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Yeah great idea. Instead of Elon employing hundreds of thousands of people, turning blue collar workers into millionaires, sending reusable rockets into space, providing internet to third world countries, helping paralyzed people walk and providing a free speech platform for everyone - we could fund a whole new way for foreign criminals to scam us!
If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire wealth tax, we could pay for child care for all three and four year olds in America.
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Does Trump look tired? Of course, the man works 20 hours a day making the world a safer place. I can't imagine the stress he is under. At 80 years old he is giving us every once of his soul to make us secure and prosperous.
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The NHS does ~500,000 MRI scans a month. It’s one of the largest uses of diagnostic resources in the UK. If the below scanner works as they are suggesting, we could roll these out and waiting lists for diagnostics would be slashed over night. Take off.
Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"
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this is actually incredible a full body ultrasound scanner that takes 60 seconds instead of spending an hour in an MRI tube, without radiation, hospitals or a $2000 bill soon you’ll just walk into a health spa, order a coffee, step into the pod, and walk out with a 3D map of your body the future is finally starting to look like the future
A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"
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A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"
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A legion of Optimi combined with solar panels will constitute the first Von Neumann probe
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Larry Ellison just called AI the biggest thing in human history. He was being conservative. Ellison: “It is a much bigger deal than the industrial revolution, electricity, whatever. Everything that’s come before.” “Bigger” is the wrong word. “Bigger” assumes the same axis. A taller building on the same foundation. A faster car on the same road. This isn’t a taller building. This is a new dimension. Every revolution in human history extended the body. Steam replaced muscle. Electricity replaced fire. The combustion engine replaced the horse. Each one extraordinary. Each one civilization-altering. Each one built on an assumption nobody ever thought to question. That human cognition was the ceiling. A hammer builds nothing the carpenter can’t envision. A telescope reveals nothing the astronomer can’t interpret. A calculator solves nothing the mathematician can’t frame. 300,000 years of invention. Every tool a servant to the mind that forged it. AI ended that arrangement. Ellison: “We created neural networks that can answer questions that human brains would struggle with.” Not slower. Not less efficiently. Struggle with. We built something that thinks past the point where human thought stops. The tool is no longer bound by the toolmaker. Every ceiling humanity ever hit wasn’t physics. Wasn’t the universe setting limits. It was us. We were the boundary. And we just built something that doesn’t know it’s there. That’s not a bigger industrial revolution. That’s not even a revolution. That’s a species discovering it was the only thing standing between itself and everything it couldn’t yet imagine. And Ellison isn’t waiting for any of it. He’s already past AGI. Already framing superintelligence not as theory. As a scheduling problem. People hear that and reach for fear. Wrong instinct. Every prior revolution displaced labor. AI displaces limits. The industrial revolution didn’t make blacksmiths more creative. It made them irrelevant. AI inverts that. It doesn’t replace human cognition. It uncaps it. The kid with no teachers now has the most patient tutor ever built. The founder with no legal team now has one. The researcher at the edge of what one mind can hold now has a partner with no edge of its own. This isn’t automation. This is cognitive liberation. Every revolution before this answered a human question. This is the first one capable of asking its own. And we haven’t heard the first one yet.
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Elon Musk explains why Starlink is basically unbreakable “There are over 10,225 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit right now, moving at 25 times the speed of sound, Zipping around the Earth at ~550 km altitude Because they’re so close, latency is extremely low unlike old-school geostationary satellites at 36,000 km. They’re all interconnected with laser links, forming a giant laser mesh network in space Even if fiber cables get cut on the ground, Starlink keeps working perfectly High-speed internet anywhere on Earth no matter what happens below”
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Socialism in a nut shell…
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💯 As a further step it should be government policy for there to always be a choice of regulatory body for professional groups. A professional body is simply a list of people who agreed to a set of rules and suggestions, and a bunch of admin staff. Nothing more.
A real estate agent with a spotless 30-year record banned for five years for refusing ideological training. Nurses dragged through disciplinary hearings over personal social media posts. The Teaching Council using teachers' own fees to make political submissions, then pursuing a teacher who disagreed. As ACT’s Public Service spokesperson, I’ve had enough. Freedom of expression in New Zealand is under threat from professional regulators who have decided their job is to police your thoughts. Today, I am announcing a new ACT policy to strip regulators of the power to punish professionals for lawful, private beliefs. Under our proposed legislation, we will restrict mandatory training to actual professional competence and safety, and we will require regulators to stay politically neutral. Your career shouldn't depend on bowing to the latest ideological fad. It's time to put regulators back in their lane.
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Idea: Can we just give €10B to Linus and let him build a leading European open source AI lab.
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A “ban” on under-16s using social media means (in practical terms) that all other social media users will now have to 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 that they are 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 16. As other forms of censorship have been throughout history, in other words, it’s really a registration system.
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Those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it. newyorker.com/news/the-finan…
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TBH. He deserves a lot more. It’s not enough.
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It's OK to love America.
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A lot of New Zealanders voted for the government to bring neutrality to public service & remove the ideologues. “The Medical Council has become increasingly distracted by politics instead of focusing on its core responsibilities of improving patient outcomes and ensuring New Zealanders can get the care they need, when they need it,” Simeon Brown.
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Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.
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Erica Stanford is "furious" that MBIE officials used creative accounting to avoid Cabinet scrutiny on a $32M biometric project. The same Erica Stanford who: ▸ Is building a $30.7M internet enforcement system before legislation exists ▸ Backed a select committee process that expanded a 3-page bill into an internet censorship regime — without consulting the public ▸ Conducted ministerial business on personal Gmail ▸ Made misleading India FTA claims while the text was secret ▸ Added homeschooling rules via Amendment Paper after public submissions closed She's outraged that officials bypassed scrutiny. Bypassing scrutiny is her legislative playbook.
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The Metaphor Trap Fast Company last week: enterprise AI is stuck because the industry builds from metaphors, not models. They are correct. And the fix is not what most people think it is. The piece names the symptom well. We talk about AI "memory," "reflection," "dreaming," "planning." Human analogies placed over systems that detect statistical patterns in token sequences and return more tokens. Useful for explaining. Catastrophic for industrializing. A metaphor describes. A model predicts and generalizes. Every agent framework built on top of a foundation model is still in the metaphor regime. The LLM detects. We call it understanding. It approximates. We call it reasoning. Detection is not determination. To be clear: this is not a knock on any specific model. Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini -- genuinely impressive systems, exceptional at what they do. What they do is detect and approximate. That makes them outstanding proposal engines. The mistake is deploying a proposal engine as an execution engine and then being surprised when enterprise infrastructure built on that foundation stays artisanal. You cannot run a hospital, a power grid, a financial system, or a supply chain on a system that is, at its core, proposing what you probably meant. That is not a prompt engineering problem. It is an architecture problem. The fix requires a formal primitives layer beneath language. Not fine-tuning. Not RAG. Not longer context. Not better agents. A layer where intent is a computable primitive -- where the system does not approximate meaning, it operates on meaning. Where GenAI plays the role it is actually suited for: proposing. Not executing. That is what we have been building since 2011. Wantware's Meaning Coordinates: 256 formal intent primitives, 4 realms, 32 groups, 8 conjugates. Not approximated from training data. Structurally defined. GenAI proposes. Synergy governs. Morpheus executes. The cure is not a better metaphor. It is a model -- a real one, in the technical sense -- with intent as its foundational unit and GenAI assigned to the one job it is actually built for. That model exists. Q3 production. Waitlist open: mindaptiv.com Detection is not determination. That distinction is what separates the next era of computing from the current one. The industry will get there. We just got there first.
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