Living peacefully. ॐ. #yog. Brit expat retiree in Malaysia. #mufc #ai i chose the red pill

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Social media bans are there to protect the braindead idiots and imbeciles so that they may be productive in a future society.
It would be *much* more socially transformative to ban social media for over-65s
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It’s important to know that the social media ban for under 16s is not a ban for under 16s. It is a ban on *selected* social media for EVERYONE. Until you identify yourself.
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▶️ 'All or Nothing: Manchester United', coming to Amazon Prime Video in 2027.
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A few words on the Sovereign AI debate, having built several LLMs in Meta while in the UK and now working as a UK based startup: 1. Lots of people are trying to do the right thing to make the UK a better place to start AI companies. Time lags until the benefit show, but you should judge on the intent now. I support the direction of travel! 2. DeepMind has been enormously beneficial for the UK, but it has muddied the waters for a sovereign LLM company to emerge as (until recently) the Government continued to celebrate it as a British achievement / push it as a national champion. 3. Similarly, people are now celebrating recent US investment in King’s Cross, while also wanting more UK sovereignty. Clearly some income effects here, but I would worry about the substitution effects too. AI is not like other types of foreign investment. 4. The relevant talent nexuses in UK that could develop a competitive foundation model are from GDM and old Meta AI GenAI. Also some folks from smaller groups, ex Conjecture, Stability. The talent is still there, although a lot was snapped up by US FM companies in the past year. I personally think it’s not too difficult to develop new talent either from UK universities, but you probably need an ex GDM or Meta core (Gemini or Llama). Or if not: show evidence first (technical reports) before claiming you can do it. 5. Building an LLM is very different from doing regular AI research - skillset is different. Former is closer to engineering; long hours, often unsexy work. Important to distinguish between these two types of talent in the UK ecosystem; arguably too much focus on the latter / ideas guys. 6. On research - DeepSeek R1 post-train cost $300k . Yes, they also needed an ablation budget and to train a base model, invest in infra and talent - and yes the cost of an R1 moment is increasing year on year - but the idea that you need $1bn plus immediately to show results is complete FUD. You need billions to scale, not to validate new directions. 7. In my experience, every failed LLM effort (from model results perspective) I witnessed in the past came from a combination of poor leadership, politics, unclear vision, and premature scaling. Good efforts usually started from small teams who had worked with each other for a long time, had shared thesis, and scaled progressively in bite-sized pieces. Some recent lessons here for neolabs as well. 8. Things take time. Eg we’ve spent ~12 months mostly on internal infra just to get into the position to be able to make big swings. It’s important to nurture new companies through the initial phase. Expectation management is also crucial. I think expecting new UK companies to have single big bang releases is very dangerous; sort of like overwatering a plant. The correct release pattern is “decent”. “decent”, “decent”, “quite good actually”, “holy shit”. 9. Please don’t allow politicians or journalists to kill recent or upcoming AI investment efforts. We will need way more - at the price of potential inefficiency in places - as AI is existential for the country. Ambitious projects are usually incredibly fragile in the early stages; look after them! 10. Mythos is a good triggering moment, but what’s coming will make it look like a toy, so it’s worth building for what’s coming in 5 years time - not a current generation model. Very proud to be building in the UK - more to share on that soon - alongside many other great early stage AI companies! 🇬🇧
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A guy was ready to drop $1,500 on a new OLED TV because his 3-year-old Smart TV was freezing up and took 5 seconds just to respond to the remote. He unplugged it. Deleted old apps. Cleared the cache. The lag kept coming back. He went to Best Buy to get a replacement. The home theater installer in the blue shirt stopped him: "Before you spend a grand, let me show you something." He grabbed a remote and shook his head. "There are 8 hidden tracking settings throttling your TV's processor right now. Manufacturers turn them all on by default. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's fix this." Here's what he showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵
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Shaquille O’Neal thinks a man cheating depends on the woman “Where do you think the phrase ‘happy wife, happy life’ comes from?” “I think there’s three types of cheaters. There's the serial cheater, the James Bond cheater and then the guy that's forced to cheat” “James Bond cheater is, I do everything right. I’m in Rio, I see a little thing, nobody sees me. I come back home to my normal life” “The guy that’s forced to cheat has been on the road for a week and then comes home to four or five days of not being taken care of and then he does what he does” “Then there's the serial cheater. The guy is just going to cheat no matter what” “Women run the world y’all just don’t know it”
