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Since 1830, technology has cut the American workweek from 69 hours to 38 while raising real income per person roughly 20-fold.
Properly managed, A.I. can do the same.
My @nytopinion Chart: nytimes.com/2026/10/02/opini…
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I dont like what I am seeing whatsoever from the megalomaniacs running the AI race.
We're all about to get fucked. They want to ban open source to force us to use their models, where they then train on our ideas and steal our solutions, e.g. what just happened with Navier-Stokes
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Third worldification of the United States is nearly complete, we’ve reached dictator’s child ostentatiously showcasing wealth her family embezzled from the country while the unwashed masses struggle phase
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This is beyond the radius you can achieve with generalized Johnson bounds! Those cap at ~64.33 (Delsarte-Levenshtein). So this is truly new results, in both list bound and mca.
We are officially in unseen territory in better.codes! Both the attack and soundness bounds proven are (marginally) better than whatever we could prove in the survey (64.01 vs 64.00 and 116.13 vs 116.49).
Exciting to understand the techniques and go further!
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You don't read code because you're a vibe coder.
I don't read code because I write dependent types to ensure the code can only do what I want.
We are not the same.
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A private citizen with no security clearance and a massive financial stake in the region tells an American news outlet that he "can't go into the details" of our negotiations with Iran. Banana Republic stuff.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Jared Kushner on Iran says they’re engaging in a very strong way, and that’s positive, but we’re not there yet in terms of understanding.
He points out that Trump will be patient and doesn’t want to rush a deal.
This comes after the secret Barzani backchannel showed the IRGC itself saying it prefers negotiations, while Iran has publicly warned it will escalate in the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. fails to implement the interim deal within weeks.
The talks are moving, but the real terms still look far apart.
Writer: Lucas
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why does it take america so long to build these days?
we are at the most technologically abundant time in western history
how long it took America to build things:
transcontinental railroad: 6 years (1869)
Empire State Building: 410 days (1931)
golden gate bridge: 4 years (1937)
hoover dam: 5 years, finished 2 years early (1936)
the pentagon, largest office building on earth: 16 months (1943)
alaska highway, 1,700 miles through wilderness: 8 months (1942)
a liberty ship: 42 days average, one built in 4 days as a stunt (1943)
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Our billionaires used to have a deep sense of civic responsibility, and through great acts of service and philanthropy established public goods to be enjoyed by all. Rockefeller bought 11k acres for Acadia National Park and built the carriage trail system. Carnegie helped build over 1,500 libraries in America.
But sure…invest the money in Super PACs and NGOs to “beat back Marxism”. GMAFB. Sorry. They did this to themselves. Not a statement on policy, just that they FAFO.
“There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.”
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This is no diss but every ethnic group now claiming they built America. That’s kinda the antithesis to America.
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Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?
Because we gave them that L in 1776.
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Dear UATX community,
When the English writer G.K. Chesterton applied for a visa to visit America, he was asked -- as many visitors and immigrants still are -- whether he was an anarchist bent on subverting the country. The question startled him at first, before he saw its logic: a nation founded on a moral claim has reason to ask whether you share it, while a nation founded on blood or soil would never think to ask such a thing.
As he put it: "America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence."
So much of the Declaration defends our natural rights. But a list of rights cannot defend itself, and the founders were betting on something higher in us: that free people would guard their freedoms out of a sense of duty. That is why Madison said a republic asks more of its citizens than any other government. A king rules his subjects whether they care or not, while a free people governs itself and accepts the responsibility to maintain self-government. The Declaration calls each generation to rise to the occasion, to become the kind of citizens worthy of the freedom we’ve inherited.
When the Declaration was signed, nothing had yet been won; the hard years were still ahead. What we celebrate is the moment a people set out on a long and demanding road. Independence Day honors a triumph of human freedom and, at the same time, invites us to carry it further.
That invitation is why this university exists. Here we learn to think clearly, work hard, and cultivate the virtues that sustain a republic. This is how one generation hands the flame of liberty to the next, and how each of us grows into our fullest potential.
Happy Independence Day!
With gratitude,
Carlos Carvalho
President, University of Austin (UATX)
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I will reintroduce this exact bill when I return to DC. Let’s see how today’s DC Democrats will vote when offered the ideas of the Democrat party that used to love this country and the American people!
In 1993, the late Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced a bill that would've eliminated birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and clarified which babies would be entitled to US citizenship (US citizen or lawful permanent resident mothers).
The "Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993" never made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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NEW: Sergey Brin reportedly sold his stake in a New York real estate fund for just 6 cents on the dollar, joining a flight of wealth from the city’s rent-stabilized housing market.
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This is what China did in 2009 when there was a similar scandal.
The Trump DOJ has dropped an investigation into a company whose contaminated baby formula may have led babies to die.
The Justice Department spent years investigating Abbott Laboratories over how it managed a baby formula facility where potentially deadly bacteria was discovered and suspected of causing infant deaths.
Some prosecutors believed they had evidence to criminally charge the company, but top decision makers instead closed the probe.
wsj.com/us-news/law/the-baby…
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It's not the pandemic. America decided math was bad.
The Great American Math Collapse is happening right before our eyes.
@KelseyTuoc reports on this trend -- tons of similarities to the literacy crisis but also something very different:
In reading, top students have mostly held their ground, losing only a little, while scores have collapsed for weaker students.
In math, while the 90th-percentile scores have dropped, the absolute top students aren’t just holding steady: They’ve actually substantially improved.
Read more at @TheArgumentMag: theargumentmag.com/p/the-gre…
