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The chuds were wrong about Ukraine. The chuds were wrong about tariffs. The chuds were wrong about Covid vaccines. Why the fuck would you believe the chuds about immigration?

what aithy's aithy.dev made of: 1. DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines arxiv.org/abs/2310.03714 - used indirectly through Ax/Ax Agent: - declarative signatures, typed inputs/outputs, model pipeline structure, letting deterministic code handle parsing/filtering/routing while the model handles judgment. 2. Recursive Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601 - inspect history/context with JS, forward compact evidence to executor/responder stages. - treat context as inspectable external state instead of stuffing it all into one prompt; use JS/runtime execution to narrow evidence. 3. Useful Memories Become Faulty When Continuously Updated by LLMs arxiv.org/abs/2605.12978 - keep dream summaries grounded in raw transcript evidence. - keep dreams automatic, but avoid automatic repeated consolidation. 4. Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search arxiv.org/html/2605.1518… - lexical anchor/phrase/token lanes. - weighted rank fusion. - sparse context budgeting. - grep/lexical-first retrieval, - hybrid search - avoiding context stuffing.

Long-distance cycling has been subtly transformative for my sense of space. It provided a missing link between walking distances and driving distances, and having biked to nearby towns and cities, space now feels smoothly continuous in a way it didn’t before.

This is a misreading of what I wrote. Things will NOT necessarily get worse regardless of who is in power. The Dems are worse than they were in 2015, but electing them will make things better because Trump is just so fucking insanely bad.

Huge credit to the OAI team for solving the unit distance problem with 5.5 - it is now my go to example that models can in fact pull together disparate ideas into new discoveries. As with all 4 minute miles, we had to try and cross it too! Turns out mythos solves it with a cute, simple proof. This implies some serious overhang in discoveries!

What people don’t realize about the recent phenomenal success of the metabolic drugs is that ALL of them were designed/created *pre* the current AI boom. We have not even started to scratch the surface of what is possible with these new tools. But the promises are unbelievable.

It's old people who are the most pessimistic about the economy, not young people.

Downtown Gary, Indiana.

the tweet is extremely clear but to reiterate capitalism like evolution can be quite cruel and generates extremely unequal outcomes which may get more unequal as model scaling continues

Could also eliminate a lot of billionaires, which would make the left happy.

@JLLiedl @mattyglesias Sounds like you are "mad"

@mattyglesias Yes, and you also call it "superstition," which doesn't indicate mere disagreement, but also derision, as if there is no possibility of rational basis for said belief

Another guy mad that the Pope of the Catholic Church believes in the human soul

1/5 I'm a cardiologist. I have spent twenty years watching cholesterol destroy arteries, trigger heart attacks, and kill people I care about. Today, Eli Lilly presented data that may begin to end that era. VERVE-102. A single infusion. One dose. It uses base editing to permanently turn off the PCSK9 gene in your liver. Presented today at the European Atherosclerosis Society Congress: 88% reduction in PCSK9. 62% reduction in LDL cholesterol. Sustained up to 18 months. No treatment-related serious adverse events. One infusion. Not daily pills you forget to take. Not monthly injections. One dose — and your cholesterol may stay low for the rest of your life.

We have this skilled immigration debate every year or so, and every time the right has become both more unhinged and more divorced from reality. I can't tell to what extent that reflects actual political opinion or Twitter becoming even more of a right wing echo chamber.

How much claude would a claude code code if a claude code could code claude?

