Alejandra

To define is to limit.

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

FastAPI now has built-in OpenTelemetry support, natively 📈

No extra code needed.

See how your app behaves in production.

Go and upgrade to "fastapi[standard]" version 0.142.2 ⬆️

Read the docs: https://t.co/dUZmbLmWsJ

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

I completely agree with this take related to the “AI will create viruses that will kill us all” BS. But let me add my few cents, because I am really really angry!

I worked with one of the deadliest viruses in history, HIV, for two decades. I was one of the early scientists to engineer it, and engineered versions of HIV are now helping cancer patients. I understand the immune system that defends us against viruses extremely deeply. I have worked in high security biohazard labs.

I don’t have a PhD in AI, but I have been involved with AI since the early 90s and have been all in on AI for years.

People claiming that you can just make a virus in your garage, use AI to engineer it, and somehow build a virus that will kill everyone don’t know what the hell they are talking about!

Of course bioweapons are extremely dangerous. In fact, viruses and bacteria have killed more humans throughout history than almost anything else. HIV alone killed tens of millions of people, yet today, if you have access to effective medicines and take them properly, HIV is generally no longer a death sentence.

COVID-19 killed millions. Why doesn’t it kill at anything close to the same scale anymore? Not because the virus disappeared. It is still here. We developed collective defenses against it through our immune systems, prior exposure, vaccines, treatments, and better medical care.

And this is exactly the point.

The best way to fight biological threats, whether natural or synthetic, is to use AI to develop vaccines, treatments, antibodies, antivirals, and eventually engineer our immune system to create much stronger defenses against them.

By the way, it is already possible to make synthetic viruses. You don’t need some hypothetical superintelligent AI model to do that. We have had sophisticated molecular biology and genetic engineering for decades.

So how many people have actually died from synthetic viruses compared with natural viruses killing millions every year?

And if someday there really is an AI capable of making some unbelievable “supervirus,” then why the hell wouldn’t that same AI make it even easier to develop defenses against it?

Or cure diseases, for that matter?

Where is this damn superintelligence that has cured a single major disease?!

These AI companies and AI doomers keep talking like, “OMG, AI is going to become so unbelievably powerful that it could kill all of humanity!”

Then why is nobody asking the obvious question?

If your AI is already becoming this godlike, unbelievably powerful intelligence, why hasn’t it cured anything?

I mean ANYTHING.
Where is the cure for cancer?
Where is the cure for Alzheimer’s?
Where is the cure for aging?

Forget those. Where is the vaccine that prevents the common cold?

You are telling me this intelligence will soon be smart enough to engineer some magical virus capable of wiping out 8 billion people, defeating every immune system, every vaccine, every antiviral, every laboratory, every government, and the entire global biomedical community…

…but somehow it still can’t cure one disease?

I call that greatest intellectual dishonesty ever!

At least WE actually know how to cure things and save millions of lives with our supposedly stupid human intelligence compared with this future “superintelligence.”

Humans eradicated smallpox, which killed hundreds of millions of people throughout history.

We turned HIV from a almost certain death sentence into a manageable disease.

We developed vaccines in record time against COVID. If we had the same AI back then, would have saved millions more!

We engineer immune cells to kill cancer.

We developed antibiotics, antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, gene therapies, organ transplantation, and thousands of medicines.

We aren't fast enough but we did all of that with our ordinary human intelligence.

So imagine what actual superintelligence could do for medicine!

And here is the part that really makes me angry.

If you actually have, or are close to having, an AI capable of curing diseases and saving millions of lives, and you are deliberately slowing it down or refusing to make those capabilities available, then we also need to talk about the human cost of THAT decision, which you fearmongering people are going to be responsible for!

More than 150,000 people die every single day around the world.

Every. Single. Day. More than 90% from Cancer, heart disease, infections, aging. How many die because of AI? ZERO!

Talk about the people dying TODAY.
Talk about curing cancer.
Talk about stopping the next pandemic before it starts.
Talk about developing universal vaccines.
Talk about engineering our immune system so viruses become almost irrelevant.
Talk about curing genetic diseases.
Talk about reversing aging.

Talk about saving millions and eventually billions of lives.

Instead, we constantly hear this “AI WILL KILL US ALL!” crap, delivered with absolute certainty and with this smug smile on your faces in front of cameras, as though imagining a science fiction extinction scenarios.

I am actually angry about this. Each one of you causing a delay in AI advance every single day will be personally responsible for those 100 thousands deaths that could have been prevented!

Because if you truly believe intelligence is about to become this powerful, then the greatest question humanity should be asking is NOT:

“How could this intelligence hurt us?”

It should also be:

“WHY THE HELL AREN’T WE USING IT TO SAVE EVERYONE WE CAN?”

