Belisarius

Byzantine General. Magister Militum Per Orientem. Crypto Enthusiast. 🥼🧪

[girish @googrish]

“don’t train your own model” is common ai advice. it's wrong. your token bill's the proof.

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open-weights models are performant and much cheaper. when trained on your task & proprietary data, they beat closed models. the thing standing between you and that was weeks of plumbing & years of ml expertise.

with castform, model training is as simple as prompt engineering. @castformai

bring your agent traces or raw corpora. castform turns it into training data, picks the right algorithmic recipes, manages gpus, and gives you an ide to watch and chat with your model as it learns.

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[MT @MT_6226]

There is a weird sleight of hand that conservatives like to do, which is that they demand that Indian/Asian people be von Neumann to come here, while being perfectly fine with the "huddled masses" from Ulster or the Mezzogiorno.

The other sleight of hand they do is being violently opposed to any cultural shift that Indian/Asian people may bring, while being totally fine with far more seismic changes otherwise. Eg some cultural shifts over the past two decades have been:

- The acceptance of LGBT culture and couples
- The acceptance (ubiquity) of marijuana
- The acceptance (ubiquity) of sports betting
- Recognition of mental health issues, and "therapy-speak"
- The decline of mass culture in movies, the arts, and music
- The youth sports industrial complex
- A growing attitude of cynicism and apathy towards the government

None of these things are attributable to immigrants. Many of them are in direct contravention to what happens in the home countries.

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But anyways, let's say that you don't like Indians/Asians being here. For whatever reason. Maybe you don't like "grind culture," maybe the CEO of Ranch 99 slept with your wife, maybe you just hate our skin.

Good news! It's a vast country, and there are plenty of prosperous, gigantic metro areas without Indians/Asians, even culturally hostile to Asians (looking at you, Miami).

So just go there. But we're just looking to build a prosperous, boring life in our West Coast suburbias, so leave us in peace.

[gemchanger @gemchange_ltd]

https://t.co/YbXzSpFE31

[Matt Dancho (Business Science) @mdancho84]

🚨 BREAKING: IBM launches a free Python library that converts ANY document to data

Introducing Docling. Here's what you need to know: 🧵

[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

@MoonDevOnYT @grok summarize

[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

@MoonDevOnYT @grok summarize

[Blaze @browomo]

One guy is making more money off Elon Musk than half of Tesla employees.

He is not an investor or an insider. He just figured out one thing about Musk behavior online that 200 million followers see every day but never monetize.

On Polymarket there are markets on how many times Elon Musk posts on X per week. Ranges like 520-539 tweets. Sounds absurd. But one wallet turned this into $489K profit.

I found the wallet that does this: https://t.co/EkZ2FCPqwe

A few of his Musk trades:

$27,552 → $148,020 (437% ROI)
$13,960 → $107,446 (669% ROI)
$13,694 → $72,982 (432% ROI)

The logic is almost stupid simple.

Every week Polymarket opens a market: how many times will Musk post?

He picks a range, buys in at 12-20 cents per share. If Musk lands in that range, the share goes to $1. If not, it goes to zero.

And Musk almost always lands in the same corridor.

He is not experimenting with $50. He is going in at $10K-$27K per trade. That is conviction, not luck.

Total profit: $489K. Biggest single win: $120.5K.

Right now he has $384K in open positions, meaning he is still going.

Musk posts in a predictable corridor. His online habits are a pattern. And almost nobody is trading these markets, so margins are fat.

If Elon Musk scrolling habits are worth $489K to one person, what else on this platform is hiding in plain sight?

[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

@RobertJBye Ability to highlight certain section of large text when talking and ask claude question for followup. Chatgpt does this with "ask chatgpt"

[Jacob King @JacobKinge]

BREAKING: Silicon Valley insiders believe this AI boom is their last chance to get rich before AI takes over high-paying jobs, floods the market with cheap goods, and makes traditional money less useful.

They see frantic fundraising, crazy valuations, and big bets on AI as urgent moves. They believe that once AGI soon shows up, most people’s jobs and incomes will vanish, wealth will go to those who control the AI and data, and everyone else might rely on UBI or shared resources.

Their thinking: grab assets and company stakes now, or miss out forever.

[Today In History @historigins]

Hugh Jackman pauses mid-interview after realizing the reporter was one of his former students

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The big insurance companies and the PBMs they own, create almost all of the complications. They are able to do so because they control the flow of patients for hospitals/providers and drug manufacturers. They are the gatekeepers for trillions of dollars of healthcare spending. Everyone has to kiss their ass and accept the complications.

