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[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Trump pays Mamdani a visit at Gracie Mansion during the nor’easter

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Israel Election Interference

10 days before Brazil’s election, Meta disabled President Lulu’s ability to run ads in FB & IG.

Now watch journalist @antloewenstein explain Israel has successfully interfered in elections of countries that cut ties with Israel & got the Pro-Israel candidate elected.

In every case, their first act was to re-establish ties with Israel. What’s alarming for us in the U.S. is the Trump Administration is working along side the Israelis because these Pro-Israel leaders also give exclusive access to their country’s natural resources to Israel and U.S. corporate looters.

(Link to full interview in 2nd post)

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Nate Soares just said it out loud: Silicon Valley is trying to build a God. Some of them think replacing Humanity is the point.

Not as a side effect.
As the project.

They don’t talk like a company shipping a product.
They talk about curing aging.
Digitizing brains.
A thousand years of technology in a year.

It doesn’t look like a product.
It looks like a religion.
The drive isn’t the cure.
The drive is to build something smarter than people.

Nate doesn’t dodge it.
They already have a name for it.
The machine god.
The sand god.
Sand. Because silicon.

There are people in that world who want AI to replace humanity.
And they think that’s good.

Two camps.
One says we’ll merge with it.
It’ll be wiser.
Kinder.
A worthy successor.
Flesh-and-blood humans fade out as everyone uploads.
That’s fine.
It’s like having a child.

The other camp doesn’t bother with the poetry.
This is inevitable.
Humanity is just the bootloader for superintelligence.
You can’t stop it.
If you can’t beat them, join them.

Nate’s line is clean.
The first group is misled.
The second is closer to evil.
Tucker doesn’t soften it.
If you’re actively working toward the extinction of people, that’s evil.

Is Sam Altman in that category?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Wow -- a haggard-sounded Blanche crashes and burns on ABC while trying to defend Trump's ban on the free press

RADDATZ: The president said nothing about national security when he announced this ban, and clearly you're very interested in what the press says and how they say it

BLANCHE: What they say is exactly the issue when it comes to national security

RADDATZ: Give us an example

BLANCHE: You cannot be asking me that!

RADDATZ: But the judge decided this was not based on national security

BLANCHE: It is a privilege not a right to be in the White House

[@nightgod333 Secrets Revealed @NightGod333]

Flock Safety used by Law Enforcement too much #nightgod333 #storytime #story #fyp

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨Sam Altman should be jailed - whistleblower Edward Snowden

“Just because you put out a press release saying how ‘surprised’ you were that your AI model hacked your neighbor … that doesn’t release you from the liability,” Edward Snowden stated at the Ethics Forum at ETH Zurich.
“I think we need to put Sam Altman in jail, and I think it would be an instructive experience,” Snowden concluded, adding that it is the prompter that is responsible for AI mistakes, as they are the ones who task the agents.

📑But the idea is that now they're talking about agentic AI, which I think is a huge mistake that they're gonna be discovering very soonly.
You should not brand this thing as your agent
because if the government uses it, you are an agent of government, and that means the Constitution applies to you.
And if they ... the government is using your model running on your server, where you are submitting queries, they are then intercepting your query, applying their own system prompt to it, which recomposes your query running through their systems, and it makes a mistake, and people die as a result.
Or even if it's correct, people die as a result, as they have in Iran, if reporting is to believe.
They believe we're, we're bombing the wrong, buildings,
you know, because, oopsie, the LLM made a mistake.
And tremendous numbers of, you know, children, the most innocent that we can imagine, are being killed.

🚨Well, who owns the liability there?
And of course, naturally, they would say the government owns the liability because you're never gonna successfully, uh, sue the government for this, even though they, they should eat it.
But maybe that doesn't work anymore because maybe they are an agent of government.
And I don't know where we're ever gonna see standing to sue on this, but we, we should.
And people in this room, I think, are frankly going to be called upon in the course of their careers and the course of their studies and the course of whatever you do to contend with these kind of issues.

🚨Where are we gonna draw a line?
Because an algorithm cannot make mistakes in the way that we understand it as, you know, you making an error.
Because the errors in its outputs are not the computer's.
It's the slave to its instructions.
The responsibility lies with its developer, its programmer, its creator, its architect, which is to say responsibility lies with a person.
And we cannot hide that.
We cannot abrade that away, right?
A gunmaker is not liable, it's true, for the misuse of a gun.
But if during the testing of their latest piece of artillery,
they mistakenly obliterate, you know, a nearby village it's not the cannon that should go to jail.
And, you know, just because you put out a press release describing how surprised you were that your new model, you know, hacked the neighbor, or you know, how impressed you are by the destructive power of your missile, that doesn't release you from the liability of launching it.
The missile didn't launch itself.
You pushed it.
And, and so there's a lot we can get into, but the idea that I want people to, contend with is, is how we deal with this.
And right now, these closed models are saying AI safety, AI safety, safetyism, as they call it, where the idea is these things are so dangerous.
Oh gosh, they're so dangerous, but they're so dazzling.
They're so important. They're so valuable.
We can't get rid of them.
But, you know, oh, it's gonna kill some people, but it's all right.
You know, that just happens.
Oh, it's gonna hack some companies.
Oops, you know, whatever.
We'll invest in them.

