I wasn't really ready to publish my dev site (“sufficiently advanced research is indistinguishable from severe AI psychosis”), but the @anthropic.com
& Dept of War(!) standoff is absolutely wild, and potentially pivotal far beyond mere govt contracts. willworth.dev/pentagon-sta...
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Witkoff-Dmitriev plan is even more amateurish than I imagined. It favours Russia although does contain elements that Russia will not like. Premature leaking means that it is no more than work in progress. Here is an annotated version (This is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
"You have fooled the world, and so you think that you understand it." snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
The Consciousness Atlas is an interactive web app that visualizes more than 325 theories of consciousness. It is based on Robert Lawrence Kuhn's 2024 paper, "A Landscape of Consciousness". www.consciousnessatlas.com
climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...
Current situation:
China has 600+ GW of solar manufacturing capacity
Current global demand: ~400 GW/year
Overcapacity = price collapse incoming
Painting created with dashes of paint to create a sense of movement depicting two young Black girls in dresses as if dancing together
Womensart blog:
Extraordinary Painter Betty Acquah
womensartblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/e...
I went to take a spoon from the draining board stand. I pulled it out and realised it was not the kind of spoon I wanted. I felt irritated. I realised my reaction was the problem; not the spoon. I always focus on the spoon, and this is a mistake.
I loved the goblin emperor - it's insightful about the human condition, feelings of inadequacy and court intrigue. what more could you want?
status, perhaps?
As of mid-2025, humanity’s annual collective experience (≈ 8.22 billion person-years) is ≈ 59.6 % of the Universe’s 13.787 billion-year age.
occasionally, you get a useful signal about a source - the verge did a "Microsoft Copilot event in 9 minutes" round up video, and - notably - chose to include a protest. a useful insight into @theverge.com - chosing journalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do6y...
Some disparate thoughts on the second day of the financial apocalypse iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
I'm not here to defend amazon, but are we sure they're the ones we want deciding what's allowable on t-shirts? Short of incitement to violence, isn't freedom of speech preferable?
ai-2027.com
'At this point in the scenario, we’re making guesses about the strategy of AI systems that are more capable than the best humans in most domains. This is like trying to predict the chess moves of a player who is much better than us.'
This is lovely and evocative. Happy days.
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
RIP Gene Hackman…
Excellent
What happens if you put an AI in charge of national defense?
In war games, LLMs tend to escalate & do arms races. Base models are more aggressive & unpredictable. The authors speculate that it is because there is lots of training data on escalation, little on de-escalation. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03408
i asked claude for advice, and then when i questioned the plan, got this gem
"You're right - there's something almost absurd about carefully planning LinkedIn engagement in the face of potential ASI."
i woud dial that number in the unlikely event that I was rumaging through the contacts on your phone
"what does this fucker do?"
Visa and sasha and that writer guy who lives with his wife and thinks a lot and comes up with good stuff.
Iphone
Iphone
Sorry . this is the pal version
Even turning on pro res the options remain the same
Maybe I need to turn on more formats?
Iphone 16 pro camera settings
16 pro. Hope this helps?
Comic on creative failure
Not sure if bloper is on here?
