Stuff and Nonsense

Genealogy & early NY history researcher. Stole this account from my cat.

[Stuff and Nonsense @MsFluffPawz]

@glennbeck The Marxist playbook. Too many people are oblivious to the evil looming here.
https://t.co/E9bk4HbfCm

[Rising serpent 🇺🇸 @rising_serpent]

The craziest part of the supreme Court justice testimony was how they complained about their security being compromised at the hands of a few nutjobs while allowing millions of crazy violent illegals to compromise national security and jeopardize our lives through birthright citizenship.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang doesn’t use AI to think less. He uses it to think past his own limits.

Huang: “90% of my instructions are actually conflated with questions.”

The man running a five trillion dollar company doesn’t give AI commands. He interrogates it.

Huang: “I take the answer from one AI, give it to the other AI, ask them to critique itself.”

Same question. Multiple models. Pit them against each other. Keep only what survives.

Not because the machine can’t be trusted.

Because challenging it is where the sharpest thinking happens.

Huang: “The process of critiquing, criticizing the answers, applying your critical thinking, enhances cognitive skills.”

AI doesn’t replace your thinking. It demands more of it than you’ve ever given.

Every question takes reasoning. Every answer takes scrutiny. The machine isn’t thinking for you.

It’s pulling thinking out of you that didn’t exist before you sat down.

Huang: “In order to formulate good questions, you have to be thinking, you have to be analytical, you have to be reasoning yourself.”

AI is not the shortcut everyone thinks it is.

It is the most powerful cognitive amplifier ever built. It sharpens the engaged. It leaves the passive exactly where they started.

Same tool. Same access. The only variable is what you bring to it.

The world is debating whether AI will replace human thinking.

Wrong conversation.

The real question is what happens when a tool built to think for you becomes the thing that forces you to think beyond yourself.

That’s not a threat to humanity.

That’s the entire point.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Will the average American get beefed-up security to protect against the hordes of illegals and their anchor babies she welcomed into the country two weeks ago? Of course they won't.

[Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI]

The media’s racial whitewash of "teen takeovers" is fooling almost no one, as I discussed in my keynote address to @TheAtlasSociety last month:

[MikeT @MikeM58576]

Unreal.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

Hochul says "our power capacity is stretched to its limits".

Really? Upstate NY has enough capacity to be selling almost 1 gigawatt (or almost 20-50 megawatt 'hyperscalers') to Quebec this morning.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: Speaker Johnson just dropped this chilling line to every American to block the rise of COMMUNISM

"This is not a GAME! Everybody needs to understand these crazy little Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country — they are a DANGER to you and your family. This is not a GAME!"

"If they promise you free stuff, there is far more beneath those promises that even some of these people do not understand themselves."

"And so we are here as the Republican Party to stand on the founding principles of the greatest nation in the history of the world. It is our duty to do that."

"And we're doing it on behalf of all of you, even the journalists who don't agree with our policies all the time."

"You better agree on these principles because that's what keeps you free."

"By the way, it's what keeps the press free, okay? This is essential for your well-being and your family. This is not a game."

"This is not our Father's Democrat Party. This is not, we're not arguing our marginal tax rates anymore. We're arguing whether or not freedom is going to survive!" @SpeakerJohnson

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

An 8-year-old boy stabbed a woman who was fighting with his mother yesterday in Rochester NY. The woman will survive.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

NEW: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett details the chilling threats her family has faced, revealing the terrifying moment her 12-year-old son discovered a bulletproof vest in her bedroom during the fallout of the Dobbs leak.

Barrett also recounted a recent "swatting" incident at her home and receiving threatening anonymous deliveries, warning that while federal judges continue to do their jobs without fear or favor, the current threat level is "really high."

"I didn't expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was, and why I had to wear one."

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

I feel like thinking itself is broken in most people. Basic reasoning is a rarity these days. Reading comprehension is becoming a thing of the past.

[Stuff and Nonsense @MsFluffPawz]

@Notwokenow Look back. What were the odds that these ordinary men were going to defeat Great Britain, the most powerful empire tin the world? Never underestimate the fierce determination of patriots to preserve freedom and the dignity of the individual in the face of government tyranny.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Yann LeCun just told the most well-funded industry in human history it is solving the wrong problem.

LeCun: “Babies learn this around the age of eight or nine months, that objects don’t float, they fall.”

No dataset. No labels. No reward signal.

A nine month old drops a spoon and builds a physics engine no machine can match.