(Everything rests on the 10%)

The reality of AI cognition is the central challenge the Church (and all of us) will have to grapple with over the coming decade, and this encyclical, with its axiomatic denial of AI cognition, is a punt of the highest order. Eppur si muove.

the Church looking at AI and saying “Babel” is scrutiny that frontier labs deserve. similarly, the Church has spent 2000 years saying human dignity precedes productivity, which is what many people will need to hear soon. those roles might require the gravitas of an ancient institution. what they don’t require is gary marcus-style metaphysics of “LLMs don’t think”

Staggering levels of corruption everywhere you look

We’re calling it: The war in Ukraine has entered a new phase. @KatStepanenko and I have authored a new special report studying how Ukraine is actively challenging the positional character of the war that has dominated the battlefield since 2023. Data on Russia’s battlefield performance indicates that the character of the war is shifting in favor of Ukrainian forces – at least for now. Russian forces rates of advances are stagnating while Ukrainian forces are employing novel tactics and operational concepts in efforts to break out of positional warfare. Neither Russia nor Ukraine can conduct operational maneuvers yet, however. The bottom line is that the war in Ukraine is competitive and far from stalemated. Ukrainian forces are out-innovating Russian forces in both military technologies and in applying these new technologies in effective operational concepts that can help Ukrainian forces break out of positional warfare. Ukraine is employing mechanized equipment in tactical maneuvers in ways that were impossible 12 months ago. Russia’s ability to conduct infiltration missions will likely continue to degrade as Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign pushes Russia’s logistics and forward operating bases further away from the frontlines, reducing resourcing to sustain infantry tasked with infiltration missions. Ukraine may be able to scale these effects if they resourced properly by international partners. Ukraine’s advantage in intermediate range strikes is notably not permanent, and Russia will very likely eventually develop countermeasures to mitigate Ukraine’s advantages. Ukraine’s international partners thus have a rare and temporary opportunity to help Ukraine exploit favorable battlefield dynamics while Ukraine has the upper hand. Key Points of the report: • Russia’s rate of advance is plummeting during the Russian Spring-Summer 2026 offensive. • Russia is losing more soldiers to make fewer gains, with monthly Russian casualty rates reportedly outpacing monthly recruitment since December 2025. • Ukraine is starting to regain more ground than it is losing for the first time since 2023. • Ukraine’ recent counterattacks feature unique characteristics and deviate from key trends that defined the positional character of the war since 2023. • Ukraine is conducting a pattern of more frequent mechanized counterattacks at the tactical level for the first time since 2023. • The Ukrainian command’s operational planning is maturing. • Ukraine’s early 2026 counterattacks in the south were successful likely due to better planning and preparation of the battlefield. • Ukraine has been conducting a coherent campaign to suppress and destroy Russian air defenses since late 2025, in order to shape the battlefield as part of more sophisticated campaign planning. • Ukraine significantly intensified its intermediate-range strike campaign against dynamic targets in Spring 2026 in order to degrade Russian logistics at operational depths ahead of planned Ukrainian maneuver. • Ukrainian forces started actively disrupting Russian railway logistics in occupied Ukraine and Russian western regions in Spring 2026. • Ukrainian intermediate-range strikes are already achieving notable operational effects, including degrading Russia's ability to use the key Russian highway connecting Russia to occupied Crimea and GLOCs around Donetsk City. • Ukrainian forces decisively seized the initiative in intermediate-range strikes by fielding new technologies such as the US-made Hornet strike UAV, among other systems. • Ukrainian forces are achieving temporary tactical drone overmatch in some frontline sectors, which is slowing Russian offensive operations by degrading the effectiveness of Russian shaping operations. • Ukrainian forces likely achieved tactical drone overmatch in certain frontline sectors after degrading Russia’s drone capabilities in late 2025 to early 2026 - primarily by suppressing drone launch positions and increasingly intercepting Russian tactical UAVs. • Ukraine’s degradation of Russian forces at operational depth combined with tactical-level drone overmatch likely is creating vulnerabilities in the Russian lines. • Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign is likely far from its zenith, assuming continued support from Ukraine’s partners, and will likely intensify over 2026 as Ukraine fields new weapons capable of striking Russian’s operational rear. Link to full report: understandingwar.org/research/russi…

Big Pharma has done some bad stuff but on net it is one of the most positive forces in our society