James Carter

Interests: comedy, tech, ML/AI, human condition, mystery of life, contiousness, freedom, markets, everything. SW

[James Carter @JamesCarterWho]

This is the funniest video I’ve seen on twitter in a while! PG-13

[Alex Dragicevich @alexdrag_]

when they send you a male sex robot by mistake

[CognitiveMetrics @CognitiveMetric]

A 9-year-old child with an IQ of 130 has about the same intellectual ability as a 100-IQ adult. That is, they answer questions of the same difficulty with the same probability of success.

IQ scores are relative and usually age-normed. But because Rasch scores put a person's ability and an item's difficulty on the same absolute scale, you can compare a child and an adult by the same underlying level of performance rather than just their age-normed IQ.

This shows many interesting facts. For instance:

- A 10-year-old at 145 IQ and a 13-year-old at 130 IQ are at the same level of intellectual ability.

- The difference between the smartest and least intelligent adults in a representative group of 40 people is roughly as large as the difference between an average adult and an 8-year-old child.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If someone had told me -- even just 5 years ago -- that there'd be a collapse of support among Americans for Israel this radical, I wouldn't have believed it.

Drastic, rapid changes in public perception like this are possible only with internet freedom and independent media:

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Last week, Anthony Fauci notified us he will NOT voluntarily testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though he had previously agreed to do so.

Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month.

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 CHINESE SCIENTISTS JUST INVENTED 3D PRINTING THAT CREATES OBJECTS IN 0.6 SECONDS USING ONLY LIGHT.

Researchers at Tsinghua University have developed a new method called DISH (Digital Incoherent Synthesis of Holographic light fields) that can print complex millimeter-scale objects almost instantly. Instead of slowly building layer by layer, the system fires thousands of precisely patterned light images from multiple angles into a still vat of liquid resin.

Where the light overlaps, the resin instantly hardens into a solid 3D object.
The entire process takes just 0.6 seconds.

Why this matters:

• It’s currently the fastest volumetric 3D printing method ever demonstrated
• Achieves extremely fine detail features thinner than a human hair
• The resin stays completely still, so there’s no vibration or distortion
• It can work with watery (low-viscosity) resins, making it suitable for biological applications
• The team has already printed complex structures like blood vessel-like tubes and even a tiny bust of a historical figure

The deeper implication:

Traditional 3D printing has always been limited by speed and the need to move either the print head or the resin. This approach removes both constraints by using light itself as the sculptor. Because it can print directly into still liquid (and potentially onto living tissue), it opens new possibilities in bioprinting, medical devices, and rapid manufacturing.

If the technology can be scaled beyond millimeter sizes, it could fundamentally change how we think about making physical objects turning “print” from a slow process into something closer to instantaneous fabrication.
We’re moving from “layer by layer” to “all at once.”

How do you think instant volumetric 3D printing like this could change medicine, manufacturing, or everyday life if it becomes widely available?

Follow for more frontier manufacturing and materials science breakthroughs.

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

i am so exhausted by the endless media narrative of "everyhting is awful, no one is happy, and everyone hates you but us."

it's tiresome, manipulative, and most of all it's false.

i was on the roof deck at a bar for lunch yesterday. it was packed with big beefy swedes who looked as if they had been carved from solid blocks of elk bacon. they were in team jerseys, painted faces, yelling at the screen in swedish, having a blast. good folks. funny. good humor despite getting shellacked 5-1 by the dutch.

we talked. i asked them how their trip was going. they said they were loving it and could not beleive how big america is and how nice everyone was and how easy it is to just meet everyone. they were super into the bison burgers and tater tots (though jalapenos made them sweat like floyd mayweather at a spelling bee).

i have no idea what their veiews of the US had been before (and didn't ask) but they certainly seemed to be enjoying it yesterday.

they liked it here. it was fun to have them here.

sorry, but to my mind, that's a feel good story for the world cup. there's just no real question about it.

the real question becomes: why is the media so desperate to convince us all that this is not so? why do they want americans to think that the EU is a hell hole and vice versa? why are they so committed to the story of incompatibility and discord? what are they afraid of? that we might like each other? that we might learn from one another (and uncover the media lies)?

do you really want people like that curating your news?

of course they're freaking out. this is like watching the mean girl who has been talking behind everyone's back and stirring up acrimony suddenly realize that all the victims are talking and have figured out how she's been playing them off of one another.

why, it's almost as if letting a media this dishonest shape your views about people you never met and places you've never been is unwise...

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Once a guy gets a girlfriend, other women suddenly start noticing him.

Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Geoffrey Miller calls this “mate choice copying.”

