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[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Astonishing

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Ukrainian attack drones are mounting a major raid on and around the Russian capital, Moscow, tonight.

Local channels report a few hundred drones in the air, with flights into Moscow-area airports holding.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇷🇸 Serbia is getting into the combat drone business and Vučić isn’t exactly being subtle about what they can do.

The Serbian president inaugurated a new factory producing Israeli-designed drones for the Serbian military and export.

His description? They can “go through windows and chase the opponent.”

And this is apparently just the beginning, Vučić says Serbia plans to build at least three more factories.

The drone arms race is already here.

Writer: Lynn

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 A Chinese satellite that may have helped Iran kill U.S. soldiers just mysteriously broke apart in orbit, and nobody is explaining why...

China supplied Iran with high-res satellite imagery of a U.S. military base in Jordan before an Iranian attack in July, according to the Wall Street Journal.

That attack killed 3 American service members...

They called it the clearest evidence yet that Chinese support for Iran had LETHAL consequences for U.S. forces.

6 weeks later, China's Yaogan-50 military reconnaissance satellite, the type used to gather imagery of military bases, ships, and troop movements, broke apart in orbit creating 43+ debris fragments.

Cause: officially unknown.

China's embassy DENIES the imagery claims. U.S. officials stopped short of alleging direct Chinese government involvement.

But the sequence is difficult to ignore:

Chinese satellite data helps kill American soldiers, and a Chinese military reconnaissance satellite silently disintegrates weeks later with no explanation...

Did the U.S. take it out?

Nobody is saying that.

Nobody is saying they didn't.

Source: WSJ, Space News / Writer: Michael

[WilliamC @Williamcallam]

@INArteCarloDoss 😏

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

I turn 50 today. This is a message to my kids but I offer it to you in case any of it rings useful.

I was born in Sri Lanka in 1976 in a country that, at the time, was about to enter a decades long civil war. My father was able to get stationed at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada for four years in the early 80s - when some of the fighting was most severe - and which from our vantage point in Canada gave us some respite from an otherwise omnipresent conflict.

He came as a diplomat but then my father filed for refugee status after four years when his life was threatened by militants. We stayed in Canada as refugees. My dad never really landed on his feet and we grew up on welfare.

My mom stepped up. She did an incredible thing and put our family on her back and kept marching forward. Sometimes the steps were very small but she always tried to keep moving forward.

I worked at Burger King starting at 14, giving my paycheck to my mom and dad to support our family in the role that I was assigned - earn enough to pay for our bus passes because we couldn’t afford a car.

I was a loser growing up. Some friends, some good memories but mostly forgettable and lonely. I wasn’t very studious but did get my act together in my final year and got into a great university.

I immigrated to the US soon after graduating and found an opportunity. Things clicked and I have been traveling a path to find myself ever since. Only in America is this possible…

I worked hard, followed the rules, paid my taxes and stayed in California out of loyalty for the opportunities it has given me despite its dysfunction.

I found my wife here. Had my kids here. Found my tribe here.

There have been some very hard times as well - deaths, divorce, financial pain, mistakes of omission and mistakes of commission. You can’t dwell on these things - they are weights that will pull you down if you’re not careful. Learn from them. Respect them. BUT MOVE ON.

To think 50 years ago I could have ever gotten a chance to meet the people I’ve met and have had the experiences I’ve had would have been mind boggling to my parents. It’s mind boggling to me now.

We forget often and try to convince others it’s not true but America truly is the best country in the world. Everything and anything is possible here. I can testify. Be grateful to be here.

This is the only place that gives EVERYONE a chance to live a great adventure. The first 50 years have been that for me - an incredible adventure.

Notice there is nothing here about accomplishments or money. Because it doesn’t matter and it won’t matter.

You will be dust in less than 100 years from now and the decision to be remembered won’t be yours so stop sweating it. It’s not in your control.

So what is in your control?

