Bodrell Spicer

I rule I school always ready to duel / Want to battle me? Ha, fool!

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

Still having my mind blown by the Basque language. Those constructed languages (like Klingon, Esperanto) are a joke vs. natural languages.

[BLAIRE WHITE @BlaireWhite]

Women on TikTok believe Lindsay Clancy is innocent based on her astrological sign. I’m not kidding.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

Just this weekend I was watching Girls5eva, and loving the episode where Tina Fey plays a hallucinated version of Dolly Parton. I remarked we were lucky to still have Dolly around. RIP to a wonderful, generous lady.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

Say what you will about Arday, but it appears he at least had remorse / guilt after being caught in his egregious lies. Unlike @ibramxk who has zero shame ands commits 100% to his victim narrative.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

The death of Jason Arday hit so close to home that I had no words yesterday. But I woke up with words.

To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob.

And if you die from all the attacks, the media still calls the attacks on you “accusations” to wash their hands of the blood. Your lynchers announce your death as if they had no role in your lynching.

My latest at The Emancipator.

https://t.co/Ow40DlCVso

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

@walterkirn I very much enjoyed both the book and the movie—but my god, how depressing! Ranks up there with The Hours.

[Alexander Panfilov @kotekjedi_ml]

We can finally talk about it:

We found a way to extract hidden reasoning of frontier models using a vulnerability in the APIs of every frontier AI company.

We verified that our reasoning token count matches billed API thinking tokens 1:1 for most of the prompts we queried.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

The US will literally require ID for the communist bodegas before elections.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

Being given immunity nullifies your right to plead the Fifth. Fauci needs to go to jail for contempt of Congress for his failure to answer questions.

[Andrew Wimer @andrewwimer]

Good breakdown of @IJ's win against the open fields doctrine in Pennsylvania from @stevelehto. The government can't trespass on property without a warrant in PA: https://t.co/FV3Kw8sc62

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The entire tech industry (save for Anthropic) has come out in favor of open source AI.

So what happens next? Will Anthropic change its lobbying efforts? Not likely. Now the gaslighting begins:

“Nobody is trying to ban open source.”

“We just want to limit who can use it.”

“We just want to limit who can contribute to it.”

“We just want to limit how powerful those models can be.”

“We just want to make sure the guardrails (we lobbied for) can’t be removed.”

The net effect will be the same. They won’t stop until they kneecap open source. The rest of the industry needs to watch these guys like a hawk.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

@christianbrits Missing text in your latest @reason article:

"The rent freeze is one more s That would be another financial headache for the city's mayor"

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

This is just as insane as calling Hitler a great leader. Except Mao killed even more than the Nazis.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

@TheRealFarley You would lose that bet. You're welcome.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

For chemists, the real story is what Merck chemists managed to do in the synthesis of enlicitide. Take a look at this monster! And they managed to stitch it together in one pot with five engineered enzymes!
https://t.co/31ZQ6HRsD1

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The FDA approved a daily pill that can lower cholesterol levels far below what statins can, clinical trials have shown. https://t.co/dTUtOXn4Wk

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

I was so expecting something like this. I even looked on Polymarket earlier this week to see if anyone was predicting one of Lindsey Graham's gay lovers would out him. Missed opportunity to create a new prediction.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

A lot of people know Sam Neill from Jurassic Park, but my favorite roles were in horror films: In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, Dead Calm, and Omen III. Also, one of the funniest TV episodes ever as Dr. Bruce Chandler on Rake.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

Meta paid her nearly $800,000 as part of a severance agreement. She gave up her right to talk shit about the company when she signed that deal. Does @WIRED support contract violation?

[WIRED @WIRED]

Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully. https://t.co/vGFqRURyGf

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is properly insane: quite literally the worst example of censorship I've ever heard of anywhere.

I checked the actual ruling (which you can see here: https://t.co/dBKFWZ2ZWm) and, to be clear, it isn't just censorship in the conventional sense - blocking access to a website or removing content from platforms - this is the criminalization of information relayed by private citizens, with prison sentences attached.

And the most insane aspect if that it does NOT matter if the information relayed is accurate or not. It just matters that it originates from RT or other media outlets banned in the EU.

In other words, truth isn't a defense anymore in the EU, it literally doesn't matter. It's purely based on the identity of the speaker.

The ruling is actually explicit about this: the regulation, quoted by the Court says that the prohibition applies to "any content," and they draw no distinction based on what the content actually says. If it originates from banned outlets, it's banned.

It is, quite simply, a complete unraveling of the entire post-Enlightenment legal and philosophical project where entire generations of Europeans fought to move from "who says it" to "is it true" as the operative question.

Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you'd fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal prosecution.

Completely and utterly absurd. But that's the EU today for you 🤷

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

@QuetzalPhoenix The Dutch, and the Basques. The Basques may have actually discovered the New World while whaling, but kept it to themselves. St. Ignatius, a Basque, founded the Jesuits which punched above their weight. re. Catholic orders.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

Hey @IJ, do you think the robot will be required to complete a cosmetology degree?

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

For thousands of years, hair braiding has been a manual task, taking up to 12 hours at a stretch, as a stylist weaves patterns into a customer's hair.

And after years of research, a robotics startup launched this week to drastically cut down on that time. Meet HaloBraid, whose first device, set to launch later this year, acts as a braiding assistant for professional stylists.

[Bodrell Spicer @bodrell]

@RT_com That's a little misleading. I'm sure this was not legitimately manufactured, but Adderall is just pharma-grade meth.