proof is how they panicked against Bernie (and Dean and Kucinich to lesser extents)

With Mamdani, with Biden-Harris, with Obama, the panicked rage of the wealthy elite has typically been less about material fears — the tax hikes and regulatory burdens have all been pretty small — than about who gets to be, and see themselves, as heroes in our culture.

Llevo más de una década intentando explicarle al pueblo hondureño de que los humanos somos mucho más talentosos y creativos con nuestras manos q con los pies. Por fin llega un líder que lo ve claro, de q el basket es objetivamente mejor q el fútbol. Manos arribaaaa!!! 🏀🏀🏀

@gerd_heinrich @PartidoLibre Por ahora. Pero el cambio viene 🏀! Los humanos somos mucho más talentosos y creativos con nuestras manos q con los pies. Rixi lo ve claro y apoya la revolución basketera. Manos arrrrribaaa!!!!

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@Atomicrod Nice find! Are you doing archival research for something in particular?

This is the lede from a January 11, 1970 New York Times article titled "Coal Power Gets Assist From Youth." "The coal industry ended the Sixties in a cheering mood as it watched nuclear plant orders fall far behind the previous two years. It also grew optimistic as conservationists began probing into possible thermal effects of nuclear plants and youth groups started to single out nuclear power as a target akin to napalm." Back in the day, even reporters from the Times recognized that nuclear power was an economic threat to fossil fuel interests. It realized that those interests would cheer any stumbles, even though it did not explicitly admit that some of the stumbles should be flagged as "tripping". Coal is no longer the dominant fuel for electricity generators. That title is now claimed by methane gas (aka natural gas.) The current champion, however, is just as interested in defending its title as the old champion was. IMO, it is unlikely that supportive actions from "conservationists" and "youth groups" were purely accidental or coincidental. Lobby groups frequently work diligently to cultivate actions from groups with shared goals, even if they are publicly at odds. Yup. I am beating my favorite drum again. The business imperative of defending market share, sales and profits hasn't disappeared. Today's nuclear entrepreneurs and investors need to be aware of their competition and unafraid of identifying it when necessary.

@tomowenokc @MilesTaylorUSA I agree. A few scientists were wrong once, #BringTheSatellitesHome !

NOAA has a dozen satellites of their own and access to other satellites. Twenty years ago science was certain we were headed to an ice age. Florida was also supposed to be underwater by now according to science. Summer is hot , winter is cold. Pumping copious amounts of chemicals via Stratospheric aerosol injection will not save the planet. SRM creates extreme rainfall conditions, and is backed by a billionaire who admits his judgement is faulty, as evidenced by over 30 trips to Epstein’s island. In short, climate change is a scare tactic to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to ineffective solar panels, wind turbines and eco cars that aren’t even eco friendly.

REPORT: White House orders NASA to destroy satellite used for monitoring climate change, according to NPR The censorship campaign goes to space. I guess if you can’t SEE the climate changing, then it ISN’T changing. The stupidity is exquisite.

@EliotJacobson Is this poll measuring informed predictions or mood?

Totally f&%ked?

#Gold is the #crypto of minerals. Almost no real use case. Also: Gold's pretty colour comes from its inner electrons moving so fast their masses increase, Einstein-style, and absorb high-energy blue light while reflecting out the 'warmer' wavelengths aka glittering. Very cool.

@duncancampbell Unfortunately, and I use that word sincerely, oil and electricity serve different functions currently. Also: most humans don't own a home with a roof + garage. And if they did, not certain there are enough minerals in the crust to get those panels+batteries to 10 billion ppl

Which would you prefer to be energy independent? 1) an oil rig and refinery in your backyard 2) solar on your roof and a batteries in the garage

@JesseJenkins Interesting. How many GB is the data set you have to download to run it locally? (apologies if i'm not using the right words here, human at the keyboard)

I expected this was coming: OpenAI announced they have developed a high performing mini versions of GPT-o4 that will run locally on a laptop or a phone. This will shift a lot of inference off of data centers & onto our local machines. When the model can’t answer a question locally, it can say “wait just one moment while I confer with the hive mind…” or whatever & go do inference in the cloud. Big question for those of us in electricity & data center world: how will this impact data center build-out trends, their demand for electricity, and locations they are able/willing to build? My hypothesis: it puts a dent in demand for inference at centralized data centers, while also increasing the degree of latency that inference data centers can deal with (because low latency frequently needed tasks will be done locally).

@CantEverDie Hey now, he did bring us some good things: 1. He got us all eating Flintstones chewable vitamins. 2. His pimping himself out for Peter Thiel got us the most incredible under oath argument of all time... youtube.com/watch?v=izYE...

it’s really not fair to all of us that someone like hulk hogan can endorse a demonic entity and usher in the end of days and then just die to escape the world he helped mold

@jacobin @GovJVentura Now, in Terry's defense: 1. He did get us all eating Flintstones chewable vitamins. 2. His pimping himself out for Peter Thiel got us the most incredible under oath argument of all time... youtube.com/watch?v=izYE...

To commemorate the end of Hulkamania, here's @GovJVentura on Hulk Hogan helping Vince McMahon bust union organizing in the WWE.

@Grossman4NJ @ObamaMalik Hows 'thou shall not kill' holding up?

Short answer: Both nations founded on the same ideas, namely the Ten Commandments. The Declaration of Independence found it self-evident that we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. You can only enjoy them in a moral "high trust" society based on Ten Commandments. These ideas are completely foreign to Islam. @LandP1776

I don't understand what Israel has done for the USA that the USA is so indebted to Israel? Why does the USA send so many billions of dollars to Israel and so ready to spill American blood for them. Why? Somebody make me understand. What is the basis of that bond?

A light reminder on the historical connection between free trade, happiness and cranberry juice that I haven’t seen elsewhere.