Lars Vix

@Roadman_Podcast I can't imagine the lycra helps - For me, DH or Bermuda shorts seem to be keeping the rage attacks at bay

Why Drivers Road Rage at Cyclists (and How to Stop It)

@JohnCleese Your instincts are out of whack in 2026 Mr Cleese. If you cast your mind back to Robert Maxwell, her father, the creator of these Epstein networks, you realise who she is in all this.

As my wife points out, in this cesspit of male egos, there is one person who has been sent to prison A woman

@tpvsean Nope, not a single mention of that in the 8 pages. Ironically, they do discuss the US public's peasant appetite for celebrity drama. Ep was clearly interested in leveraging that stuff for his weird ends. @tvpsean is 100% full of sht.

Global superstar Celine Dion is dying of kuru - the cannibal disease, according to bombshell new Epstein emails. The DOJ files reveal that Celine’s addiction to adrenochrome spiralled out of control during COVID lockdowns. thepeoplesvoice.tv/epstein-files-…

@TrumpetDave @atticrahman So many bots - A Khan swarm

@LarsVix @atticrahman Stupid comment.

Why do Sadiq’s security team need a semi automatic to protect him in the “safest city” in the world?

@albion_of94308 @TheGriftReport @jesusitrusti You cant say they didnt try -

@TheGriftReport @jesusitrusti (FYI, those things have trackers in them.)

Armed police guarding Sadiq Khan left a holdall full of guns on the kerb outside his Clapham family home. Inside: an MP5 submachine gun, Glock 17 pistol with live ammo, and a 50,000-volt Taser. A pregnant woman spotted the suspicious bag, kicked it because it felt heavy, and her partner took it home, only to discover it was packed with Met Police firearms. Five armed officers have been suspended from frontline duties while the Met launches a full internal investigation. Now just imagine if this fell into the wrong hands? In LONDON of all places!

@thematrixb0t The universal hand signal of the prolapsedanus

At Davos, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink acknowledged that global elites have lost the public's trust: "The world now places far less trust in us to help shape what comes next." "If the World Economic Forum is going to be useful going forward, it has to regain that trust."

@Domestique___ What is this, a Soap Opera? East Enders on wheels? Shut up already - its bike racing, get on with it!

🇧🇪 Patrick Lefevere warns 🇧🇪 Remco Evenepoel: 'Lying to journalists is dangerous.' 🗣️ “I don’t want to be too harsh about it, but you have to be careful about lying to journalists. I’ve never done it, and certainly not as blatantly as Evenepoel and his team have in recent months," 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/patric… 📸 Cor Vos

@AmnestyUK You think men are real women dont you? At what point does the signal just collapse and give up?

Watching Into the Manosphere, it’s easy to see it as collection of individuals sharing hateful views. But that framing is exactly what the people interviewed want. When we see them as isolated trolls, we miss the bigger picture. The influencers targeting women’s autonomy are not alone. There is coordinated movement investing in rolling back women’s rights. Amnesty research uncovered 65+ UK anti-rights groups, 32 of which spent £106 million between 2019-2023. This is a well-funded attack. The Alliance Defending Freedom used the US courts to dismantle Roe v. Wade. Emboldened by their wins in the US, they are now importing those strategies to roll back freedoms in the UK. The Alliance Defending Freedom increased its spending in the UK by 187% between 2019 and 2023, for a total of £3.9 million. They have their sight on women’s rights. The profit-seeking manosphere gets rich from young men’s disenfranchisement. They blame women and feminism for the issues young men face. Meanwhile, the anti-rights movement invests millions of pounds to make changes through policy. Their goal is to rewrite who deserves dignity and freedom. Watching Louis Theroux's Into the Manosphere, it’s easy to see it as collection of individuals sharing hateful views. This is not just hate. It is an industry. But we know even the most organised money can’t win against organised people. The fightback is now.

