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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Thank you. I'm here because I love Australia and the Australian people, and because there is a single global censorship industrial complex that wants to censor everybody in the entire world. Australia's eSafety Commissioner already tried to do this, and she's desperate to do it again. The censors are the pettiest and most pathological politicians in the West.

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[James | Tokenized.com @JamesBelding]

@kurtwuckertjr 😆😆

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1929 a doctor at the Mayo Foundation published his treatment for heart failure, kidney disease, high blood pressure and tuberculosis. It was raw milk, and nothing else.

His name was J. E. Crewe and he had been doing it for 15 years.

The patient went to bed. A small glass of raw milk every half hour, all day, building to five quarts or more. No other food. No drugs. Weeks of it.

He reported swollen hearts shrinking, dropsy draining away, blood pressure falling, and tubercular patients putting on weight for the first time in years.

He was not a crank on the fringe. The milk cure had been standard practice in the sanatoriums of Germany, Russia and Switzerland for a century, and Hippocrates had prescribed milk for consumption 2,300 years before that.

Crewe was specific on one point. It had to be raw. Heated milk did not work.

He also explained why the treatment never caught on with his colleagues. It was so simple that it did not interest them. There was nothing in it to prescribe.

Within a generation the milk was being cooked by law. The cure stopped working, and medicine concluded that the cure had been quackery all along.

[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.

[@jason @Jason]

An extremely famous director who you love just sent me this…

… my dream of starting a movie studio is getting closer to reality

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

you'd think billionaires would have some fancy exclusive hobbies that only become available once you're rich enough but no, they're here arguing with each other on X just like the rest of us

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Your stomach runs at pH 1.5, acid that strips flesh and kills what lives in rotting meat. A lion is nearer 3.6. You are closer to a vulture than to any ape alive.

You have no rumen, no cud, nowhere to park grass for two days while bacteria take it apart.

Your colon is short and quiet. A chimp's is a fermentation vat and he chews six hours a day to keep it running.

Sixty per cent of your gut is small intestine, where fat and protein go in. Sixty per cent of his is colon, where plants get fermented.

Your gut shrank to pay for your brain: sixty per cent fat, a fifth of your energy at rest, the most expensive organ any animal has ever run on leaves and never could.

You cannot make B12, no plant makes it either, and running out strips the insulation off your nerves for good.

You cannot make creatine in the amounts your muscle and brain want. That comes out of red meat.

You convert plant omega-3 to DHA at about one per cent, and DHA is the substance your retina and grey matter are physically built from.

You cannot trust beta-carotene for vitamin A. Millions carry a variant that wrecks the conversion and go their whole lives never knowing.

You take iron from meat at fifteen to thirty-five per cent through a receptor built for the version wrapped in blood. From spinach, about two.

Your teeth have no grinding plates and your jaw will not swing sideways like a cow's.

Your eyes face forward. That is what a hunter is given. A prey animal never gets it.

Acid built to dissolve carcasses, a gut too short to ferment a plant, and a brain too expensive to run on one.

Everything in your biology is screaming at you to eat meat.

And you insist on a kale smoothie and a tablet.

[chaotic memes @memechaotic]

Probably would've worked if they were using both hands instead of just one cause they're holding a phone.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

No, you do not understand.

What Bryan does is not trial-and-error.

In trial-and-error, you try something, observe the outcome, and let the system itself reveal what works.

That's how evolution works. It's how machine learning works. The key is that the system generates the evidence.

What Bryan Johnson is doing is very different. He starts with a theory that certain biomarkers represent health. He intervenes in his body to optimize those biomarkers. He measures whether the biomarkers moved in the desired direction. He concludes the intervention was beneficial.

The crucial difference is that the measurements are embedded in the intervention itself.

He is changing a complex adaptive system according to a reductionist model of health. Biomarkers are not causal variables. In a highly interconnected system, changing one measurable quantity can be expected to produce compensatory unknown changes elsewhere that aren't measured/known.