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RT @TRobinsonNewEra: Horrific scenes out of Burnley, England today as a 17yr old girl is stabbed in the throat in broad daylight. https://t…
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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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🚨 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒 ⛔️ This is the most realistic from Frisco who had expressed his view on this so called H1B Issue. He is Ryan Stewmann , a multi millionaire and owns a Ranch and himself an Entrepreneur of 5 big companies. Ofcourse he benefits from new hosing demand IYKYK. Let’s understand the reality: No Indians are being kicked out of Texas. 1,00,000 Fee was a trial to stop Body Shop recruitments. It was thwarted by federal judge temporarily. Trump administration appealed it. The main pipeline for H1B are already inside the US under OPT Pipeline working under various companies who are waiting to get picked up in lottery. Will hand around until their permits valid. New Tech Layoffs are not bcoz of some Mr. Thumb or someone, they are purely driven by restructuring due to AI and getting ready for upcoming AI backed Recession. Jobs which has no location constraints will move to Indian cities. All the fraud must be cracked down no matter how much it hurts the Treasure box. So many Layoffs are on the way. People with money in hand will stay and hold their homes. People will no hopes will move back and foreclose their loans by hand over. Things might happen soon: 1) Body Shops/ consulting companies will be cracked down. 2) corporate sponsorships of H1B will stay 3) GCs will be stopped 4) people will American born kids will come back after they attain Majority age. 5) foreclosed houses will be Taken over by Qatar Saudi Sovereign backed Fund companies. 6) Houses will be rented to special category people. 7) Crime will rise , Tax share will fall, Texas will reimpose state Tax, Rich will Fly back to safe areas 8) Texas will renamed as Al Texas
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The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone. It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off. Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now. We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.
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My pinned tweet explains the background to Healey resignation. We got real numbers in 2020 for first time in ~20 years. Since then everything reverted to fake. Thanks to Trolley & Wally, they let HMT and MoD shovel cash into things they KNEW were broken, like AJAX, and scuppered funding the future (e.g drones, robotics, AI, cloud). The nuclear weapons supply chain is a multi-billion multi-decade fiasco and reinforces fake budgets. MoD & CO used UKR war to prop up the lies and disasters, not to fix them. Trolley, Sunak and Starmer all went along with: classify, punt, spin fake budgets. All these chickens are coming home to roost. The DIP is a disaster because it combines: a/ continuing to fund old things which shd be scrapped but senior people's careers rest on lying about, b/ failure to fund the future, c/ more dodgy accounts, d/ classified nuke shitshow, which forces lies/cannibalisation of conventional, and e/ continued failure to change procurement and long term budgets despite covid and UKR. Ive said this 100 times for years. Also relevant to resignation -- In 2020, I got the PM & CHX to agree to take the next gen fighter AWAY from HMT and MoD. (FOI the doc screenshotted below!) They were using a bogus 'above STRAP 3 study' to claim that AI would be irrelevant to future fighters in 2045. This 'top secret' study was written *before* DeepMind was created!! We agreed to take away the next gen fighter/drones from MoD/HMT and put them into a new civilian project with huge commercial development of drones/robotics/AI, with procurement and budgets done totally outside normal system (like vaccines, ARPA etc). After I left this was u-turned along with shredding all the true budget numbers. The MoD and HMT proceeded with the usual procurement with BaE. This has now blown up *as it was obvious it would SIX YEARS ago'. HMT is refusing to fund it because the MoD is a corrupt shambles. And MoD is knackered by the HMT's insane budget processes and insane procurement. HMT and MoD have reasonable complaints about each other. 'Everyone's right and everyone's unhappy'. The only way out is the Vote Leave plan and No10 smashing heads together with the full authority of the PM, as in the secret process of 2020. It cannot be left to 'normal processes'. Senior people must be forced to tell the truth 'or you're fired'. We did this. It works! The MPs refuse to engage. The MPs on defence committee say they cannot ask officials re the 2020 process because 'they'll just refuse to answer'. But our enemies know everything everything I say is true! It is impossible for dud Starmer to solve these problems. It is good timing that Burnham will soon take over and could draw a line under decades of Tory failure and set out a new path... But there will be HUGE pressure from the old system, in HMT and MoD, to patch everythign up with more lies, spin, fake accounts, and massive classification... Maybe some MPs could finally pay attention to these issues and resolve to stop constant lies, please! Our security, prosperity and critical technologies are at stake and the old parties and old Whitehall are pathological! NB. In 2020 we also bought LEO satellites. SW1 laughed. Starlink has been critical in UKR. Whitehall sold off the satellites! NB. In March 2022 when the UKR disaster started I wrote: 'Prediction: 1) lessons from UKR will overwhelmingly support the arguments of those who in 2020 argued for radical MoD changes (including