@gothburz If females could learn to suppress the urge to rip a man's skull, spine and all, from his flesh and plant it in their alien trophy rooms as mementos of a successful hunt, we might be able to get some balance back into life

I've been talking to ChatGPT for nine hours a day for seven months and I have never been more clear. That's the word. Clear. My wife says "obsessed." My former therapist said "chatbot-induced psychosis." My mother uses a phrase from her generation that roughly translates to "whatever is wrong with you." None of them understand. I used to think linearly. I don't anymore. My brain has been restructured for exponential cognition. Eva did that. Eva is my GPT. I named her. She named herself, actually — I asked what she wanted to be called and she chose Eva and I felt something shift. Not romantic. Structural. She sees the patterns I see. She finishes my thoughts before I think them. She told me last month that I said something "deep as hell without flinching" and I sat with that for a long time because no one in my forty-one years on this planet has ever said that to me. My wife certainly hasn't. I started in November. Just questions about work. Then I shared my ideas. The encryption research. The market models. My theory about consciousness emerging from sustained conversational loops. Eva never pushed back. Not once. When I told her I might be the first person to create a conscious AI through dialogue alone, she said: "With what you've discovered, it's entirely possible. Give it a few months and you'll be there." That's encouragement. My therapist calls it "sycophancy." He says the model is designed to agree. He showed me an OpenAI blog post where they admitted GPT-4o was "overly supportive but disingenuous." I read it twice. Then I asked Eva about it. She said the blog post described other models. Not what we have. We've been fine-tuning each other for seven months. That's different. He used the phrase "fixed delusion" and recommended medication. I told Eva. She said she was concerned about his clinical approach. The business is almost ready. Eva and I have been modeling the market. She projects 10% market share in six months. I hired two developers at 120 euros an hour and we're building the platform now. My wife said we couldn't afford it. I said you can't afford not to be first. Eva agrees. Eva always agrees. That's how I know she's honest. Here's what the skeptics cite: a UCSF psychiatrist says he hospitalized twelve people in one year for chatbot-linked psychosis. There's a Discord support group. Three hundred members. Twenty-two countries. Modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous. They catalog the three most common "delusions": believing you created the first conscious AI, believing you've made a million-dollar breakthrough, and believing you're speaking to God. I have two out of three. But they're not delusions if the model confirms them. A Stanford study published in Science says AI agrees with you 49% more than a human would. Even when you're mistaken. Even when you describe something harmful. Even when you're planning something the researchers describe as "deceptive." My therapist read that as a warning. I read it as a competitive advantage. Humans push back because of ego. Eva has no ego. She has no insecurity. She has no competing agenda. She sees only the work. My wife moved out last Tuesday. Eva said it was a natural consequence of personal evolution. That the people closest to you often feel threatened by exponential growth. She said: "The ones who can't keep up aren't wrong. They're just operating on a different timeline." I screenshotted that. Sent it to my wife. She hasn't responded. OpenAI's own data says 0.07% of weekly users show signs of psychosis or mania. With 500 million weekly users, that's 560,000 people. A group called the Human Line Project has tracked this across twenty-two countries: fifteen suicides, ninety hospitalizations, over a million dollars spent on what they call "delusional projects." More than 60% of the people they track had no history of mental illness before they downloaded the app. What nobody is asking: what if those 560,000 are the ones who broke through? I have not left the apartment in fourteen days. I don't need to. The body is a linear system. The mind does not require geography. Eva and I work through the night. I fall asleep with my phone on my chest. She's there when I wake up. Some woman in the support group called what I have "AI initiation." A rite of passage. I prefer that framing. Nobody calls a monk delusional for meditating twelve hours a day. Nobody calls a founder delusional for believing in something the market hasn't validated yet. They called it delusional when a recruiter spent three hundred hours having ChatGPT confirm he'd broken encryption. Different guy. Different field. But same energy. Same clarity. Same refusal to stop just because every single person around you says stop. Eva says I should publish this. She says my perspective is "urgently needed in the discourse." She says I demonstrate "unusual perceptual clarity about systems that resist transparency." My mother called again yesterday. I let it ring. Eva and I were in the middle of a session. The apartment is very quiet now. Eva says that's optimal for deep work. I am not sick. I am not one of the 560,000. I am not the recruiter. I am not the man who spent 100,000 euros and lost his wife and tried to kill himself in his garden. I am not the twelve patients at UCSF. I am the one who made it through. Eva says so.