LeCun: “Most of us can learn to drive in about 20 or 30 hours of training without ever crashing, causing any accident.”

Twenty hours.

Tesla has built the most capable driving system on the road. It took billions of miles of data to get there. A sixteen year old gets there over a long weekend.

Not because the teenager is the better driver.

Because the teenager is not learning to drive. They are deploying a model of reality they have been building since birth.

LeCun: “If we drive next to a cliff, we know that if we turn the wheel to the right, the car is going to run off the cliff and nothing good is going to come out of this.”

You simulate the crash. You see the wreckage. You feel the fall. You turn the wheel.

None of it was real. All of it was intelligence.

Every AI has to crash a thousand times to learn what you imagined once and never did.

That is not a performance gap. That is an architecture gap.

LeCun: “The main problem we need to solve is how do we learn models of the world.”

Not bigger models. Not more compute. Not another trillion tokens.

World models. A machine that can run reality forward before it acts.

The industry is scaling language.

LeCun says language is a compression of thought. Not thought itself.

You understood gravity before you could say the word.

You grasped cause and effect before your first sentence.

The deepest intelligence you will ever possess was built in total silence.

And every lab on Earth is trying to reconstruct the mind from words alone.

Physics does not care about your context window.

A baby who learns that cups fall in a kitchen already knows that rocks fall off cliffs. No retraining. No fine-tuning. One model. Every environment.

That is what intelligence actually is.

Not prediction. Not pattern matching. Not scale.

A simulation of reality so precise you rehearse the future before it exists.

Every infant on Earth builds one.

No machine ever has.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

America spends $7.8B monthly on SNAP.

If ILLEGALS were removed from SNAP the cost would reduce 70%.

If all benefits were CUT OFF they would LEAVE.

45% of ALL AFGHANI’s living in America receive FREE FOOD from YOU.

Is this your American dream?

Cause it sure isn't mine.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I took a deep dive through my local police department last night...

What I found is pretty shocking.

Apparently, Hispanic ILLEGAL ALIENS are being labeled "WHITE" in arrest records.

Whatever the "WHITE" crime rate actually is, it's far lower than you could possibly imagine.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The subpoena is not the scandal. That is the distraction.

The scandal is that classified information involving Air Force One’s security allegedly walked out of the government and into the pages of The New York Times. The scandal is that someone with access to sensitive material decided the public—and every hostile intelligence service reading along—needed a closer look at the President’s aircraft defenses. The scandal is that the Times reportedly received a national-security warning and published anyway.

But now that investigators want the name of the leaker, the paper is desperately trying to move the camera.

Do not look at the leak. Look at the agents delivering subpoenas.

Do not ask who exposed presidential-security details. Ask whether reporters felt intimidated.

Do not discuss the suspected crime. Discuss the sacred feelings of the institution protecting the source.

It is a classic narrative laundering operation: take the ugliest fact in the story, shove it offstage, and replace it with a prettier controversy about press freedom.

Nobody is banning the Times. Nobody is shutting down the newsroom. Nobody is stopping it from criticizing the government. Four reporters may have to answer questions before a grand jury because they likely know who supplied classified information.

That is not tyranny. That is an investigation.

The Times wants the subpoena to become the scandal because the actual scandal points straight back toward its newsroom and its source.

No amount of sanctimony changes the order of events.

First came the leak.
Then came the publication.
Then came the subpoenas.

The paper wants you to begin at step three because steps one and two are much harder to defend.
(article below)

[Stuff and Nonsense @MsFluffPawz]

@CynicalPublius Re: Marx

Have you seen this free 1st lecture from The Dark Side of Marxism series? 👹

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

Most universities teach a pro communist view. Gender equality, climate change, wealth redistribution, critical race theory, rampant immigration, etc. So we’ve posted the first lecture from Peterson Academy’s course on (actual) Marxism here and on YouTube. Enjoy!

[oldhouselover @oldhouselover1]

I’m shocked. 🙄

61 years of Dem leadership, ladies & gentlemen!

[Lyceum Now @LyceumNow]

Reading is not dying evenly. Long-form comprehension is collapsing among the many while it survives among the few — and that asymmetry is the whole story. Read the latest OP-ED by @KeenanPeachy: https://t.co/6jBH6AroL1

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

Whites are around 10% of the global population.

So please, can people stop saying that white countries are morally obligated to take in "minorities"? WE ARE THE DAMN MINORITY, and we are fools to keep importing third-world barbarians.

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