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Today, we remember a legend. On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline. Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme. He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on. Gone, but never forgotten. Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸 May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016 Forever in our hearts.

Where will AI be in 1, 2 or 3 years?

say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius

Patriot

Pretty much go to bed and wake up thinking about this clip Lives in my head

Watching this just confirms how easy it was to get rich from 1970-2000 You could literally be a complete mouth breathing retard with a pulse and just print

the primary criticism of AI you hear has nothing to do with water use or existential risk whatsoever: most people just think it’s fake and doesn’t work and is a tremendous bubble eating intellectual property while emitting useless slop along the way. when GPT-5 came out and perhaps didn’t live up to what people were expecting for a full version bump, the timeline reaction was not mild, it was a full-scale meltdown. there are many intelligent (and unintelligent) people who latched onto this moment to declare AI scaling over, thousands of viral tweets, still a prevailing view in many circles. The financial-cultural phenomenon of machine intelligence is one of the most powerful in decades, and there are a lot of people who would like for its position to be weakened, many outright celebrating its losses and setback. Michael burry of ‘Big Short’ fame, unfortunately the type of guy to predict 12 of the last 3 recessions, has bet himself into insolvency on the AI bubble’s collapse one of the stranger things about this time is that there are very few secrets, and very little reason to be so misinformed. model labs have very little space in between creating new capabilities and launching them to the public. The view among the well informed public and not just “lab insiders” is that machine intelligence is absurdly joyfully smart at so many new things every month. It’s actively contributing on the cutting edge of programming and math and science. Sebastian Bubeck and co’s recent paper reports that GPT5-pro is capable of producing results on the frontier of theoretical physics research, Terry Tao wrote a blog about “vibe-proving” Erdos problems with the auto-formalization AI Aristotle. You can read that these scientists are using it to actively contribute to black hole physics, tighten mathematical bounds in optimization theory, churning morasses of biomedical data into real insight. Google Deepmind, from the way they are signalling, seems to be slowly closing a dragnet around the Navier-Stokes smoothness millennium problem (though of course, I don’t know). Several companies stocked top to bottom with brilliant scientists are racing to build pipelines to solve novel physics and chemistry and biology You can read online about the new kinds of organizations being born around machine intelligence as a first class factor of production. For the first time, the new factor actually gives you ideas for improving the processes themselves. It’s designing whole assembly lines where some of the workers on the assembly line are also AIs, and the line itself is morphing and self-optimizing. Tiny teams are producing amounts of work that seemed impossible to organizations of a few years ago. It’s hard not to feel excited by the productivity growth happening in these admittedly narrow software sectors. Every time I use codex to solve some issue late at night or GPT helps me figure out a difficult strategic problem I feel: what a relief. There are so few minds on Earth that are both intelligent and persistent enough about some intellectual pursuit to generate new insights and keep the torch of scientific civilization alive. Now you have potentially infinite minds to throw at infinite potential problems. Your computer friend that never takes the day off, never gets bored, never checks out and stops trying. You can feel the unburdening of Atlas, the takeoff. It feels more prosaic and less poetic than it did in 2023, even though the results speak for themselves more loudly

The way the league used to handle gambling issues

my top 4 tech twitter tweets of all time

Steve Jobs on the power of asking for help

u can easily return to the past, but no one is there anymore

My personal favorite Tom Brady picture

Tom Brady’s presence might be enough to overcome the devil magic

Musk never entered the U.S. using an H1-B visa. He immigrated through a student visa when he attended the University of Pennsylvania and later leveraged the EB-5 investor green card program, which is for wealthy individuals. 😂 😂😂😂 Also Tesla employs a tiny fraction of H1-B visa workers (less than 1% of its workforce in 2022), and SpaceX employs even fewer because of restrictions on foreign nationals working in aerospace due to ITAR laws. Most of the talent that built Tesla and SpaceX came from American engineers, scientists, and innovators—not H1-B workers. Musk’s aggressive defense of the H1-B program isn’t about innovation—it’s about corporate greed. The H1-B system allows companies to hire skilled workers at below-market wages and keeps them dependent on their employer for visa sponsorship, making them easier to control. By expanding the program, Musk stands to lower labor costs while weakening the bargaining power of both H1-B workers and U.S. citizens. This isn’t about making America strong—it’s about maximizing his profit margins. American workers see their wages driven down and opportunities outsourced. H1-B workers are trapped in a system where they have little freedom to negotiate wages or change jobs without risking their visa. Musk is weaponizing his influence to protect a system that benefits corporations at the expense of workers. Another fact; The majority of H1-B visas go to outsourcing firms like Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, which subcontract these workers to larger companies. These workers aren’t building the next SpaceX—they’re doing routine coding and IT work. He’s Using H1-B to Deflect From His Exploitation of Workers

Damn. Drinking tonight.

@CantEverDie Bro thinks he’s Ted Kaczynski