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[Víctor Hernández @Arbitrus1805]

A la opinión pública:

Acabo de ser notificado que por decisión del @ITAM_mx, quedo relevado de mi cátedra como profesor de seguridad nacional, en razón de mis comentarios en contra de la 4T y los señalamientos en su contra por presunto narcoterrorismo.

Mi remoción coincide con una serie de observaciones que realicé la semana pasada en contra del nombramiento de María de Haas como subsecretaria para América del Norte en la SRE, candidata promovida por la SEDENA.

Puntualmente, mi remoción es del @CesigItam, el centro dirigido por el profesor Vidal Romero y Jorge Tello Peón, exdirector del CISEN.

Este despido me genera no solo una afectación patrimonial (respecto del ingreso que ya anticipaba que habría el próximo semestre en razón de estas clases), sino que también refleja la precarización en la que vivimos los docentes mexicanos. Toda universidad alega que somos prestadores de servicios profesionales, no empleados. En mi caso, ni contrato tenía, a pesar de que ya estaba trabajando desde hace un par de meses en mis cursos e incluso promoviéndolos para garantizar que hubiera el mínimo de inscritos para que se abriera el curso.

Siempre me dio la impresión de que el ITAM era la universidad era más valiente de México. Cuna de funcionarios que han construído el país y que también han desafiado la autoridad y la opresión. Me entristece ver que ese, el último baluarte de la exigencia académica en México, se doble ante un par de llamadas telefónicas pidiendo mi cabeza.

De mi lado estoy convencido de una cosa, pisé un callo frente al cual el gobierno en turno se siente increpado. Al terrorista hay que llamarle terrorista. Y hay que decirlo una y mil veces, México está en la antesala de una intervención militar estadounidense, y esa realidad fáctica no desaparecerá simplemente al remover a los universitarios de las trincheras donde adviertan que esto es un hecho.

Tenía mucha ilusión de compartir en el aula con los estudiantes más brillantes de México mi conocimiento sobre derecho de la seguridad nacional.

Para mala suerte de quienes pretendieron perjudicarme en mi trabajo para silenciarme, irónicamente, lo único que van a lograr es que este mensaje llegue a todos los confines del país.

A mis colegas del @CesigItam, les reitero mi agradecimiento que aunque por breve tiempo me hayan recibido. Son sin duda los profesores más famosos de México en materia de seguridad nacional. Ahora les imploro una última cosa, que también se conviertan en los más valientes.

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

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[nugget chef @jayhaykid]

Just a wonderfully incisive piece

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI.
https://t.co/X7qmNMFjYm

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

It’s upsetting to watch so many people be led to believe a software feature created from human exhaust is an alien intelligence.

It’s a psyop. LLMs are a clever way to compress and search large databases with patterns. They have now inhaled effectively all of human knowledge. From this point, there will be spikes of improvement in narrow areas, but the big models are already collapsing from inhaling their own exhaust.

The core technology is at least 40 years old. Neural networks are nothing new. We’re just attaching obscene amounts of computing and data to them.

The physical nature of an LLM is literally just a database of tokens (word parts) and weights (relationships) that can be queried. It is not magic. It can be made deterministic by setting the entropy aka temperature to zero. It is a clever way to store an immense amount of data and retrieve it through token predicting.

“Agents” are just LLMs being queried in a loop. They take exponentially more energy and suffer the same problems as chatbots—hallucinations and sycophancy—but exponentially more complicated to solve.

In reality, it’s all a category error. It’s a mirage created by the desire of a small group of elites to build a technological and financial moat around themselves. “AGI” is the McGuffin, the plot device, to serve as the messiah that will deliver people from the toils of everyday life.

The broligarchs are trying to sell us our own replacements. According to them, we won’t have to drive, or work, or think anymore. The robots and AI will all do it for us.

It’s the oldest con there is: magic beans.

Your chatbot is not your Jesus or your girlfriend. Your Claude instance is not intelligent. It’s a search engine for human knowledge stolen from the internet and the destruction of physical books.

So please understand. You are witnessing the biggest financial bubble in all of human history based on deceptive marketing, astroturfing, and cult dynamics. You are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence. Unfortunately, that’s a battle we’re losing.

[David Pfau @pfau]

Generations are mostly a fake concept, except when a historic event like WWII actually creates a stark dividing line in lived experience based on age. COVID was one of those events, and yet we're not allowed to change where the line is because of some Salon thinkpiece in 2016.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

LOL

Billionaire AI promoter suddenly realizes WHAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS.

Get it through your fucking heads:
—LLMs are a slot machine for tokens.
—Chatbots are a fuzzy search engine on a database.
—They can never be AGI, physically or mathematically.
End of story.

[Perma Banned ထ🔨 @GiveMeBanHammer]

Like I said in a previous post on the topic of ID/Age Verification - I started digging into the topic quite a bit, especially after that Meta lobbying exposed news dropped.

What I have (and more of others) found is something that is so stupid, but also makes a whole lot of sense...in fact imo its the perfect piece of the puzzle.

