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Springtime inspiration 🐰🌷🥚💐🐇🌱🕊️

@SecDuffy Hope people are watching @PenguinSix youtube channel, great man-on-the-ground and behind the scenes coverage of Washington DC and the White House.

BWI travelers are being told to arrive FOUR HOURS ahead of their flight! Thank a Democrat for this mess.

@PenguinSix Cool to see @SecDuffy quote you. Appreciate your man on the ground coverage of all things DC 🫡

People entering security checkpoint at 3:00pm at BWI reported they arrived to line up at 9:00am. The line triple loops the length of the airport outside and passengers report it snakes around inside for another 2 hours.

@AHomelyHouse Gorgeous work, wonderful to see 🤩

This is one of my 10-year-old daughter's practice sheets from last October when she was first learning Carolingian calligraphic script. She has since then hand-written 20% of the Latin Psalter. Children can learn to do things with care and make things they're proud of.

@Glastomichelle Thank you for sharing 💚

A clear start to the day here in Glastonbury. Photo taken on my way back down Glastonbury Tor.

@hasantoxr Could be a good way to transcribe handwritten notebooks? Read them out loud into a portable recording device, then use the Insanely Fast Whisper local app to create a text file document.

🚨 BREAKING: Someone just made OpenAI's Whisper transcribe 2.5 hours of audio in 98 seconds. 100% OPEN SOURCE. It runs entirely on your GPU. No API keys. No cloud. No subscription. It's called Insanely Fast Whisper. You drop in an audio file. One command. You come back and there's a clean, timestamped transcript waiting. Not a rough draft. Not a partial output. The entire thing. Done. Not a wrapper. Not a web app. A CLI that turns your local machine into a transcription engine that makes paid services look embarrassing. Here's what it does on its own: → Transcribes 150 minutes of audio in under 98 seconds using Flash Attention 2, same model, 19x faster, zero quality loss → Auto-detects language across dozens of languages, or translates directly into English with a single flag → Speaker diarization built in, knows who said what, not just what was said → Word-level and chunk-level timestamps so you can jump to any exact moment in any recording → Runs on NVIDIA GPUs and Apple Silicon Macs with zero code changes between them → Works on Google Colab free tier if you don't own a GPU at all Here's how fast it actually is: Standard Whisper large-v3 out of the box: 31 minutes to process 2.5 hours of audio. The same exact model with Flash Attention 2 and batching: 1 minute 38 seconds. Same weights. Same accuracy. One flag difference. Here's the wildest part: This never started as a product. It was a benchmark demo to show what Hugging Face Transformers could do. Then the community started using it for real work. Podcast transcription. Legal recordings. Research interviews. Meeting notes at scale. The team kept adding what people actually needed until a benchmark became a full CLI that nobody planned to build. 8.8K GitHub stars. 100% Open Source.