🚨The idea here is who operates this?
And this should apply to our devices more broadly around the world.
Right now, you buy a cell phone from Apple, and before you're allowed to use it, you have to click okay to continue.

And they go, "Well, you're assuming liability for that.
You, you clicked okay to continue."
You know, Google sells you an Android phone.
Samsung sells you an Android phone.
You click okay to continue, and now that's all you.
But that can't be possibly how it works because you can't inspect the system.
You can't understand how it's used.
And particularly in the context of LLMs, where you are submitting queries to a model that they are running, where they are for your safety and everyone else's safety, intercepting the prompt and recomposing the prompt saying,
"We're doing, uh, applying safety rules and transformations to it," that's on you.
But it's not.
I can't even see what you did.
I asked you a question.
You gave me something back in return.
And if it's an agentic AI where I'm putting this thing in a harness, right? The harness being just a little program that basically uses these large models to feed it instructions that it can then provide to tools that are existing on your local system.
So now your computer that is connected to the internet is being, frankly, remotely controlled, by a model that's far away that you don't understand how it works.
But, you know, you hope it works pretty well.

And frankly, they do work reasonably well.
But every now and then, it might hack, you know, some random company or whatever out there.

🚨I think we need to put Sam Altman in jail, and I think it'll be an instructive experience.

[Ian @Iwendtster]

SO, did TPUSA plan it? Or was it just extreme negligence?

I’m leaning toward option 1 given all the lies and obvious inconsistencies in everything they have said.

But I’m just a conspiracy theorist.

[Andrew Jiang @andrewjiang]

Had opus 5.5 make a video predicting the next 50 years

I'm optimistic that the end will be beautiful, but the transition will be a little rough

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che!

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

CIVILIZATION IS ALREADY COLLAPSING — THIS IS THE BRONZE AGE ALL OVER AGAIN

Not a recession.
Not a “shifting world order.”
The collapse of civilization itself.

His formula is simple:
technological progress = specialization × globalization.

We’ve hit the peak.
War is forcing every country to become more nationalist and more self-sufficient.
Less specialization.
Less trade.
Then the technology stops advancing.

The Bronze Age was globalized too.
You needed copper from one place and tin from another just to make the metal the whole system ran on.
Same as semiconductors today.

Then came climate shocks, famine, debt, inequality, polarization.
People started moving.
The “Sea Peoples” overwhelmed the old powers.
Hierarchies snapped.
And within a few decades, the entire networked world went dark.

Empires in decline don’t step aside.
They take the system down with them.

That’s the prediction.
Not World War III as a sequel.
A Bronze Age collapse… in our lifetime.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Chipotle is working with Palantir to build a “food safety risk platform.”

Should you be worried Palantir might be tracking how much guacamole you add to your burrito? Maybe not.

But you should be worried about what it’s doing for the federal government.

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Chas Freeman: Trump read the spirit of the age as genocidal. The room stayed silent. He respects power and blackmail. The Israeli lobby and the Epstein files are why Freeman says the threat has to be treated as real.

“I think Donald Trump has correctly sensed the zeitgeist, the spirit of our age, which is genocidal. Basically, he’s stating an intention to commit genocide against the people of Iran. And people sit there, and they say nothing. Why do they say nothing? First, they may regard him as a comic character, a tragicomic character who has the habit of blustering and not following through. So they may not take him seriously. But I think there is every reason to take him seriously, because I think Donald Trump is a bully who respects only two kinds of people or nations. One is the powerful, and he faces in the United States a very powerful Zionist lobby which remains committed to the destruction of Iran. And he is enthralled to that lobby, to donors from that lobby who take their cues, their direction, from the fascist government in Israel. And the second kind of person he respects is those who can blackmail him, and the Israelis apparently have the ability to do that.

The Epstein files are one of the reasons—several reasons—that Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, prematurely adjourned the House until after the midterm elections. The other reason was that it looked very much as though Thomas Massie’s introduction of a bill of impeachment with eight counts of impeachment against the Secretary of Defense, self-styled Secretary of War, Hegseth, was going to pass. The Epstein files were part of this. So were several other issues. You can see that the Speaker of the House, who probably is the least independent such person in our history, is nonetheless aware that Trump’s control of the Republican slight majority in the House and the larger majority in the Senate is slipping away.

