nkt

The butterfly could not fly across the vast ocean, but who has the heart to blame it?

[Tom Hennessy @Tomhennessey69]

If you want to publish an app in the Apple App Store, you often have to block a plethora of search terms. Both ‘the great replacement’ and ‘great replacement’ are specifically listed.

I wonder why 🤔

[nkt @NaiveKrypto]

there will be signs

[Chicken Little @Chicky_Think]

Seeing your neighbour getting rich quick.

Hype. Greed.

The end is usually near.

[nkt @NaiveKrypto]

viking vs nigga

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Every football fan is waiting for this match

[Kaguya’s Top Gal @hayasaka_aryan]

The Iraq team is whiter than France*

[nkt @NaiveKrypto]

sometimes great moves begin with simple desire, like unlimited shrimp buffet

if i ever go to usa, this will be first on the checklist

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

One reason the US is considering acquiring Greenland is to secure access to seafood that could potentially bring back unlimited shrimp at Red Lobster. - US official to the New Yorker

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Reminder: the Crusades were a response to over 400 years of Islamic aggression against Christians and Europe.

632: Muhammad dies.

635: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Damascus.

636: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Antioch.

637: Muslims conquer the Holy Land.

639: Muslims conquer the first Christian country Armenia.

641: Muslims conquer the Coptic Christian country of Egypt.

650: Muslim armies reach southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "slaves" and "concubines."

711: Muslims invade Spain, and by 715, they have overrun most of it.

717: Muslims besiege Constantinople but are repelled.

730: Muslims invade France, only to be stopped by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours.

792: The ruler of Al-Andalus calls for the invasion of France, and Muslim armies are assembled to attack it again, but they are repelled.

827: Muslims invade Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks. Sicily remains under Islamic rule until 1092.

846: Muslims invade Rome and force the Pope to pay tribute.

848: A third invasion of France occurs, and they are repelled for the third time.

909: Muslims occupy Sardinia.

937: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is burned down by Muslims, and more churches in Jerusalem are destroyed.

1009: Destruction of the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem.

1012: Beginning of al-Hakim’s oppressive decrees against Christians.

1071: Turkish Muslims attack the Byzantines and occupy much of Anatolia.

1094: Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos asks Western Christendom for help against Muslim Turkish invasions.

1095: Pope Urban II finally declares the First Crusade.

[signüll @signulll]

cold open: google campus. a conference room named “moonshot serenity 4b.” twelve people are in a meeting titled: pre-sync for sync alignment on ai velocity.

sundar sits calmly at the head of the table.

a pm clicks to slide 1 of 187.

“the agenda today is simple,” she says. “how do we move faster while preserving our culture of not doing that?”

everyone nods.

then the door opens.

noam shazeer walks in.

the room goes silent.

noam: “i’m leaving.”

a vp of gemini reliability, brand, trust, latency, policy, and vibe raises a hand.

“leaving… this meeting?”

noam: “google.”

someone gasps. someone else opens a doc titled retention narrative draft final final noam v7.

sundar blinks once.

“noam, we brought you back.”

“for two point seven billion dollars.”

“technically you licensed some technology and reacquired talent.”

“that sentence is why we need legal in the room.”

legal is already there.

cut to: openai.

sam altman stands beside a whiteboard that just says ship.

an engineer walks by carrying a server rack and what appears to be the future.

sam: “we can offer speed, compute, and one meeting.”

noam: “one meeting per week?”

sam: “no. one meeting. total.”

back at google, the emergency retention committee forms instantly. it has 31 members.

a director says, “what if we give him a new title?”

“he already co-leads gemini.”

“distinguished super co-lead?”

“google fellow?”

