Dave Cooper

@paulg Durian is awesome, no matter how you slice it.

Tried a ripe durian today. I have such a bad sense of smell that it didn't bother me at all. The rest of the family was revolted though. None of them would try it, but Jessica let me kiss her afterward. She said it was "like kissing a rubbish bin".

Wishing everyone a sad Good Friday. We all need to remember the Lord Jesus at all times, who showed us in stark relief on the crucifix how our own sinful and nonsense activities can come down on the heads even of the sinless.

@Ngnghm I was totally the barbarian in India.

I've traveled my lot of countries, and I have to say this: about everywhere I travel, I feel like the civilized man amid barbarians. But so far I have experienced two exceptions: when in Japan, and when in Switzerland, I have felt like the barbarian amid civilized men.

@Jeremybtc Translation into another language is not necessarily new creative expression. If I translate a book into German, I cannot freely sell that translation as my own work. I need permission from original copyright holder.

Anthropic accidentally leaked their entire source code yesterday. What happened next is one of the most insane stories in tech history. > Anthropic pushed a software update for Claude Code at 4AM. > A debugging file was accidentally bundled inside it. > That file contained 512,000 lines of their proprietary source code. > A researcher named Chaofan Shou spotted it within minutes and posted the download link on X. > 21 million people have seen the thread. > The entire codebase was downloaded, copied and mirrored across GitHub before Anthropic's team had even woken up. > Anthropic pulled the package and started firing DMCA takedowns at every repo hosting it. > That's when a Korean developer named Sigrid Jin woke up at 4AM to his phone blowing up. > He is the most active Claude Code user in the world with the Wall Street Journal reporting he personally used 25 billion tokens last year. > His girlfriend was worried he'd get sued just for having the code on his machine. > So he did what any engineer would do. > He rewrote the entire thing in Python from scratch before sunrise. > Called it claw-code and Pushed it to GitHub. > A Python rewrite is a new creative work. DMCA can't touch it. > The repo hit 30,000 stars faster than any repository in GitHub history. > He wasn't satisfied. He started rewriting it again in Rust. > It now has 49,000 stars and 56,000 forks. > Someone mirrored the original to a decentralised platform with one message, "will never be taken down." > The code is now permanent. Anthropic cannot get it back. Anthropic built a system called Undercover Mode specifically to stop Claude from leaking internal secrets. Then they leaked their own source code themselves. You cannot make this up.

A strong case for why I'll never move from emacs. Objectively speaking, I don't see any editor that will ever come close in any aspect whatsoever, it really stood the test of time since its initial release.

@elonmusk Elevators run on rails & cables, far easier to automate than tires on pavement.

Elevators used to be manually operated and were especially risky if the operator was tired or inebriated. Now, you just get in, press a button and a modern elevator, if inspected regularly, is extremely safe.

@SamaHoole And these northern Indians were largely vegetarian. So I think your research is gradually leading you to the Vedic conclusion, i feel i've kind of seen that evolution in your postings as well.

@SamaHoole If you're going to push ghee then it's highly offensive also to push beef.

India ran the most important cardiovascular study of the 20th century by accident, and then immediately forgot about it. In 1967, Dr. S.L. Malhotra published a study in the British Heart Journal examining heart disease rates among 1.5 million Indian railway employees. The population was extraordinarily useful for research purposes: same employer, same healthcare access, comparable income and working conditions, spread across the entire country. The only meaningful variable was geography. Which meant diet. North Indian railway workers: Punjab, Rajasthan, UP, ate a diet built around ghee and dairy fat. They consumed up to 19 times more fat than their southern counterparts. The fat was primarily saturated: clarified butter, milk fat, the short-chain saturated fatty acids that Ancel Keys had recently been telling the Western world were arterial death. South Indian railway workers ate a diet based on rice, sambar, and seed oils: groundnut oil and sesame oil, primarily. They ate considerably less fat overall. By the standards of dietary advice being formulated in the 1960s, they should have been the healthy ones. Heart disease mortality in South India: 135 per 100,000. Heart disease mortality in North India: 20 per 100,000. Seven times higher in the population eating seed oils. Among railway sweepers specifically, the lowest-paid, most physically active workers, the gap was even wider. Heart disease was fifteen times more common in the South Indian sweeper population than in the North Indian sweeper population. Malhotra controlled for everything he could reach: smoking, where Northerners actually smoked more. Activity levels, where the relationship was inconsistent. Socioeconomic status, where executives died more often than sweepers regardless of region. He found no variable that explained the gap except the type of fat in the diet. He published the data. In a peer-reviewed journal. In 1967. The study was cited periodically, acknowledged as methodologically interesting, and then set aside. The decade in which Malhotra published was the decade in which Ancel Keys's fat hypothesis was being converted into policy. The American Heart Association was issuing guidance recommending polyunsaturated vegetable oils as replacements for saturated animal fats. The food industry was producing seed oils at industrial scale. The infrastructure of seed oil promotion was being built, expensively and with great institutional momentum. A study showing that populations eating animal fat had a fraction of the heart disease of populations eating seed oils was not, in that context, a study that anyone particularly wanted to follow up. Nobody followed up. Almost sixty years later, the finding stands unrefuted in the literature. It is not in the dietary guidelines.

