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monitoring the situation

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

we should prepare ourselves

we are about to enter an age of scientific progress unlike anything humanity has ever seen

i genuinely think the scientific revolution will pale in comparison

[BlockHead @blockhead4000]

Nobody ever talks about this, but the reason you have to go to college is A, because Griggs v. Duke Power Company made it illegal for presumptive employers to IQ test, and B, inner city High-Schools basically aren't allowed to fail a student as long as they physically show up.

So you end up in this trap where a High-School diploma that you worked very hard for means nothing, because a kid who did coloring books and addition and subtraction got a paper saying he has the same qualification. Ok, then just give me an intelligence test, oh wait you cant, thats also illegal because it causes "disparate impact". So now the only proxy for basically literacy and ~105~ IQ is a 4 year meaningless degree that costs 10s of thousands of dollars.

But wait, now they hand those out to anyone, (1/4 of 4yr grads have an IQ of or below 95), so now you need a Master's, or specialty training, or a million other bullshit things. So you get them, but wait, a diploma mill in Hyderabad cranked out 100M guys who also have a Master's on paper, and will work for 1/3 the price, so now you dont have a job. Ok, ill work construction, but wait, you dont live in a State with strong Unions, so any non-specialized construction work is done by slaves from Guatemala, so you decide to stay home and take Percocet instead.

Awesome system we've built.

[Chris Langan @RealChrisLangan]

How disappointing.

Here's what it looks like to me: After swearing up, down, and sideways to deport all the illegal aliens, of which there are over 100 million in the US according to some estimates, President Trump here has actually deported only a tiny percentage of them. We haven't seen any proof of even that.

Having pretty much wrecked the United States by handing both houses of Congress over to his fellow undercover liberals, now he's groveling like a worm and admitting that what little deportation he claims to have accomplished was "excessive", and conceding that we have to let the Third World stay here because a small percentage of nonwhite migrants sometimes work as landscapers and hotel maids between welfare checks and EBT shopping sprees.

And now, just to punish all of us for embarrassing him by rejecting the pathetic Israel-First political whores he endorsed, he's sending thousands of Americans to the Middle East as cannon fodder to die for Israel.

Either tell me it's not true, or put a bag over his head so that we never have to look at him again.

[Our Own Nation @OurOwnNation]

If Trump passes amnesty he must be remembered as the most evil president of this century, for his betrayal alone. Don’t tell me “he says one thing but does another” or “if we give amnesty to people who have been here 10 years we can deport the rest!”

No, deport them all. Jan 2025 CBS polling said 64% of America supported mass deportations, he was the first Republican to win the popular vote in decades and people elected him to Deport more people than at any time in history.

Exit polling from the midterms show 94% of republicans believe Trump didn’t go far enough with deportation.

It’s like he wants to be hated so it’ll be easy to divorce away from him, but his cult is too stupid.

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

Across our projects @GoogleDeepMind, we are witnessing a genuine phase transition in the pace of scientific discovery. You will see a glimpse of this in our releases in the next few weeks.

[Omar Abudayyeh @omarabudayyeh]

Longevity industry is ripping 🔥🔥

My favorite part: Lilly and Novo are now using aging clocks as trial readouts, and patients on their drugs are reading biologically younger. Novo saw hearts up to 4 years younger vs placebo.

@TheEconomist

https://t.co/AMa5idqHgA

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: US data center construction spending jumped +90% YoY in September, to a record annualized rate of $96.5 billion.

This also marks the largest YoY increase in 10 years.

This figure is now risen more than +60% YoY for 4 consecutive months.

Since the start of 2024, data center construction spending has nearly quadrupled.

Meanwhile, general office construction spending fell -8% YoY in September, to $46.0 billion, near its lowest level since January 2016.

This brought the gap between data center and general office construction spending to a record $50.5 billion.

Overall, US construction spending fell -1.9% MoM in September, its biggest monthly decline since April 2020.

The AI infrastructure buildout is transforming the US economy.

[Kevin Wimer @kevinace]

For years I was depressed and couldn't tell you why.

I had a wife I love, a son, our dogs, a good home and a career. On paper I had everything. Rationally it made no sense. But I woke up every day with zero optimism and no real reason to live.

So I tried to fix it. I tried everything people tell you to try:
- SSRIs
- Therapy
- The gym
- Meditation
- Cold plunges (that's me smiling through one)
- Long walks
- A clean diet
- Breathing exercises

None of it pulled me out.

Then in July 2024, with a son who was only 10, I was told I had stage 4 lung cancer.

You'd think that would be the bottom. It was the opposite. That same day I felt more alive than I had in years. Something was trying to kill me, and for the first time in forever I had something to fight. I was on a mission. This sure as shit wasn't going to kill me early.

Today the little things make me happy. I have drive and ambition. I look forward to the future, and I want to help build it.

Here's what I learned. Staring at my depression and trying to analyze my way out never worked. What worked was finally having something that lit me up and pushing toward it.

Don't wait for a diagnosis to find yours.

Don't have that thing? Go find it. Try new shit. Change careers. Change your daily habits. Make new friends. Travel. Make a major life change. Keep mixing it up until something gets you fired the fuck up.

Then chase it. That's how I got out.