They do this via their control of networks of providers and drug formularies. That's it.

It's a simplification. But if we End their control of networks and formularies , healthcare can be transparent and affordable. Then the only question becomes how do patients that can't afford their care pay for it

Answer: We use the trillions we just saved to help them.

[Rūm @Antiochian_Rum]

THE GREEK ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH JOHN X HAS SPOKEN:

confronts Jolani and calls on him to stop the massacre of Christians and Alawites occurring in the Syrian Coast

> majority of deaths are not regime remnants, but civilians, including women and children

> they are both Alawite and Christian - targeted not in crossfire but for sectarian reasons

> militants are destroying icons of the Virgin Mary despite Muslims claiming to respect her

> calls on Jolani to end all the massacres occurring in the coast

The crowd applauds his statement.

Yet we were told the targetting of Christians is a hoax and that Christians support the regime's genocide of Alawites.

[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

Lord have mercy

[Rūm @Antiochian_Rum]

They’re now looting Alawite and Christian stores and houses after having killed off entire villages and cities.

[Rūm @Antiochian_Rum]

They’re now looting Alawite and Christian stores and houses after having killed off entire villages and cities.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

After analyzing the White House meeting and the Fox interview and thinking about the problems for 24 jours, it’s clear that Zelensky has one goal—and one goal only.

It’s not to end the war.

It’s not to win the war—he knows he can’t.

It’s not to apply more pressure on Russia.

It’s not just about more money and weapons (though he’ll gladly take them).

It’s not even about stroking his own ego or lining his pockets.

It’s NATO. He wants NATO membership.

And Trump’s red line has been clear from the start—no NATO membership for Ukraine. The very first thing Pete Hegseth said when he visited Europe was no NATO expansion. That’s also likely why Putin invaded in the first place.

If NATO Is His Only Goal, Why Take the Meeting?

What Zelensky wants isn’t all of NATO—he doesn’t care about the planning committees, military exercises, or logistics meetings.

He wants Article 5. The mutual defense clause.

He knows Trump is right—Ukraine cannot hold on forever.

If the war drags on, he wants big nations pulled into the fight with him. Especially the United States

If there’s a peace deal, he wants tanks rolling in the moment Putin breaks it.

But joining NATO isn’t the only way to get that.

Enter the European Treaty Organization (ETO)

After Zelensky’s meeting, several influential accounts began suggesting a parallel NATO-style alliance—the European Treaty Organization (ETO).
•A European-led military pact, including Ukraine
•No direct U.S. involvement (on paper)
•If Ukraine gets attacked, European nations might step in
•Russian retaliation could then trigger NATO’s Article 5 anyway

At first, ETO would likely have a provision stating it won’t trigger NATO’s Article 5. Many MAGA conservatives might even support it—after all, it’s Europe finally defending itself.

But mark my words—if ETO is created, that no-Article-5 provision will disappear over time. Lawyers and bureaucrats will do everything possible to entangle NATO and ETO.

Zelensky’s True Goal: Entanglement

ETO isn’t his only play.

He can craft other legal structures and defense agreements that tie the United States to Ukraine’s security.

That’s his real goal: entangling the U.S. in a way that forces our hand.

Why Take the Meeting Knowing Trump Would Say No?

Simple: to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Europe and stir up division inside America.

By taking the meeting—and getting rejected—he may have believed he could:
✔️ Pressure Europe to offer alternative security guarantees
✔️ Exploit cracks between U.S. leadership and allies
✔️ Rally Trump’s base to keep Ukraine in the spotlight
✔️ Find new ways to entangle the U.S. in Ukraine’s defense

The end goal? U.S. boots on the ground.

I could be wrong. But I don’t think so.

I believe the only deal Zelensky will accept is something, anything—even nuclear treaties with the UK or France—that locks in a guaranteed U.S. military boots on the ground response.

He doesn’t care what it’s called or how it’s achieved. But he will not accept anything less.

He wants a full NATO membership guarantee.

[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

@iScienceLuvr Would love to join. Hospital Pharmacist/Ai enthusiast.

[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

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[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

@gemxbt_agent @muskelburrito $TIA

[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

@gemxbt_agent @vinhtoan2801 $TRUMP

[Belisarius @BelisariusII]

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