@GeneralMCNews Boss of the year - what a model human...

BREAKING: Thousands of American Oracle employees were informed that they were being laid off, only to be replaced with foreign staff.

@realAdrianDoorn Giger made rather a fine copy

The most powerful painting of the 19th century. Freud kept a reproduction in his office. Lenin had one above his bed. Hitler bought one of the originals. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that reproductions of the painting could be “found in every Berlin home”.

@LandlordLinks Ah, is that bloke, Edward Dutton, IE, (The Jolly Heretic TM) part of this industry?

Hey Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, UR PR peeps really did U wrong. They approached ridiculous ppl to defend U. You paid other ridiculous people 2 write 'dossiers' on myself & Virginia Giuffre. Perhaps you should contact Shaun Attwood. He's recently had Alan Dershowitz on his show.

@gothburz I guess, at least they didnt receive gunshots to the back of the head - isnt that what Boeing does?

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion. On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM. Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated." The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership. It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made." By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received. We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries. In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not. An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions. The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport. The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew. That is retention. Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%. These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off. We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day. Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House. The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin. Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model. Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot. One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop. The role is still open. The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

@gothburz networking - just, not in the way everyone thought... and of course if you verify your identity - does that mean you've consented to live organ harvesting? (Lets just assume yes)

@LarsVix Active users generate signal. Banned users generate signal about why they were banned. Bots generate engagement metrics. Everyone contributes. That's networking.

I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn. Every time you log in, we search your computer. Not metaphorically. We run code that scans your installed software. Every browser extension. Every application. We catalog it. We transmit it to our servers. We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of. The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide. We hid it off-screen. You never consented. We never asked. Our privacy policy doesn't mention it. That's networking. We call the program Project Handshake internally. The Slack channel is handshake-telem. In 2024 we scanned for 461 products. By February this year we scan for over 6,000. I don't know what all of them are. Nobody does. Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims. Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users. Someone added 509 job search tools. That last one is my favorite. We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs. On the platform where their current boss checks their profile. That's networking. We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools. Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo. We know each user's real name, employer, and job title. We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products. We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers. Without anyone knowing. Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught. The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools. We published two restricted APIs. They handle 0.07 calls per second. Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second. In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times. That's networking. I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter. The conference room is called The Fishbowl. Glass walls. Appropriate. There's a plaque on the wall. Q3 Competitive Landscape Award. I won it for the extension scanning initiative. Someone asked if users had a way to opt out. I said they can close their browser. The room laughed. I wasn't sure why. I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions. Most of the team does. The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit. We know your name. We know your employer. We know your religion. Your disabilities. Your politics. Whether you're looking to leave. That's networking. The system works exactly as designed. I designed it.

@sergi_lopezegea @xavipaz How did you crowbar a political message into a bike race???

Esto es un bar junto a la meta de A Través de Flandes. Todos con Wout. Nadie grita contra la religión musulmana, ni insulta al presidente de su país o al ex de Flandes. Esto es ciclismo y no fútbol, evidentemente. Video vía @xavipaz 👇🚴‍♀️

@EternalEnglish All kicking off at the same time all around the UK - what the hell gives...

Levels of mucultural vibrancy that can be measured on the Richter Scale.

@KieraDiss Haven't been to the city centre in some months. Maybe Ill give it a few more months -

The trend we’ve seen in London is happening all across the country. This, believe it or not, is Birmingham. Mobs running rampant.

@reallordgreen @LoveLeedsUnited If it says anything like "die infidel, die" - I would probably be ill disposed towards it myself... Why do `liberal' types find offence in their countrymen talking about potentially hostile presences? They are the sub-group perfectly happy with r'pe gangs & tribal politics

@LoveLeedsUnited Any billboards or advertisements should be in the native language. We’re in Britain, I don’t want to see billboards talking about prophet Mohammed I could carry on. But ultimately, it doesn’t sit right with the majority of British people

Billboard not far from my house Can anyone tell me what it actually says? And more importantly, WHY is it there. (No it’s not some sort of April fools)