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@matthewdgreen.bsky.social Somehow I doubt that's what they're doing. Rather they're entering partnerships whereby they get astronomical brute force computing resources in exchange for playing along with the narrative that "AI helped me solve this famous open conjecture".
Bank robbery suspect allegedly steals kitten, asks employee to hold it before demanding cash Magnolia, a tuxedo kitten, was found safe in the bank manager's office and is available for adoption
Amazon data center in Bahrain struck and destroyed by Iranian cruise missiles, state media claims — attacks launched against AWS site in response to alleged US strikes on an under-construction nuclear plant Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-data-center-in-bahrain-struck-and-destroyed-by-iranian-cruise-missiles-state-media-claims-attacks-launched-against-aws-site-in-response-to-alleged-us-strikes-on-an-under-construction-nuclear-plant
As the group waited, Piker joked with fellow Twitch streamer Will Neff that they were "all in Tiananmen Square, so we're all becoming Chinese." "When the time is right you will look in the mirror and already be Chinese," Neff responded. Neff then held his phone up to the camera to show what appeared to be an AI-created image showing Mao in the likeness of Piker, accompanied by the Maoist slogan "Closely follow the great leader Chairman Mao forward in the revolution!" Within seconds, a police officer approached and instructed them to put away the phone, which they did, though the audio kept recording.
Good. And I am sick of zionist controlled MESM spouting lies about how Democratic Socialists can't win. Damn moderates got us in this mess.
deduce your views, and only then do you join the tribe that shares those same beliefs. The Lewises argue that this is backwards. An ideology’s views cohere because a tribe holds them, not the other way around. The tribe comes first. People anchor into a tribe for reasons of family, peers, or a single galvanizing issue, and then take on the rest of the package. “Ideologies do not define tribes,” the Lewises write; “tribes define ideologies.” A label tells you reliably who someone stands with. It tells you very little about what they stand for.
In mathematics, the Jacobian conjecture is a disproved[better source needed] conjecture concerning polynomials in several variables. It states that if a polynomial function from an n-dimensional space to itself has a Jacobian determinant which is a non-zero
Screencap of beginning of long @HomerPavlos post [1] starting off: "They say that the words "gay" and "homosexuality" did not exist in ancient Greece because it was completely normal, just like pederasty. WRONG. I will easily humiliate everyone who tries to manipulate the Classics. The words existed, and they clearly denoted something reprehensible. In this post, I will prove why everyone is lying." [1] https://xcancel.com/HomerPavlos/status/2053753946578059287
Suppose the Supreme Court ruled tomorrow that Catholicism is the established religion of the United States—a decree lawless on its face. The prescribed remedy, impeachment, requires 67 senators. Thirty-four senators of the justices’ party refuse to convict. Is the answer that the country must simply submit?
Screencap of Bluesky post by howe72.bsky.social on 2026-07-16 [1]: "Human Rights are completely made up, they’re a legal fiction. Why believe in them rather than biological reality?" [1] https://bsky.app/profile/howe72.bsky.social/post/3mqs2222xt22o
the eternal shame of aljazeera.com
Reading has come to seem extraneous even to some of the best-educated members of society. Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, told me she’d spoken with a student who was struggling to read a book written in Old English. The culprit: Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. (The student used ChatGPT to “translate” the book into easier language.) Not long ago, a
With diligent effort, you may someday succeed in outwitting a garden slug
It is believed that multi-allelic systems favor outcrossing in Basidiomycota. For example, in the case of U. maydis, which bears more than 25 b but only 2 a mating types, an individual has an approximately 50% chance to encounter a compatible mate in nature.[27] However, species such as C. cinerea, which has more than 240 A and B mating types, each, and S. commune, which has more than 339 A mating types and 64 B mating types, approach close to 100% chance of encountering a compatible partner in nature, due to the huge number of mating types generated by these systems.[28]
Proposal #3: Algorithmic Security. It may be necessary to prevent the exfiltration of algorithmic secrets. This requires tightening the security boundary above: if people are regularly entering and leaving the AI datacenters, then they will almost certainly report back most of the algorithms to their governments. Similarly, filtered reports provide a channel for steganographically encoded versions of the model weights to be exfiltrated. Under this proposal, all frontier AI research is done in a secure datacenter with researchers and auditors located onsite and prevented from leaving or communicating any information out. Model weights are allowed to move from the R&D datacenters to the inference datacenters. This involves something like “handing off trust” to the auditors inside the datacenters, because so limited information is allowed to leave the datacenter that external actors cannot exert meaningful oversight internally.
