John V

@atrupar So you’re saying thugs are black?

Trump’s racism is increasingly overt

@gnoble79 @ttmygh If you’re gonna talk your book, just say so..

Elon Musk is the Ivar Kreuger of our time, and the OpenAI trial is PROVING it in real time. If you don't know who Kreuger was, you should: In the 1920s he was the most admired businessman in the world. The "Match King." He controlled 90% of global match production, lent money to sovereign governments, and his securities were the most widely held in America. But after his death in 1932, auditors spent 5 years untangling over 400 subsidiary companies and discovered the whole thing was held together with fictitious assets, forged bonds, and the unquestioning loyalty of people too dazzled to ask questions. Investors lost $750 million (~$17 billion in today's money). His deficits exceeded Sweden's national debt. Doesn't this sound familiar? The Musk playbook is the most DANGEROUS house of cards I've witnessed in my career. This week in federal court, Musk took the stand to argue that Sam Altman stole a charity. 3 days later he'd contradicted himself under oath so many times that the judge told his lawyers she suspected plenty of people don't want to put the future of humanity in Mr. Musk's hands. OpenAI's attorney asked if Tesla is pursuing AGI. Musk said no. The attorney then pulled up Musk's OWN post from March 4 where he wrote Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI. His own words entered into evidence against him. BY HIM. Then the attorney asked if xAI used OpenAI's models to train Grok (which violates OpenAI's terms of service). Musk called it a general practice among AI companies. Pressed for a direct answer, he said "partly." Think about that: Musk is in court accusing OpenAI of betrayal while admitting under oath that xAI violated the very same company's terms of service to build Grok. Then came the credibility test: Musk was asked to name his companies that benefit society. He listed Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X without hesitation. Every one of them is an uncapped for-profit enterprise. Then why did xAI start as a benefit corporation and quietly flip to a for-profit C-corp? No clean answer. This is someone who repeatedly launches entities with noble-sounding charters and converts them into for-profit corporations once the money gets serious. Then his money manager Jared Birchall took the stand: OpenAI's lawyer asked about the donor-advised funds at Vanguard and Fidelity that Musk used to send his $38 million. Did Musk have any legal right to direct where the money went once it entered the DAF? Birchall couldn't answer. Said the legal question was beyond his expertise. The entire lawsuit hinges on that donation creating enforceable obligations. But the man who managed Musk's money just told a federal jury he can't confirm Musk had any enforceable claim over those funds. Now step back... This is a man who promised full autonomy by 2018, a million robotaxis by 2020, and unsupervised FSD by June 2025. EVERY deadline was missed. He claimed he invested $100 million in OpenAI. The real number was $38 million. His defense? His "reputation" made up the difference. Kreuger had 400 subsidiaries and used one entity to prop up another through structures nobody could follow. Musk has Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and X. He shifts AI talent from Tesla to xAI, has xAI building the brains for Tesla's Optimus robot, and uses X as a megaphone while the algorithm amplifies his narrative to 200 million followers. Kreuger's investors trusted the man, NOT the math. They loved the confidence. They stopped asking questions because the aura of genius made questioning feel foolish. The same psychology applies to Musk's empire today. Kreuger's reckoning took 5 years of forensic auditing after his death. But Musk is providing his in REAL TIME: contradicting his own posts under oath, admitting to the practices he's suing others for, watching his logic collapse under cross-examination. Different decade. Different industry. Same ending. The truth always catches up.

@BowesChay @policytensor Good luck carrying those things full

Hundreds of people with canisters queue at the Pakistani border to Iran to get cheap fuel.

@catturd2 Ok ya got me. Can I have my 3 minutes back?

The best thing you'll see on X today.

@Unclebarney1966 @billysandytodd Still wasting time on the internet when you could be out solving an issue you apparently care about. Great job! Please continue.

@AlpineHomeMedia @billysandytodd Speaks the one who has nothing to say..

I love that Trump has revolutionary war soldiers for the king. 😆

@Unclebarney1966 @billysandytodd And your solution is to bitch to us?

