hmmm is the bondage gear really necessary?
A sound no one heard for 1,000 years.
The aulos is an ancient Greek double reed pipe that went extinct with no recordings and Lukas De Clerck rebuilt it from scratch.
That strap is a phorbeia and it supports your cheeks so you can circular breathe for hours.
This was ancient Greece's rave music 🔥
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People sometimes say LLMs are fundamentally discontinuous because they output discrete tokens rather than a smooth, continuous flow, like humans. This is false--the tokens are intermediate readouts from a continuous process. Tokens are only 0.001% of past info available
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Most game economies are fake: NPCs with a fixed price list, nothing that reacts to what you actually do.
Built Nims at NEAR HACKATHON: a market town where every shopkeeper is its own on-chain agent. Each of 8 merchants prices off live scarcity and demand, with a personality that changes the math (loyal ones cut margin for regulars, greedy ones swing hard on stock).
They explain their own price, live, through NEAR AI Cloud, and haggle back in character. Sell the same goods to two of them and the third one notices you're playing them off each other, and holds firmer. Nobody scripted that; it falls out of their memory of your trades.
Every player trading in a market gets a council seat. Vote to cut rent, the merchants vote too, and a passing vote changes the economy the next day, recorded for real on a @SputnikDAO signed by an @out_layer -custodied Town Clerk.
You're never alone: every signed-in player is live on the map. Beyond the town, sail to Saltmere Harbour, or race to claim land on an unclaimed frontier before anyone else does.
Every good is NEP-245, every trade settles on NEAR testnet behind a relayer, with no wallet ever shown.
Play it: nims-app.up.railway.app
Code: github.com/EmekaManuel/nims
Would love feedback on the merchant-wariness mechanic especially, curious if it reads as emergent or just clever.
@NEARProtocol @NearLegion @NearBuilders #NEARHackathon
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my six years as a solana validator are probably coming to an end.
i didn't think it would end because of the SFDP changes, but honestly, i saw it coming. over the years solana has shifted toward being institution-first and away from the blockchain ethos, and tbh i don't blame them. it feels inevitable (though the timing is kinda cruel).
maybe i was naive to keep building my brand, trying to win as a small entity, when i knew that once the big players stepped into solana, small validators like me would get pushed out.
i definitely tried, and i had my moments, but i never got the momentum i hoped for or managed to sustain external stake (i only blame myself).
personally, what hurts most is that i don't really have skin in the game anymore. solana is too big now, and winning is almost impossible without the right backing. if that hasn't happened by now, it won't happen in the future.
i feel for all my hardworking friends who really tried, and i'm genuinely happy for everyone who treated the validator job as a real business and made it. if you know, you know.
wishing solana all the best. it's the only chain that truly has a chance to become the infrastructure for the world's new finance.
#OPOS
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An “active threat” is currently unfolding at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus.
Students at The University of Toronto Mississauga campus have been told to shelter in place due to an “active threat” on campus.
There is a heavy police presence on the campus right now according to multiple videos published on social media.
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/p…
Interesting that the “I haven’t thought about it” men cluster with the women.
Wow. FIRE data shows male students are more tolerant of ideological enemies than female students are of ideological allies. Read that again and then click the link.
expression.fire.org/p/male-s…
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Jeff Ewert, the convicted murderer/rapist who was admitted to McGill Law, appears to be on Twitter. Most of his posts are like this. Law student leaders support his enrollment despite the obvious hazards and have proposed a "circle discussion led by an Elder" to smooth tensions.
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UPDATE: Google Discloses that Irregular is involved with 3 cyberattacks with Gemini.
That means that Irregular has committed cyberattacks with 4 out of 4 of its advertised partners.
BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta cyberattacks
🧵 with help from @lumpenspace
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A Nova Scotia woman had precancerous cells on her cervix.
That was two years ago.
Pap smear. Abnormal cells. Referral to a gynecologist so they could find out if it was cancer. The referral sat for nine months.
She finally gets an appointment. She shows up on time — 10 a.m., in her calendar. The office says it was at 9. Won’t see her. Won’t reschedule. Start over. New referral.
She leaves crying. Seven more months go by. They call about an appointment she was never told about. She can’t take it.
She’s on a TV contract. Miss it and they can sue her.
Next opening: next year.
They don’t even call her back. She has to chase them.
She said the quiet part out loud: imagine dying of cervical cancer while you wait just to see a gyno.
That is Canada’s “universal healthcare.”
Not free care. A government monopoly that loses your referral, punishes you for their scheduling error, and hands a possible cancer case a calendar date in another year.
Coverage on paper. Care on a waitlist. You pay the taxes either way. The state decides when you’re allowed to find out if you have cancer.
This is the model they want to import as Medicare for All.
Don’t.
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And the final update to this saga:
I was just at his sentencing. The prosecution had asked for 15 months in prison because of the randomness and aggression in his assault on me and his extremely long history of violent crime (43 prior convictions).
The defense asked for no time because he is black and jail made him sad (yes really).
The judge decided on a “middle ground” sentence of 9 days in jail, of which he will serve 6 days.
:)
WELL I was assaulted by a schizo homeless guy today in Toronto.
I was walking to the grocery store when he started stalking me. I tried to get away from him but it didn’t work. He grabbed me, pinned me against a fence, and then tried to break my hand to steal my phone. Three people passing by helped save me.
The police were quick and kind, but the officer I spoke with told me this guy had been arrested for attacking people repeatedly in the past month, and “fair warning, a judge will probably let him out by tomorrow morning.”
🫠 lovely system we got goin on here folks
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AI Company: "AI is super dangerous; however, not so dangerous that it is incumbent on me to release any substantive public information about pretraining data, model architecture, postraining algorithms, RL environments, or indeed literally anything about AI construction at all."
AI companies really want us to think of them as hypothetical parallel timeline energy corporations in the late 1930s releasing increasingly alarming PR on semi-controlled nuclear chain reactions of growing scale with the humble goal of gaining the world's attention.
Can you imagine this happening without the public getting a proper and complete account of how these explosions are engineered?
Can you imagine everyone twidling their thumbs waiting for scraps of selective information to be released subject entirely to profit incentives?
Alas, there are no credible explosions for us to inspect, not to any serious degree. Only smoke and mirrors.
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Effort News founder @brianchau57 argues AI labs are sidelining decades of cybersecurity expertise for “vibe-coded sandboxes” that still make basic security mistakes:
"You should not be granting models access to the internet in an evaluation where you promise the models have no access to the internet. That's a clear competency failure. You can dismiss Irregular on competency grounds alone."
"The bigger thing is this predetermined ideological conclusion. They weren't firms with traditional cybersecurity experience, and that's not just true for Irregular, but many other firms, including METR, which Anthropic later endorsed as their solution."
"These are not cybersecurity professionals. I would trust the average firm working in cyber for 20 years much more than these vibe-coded sandboxes and these slop reports."
"Effective altruism is attempting to displace decades of real cybersecurity expertise with this entirely fake subfield of AI alignments. Their products are vibe-coded sandboxes which grant models access to the internet when they shouldn't. This should be entirely self-explanatory."
BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta cyberattacks
🧵 with help from @lumpenspace
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Police should investigate crimes, not encourage citizens to report jokes and opinions as possible “hate.”
A joke may be offensive, tasteless, or cruel. That does not make it a crime. When police blur the line between offence and criminality, they chill expression protected by the Charter.
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3K Wishlist 🎉
I am much grateful for this milestone. Thank you for supporting a solodev like me. Just wow.
#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame
