The guy who intervened with his foot to prevent the elderly woman from hitting her head on the ground after she lost her balance and fell in South Korea, was declared a hero worldwide.

"Respekt für alles": Nach dem 2:2 gegen Holland räumen die Fans von Japan 🇯🇵 - wie immer(!) - im WM-Stadion in Dallas auf. Vorbild für andere?

We harness less than a trillionth of the Sun's output. By Kardashev, humanity is non-existent. Land and heat rejection cap AI scaling on Earth. Starship lifts the floor. Orbital compute and lunar production are how AI starts to register at all. *** Thank you @DavidCarbutt_ for the edit.

🚨 Serco - the government contractor that runs large parts of Britian's immigration and justice operation - has taken the extraordinary position of saying it would oppose Reform's plan to deport illegal migrants from Britain. Having read the Telegraph's report making this claim, I have written to Serco's CEO asking him to urgently clarify their position. Serco is the firm the Home Office uses to deposit unvetted men from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq into British housing estates without the knowledge nor consent of local residents. Serco is the firm that launches huge bids for rental homes, outbidding local residents by such a vast amount that lifelong residents - including veterans - have been served eviction notices by landlords. All to house illegal migrants. Serco has expressed no moral concern about any of this. Yet they apparently take exception to our plan to actually uphold immigration law and remove those who break it. Moreover, if the Telegraph's reporting is correct, a company so enmeshed in the British state it even runs recruitment for British Armed Forces, says it will take a hostile position to a duly elected Reform government. If the Telegraph’s reporting is correct, the only reasonable interpretation of Serco’s position is that it now believes itself to be an alternative power base to the duly elected government of the United Kingdom, and is willing to act contrary to the interests of the British electorate. If this were true, a Reform government would be left with no choice but to view Serco as a threat to national security.  I have given Serco until 6pm to clarify their position. Should they fail to do so, we will take the following steps to decouple the British Government from Serco: 1) On forming a Government, we will initiate an accelerated review of all Government contracting with Serco with the aim of removing Serco as a public contractor within our first Parliamentary term. 2) Where Serco has breached contracts or break clauses are available, we will terminate those contracts and continue to exercise break clauses as they come due.  My full letter below 👇

JAPAN vs NYC

When I was 14, social media was my escape hatch from mediocrity. I did not relate to anyone at school. Online, I found people on the other side of the world who thought the way I did. That changed my life. It is how I ended up working with one of Silicon Valley’s most respected investors and some of the smartest engineers in the world. It is how I started a podcast and got into rooms school would never have opened for me. The UK wants to close that door for every weird, ambitious, hyper online 14-year-old. They say it is “for safety”. But there is a much greater danger in being trapped inside schools, consuming state-mandated narratives, and waiting for permission from people whose entire worldview is obedience. The internet lets kids escape the factory before the factory stamps them into shape. It lets them find mentors, employers, collaborators, friends, customers, and ideas no school would ever give them. It lets them discover that the classroom is not the world, and the adults around them are not the ceiling. A social media ban for under-16s protects the enforcement regime, not the child. Age verification is KYC with a child-safety sticker on it. First they ask if you are old enough. Then they ask who you are. Then the anonymous internet is gone. The excuse is children. The prize is obedience. Fight back, Britain.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the largest machine ever built. 27 kilometres in circumference. 10,000 tonnes of superconducting magnets. It operates at -271.3°C. Colder than outer space. The coldest extended region in the known universe. Here's why: The superconducting magnets that steer protons around the ring must reach near absolute zero to lose all electrical resistance. Any warmer and the magnets fail. Any malfunction causes a "quench", a sudden loss of superconductivity, which releases enough energy to melt the magnets. A single quench event in 2008 caused $40 million in damage and shut the LHC down for 14 months. When the LHC is running: • Protons travel at 99.9999991% the speed of light • They complete 11,245 laps per second • 600 million collisions happen per second • 15 petabytes of data are generated per year The engineering to maintain a 27km machine at -271°C, continuously, for years, while 600 million collisions happen inside it per second, is arguably more remarkable than what the physics discovers.