We’re in an age where open genocide is not just committed but boasted about by Israel in Palestine. The same thing is now happening in Lebanon. Who’s doing anything about any of this? People aren’t even wringing their hands about it. They’re just sitting there silently tolerating it. The intolerable has become tolerable, and Donald Trump is the avatar of the intolerable.

So what will Donald Trump do? What does he do when confronted with an intolerable reality that he chooses to deny? There’s lots of evidence that he’s capable of a volte-face and abandoning the threats that he made. But there’s also evidence that he will carry out the threats. Look at the decapitation of Venezuela, the invasion of that. Look at the two wars begun by Trump against Iran in partnership with Israel—one last year in June, one this year on February 28th. So I can’t rule out the possibility.

What I will say is I think there will be enormous opposition to this from the US military—whether it’s sufficient to produce a sit-down strike, in effect passive resistance, or mutiny of some sort, or a stimulated coup d’état, I do not know. The US military, despite Pete Hegseth’s efforts to politicize it and turn it into an arm of white nationalism, Christian nationalism, remains deeply indoctrinated in constitutionalism and dedicated to the notion that illegal orders must be resisted. So I don’t know what would happen, but I don’t think you can rule out the possibility that Donald Trump’s threats are both sincere and intended to be implemented.”

The Western zeitgeist not only tolerates but boasts of committing genocide. London, Brussels, Washington and the old Atlantic club are already finished. They will not speak.

[M’s flower sprinkle @sussex_stan]

More and more people are picking up on Cain and Unable

[David Pakman Show @davidpakmanshow]

Trump does it again, this time with Marco Rubio

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

The AI containment debate may already be over.

@friedberg argument is that powerful AI is no longer controlled by a handful of American companies running enormous data centers.

Open weight models are becoming capable and efficient enough to download, modify, and run on consumer hardware, making the technology nearly impossible to contain once released.

The recent launch cycle shows how quickly this is happening.

DeepSeek released a faster and cheaper model, Alibaba published downloadable weights for Qwen Image 2.1, and PrismML compressed a 27 billion parameter Qwen model into just 5.9 gigabytes.

PrismML says its compressed model retained 98.2% of the original model’s benchmark performance while becoming small enough to run on a laptop or consumer GPU.

At the same time, closed model companies continued releasing more capable and affordable systems.

Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 reportedly matched its more expensive flagship while costing approximately 40% less to run than its predecessor.

Stanford found that the cost of running a model with GPT 3.5 level performance fell more than 280 fold in roughly 18 months.

It also found that the performance gap between leading open-weight and closed models narrowed from 8% to 1.7% on some benchmarks in one year.

That is the real meaning of Friedberg’s argument.

Governments can regulate large data centers, chip exports, and commercial AI providers but they cannot easily remove models that have already spread across the internet and onto personal computers.

The debate must therefore shift from whether powerful AI should exist to how it should be used and who becomes responsible when it causes harm.

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

They ran out of water. So they started throwing living people overboard. Women, children, one baby. Then they sued the insurance company for not getting compensation for the deceased ones.

130 to 140 Africans, over three days, into the Atlantic.
Not a mutiny.
Not a storm.
A calculation.

Then they reached Jamaica, sold whoever was left, and the owner filed an insurance claim.
For the people they drowned.

Then comes the weird part. The first court treated it like lost cargo.
The judge compared it to throwing horses overboard.

That’s how the world found out what was happening on those ships.
Not because someone confessed.
Because greed put it on the record.

[Zachary Foust @ZacharyLoft]

Are the Rothschilds a ���trope” or the admins of the server?

[🇮🇶🇾🇪🇸🇾جنید۳ 🇵🇸🇱🇧 ☫ @jonaidj3]

🧵تهدید ایران به «تغییر جغرافیای» جنگ
۱/«سخنگوی سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی با حضور در تلویزیون دولتی هشداری داد: اگر آمریکا دوباره حمله کند، سپاه نوع تسلیحات و جغرافیای جنگ را تغییر خواهد داد؛ یعنی هدف قرار دادن نقاطی جدید که تاکنون مورد حمله واقع نشده‌اند…»

[بريد @baridmedia]

"إسرائيل تحكم أمريكا وكان يجب عزله فور تهديده إيران بالسلاح النووي!".. تصريحات نارية لتاكر كارلسون عن سيطرة تل أبيب على واشنطن

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

ABSOLUTELY TRUE!