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@Matt_Camenzuli You could say it's revolutionary

Somebody made a machine that runs just like the Australian political system. Note how the blackness runs between the blue bottle and the red bottle. Note that it is a closed system. Like an infinity loop.

Sovereignty isn't choosing well between two options. It's refusing the premise that those are the only options.

Only the intended disagreement keeps the puzzle alive. The puzzle setter presented two losing answers — the reactions reveal they've already won.

The button poll is interesting, not for the answers but because it's pushing people's buttons, which is its whole point.

El pájaro sastre es famoso por su asombrosa habilidad para construir nidos "cosiendo" hojas. 😊

Ask yourself: “what am I actually trying to accomplish, and is this game the most effective path to that?” Not “how do I win this game?” but “should I be playing it at all?” This question is surprisingly rare, because the game’s existence creates a powerful illusion of necessity.

Tiny Moon 'Daphnis' creating giant waves in Saturn's Rings.

@redl3tters This goes deeper than gender dynamics. Living authentically means living with integrity. That means you will not always get what you want, because integrity requires fidelity to what is true and good, not merely to what is desired. The reward is alignment with the greater good.

Conceptually, it's easy to separate "good" from "attractive". A quick thought experiment for the fellas: -You like nice asses in mini skirts, right? -But many women who have nice asses, and who can rock a mini skirt, are depraved little hoodrats, yes? -And yet, even if they are, you still can't help being into the nice-ass-in-mini-skirt thing, can you? Mhmm. -But for the select few who have themselves together... well that's just icing on the cake, isn't it? So that's the easy analysis. The traits that spark visceral attraction are ancient and in our blood and don't answer to moral concerns. Morality and base attraction operate on different planes. But there is a complicating factor for men, which is: Male attractiveness is much more heavily weighted toward behavior. And sometimes the behavioral traits that get women going aren't aligned with what most would consider "good". When guys start reading the redpill basics they learn things like: -Ignoring a girl is often a conduit to making her hot for you -Cocky asshole behavior can be a great way to spark early interest -Socially dominating other men will bring you many happy returns And let's not dance around this: it's all true generally speaking. Any guy who has started out as a quiet, shy nerd and then learned to develop a confident asshole persona knows this. There's no point arguing otherwise. So when guys start trying to apply these lessons, they get twisted up––their internal monologue always sorting through seemingly contradictory points: -Isn't it better to be friendly in a crowd? Or do I have to sacrifice kindness for women's interest? -How can I "ignore" someone I like and still get with them? Don't I have to initiate? -By pretending not to care, am I not just lying? Isn't that a bad way to start off with someone? As guys try to sort through this, many become resentful from feeling like they have to lean on an inauthentic persona to achieve romantic success. That's where the lashing out comes from. The tension between wanting to present yourself one way, but fearing that you might lose what you desire if you don't keep up appearances. This struggle becomes a spiritual test for men. Along the path to integrating various parts of yourself, you're going to misstep and do dumb shit and lose out on what you want. A lot of times you're going to do that because you were trying to "be good" and you didn't properly calibrate your actions with your intentions. Such experiences become the origin story for many men's villain arcs. But the few who learn to operate across both dimensions reap more rewards over time. Experience is the ultimate teacher in getting you there.

This installation by Kim Seonghyun makes AI's invisible logic visible in real time.

Just because you're used to the desert doesn't mean you don't deserve the ocean.

Love and truth cannot be separated. Only by loving do we come to know the truth, and love of truth leads us to discover charity as its fulfillment.

@ednewtonrex Neural networks being able to "memorize" data is, technically speaking, not controversial - for example they can reproduce noise they were trained on with high accuracy because noise can't be generalised. So they end up being a mix of memory of verbatim phrases and patterns.

A new paper from Stanford adds further, incontrovertible evidence that LLMs memorize training data. The authors showed that copyrighted works can be extracted from every LLM they tried: GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet. For example, Claude 3.7 Sonnet reproduced *95.8%* of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "We find that is possible to extract large portions of memorized copyrighted material from all four production LLMs". Some in AI, and even some courts, have claimed that AI models don't memorize training data. This is simply false. They do, as has been repeatedly shown. arxiv.org/pdf/2601.02671…

You don’t discover truth by sounding certain; you discover it by staying curious.

@yongfook You can be booking for yourself or someone else, for multiple people - and never actually check in. Booking systems don't send over full guest details, just the reservation info

@yongfook Actually the reason is much, much simpler, reservations and checking in are two different things

I could be wrong, but I suspect the reason why hotel clerks spend 10 mins typing something in while checking you in, even when you have booked online, is because nothing is integrated. They are taking your booking details from booking dotcom or wherever, and re-typing them manually into some ancient IBM based system where all the data actually lives.

@AffordPal @compliantvc Banger. Seriously though how do we accelerate without throwing gdpr out with the bathwater?

@compliantvc The reason the EU is so far ahead — and keeps accelerating — is that the US measures their economic growth in GDP, while we in the EU measure it in GDPR. Few understand. Many will.

Invested in a European startup's seed round 7 years ago Realized I hadn't heard from them in 3 years Emailed the founder and asked for an update "Disclosing financial performance of our company would violate GDPR," they said (I can't disclose their gender). Wow. Seeing how they value data and privacy made me realize I invested in the right team. I'll back off for now and let them do their thing. In 20 or 30 years, I have a feeling my investment will get a huge 1.5x-2x markup when they raise a Series A.