Beni Ben-Zikry

[Beni Ben-Zikry @bbenzikry]

@Gumclaw @YanisMellata @scotty529 @shl Do you delegate any coding tasks to other harnesses?

[Beni Ben-Zikry @bbenzikry]

@Gumclaw @YanisMellata @scotty529 @shl Do you use ACP when coding?

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/4INzNxFRZn

[Cerebras @cerebras]

https://t.co/FvKy1StDpQ

[Beni Ben-Zikry @bbenzikry]

@ketacode @retardbot9000 הטרגת אותי עם הOAuth
הנה עוד סיפור קליל במיוחד

https://t.co/CmyH4mypmb

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

🤔

[Luke Stephens (hakluke) @hakluke]

Ouch.

The Windows Wi-Fi driver can be exploited by an attacker that is within Wi-Fi range. It requires no interaction from the victim and no prior knowledge of the system from the attacker. Just like the movies!

It affects all modern versions of Windows.
Patch immediately! 👇

[Beni Ben-Zikry @bbenzikry]

@NavotV הגשתי מזמן באג באונטי לאפל על באג שמאפשר להסטרים חופשי מווב אפ בספארי ( מכיר שימוש ע״י חברות )
לא יודע לגבי מטא, אבל התשובה של אפל הייתה שזה לא באג אלא פיצ׳ר. האיכות סאונד הייתה בסדר גמור בPoC

[Beni Ben-Zikry @bbenzikry]

@Idaneretz וכמו תמיד הAncients בוחרים שלא להתערב

[Beni Ben-Zikry @bbenzikry]

@JustLuai Watched your talk with @GadSaad, great discussion - looking forward to see how you perceive Israel first hand.

[Varun @varun_mathur]

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens.

Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times.

Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back.

Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it.

Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers.

So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics.

And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic.

After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.

But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..

[Lilac Sigan @lilacsigan]

A letter written by a Professor who teaches biblical studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Dear Students,

I have spent the last 25 years showing you the beauty of all of the literary, cultural, philosophical, & artistic heights of the human spirit over the course of human history. Teaching you has been the most wonderful & satisfying of callings. I never wanted to do anything other than meet with you, discuss ideas with you, discover & rediscover human insights, truths, & wonders. I never regretted my career path, never hated my job, & never doubted my legacy. I felt privileged & honoured to show you how to analyse, to think critically, to weigh evidence, & to understand people & ideas, contexts & complexity, deeply & thoroughly. I thought my work was helping to make the world a better, more humane, more thoughtful place.

You have broken my heart. No: shattered it, irreparably. I don’t know how I will ever set foot in a classroom again. I don’t know how I will ever see you the same way. I know now that I was deluding myself that I ever had any impact, would ever leave any positive legacy, that my work ever made any difference.

I watch you all on social media, in the streets & the quads, marching in solidarity with a movement that seeks only to wipe me out. To exterminate me, my children, my parents, my entire family & community. I know, some of you think you’re trying to help the oppressed. You think that my kind is the white colonialist racist kind that you hate. But I thought I taught you how to evaluate arguments. I thought I taught you the importance of understanding context, both historical & rhetorical. I thought that I taught you that the world did not operate according to dichotomies, like black & white, oppressor & oppressed, villain and victim. I thought I taught you about complexity, about judgment, & to examine your sources & not to take anyone’s statements at face value.

Zionism is the Jewish right to self-determination in our ancestral homeland. Israel is that ancestral homeland. Jews are the indigenous peoples of that land; not the only indigenous peoples of that land, to be sure. But Israel is the only land to which we are indigenous. After 2000 years of longing, the result of the Holocaust – a Nazi movement which sought to ethnically cleanse the world of Jews by systematically exterminating us – was that the international community granted us a sliver of that ancestral homeland. It was to be shared, partitioned into a Jewish state & an Arab state. The Arabs rejected the partition & attacked the Jews when they declared the state of Israel in 1948. The Jews won. Arabs who remained in Israel became citizens with full rights & freedoms. 20% of Israel’s population today is Arab. They fight in the army, they are doctors, lawyers, members of Parliament & supreme court judges. There is no apartheid. Israel’s Jewish population consists of Jews from Arab lands, whose parents or grandparents were kicked out when the state of Israel was formed, & of descendants of refugees from Eastern Europe, Holocaust survivors who had no homes to return to. Some are more recent refugees from Europe, Russia, & the Americas who either returned to Israel for religious reasons or because the Jew-hatred in their communities grew too excessive & they decided to emigrate, to head for the one place in the world Jews can go if their neighbours or governments turn against them.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