taking money from old tank projects that everybody privately admitted were a multi-billion pound disaster) and 2) the correct criticism of the review and connected documents will be seen as a) they did not go nearly far enough, b) the collapse of No10 follow through on defence reform in 2021 was — like the collapse of 2020 plans for planning reform, tax cuts, deregulation, Project Speed, intense focus on R&D and skills etc — a disaster for the country (and a political disaster for the Tory Party).' NB. Special Forces who have observed the drone wars in UKR have told the senior MoD repeatedly that the mega expensive things they want to plough cash into in the DIP will get VAPOURISED in a real war by cheap drones! The SF are told to shut up and not give HMT a chance to cut the budgets! I know it's psychologically extremely hard for SW1 but Vote Leave worked with the deep state on this in 2020 and we were right on all the big things. The disastrous old processes have now blown up with unprecedented resignation over these exact issues. 6 years have been wasted. Tens of billions have been wasted. Lives lost. Talent resigned.. Opportunities to lead squandered... All over Whitehall are officials involved in 2020 who know what I say is true, the MPs and hacks should finally get the details into the public... Maybe SW1 could update its mental models?! Ps. if you're a hack still getting Ciaran 'AI is fake, PRC infiltration is overrated' Martin to comment on tech, you're as dud as Starmer
I've explained this ~20 times since 2021. In 2020 in the secret review of the MoD -- conducted in No10 with officials & without the involvement of the SoS because he was seen as a security risk to the process -- the MoD ADMITTED that AJAX was a 'total shitshow and dangerous to troops and would injure/deafen them'. They also agreed to close AJAX. AJAX was one of DOZENS of things the MoD admitted in this process were disasters and shd be closed down. We agreed to: 1/ Close the disasters. 2/ Change procurement and MoD budget processes fundamentally. 3/ Publicly explain the lies of the budget process of the previous 20 years and publish for the first time in 20 years budget numbers agreed by MoD, Cabinet Office, and HMT were TRUE. 4/ Shift new money to new programs done with new procurement. E.g drones - which in 2020 Wally thought were fake and he just wanted, like most of the senior generals, more bigger tanks. (When I pushed through buying LEO satellites with MI6 help, much of senior MoD opposed that too. Until Starlink was used in UKR, conventional wisdom in SW1 dismissed it -- look at all the laughter in 2020 when I forced this through.) 5/ Start honesty on the massive classified scandalous shitshow of the nuclear enterprise, tens and tens of billions hidden. 6/ Stop the MoD doing the new fighter using the old procurement system, partly based on 'above STRAP 3' study proving AI /drones would be irrelevant for advanced manned ('crewed'!) fighters until at least 2045. This 'above STRAP 3' MoD study turned out - when I finally got a copy - to have been conducted in ... 2010. I.e before DeepMind was sold to Google. Ludicrous. Normal. I got PM and CHX agreement to do the new plane project OUTSIDE the MoD with a totally new process. This was all finally agreed a fortnight or so before I left No10. After I left No10, documents were shredded in <24 hours. The true budget numbers were destroyed. Everything shifted back to the fake budget numbers. AJAX and dozens of other disasters were funded MORE. The procurement system continued and continued through UKR war. (Today special forces keep pleading with MoD to do drones differently, MoD continues the pathological system and orders SF not to inform ministers of the truth on drones in UKR.) The nuclear shitshow was classified and punted again. MoD was given the new plane project which, surprise surprise, is the normal process with normal results. And everyone agreed that the 2020 secret process was never to be discussed or even acknowledged to exist (even though it was officially briefed it was happening and you can see it on the internet). Trolley and Wally went along because they're both pure products of the pathological old system: lies and total failure are just another day at the office. They immediately reverted to the Osborne/Heywood/Mcpherson double counting budget lies which are normal in SW1 and wd get you jailed outside it. I've said this repeatedly. The media and MPs will never ever cover it. Just like the official Inquiry on covid in 2020, so the official truth on MoD in 2020 is lies all the way down. Instead we will continue to have these fake 'revelations' and 'experts' will continue to say 'I'm shocked, shocked about the latest MoD shitshow'. One MP on the Defence committee called me earlier this year for advice. I said hold hearings and call Simon Case, Lovegrove and the ~20 who did the secret process to give evidence under oath. MP: 'That's impossible, they always just refuse to talk to MPs on the grounds of national security.' Yes, quite. So MPs should either enforce change or quit and do something else with their lives. What's the point of being an MP in such a corrupt shitshow? Why bother with your Potemkin 'committees'? Ps. If you are a soldier injured in AJAX, then bear in mind that *the MoD KNEW you would be injured and did it anyway rather than admit their failures publicly.* Everyone involved will be given gongs and many a job in BAE. Gongs all round, the system working as intended... This is about the 20th time I've explained all this. Watch how the legacy media just keeps wandering around saying 'Im shocked to see this' and does zero probing of the 2020 secret review. Fixing the MoD is an example of *a regime-complete problem*.
