𝗟𝗮𝘆𝘀𝘀⚡️

Ad astra per aspera

[𝗟𝗮𝘆𝘀𝘀⚡️ @LaySSNP]

if you live each day as if it was your last someday you'll most certainly be right.

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

What Curiosity did to humans

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Their absence of self-awareness is a serious pathology. They just killed 3k civilians (really, civilians) and are complaining that their invading soldiers are facing some risks WHILE INVADING.

[Iridium @Iridium912]

humans are born to win at everything, optimism is mandatory for everyone.

[Jason Burne @Monty_Brogan69]

Les gens qui se sont vus brûler leur voiture alors qu'ils en ont rien à foutre du foot :

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

The average student graduates after 12 years of schooling and still cannot answer the most important questions in life.

What is a good man?
What is justice?
What is worth sacrificing for?
What is beauty?
What is truth?
What is the purpose of life?

Classical education begins with the assumption that any education failing to address these questions is not really education at all.

[Paroles d'auteurs @Paroles_auteurs]

Edgar Morin, philosophe, sociologue et résistant français s’est éteint à l’âge de 104 ans. Paix à son âme 🙌

"La vie n'est supportable que si l'on y introduit non pas de l'utopie mais de la poésie, c'est à dire de l'intensité, de la fête, de la joie, de la communion, du bonheur et de l'amour."
Edgar Morin

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

« The modern pathology of mind is in the hypersimplification that makes us blind to the complexity of reality. » – Edgar Morin

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

il y a quelque chose qui me dépasse quand je vois passer certains tweets sur ma TL de gens qui n’ont même pas atteint 1/4 de siècle et qui écrivent qu'ils ont raté leur vie parce qu'un projet pro a échoué ou parce qu'une relation s'est terminée sans qu'on perçoive de drame véritable derrière mais juste des échecs ordinaires de la vingtaine

je crois qu’un environnement trop confortable peut produire une génération d’une fragilité énorme, en réalité quand personne autour de soi n’a connu la vraie peur, la vraie faim, la maladie grave qui vous arrache un proche du jour au lendemain ou celle qui vous condamne vous même, le baromètre de la souffrance se calibre alors sur des micro-événements qui auraient peine à figurer dans une vie traverersée par les vraies épreuves, le drame c’est qu’on anesthésie toute une biographie au point qu’un retard de métro ressemble à un drame intime et je trouve ça assez grotesque

il suffirait pourtant d’aller passer une après midi dans le service oncologie d’un hôpital, de croiser le regard d’un gamin de 23 ans qui se bat contre une leucémie et qui donnerait tout pour vivre un seul des problèmes qu’on dramatise sur internet pour comprendre instantanément qu’on confond une journée difficile avec une vie ratée et que la chance d’être en bonne santé à 23 piges est déjà une fortune que la moitié du monde nous envierait

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore.

"American companies have been hollowed out."

"We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore."

"We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured."

"We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work."

"People are turning into architecture astronauts."

"They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout."

"But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers."

Via @HooverInst

[Nation @Titanfdc]

Lee Kuan Yew: "Hay que tener la disciplina que tienen los suizos. Nunca tengan déficits fiscales. En otras palabras, no pongan a funcionar la máquinita. Si tienen un déficit, pidan prestado, paguen. Nunca impriman billetes sin respaldo".

[Little Think Tank @L_ThinkTank]

❗️ [ 🇮🇱 ISRAËL | 🇱🇧 LIBAN ]

🔸 Vidéo d'une attaque de l’armée israélienne en « double tap » contre des secouristes, à Deir Qanoun, près de Tyr. Cette pratique consiste à effectuer une seconde frappe après l’arrivée des secours.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you’ve made a very complex thing do useful work, that’s a major plus

[NASA @NASA]

We're building a Moon Base!

@NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions.

Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: https://t.co/IJXA7xYwju

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

> be Andrej Karpathy
> born in Slovakia, move to Canada at 15
> start coding at 15. instantly obsessed
> become YouTube famous... for Rubik's cube tutorials
> get PhD at Stanford under Fei-Fei Li
> co-found this tiny startup called OpenAI
> Elon calls you "arguably #2 in computer vision in the world"
> go build Tesla Autopilot for 5 years
> leave. come back to OpenAI. leave again
> coin the term "vibe coding" casually in a tweet
> it ends up in the New York Times
> build an AI education company
> 9.3M people watch your next move

Today he joined Anthropic to lead pretraining research. The man never stops.

[𝗟𝗮𝘆𝘀𝘀⚡️ @LaySSNP]

@nntaleb If we simply use the “Ship of state” analogy from socrates,

Then democracy entirely is a terrible system.

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[ape attack survivor @pissvortex]

How those snipers were moving

[Yatharth Mann @yatharthmann]

Elon Musk is an engineer.

Jeff Bezos is an engineer.

Larry Elison is an engineer.

Larry Page is an engineer.

Sergey Brin is an engineer.

Jensen Huang is an engineer.

Turns out capitalism does reward skills and intelligence, and the richest people are indeed engineers.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Former German Chancellor Scholz:

We were an engineers’ country. Now we’re a lawyers’ country.

Other countries… build a national railway system in 20 years.

We cannot build a commuter line in 20 years.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

In physics, as in life, the path of least resistance is often the least interesting.