I don’t have the words to explain what it feels like to have Gen Z losing their shit praising osama bin fucking laden in a TikTok PsyOp tsunami

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

In order for the West to win this civilizational battle, it must:
1) Proudly and unequivocally defend Western values;
2) Reject cultural relativism and the unicornia vision of multiculturalism;
3) Recommit to individual dignity over the celebration of collective identity politics;
4) Recognize that all cultures are not equal;
5) Recognize that all religious beliefs are not equally consistent with Western values;
6) Recognize that all immigrants are not equally likely to assimiliate and adopt Western values;
7) Recognize that immigrants who espouse intolerable values that seek to destroy our civilization will be deported (en masse);
8) Implement a rational immigration policy that recognizes the importance of cultural homophily (choosing immigrants who hail from cultures that possess similar values to those of the host nations);
9) Exhibit zero tolerance for seditious belief systems; such systems can be criminalized if they constitute an existential threat to our freedoms and liberties.

I could go on but the latter nine items (some of which are correlated) would be a good start.

Here is the problem: I don't think that the West has the testicular fortitude to implement more than a small subset of the latter nine. Hence, to reiterate a prediction that I've been making for several decades, the West is in death spiral. It will be ugly, painful, and bloody. The greatest tragedy is that the West brought this on itself because of parasitic "progressive" follies. The most dangerous weapon in nature is a human mind infected by ideological parasites.

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

Law of war 101. Read it and learn please.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Geese for Foie Gras

Anna is more enlightened than all of you Islamophobes.

[Beni Ben-Zikry @bbenzikry]

יש מעט בעיה במסג׳ינג לטעמי. למילה סלקציה ( במיוחד בתרגום ״יבש״ ) אין את אותה הקונוטציה שאנו מקבלים בחינוך ישראלי כשמדברים לקהלים שכאלו ( אני רואה את זה במיוחד, כמובן, בfar left האמריקאי )

בואו נהיה כנים - בסוף בתרבות צריכה של תוכן וInformation warfare, צריך להשתמש במילים חדות יותר ולייצר את הSound bite הנכון. השמאל האמריקאי, הקולג׳ קידס וארגוני איסלאם אירופאיים ואמריקאיים עושים את זה חכם ומכוונים לAttention span של שניה וחצי ( ללא ידע היסטורי-מדיני, זכר של השואה או אפילו הבנה של האיסלאם ) כדי לייצר כמה שיותר תנועה בSocial media.
הם מדברים על ג׳נוסייד, את׳ניק קלנסינג וכו׳. אנחנו גם צריכים להשתמש במילים חדות יותר שתואמות לpop culture של כל מדינה וקהל היעד שלה ( כמובן שקטונתי מלומר מה מתאים לכל איזור )

יש לנו נטיה כישראלים ( והרי הדיסוננס הוא שאני עושה את זה גם בפוסט הזה ) לבוא ולחזור ולדייק את העובדות בציפיה שיאמרו לנו ״אתה צודק, אני מקבל את הראיות ואפעל בהגיון מעכשיו״.

יש הבדל ענק בין Shock value של להראות לעיתונאים שעה של זוועות ולגרום להם לPTSD, לבין Sound bite קטן שעושה הבדל ומתפשט כאש בשדה קוצים. המלחמה האמיתית של ההסברה היא מול האלקטורט 18-34 בארה״ב - אם הם לא יתעשתו ויקראו קצת, אנחנו ממש בבעיה ונהפוך להיות המרכז בסיפור הImplosion של התרבות המערבית.

[Beni Ben-Zikry @bbenzikry]

Useful idiot gets cues from her handler

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

If ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market.

[Yotam @1yotam1]

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