tex ✏️
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tex ✏️
@textureMonkey
antidisciplinary mathematician. watch my videos if you wanna learn about Marxism or computers.

🇳🇱 Outrage in the Netherlands after footage appeared to show a police officer forcefully throwing a pregnant woman to the ground during an arrest, raising questions about the use of force.


Imagine if conservatives, rather than pathetically crawling around on the ground to lap up discarded pop culture crumbs, actually went out and advanced their own creative and artistic vision. Imagine if we used an event like this to actually elevate our own artists and make them famous. What a crazy thought.

@overzealots_ I condemn October 7th, Nat Turner's rebellion, and the Haitian slave revolt.



‼️ Microsoft has responded to the recent wave of public zero-day disclosures tied to Nightmare-Eclipse. In an MSRC post titled "A shared responsibility," Microsoft addressed RedSun, UnDefend, BlueHammer, YellowKey, GreenPlasma, and MiniPlasma, saying the vulnerability details were not shared with the company before release. That claim is contested. Nightmare-Eclipse says at least BlueHammer wasn't a blindside. In an April 15 signed post, the actor said MSRC was fully aware of the disclosure, that a case had been filed and dismissed, and that Microsoft knew another disclosure was coming. Microsoft's new post gives no per-CVE timeline. So right now, the public record has two conflicting versions. Microsoft never printed the handle "Nightmare-Eclipse," but by naming all six vulnerabilities it left no doubt who the post was about. The company says its security teams have been working "around the clock" to assess impact, protect customers, and ship updates. It also says its Digital Crimes Unit will keep pursuing the actors who weaponize these exploits and those who enable them. The case for coordinated disclosure is straightforward. The point of giving a vendor advance notice is not to protect the vendor. It is to protect the people running the software. Patch before PoC means defenders get a head start. PoC before patch hands it to attackers. That does not make the tension one-sided. Researchers walk away from coordinated disclosure for reasons: slow fixes, disputed severity, no credit, no payment, broken trust, or deleted reporting accounts. Nightmare-Eclipse claims Microsoft revoked access to the MSRC account used to report bugs, wiped it, and ignored requests for an explanation. Microsoft's post does not address that claim directly. It says only that it still welcomes submissions from anyone through its public researcher portal, regardless of past interactions or reputation. Both things can be true at once. A vendor can have a real duty to treat researchers fairly. And a researcher can still be wrong to burn the disclosure process in a way that arms criminals. The friction between those two points is exactly where users get hurt, and it's exactly why disputes belong inside proper channels, even after the relationship breaks down.

J’en ai marre que les gens appellent n’importe quel automatisme (IA) Ici il y a 0 machine learning c’est juste un algorithme d’optimisation

Ask yourself why a Twitch streamer was taking 40 Americans on a convoy to Communist Cuba. Ask yourself why Code Pink, a radical feminist group, was organizing it. Ask yourself where the money came from. The Treasury Department is asking those same questions. And the answers? Potentially tied to the Chinese Communist Party. Hasan Piker spent YEARS telling you America was the villain while torturing his dog on Twitch. The real villain? Hint: it’s usually the guy electroshocking his dog while taking Communist kickbacks.


SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”

I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for this but Altman is right here, that's the right way of seeing AI models: AI is a general purpose technology and models will end up being a utility like electricity. In fact I'm somewhat surprised he's admitting to this because it makes companies like OpenAI or Anthropic a lot less valuable: it means they'll become mere commodities, much like telecom companies or electricity providers are. The real value will lie in the application layer - what you actually DO with AI - as opposed to the models themselves. Much like the real valuable companies enabled by the internet weren't the telecom companies but businesses like Google, Amazon or Alibaba. I actually wrote a whole article explaining exactly this last month titled "There is no AI race": open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…


Lawrence, MA - we're curious why there is a Palestinian flag hanging in the middle of a classroom at Lawrence High School?



the first commercial bank in the world, The Medici Bank, opened in this building in 1397 there's a zara store now


VANCE CONSIDERS ABANDONING 2028 PRESIDENTIAL RUN, SOURCES SAY — MAIL