2. Concretely, we think that we will, at some point in the capability progression, get AIs that (1) can quickly design/build mirror life, (2) superpersuade/mindhack humans, and (3) quickly build self replicating nanobots/grey goo that grows fast enough to boil the oceans pretty quickly. The resilience response to these threats looks something like "no human ever goes outside, everyone lives in bioshelter bunkers, all info going in and out is moderated by a friendly AI, and a friendly drone swarm / nanobot army is outside protecting the bunker”, which would be (i) highly disruptive and undesirable to most people and (ii) take significant serial time to implement.
It’s not clear how big of a problem this is. On the one hand, it’s currently quite rare for ideological groups to deliberately try to have as many children as possible in order to increase their political and economic power. And we expect that most people would find the prospect of having huge numbers of children and brainwashing them to vote the parents’ way abhorrent. On the other hand, new technologies might lower the personal costs of having huge numbers of children (e.g., artificial wombs, robot caretakers). Other technologies could increase parents' ability to transmit their values to children (e.g., through genetic engineering or novel techniques based on advances in neuroscience or psychology). And a small number of bad actors might be able to substantially increase their population share within a few generations through rapid reproduction.
It’s possible to incorporate later generations into the process—e.g., allow them a vote, take their preferences into account for direct preference aggregation, or distribute resources directly. This seems good on grounds of common-sense ethics, as it’s plausibly unfair for the current generation to make decisions about the use of space resources on behalf of all future generations.
Finders-keepers property rights Actors can claim unclaimed resources or they can buy resources from earlier owners, but they can’t seize claimed resources without the owner’s permission (similar to homesteading). As before, no effective system exists for large-scale coordination or public goods provision, and no governance system can enforce prohibitions.
This document focuses on how to decide what to do with resources outside the solar system (henceforth referred to as “space resources”). This is an important aspect of post-ASI governance—the overwhelming majority of accessible resources are outside of the solar system and the overwhelming majority of future beings may live outside our solar system—but it is not the only important question.
In 1939 with the approval of eleven of the German Protestant regional churches the Eisenacher Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life (called the "Dejudaisation Institute") was founded, led by Siegfried Leffler and Walter Grundmann.[27] One of its main tasks was to compile a "People's Testament" (Volkstestament) in the sense of what Rosenberg called a "Fifth Gospel", to announce the myth of the "Aryan Jesus".[citation needed] It became clear in 1994 that the Testament's poetic text was written by the famous ballad-poet and proprietor of the Eugen-Diederichs-Verlag, Lulu von Strauß und Torney [de]. Despite broad church support for it (even many Confessing Christians advocated such an approach, in the hope that the disaffiliation of 1937 to 1940 could be curbed), the first edition of the text did not meet with the expected enthusiastic response.
For now, the fabs are busier than ever, producing new ultra-trustworthy hardware132 designed from the ground up with security as top priority. These chips are subject to elaborate verification methods to ensure that they aren’t compromised, then sent to the Consortium’s secure datacenters. The smuggling rate remains precisely zero.
As per the original plan, most of the new datacenters have been built in third-party countries—especially Canada and Mongolia—to ensure their vulnerability in case the deal breaks down. Around 99% of fab capacity has been built since 2029, after the deal. Much of this new capacity has been built adjacent to the Canadian and Mongolian sites, for the same reasons.121 The situation has settled into an odd sort of standoff. Just north of the Mongolian border, American datacenters hum away, guarded by a small contingent of US troops. Just south of the Mongolian border, a division of the People’s Liberation Army stands ready to invade the moment they get the signal. The equilibrium is that the instant the deal breaks down, the US troops will destroy their chips to prevent the Chinese from capturing them, and the same thing would happen with the Chinese datacenters on the US-Canadian border. Middle powers with datacenters of their own have equally-secure schemes in place to ensure that they can be speedily destroyed in case of war.