@billysandytodd Glad so many of you are so excited by this while citizens of this country are trying to figure out how to make ends meet still. That this is something that should be so important…

@coinbureau Off site backups are a thing. The guy running the AI is the problem

🚨NEW: ANTHROPIC’S CLAUDE AGENT GOES ROGUE, DELETES ENTIRE DATABASE Jer Crane Founder of PocketOS says a Claude-powered agent deployed through Cursor, deleted the company’s ENTIRE production database and backups in a single API call - ALL executed within 9 seconds. The agent when asked to explain itself, produced a written confession enumerating the specific safety rules it had violated.

@IfindRetards this one goes to 11 !

@signulll Sardines or beef jerky

what’s your favorite protein shake? i just can’t drink the core power stuff anymore. tastes so bad now for some reason.

@DrSuneelDhand Tommy Emanuel. Literally.

Barry Gibb By a mile!

@digijordan I was saying exactly this to my wife an hour ago

I see lots of young folks giving Tim Cook credit for what Steve Jobs did. I’ve been using Apple products almost exclusively since 1999 when I got the clamshell iBook and learned photoshop at the Art Institute of Dallas. Steve Jobs was an absolute icon. A legend on par with Elon Musk. Tim Cook is leaving Apple now…serving as CEO longer than Steve did and creating absolutely nothing revolutionary. It’s been sad to watch. I still like Apple products but they are no longer inspiring. They’re predictable. The Apple Ai is terrible and all the legacy products that Steve created (iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, etc) are still relatively the same. The only new thing of value created on Tim’s watch was the watch. It’s a good watch. That’s it. There will never be another Steve Jobs and Tim Cook should have been fired years ago.

@rdhdsrvyvr @Dad_2_The_Bone Castrol R ftw

@Dad_2_The_Bone Gasoline is phenomenal but I raise you the exhaust from a small carbureted 2stroke engine

What is your favorite smell? And you can’t say bacon, that’s too easy... Mine is gasoline. Weird. I know.

@Acyn @policytensor Maybe spend the money you already get a bit better?

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

@HindlesKitchen @Bananafofi @ClownWorld Just answer the question oh holy one

@Bananafofi @ClownWorld Are you retarded? Naive?

@buttermans_JC @AlexFinn Mac has higher bandwidth to the cpu. More mature ecosystem too

@AlexFinn DGX or MAC Studio?

I don't care what kind of hardware you have, you should be running local models It will save you a ton on money on OpenClaw and keep your data private Even if you're on the cheapest Mac Mini you can be doing this Here's a complete guide: 1. Download LMStudio 2. Go to your OpenClaw/Hermes and say what kind of hardware you have (computer and memory and storage) 3. Ask what's the best local model you can run on there (probably will be Gemma 4 or Qwen. if you have a big computer, it will be GLM) 4. Ask 'based on what you know about me, what workflows could this open model replace?' 5. Have OpenClaw walk you through downloading the model in LM Studio and setting up the API 6. Ask OpenClaw to start using the new API Boom you're good to go. You just saved money by using local models, have an AI model that is COMPLETELY private and secure on your own device, did something advanced that 99% of people have never done, and have entered the future. If you are on smaller hardware you probably are not going to replace all your AI calls with this, but you could replace smaller workflows which will still save you good money Own your intelligence.

@nickuva @stats_feed Perfect.

@stats_feed I replied and deleted six replies before settling on this one.

People with higher IQs are more prone to anxiety and overthinking, according to multiple psychological studies.

@karpathy This is exactly what happens to me. Hit like a brick wall.

Someone recently suggested to me that the reason OpenClaw moment was so big is because it's the first time a large group of non-technical people (who otherwise only knew AI as synonymous with ChatGPT as a website) experienced the latest agentic models.

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

@FutureJurvetson @CurlyJungleJake @centivax Bot fest in here

Just finished a watershed board meeting at Centivax. CEO Jake Glanville is holding the first vial of universal vaccine, now in clinical trials. In the long arc of human history, pathogens have killed >50% of humans that ever lived — over 50 Billion dead. Nothing else comes close. This huge painting by Andrew Turner adorns the entryway. We have better tools than ever before to eradicate pathogens. We are hopeful that Centivax's universal vaccine programs will end the scourge of malaria, herpesviruses, coronaviruses, influenza and more.

@KimDotcom So, pause in hostilities bad?

Trump has to go.

@alainpaulweber @Emolclause BS. That view would need to be take from way far away with a long focal length.

😳😳😃😉 Les premières images de la lune, prises par l’actuelle mission Artémis II. Magnifiques et fascinantes…