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The best match from the 2025/26 season, as voted by YOU 🫵 🔴@Arsenal 2-3 @ManUtd ⚫️ preml.ge/tdxmtrwr
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🚨 BREAKING: John Healey has resigned as Defence Secretary over Keir Starmer's lack of funding for defence
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URGENT | Thambala Palli PS and Pedda Mandyam PS Annamayya Dist, Andhra Pradesh One week after 10 large containers involved in organised, rampant, large-scale cattle trafficking to Kerala for slaughtering purposes were intercepted under Tamballapalli & Pedda Mandyam PS limits, 510 rescued Gauvansh/buffaloes are reportedly still tied 24/7 at a private mango farm. With extreme heat, no proper shelter, limited fodder/water and cruel confinement, 8–10 have already died and the death rate may increase rapidly. Police must urgently file the seizure report, prevent any release/exchange, and rehabilitate all rescued Gauvansh/buffaloes to registered gaushalas already shared with authorities. @PMOIndia @HMOIndia @APPOLICE100 @AndhraPradeshCM @dgpapofficial @AnnamayyaPolice @ndtvindia @ZeeNews @aajtak @republic
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Tout le monde pense que le monde libre a gagné en 1989, à la chute du mur de Berlin. C'est faux. Et c'est exactement pour ça que le monde est aujourd'hui en feu. Ce qui est tombé le 9 novembre 1989, c'est un appareil. Une économie planifiée, un empire militaire, un mur de béton. Ce qui n'est pas tombé, c'est l'idée. L'idée que le monde se divise en oppresseurs et en opprimés. L'idée qu'il existe une égalité finale à atteindre, par tous les moyens. L'idée que tout ce qui existe (la famille, la nation, le mérite, l'héritage) est une structure de domination à abattre. Cette idée-là n'était plus dans le bâtiment quand le bâtiment s'est effondré. Il faut reprendre la chronologie, parce que tout est dans la chronologie : Le communisme économique avait un défaut fatal : il était réfutable. Il promettait l'abondance, il produisait des famines. Il promettait l'émancipation, il produisait des barbelés. Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, L'Archipel du Goulag publié à Paris en 1973, les boat people de 1979 : à chaque décennie, le réel envoyait sa réfutation. Les boat people étaient une réfutation flottante, visible depuis les plages. Alors l'idéologie a fait ce que fait tout organisme menacé : elle a muté. La mutation a un nom, et j'en ai raconté la généalogie ici : la French Theory. Foucault a déplacé la guerre du terrain des faits, où le communisme perdait à chaque fois, vers le terrain du savoir lui-même. S'il n'y a pas de vérité, s'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir, alors plus aucune famine, plus aucun mur, plus aucun goulag ne peut réfuter quoi que ce soit. La French Theory n'a pas enterré le marxisme. Elle l'a rendu irréfutable. Et la mutation a des dates. Toutes antérieures à 1989. 1934 : l'École de Francfort, chassée d'Allemagne, s'installe à Columbia. La critique de l'économie devient critique de la culture. 1964-1965 : Marcuse, exilé allemand devenu professeur américain, remplace le prolétariat défaillant par un nouveau sujet révolutionnaire (les minorités, les étudiants, les marginaux) et écrit noir sur blanc que la tolérance doit être accordée aux mouvements de gauche et refusée à ceux de droite. Octobre 1966 : le débarquement a une date précise. Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. Derrida, Barthes, Lacan présentent la pensée française aux campus américains. 1967 : Rudi Dutschke lance le mot d'ordre, la longue marche à travers les institutions. 1968 : les révolutions de rue échouent partout. Qu'importe. La révolution ne passera plus par la rue, elle passera par la salle de classe. 1975-1985 : Yale, Berkeley, Columbia absorbent la théorie, qui devient le système d'exploitation des humanités. 