tom byrer

Be in charge of your own emotions. If you feel strong winds pushing you in a bad direction, get away from those winds.

Waymo electric vehicles in Austin Texas caught all be charged by huge diesel powered generators This completely defeats the purpose of these electric vehicles being “green” and environmentally friendly” Amazing

@Papa_Limes @DegenKing81 @WallStreetApes Car-roof solar help 'top off the battery'; extend range. Even if 10 percent more, it would be worth it IMHO. But dang, why didn't Wamo do electric-hybrid at least? sheesh

@DegenKing81 @WallStreetApes You can just research this a little and understand it very well… But to put it very simply a car takes way more power than a solar panel of its size can produce. (A fan - even less)

@deaflibertarian I thought about making an app platform to help students-teachers....

First day of school for me! New "job" - new kids, new classroom. I will be teaching deaf kids 4th and 5th grade Math, Science, and Specials (Tech, Art, Music, & ASL) until the summer. I spent all weekend getting the classroom set up and ready!

@Mann69Joe @AntiCommieBecca @AmerPhilo2025 Maybe add "What is compounding interest?". BTW your question would trip up some Congresspeople youtube.com/watch?v=80VObg…

@AntiCommieBecca @AmerPhilo2025 Believe me, I understand. I have many friends who are very successful and intelligent who are "progressive" and have attained the mind virus that would allow open borders etc. I'm suggesting a minimum test that would cast out the lowest decile. "What are the 3 branches of govt?

"Allowing virtually every citizen to vote has been a catastrophic disaster for the United States. We have allowed illiterate, uneducated citizens to hold hostage the world’s largest economy, most powerful military, and a robust intellectual culture. It has decimated the concept of civitas and allowed powerful actors with bad intentions to influence those who cannot think for themselves. To restore the United States, we must seriously consider ending universal suffrage." Read more below. ‍ ‍

@Mann69Joe @AntiCommieBecca @AmerPhilo2025 The Founding Fathers had a litmus test for voting; owning land.

@AntiCommieBecca @AmerPhilo2025 I agree that having the equivalent of an IQ test would never be popular and unlikely to be implemented. But in theory, it seems relatively easy to have solutions that would limit the voting pool to more intelligent individuals.

Creating a resolvable Promise just got cleaner 🧹 `Promise.withResolvers()` returns { promise, resolve, reject } No more wrapping logic inside the constructor. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…

My 3yo wanted to use the computer like me so I made him his own terminal. He types whatever he wants, it responds with fun messages. No external deps, no ads, just keyboard practice and cause-and-effect thinking. He thinks he's hacking. github.com/meimakes/tiny-…

@TimothySawyerMD @BretWeinstein The future is already here. I guess you missed about the 'dark factories' where it is 99% robots (save a handful of humans to fix the robots)? Many major corps are laying off programmers & management because AI can replace half of their work. search.brave.com/search?q=dark+…

@BretWeinstein Hey Bret. Understand your reasoning, and you might be right. But with something this complex, the future is extremely difficult to predict. I think your prediction should be couched with some uncertainty. Let’s prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and see what happens.

Many argue AI is like prior tech revolutions--that the jobs destroyed will be replaced by jobs we can't yet imagine They're wrong. AI+robots will be better at the newly created jobs too. It's is a super-competitor, with the advantages of a generalist AND almost every specialist

@MarkALefebvre1 @BretWeinstein @addermonk Bret is sticking with evolution. The only way to directly 'compete' AI/bots is to become cyborgs. They're already pushing always wearing devices to be monitored & 'talk with AI'. Next will be inserting chips reduce the time lag & 'expand capabilities'.

@BretWeinstein @addermonk Stick to evolution.

Am I the only one that remembers this movie? The true story of Betty Mahmoody, whose husband tricked her into visiting his homeland of Iran and refused to let her and her daughter leave. It was released in 1991. I don’t understand these white liberal ladies who think that somehow the US is more oppressive than Iran.

@MichaelARothman I don't think you listened to them, they clearly said "algorithmic feed", which means NOT random posts. Though I wonder if he complains about Google's 'algorithmic feed'? youtu.be/3GE3HoJMEMw

𝗝𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗗: 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡, 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧. 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠. One of the panelists on Jon Stewart's podcast cited a real study — published in Nature — showing that people who used X's algorithmic feed moved further to the right than a control group using a chronological feed. He presented this as evidence that Musk is "warping democracy." Let's take the study at face value for a moment. Let's assume it's accurate. What Stewart is telling you is that when people are exposed to a wider range of information and viewpoints than legacy media curated for them, they move to the right. Not because they were tricked. Not because they were radicalized. But because the information itself — presented without the filter of editors at the New York Times and producers at MSNBC deciding what you're allowed to see — leads people to draw different conclusions than the ones the left wants them to draw. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. For decades, the left controlled the information environment — the networks, the newspapers, the platforms, the search results, the fact-checkers who decided what was true. People saw what they were allowed to see and drew the conclusions they were steered toward. That wasn't called brainwashing. That was called journalism. The moment a platform emerged that allowed crime statistics, border data, economic numbers, international news, and firsthand accounts to circulate without a progressive gatekeeper deciding what was fit to print — people started changing their minds. And the people who built and benefited from the old system called it manipulation. Jon Stewart isn't concerned that people are being deceived. He's concerned that people are no longer being managed. There is also a word for the system he's defending — one where trusted institutions decide what information reaches the public and frame it in ways designed to produce specific political conclusions. That word is not journalism. And the fact that losing control of that system feels to him like an attack on democracy tells you everything about whose democracy he thought it was. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵.

Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes, says Ilhan Omar and her husband are running a money laundering operation 🚨 Ilhan Omar’s husbands investment firm was looked into, THERE IS NO RECORDS OF THEM MANAGING MONEY, “NO CLIENTS” “His investment firm — It’s DC headquarters appear to share office space at a WeWork. There's no track record of his firm managing money, doing M&A deals, no clients we see, no investment deals or any work it's done. They say they do work in 80 nations operating in. There's no SEC registrations for them as investment advisers. What is going on here? This increasingly looks sketchy, both the winery and his investment firm. Yeah, the winery may not exist and the firm may be just a really a name only” “It’s amazing how people can go into Congress and then become these entrepreneurial investing geniuses, where they come in, she had under $1,000 of net worth, and her husband didn't have much, and suddenly now they're multimillionaires. Is there a money laundering operation here — something is not right” “That $30 million came from sources that are illegal, period”

@DavidKPiano For testing, id do NOT mention versions; up the the model to assume I want the 'latest', which is how many years now? I had issues in the past with models keep using old versions of Cloudflare Workers, React, whatever... even after I directly fed the URL for the repo/NPM.

@tombyrer That's my go-to when testing a new model too - make sure to specify v5 syntax

GPT 5.4 is like a really skilled developer who mostly does backend stuff They can have like 30+ years of experience and be geniuses, but... don't let them touch the frontend too much

@TruthUpdates_X @EricLDaugh If they have documentation that they're in USA legally, then they have no worries. Why are you worried about illegal invaders?

@EricLDaugh Deploying ICE agents to airports would be a bold move—but it also raises questions about logistics, civil liberties, and how this will actually affect security. This will spark serious debate.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just announced he will SURGE ICE AGENTS to perform security with TSA at our airports if Democrats refuse to fund DHS and pay federal employees CHECK MATE, Chuck Schumer! "If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, who have totally destroyed, with the approval of a corrupt Governor, Attorney General, and Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, the once Great State of Minnesota." "I look forward to seeing ICE in action at our Airports. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

@_naisstep @lemire We are just about here, after 3+ years of small drone warfare in Ukraine. youtu.be/9fa9lVwHHqg

@lemire man, AI will be used to oneshot your grandsons figuratively first, and literally if needed.

I did not expect Claude (Anthropic) to be used to to plan military attacks and choose targets. Interesting.

@kahlYAWstroh @lemire Seems there are studies proving it: search.brave.com/search?q=ai+ma…

@tombyrer @lemire Almost ironic but ultimately unsurprising

Historically speaking, programming has not been easy. We have invested massively in training and retraining millions of people. We have built incredible tools to make programming easier. Yet, we have a deeply skewed distribution. Many who received lengthy training in software programming still can’t deliver good software. My estimate hasn’t changed in years: If 100 people graduate with a Computer Science degree, about 10 are worth hiring as software developers. The others quickly do something else. If you ask them to implement a prototype—even without AI—they will do it. They will complete what looks like the first 80% of the work (the part that takes 20% of the time). But then their work crumbles. Progress slows. They go backward. They refactor endlessly. They get stuck. The unknown unknowns hurt them: they are ignorant, but don’t even realize it. It is worse than this because the real-world often calls of generalists with agency. Even if you have the technical expertise, having the courage to deploy it and the ability to communicate your ideas... is not given to everyone. Worse still: many people do not even try. Grit and motivation can be scarce. AI can play several roles in building software: understanding code, reviewing your code, refactoring, even acting as software architect. But ultimately, an AI agent is primarily an assistant. You end up as the lead software developer. You delegate tasks. As long as you’re precise and review results, you may get what you hoped for. My mental model: you’ll still end up with only the top 10% of college graduates being decent software developers.

@lemire "Quebec, where I live, is eerily similar to the tales told about Soviet Russia." I'm glad you noticed & are willing to say it.

Soviet Russia is closer than it appears. The reason I have always loved science and engineering is that you eventually encounter reality. If you are any good, you will eventually find out that you are wrong. Lies only get you so far. Sure, OpenAI or Meta could lie about how good their AIs are… but only to a point. Quebec, where I live, is eerily similar to the tales told about Soviet Russia. When I tell colleagues about it, they often do not understand what I mean by “Soviet Russia.” They think I am saying that people are being sent to gulags in Quebec. They are not. Not physical gulags, at least. There were different phases to the Soviet Union. Early on, it was a constant bloodbath. But over time, this proved unnecessary. All you need to mimic Soviet Russia is a sufficiently powerful bureaucracy. But a specific type of bureaucracy: one that is willing to lie, misrepresent facts, shamelessly and on a large scale. Contrary to what people assume, the workforce of the Soviet Union wasn’t incompetent. They couldn’t keep up with the USA, but their economy was growing and their productivity was steadily improving. In what they cared about, they did relatively well. They had an impressive number of tanks and nuclear missiles. Their spy operations were top-notch. Whether those tanks would work or fall apart in an actual battle is harder to say. When everything is covered with lies, you just can’t know. See, Soviet Russia liked science and engineering but suffered from an addiction to lies. If it led to mass starvation due to poor agricultural choices, so be it. But it still worked, somehow. So why did it fall? One significant factor is the bureaucratic gulags: people lied, were lied to, and everyone knew that everyone else was lying. You had a deep collapse of credibility. Trust is a critical fuel for innovation. Too many lies, and you won’t get anywhere. The feedback loop of trial and error breaks and cannot be replaced. That’s why you see so many organizations incapable of innovation: once nobody believes anything, you can’t move forward very fast. Do not live by lies, it will catch up with you.

@GewaltesKaiser @BillyM2k Brave has built-in adblock & a few more security features. (& Tor mode if you're into that) Only thing I wish they'd do is get rid of the Google ID built into every Chromium browser. brave.com/privacy-featur…

@tombyrer @BillyM2k What do you mean?