Women are more attracted to men who are already valued by other women. It’s the confidence and validation that radiates through body language. A lot of young men go years with zero attention, then “when it rains, it pours” the moment they’re taken.

What’s your take, have you seen this “mate choice copying” dynamic play out in real life?

[Ridark @ridark_eth]

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet

Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain.

You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets.

Here's the whole thing:

> Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code

> Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it

> Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it

> Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this"

> Ask questions across everything, forever

Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again.

Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below.

Bookmark this

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

The fact that this lying grifting POS can garner 15k likes defending Fauci in 2026 shows how ignorant on purpose & brainwashed the country still is.

If it was a Lie, the media would be covering it nonstop, but they’re not cuz it’s TRUE.

Sure, the guy who was head of U.S. Bioweapons program & needed a Pardon going back to 2014 isn’t a psychopathic criminal. SURE!!

[𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌 𝒲𝒽𝒾𝓂𝓈𝓎 @willow_wwhimsy]

89 degrees is a slope

90 degrees is the wall..

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Europeans are seeing America without the curated anti-American filter, and it is breaking part of their worldview.

A lot of European elites have built their self-image around the idea that America is rich only at the top and socially broken underneath.

They see New York dysfunction, LA homelessness, gun stories, obesity, politics, healthcare horror stories, and assume the median American lives inside a declining empire with worse taste.

Then they land in ordinary suburbs and see something different.

Huge houses.

Wide roads.

Big cars.

Full restaurants.

Mass retail abundance.

Air conditioning everywhere.

Youth sports complexes.

Warehouses full of goods.

Families with space.

Middle managers living in homes that would look elite in much of Europe.

That produces a psychological shock because Europe’s status story depends on believing it traded American excess for civilization, balance, taste, and social protection. Some of that is real. Europe has beauty, density, history, public goods, walkability, and cultural depth America often lacks.

But materially, the American upper-middle and middle-class suburban machine is vastly richer than many Europeans expect.

The deeper mechanism is productive dynamism.

America still builds the frontier: software, AI, chips, cloud, capital markets, defense, space, biotech, platforms, venture, energy, entertainment, logistics, and the companies that define modern life. Europe often regulates, critiques, consumes, and imports the future.

That is why the line “Europe buys the future, America builds it” lands so hard.

Europe is not poor.

Europe is losing the frontier.

That distinction is everything.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Three days ago, someone declared that I should be executed simply for telling the truth on who killed Charlie Kirk. Fourteen people liked it.

Here, I write on the epidemic of assassination culture surrounding people like @MrsErikaKirk and the research backed by it, and why Israel is such a flashpoint.

[Rav @TonyRav]

Can the US just host the World Cup every year

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

It’s all going to end, very soon, enjoy it.

“At your funeral, your friends and family will argue over who gets what.

People will want food to eat.

The topic will shift from your life to their lives.

They’ll drive away thinking about their looming to-do list.

Some people won’t be able to make it because ‘something came up’

And we worry about…a low performing post on social media.

Or what someone “thinks of us”.

Or a bad customer review.

Or whether we’re going to finish our to do list in time.

We die like we go to sleep.

With things unsaid and unfinished.

The only judge who has complete context on our lives, dies with us.

A reminder of the heavy weight we place on things that matter little.”

— @AlexHormozi

[karma @karma44921039]

Lara Logan just broke down a pattern that hits different once you see it.

They keep creating problems that can never actually be solved: racism that’s “unconscious,” masculinity as inherently toxic, CO2 as the enemy even though we breathe it out, and differences turned into permanent grievances.

The goal? Issues without end. Skin color can’t change. Breathing can’t stop. Masculine instinct doesn’t vanish. So the problems stay… and so does the control.

It’s not about fixing anything. It’s about keeping the fight alive so we stay divided and easier to manage.

Once you spot the tactic, everything gets clearer.

What “unsolvable problem” have you noticed getting pushed the hardest lately?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Case closed

[Dane @UltraDane]

Meet David M. Bird, he's the creative mind behind Becorns!

Becorns are the cute photography series featuring acorn people who interact with the natural world!

[@BatDudeUpdates @BatDudeUpdates]

Yep.
Seeing this ALL OVER X!

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

We are all Texas Roadhouse. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

#worldcup #usa @texasroadhouse

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The painstaking job of restoring a Rolex Milgauss watch.

[📹 Nanjing Siyuan Watches]

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

The Israelis referenced were actually IDF soldiers actively invading Lebanon. Now read the lies being pushed by the same organization which funds 80% of congress.

Now you understand why AIPAC needs to be banned. Pure propaganda.