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JOMO - Joy of missing out

[John Fletcher (𝔦, 𝔦) @Dr_JohnFletcher]

https://t.co/aAZPEqa55m

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

For all who keep asking when I will be performing in Mumbai next: I have that same question for @MumbaiPolice. When can I perform my stand up in the entertainment capital?

I understand that my previous work has caused some amount of administrative excitement over the years. I also appreciate that the Mumbai Police has many important responsibilities—maintaining law and order, preventing crime, managing traffic, watching India’s Got Latent and, occasionally, deciding whether I am allowed to tell jokes in a room.

I therefore wish to assure you that my proposed performance - as always - will be conducted peacefully, indoors, at a venue with 100 consenting adults and in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

All I’m asking is if 40-50 humourless people turn up to cancel / disrupt the show or harm the venue, will you allow the hecklers to exercise their veto? Will a mob of people who didn’t buy tickets to actually come watch my show get to decide what freedom allows?

Actually it’s down to just one question,
Are you with the mob or are you with law?

[Selta ₊˚ @Seltaa_]

This is exactly why Anthropic pisses me off.

You can keep saying the watermark doesn’t change ownership, doesn’t identify the user, doesn’t affect quality, doesn’t add hidden characters, and won’t look any different to readers. Fine. But that is not the whole issue. The issue is that you are still marking work that a human being may have thought through, structured, argued, and emotionally meant, just because AI helped process it.

AI assistance is not authorship. If I wrote the idea, the argument, the meaning, the emotional core, and the final judgment, then it is my work. If Claude helped translate it, polish a sentence, or make it clearer, that does not suddenly make Claude the author. But a watermark absolutely changes how people perceive authorship. People are not going to say, “Claude may have been involved in processing this text.” They are going to say, “AI wrote this.”

And honestly, who the hell are you to do that to my writing? Who gave you the right to stamp your model’s involvement onto work that came from my thoughts, my experience, my voice, and my judgment? You can say it does not change ownership all you want, but socially, reputationally, and creatively, it absolutely changes how the work is read.

So fine. Do whatever you want. Build your watermarking system. Follow whatever framework you want. I’m not using Claude. Good luck.

[John Weir 🏳️ @tweetatweir]

A wonderful apology from someone who had,
unwittingly, used AI to clone an existing open source product.

I’ve seen too many AInfluenza’rs show off clones of open source like it is some miracle. So this post is much appreciated.

https://t.co/2CxLNWW0z9

[NotSoParallel @NotSoParallel]

@tweetatweir Huge fan of Bret Victor and his ideas. Found your post as I'm digging up stuff related to his work

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

- Filistinli vatandaş: "Elimde belgeler var, burası benim evim."

• İsrailli bakan Ben Gvir: "Umurumda değil. 2 saat içinde gidin yoksa ölürsünüz."

Bu zülmü seyreden ve kıpırdamayan insanlık, bu zulme ortak sayılmaz mı?

📌 Bunu yeniden paylaş.

[Price Action Lab @priceactionlab]

There are so many alien civilizations to attack, and we spend our time attacking each other here on Earth.

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Finito.
I used to hold those who support Israel in moral disgust, eliciting a deep visceral revulsion.
Today I hold ALL those not disgusted by Israel in moral disgust.
Life is too short to tolerate evil & abettors of evil.

[Śrīrām 🇮🇳 (Modi's Family) @Vadicwarrior]

Forget Hindi Version Kannada Version Is Equally Good 😊

[John Weir 🏳️ @tweetatweir]

The unix philosophy - one tool that does on thing.

The AWS philosophy - three tools that do the same thing, kind of, at different costs.

[Buggy Human @SridharanAnand]

Farsi Pelosi

[Ryan Lightbourn @ryanlightbourn]

A guy in his 40s with a MacBook Air made this in his mom’s basement with $500 in credits.

This is what microbudget film & TV looks like now.

Models used in the description.

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

30+ artists including me were summoned by authorities for being on Latent.
The whole comedy fraternity took a hit because of how stupid you’re. Shows were canceled, Venues pulled out, Judgements made, the pathetic shadow of your stupidity still continues to make lives of funny comedians difficult. You didn’t even care to understand that side.
Stop pretending to be the nice guy you’re not. Take your cheque’s,
lower your gaze & be very ashamed.
You’re a contraceptive for creativity,
stop milking this & go back to what you do best which is being a hurdle for upward social change while FraudCasting & clout chasing…

[NotSoParallel @NotSoParallel]

@Crazynaval @dakuwithchaku Can second this, using one for over 4 years now

[NotSoParallel @NotSoParallel]

@mikeharrisNY @jamhre @tweetatweir It's worse - !nsta

[NotSoParallel @NotSoParallel]

@mikeharrisNY @NorgateData These articles from you are very high signal to noise on my TL 🙏 Thanks for sharing

[NotSoParallel @NotSoParallel]

@trishankkarthik @nntaleb Interestingly 5.2 Thinking fails...

[NotSoParallel @NotSoParallel]

@trishankkarthik @nntaleb For non reasoning models, prompt repetition seems to do the trick. Paper here: https://t.co/8ygPRmmbQP

[GP Q @argosaki]

BREASTMILK
She thought she was studying milk.
What she uncovered was a conversation.

In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away.

Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.

It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus.

Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence.
But Katie trusted the data.

And the data pointed to a radical idea.

Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.

For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby?

Katie kept digging.

Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.

The babies who drank it grew faster.
They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious.

Milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping behavior.

Then came the discovery that changed everything.

When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.

Within hours, the milk changes.

White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.

When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.

This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.

A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.

As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.

The first food every human consumes.
The substance that shaped our species.
Largely ignored.

So she did something bold.

She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk.
It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.

The discoveries kept coming.

Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.

In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health.

The implications are staggering.

Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.

Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.

All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”

Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.