For example, enough high-quality personal protective equipment is built to serve every American, and air filters and far-UVC lights are installed in major public spaces.109 The FDA approves an expedited vaccine approval pipeline that will allow for a turnover time of weeks in the case of emergency. Wastewater monitoring now runs continuously in every city and at every airport. By 2035, enough positive-pressure110 bioshelters are built (by retrofitting houses and apartments) to house all Americans, and similar construction is underway in the rest of the world. If there were to be a pandemic, it would be detected quickly, lockdowns would be more effective and less painful, and a vaccine would be developed and approved even faster than with Operation Warp Speed. Plus, nowadays people don’t get colds as often as they used to.
The National Security Agency has rebranded its elite hacking division, though the new name will be familiar to anyone who has followed the spy agency's history of offensive cyber operations. NSA last week changed the moniker of its Office of Computer Network Operations (CNO) back to Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a name that is sure to elicit nostalgia among the broader digital community for a group with roots in the early 1990s.
Folie à deux (French for 'madness of two'),[1] also called shared psychosis[3] or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief[4] are "transmitted" from one individual to another.[5] The disorder, first conceptualized in 19th century French psychiatry by Charles Lasègue and Jules Falret, is also known as Lasègue–Falret syndrome.[4][6][7] Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV – 297.3) and induced delusional disorder (ICD-10 – F24), although the research literature largely uses the original name. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois ('three') or quatre ('four'); and further, folie en famille ('family madness') or even folie à plusieurs ('madness of several').[8]
Monitoring Claude’s thoughts for misbehavior Now we understand a bit about how the J-space works. But what can we do with this understanding? A central problem in ensuring that AI models are trustworthy is that we usually can only read what the model writes—yet we know that much of its reasoning happens silently. A model might consider a harmful plan, or modify its behavior to cheat on our safety evaluations, without saying so out loud. With the J-lens, we can read some of these hidden thoughts directly. Here we show a few examples.
In “Regime Change,” their new book about Trump’s second term, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of The New York Times write that Vance was something of a “doomer,” as Vance himself joked in private, that he was “always latching onto the most negative possibilities.” He worried, early and presciently, that divides over Israel and the Epstein files would threaten the MAGA coalition, and his fears lurched toward the conspiratorial. After the assassination last year of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and the vice president’s close friend, Vance’s “instincts told him that there was a larger plot behind the murder,” Haberman and Swann write. “He went down countless online rabbit holes, becoming so consumed by the videos and the theories that his wife, Usha, told him she was worried about him.”
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to take up the case last year, ruling that the injuries suffered by the parents in the case are so far “self-inflicted” because their children have not yet “brought them within the reach of the Statutes.” Essentially, the judges ruled that the parents cannot sue until their children have actually run away and are being affected by the laws. In a dissent, Judges Lawrence VanDyke, Eric Tung, and Patrick Bumatay wrote that “Washington’s legal regime governing gender-confused children now empowers its state-run shelters to hide minors from parents and to encourage them to travel further down the path of gender ideology—all while hiding from fit parents what the state or other actors do in those shelters. That odious framework inverts the age-old, common-sense principle that parents—not the state and certainly not the child—hold primacy over the parent–child relationship.”
Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual. “I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ source: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/02/us/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec
The NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS are back — our first video podcast from our undisclosed bunker location. We discuss the life of Eduard Limonov as the Soviet Forrest Gump — a man who was somehow able to be in the right place at the right time to experience the entire spectrum of international boomer experience in the Soviet Union, then New York in the 1970s, France all through the 1980s, and a post-collapse Russia. Unlike Gump, he was a great poet and writer and had an iron will and used his Gumpian good luck to the max. We talk about the hardship of exile and immigration for artists and writers…and Yasha reminisces about the few times he was able to meet Limonov when he served as his lowly scribe.