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These photos of 70-foot-tall light cones may look beautiful, but scratch the surface and they actually represent fascinating theories about the space-time continuum. petapixel.com/2026/04/02/the…

@StanphylCap @robert_lyman @EylonALevy You know they had to rebuild the bridge after accidentally blowing it up the first time? youtu.be/q951qv7EbKs?si…

@robert_lyman @EylonALevy Does that clown know how many great World War 2 movies revolved around blowing a strategic bridge, lol? Were they all "war crime movies" too? What a fucking idiot.

We’re lost. This is a masterclass in explaining why we are entirely undefended, when policy makers like Tom Fletcher do not understand war. I know he’s UN, but people like this are listened to by a U.K. government keen to align itself to ‘progressive’ principles of engagement that mean we will never be able properly to fight to protect our interests. In war, none of the things Fletcher mentions are war crimes, and are perfectly legitimate - and important - targets. The @BBCr4today appears also clueless in failing to properly challenge this utter nonsense.

@WKCosmo @drdwhitehouse Yes multiverse string theory good Homer Shakespeare Dante bad!

@drdwhitehouse The version of the quote that I'm familiar with is much wittier, and much wiser: "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." — Dirac

Debatable.

@ylecun @nxthompson Yes vectors !! youtu.be/fVq4_HhBK8Y?si…

@nxthompson So much BS

Anthropic researchers say that Claude has internal representations of emotions—which they categorized by vectors—that can influence alignment. This is what they found in that famous instance where it resorted to blackmail to avoid being shut down. anthropic.com/research/emoti…

@nxthompson Yessss vector victor!! youtu.be/fVq4_HhBK8Y?si…

@StanphylCap Yes good movie! But not quite this good youtu.be/LUy2Wx_r0_w?si…

From the opening shots of L.A. freeways at night, EVERY scene & character in "Crime 101" (Prime) is a "Heat"-wannabe. That said, it's not bad; the big flaw is Hemsworth- he's way too clean-cut for his role and not a good enough actor to cast against type. imdb.com/title/tt324305…

@romanhelmetguy And here you are engagement farming lol

I don’t know if you guys have fully internalized that America is about to simultaneously invent superintelligence and monopolize outer space.

@WKCosmo Wow I’ve never seen science hype before!

It certainly is not going to "transform our understanding of the Big Bang." Sorry.

This article is very strange, because it frames the theory as an alternative to inflation, but when you read the paper ... it's an inflation model.

@WKCosmo lol string theory lol

I don't really think "Does string theory describe the world?" has ever been "taboo", whatever that is actually supposed to mean.

A really good piece about bootstrapping string theory by @nattyover .

@ProfBrianCox @SanteSuzie @grok Brian Cox calls it his experiment stating: “my old PhD experiment at DESY”, but how many people were actually involved in DESY?

Spent a day at my old PhD experiment at DESY in Hamburg. This is what remains of H1 - a particle detector that mapped the structure of the inside of the proton (and I used to explore Pomerons … but that’s a lot more difficult to explain in a tweet).

@shanedk @jefflindsay @simplifyinAI Why did you delete the debunking bro?

It was a thread on the original posting. I'm not sure what the link is. That's why this is so nefarious: it leaves people not realizing, and with little way of finding out, that there even IS a debunking! They just post it as if it's the initial post (including the word BREAKING) and start over.

🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI and Google are about to have a massive legal problem. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have repeatedly sworn to courts that their models do not store exact copies of copyrighted books. They claim their "safety training" prevents regurgitation. Researchers just dropped a paper called "Alignment Whack-a-Mole" that proves otherwise. They didn't use complex jailbreaks or malicious prompts. They just took GPT-4o, Gemini, and DeepSeek, and fine-tuned them on a normal, benign task: expanding plot summaries into full text. The safety guardrails instantly collapsed. Without ever seeing the actual book text in the prompt, the models started spitting out exact, verbatim copies of copyrighted books. Up to 90% of entire novels, word-for-word. Continuous passages exceeding 460 words at a time. But here is the part that changes everything. They fine-tuned a model exclusively on Haruki Murakami novels. It didn't just learn Murakami. It unlocked the verbatim text of over 30 completely unrelated authors across different genres. The AI wasn't learning the text during fine-tuning. The text was already permanently trapped inside its weights from pre-training. The fine-tuning just turned off the filter. It gets worse. They tested models from three completely different tech giants. All three had memorized the exact same books, in the exact same spots. A 90% overlap. It's a fundamental, industry-wide vulnerability. For years, AI companies have argued in court that their models are just "learning patterns," not storing raw data. This paper provides the smoking gun.

@stringking42069 @TOEwithCurt What about @EricRWeinstein @skdh @DrBrianKeating @ProfAviLoeb ? Where do they exist in this spectrum?

A skill that’s useful for one to develop is the power to distinguish between “the person I’m reading is obfuscating / is nonsense” vs. “I don’t have the requisite background to understand / appreciate what this person is saying.”

@PathOfMen_ You are depressed because your ancestors fought and danced and ate meals together and you tweet alone in the dark while staring at a glowing rectangle.

You are depressed because your ancestors fought and danced and ate meals together and you eat alone in the dark while staring at a glowing rectangle

@megha_lilly Yes thank Goodness Shakespeare and Dante wrote their works in Latin for the wealthy aristocracy! And thank goodness Jesus preached in Latin for the scholars!

If you make things for “the masses” you will always make something mediocre and ugly. Because “the masses” evaluated as such, have no taste, and value only max benefit for min price. If you make things for the cultivated aristocrat within you, or the discerning peasant, you will make something beautiful, long lasting and eternal. And you will probably also get richer. Not faster, but in the long term. Depends how you value your time and work.

@CatilinaSergius @wyomingiliad @megha_lilly Yes! Jesus gave the Word to the world, not just the elite aristocracy, as some preach today.

@45surf @wyomingiliad @megha_lilly Whose hoarding the gospels? They’re the most widely distributed books in the history of the printed word, thanks to God.

@CatilinaSergius @wyomingiliad @megha_lilly Then go forth, ye sinner, and repent of hoarding the gospel for your eyes only, and share the Word with the World.

@wyomingiliad @45surf @megha_lilly I certainly have not found it in myself to live without sin. I’m a sinner and need His mercy . I see Matthew leaving his secure position and think could I ever do that? What an uncharitable assumption you have about my opinions.

@CatilinaSergius @wyomingiliad @megha_lilly Have you studied religion? grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5… Jesus’ Preaching to the Masses: A Deliberate Outreach to the Common People in First-Century Judea

@wyomingiliad @megha_lilly Christ tailored his message not for the masses, not even for the nobles but the for the Saints. A class rarer than all others. Hid call to action is far harder and more radical than making something beautiful so not really sure where this line of thought leads you.

@Athens_Stranger @arty_burton Joyce Carol Oates? @BarneysRubble0

@arty_burton @45surf No

When asked the first question during his oral defense for his PhD in philosophy, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century took a moment, and then said: “That question must be seen in terms of seven parts, the first of which is in two parts…” He continued for over an hour

@dreamsOfElihu @Athens_Stranger @AncPhi Lolololilololoool so you think ai understands Plato lol

@Athens_Stranger @AncPhi AI can be helpful as a conversation partner at a high level when reading Plato

Plato would be against all of this— technology supplanting the human, the idea that a robot can "teach," the perverse belittling of knowledge, the sterile impersonality of it all. Humans teach humans.