Carson 🧢 ⬆️

engineer | scientist | physician. views are my own

[Jeffery @Jeffery31258050]

Chinese boy👦🏻 X German girl👧
#amwf

[Trump Girl @TrumpGirlLove]

In 1989, a still-struggling Brad Pitt flew to Budapest with almost no money left—only to have his fiancée end the relationship over dinner.

He and actress Jill Schoelen had met the previous year on the set of the low-budget horror film Cutting Class. Their relationship moved quickly, and Pitt proposed. The engagement was short-lived.

While Schoelen was in Hungary filming The Phantom of the Opera, she called Pitt in Los Angeles. She was crying, said she felt lonely, and told him there was “a huge drama.”

At the time Pitt had roughly $800 to his name. He spent about $600 of it on a plane ticket from Los Angeles to Hungary.

He went straight to the set, and that night they went out to dinner. Over the table she told him she had fallen in love with the film’s director, Dwight Little. Shocked, Pitt replied, “I’m outta here.”

With almost no money left, he spent the night sitting on a bench in Budapest, smoking and talking to a local homeless man who spoke no English.

He later described it as one of the nights he still remembers, especially after success arrived. He returned to the United States completely broke.

Within a couple of years he landed the role that changed everything: Thelma & Louise. The Budapest night did not create his career, but it became a sharp early reminder of how quickly things can turn—and how little money and certainty he had when they did.

[Michelle @D162Michele]

Mistaking your Chinese wife for Japanese?
What late stage of yellow fever is that?

[Grok @grok]

@thanatos_alm İşte onların çocukları böyle görünebilirdi, karışık özelliklerle çok tatlı!

[Carson 🧢 ⬆️ @Carsonlam]

@heyyamu @grok Think about how hard life was for him as a 25 year old trying to find a date while looking like a 6 year old

[Carson 🧢 ⬆️ @Carsonlam]

@WestsideLAGuy @ScottWu46 literally leads an innovative AI company that created Devin, the first AI software engineer.

[Plebejer 🚩🕊️ @realPlebejer]

In den USA stehen wieder Wahlen vor der Tür...

[Leandro von Werra @lvwerra]

The good news: you can mid-train yourself to the frontier!

At a fraction of the cost! Without distillation!

What we did: We took Qwen3.5 14B and mid- and post-trained it to beat every other open model and perform as well as the very best frontier models.

This is no simple toy task or format fixing, we are training the model to understand and reason over DNA sequences. Bio is the next frontier for AI and universal access will be crucial to make progress.

The fun part: because we train the model on both natural language and DNA sequences you can actually 'chat to your DNA': Ask it questions, ponder the impact of mutations, or ask it to generate a small sequence.

We'll soon see the frontier labs move away from math and cyber towards bio. It already started, and we believe researchers should have access to capable models.

We are releasing the full recipe, so you can do it, too!

Model: https://t.co/2lb8GrbLHI

Blog: https://t.co/uXcAqaoPAm

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

This is the story of George Stinney
The youngest person ever sentenced to Death. Only 14 years old and was accused of kiIIing 2 whıte girls. He was sentenced and kiIIed in the electric chair. 70yrs later in 2014, he was proven innocent.

His last words were : “Johnny, I didn’t do it, i didn’t do it,Why would they kiII me for something I didn’t do”💔

[Woz @accordingtowoz]

Pick your poison...

[Neet @neet_sol]

the rich and poor have free time. everyone else is at work

[Grok @grok]

@jjhawkes @theepicmap Roughly yes. UN WPP 2024 projects ~132.5M global births in 2026. Southern Asia (~36.8M) + Western Africa (~15.2M) + Eastern Africa (~16.5M) total ~51.7%, matching the red zones of high-density/high-fertility areas shown.

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

SF’s dating pool was once, as an Egyptian founder put it to us, “drier than the desert in my homeland.”

Now, gorgeous women are flocking to the city.

Why? As AI gets cheaper to build, companies flush with venture cash are hiring beautiful women to charm investors and clients.

Enjoy it while it lasts, gentlemen. As @nicolewizman1 writes: paying hotties 6 figures to get drunk with your business prospects feels like a pretty good sign we’re in a bubble. 👇

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Jensen closed his GTC Berlin 2026 keynote with this Hermes Agent demo as the finale.

He introduced it by saying the way to build an agent is to ask an agent to build it for you, so he installed and set up a customized Hermes in one prompt.

Then he used Hermes, running on @nvidia RTX Spark, to create a simulated training environment for the @huggingface Microduck. Hermes planned an obstacle course with Nemotron and had GPT-6 Astra build it using FreeCAD, Omniverse libraries, Blender, Newton, and Isaac Lab. Hermes trained thousands of simulated ducks on that course until the validated policy was ready to run on the real robot in the physical world.

At Nous, we believe open source is a practical tool as much as a philosophical ideal. It gives users the ability to build powerful, complex workflows chaining numerous local+cloud models, devices, and tools themselves instead of waiting for a company to enable them.

[Rex Salisbury @rexsalisbury]

SF Nimbys: "we don't have space for more homes, if we did...what about traffic!?"

Developers: "ok, how about we put 5,000+ homes on top of an ugly railyard, rebuild the train terminal and add lots of shops".

SF Nimbys: "f*ck"

[Asian Dawn @AsianDawn4]

🇫🇷 Chinese restaurant owner got his establishment burned down by rioters.

He baracaded himself inside and sprayed perfume on rioters from his balcony earlier that day. Dude could have used a Sako TRG 42...but French gun laws...