@ojoshe @__mharrison__ "I'm not saying it's aliens. But it's aliens."

@dcooper8 @__mharrison__ I'm not saying it's a good idea. But it certainly would be easier now than ever before in history.

For my friends who are still using UV and might be a little weary about recent compromises to PyPi packages, stick this in your pyproject.toml. You can let all of those pip users find and report the compromises...

@xah_lee Is it porn because it begins with a naked foot?

@dcooper8 porn

yester twitter puts a warning on this post, lets see if it does now sans mentioning the word

@xah_lee Just for testing. I asked Claude Desktop to send an email to myself to test my CL smtp client configuration, which it easily did using its MCP connection to one of my CL-based service's lisp-eval tool.

@dcooper8 what u doing it for, and which ai, how?

the internet halt theory. in mid 2025, interactions on internet between humans came to an abrupt stop.

@xah_lee is that the lady from Pulp Fiction?

elon musk, still peddling his ai porn. we already knew ai can do it.

Is UPI possible to use anywhere outside India? I managed to get a working UPI app for my first trip to India last year and it's hard to imagine accomplishing everything I did without it. I feel UPI is primed to spread beyond India and beyond rupee/dollar denominations (kwh transactions?)

People of India! My OCI + Airtel + HDFC has culminated in a massive achievement and rite of initiation. I have made my first UPI payment. I’m now unstoppable.

@stylewarning Talk to me after we manage to replace gitlab.common-lisp.net with something non-ruby (an epic CL/Gendl/(maybe Coalton) gitlab replacement project, anyone?)

I feel like I don't hear much about Ruby anymore.

@xah_lee Trisolarans remind me of Sea Monkeys the way they can dehydrate and then rehydrate and come back to life.

Mike Evans from Three Body Problem.

@AndarConFe @AshtonForbes What is Jesus's name?

@AshtonForbes Aliens are demons bro. Demons can manifest as orbs, humanoids, greys. Funny thing when you invoke Jesus's name they flee....hmmmmm...

So anyway, I figured out that UFO thing. The United States solved gravity decades ago, it's connected to electromagnetism via an extra dimension. Tesla was right but Einstein was right too. There is an Aether and relativity allows for particle accelerators to produce real local 'gravity' effects. Like how we were afraid the LHC was going to make a black hole. This physics makes fusion reactors trivial. The orbs you're seeing flying around are dense plasma self organized by its own electromagnetic fields, with fusion happening for energy production. They are also linear particle accelerators that build up huge amounts of energy and use the byproducts for thrust. Like a mobile waterfall of plasma. It's a hyper efficient design that utilizes the properties of plasma sheaths for next level aerial capabilities such as 360 degree movement. These dense balls of energy soften spacetime. Make it easier to produce a bridge, or tunnel instantly between two points. The geometric patterns, equilateral triangle specifically has a purpose. At the center there is a null zone where all the electromagnetic fields cancel out. That's the safe spot for your wormhole/warp drive. I don't know who figured out spinning them around to help soften spacetime further, or converging them to exponentially amplify energy, but bravo. You just made a wormhole. You do need a destination though. Since everything is electromagnetic, the answer must be a counter force to the originating wormhole. 3 orbs +1 or 3 orbs + 3. Aliens? Sure yeah they're all real. Did you miss the part where I said we can make a wormhole? Also, this means energy is free btw. Bonus: Cold fusion was real, the Aether aka zero point energy is the outside source of the excess heat measured. Transmission resonance model explains why it only sometimes happened. Randell Mills of Brilliant Light Power has the experimental proof. His calorimetry data shows excess that cannot be explained by chemistry. He's just wrong it's not hydrinos, spacetime is being manipulated on via relativistic effects on tiny scales. Look at his data, it's peer reviewed and undeniable. Academia doesn't want to accept it because it proves them wrong. Have a good day.

@davidfrawleyved You're starting to sound like a raging Māyāvādī.

REMEMBER YOUR TRUE SELF Sanatana Dharma teaches us to know Pure Consciousness as our true Self, not to believe in a God or Creator outside ourselves to save us. If we know our true Self we have nothing other to be saved from. All illusion and sorrow disappears and the Universal Self, Paramatman alone remains beyond all death and sorrow.