Be kind. Have fun. Work on something meaningful to you. Find your tribe. Try to find perspective. Find an incredible partner. Have a bunch of kids. Live an adventure. Forgive your parents - they were doing the best they could even if that wasn’t what you deserved.

I will do what I can to make my next 50 years a wild ride.

You should too.

I love you and thank you. ❤️

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨 Lead Anchor at CNN Jake Tapper comes out and admits THEY ALL KNEW Joe Biden wasn’t really President and calling the shots

He says there was an elite inner circle of advisors who would make the decisions and “steer the country.” He gives the names of the people in that group

Again, the mainstream media ALL KNEW Joe Biden wasn’t making decisions

“Tell me about the word choice, and then tell me about those people who were really calling the shots around the president.”

Jake Tapper “So the Politburo, not a term we came up with, it's a term from within the Biden administration, as the name would suggest is a tightly held group of senior advisors — these were the individuals that help steer the government.”

The mainstream media was in on the coverup. How are there no consequences for these people

[WilliamC @Williamcallam]

@HansMahncke That being said, the continued validation should make you somewhat happy…

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Jeff Sessions is by all accounts a good man, but as attorney general he was hopelessly weak. Even so, it is difficult not to feel sorry for him when you see just how thoroughly he was railroaded over something so transparently false and contrived.

The entire case against Sessions was that he failed to disclose two routine meet-and-greets with the Russian ambassador, the sort of encounters countless people in Washington had. But that was not what Sessions had actually been asked. He was asked whether he had been in contact with Russian officials about the 2016 election. He said no, because he had not.

Then, as this newly released letter shows, Senators Leahy and Franken complained to Comey about his testimony, and the FBI promptly opened an investigation into Sessions.

The whole thing was totally contrived from beginning to end. Yet the media will never tell the truth, Wikipedia remains riddled with lies about it, and history will sadly remember Jeff Sessions as the man who “lied about his contacts with Russia,” rather than as one of the earliest victims of a grotesquely corrupt political operation.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

This is a perfect expression of American practical thinking, something the European mind can barely comprehend and much of the rest of the world doesn’t either. Rather than spend the next 50 years holding conferences, just make the problem irrelevant.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

I can’t believe people went along with this buIlsht.

[Luka @LukaLev]

What if I told you this was NEW JERSEY

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

LOL - they couldn't handle Don Rickles today.

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

She's from central casting, right down to the red glasses

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

The corruption here is off the charts. Rand Paul has just released a trove of emails showing Fauci soliciting various so-called scientists to nominate him for awards, many of which Fauci then went on to win, receiving substantial prize money in the process.

This needs to be forensically dissected, preferably by the DOJ. But even looking at just one example, Barton Haynes of Duke, the questions are staggering. Fauci personally petitioned Haynes to nominate him for an award, which Fauci ultimately won, including $1 million in prize money. That alone raises serious ethical concerns.

But what really knocked me off my chair is that Haynes has received something like $1.2 billion (with a "B") in funding from Fauci’s NIAID. The entire system is totally compromised, with a small circle of elites effectively doing favors for one another, all at taxpayer expense.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Chinese company Unitree reveal their "all terrain" wheeled robot.

The military potential for this technology is obvious.

Europe is so far behind China, its scary.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

LOL - They're all cheating.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

These newly released Slack messages from the Proximal Origin frauds are absolutely stunning. Not because they reveal anything fundamentally new, but because they eliminate any remaining doubt that these people knowingly lied the public.

When the previous batch of messages was released, they claimed the private admissions that a lab origin was "friggin' likely" were merely snapshots from before they had changed their minds in March 2020. That explanation was always absurd but now we have similar Slack messages from long after March 2020.

Their reckoning cannot come soon enough.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

SUPERCUT!

Knowing what we now know about China & the 2020 election, the media saturating the airwaves w/ this talking point in 2021 makes a lot more sense.