Donavan

love all things security, homelab, economics, travel, solar, and aspirations of living in a cabin in the woods. [email protected]

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

go fuck yourself @sama

claiming that you solved navier stokes because 10000 agents ran in circles for 88hours on a multimillion dollar gpu cluster to formalize in lean a blowup case under controlled external forcing is pure scientific vulgarity the clay mathematics institute millennium prize does not ask m whether you can artificially force a singularity in a fluid by injecting an ad hoc smooth external forcing term f(x,t) to twist the vortex until it breaks the real problem questions the fundamental stability and global smooth existence for 3dimensional incompressible euler & navier stokes equations under natural conservation laws and viscous dissipation alone using a mathematical loophole on forced equations to parade a century old victory is a major conceptual scam Altman

technically & epistemologically what you present as an agi breakthrough is nothing more than bruteforce combinatorial autoformalization the ai did not understand fluid mechanics it simply navigated a continuous search space previously mapped out and constrained by the monumental work of human mathematicians like tristan buckmaster/ levent alpöge / diego córdoba or tarek elgindi coordinating 10000 agents to check the logical consistency of a 100 page proof via lean is a software engineering feat and computational parallelization triumph not an intrinsic scientific discovery it is the victory of the compute bulldozer over abstract human intuition repackaged for the public as a higher mathematical consciousness

to this theoretical imposture you add a disgusting ethical and industrial cynicism taking advantage of private codex sessions and informal preprints from academic researchers to siphon their research leads and then trying to redact or erase the contribution of levent alpöge under the pretext that he works at rival anthropic is intellectual serfdom openai behaves like a feudal lord of silicon appropriating the cognitive subsistence of independent scholars threatening their careers behind closed doors if they protest and turning community academic labor into a privatized pressrelease

this entire staged event serves a desperate financial agenda in a pre ipo panic facing the slowdown of scaling laws and growing investor skepticism over the profitability of foundational models openai needs to manufacture an artificial sputnik moment claiming to solve a millennium prize without immediately submitting the proof to traditional peer review means using the prestige of fundamental mathematics as cheap marketing fuel to inflate a delusional valuation!!!

real science is not a clout chase on social media or a compute spike spent to rob the clay mathematics institute it is a quest for elegance physical truth and universal rigor to decode reality true artificial intelligence will not emerge from hostile corporate takeover of academic work hidden behind computational bruteforce but from architectures capable of generating new conceptual paradigms by masquerading constrained formalization as the collapse of physics greatest mysteries you did not solve navier stokes you only proved how far silicon valley will go to prostitute scientific integrity for capitalist spectacle

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Trump granted 30 clemencies on September 3 with no official White House announcement. Nearly a week later, only 11 of the 30 recipients have been identified, pieced together from scattered social media posts and lawyers' statements rather than any government release. Former Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer says this is not normal, and that every modern presidency, including Trump's own first term, promptly disclosed clemency grants.

John Dougherty shows what the secrecy can hide. His commutation cut a six year corruption sentence to under two years served and wiped out 1.6 million dollars in restitution owed to the same union members he was convicted of stealing from, with no monitoring conditions attached. It came two months after DOJ's own Pardon Attorney had denied his request. This follows Trump's pardon of Honduras's former president, convicted of trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine, issued while Trump was simultaneously ordering lethal strikes on suspected drug boats. Attorney General Blanche has confirmed Trump does not even consult him on these decisions.

[Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi]

We spent upwards of 10 minutes rewatching this so now you have to too

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

The USPS mail voting rule does NOTHING for election integrity.

Even the administration (kinda) admits it.

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Set aside the debate over the lawfulness.

Set aside whether or not USPS can actually effectively implement it.

Set aside whether election administrators could actually comply.

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Even if fully effectuated, the rule does nothing for improving election integrity.

All it does is match two lists -- a pre-submitted mail-voter list and the addressed mail ballot packets -- both given by election administrators.

USPS doesn't check citizenship. Doesn't check to see if it's a real person. Doesn't check age. Or if the person is a felon.

All it does is check to make sure they're on the pre-submitted mail voting list.

It doesn't matter if it's "garbage out," as long as it's the same "garbage in."

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Even if the administration doesn't claim otherwise.

Nor does USPS.

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And yet, here we are spending time and money trying to force through its implementation.

