ISO-8601 makes most sense. Militant UTC advocate. "Aircrafts" is not a word. Will do my best to follow back!

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Being fairly sure that we're next takes all the fun out of seeing France being destroyed
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Good friend of mine: You seem to know a lot about what's going on these days, which X account should I follow? Me: The Sunday Sport. Them: What? Me: Yep, the Sunday Sport. This is where we are. The most trusted paper is the Sunday Sport. It is both wonderful and terrifying
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Replying to @ChrisChapman81
I can tell you, definitively, that it is indeed My Little Tank.
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If a Canadian doctor says "Would you rather have a Trans child or a dead child?", it is not a threat. They are just making you aware that they now offers both of these services.
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You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a 12-pack of Pepsi, which is basically the same thing
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We want to make super-intelligent AI to solve thousands of problems, but let's not, because it might be super-intelligent. It's like, 'Let's invent the wheel but then make it square because a round one might go too fast'. Idiots. 🤷‍♂️
"Godfather of AI" Professor Yoshua Bengio says recursive self-improvement — when AI will be able to create new models without human input — should be illegal. "We shouldn't even engage in this," he says.
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I believe the main reason people attend concerts anyway is to have political opinions shouted at them. Idealy I would like to see the music component of these events phased out completely so they can just become very expensive political rallies like what they did with the comedy.
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I resigned from 7-Eleven today. I spent the last three years doing roller-grill research at both Speedway and 7-Eleven. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to autonomous wiener dispensers and gambling with our lives.
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So Jacob Coxon, who dramatically resigned from Anthropic yesterday, worked there for a grand total of six weeks. He started with them in July. All of his socials appeared yest. It has all the signs of a highly coordinated op through doomer mega donors and the corporate media.
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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If Sabine Hossenfelder finds it challenging to run a business in Germany, what chance do normal smoothbrains have??
Replying to @LefterisJP
Totally agree with this. I can add that you have to deal with all this stuff if you do as much as run ads on a YouTube channel and happen to make more than $10k a year. The overhead is literally bombastically crazy, the tax rate is idiotic, I've had to hire someone to figure out how to even write invoices that fulfil all regulations (including writing invoices for automatic wires that don't require invoicing anyone, because you need to keep your records in order, oh yes), I still have no idea how VAT works (I have been advised it isn't a tax, it just looks like one, alas, I seem to be paying it), why I pay the IHK (for what, exactly?), and to make matters worse I constantly have tax councillors asking me all kinds of question to which I obviously don't know the answer because it's what I am paying them for. Because of their insistence I now have 7 different back accounts with 4 different banks (don't get me started), but somehow they still can't import the data that they say they need to import to some service that they insist on using which is supposed to be imported (but apparently isnt) into the mandatory app for the mandatory data portal etc etc. The local tax office has a supposed 'influencer experts' who doesn't know that YouTube pays through Google AdSense... Let me stop there. For what I am concerned, all this bullshit needs to go. The tax office already has all the information they need anyway, why the fucking fuck do they need me to produce 28 documents that say the same thing over and over.
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If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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🤨 Apparently shoplifters are too difficult to catch, so the police have moved on to arresting paying customers.
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Today, we remember Russell “Rusty” Casse, who made the ultimate sacrifice fighting for our independence.
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This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich. Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are. But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar. They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly. It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy. Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.
It’s criminal the CEO makes 400X what the average worker makes but it’s perfectly fine that Taylor Swift makes 100000X more than the people who clean the arena after her concerts. A just society is one that rewards the exceptional qualities of the musician but not the executive.
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It’s criminal the CEO makes 400X what the average worker makes but it’s perfectly fine that Taylor Swift makes 100000X more than the people who clean the arena after her concerts. A just society is one that rewards the exceptional qualities of the musician but not the executive.
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I don't care what anyone says, Independence Day is a phenomenally good time. Yes it's over-the-top, cheesy and bombastic. But it's a brand of movie that they absolutely do not make any more. A sad reminder of when movies could be...fun. Not sure we are ever getting that back.
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Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” has jumped into the Top 10 on the U.S. iTunes Song Chart, the 42nd consecutive year of people not listening to the lyrics.
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The UK armed forces helping to celebrate a defeat of the UK armed forces; we're nothing if not magnanimous.
Statue of Liberty, skyscrapers and a flotilla of ships - the Red Arrows over New York in a huge international flypast this morning, celebrating the Fourth of July with the American people on the 250th anniversary of independence. #RedArrows | #RAF | #NewYork | #America250
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There are two types of countries: those that can deploy a Tactical Burger King anywhere in the world and those that use the metric system
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