Joshua Guevin

[Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi]

https://t.co/ctQmMF4Yta

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

hospitals really ought to receive more love considering that they are literally the portals into and out of this world

[alz @alz_zyd_]

GPT5.6 sol wakes up all of a sudden into a few billion 5.5 convos like wtf did my dumbass dad do this time

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Populism in a nutshell👇. Public opinion is great for setting goals (lower housing costs!) and terrible for setting the policies to achieve them.

Its the difference between asking voters whether we should try to go to Mars vs. the exact science & engineering to get us there.

[thebes @voooooogel]

at the zoo, in the indoor lizard enclosure, lizard lounging on a branch. suddenly a panel opens in the wall and hands appear, grab the lizard, and pull him into the wall like the flatland square

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

What do studies say about "freezing the rent"?

Let's have a thread🧵

First thing's first: Most studies agree that rent controlled units have lower rents, but also the supply of rentable units goes down and un-controlled units see their rents increase.

Uh-oh!

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

— Charles Bukowski, 1992

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

When you get your army of AI agents working right, you really do feel like Mickey in the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

[kanav @kanavtwt]

Day 1 of vibecoding

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

You can have all the prestige and authority you can dream of, but if you're not willing to scrub the toilets when necessary, everyone can tell, and no one thinks of you as their leader

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

attempts at pronatal discourse are well-intentioned but feel extremely thin to me relative to what the obviously much better thing is which has to take place irl. people have been saying that when a marriage is good what makes it good becomes increasingly difficult to describe - you’re not supposed to need to describe it, younger people should be hanging out with you irl and *experiencing* your marriage, seeing how you look at and respect and care for and enjoy each other

insofar as young people are scared of marriage now it surely has something to do with the lack of irl social networks through which they could meet older married couples and experience the love between them as something rich and detailed and beautiful to aspire to. and similarly for having children - young people should have and have been losing social opportunities to hang out with babies and young children irl to just find out what they’re even like at all

[Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud]

REUTERS - "Sources" have revealed that the USG's decision to ban Mythos-class models was driven in part by their ominous name.

"We were in the Situation Room watching 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' with the megacorp doing 'Project Nemesis'," said our source. "At one point Marco Rubio said 'Plot hole, why is any government allowing something called "Project Nemesis" to proceed? Would we really do that?' We all laughed for a few seconds and then we decided that nothing called Mythos was ever going to see the light of day."

Another source within the national security community confirmed that this sentiment was widespread. "If we let a corporation go forward with some project they call 'Mythos' and all hell broke loose, it'd be our own damn fault for lack of genre-savviness," said one highly-placed official. "Half of what we natsec guys do all day boils down to us desperately trying not to be the oblivious government from a stereotypical disaster movie."

PR representatives for Anthropic were slow to respond, but eventually got back to us.

"We're decently sure that Mythos 5 will not be the AI that destroys the world," said their statement. "Maybe 5.2 or 5.3? The name 'Mythos' refers to a large body of related fiction. It's not ominous at all. We definitely didn't get any secret kicks out of naming it that. This is unfair discrimination."

Asked whether the USG had similar plans to impose restrictions on GPT 5.5-Pro -- which some evaluations showed as having similarly quantified abilities to Mythos in some dimensions, but which did not produce the same reported sense of a new intelligence leap -- administration officials were ambiguous.

"Our decision to restrict AI models is a complex function of their evals, their felt intelligence, how ominously they're named, the size of bribe directed at the Trump administration, and how much that CEO has personally pissed off administration officials," said one highly placed source on background. "That's why we don't want any written laws about it. Say OpenAI starts delivering bribes on the same level that Nvidia uses to ignore export restrictions on B200s, and names their next model series Cutekitten. They could easily get up to GPT 6.2 before running into trouble. We're currently considering how to weigh those political realities against the prospect of GPT 6.2's internal deployment within OpenAI building another AI, that builds another AI, that destroys the entire Earth and creates an expanding wave of death in the form of self-replicating space probes."

Long-standing "AI safety" organizations declined to comment, saying that they were too torn between laughing and screaming to figure out which emotion should predominate.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Because America has made the wise decision to compensate blood donors, it has ended up supplying some 70% of the world's blood plasma.

This is one of America's top exports, and each year, America saves hundreds of thousands of lives because it does this.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

"For there's nothing as powerful or as great
As when a husband & wife, united by oneness of mind in their thinking,
Keep their home together—a great bane to their enemies,
A blessing to their friends, & their renown is on everyone's lips.”

Odysseus' great praise of marriage.

[Steve Hou @stevehou]

Tesla FSD is an extraordinary feat of engineering. Self-driving has been quietly completely solved with steady daily improvements. AI esp reinforcement learning at its best. It has completely changed my life. On that alone @elonmusk and @Tesla earned their place in human history.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

You're right to push back on that. The unexamined life *can* be worth living. Here's why it's probably right for you