And if superintelligence really is coming, then make sure one of the first things we do with it is make humanity biologically damn near impossible to kill.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

GOOGLE MAPS SHOWS YOU STREETS. THIS WEBSITE SHOWS YOU THE MOVIE SCENES FILMED ON THEM.

it's called Movie Scene Map → https://t.co/j5BjdTJcbX

15,716 real filming locations. 166 countries. one map.

click any pin. see what was filmed there.
search any movie. see every place it was shot.

Game of Thrones castles in Croatia.
Breaking Bad streets in Albuquerque.
Lord of the Rings hills in New Zealand.
the well from The Dark Knight Rises at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur.
the Woman in Red fountain from The Matrix in Sydney.

the best part is how fast your brain starts using it wrong.

you open it to search one movie.
then you search your city.
then your hometown.
then the place you went on vacation.

built by one anonymous guy who goes by Flightmussy.

just a website that lets a normal person see where their favorite movies were actually made.

open tab.
search your city.
see what movies got filmed near you.

[Embassy of Spain UK @EmbSpainUK]

After this incredible total solar eclipse, there’ll be another one next year, lasting 4 minutes! 🌘

🗓️ It will take place on 2 August 2027. What’s more, on 26 January 2028, there’ll be an annular solar eclipse.🤩

[Nacho Carretero Molero @carreteromolero]

No mentían los que decían que la diferencia entre el 99 y el 100% es radical. Lo es. Quitarte las gafas y ver esto en el cielo es una sensación indescriptible, de ciencia ficción.

[cruzrojacol @cruzrojacol]

¡Hoy Colombia nos necesita!

Súmate a #TodosPorColombia y dona para apoyar a las comunidades afectadas por los sismos.

Tu solidaridad puede marcar la diferencia. Haz tu aporte en https://t.co/RuIGUa9Igt

[daniele grasso @danielegrasso]

☁️☀️Ya disponibles los datos del modelo de alta resolución (HARMONIE-AROME), que permiten hacerse una idea bastante precisa de la previsión de nubes durante el eclipse.

Nubosidad para las 19, 20, y 21.

Consultables en cada municipio, aquí:
https://t.co/N88p3dzh8n

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

FastAPI Conf Early Bird tickets are now available! 🎉

There’s a limited number of Early Bird tickets, so get yours before they’re gone:

👉️https://t.co/LjjZdIwXC1

See you at FastAPI Conf! 🚀

[FastAPI Cloud @FastAPIcloud]

FastAPI Cloud is now in Public Beta ⚡

Deploy @FastAPI apps with:

fastapi deploy

No waitlist. Try it now. 🚀

You Code. We Cloud. 😎

https://t.co/HWeZyWbIiP

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

Big news: the first-ever ✨ FastAPI Conf ✨ is coming!

📍 Amsterdam
📅 October 28

Meet the FastAPI team, connect with developers ☕️

🎟️ Join the waitlist for early ticket access: https://t.co/O0gYFWxjHJ

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

FastAPI 0.135.0, with Server-Sent Events: https://t.co/hPWm1icjy7 ✨

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

FastAPI 0.133.1 comes with the official FastAPI Agent Skill bundled 📦️

More important than the current skill content is that it will be kept up to date with new versions of FastAPI 😎

AI coding agents will be able to use best practices and new features as they come 🤖

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

Increase your FastAPI JSON response performance by 2x or more 🚄

1. Upgrade to the just released FastAPI 0.131.0 🎁
2. Declare your response model - return type ✨

With that, now @pydantic handles the JSON serialization on the Rust side 🦀

https://t.co/eIh2qS9zos

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

The full-stack-fastapi-template now uses @shadcn / ui (with @tailwindcss) for the frontend 🚀🎉

There's still dark mode too, and all the nice things 🦇

Thanks @alejsdev ! 🙌

https://t.co/o20d40hCPD

[FastAPI Cloud @FastAPIcloud]

Would you like to be part of the first wave of private beta users? ✨

Join the waiting list if you haven't: https://t.co/1pahopykxi

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

FastAPI is now officially the most used web framework by Python developers 😁🚀🎉

From the Python Developer Survey 🐍

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

"The +5 point increase for FastAPI is one of the most significant shifts in the web framework space."

"This signals a strong trend towards using Python for building performant APIs and reflects the overall strength of the Python ecosystem."

🤯🐍🚀

https://t.co/qNhhTIIoPH

[FastAPI @FastAPI]

FastAPI now has 84k GitHub stars ✨

FastAPI is now the most starred backend framework 🎉

...not only in Python, in all programming languages 🤯

Thanks to all who inspired it and paved the way 🙌

And thank you for adopting it! 🍰☕️

https://t.co/LfpZnNf9MT

[Matthew Dominick @dominickmatthew]

I enjoy how the elevator doors close on this floor of a building at Johnson Space Center.