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I bet xAI is offering Anthropic compute at minimal/near-cost margins specifically to help them undercut OpenAI.
That’s likely why Opus 5.5 is priced so aggressively compared to previous models.
They’re straight up mogging OpenAI’s Sol and Astra.
Democrats keep drug addiction normalized in cities because it purposely creates a permanent underclass of dependent, low-agency people. Exactly the population easiest to ballot-harvest.
It’s the modern version of soma from Brave New World - keep them pacified and compliant rather than sober and independent.
For every honeypot, there may be a honeydick
I’m ready for a dictatorship that reflects my political views only.
If you can relay your thoughts clearly and accurately without foaming at the mouth, you don’t need to be part of the discussion on the future.
Alex Ivyson retweeted
If you’re right wing and you can’t admit liberals (not communists) are way better at art and design and boutique coffee shops and restaurants, you’re not living in reality.
If you’re left wing and you can’t admit conservatives are way better at running cities and businesses and police departments, you’re not living in reality.
You step inside a beautiful coffee shop in the PNW and think “man, these liberals are great at this stuff…conservatives should take notes.” Then the moment you step outside and trip over a homeless drug zombie shooting up fentanyl on the sidewalk, you think “man these liberals are terrible at this stuff…they should really take notes from conservatives”
Communists make disgusting anti-beauty art, but classical liberals aren’t like that. Put the libs in charge of the coffee shops, put the conservatives in charge of city hall. This is how you get a city that is beautiful, clean, and functional.
If you can’t accept that, you need to check your tribalism. We are never getting rid of each other, so figure out how we strike a balance or else the communists swoop in and take everything from us while we quarrel over stupid bullshit…which is exactly what’s happening now.
There’s a lot of talk about universal high income, but I have a problem with it because people need purpose. I don’t think we can ever just hand everyone a high income with no strings attached and expect it to work.
What we should aim for instead is a baseline economy. Cover the necessities, and let people earn beyond that through their own abilities, the same way it works today.
The high returns from AI and robotics should go toward basic needs, not luxury. That means stable food staples like rice, pasta, fruits, vegetables, and whatever similar items are widely available. These can shift over time depending on what’s abundant or scarce. We don’t need to start handing out caviar.
Water and electricity should be free or close to it. Compute and connectivity should be part of the baseline too, enough for people to stay online, learn, and participate. Shelter should also be available, but it won’t be luxurious. Think modest public-style housing, mostly for single people or small households, and not necessarily in the best climates or locations. There have to be trade-offs. Not everyone can live in California.
Once those basics are covered, every person should get a modest startup fund they can use to try building something, whether that’s a business, a project, or some other way of creating value. If it fails, they get another shot after a set period, maybe five years.
The point is to give people a real stake and a path to purpose. Handing out money with no expectation of effort tends to leave people adrift, and a lot of them end up in drugs or other dead ends.
In short, secure the floor: food, water, power, compute, connectivity, and basic shelter. Everything above that stays a market. Give people a genuine chance to create, but don’t take away the need for purpose.
Alex Ivyson retweeted
Before Hollywood, I was living in a van in Hawaii and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. One day, the incredible Rae Dawn Chong walked into the restaurant, and naturally, I went up to her table and said, “Hey, you’re a movie star! What are you doing here?”
She asked if I could act, and I said, “Fuck yeah, put me in your movie!”
She asked for my phone number. The only problem was I didn’t have one. So I gave her my buddy Mike’s number instead. A couple days later, Mike casually mentions, “Oh, by the way, someone called you.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MIKE?!
I called her back, and sure enough, she was serious. I drove over to pick up the script, went back to Mike’s house, and read all 120 pages three times in a row. First script I’d ever read. My character's name was Devon, and I remember thinking, “Sweet! I could totally play a Devon!”
I showed up to the audition with every line and inflection mapped out in pencil. Rae told me I could act and offered me the part. I asked if we were shooting in Hawaii. Nope. Los Angeles.
I had about $60 to my name, a bag of clothes, and some rollerblades.
Then Rae told me they'd fly me out. And I remember thinking right then and there, my life just changed forever. I'm going to be an actor.
That little movie was Cursed Part 3, a low-budget horror comedy that opened the door to Hollywood for me.
I'll forever be grateful to Rae for taking a chance on a kid working at a shrimp restaurant. Everybody starts somewhere, and this is where it all began for me.
Did Macron make the security keys?
"It can be sometimes too insecure, four sure, and needs to be reformed four sure, but which is predictable, loyal."
Announcing 3 Critical vulns for hundreds of millions of IoT, Firewalls, OT, and Military devices including: Palo Alto Networks, Comcast, D-Link, HP, Canon, Honeywell, GE, Oracle, Siemens, Rockwell, Digi, Lockheed Martin, Boeing...
The vulns are with GoAhead Web Server which is a backend library used by these devices. There's a patch available from GoAhead but that doesn't mean there's a patch available for the devices yet -- that's up to the manufacturer.
- TLS traffic over DHE ciphers have a 1-byte secret, "04", meaning anyone can decrypt connections to these devices and steal login credentials and session tokens if the client negotiated with DHE ciphers like the latest TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, which is extremely likely.
