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🚨🚨ALERT: ANTHROPIC IS A/B TESTING USAGE LIMITS
Many users on X are reporting LOWER usage limits right now. THEY ARE NOT WRONG. We detected an A/B test going on that DECREASES your monthly API-value by ~20% while INCREASING your 5h usage limits by ~20%. This only affects SOME accounts. (1/2)🧵
Many users on X are reporting LOWER usage limits right now. THEY ARE NOT WRONG. We detected an A/B test going on that DECREASES your monthly API-value by ~20% while INCREASING your 5h usage limits by ~20%. This only affects SOME accounts. (1/2)🧵
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For 70 years, we were told plastic was safe because it doesn't react with anything.
Nature just published proof that it does. And the trigger is water.
Researchers at Columbia University and UC Berkeley took six of the most common plastics on Earth.
Polyethylene. ene. PVC. PET. Acrylic.
The stuff in your water bottles, food containers, pipes and packaging.
They ground them into microplastics and dropped them into plain water.
Nothing else. No sunlight. No chemicals. Just plastic and water.
And the water started changing.
At the surface of every single plastic, it began producing hydroxyl radicals. One of the most reactive and destructive molecules in chemistry.
All six plastics did it. Every one.
To prove it, they added a yellow dye to water with polystyrene. Over 10 days, nearly 90% of the dye was destroyed. The water turned almost clear.
In other liquids, the dye survived. Only water made the plastic active.
In plain English:
The plastic isn't leaking a toxic chemical.
It is turning the water around it into something that attacks.
Then they tested what that does to living things.
DNA and proteins got pulled onto the plastic surface like magnets.
Proteins started clumping together.
And red blood cells that touched the particles were torn into broken fragments.
But here is the twist.
The most dangerous plastics were the ones we trusted most.
Polyethylene and polypropylene, the "safe" plastics in bottles and food containers, were the most reactive of all.
The effect was weaker in blood serum. But it was still there.
And microplastics have already been found in human blood, brains, placentas and arteries.
The lead researcher said it plainly: "Water is a key active player here, rather than just a spectator."
We spent decades asking what chemicals leak out of plastic.
Nobody thought to ask what plastic does to the water inside us.
How many times have you sipped from a plastic bottle today?
Nature just published proof that it does. And the trigger is water.
Researchers at Columbia University and UC Berkeley took six of the most common plastics on Earth.
Polyethylene. ene. PVC. PET. Acrylic.
The stuff in your water bottles, food containers, pipes and packaging.
They ground them into microplastics and dropped them into plain water.
Nothing else. No sunlight. No chemicals. Just plastic and water.
And the water started changing.
At the surface of every single plastic, it began producing hydroxyl radicals. One of the most reactive and destructive molecules in chemistry.
All six plastics did it. Every one.
To prove it, they added a yellow dye to water with polystyrene. Over 10 days, nearly 90% of the dye was destroyed. The water turned almost clear.
In other liquids, the dye survived. Only water made the plastic active.
In plain English:
The plastic isn't leaking a toxic chemical.
It is turning the water around it into something that attacks.
Then they tested what that does to living things.
DNA and proteins got pulled onto the plastic surface like magnets.
Proteins started clumping together.
And red blood cells that touched the particles were torn into broken fragments.
But here is the twist.
The most dangerous plastics were the ones we trusted most.
Polyethylene and polypropylene, the "safe" plastics in bottles and food containers, were the most reactive of all.
The effect was weaker in blood serum. But it was still there.
And microplastics have already been found in human blood, brains, placentas and arteries.
The lead researcher said it plainly: "Water is a key active player here, rather than just a spectator."
We spent decades asking what chemicals leak out of plastic.
Nobody thought to ask what plastic does to the water inside us.
How many times have you sipped from a plastic bottle today?
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Piers Plowman retweeted
Je ne veux plus fréquenter les gens qui disent « À quoi ça sert ? ».
J’ai 50 piges sur mon passeport, 12 ans dans ma tête (et 18 ans dans mon slip, dirait ma femme).
Et je compte bien que ça dure.
Je ne supporte plus les pisse-vinaigre professionnels du scepticisme.
À quoi ça servait de vouloir voler ? De traverser les océans ? De marcher sur la Lune ?
À rien. Jusqu’au jour où quelqu’un l’a fait.
J’ai toujours eu une tendresse infinie pour les originaux. Les inadaptés. Les rebelles. Les emmerdeurs. Ceux qui ne rentrent pas dans les cases.
Ceux qui ont des idées absurdes, des ambitions démesurées, des projets improbables.
Parce que ce sont eux qui font avancer le monde.
