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When Muslims in Pakistan give to charity, what do they fund? Terrorism. (Among other things). How do we know this? Let's find out. 1/
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Devoted, elderly mother destroys campaign of her daughter’s political rival in high-stakes, high-reward stunt.
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At the time of reading this I wasn’t sure what he meant. Now I know what he meant. Intelligence is now abundant. We are no longer the smartest on this earth. You no longer have a moat built on being the smartest.
if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time
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People dunking on this have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome from the difficulty of using computers. Being able to just say what you want or need and have it happen was always the dream of the Computer Revolution. The original pioneers would be elated the difficulty has melted away.
My 12 year old son just made this @Tesla Roadster game from scratch by himself using AI.
AI is nuts.
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There’s a world of difference between user-authorized agents (Muse, Instinct, Grokbot, etc.) and true unauthorized/rogue agents that could constitute cyberattacks.
Most of the activity described in the Axios story appears to be the former: customers sharing credentials with agents so they can take actions on their behalf. This may violate bank terms requiring humans to log in themselves, but these are in no way cyberattacks.
The direction banks should go is to support user-directed agents. For example, Amex is an authorized connection in Muse, making it easy for users to grant, limit, and revoke access.
Read-only permission levels are a sensible interim step. Several banks already support or are moving toward them. Full write access (with user credentials) is a different risk category and should be approached carefully.
Frightening the public by blurring the line between user-authorized agentic behavior and cyberattacks is irresponsible.
Most of the activity described in the Axios story appears to be the former: customers sharing credentials with agents so they can take actions on their behalf. This may violate bank terms requiring humans to log in themselves, but these are in no way cyberattacks.
The direction banks should go is to support user-directed agents. For example, Amex is an authorized connection in Muse, making it easy for users to grant, limit, and revoke access.
Read-only permission levels are a sensible interim step. Several banks already support or are moving toward them. Full write access (with user credentials) is a different risk category and should be approached carefully.
Frightening the public by blurring the line between user-authorized agentic behavior and cyberattacks is irresponsible.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-…
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Zucman is considered the most credentialed and elite academic supporting the notion of wealth taxes - the fact that he is outmatched intellectually by the average anon RW poster on here is telling; the socialists vainly try to establish an academic veneer for their schemes but at the end of the day it’s just about resentment and hatred of the successful and well turned out. There’s no genuine policy case for wealth taxes and Zucmans latest beclownment should show how thin the veil is
The key problem is this:
Why would billionaires permanently leave California in response to a one-time tax owed if they lived there on January 1, 2026?
It would only make sense for them to leave if the tax becomes annual.
But if the tax becomes annual, it would also generate revenue annually — by virtue of, well, being annual.
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I am tired of seeing books that I can read whenever I want added to "banned books" tables.
If bookstores want to show they are brave, show the Satanic Verses. They should have copies of the Charlie Hebdo issue that spurred that massacre.
If you want to be brave, be brave.
If bookstores want to show they are brave, show the Satanic Verses. They should have copies of the Charlie Hebdo issue that spurred that massacre.
If you want to be brave, be brave.
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Ashoke Sen has been awarded the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal for 2026, becoming the first Indian physicist to receive the honour.
Previous recipients include Nobel laureates Chen-Ning Yang, Steven Weinberg and Hans Bethe, who received the medal in its first three years.
Previous recipients include Nobel laureates Chen-Ning Yang, Steven Weinberg and Hans Bethe, who received the medal in its first three years.
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imo this is the right attitude - dont blame AI for finding the bugs, just fucking lock in on clearing all the bugs asap
latent.space/p/ainews-opena…
latent.space/p/ainews-opena…
The folks at @latentspacepod with the perfect take, as usual:
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What is happening is that all of the bugs that have been latent in our wildly insecure software systems are finally being found and patched. This is a good thing. The bad thing is that the bugs existed, and for decades people said unit testing was enough
Guys I’m scared the takeoff is starting. I swear any one of the ~10 CVEs that dropped in the last 24 hours would’ve been “one of the worst in recent years” except a new one is dropping every hour
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@sibaburck The dumbest human is still smarter than the smartest animal lol
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AI IS AMAZING
I know it's hip to worry about the decline in book reading and how chatbots will impoverish our brains.
But TBH, this is not at all what I see. I wrote about how we're in this wild moment for intellectual flourishing and how all of us are the children of dancers.
I know it's hip to worry about the decline in book reading and how chatbots will impoverish our brains.
But TBH, this is not at all what I see. I wrote about how we're in this wild moment for intellectual flourishing and how all of us are the children of dancers.
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Claude just discovered an unpatchable zero day vulnerability in rawlsian liberalism
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Zucman will of course strongly oppose any future measure to tax billionaires once this one time transfer takes place, consistent with his argument.
Either the tax is annual – and in that case it generates revenue annually, and some billionaires leave.
Or the tax is one-time – in that case it generates revenue in just one year, and there is no incentive to leave.
It can’t be both at the same time.Community noteBillionaires can leave based on beliefs the one-time tax signals future annual ones, even if it stays one-time—yielding lost income taxes without annual wealth revenue. This models uncertainty, a standard approach.
nber.org/papers/w35899
lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis…
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Excellent essay: senior mathematicians should just come out and say what the rules should be. If the consensus opinion, like Martin Hairer, is to judge the work based only the final product I can immediately ship out 10 papers to Inventiones, I don't care! But stop giving out conflicting positions for young people while generating AI papers and digesting AI proofs yourselves from your ivory towers.
proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/22/the…
proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/22/the…
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650 kg… when will we stop this cruelty?
Dasara procession turns to tragedy in Shivamogga. The elephant carrying the Ambari runs amok across the streets damaging buildings and vehicles before coming to a halt as the 650 kilo silver ambari it was carrying falls down.
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