[AutisticClips @AutisticClip]

Asmongold: “Eventually there will be a leftist that gets assassinated.

This is going to happen. It might not happen this year, it might not happen in three years but it will happen eventually. And when that leftist gets assassinated, you are going to have the entire right wing celebrating and dancing on their grave because of what they did about Charlie Kirk.”

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Nasdaq 100 futures erase all losses and turn green as investors buy the dip after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with a Chinese spy.

The Nasdaq just lost -$250 billion and added +$300 billion all within 7 minutes of the market's initial reaction to the news.

[Kevin Wimer @kevinace]

A cancer drug designer just told me AI makes his work ~100x more efficient and ~100x more effective.

Not some AI hype guy. Matt Soellner is a University of Michigan chemistry professor who's spent almost 20 years designing the kind of drugs that keep people like me alive.

A year ago he thought these AI models were silly. Now he calls the last 3 months the highlight of his career.

When a guy like that says 100x, buckle up. Cures are about to start coming at a pace nobody's ready for!

[AF Post @AFpost]

Despite John Doyle and others claiming that demographic shifts sank Trump during the midterm, the midterm electorate was actually Whiter despite missing millions of Trump voters, which would’ve actually won the midterms for the GOP.

Follow: @AFpost

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Longevity Grok, a.k.a. your personal longevity superintelligence (PLSI), is an open-source multi-agent workhorse designed to keep you alive & healthy for as long as possible. A collaborative effort from @InSilicoMeds & the Sinclair Lab @harvardmed. Visit https://t.co/Hn42ZnyK2z

[DunoQFT @dunoqft]

THE FERMI PARADOX HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED

for sixty years you have been sold a mystery. the universe is huge, the stars are old, somebody should have called by now, and the silence demands an explanation.

three researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford went to check the arithmetic under the product.

what was in the old packaging: one number plugged into each slot of the Drake equation. a single value for the share of planets where life starts, a single value for the share where intelligence appears. point estimates.

the trouble is that our knowledge of those quantities is smeared across orders of magnitude. you cannot be uncertain by a factor of a billion and then write down one number for it.

so Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord fed in the whole spread of the uncertainty instead. they ran it twice, once from their own reading of the science, once from the range of published estimates in the astrobiology literature.

the output:

> probability we are alone in the Milky Way: from about half to near certainty
> probability we are alone in the observable universe: from about 40 to 85 percent

at those numbers the silence stops being strange. nothing is missing from the sky. no paradox left to explain, and no Great Filter needed to explain it.

i went in expecting to find the trick, because a paper that deletes a famous problem usually has one. what i came out with is a complaint about method. one number written where a range belongs, repeated for sixty years.

the fine print, and i am the one insisting on it. these are probabilities under the distributions the authors picked, so change the assumptions and the numbers move. the paper measures how little we know and it does not prove that nobody is out there. what it takes away is your right to be surprised that nobody has called.

link in the comments

[fshgroyp @fshgroyp]

Jean-François Gariépy reflects on Nick Fuentes' massive win this week, how Republicans are forced to accept him, and the possible upcoming blue checkmark:

“To a certain extent, the Democrat win is obscured by this. Nobody cares about the hearings. What really matters is Nick demonstrated power and will continue to do so.” 💯

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that the DNC is about to pull the same move that MAGA did, which is that they're going to forget that they're public servants and they're going to think that this blue tsunami that they're enjoying means that they get unilateral discretion to do whatever they want and engage in whatever narratives they want to, instead of serving the public interest.

They're going to torpedo their own credibility in the same way that the GOP has by going a little bit too hog wild and being a little bit too high on their horse, and they're going to cause another major backlash and a hard swing back right by taking things a little too far and being a little bit too delusional.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Whenever people say the U.S. has a lot of starvation, it's like they're saying they don't realize the poor have obesity issues these days.

[Paul Castillo @HEAVY_SLAYER]

The white TFR in 1996 was 1.78 compared to the national rate of 1.98 and as of 2026 it's only down to 1.60 compared to 1.56 nationally, but the white share of the population back then was higher so the share of births to white mothers dropped from 61.5% in 1996 to 51.1% today. The largest declines in white share of births were in Nevada, Massachusetts and Oregon which saw a large Hispanic influx while in New York, Mississippi and DC the white share actually increased.

[Georgia College Republicans @GACollegeReps]

Mr. Musk should put his money where his mouth is and support organizations like College Republicans and Young Republicans. Supporting the same failed establishment will do nothing to aid his dream of space colonization or stopping the South Africanization of America.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

This is the main street of Monroeville in Huron County, Ohio. The town voted against building a $1 billion data center nearby.

Let’s just be honest here, does this town look like it’s doing well enough to reject a $1 billion opportunity for economic development?

How are you supposed to fix cost of living when people vote against $1 billion opportunities for jobs and economic development?

NIMBYism is killing the West. The same people who hate data centres hate nuclear energy and hate new factories for manufacturing and reindustrialisation.

Literally what are you supposed to do? People want 5% GDP growth a year with 0 inflation and then you try to give them new industry and they reject it.

Foreign backed information war on the American people has done massive damage to America. People voted against their own jobs and their own economic development because they watched a TikTok saying Donald Trump and Epstein ate Jon Benet Ramsay inside a data center or something.