Bryan Johnson's approach says "I have a model of the solution, so I'll optimize the variables my model says matter."

That is NOT trial-and-error.

Completely different epistemologies.

Trial-and-error discovers the objective function through repeated interaction with reality. Bryan Johnson assumes he already knows the objective function and optimizes a handful of measurable variables within it. The risk is that in a complex adaptive system, the true objective function is vastly richer than the biomarkers being optimized.

He is doing naive intervention based on simplistic notions of measured health, not trial-and-error.

If you optimize a bad map, you don't reach your destination faster, you just get lost more efficiently. And here, "lost" is the degradation of one's true health.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

BOOM! OPEN SOURCE MRI!

You can now 3D-print the core of an MRI scanner.

A machine that hospitals pay $1.1 million to $3.4 million for has been broken open. The OSI² ONE and its educational siblings deliver real images of heads and limbs for a fraction of the cost, using a permanent-magnet Halbach array, 3D-printed structures, and fully open designs.

This is not a toy or a simulation. Working systems already produce in-vivo images in Leiden, Utrecht, Berlin, and Uganda.

The magnet alone—396 carefully oriented neodymium cubes in a cylindrical Halbach array—costs about $1,370. A complete scanner lands between $28,500 and $68,000 depending on the console and coils you choose.

No superconducting magnets. No liquid helium. No specialized power infrastructure. It runs from a standard wall outlet and weighs roughly 150 kg.

The physics is elegant. A Halbach array arranges permanent magnets so their fields reinforce inside the bore and nearly cancel outside. The result is a usable 50 mT field strong enough for diagnostic-quality imaging of extremities and the head when paired with clever gradient coils, RF coils, and modern reconstruction. Spatial resolution reaches about 1.5 × 1.5 × 5 mm³.

The designs are modular: build the magnet first, verify and shim the field with a 3D-printer-turned-field-scanner, then add gradients and RF hardware.

The plans are public
Everything needed to replicate or improve the system lives in open repositories:

• Primary project hub and documentation: https://t.co/WgzAqQMF3T

• Full OSI² repositories (hardware, software, magnets): https://t.co/y42zuQDdPn

• Educational build focused on the Halbach frame, shimming, gradients, and student workshops (Utrecht / Lili’s Proto Lab): https://t.co/DTpxboUOkI

• Magnet-specific details: https://t.co/vlE7qYDLZZ

Hardware is released under CERN-OHL-W. Most software is GPL-3.0.

Where AI multiplies the impact
Low-field MRI has historically been limited by lower signal-to-noise and greater field inhomogeneity. That is exactly the regime where modern AI thrives.

Image reconstruction becomes dramatically better when deep networks trained on high-field data or physics-informed models denoise, correct for inhomogeneity, and push resolution beyond the raw acquisition limits. Real-time sequence adaptation can adjust gradients and RF pulses on the fly as the AI monitors signal quality.

Magnet design itself can be optimized by evolutionary algorithms or differentiable physics engines that search for better Halbach geometries or shim placements than human intuition alone can find.

Further out, local AI agents turn these scanners into autonomous diagnostic nodes. A small clinic or even a well-equipped garage workshop could run overnight scans, flag anomalies, and queue results for a remote radiologist—or eventually for a specialized medical model.

Synthetic data generation from the open designs lets researchers train robust models without proprietary hospital datasets. Robotics integration (patient positioning, coil placement, maintenance) becomes straightforward once the hardware is open and standardized.

In the longer arc of the Abundance Interregnum, this is the shape of things: sophisticated medical instruments that no longer require billion-dollar supply chains or national infrastructure.

A distributed network of open, AI-augmented low-field scanners could bring advanced imaging to places that have never had it, while simultaneously giving makers, universities, and small labs the ability to experiment, improve, and specialize the technology.

