Jack Lynch

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

Not the point of this (very worthwhile) thread, but "The Magyar government" always gives me a little giggle. It's like if we had to talk about the "America administration" because we'd elected Jonathan America president.

As someone who has had a variety of very rewarding disagreements with "big" accounts, and who once got to enjoy several hundred people calling me evil courtesy of some Christofascist prick, Micah makes a good point. If you start saying shit *to somebody* it's vampire rules, you invited that in.

Ah, so just stealing $120m from schools and transit riders to.... shore up her right flank during the last two months of the campaign? "She said it wouldn't impact any existing transportation projects. She said it would cost about $120 million, which would come from surplus fair share tax revenue."

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

Oh my god I think I found the video.

you: underachiever, aims low, drinks to forget me: meta grindset, peak hustle, drinks to fiveget

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When Google strips all this away by harvesting an "answer" and displaying it at the top of the page, the bargain between Google and the open web breaks down. Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return. 7/

LOL that Jake Auchincloss gives a non-answer in here. inthesetimes.com/article/immi...

I knew this was true, but I assumed it'd remain subtext. It feels sort of moustache twirlingly evil to directly admit "we've done our best to slurp up all the knowledge so we can sell it back to you"

look trump can have his government sign any docs he wants; either the next democratic government throws all the corrupt motherfuckers in jail and seizes all their assets, or it's pointless anyway.

"History is written by the victor" implies the converse "The victor is whoever writes the accepted history" Good 🧵on the civil war here.

In addition to just being unthreatened I think they're domesticated into some of these risks. Had someone do a favor for me once bc of a long-term business relationship w/ family. Spent a week trying to find the scam since it rang so many alarms. If that's how people usually treat you though...

Ahh, so these are the vaunted Morning People I've heard so much about

I had my own uncle (who lives in another state) tell me I shouldn't complain about the rate of housing growth in Brookline because "the people who live there" decided they didn't want it. Like where do you think I live bro?

National high speed rail would be so amazing, but we have to spend the money bombing Iran, setting the Middle East on fire, and tanking the global economy. Because national security terrorism Jesus something something.

Who first figured out that seasons are flipped in different hemispheres? Like did we have to wait for Eratosthenes to figure out the axial tilt thing? Or did some Polynesian sailors put it together 600 years before that?

Gotta catch yourself first. They're trying to skip the part where you have to find yourself and run it down. Unfortunately for them robot meat is no real substitute for the raw red vital stuff we're made of.

I’ve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noem’s replacement. The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual. It’s a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.

I've severely limited caffeine for medical reasons and it's amazing how little coffee I need to add to a cup of water to trick myself. I swear, I drink it and my brain goes "yeah, that's brown, must be coffee." I can do it all day, 5 'cups of coffee' at 80% water a cup.

Isn't it time for Massachusetts to pass legislation to protect people? #MAPoli boltsmag.org/maryland-new...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

Nosferatu (2024). I still want that 132 minutes back. It was nothing! it was all carefully arranged beautifully costumed nothing! It was like eating soup flavored soup and spending two hours trying to figure out what flavor it was supposed to be.

"Where you stand with the keys and your cool hat of silence Where you grip her love like a drivers license" (best is too hard, but my favorite today)

I'm at their second benefit show right now. (They just opened their 3rd set with "American Idiot.) These white suburban parents are wearing t-shirts with slogans like "RADICALIZED BY BASIC HUMAN DECENCY" and "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND BUILT BY STOLEN HANDS." (4/?)

Stock go up because AI is going to replace all the workers is one of the goofiest bets that the whole market seems to be buying. Either it's wrong, AI isn't magic, that won't happen, stock values collapse. Or it's right, AI is magic, everyone gets fired, whole economy (incl. stock value) collapses

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "We _can_ build whatever we want, but..."

Prosperity gospel has got to be up there in terms of worst interpretations of Christianity. The Hyde to Protestant work ethic's Jekyll. (Spoiler if you haven't read it, turns out they're both bad)

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Trump: I have made a new way to control the country Every previous admin: you fucked up a perfectly good consent manufacturing machine is what you did. look at it. it's got the PTA and Reddit mad at you.

Essential point here. The purpose of nonviolent direct action is to make visible, in incontrovertible fashion, the abuses and cruelties of the system.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

I found Kropotkin aspirational, but devising political & social theories at a time when you think the "end scarcity" technology is arriving imminently lets you be real sloppy & impractical. You see it with early 20th c. Europeans, and with the AI crowd today (albeit w/ vastly different goals)