“he already left google, founded a company, got brought back for billions, then left again. he’s folklore.”

meanwhile, a gemini launch review begins.

pm: “we’re ready to announce the model.”

policy: “can it answer questions?”

eng: “yes.”

policy: “too risky.”

marketing: “can we call it experimental?”

research: “the model is better than the last one.”

brand: “better is aggressive.”

trust & safety: “what about ‘more contextually adjacent to usefulness’?”

a staff engineer whispers, “openai just shipped a model while we were discussing the adjective.”

cut to noam’s exit interview.

hr: “what could google have done better?”

flashback montage:

a chatbot blocked because it might be too good.
a launch delayed because a button was the wrong shade of responsible blue.
a spreadsheet comparing twelve ai product names.
a meeting where someone says “we need a single coherent ai strategy” and three new strategies are created before lunch.

noam: “nothing comes to mind.”

hr: “great. we’ll mark that as positive attrition.”

later, sundar calls him privately.

“google is still google. best researchers. best infrastructure. billions of users.”

“yes.”

“so why leave?”

noam looks out the window.

“because you have everything except permission.”

silence.

sundar, softly: “we can create a permission working group.”

cut to all-hands.

sundar addresses the company.

“noam is leaving. this is not a loss. it is an opportunity to reflect on our operating model.”

chat explodes:

“is this recorded?”
“which gemini?”
“can we ask gemini why people keep leaving?”
“it said ‘insufficient context.’”

a vp steps up.

“to honor noam’s legacy, we’re launching project attention.”

applause.

“it will study whether attention is, in fact, all we need.”

a researcher raises a hand. “didn’t we answer that in 2017?”

“yes. but now we need enterprise readiness.”

final scene: noam arrives at openai. badge works instantly.

receptionist: “yeah, we just made one.”

no pre-read. no doc. just a whiteboard, five people, and a model running somewhere hot enough to toast bread.

sam: “ready?”

noam smiles.

cut back to google. a calendar invite appears:

meeting: reduce meetings task force kickoff
duration: 90 minutes
required attendees: 214

sundar sighs, opens gemini, and types:

“how do we move faster?”

gemini responds:

“have you considered leaving google?”

smash cut to credits.

[nkt @NaiveKrypto]

i think most useful skills attempt to sharpen agents

agents improve speed of output
but it also increase cost of maintenance later

in the world of AI, should try to push less features but improve on its quality

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Announcing mattpocock/skills v1

- Achieved a 63% reduction in token cost for skill descriptions
- Split skills into model-invocable and user-invocable skills, adding /codebase-design, /domain-modeling, and /grilling
- (UPDATED) /writing-great-skills - rewritten from the ground up, encoding my skill-writing best practices
- (UPDATED) /diagnose -> /diagnosing-bugs - now model-invocable, awesome for fixing hard bugs
- (NEW) /ask-matt: a router skill that teaches you how all the engineering skills work together

[CTC @CacheThatCheque]

This might be the top

[nkt @NaiveKrypto]

AI wont destroy jobs
it will allow the ones with real achieve to take over tasteless office workers

[joy boy ♎ @luffy_d_monki]

This is good. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

Roman centurion meeting a native Briton, 43 AD

[Lex @lexx_aura]

This Animation is insane, and they say AI has no soul 🤡

[Wazz @WazzCrypto]

They're selling Zero Dollars for 86 cents

[nkt @NaiveKrypto]

natural selection at its finest

[Adam Francisco @adamfrancisco_]

This is apparently the same woman who flashed Charlie Kirk. She reappeared in a video by @AbolitionRising and said something so disgusting about Charlie, I won’t repeat it here but you can skip to 10:06 in the YouTube video linked in the comments to hear it for yourself.

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

The fucking community note 😭

[Great Bawls O' Microplastics @HumamAnamoly]

SHEEEEEEEEEIT, DAT LOOK LIKE A CROWN ON DA TOP O DAT CUZ WE WUZ KANGS AND SHEEEEEEEEEIT

[Wazz @WazzCrypto]

Happy $STRC All Time Low to those who celebrate!

Hope the yield was worth it!

[nkt @NaiveKrypto]

????

[Zack Voell @zackvoell]

STRC is down 15% in two weeks.

Saylor said he "designed it with ChatGPT."

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The most justified Son meme