Oppositionally defiant
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Secure boot update report is back
Feb 26
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A few years ago, about an @AOC Senate Run, I said: “The apparatus that would spring up around her would be unstoppable. People would fly in from other states to volunteer with her."
If she runs for President, there would be a surge in excitement we haven't seen in decades. People would go into debt to sleep on the floors of Iowa organizers' living rooms... just to say they were with her on that day.
If you thought the excitement around @ZohranKMamdani was a lot, just wait for the day that AOC says those three faithful words.
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Jan 26
This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."
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Jan 25
Trump is just the trigger.
There are deep historical forces:
The dismantling of the FCC fairness doctrine by Reagan, the resulting emergence of Fox News, conservative talk radio, and other propaganda outlets, the removal of guardrails for the influence of money in politics (e.g. Citizen United), the continuous reduction of taxes on high incomes, the ever-increasing wealth and income inequalities enabled by the above, the stagnation of working class income despite continued increase in productivity (and corporate profits), the total lack of social protection and benefits compared to other developed countries.
People in the middle class and below have been screwed for 40 years and are angry.
They should be angry at Republicans.
But the Republican party has managed to deflect their anger towards immigrants, non-Christians, non-whites, liberals, LGBT, China, academia, intellectual "elites", scientists, journalists, and non-existent scarecrows like Antifa.
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RT @OAlexanderDK: 🧵The final agent to enter the frame approaches the agent who fired the shots from behind. During this approach, he accide…
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Jan 25
A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
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RT @BTnewsroom: GRAPHIC: CBP officers shoot another person in Minneapolis at point-blank range. Footage obtained exclusively by BT shows fe…
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Not a new scenario. He has always been like this.
He is acting like someone who is unrestrained. Like someone who got away with Jan 6th. Like someone who got away with raping girls. Like someone that got away with being a Russian agent.
Maybe we hold him accountable? I dunno
Jan 19
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
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This is even more impressive when you know that S3 processes over 100,000,000 requests per second.
Light travels less than 10 feet in the time between requests arriving at S3.
Jan 6
On 1 Dec 2020, AWS S3 announced that all writes to S3 are now strongly consistent (not eventually consistent, like before) *at no price change or latency changes* to any customers.
Pulling this off was probably one of the biggest invisible engineering achievements of the decade
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Yes but also, Zuckerberg has Facebook Horizon/Horizon Worlds/metaverse under his belt, so is there any reason to believe he could also be wrong on AI vs LeCun? Only the future will tell
Jan 5
Okay so I need to talk about what’s happening with Yann LeCun because this is genuinely one of the wildest exits I’ve ever seen in tech.
For those who don’t know—LeCun is one of the “godfathers of AI.” Not a marketing title. The man literally won the Turing Award (basically the Nobel Prize of computer science) for helping invent deep learning. He’s been at Meta for over a decade as their Chief AI Scientist. An absolute legend.
So here’s what happened.
Zuckerberg got frustrated. Llama wasn’t moving fast enough. The AI race was heating up and Meta felt like it was falling behind. So what does Zuck do? He drops $14 BILLION on Scale AI and hires its 28-year-old co-founder, Alexandr Wang, to run a brand new “Superintelligence Lab.”
And then—and this is the part that still blows my mind—he makes Wang… LeCun’s boss.
Think about that for a second. A 65-year-old Turing Award winner. Four decades of groundbreaking research. The guy who helped BUILD this entire field. Now reporting to someone whose company… labels data. (Scale AI is impressive, don’t get me wrong, but they don’t actually build AI models. They annotate training data for other companies.)
LeCun just did an interview with the Financial Times and honestly? He chose violence.
Called Wang “young” and “inexperienced.” Said he has “no experience with research or how you practice research, how you do it. Or what would be attractive or repulsive to a researcher.”
And then dropped this absolute gem: “You don’t tell a researcher what to do. You certainly don’t tell a researcher like me what to do.”
I mean. The man said what he said.
But wait—it gets better. Or worse, depending on how you look at it.
LeCun straight up confirmed that Meta’s team “fudged” the Llama 4 benchmark results. Like, actually manipulated them. Used different models on different tests to make the numbers look better. Remember when everyone was suspicious about those benchmarks back in April? Yeah. Turns out they were right to be.
Apparently Zuckerberg was furious when this came out internally. LeCun says he “lost confidence in everyone who was involved” and basically sidelined the entire GenAI team.
And here’s the thing that really gets me—LeCun has been saying for YEARS that LLMs are a “dead end.” That you can’t get to real intelligence just by predicting the next word. That we need “world models” that actually understand physical reality, not just language patterns.
Everyone at Meta wanted him to stop saying this publicly. Bad for the narrative, you know? But LeCun refused.
His exact words: “I’m not gonna change my mind because some dude thinks I’m wrong. I’m not wrong.”
That’s not arrogance. That’s a scientist who’s seen enough hype cycles to know when something doesn’t add up.
So now he’s out. Launching his own company called AMI Labs—Advanced Machine Intelligence. They’re targeting a $3 billion valuation. Building those world models he’s been talking about. Says he’ll have a “baby version” ready within a year.
Oh, and apparently French President Macron personally texted him after the news dropped. LeCun won’t say what the message said but like… the man is getting DMs from heads of state now.
I don’t know if LeCun is right about everything. Maybe LLMs will surprise us. Maybe Meta will figure it out. But when one of the three people who literally invented modern AI walks out the door saying your entire strategy is fundamentally flawed?
I don’t know man. I’d at least ask some questions.
The AI wars just got very, very interesting
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