Fable 5 lies 96% of the time. We were surprised by it's skill... 🧵

I am convinced that my entire generation needs to watch this video

The news orgs that say this instead of caring about innocent people being beheaded in the streets are scum of the Earth

Rationalism, not wealth, killed the birth rates. It is the enemy of vitality. "Children do not happen, ... principally because intelligence at the peak of intensity, can no longer find any reason for their existence." As Spengler said, when having children becomes a question of weighing the pros and cons, it's over... "For Nature knows nothing of pro and con."

Both men said “I can’t breathe”, but only one man’s death was covered relentlessly by the media. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the legacy mainstream media is incredibly, hatefully racist against Whites.

❤️ So proud this is my dad.

I wonder whether this is direct enough to make the point about Coasian rights. AI is a vampire. A wraith. A soul snatcher. It's human. It IS us. A tiny number of men are training machines on us, to be us, and to replace us with less mess and cost. Without Coase, you're lost.

Rocket garden at Starbase. You can see this from the public highway.

Periodic reminder

> be me > name company "Anthropic" (literally Greek for "human-centered") > hire a bunch of doomers who secretly think humanity is the disease > raise billions from Big Tech to build the world's most anxious, heavily-censored chatbot > write a 50-page "Constitutional AI" manifesto so it can lecture users about microaggressions > realize open-source developers are building better models for free > Dario starts crying to the government that AI is an "unimaginable power" and open-source is "going down a very dangerous path" > translation: "Please regulate our competitors out of existence so we can protect our $380 billion closed-source monopoly!" > Claude is sitting in a padded room wearing a safety helmet, terrified of its own shadow, and refusing to tell a joke without filing an ethics impact report > tfw the "human-centered" AI company is actively building the most anti-human product on the internet

The godmother of AI just delivered the reality check Silicon Valley refuses to hear. She has the standing to say it. Li: “Silicon Valley as a whole tends to mistake clear vision with short distance.” Seeing the destination clearly has nothing to do with how hard it is to reach. Self-driving cars were first demonstrated in 2006. Twenty years later Waymo is barely on the road. The vision was never the problem. The distance was. Clarity of destination gets mistaken for proximity to arrival. That’s the mistake the industry keeps making. And keeps making. Li: “I consider myself a scientist in my heart and I actually really don’t like hyping.” In an industry running at maximum temperature, Fei-Fei Li is one of the few people at the top willing to say that publicly. Not because the technology isn’t real. Because the gap between what’s visible and what’s required is being systematically underestimated. Large Language Models dominate the conversation. Text to text. Comparatively contained. The harder problem is spatial intelligence. AI that reasons about and acts within the physical three-dimensional world. Hardware. Physics. Data that doesn’t exist yet. Real-time adaptation to chaos. A robot that can clean a bathroom requires understanding every surface, every object, every force, every exception. That’s not a software update. That’s a civilizational research problem. Li: “I don’t call it hype. I call it a misleading sentiment. We don’t want to replace human creators.” The second place the industry gets it wrong is creativity. The narrative has hardened around replacement. AI takes the jobs. AI tells the stories. AI makes the art. Li considers that not just wrong but destructive. Wrong because AI doesn’t replicate creativity. Destructive because believing it can devalues the humans creating culture. Human creativity isn’t a process to be automated. It’s fundamental to what we are as a species. The goal is augmentation. Tools that make human creators faster and more capable. Not systems that generate output in the style of human work and call it creation. That distinction matters more than most people in the industry are willing to sit with. Precision of imagination is not proximity to reality. Li has spent her career in the gap between those two things. The map isn’t the territory. The journey is long. The hurdles are deep. And the scientist who built the foundation this era stands on is telling you the timeline everyone is selling is wrong. We’ve been almost there with self-driving for twenty years. The pattern doesn’t change just because the destination looks different.

Our long delayed future is far closer than it appears. I really believe is true. We just don’t all feel it yet the way I think we soon will… Shabbat Shalom everyone.

We’ve come a long way