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I never said I wanted the Roadster to be anything other than a fast electric car. But after all the teasing, quotes from Elon, the hype, and the October 1 cancellation, this fucking car better be doing fucking barrel rolls tomorrow.
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
When I worked at a Title 1 public school we begged them to get rid of cellphones, made learning impossible
They refused until cellphones were used to capture multiple prison-riot style fights and sex acts in the bathroom that ended up on the news
Schools aren’t banning cellphones because of education, they don’t care
They’re banning them because they’re revealing that public schools are prisons and abuse factories
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Pretty much.
As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.
SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.
That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
I got this joke when I was 8.
The internet revealed to me that there are now 20 years old who don’t get it.
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Programmers, engineers, and mathematicians who hate AI loved solving puzzles not problems.
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As an aside, IQ strongly correlates with walking speed.
The correlation is, like, extremely significant. There are essentially zero outliers.
Top quintile walkers are a full standard deviation smarter than bottom quintile walkers.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
A 2019 Dunedin study reports moderate correlation (β=0.38) between midlife IQ and gait speed with ~16-point mean quintile difference. "Essentially zero outliers" does not match this association's strength.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
Let’s get this straight: at 2:30 a.m., a 71-year-old man wanders the freeway. A Tesla on FSD avoids him well, only skimming his side, but another car hits and kills him. What’s going on with these stories flooding the news?
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This was my Picard/3 lights moment
5th grade the teacher gave us this question
Everyone except me got it wrong, including her
She got the whole class to "explain" it to me
Math is just logic, there is no ambiguity, I could not see their answer
Then she assigned a girl to take me aside and lecture me
Most Soviet experience of my life, including my north Korea trip
At parent/teacher conference she told my folks that she thought about it later that night and realized I was right
Never said anything to me or apologized in front of the class
In a free society she would have been put against the wall for doing what she did to a kid
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
The American auto industry in the 70s and 80s didn’t lose on engineering. It lost on headcount.
Elon told this old joke on Rogan:
Japanese boat: eight people rowing, one steering.
American boat: one person rowing, eight steering.
They lose. Fire the rower.
That was Detroit. It’s also most companies now. Layers of people who want to decide, not enough people who just want to finish. Meetings pile up, the work slows, and the last person still doing something gets blamed.
The ones who actually row are usually the ones who end up gone.
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
at least eMudhra gave us a new fact that people preparing for time travel can memorise
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The takeaway of this php thing should not be “the world is ending today”.
Rather it should be “the software status quo was bad, and you should assume 70% of the Internet is already rooted by one three letter agency. AI helped us catch this and remove it from ongoing risk”
How did a PHP bug stay hidden in the code powering much of the internet for over 10 years? Security experts spotted it back in 2024 but still couldn’t turn it into a working exploit. So what changed that suddenly let attackers crack it now? The answer ↓↓↓↓↓
The flaws sat dormant for over a decade because turning the memory-handling issues into reliable unauthenticated RCE required an extremely complex chain of steps that was practically impossible for humans. Experts spotted related problems in a 2024 audit but found no concrete exploit path, so fixes stalled. In 2026, researchers used frontier AI models to analyze the code, generalize the patterns, and construct working exploits in days—what once took world-class teams months. Once details leaked, attackers could follow.
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Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"
