DanT10

I love it smooth and sweet, mostly because I'm not either.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

You killed kings for this.

[Amitryptyling @AmiEverAfter]

if my child gets out of bed one. more. time. I’m gonna kiss his forehead and tuck him into his little pillow fort birds nest we made and sing the goodnight song and be patient and kind because he’s not even been around the sun five whole times yet and surely this is the greatest privilege of my insignificant life to hold his hand on the way back to bed

[Serf @RoyalSerf]

Grok:

[Handre @Handre]

Power selects for a specific personality type, and it is not yours.

F.A. Hayek spelled this out in 1944. In a centrally planned system, the people who rise are not the most competent or the most honest. They are the most willing to exercise force against strangers, the most comfortable with contradiction, and the most skilled at coalition-building through favors rather than merit. Government filters for the bad ones from the start.

The mechanism is straightforward. Political power means controlling resources you did not earn. Capturing that control requires outcompeting rivals who have no ethical constraints. A principled candidate refuses to promise contradictory things to different voter blocs. An unprincipled one does it without blinking. The unprincipled one wins. Repeat this selection pressure across hundreds of electoral cycles and you get the U.S. Congress in 2026: a body where the average member has held office for over a decade, raised millions from interested parties, and delivered almost nothing measurable to the people who voted for them.

Bureaucracy compounds the problem. Once entrenched, state agencies attract people who want authority without accountability. You cannot fire most of them. The FDA, the TSA, the Federal Reserve all function this way, staffed by individuals whose career advancement depends on expanding the agency's reach, never on serving you efficiently.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The world is not suffering from a lack of smart people, its suffering from a lack of good ones.

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

reminder that "to catch a predator" was cancelled because Chris Hansen kept catching judges and other government officials.

[Joey B Toonz @joeybtoonz]

Imagine living in the moment.

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

In 2003, feminist journalist Norah Vincent spent 18 months living as a man in a social experiment to see if life was really easier for men.

She ended up in a psychiatric hospital instead.

Disguising herself as a man named "Ned," she altered her voice, flattened her chest, and wore prosthetics to pass as male in everyday life.

She joined a men's bowling league, lived in a monastery, and even went on dates with women.

Expecting to expose male privilege, she instead discovered men who were lonely, emotionally shut down, and shown no sympathy by anyone.

After 18 months as a man, Norah suffered a severe depressive breakdown and voluntarily checked into a psychiatric facility.

She concluded that "men are suffering," admitting the experience made her appreciate being a woman more than ever.

She struggled with depression for the rest of her life. On July 6, 2022, Norah Vincent died by assisted suicide in Switzerland. She was 53.

[𝓚 @ifuliedownhere]

Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The excitement that comes from being young is directly linked to having nothing and taking stupid risks to get more. When you get older, the risks disappear, but the desire for excitement stays, so everyone starts acting like their younger self again, except now their recklessness is directed at each other instead of the world. Cheating, drinking, fighting, lying, stealing, spite. Everybody wants the thrill back, but no one remembers how to get it cleanly, except having kids forces you to go back to the real risks, because suddenly you have nothing again, except this tiny, screaming thing that needs everything you have, and suddenly the stakes are sky high again, and the world is sharp and clear, because you have to go find fire again for real now

[Guilherme Tavares @i3_invest]

Not if.

When?

You can run but you cannot hide.

Unwind.

Inevitable?

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cult leader @DrKarlynB]

I love watching people do what they were obviously born to do. It’s magic.

[Good Work @goodworkmb]

Belongs in a museum

[𝐓𝐘 @dev_TEMITAYO]

This has to be one of the funniest video I've watched about AI😭😂

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

My children laugh for no reason sometimes, and when it comes it feels like a spell being cast. i think i might be witnessing the birth of magic itself when i hear them giggling alone in another room for absolutely no reason. there is no sound like it in the world. nothing compares to it. i know of no prayer or substance that will stop me in my tracks and bring me to the verge of tears the way their idle laughter in the midst of an ordinary day does. it feels like being handed a proof that reality isn't what it seems, that there is an undercurrent of mystery flowing beneath the surface of all things, and they have found a way to dip their toes in it while the rest of us go on with our daily lives, unaware of the miracle lapping at our feet. i am so grateful to live with such small wizards who can summon pure joy out of thin air and sprinkle it around my house like fairy dust

[Matthew Knowles 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @MatthewKnowlesG]

“The fuel prices are high due to the war”

Shell profits: £14.3 billion

BP profits: £5.8 billion

A combined 52% rise from the previous year

Government takes: £31 billion

It’s not the war it’s greed

[Isabel Brown @theisabelb]

Flynn Rider literally was stabbed to death and died in Rapunzel’s arms to make sure she was no longer enslaved by Mother Gothel

Hercules gave up his opportunity to live among the gods and his real family atop Mt. Olympus and die as a mortal to spend his life with Meg

Beast subjected himself to the curse for eternity so Belle could be free - she came back to him anyway because he was her true love

Aladdin used his last wish not to become a prince to be worthy enough to marry Jasmine, but to free the genie at risk of losing the love of his life

Kristoff let Anna go be with another man who she naively *thought* was her one true love because he loved her so much all he wanted was for her to be happy, even if it wasn’t with him

I could keep going, but why are we so obsessed with making it seem like fairytales are misogynistic propaganda? If anything, the ONE recurring theme is that a happy ending requires immense sacrifice from the hero, usually to prioritize the princess

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.