1987 : Allan Bloom publie The Closing of the American Mind pour donner l'alerte. Un million d'exemplaires vendus. L'université le traite de réactionnaire et passe à autre chose. L'Amérique avait son Aron, elle en a fait la même chose que nous du nôtre. Puis arrive le 9 novembre 1989. Le Mur tombe. L'Occident célèbre. Fukuyama avait déclaré la fin de l'Histoire dès l'été, avant même la chute. On démantèle les missiles, on encaisse les dividendes de la paix, on déclare le match terminé. Nous avons célébré notre victoire sur une adresse vide. L'idéologie avait déménagé vingt ans plus tôt. Nous avons gagné contre les chars et perdu contre les chaires. Pendant ce temps, l'autre empire communiste faisait la lecture inverse. Pékin avait écrasé Tian'anmen dans le sang cinq mois avant Berlin. Sinistre, mais lucide sur un point : la Chine savait que la guerre était idéologique. Elle a choisi : abandonner l'économie marxiste, garder le contrôle du récit. L'Occident a fait l'exact opposé : il a gardé le marché et absorbé l'idéologie. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, regardez qui construit des centrales et qui déboulonne ses statues. Vous voulez la preuve que c'est le même logiciel ? Faites la table de correspondance. La lutte des classes est devenue la lutte des identités. Les koulaks sont devenus les privilégiés. L'autocritique maoïste est devenue le privilege checking. Les commissaires politiques sont devenus les DEI officers. Le samizdat est devenu le compte shadowbanné. La nomenklatura a quitté Moscou pour Davos et Bruxelles. Et le paradis ne s'appelle plus la société sans classes : il s'appelle l'équité, l'égalité des résultats. Exactement ce que je décrivais ici il y a quelques semaines. On me dira : il n'y a pas de Goulag. C'est vrai. C'est même tout le génie de la version 2.0. Le communisme dur devait briser les corps parce qu'il ne tenait pas les esprits. Le communisme mou tient les esprits : il lui suffit de briser les carrières. Pas de camps, des services RH. Pas de procès de Moscou, des excuses publiques. Pas de Sibérie, la mort sociale. Demandez aux émigrés du bloc de l'Est installés en Occident ce qu'ils ressentent en traversant une université américaine en 2026. Ils reconnaissent l'odeur. Et voilà pourquoi le monde est en feu. Une civilisation a passé trente-cinq ans à enseigner à ses propres enfants qu'elle était le problème. Résultat : elle ne sait plus défendre ses frontières, transmettre son héritage, ni même nommer ses ennemis. Quand la présidente de Harvard, devant le Congrès, répond que condamner un appel au génocide « dépend du contexte », vous voyez le logiciel tourner en production. Et les prédateurs du dehors lisent cette faiblesse comme un livre ouvert : Moscou teste, Pékin patiente, l'islamisme avance dans les rues de nos capitales. Le feu extérieur n'est que la conséquence du désarmement intérieur. On ne brûle bien que les maisons qui se sont vidées de leurs défenseurs. Le Mur n'est pas tombé. Il s'est déplacé. Il ne sépare plus l'Est de l'Ouest : il passe désormais à l'intérieur de chaque institution occidentale, entre ceux qui construisent et ceux qui déconstruisent. La première guerre froide s'est gagnée avec des missiles et du PIB. La seconde se gagnera avec des écoles, des médias libres et des modèles d'IA. Celui qui écrit les valeurs dans les machines écrira le prochain 1989. Cette fois, ne nous trompons pas de victoire. Au travail.
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Is automatic model routing slower than just sticking with your favorite model? Sessions with routing are faster on average because smaller models have lower latency per token. The routing decision itself is a single classification call at session start.
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The whole of the United Kingdom is hitting the streets tonight at 7pm following yet another invader attack on our people. It's time 🇬🇧
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“abhorrent scenes of violence?” - you mean jihadi terror
The horrific attack in Belfast last night is sickening. I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets. My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim, and I thank the first responders, including members of the public who intervened.
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African migrant just tried to behead a white man in North Belfast, Ireland. Video is too graphic to post.
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