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One small step for #bitcoin one Giant leap for mankind
The #BitcoinLaw has been approved by a supermajority in the Salvadoran Congress.
62 out of 84 votes!
History! #Btc🇸🇻
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Jon_D retweeted
$600 million in leveraged longs just got wrecked, and suddenly it's a funeral.
Bitcoin didn't get liquidated.
Traders who borrowed against it did.
If your thesis needs a green candle every Tuesday, you don't have a thesis. You have a gambling problem.
Bitcoin didn't get liquidated.
Traders who borrowed against it did.
If your thesis needs a green candle every Tuesday, you don't have a thesis. You have a gambling problem.
JUST IN: Crypto is dumping
$SOL falls under $82
$XRP falls under $1.05
$ETH falls under $2,015
$BTC falls under $73,000
$600,000,000 in leveraged cryptocurrency positions have been liquidated in the past 4 hours.
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Jon_D retweeted
In case you missed it, anthropic is officially taking the stance of "Enemy of the local model maxxing pleb"
Anthropic put GPU kernel optimization in the same Safeguards section as hacking and biology. WTF?
It is in their launch post. During training they limited the skills that "could most directly accelerate AI development".
"Accelerator kernel optimization."
"Improving large language model architectures."
There Fable 5.2 stays "at about the level of Opus 5.5".
So making a model run faster on a cheap GPU is now a risk to be managed.
You cannot see this one. There is no refusal and no warning.
It was limited during training, before any user typed a word.
Kernel work is how a used 3090 still runs new models.
It is how open weights get to people who cannot pay $40 per 1M output tokens.
What the hell? I genuinely wanted to say something nice, but now I can't. This completely broke me, I'm disappointed.
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Objectively, UBI is a better system than the current distribution via cantillon effect. 'In theory' UBI would be at least a fair distribution, becomes merit based over long time period. The problem is that we know the cantillon effect will not cease even if every citizen was getting a stimmy check monthly. The cantillionaires would just be getting bigger pay offs.
I love Elon. It doesn't mean I don't wish he was EVEN MORE BASED. 😅
I love Elon. It doesn't mean I don't wish he was EVEN MORE BASED. 😅
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Jon_D retweeted
Inflation is how we ended up in a world where you can make more money than your parents and afford less.
We’ve never been better at producing things. Yet somehow, buying a home, raising a family, and saving for the future have become harder.
Something is broken.
We’ve never been better at producing things. Yet somehow, buying a home, raising a family, and saving for the future have become harder.
Something is broken.
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Guys, this was my child hood dream. I knew it would come true.
NO LO PUEDO CREER, HERMANO. CORRE PERFECTO.
NO SÉ SI METÍ 752 VIRUSES Y AHORA ME ESPÍA EL ILEGÍTIMO ESTADO DE ISRAEL, PERO TENGO EL HIT AND RUN CORRIENDO EN UNA PESTAÑA COMO SI NADA.
¿ALGUIEN EN SEGURIDAD DIGITAL QUE ME DIGA SI ES SEGURO USAR ESTO?
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I put the entire game of Minecraft inside twitter.. with WORKING multiplayer 💀 tweetcraft.jai.vin/r/ti9bwes4rygu…
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Want to have your mind blown?
The median U.S. family income in 1971 was 252.2 oz of gold.
That would be $1,053,623/yr today.
The median U.S. family income in 1971 was 252.2 oz of gold.
That would be $1,053,623/yr today.
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BREAKING: East Texas A&M students have built quantum-proof protection for the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Their solution adds encryption that quantum computers cannot break, protecting Lightning payments without changing Bitcoin itself.
Their solution adds encryption that quantum computers cannot break, protecting Lightning payments without changing Bitcoin itself.
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Amazing! I love El Niño.
#BREAKING A Sea Turtle has nested in Huntington Beach, this may be one of the first times ever that this has happened.
NO ONE DISTURB THE NEST
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What... the fuck
According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.
How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.
Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.
An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.
For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.
It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.
By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.
So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.
How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.
At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.
It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
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m5 ultra is a CRAZY deal. 257/mo for a open-frontier model machine with 256gb ram and 4tb of storage. literally a claude code subscription for 3 years is the same price as running it at home. Local is gonna win, short openai, short anthropic
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i think AI is about to uncover an entire hidden world of animal communication
and what it's already found is insane...
> AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back morpersonal naming once thought almost uniquely human
> AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other
> AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands
> AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means
> an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds
> Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species
> AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks
> a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language
and what it's already found is insane...
> AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back morpersonal naming once thought almost uniquely human
> AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other
> AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands
> AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means
> an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds
> Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species
> AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks
> a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language
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