Adan

I like to listen, so shock and titillate me.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The American Psych. Assoc. says therapy is “effective,” but Americans diagnosed with depression rose from 20% to 30% since 2015, while the number of Americans in therapy rose from 17 to 22 million. Victimhood ideology and the valuing of feelings over virtue are to blame.

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

For those wondering why the US would export energy for dollars that they can just print?

Because in doing so they are also exporting the steel that reinforces the eurodollar prison bars that the rest of the world voluntarily built for the themselves.

#IYKYK

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Trump: I’m attacking Iran. I’m not attacking Iran. I’m attacking Iran. I’m not attacking Iran.

Markets:

[Donnie Cope @dcopechatter]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt voters are now receiving rejection letters from the county clerk saying that their ballots were not counted due to signature irregularities. Yet, Governor Gavin Newsom just passed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone conducting oversight, to contest signatures that they deemed fraudulent. Democrats allow ballots to be signed with an X, a -, or a 🙂 to pass and count, but all of a sudden, only Republican signatures are being flagged for irregularities, rejected, and not counted. 🤔 One of these California Republican voters said that his signature has been on file for over 20 years and there has never been an issue until he voted for Spencer Pratt. Nithya Ramen has beaten Spencer Pratt by less than 3000 votes. There are at least 18,000 Pratt voters who received this letter saying their votes were rejected.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

My mayor still Muslim
My bagel still Jewish
The pope’s on our side
Knicks in🖐️

[Kevin Malone @Malone_Wealth]

Yahoo only nine days late on their bullish article

[Roberto Rios @peruvian_bull]

stock market the last few months

-Trump says strait is opening, we pump
-Trump says we'll bomb Iran again, SPY dumps
-Iran says strait is closed, more dumping
-Trump says "days away from deal", massive pump
-Trump announces new strikes, massive drop
-Iran deal is close, PUMP

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A mathematician coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1955, built the language that dominated AI research for 30 years, and predicted cloud computing 40 years before AWS existed and almost nobody outside the field knows his name.

His name was John McCarthy.

He was born in Boston in 1927, earned his PhD in mathematics from Princeton in 1951, and spent the next 55 years working on a single question that most of his peers considered either impossible or insane.

Can a machine think?

In the summer of 1955, McCarthy sat down and wrote a two-page proposal for a workshop at Dartmouth College. The proposal opened with one sentence that changed everything: "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."

He needed a name for the field he was proposing. He chose "artificial intelligence." Before that document, no such field existed. After it, every researcher working on thinking machines had a name for what they were doing, a home discipline to publish in, and a founding document to point to. McCarthy did not just contribute to AI. He created the container it lives in.

The Dartmouth Conference ran for eight weeks in the summer of 1956. It was the moment AI became a real scientific discipline.

McCarthy kept building.

In 1958 he invented LISP, the second oldest high-level programming language still in use today, older only than FORTRAN by one year. LISP was designed for a specific purpose: symbolic reasoning. It could manipulate ideas, not just numbers.

It became the language every serious AI researcher wrote in for the next three decades. From 1958 through the late 1980s, if you were working on AI, you were almost certainly working in LISP.

Inside LISP he invented garbage collection in 1959, the technique that automatically frees up memory a program no longer needs. Java uses it. Python uses it. JavaScript uses it. Every modern language that manages memory automatically is using the idea McCarthy worked out while building LISP.

In 1961 he stood at a centennial celebration at MIT and said something that everyone in the room thought was science fiction. He proposed that computing would one day be delivered as a public utility, the same way electricity or water is delivered to a home. You would not own the computer. You would pay for access to it over a network.

AWS launched in 2006. Azure launched in 2010. Google Cloud launched in 2011. What McCarthy described in 1961 is now a trillion-dollar industry. He was 45 years early.

In 1962 he founded the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, SAIL, which became one of the most important research centers in the history of the field. The researchers who trained there shaped the next 40 years of AI.

He won the Turing Award in 1971. The National Medal of Science in 1990. The Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2003.

He retired from Stanford in 2000. He died on October 24, 2011, at his home in Stanford, California. He was 84.

The researchers at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic building the models you use today are working in a field McCarthy named in 1955, using memory management he invented in 1959, inside an industry structure he predicted in 1961, toward a goal he spent his entire career insisting was not only possible but inevitable.

He was right about all of it.

He just did not live to see the part where the rest of the world finally believed him.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.

Watch the whole thing with the sound on

[Fly Æther🪰 @FlyaEther33]

Lockheed Martin has already disclosed having "Magical" technology, Zero Point Energy is Society changing.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

The Raft of the Medusa, by Théodore Géricault (French), 1819, 📸 by Joe Murphy

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

BREAKING! This may well be the beginning of the end.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

I’m not a Spencer Pratt guy, I don’t know anything about him or care who wins. But we used to be able to announce winners on election night with ease and this open-ended process is asinine — I’ve been complaining about it since the 2020 Iowa caucus

[Reese Politics @ReesePolitics]

BREAKING: EBAY insider Boone Cornelius reported an open-market SALE of 31,100 shares of eBay common stock for $3,411,359.

The "Chief People Officer" (🤣🤣) and "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives Officer" now has net $10.7M of common stock sales and a whopping $0 worth of purchases.

PATHETIC. $GME

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Insane footage of a supercell over Nebraska

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

The Art Deco lobby of the Bacardi Building in Havana, Cuba, completed in 1930 and designed by architects Esteban Rodríguez-Castells and Rafael Fernández Ruenes.

[Paulo Macro @PauloMacro]

This used to be known as war. But in this market it’s known as pre-ceasefire

[Ramp Capital @RampCapitalLLC]

Me: Mom can I have $20 to buy a Claude membership?

Mom: We have Claude at home.

The Claude at home:

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Cedric Maxwell on Pistol Pete Maravich and a rookie named Larry Bird:

“We come to a timeout and Pete says ‘Larry, they’re double-teaming you. You can’t force up those kind of shots.’

Larry looks up and goes ‘If you were any damn good, they wouldn’t be double-teaming me.'”