john (touching grass)

For all the valid critique of No Kings (and it should be deeply criticized for its reactionary reformism to demobilize and deradicalize), the revolutionary Left needs to deal with the fact that, somehow, we're still being out organized by these people. That's Our Failure.

Sure, o3 shows that throwing thousands of dollars of compute can allow you to solve hard problems. But AI never gets cheaper over time, so this is the cheapest it'll ever be. And no company can afford to spend thousands of dollars solving hard problems.

アメリカという国は、格差は激しいし薬物汚染はひどいし政治は(ご存知の通り)終わっているしで、どうしてあんな国が大国面して回っているのだろうと思っていたんだけど、最近タイムラインに10000件ほど流れてくるありえないサイズの肉塊の山の写真を見て、その物質的豊かさを急速に理解させられている

No Kings is a thinly-disguised pep rally designed to get people fired up to vote for the Dems in November. Nothing more.

🌀 The original double slit experiment from 1801 showed light passing through two slits in space and interfering with itself. Imperial College London took that same experiment and ran the slits through time instead of space. They fired light through a material that changed its reflectivity in femtoseconds quadrillionths of a second creating two moments in time for the light to pass through rather than two points in space. The light interfered with its own past. The interference pattern showed up as a change in colour rather than brightness. Physics didn't just confirm the original result. It found an entirely new dimension to run the same experiment in. 📌 Source: Nature Physics, Imperial College London, April 2023

nonzero chance he's a genuine antichrist like figure, though Thiel would sooner disembowel himself then ever admit as such.

I don't think a country whose leaders think like this should be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Historic protests against Trump across the United States

The inexorable logic of the war leads directly to full-scale ground invasion unless we’re willing to end the war on unfavorable terms — because ending the war on unfavorable terms would be humiliating and risk dollar hegemony. Well guess what? There’s no way to end the war on favorable terms without a full-scale ground invasion. Anyone who reads the WSJ opinion page understands this argument that the neocons have just now chosen to reveal (it was their secret plan the entire time). That was the entire point of Netanyahu convincing Trump to launch the decapitation strikes — the Israelis and their U.S. fifth column made a bet that we wouldn’t be willing to buck the escalation trap. A limited incursion of ground troops is not going to strengthen our negotiating position and risks further entrenchment and humiliating losses and casualties, which we are already suffering — look at the destroyed plane and double-digit casualties yesterday in Saudi Arabia. Once the limited ground troops hit the shores of Iran and inevitably get bogged down under drone and missile fire, the neocons will reveal their next argument: President Trump can’t possibly cut and run now — we must mobilize for a full-scale invasion and march on Tehran to secure the Uranium, destroy the missiles, and open the Strait of Hormuz.

BREAKING: The US is preparing for a potential ground invasion into Iran that would last for up to 2 months, per the Washington Post. Details include: 1. Thousands of American soldiers are arriving in the Middle East for what could become a "dangerous new phase" of the war 2. Any invasion would involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops, US officials said 3. President Trump has wavered between declaring that the war is winding down and threatening to amplify it 4. Discussions over the past month have touched upon the possible seizure of Kharg Island and raids into other coastal areas near the Strait of Hormuz The Iran War appears to be entering a new era.