Barzin

Oh, right, pinned posts, yea? 🤔 My name is Barzin, I work at my little bootstrapped IT & marketing start-up at sanctus.ca which I created for a few reasons. One, because I wanted to be my own boss, second because I was tired of watching big tech rip off and just about enslave people.

Popular news media completely avoiding the possibility that people will just be a noetic cloud floating in hyperspace before they finally understand true enlightenment is letting go of all attachments and liberate themselves from samsara

OpenAI: calls them agents even though it's just an LLM with web search Meta: calls it superintelligence when it's just a light agent in a pair of AR glasses that lets you turn down the volume on your annoying Spotify music by sliding your finger on the folding handle

Dutch late night TV has its take

The real reason he got all that CIA funding 🍆

Alex Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein, a rapist and abuser, a sweetheart deal. Epstein continued to abuse girls while in prison, after which Trump made Acosta Labor Secretary in his first term. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp

Facts confirmed as having a liberal bias

Supplementary information for this article as collected by Fleetwood: • How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: siboehm.com/articles/22/... • Outperforming cuBLAS on H100: a Worklog: cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperform...

Hot damn it's happening

Kepler-138c and d are twice as heavy as the Earth but half our planet's density, meaning they are likely "water worlds": science.nasa.gov/universe/exo... They'd be covered in a massively deep ocean topped by hot vapour atmosphere, transitioning to high-pressure ice at the bottom.

I can't believe how lucky I am, after it's all said and done, that Canada took me in. I hope to grow strong to defend this country and what it stands for, this place is as close to the promised land as I've ever seen if not it.

On the last episode of MLST Karl Friston said - if he had to pick one quality necessary at a minimum for an organism to have consciousness, it would be being capable of a sufficiently large temporal depth. Temporal depth is exactly what our paper is about www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

I never saw this coming: A Sysinternals tool, procdump, helping to improve the security of MacOS! www.macworld.com/article/2898...

1999: Global solar power exceeds 1000 MW. 2012: Global solar power exceeds 100,000 MW. 2022: Global solar power exceeds 1,000,000 MW. 2024: Global solar power exceeds 2,000,000 MW.

Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience

I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real

gpt-5-codex is better, but only if you’re INSANELY specific in your prompts (maybe use gpt-5 to prompt codex??)

Hey #Canada, anyone who's technically inclined and wants to start up a censorship-proof, fully decentralized social media network by and for Canadians, let me know and let's team up. More information about how it works in the link; setting up a Matrix server and outlining specs is next.

Epstein Files.

My biggest AI flex is that I have a codebase now that costs 176K tokens to get a typical SOTA model to get up to speed with how it works and what to do with it. Apparently this is about as many words as a full-length novel.

This one’s fun! CVE-2023-49565 The cbis_manager Podman container is vulnerable to remote command execution via the /api/plugins endpoint. The web service executes with root privileges within the container environment. CVSS 8.4

How We Built the First AI-Generated Genomes Here they detail some of the technical innovations that enabled us to generate viable bacteriophage genomes with substantial evolutionary novelty. arcinstitute.org/news/hie-kin...

My dad boycotted Papa John's until his dying breath because one of their drivers drove recklessly and nearly hit us kids in front of our house, and when he called the store to complain the manager laughed and hung up on him. I intend to carry on that legacy. Fuck Papa John and his shitty pizza.

Usually smells wafting in from my window are either somebody in this place smoking weed, or barbecue, or the smell of burning fall leaves; for some reason the scent coming through the window is... very distinctly... 90s fabric softener..

I see people are posting about yud's new book. I'm not gonna read it, but this other book seems promising

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

DeepSeek published about R1 in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... but the supplementary information is far more detailed. it includes, lots of details on everything from datasets, data processing, hyperparameters, and more static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

A good way to defend Canada's sovereignty is to put a lot of distance between the geopolitics of the US, Israel, etc. rather than get entangled with them *especially* when there's potentially extremely serious crimes and evil being perpetrated by those factions outside of Canada.

Rep. Jasmin Crockett is correct. This is bigger than the pedophile president. MUCH BIGGER. Release the Epstein files!

The Epstein Investigation is so much bigger than you can imagine. It is not only about justice for survivors—it is also about the institutions and systems that protected rich and powerful men they knew were abusing women and children: the banks, the government agencies, and other powerful people.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Brain scan study connects parahippocampal cortex thinning with depression and neuroticism

Ontario's deficit rising to $12 billion 2025-26. Ontario's debt rising to $549.3 billion in 2029-30. Ford can save money by cancelling the $2.3 billion taxpayer subsidy for a private luxury spa at Ontario Place and the $100 billion fantasy 401 tunnel. #ONpoli toronto.citynews.ca/2025/09/17/o...

it reads like a screenplay intern's first draft

In which post-late-stage capitalism realizes that killing all your customers is actually bad for business and maybe metaphorically hooking them up to be milked for a lifetime like cattle isn't just shitty - which *should* be the first concern, but, like, also my bank account, man

if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys

Goddamn imagine liking Biden or Obama so much you'd be willing to send pipe bombs to Mar-a-Lago Absolutely palpable poverty of political choices, just outright brutal

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

The piss tank on the ISS is now 49% full.