My latest @thedispatch

https://t.co/1iJ0VQHMIY

[Rep. Jason Crow @RepJasonCrow]

A four-star general launched an independent review into Kid Rock’s taxpayer-funded “joy ride” in a military helicopter.

Five days later, Secretary Hegseth fired the general.

He is purging our military of experienced leaders to cover up his own corruption.

https://t.co/dIyEevp2NL

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

🔥Tuesday I tweeted Mike Johnson would recess Congress until after the election in an attempt to stymie our latest Epstein bill. Johnson went on TV adamantly saying that was STUPID and we’d work every day. Today he announced we’ll recess on Sept 17… until after the election!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail. https://t.co/ZBoklOtvrQ

[Sam Levine @srl]

Breaking news: The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight, raising alarm over an obscure legal tool it is deploying https://t.co/XZZjMFgjoL

[Rep. Jason Crow @RepJasonCrow]

First, Pete Hegseth pushed independent journalists out of the Pentagon.

Now, he’s hiring conservative influencers to defend his failed policies and culture wars.

He’s politicizing our military. It’s wrong and makes Americans less safe.

https://t.co/n2sl0WDihf

[PBS News @NewsHour]

A Florida grand jury found that Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money it diverted to a charity connected to his wife, but it declined to file criminal charges due to a lack of evidence indicating who specifically was responsible.
https://t.co/Z9hzxliTxO

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.

But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.

A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.

We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.

Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.

#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

The more we learn about the attacks on the U.S. Naval Support Activity (NSA) in Manama, Bahrain, during the opening days of Operation Epic Fury, the clearer it becomes why the news of its near destruction was not initially reported or acknowledged.

https://t.co/npsNpYcQsK

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

I’ve been hearing from archaeologists and historians about this. It’s a big issue to them (and hence to me).When the govt promises to get rid of “regulations” they make it sound like the stuff that impedes OUR lives.They really mean the stuff that inconveniences their big donors.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Thanks to Trump, American manufacturers pay $5000 a ton for aluminum. US global competitors pay $3000 / ton. About one-quarter of the aluminum (formerly) sold in the US (used to) come from Canada. Trump has single-handedly engineered an artificial aluminum shortage.

[banteg @banteg]

this wild defcon talk is finally out

researchers created a fake defi startup, hired lazarus it workers, put them into a sandbox and recorded their tooling, workflows, and faces from inside the operation

starts at 5:46:09
https://t.co/NBo6pw4nOl

[Denver Westword @denverwestword]

Opinion | "Recent revelations prove Trump targeted Colorado for punishment, and not just for Tina Peters. Suspicions confirmed."
https://t.co/TUpjggbvOi

[Dittie @DittiePE]

An ICE agent scanned the wrong license plate, chased the wrong man, and ended up shooting Julio Sosa-Celis through his own front door. DHS’s first story: Sosa-Celis attacked agents with a broom and snow shovel. City surveillance video proved that was false — the whole struggle lasted about 12 seconds. DHS admitted its agents gave “untruthful” sworn testimony. Charges against Sosa-Celis were dropped with prejudice.

The agent, Christian Castro, is now charged with 4 counts of assault + falsely reporting a crime. He fled to Texas.

Greg Abbott is refusing to extradite him. Minnesota’s AG just sued Abbott to force it.

A Republican governor is actively shielding a federal agent from facing trial for shooting an innocent man and lying about it under oath.

Texas, you have a job to do in November. And then justice can finally be delivered.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Wonder why Hegseth fired senior staffers at Stars and Stripes? It’s because of reporting like this:

“Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere. The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs that were never designed to sustain a displacement lasting this long. Some evacuees say they have spent tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket for basic living expenses. Others are sleeping on the floors of temporary housing, while their cars and furniture are stranded in Bahrain or aboard ships unable to leave the region.”

https://t.co/RDPGHi5gzn

[Donavan @White_Excalibur]

@technick ever heard of these projects or others to read your meters? Gas and water just require a cheap SDR dongle….

I just had an expected high water bill, so now I want all the data in HomeAssistant.

https://t.co/k3KZDUsbaQ - power

https://t.co/VNkfuOcMoB - water-gas

[ProPublica @propublica]

Stephen Miller said a Chicago apartment building raided by immigration agents was “filled with terrorists.”

So why is it that not a single person arrested that night was charged with a crime?

This is the real story behind the midnight raid: https://t.co/QMtw3OCEfi