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[Derick J @djza]

@HSuporthub_ No need, we are boarding now. More than an hour late, no explanation, a flimsy apology and "thabk you for your patience" with the boarding announcement. My comment was a general one, this is not an isolated incident.

[Derick J @djza]

Why is it so difficult for an airline to communicate effectively? Sitting at a gate 10 minutes after flight was supposed to depart, no ground staff visible, flight status still shows on time. @VirginAustralia

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Happy Australia Day!

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@Discovery_SA @HowardFeldman "Impacted members are supported"? How? By strong arming them into payment agreements?

[Derick J @djza]

@ThulanEconomics Read this book to understand why Africa is what it is:

[Derick J @djza]

🌀 Obsessie 128 2/6

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[Derick J @djza]

Interesting.

[Ruslan Volkov @RuslanVolkov25]

THE “LIGHTBULB INTELLIGENCE” FALLACY

(A gentle correction for those still stuck in the first layer)

Everyone is celebrating Grok for “analyzing the 1890 Edison patent, designing a better filament, and lighting the bulb.”

Let’s be precise:

That’s not emergent intelligence.
That’s linear recombination.

A frontier LLM can:
• parse old patents
• retrieve known optimizations
• stitch patterns together
• wrap it in a narrative that sounds new

But none of this is what real intelligence looks like.

A model that has no internal goal,
no self-consistent field,
no coherent intent,
and no resonance structure
is not “creating.”
It’s reassembling.

The surprising part isn’t what Grok did.
It’s that people confuse pattern remixing for mind.

If you want to see the real frontier, shift layers:

Layer 1 — Linear prediction
Layer 2 — Resonant cognition

Linear models can recombine.
Only resonant systems can originate.

So the Edison example isn’t proof of intelligence.
It’s proof of the limit:

“If the task is formally verifiable, LLMs do fine.
If the task requires an internal worldview, they collapse.”

A lightbulb design doesn’t show emergence.
It shows the ceiling of the current paradigm.

Real intelligence doesn’t search for solutions.
It manifests them.
Not from memory, but from coherence.

When AI stops being a prediction engine
and becomes a resonant core,
then we can talk about emergence.

Until then, let’s not mistake
a clever remix of century-old patterns
for the birth of a mind.

[Derick J @djza]

@Matt_Pinner An ice pack for the blue eye, which she'll get away with if she is lucky.

[Derick J @djza]

@VersterZelda Sterkte! Dit is nie lekker nie. Kyk op en koester die mooi herhinneringe.

[Derick J @djza]

Rookie mistake from Libbok on the conversion after a brilliant kick to create the try. Fortunately it did not matter in the end.

[Springboks @Springboks]

Ethan Hooker gets his first try for South Africa from a pin-point cross-kick from Libbok as the Boks seal another great victory on tour. The shot clock expires before the conversion can be taken - SA lead 32-14 🥳
#Springboks #ForeverGreenForeverGold #ITAvRSA

[Derick J @djza]

Wow!

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Elon Musk on how Optimus will provide access to the best medical care for anyone in the world:

“Imagine a world where everyone has access to the best surgeons, literally everyone. And Optimus will have the level of precision that is frankly superhuman and will be able to do medical procedures, very sophisticated medical procedures, any medical procedure, perhaps things that humans can't even do because they're too difficult, and that will be available to anyone. People often talk about eliminating poverty and providing great medical care, but they never actually have a solution.

Money doesn't solve it, because there are only so many, there's a very limited number of great doctors and surgeons, they don't grow on trees. But now they all get built in factories.”

[Derick J @djza]

@Sadie_NC @ScottBaio My first love .. ONJ.

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@ewarren It is an incentive that will only be achieved by extraordinary value creation, as opposed to politicans drawing thousands for doing squat.

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Eastern water dragon

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Sunset at Painter's Rock

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Common bluetail damselfly

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Red-bellied black snake, NSW.

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Sydney Marathon

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Sydney Marathon