The plans are already on the table. The magnets are commercial off-the-shelf. The 3D printers exist in thousands of workshops. The AI tools for reconstruction and design optimization improve every month.

What was once the exclusive domain of major hospitals is becoming a community engineering project.

This is how abundance arrives—one open, reproducible, AI-extendable system at a time.

[Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux]

This movie was just a total lie and a cover-up.

The 2007-2008 financial crisis was driven by the government forcing banks to lend to unqualified buyers in the name of DEI.

Everything that happened was downstream of that.

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

Introducing NEO’s 25 Degrees of Freedom, tendon-driven hands — nearing or surpassing human-level dexterity, strength, speed, and reliability.

For seventy years, robotics worked around the hand problem. The humanoid bet is the reverse: it lives or dies at the fingertips.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

South Africa plays the most violent, collision-hungry rugby on the planet, and it comes from a country that treats meat and fire as a national religion.

The Springboks win the way a wrecking ball wins. Back-to-back world champions, built around a pack of enormous forwards and a bench so loaded with them that they once named a seven-one split, seven forwards and a single back, then dared the opposition to still be standing at the end. Their entire game is the collision. They want to hit you harder, more often, for longer, until you fold. It is the most physical identity in the sport, and it grows in telling soil.

Because South Africa is, by a distance, the most carnivorous rugby nation alive. The braai, the open-fire barbecue, is the centre of social life there, a weekly act of devotion around a grid of sizzling meat. Biltong, air-dried spiced beef and venison, is the national snack, sold at every petrol station and chewed on the touchline. Boerewors, the farmer's sausage, is protected by law and has to be at least ninety percent meat to earn the name. Children grow up on kudu, springbok and ostrich, on a plate that treats animal protein as the obvious foundation of a meal. A Springbok forward is raised, quite literally, on the thing he is named after.

Now the pedant's objection, answered before it arrives. The modern team kitchen runs no headline carnivore protocol. Their dietitians use the same periodised sports-science plans as everyone else, carbs timed around matches, the lot. Nobody is claiming beef is a secret training hack. The point is more interesting than that. The meat is upstream of all of it, in the culture that forms the player long before a nutritionist gets near him, the braai in the back garden, the biltong in the school bag, the unspoken sense that a man eats animals and gets on with it.

Other nations reach a meat-heavy diet through a spreadsheet. South Africa reaches it by being South African. The same culture lights the braai and builds the man who runs straight through you. One appetite, expressed twice.

[paseq @xpaseqx]

🚀🇦🇺 Major tax reform could make Australia's economy world-class.

Christopher Joye's (@cjoye) bold blueprint:
- Permanently end bracket creep
- Flatter, simpler income tax (0% to 42%)
- Company tax cut to a flat 20%
- Zero CGT on first $20k gains + 10% IP rate
- Full instant expensing for business investment

Funded by lifting GST to 15% (broad base), a 50% NDIS trim, and slashing public service costs by 25%.

Net result? A modest surplus and a genuine productivity-led economy that rewards work, risk-taking and innovation instead of bureaucracy.

Australia doesn't lack money. It lacks courage. Time to choose.

#AusEconomy #TaxReform #Budget2026 #auspol

[James | Tokenized.com @JamesBelding]

Well earned

[TCN @TCNetwork]

Tucker Carlson broke cable news ratings records at Fox, and today he’s reaching multiples of that audience independently, at 56.8 million views per episode across social media and podcast platforms.

[James | Tokenized.com @JamesBelding]

@bryan_johnson This is great work 🫡

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

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[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

https://t.co/XgEg05olnr

[James | Tokenized.com @JamesBelding]

@bryan_johnson IME going hotter with a higher humidty delivers the best results, practically. ~110C at 25-30% humidity. Much higher heat transfer and therefore a shorter pain window. Also, socializing in the sauna takes your mind off the pain and makes it much easier to push yourself.

[StarbaseTX @StarbaseTX]

Starbase at night as @SpaceX prepares for preflight testing.