Pas les gestionnaires du déclin.
Les gens suffisamment fous pour croire qu’ils peuvent changer le monde sont précisément ceux qui finissent par le changer.
Et ce qui me terrifie aujourd’hui c’est l’état d’esprit que nous transmettons à nos enfants.
On les élève dans une atmosphère de fin du monde permanente. Entre malthusianisme, injonctions à la décroissance, culpabilité écologique et anxiété organisée.
Quelle terrible inversion des valeurs !
L’écologie devrait être un formidable défi lancé à l’intelligence humaine, pas une pédagogie de la résignation.
Je ne veux pas d’une génération qui s’excuse d’exister au point de ne plus faire d’enfants
Je veux une génération qui brûle d’envie de découvrir, de créer, de baiser, de comprendre !
l’optimisme n’est pas de la naïveté mais le courage de croire en notre capacité à tout affronter.
Le progrès n’est pas une fatalité mais une conquête.
C’est mon ode aux rêveurs, aux inventeurs, aux enthousiastes, aux insoumis, aux doux dingues et aux emmerdeurs magnifiques.
À tous ceux qui disent « t’es cap ? » plutôt que « À quoi ça sert ? ».
J’ai 50 ans, et je refuse de devenir vieux dans ma tête.
Aux fous qui veulent changer le monde !
J’ai 50 piges sur mon passeport, 12 ans dans ma tête (et 18 ans dans mon slip, dirait ma femme).
Et je compte bien que ça dure.
Je ne supporte plus les pisse-vinaigre professionnels du scepticisme.
À quoi ça servait de vouloir voler ? De traverser les océans ? De marcher sur la Lune ?
À rien. Jusqu’au jour où quelqu’un l’a fait.
J’ai toujours eu une tendresse infinie pour les originaux. Les inadaptés. Les rebelles. Les emmerdeurs. Ceux qui ne rentrent pas dans les cases.
Ceux qui ont des idées absurdes, des ambitions démesurées, des projets improbables.
Parce que ce sont eux qui font avancer le monde.
Pas les gestionnaires du déclin.
Les gens suffisamment fous pour croire qu’ils peuvent changer le monde sont précisément ceux qui finissent par le changer.
Et ce qui me terrifie aujourd’hui c’est l’état d’esprit que nous transmettons à nos enfants.
On les élève dans une atmosphère de fin du monde permanente. Entre malthusianisme, injonctions à la décroissance, culpabilité écologique et anxiété organisée.
Quelle terrible inversion des valeurs !
L’écologie devrait être un formidable défi lancé à l’intelligence humaine, pas une pédagogie de la résignation.
Je ne veux pas d’une génération qui s’excuse d’exister au point de ne plus faire d’enfants
Je veux une génération qui brûle d’envie de découvrir, de créer, de baiser, de comprendre !
l’optimisme n’est pas de la naïveté mais le courage de croire en notre capacité à tout affronter.
Le progrès n’est pas une fatalité mais une conquête.
C’est mon ode aux rêveurs, aux inventeurs, aux enthousiastes, aux insoumis, aux doux dingues et aux emmerdeurs magnifiques.
À tous ceux qui disent « t’es cap ? » plutôt que « À quoi ça sert ? ».
J’ai 50 ans, et je refuse de devenir vieux dans ma tête.
Aux fous qui veulent changer le monde !
Real life, baby
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Piers Plowman retweeted
Ok...at first, I struggle to understand this car but now I WANT ONE.
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@bryan_johnson @GeneticLifehack is a great tool. Completely changed how I supplement with health.
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Just benchmaxed garbage. How @sundarpichai hasn't been fired yet is beyond me. Instead Jeff Dean and the other brains left. We all see the results a race to mediocracy or slop like in this case
Gemini 4 Argon: first impressions
Hallucinations haven't gone anywhere. The benchmark Google showed, claiming it's the least hallucinating model in the world, turned out to be complete fake. And this leads to serious problems:
1. Like something out of the creepiest horror movie, Argon can abruptly switch topics and start talking about something completely unrelated, suddenly lose context, and mix several languages in a single sentence
2. In one case, on a Node.js project, the task was to write a function limiting sessions per user. It went and implemented something weird in Lua that had nothing to do with either the stack or the task.
3. Gemini is unfit for working with large codebases. It just gets lost, starts to panic, and hallucinates. It holds context very poorly.
4. Argon's RL is way too one-sided. It feels like it was trained to handle abstract prompts with no clear task, like building a pretty three.js demo. But when it comes to strictly following instructions, it's useless
5. It can write a short 15-line boilerplate function and then dump a wall of instructions in the comments for you to finish it yourself. It stops halfway through a task and doesn't see the work through to the end.
