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In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems

NEW: Scientists have created the first global map of Earth’s vast underground fungal networks, stretching an estimated 68 quadrillion miles.

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…

▶️A new study on climate projections has set the alarm bells ringing all along the 11,000-km coastline of India, from Gujarat in western India to the Sundarbans delta in eastern India. ▶️The western coast will get wetter and hotter; there will be reduced monsoon rainfall over coastal Odisha and West Bengal by 2040, it warns. ▶️ Approximately 40 coastal districts are likely to see maximum summer average temperature rise by over 1 degree Celsius (°C) by 2040. @JamwalNidhi reports downtoearth.org.in/climate-change…

Campus looks so good when you no longer have a degree to complete

By Sergio Grinberg.

🚨: Erin Brockovich launches a map tracking AI data centers, and she's asking Americans for help

I look left, Assignment! I look right, Research!! I look forward, Exams!!! I look back, I turn into salt!!!!

Physicist 120 years ago: Maybe the inside of an atom is like plum pudding. Physicist today: Light doesn’t experience time. All this shit might not even be real.

5 laws of the universe that are surprisingly accurate: 1. Murphy’s Law Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. 2. Kidlin’s Law If you can write a problem down clearly, you’re already halfway to solving it. 3. Falkland’s Law When there’s no need to make a decision, don’t force one. 4. Wilson’s Law Prioritize learning and knowledge, and money will eventually follow. 5. Gilbert’s Law It’s your responsibility to find the best way to achieve the result you want.

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

🚨: Nobel Prize physicist Roger Penrose claims there is no such thing as nothingness. Your soul is eternal because matter cannot be destroyed.

A dog failed his service dog exam, and was later seen at a train station carrying the reason why. People at the station couldn’t stop staring when the dog walked onto the train with a stuffed elephant held proudly in his mouth. At first, everyone thought it was part of his training. But his owner started laughing and explained the truth. The dog had been training to become a service dog, but during one of his final tests, he kept getting distracted by an elephant plushie nearby. Instead of staying focused, he tried to steal it like it was the only thing in the room that mattered. That was the moment he failed. But his owner said he couldn’t be mad. The dog had tried his best, and even if he wasn’t meant to be a service dog, he was still loyal, gentle, and full of love. So before they left, he bought him the elephant toy. That night, the dog didn’t pass the exam, but he still went home with the person who chose him anyway.

How the SL 🇱🇰 Government Manufactured a Dollar Crisis ⭕ Sri Lanka imposed a temporary 50% surcharge on vehicle Customs Import Duty from May 16, for 3 months. ⭕ The LC opening numbers revealed by Dr. Anil Jayantha: May 07: USD 2.6 million May 08: USD 4.6 million May 11: USD 3.8 million May 12: USD 4.28 million May 13: USD 8.36 million May 14: USD 11 million May 15: USD 23 million May 18: USD 17 million ⭕ The government’s intention was to delay vehicle imports by making them more expensive for three months. But the market reacted in the opposite direction. ⭕ Instead of waiting, importers rushed to open LCs. This panic response increased demand for dollars, added more pressure on foreign exchange, and further weakened the rupee. ⭕ This is the problem with shallow policy decisions. A tax or surcharge may look correct on paper, but markets do not always behave the way policymakers expect. ⭕ When secondary effects are ignored, the policy can backfire. In this case, the attempt to reduce immediate pressure may have created even more pressure in the short term. ⭕ This is becoming a repeated weakness in the NPP government’s decision-making process. Policies are announced with good intentions, but without properly considering market dynamics, behavioural responses, and long-term consequences. ⭕ Commercial banks in Sri Lanka are quoting the US dollar selling rate at Rs. 354 today. #SriLanka

My little sister asked for my email address. I told her it’s just my first name and last name at Gmail. She looked at me like I had casually announced that I own beachfront property in Malibu. She said, “How did you get that? I could never get mine.” I said, “Because I was there when Gmail was invented.” And that is apparently how I found out my email address is now considered historical evidence. Back then, you could just type your actual name and somehow it was still available. No extra numbers. No random underscores. No adding “official” at the end because twelve other people had already claimed it. Just your name and Gmail. Simple times. My sister looked genuinely impressed, like.......

real academic pressure is when ur parents don't pressure u at all...they just trust u and that is exactly why u CANNOT Fail.

🇺🇸 A CIA physicist just put 4 alien species on the record. Dr. Hal Puthoff. 89 years old. Stanford-trained quantum physicist. Decades running classified programs for the CIA and NSA. He went on The Diary of a CEO this week and said the U.S. has recovered four distinct non-human species from crashed craft. No direct access, but he believes his sources. And his sources said 4. "People who have been involved in recoveries have said there are at least four types. 4 separate types." His colleague Dr. Eric Davis named them. Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, Reptilians. All humanoid. All pulled from wreckage. All held inside a program that ran 80 years outside congressional and White House oversight. Dan Farah spent years interviewing crash retrieval insiders for his documentary. One source agreed to go on camera, then pulled out days before filming. The message he sent said participating would cost him his life. Rubio confirmed on record that the government holds evidence of non-human intelligent life. David Grusch, former Air Force Intelligence officer and UAP Task Force member, testified under oath before Congress that the U.S. holds "non-human biologics" recovered from crashed craft. A former UAP Task Force director says he saw non-human beings with his own eyes. The cover is coming off. Slowly. Source: NYP

You’re standing on a planet with molten lava at its core. Trees are turning sunlight into air you can breathe. Your heart is beating without you asking it to. There’s a moon in the sky and bugs that glow. This whole thing is absurdly beautiful. Don’t forget to notice it.

At university, you realize that: 1. many students are dumb 2. you’re not particularly smart