@Fresh_Cure Nice repost @anwit07

THESE RECIPES ARE YOURS 🍯 1. Caramel Sauce Ingredients: • 1 cup sugar • ½ cup heavy cream • 4 tbsp butter • ¼ tsp salt Instructions: 1. Heat sugar in a pan over medium heat until melted and golden. 2. Add butter and stir until combined. 3. Slowly pour in cream (be careful, it will bubble). 4. Stir until smooth, then add salt. 5. Let cool before serving. 🍫 2. Chocolate Sauce Ingredients: • 1 cup chocolate chips • ½ cup heavy cream • 1 tbsp butter • ½ tsp vanilla extract Instructions: 1. Heat cream until warm (not boiling). 2. Add chocolate chips and butter. 3. Stir until melted and smooth. 4. Mix in vanilla and serve. 🍓 3. Strawberry Sauce Ingredients: • 2 cups strawberries • ⅓ cup sugar • 1 tbsp lemon juice Instructions: 1. Cook strawberries and sugar in a pan. 2. Mash lightly as they soften. 3. Add lemon juice. 4. Simmer 10–15 minutes until thick. 5. Cool and serve. 🍦 4. Vanilla Sauce Ingredients: • 1 cup milk • ¼ cup sugar • 2 egg yolks • 1 tsp vanilla extract Instructions: 1. Heat milk until warm. 2. Whisk egg yolks and sugar. 3. Slowly add warm milk to eggs (temper). 4. Cook on low heat until thick. 5. Add vanilla and stir. 🍇 5. Raspberry Sauce Ingredients: • 2 cups raspberries • ¼ cup sugar • 1 tsp lemon juice Instructions: 1. Cook raspberries and sugar. 2. Mash and simmer 10 minutes. 3. Add lemon juice. 4. Strain seeds if desired. 5. Serve warm or chilled. 🧂 6. Salted Caramel Sauce Ingredients: • 1 cup sugar • ½ cup heavy cream • 4 tbsp butter • ½ tsp sea salt Instructions: 1. Melt sugar until golden. 2. Add butter and mix. 3. Slowly add cream. 4. Stir until smooth. 5. Add sea salt and cool. 🍫 7. White Chocolate Sauce Ingredients: • 1 cup white chocolate • ½ cup heavy cream • ½ tsp vanilla extract Instructions: 1. Heat cream gently. 2. Add white chocolate and stir until melted. 3. Mix in vanilla. 4. Serve warm. 🍋 8. Lemon Sauce Ingredients: • ½ cup sugar • ½ cup water • 2 tbsp butter • Zest & juice of 1 lemon Instructions: 1. Heat sugar and water until dissolved. 2. Add butter and lemon juice/zest. 3. Simmer until slightly thick. 4. Cool and serve. 🫐 9. Blueberry Sauce Ingredients: • 2 cups blueberries • ¼ cup sugar • 1 tbsp lemon juice • ½ tsp cornstarch Instructions: 1. Cook blueberries and sugar. 2. Add lemon juice. 3. Mix cornstarch with water and add. 4. Simmer until thick. 5. Cool and serve.

Super cool original idea, illuminated manuscript illustrations for young people to color and learn the art form and the historical literature. Great to purchase educational materials directly from an artist and father.

@unidentifiedta1 Prescient

@NesaraGesara0 Top drawer entertainment, keep going, don't stop now!

BREAKING: US ARMY UNDER TRUMP’S DIRECT COMMAND UNLEASHES OPERATION HOLY FIRE FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT KING TRUMP GAVE THE ORDER AT 0200 HOURS: THE UNITED STATES ARMY HAS ACTIVATED HOLY FIRE PROTOCOL WORLDWIDE. THOUSANDS CONVULSING IN THE STREETS OF DC, NEW YORK, AND LA AS BLACK ENTITIES EXPLODE INTO ASH UNDER MILITARY SPOTLIGHTS. US ARMY NOW FULLY OCCUPYING WALL STREET TRADING FLOORS, HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS, AND REMAINING CAPITOL TUNNEL ENTRANCES.

@thedankoe People misinterpret what their competition is too. When I worked in a big used bookstore, I said, our competition isn't the bookstore across the street. Our competition is television (and other ways that people spend time besides reading).

Competition is largely an illusion. 95% of people don't even try to do great things. 0.1% of the people are loud, so you overestimate how many people there are. The rest get stuck worrying about competition and quitting after 2 weeks.

@gothburz Great to hear!

@BetterParties Working on exactly that. Stay tuned.