6. Like all previous Gemini models, Argon is still a good model for chatting about everyday topics. It holds an incredibly lively conversation, sometimes indistinguishable from a real person
7. I like how it thinks through creative tasks. Ask it to come up with an interesting project idea or a marketing plan, and in most cases it'll do much better than Claude or GPT
Conclusion
It's still the same Gemini that hasn't changed since version 2. They've scaled up its parameter count, but all the old problems are still there
And Google still hasn't managed to prepare for the era when agents rule the world. Argon is definitely not built for agentic tasks
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BREAKING: United just launched a Starlink tracker so you can check if your next flight has Starlink Wi-Fi and follow its rollout across the fleet.
With 635+ United aircraft already connected, finding Starlink in the sky just got easier.
starlinktracker.united.com/program/starli…
With 635+ United aircraft already connected, finding Starlink in the sky just got easier.
starlinktracker.united.com/program/starli…
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Hope a ton more people are selling $spcx so we can get in lower
Jensen Huang says he loves working with Elon Musk, and reveals their engineering teams are designing a new type of server to put data centers in space
“I’m delighted that I love working with Elon. He’s using our technology for his own AI in training models and such, deploying rok Bot is super cool. The demand for Grok Bot, the consumption for Grok Bot is really skyrocketing. And then, of course, he rents it."
"And so the combination of these three things, he’s fairly unique in doing that. I guess Google does that. That would be yet another example."
"And so I think he also has the advantage that he loves the intersection between computing and the physical buildouts. He loves that whole area. Nobody knows more about energy than he does."
"One particular new market that we’re going to go explore together is putting data centers out in space. Our two engineering teams are working super closely together to create a new type of server, a new type of architecture that might be super good in space and on Earth.”
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Piers Plowman retweeted
This robot doesn't walk to the target. It flies there.
Jetpack hover. Mid-air swing. Rifle fired in flight.
Same machine. Three tests. Feet never touch the floor.
Warehouse, rescue, or something darker? Where do you send it first?
Jetpack hover. Mid-air swing. Rifle fired in flight.
Same machine. Three tests. Feet never touch the floor.
Warehouse, rescue, or something darker? Where do you send it first?
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Piers Plowman retweeted
@GoogleDeepMind judging by the early @ArtificialAnlys scores… they definitely benchmaxxed. again.
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So.. should DOGE audit her? 👀
Chelsea Clinton receives annually-recurring funding from USAID, allocated by Obama for her Foundation, which provides afternoon meals to children in Africa, India, and Bangladesh.
However, as of today, the reported number of meals served stands at onishing cost of $1,410 per meal.
Net Worth $70 Million
Husband Net Worth $45 Million
Inheritance $52 million
USAID Earnings $3.9 Million per year
Real Estate Assets $25 million
Monthly Spends $100,000
Car Collection Eight
Has accomplished nothing.
Chelsea Clinton receives annually-recurring funding from USAID, allocated by Obama for her Foundation, which provides afternoon meals to children in Africa, India, and Bangladesh.
However, as of today, the reported number of meals served stands at onishing cost of $1,410 per meal.
Net Worth $70 Million
Husband Net Worth $45 Million
Inheritance $52 million
USAID Earnings $3.9 Million per year
Real Estate Assets $25 million
Monthly Spends $100,000
Car Collection Eight
Has accomplished nothing.
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Juro, me deu até vontade de chorar...
Que mensagem maravilhosa!
Que mensagem maravilhosa!
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absolutely fucking insane if true..
google gemini 4 pro apparently beats astra and opus 5.5 by a ridiculous margin.
what the fuck has google been cooking!
google gemini 4 pro apparently beats astra and opus 5.5 by a ridiculous margin.
what the fuck has google been cooking!
Google just ruined OpenAI's dev day lmao
Gemini 4 Pro leaks absolutely dominates both Anthropic and OpenAI
This means Fable 5.5 and GPT 6.1 has to price match Gemini 4 Pro now IPO DELAYED 🤣
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NEWS: Stockholm syndrome - renamed to Copenhagen Syndrome after Mette Frederiksen (Trump called her a "nasty woman") took it like a champ from THE DONALD- handing over #Greenland to her bully - and as a thank you for that extortion - she kept all defense orders for the US to the tune of multiple billion dollars (F35 and air defence) intact - The Danes can be so proud, that the Stockholm Syndrome has now been renamed to Copenhagen syndrome in honor of that achievement!
The Vikings would be spinning in their graves. @Statsmin
The Vikings would be spinning in their graves. @Statsmin
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