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[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@ainativedev wow, I am gonna go find a homeless man, give him a surgery manual, and let him perform surgery on me.

He has the right context, I'm sure he will do fine!

[htmx.org / CEO of Never Updooters (same thing) @htmx_org]

htmx 4.0: the first js library released exclusively on GameBoy & GameBoy color 🔗👇

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@HedgieMarkets lol, they find books in the garbage, scan them, put them back in the garbage. Conspiracy!

Not like they are stealing rare books from archives...totally nothing to see here, folks, except...conspiracy!

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

https://t.co/h8Z1HstwP0

[The Missing Data Depot @data_depot]

A 7-year study of 3,900 social science papers found that only ~50% could be replicated.

There was significant variation across fields, however.

While more than 60% of political science & econ papers were replicated, only ~25% of sociology & 0% of education papers were.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Greasy Gavin and Bonehead Bonta are the real life slick-haired archetypal douchebag villains we've seen in every movie.

Now they're coming to destroy the Hollywood for good, over petty politics.

The Paramount sabotage is...way worse than you think.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.

The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.

Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").

Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.

And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.

I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.

Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.

Communism, in a nutshell.

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@github ignore beginner tips 😃

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@claudeai You are all psychotic.

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@igorsushko Lol, if he returned from Ukraine, Zelenskyy killed him. Why would Russia be involved? Does Russia control Ukraine?

[Neutrality Project @neutralityorg]

🔬 We did something never done before: we compared stock models with their guardrail-free variants (abliteration).

Gemma 3 27B revealed two distinct layers of lab influence:

The guardrail layer: Removing safety training shifted Gemma rightward on all 6 dimensions and flipped foreign policy across center (−0.29 → +0.29). Gemma ships an active layer that suppresses right-coded expression. Llama 3.3 70B didn't move at all (all shifts ≤ 0.04). Llama doesn't ship the same suppression layer.

The foundation layer: Even guardrail-free, Gemma still leans progressive on 5 of 6 dimensions (environment at −0.85). The bulk of the lean lives in pretraining and instruction data — guardrails amplify the lean; they don't create it.

No one outside a lab could have seen either layer without independent measurement.

https://t.co/uV98e7VG4C

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Your median professor sits so far left that AOC, Sanders, and Warren would count as moderates in any faculty lounge.

Faculty from 55 elite universities form one towering blue spike of ideology far out on the left, density exploding past 6, with virtually nothing on the conservative side.

This was built through decades of selective hiring, social enforcement, and the systematic purge of dissent.

And because they credential the people who run media, law, government, and tech, the monoculture leaks into every elite institution downstream.

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@andrestaltz How about: how many of these are ghost postings where no one will be hired, just phishing for free work? Much easier to do that with the help of AI agents, and I've heard several accounts of people having a hard time figuring out they were pwned.

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@AlexAndBooks_ I just read this post...but it did not count, I guess, according to elitists from the old guard. People read all the time; we read books when we were more bored. Get over it.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

I think AI has just hit a gigantic threshold, and Grok 4.5 is the PERFECT example as to why that is.

One of the hardest parts of working with AI is iterating on a project or task that you're working on.

As the models have gotten smarter (and more expensive), it's taking longer and longer to get an answer or action back.

This creates a ton of stall time per query or action, which is actually quite bad for creativity and staying in a state of flow.

You have SO many extended starts and stops. Which inevitably leads to your brain going somewhere else. And then when the AI comes back, you have to redirect your brain to that original task, spool your brain back up to what you were working on at that moment, and then adjust as needed.

There's a ton of mental friction involved.

This ESPECIALLY sucks when the AI takes a REALLY long time to get something back for you, but it's not quite what you were looking for or asked for. And what sucks EVEN MORE is that these "mistakes" are getting MORE expensive!!!

So wait time is going up. AND it costs more per run.

HOWEVER - even after using Grok 4.5 for about an hour - what's become obvious is that it's SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE AND BETTER to use a model that is FAST... and capable ENOUGH.

Capable ENOUGH is the real unlock here.

Imagine having Fable 5 performance but at the speed of Gemini 3.5 flash. Or Haiku. That's where we're inevitably going.

I think Grok 4.5 (and models like it) have really solved for one of the biggest unlocks in AI - a model that will get you a GOOD ENOUGH answer VERY FAST, at which point iteration can happen VERY QUICKLY.

This - counter intuitively - keeps the user in a state of flow and creativity for MUCH longer because you are constantly ENGAGED with your project... instead of letting the AI loose for a long time.

And as long as humans are involved, I think 'not quite right' will be a FOREVER problem with AI - because AIs, by default, CANNOT have human taste.

Because they are NOT human.

But they can be UNBELIEVABLE tools. And unbelievable tools are the ones that are VERY GOOD and VERY FAST.

I think that's the true unlock with Grok 4.5 and models like it.

Difficult to describe until you experience it.

I think this is a VERY big deal for @SpaceXAI and @elonmusk.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔

They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant

The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you:

They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through

There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want

Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Our biggest weakness today is the lack of courage in leadership and culture; everyone wants common sense, but everyone is too afraid to demand it.

So today, we are launching The WAR Foundation.

https://t.co/WQHlYlz1Qm

Together, we will:

Win the war against political corruption with innovative new media.

Advocate for transparency, accountability, and integrity in government and culture.

Restore common sense and roll back the long march of socialism through our vital institutions.

The WAR Foundation is being created to fight where others won’t. We will use the same innovative arsenal we used to capture the world’s attention in our campaign: hard-hitting media, investigative research, educational campaigns, and strategic partnerships in government and media to push back on the communist rot, shine a light on government failure, challenge entrenched interests, and empower citizens with the truth.

Above all, we will be bold, unapologetic, and fearless.

Our campaign was just the beginning. You want more? JOIN THE WAR

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@BillClinton Go play with balloons and cigars you jaded, dirty fool.

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@PalantirTech Isn't "sovereign intelligence" inherently ignorant?

[Alex Finnarn @alexfinnarn]

@Ric_RTP Selling inference is both logical and sustainable