- LibreSSL mTLS has been completely bypassed, meaning anyone can connect over mTLS. If you have one of these devices listening on the internet and are expecting mTLS to protect it from attackers, take it offline or patch asap.
- OpenSSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are not enforced, meaning if a user device is stolen or compromised, and you revoke that mTLS cert, nothing actually happens. There are a lot of other attacks this can be used for.
These are critical because these types of devices run our world. Water systems, electricity, military, firewalls, critical infrastructure.
foxio.io/blog/choose-your-ba…
AI is going to one-shot so many grandmas
What a strange-looking caterpillar! 🤣🐛
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video appears AI-generated. An AI creator shared the same clip as an example from their generation pipeline.
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Similar real costumes exist: fun.com/infant-blue-ca…
The new @Kia access app ui update is a joke. It’s a complete backwards step in aesthetics and usability.
I’m baffled how bad it can be especially in the age of ai.
My 6 yr old son asked a serious metaphysical questions that I don’t even know how to approach.
“If people watch us like a movie the way we watch people in a movie.”
When should I introduce him to simulation theory?
I’m trying codex for the first time and it’s completely unusable. One prompt and five minutes in and it’s hit the 5 hour usage limit. This is so lame.
Owning a house is terrible. It’s never flowers growing around that make it beautiful. No, instead it’s a rat that died in the crawl space and it’s stinking up the house.
This is what spam calls actually took from us, getting a positive unexpected phone call.
Jensen reveals he first met the Founder of TSMC by cold calling their number off Yellow Pages
"I heard about this company in Taiwan, TSMC and UMC at the time. They were of course quite poor companies themselves, and they were barely making it."
"TSMC was probably about $300 million, something like that. It's a tiny little company. I heard about Morris Chang. And so I tried to call their US office."
"Back in the old days there were yellow pages. I looked it up, TSMC. There's a number there. I called their number and it's a recording. I left my name and my number and said a few things about NVIDIA: we're a new startup company building computer graphics chips. I called several times. Nobody called me back."
"And so I finally wrote a letter to Morris Chang. Didn't hear anything for a long time, and then one day it was 6 o'clock or something, this person called and said 'this is Morris Chang from TSMC.'"
"And meanwhile, everybody outside my office was playing video games and they're all laughing and screaming. 'Hey shut up! It's Morris!' I was so happy that the founder would actually call us back, because hey, maybe we won't have to die."
"And so we talked and he invited me to Taiwan. I came back to Taiwan, and that was the start of everything. Not just that partnership, but just the whole industry."
I took my first red eye flight last night and the hippie couple next to me pulled out a tubberware container in the beginning of the flight.
It was spaghetti and some red sauce. They then… they then began to eat it with their hands… wtf
The rest of the flight was them farting their nasty pasta. Nah, no more red eyes for me.
Alex Ivyson retweeted
Did... did them NOT killing the tiger like they did Harambe put us back on the right timeline?
Kid Rock and Eminem are teaming up on a Christian album, despite being on opposite sides of the political aisle.
The longtime Detroit friends have known each other for nearly 40 years, and Kid Rock says they made a pact long ago to never let politics destroy their friendship.
Now, he's bringing Eminem into his new faith-based project, "Halfway 2 Jesus," hoping their unlikely collaboration sends a message to a divided country.
Kid Rock also reveals what inspired his renewed focus on faith and his plans to bring Christian revivals to stadiums.
Read more: foxnews.com/media/kid-rock-d…
I will never accept what middle management and pencil pushers took from us. We used to build great things and damn those with opinions and thoughts.
Now we need a 6-month commission and millions to build a street lamp. We need to demolish our permit system.
Il y a un London Bridge en plein désert de l'Arizona. Et c'est le vrai.
Londres l'a vendu en 1968. Il a été réinauguré là-bas il y a 55 ans, le 10 octobre 1971.
Ce pont de granit enjambe la Tamise depuis 1831. Mais au XXe siècle, il ne supporte plus la circulation automobile.
Il s'enfonce dans le fleuve. En 1924, un côté est déjà 7 à 10 centimètres plus bas que l'autre.
La ville de Londres décide de le remplacer. Et de vendre l'ancien.
En avril 1968, un industriel américain, Robert McCulloch, l'achète pour 2,46 millions de dollars.
Il vient de fonder une ville nouvelle en Arizona, au bord d'un lac de barrage : Lake Havasu City. Il cherche à y attirer des visiteurs.
Chaque bloc de granit de la façade est numéroté. Il y en a plus de 10 000.
Les pierres passent par le canal de Panama et débarquent en Californie. Des camions les emmènent dans le désert.
Le pont est remonté sur la terre ferme, autour d'une structure en béton. Le chantier dure 3 ans et coûte 7 millions de dollars de plus.
Le 10 octobre 1971, le lord-maire de Londres vient l'inaugurer devant des milliers de spectateurs.
Au programme : feux d'artifice, parachutistes, montgolfières.
Ensuite, on creuse un canal sous ses arches et on le remplit d'eau.
Le London Bridge enjambe aujourd'hui un bras de lac, à plus de 8 000 kilomètres de Londres.