There are four categories. You are in one of them. Nobody asked which one you'd like. I am the CEO of Perplexity. My company is worth $20 billion. I am 31 years old. Last week I said losing your job to AI could be a "glorious" thing. I said it at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference. On a podcast. In front of an audience of people who build the tools. Everyone nodded. I said: "The reality is most people don't enjoy their jobs." I have had one job. I have had it for three years. It made me a billionaire. I enjoy it very much. But the data is clear. Most people do not enjoy theirs. I said people displaced by AI could start their own businesses. I used the word "mini." Mini businesses. My example was someone selling t-shirts from their garage. Using AI tools to handle invoicing, inventory, marketing. No employees. No funding. Just the tools. My company has raised $1.5 billion in venture capital. My advice to the displaced is: sell t-shirts. From your garage. The average American small business earns less than $50,000 in its first year. The average tech worker who lost their job was making six figures. That is a pay cut. We call it an opportunity. We call it the glorious future. My company is an AI search engine. It summarizes content from the internet. A significant amount of that content was written by journalists. Many of those journalists have been laid off in the past two years. Some of them have started newsletters. Some of those newsletters are summarized by our product. I did not mention this on the podcast. I mentioned the t-shirts. Your company has a version of this. They may not use the word "categories." They may use "workforce planning" or "strategic alignment" or "future-state org design." But somewhere in a slide deck you have not seen, there is a chart. The chart has boxes. You are in one of the boxes. The box was not a conversation. It was a decision. You were not in the room. Another CEO said the chart out loud this month. Alex Karp. Palantir. His company builds AI software for the CIA, NSA, and ICE. Alex said: "There are basically two ways to know you have a future. One, you have some vocational training. Or two, you're neurodivergent." Two categories. Alex has dyslexia. Alex is in the second category. At Davos, Alex told people with philosophy degrees: "hopefully, you have some other skill." Alex has a philosophy degree. He also has a defense company. So Alex is fine. He created two fellowships at Palantir. One for the neurodivergent. One for high school graduates willing to skip college. The pitch: "Earn the Palantir degree." The Palantir degree does not transfer to other institutions. Between the two of us, Alex and I have simply said the chart out loud. Here are the categories: 1. Tradespeople. Plumbers. Electricians. Safe until the robots can sweat-solder copper. We are funding the robotics companies. That is a separate conversation. 2. Neurodivergent individuals. Strategically valuable. See the Palantir fellowship. 3. Entrepreneurs. They will use our tools to start mini businesses. Many of them will be selling things to other entrepreneurs who also lost their jobs and also started mini businesses. That is an ecosystem. 4. Everyone else. Everyone else gets the glorious future. We wish them well. "Even if there is temporary job displacement to deal with, that sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to." That is my full quote. I said "even if." As though it is one of several possible outcomes. It is not. But "even if" is a warm way to say it. The tools are neutral. The displacement is temporary. The future is glorious. I believe all of it. Some say AI is not causing the layoffs. The narrative is useful either way. Nobody has asked which category they would like to be in. But the categories exist whether you choose them or not. That is not something we decided. That is the market. The market decided. We built the tools. The tools are available. I will be at GTC again next year. I look forward to hearing what the garages have built. We will summarize it.

@iamrodneysmith Raising Men Lawn Care Service is an outstanding youth development program. Always proud to support this work with my $ARK Ark Institute vote.

This could be your child this summer… standing proudly in their black shirt with brand new lawn equipment after completing the 50 Yard Challenge. By mowing 50 FREE lawns for the elderly, disabled, single parents, veterans, first responders, and active-duty service members in their community, they earn more than just equipment, they gain confidence, character, and a heart for serving others. Click the link below to learn more and sign your child up today. Let’s raise a generation that makes a difference, one lawn at a time. Sign up: bit.ly/50yardsignup

@CaryKelly11 I saw footage of a factory full of spinning machines running autonomously. They can only do that with synthetics that are always consistent. Natural fibers vary from season to season and source to source, they change with age and humidity, and require fine tuning by humans.

I struggle to find clothes to wear that aren't made of polyester and this Irish gal is composting wool because nobody wants it. This is bloomsandgreensbychloe on IG

My first crypto purchase March 27 2020, six years ago today. It was a livestream interview with Austin Steinbart @A_Steinbart that got me into it. Walked through that door and never looked back. Nothing's been the same since, no regrets.

emergency repair kit all sewed up

Spanish markets uncoupling 'unbuckling'? (Latin America?) Land buckling/earth movement?

hearing 'buckle up' from all quarters will we know more by close of day

@iamrodneysmith Rodney always brings the Good News 🙏

“You just don’t know how much this means to me.” Those are words often said to the kids in our program after helping someone who truly needed it. Through the 50 Yard Challenge, these kids are stepping up and making a real difference in the lives of many especially the elderly and disabled individuals many of whom are living on fixed incomes. When a child shows up and mows their lawn for free, it’s more than just yard work. It can mean one less expense, allowing that person to put their money toward what truly matters like food, medication, and daily essentials. Parents, talk to your child about joining the 50 Yard Challenge today. Your child has the power to make a real impact in someone’s life—one lawn at a time.