I will lay out my digging through a series of events:
1. Advertisers (ie Corporations with products or services to sell), contract with big Social media platforms, paying boatloads of money for adspace. The logic is that even if 10% of the tens of millions of users buy into their ads, its worth the investment.

2. The onset of botting, has led to ads being viewers by more bots than they do humans. No matter how many bots watch your ads, they never need your products or services. So they will never give advertisers' money and business.

3. This essentially means that, Advertisers are proverbially throwing money into the drain. Paying the price with practically no ROI. Many reports indicate that this botting problem resulted in multi-billion dollar wastage on ad spending.

4. Advertisers have started grilling social media companies, especially Meta which was one of the biggest sources of the issue. This resulted in many advertisers basically threatening to pull ad money until the botting situation is controlled.

5. The botting situation became even WORSE around 2023-2025 with the Ai-Bros and Ai Companies hard pushing Ai development. The past anti-bot systems and measures lose effectiveness as Ai makes bots more sophisticated.

6. Then late 2025/2026, you can see the SNAP. The nuclear solution - Age/ID verification being pushed or implemented across multiple countries at around the same timing (within months).

7. Then now all the news about Socmed and big tech corps lobbying politicians and governments for mass ID/Age Verification on an OS/Appstore level.

8. Why? Since you pick your poison to "age verify"...a selfie, submit your ID, or Ping your credit card. Sure your age will be "verified", but it also comes with the useful byproduct of confirming you are HUMAN.

So as a takeaway, what does this mean?

Well to me at least, this quite neatly explains why BOTH Governments and large Corporations have collaborated and colluded to push for ID Verification at an alarming pace Globally. In the end, it really was about money.

It also means quite simply in my opinion - these Corporations and Governments, NEVER really cared about "the children". "Think of the Children" imo, has always been, and will continue to be the convenient excuse for these corporations and politicians to implement this privacy-invasive system.

Because if only PROVEN humans can use social media, or other similar sites/services - Advertisers will be mollified and continue to throw money at these Big Tech corporations for continued ad space.

This ALSO means - that the so-called parents and people like the Riceman who run defence of ID Verification, are either very stupid, or complicit in this.

Either way, the only winners are the Advertisers, the Big Tech Corpos, and the Politicians. We all however, lose.

[Toby 🛩️ @303SnowWolf]

The Linux community of 20 years ago would've taken one look at AB 1043 and pushed an update that limited the network speed of every machine in California to 1 kbps until it was repealed.

[DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo]

The public vote on AI is officially live. Where do you stand?

Go to https://t.co/Wdh6i10HN6

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

The belief in AGI (Human Level Intelligence) is quasi-religious. It's surfaced 3 times in 70 years of AI research. 2 different AI systems were promised as pathways to AGI in the 60s & 80s. LLMs are the 3rd failed path.

"the belief that AGI is coming soon is faith, not evidence"

[awlivv @awlivv69]

rt if you fucking hate AI

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

HOLY FUCK WILL YOU PEOPLE STOP.

Large language models are not conscious and can never be conscious. They are not intelligent—they are TOKEN PREDICTORS.

If you think chatbots should be able to vote in elections, you are a hopeless smooth-brained moron.

[Mónica Calles Miramontes @moni_calles]

Soy Observadora Electoral, por lo que tengo derecho no solo a estar presente en computos, sino a solicitar información.

Mi experiencia en la Junta Distrital 17 @INECDMX ha sido de total OPACIDAD:

1. No permitieron que a la pantalla de resultados se le tomaran fotografías, así que la mantuvieron apagada durante TODO el computo distrital.

2. No me han querido proporcionar la versión estenografica de la sesión del Consejo y eliminaron de internet la posibilidad de verlas.

No es casual. Un consejero distrital renunció en la mesa de consejo protestando con valentía ante el fraude que se está cometiendo y realizó IMPORTANTES denuncias y señalamientos.

3. Me han negado la posibilidad de ver actas, aunque alegan que es algo general. ¡Esto es GRAVÍSIMO!

Las personas observadores o Candidaturas NO tenemos acceso físico o digital a las actas de resultados de casilla, incluso a ninguna, por lo que tuve que solicitar por escrito y me dicen que "será tardado".

Con esto se obstruye a los candidatos la posibilidad de impugnar los cómputos (que ahí ya finalizaron).

@INEMexico @DaniaRavel @CZavalaP @MartinFazMora @JaimeRiveraV @RitaBellLpz @Pajaropolitico @lasillarota

[Gary @Garygra]

@NJTRANSIT_NEC how does rutgers football gets special treatment at New Brunswick station? People were not allowed to board the first two cars of the 6:59 train.

[Carlos Torres @CarlosTorresF_]

Dice Viri Ríos que ella nunca ha defendido la #ReformaJudicial.

Veamos que dice Viri Ríos del 2024.

#YoNoVotoElPrimeroDeJunio

[The Hedgehog Review @hedgehogreview]

NEW: AI is not revolutionary. It’s a gimmick, writes @JonMalesic.
https://t.co/s2iiMhcfC1

[Pixel Art Journey @PixelArtJourney]

Taking no credit for this quote but we should stop calling it "ai art" and start calling it computer-rendered artificial pictures (C.R.A.P.)