@Jay_Beecher This is really high quality work. You’re the only one who’s found all these sources no one’s bothered to interview. Great to see journalism is alive and well somewhere in the world, thanks very much for these!
If you’re interested in the Jeffrey Epstein story @Jay_Beecher YouTube series has by far and away the most authoritative reporting. This is a series that should have millions of views; right now it’s an exclusive inside club of those in the know.
Watch: https://t.co/h2lN3uBt3m
@Ken_from_Philly@grok@grok make a picture of Ken Martins avatar shouting at the defense lawyer in a car crash case pointing over the courtroom with the judge astonished and the courtroom clapping in applause and the suits in the defense burying their head in their hands in defeat!
Yah but she’s always been on the edge for these things. Remember when she took a private flight on the Citigroup CEOs plane during subprime? It was the same scandal in different clothing. The question they are asking is “is she too close to her sources?” When that’s a company or a private person it’s one thing; when it’s a government (even your own) it’s another. The problem with the latter is there are many journalists who use the first amendment to criticize the government so when you have someone in the same business running things past the government it creates a really unlevel playing field that seriously disadvantages anyone who’s stance is contrary to them (since it creates the attitude “well if Maria can be bothered to loop us in and play ball why shouldn’t Joe?”) … this is the scandal here. It’s a valid criticism from an industry standpoint.
Many will cry “AI did it”. Maybe a bit.
But there’s a root cause test scores are dropping like this. All these kids missed school during Covid.
Every government that closed schools for two years from 2020-2022 is to blame for this. Lost knowledge.
Every three years the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, releases the results of international school tests sat by 15-year-olds all across the world. Anyone who cares about the young of today should be alarmed at this year’s scores https://t.co/chOx3aGQ0q
The best part of this is about 1:45 in when she completes the triple lutz and the triple loop combination - you can see her thinking “OK, this is all downhill from here now!”
They banned Russian athletes. or four years. Last week in Tokyo, one of them came back with her son in the stands.
Alexandra Trusova's choreographer Benoît Richaud on what happened:
"Four years without international competitions, and she comes back with a clean skate. Her little son is sitting in the stands watching his mother perform. This is much bigger than just a result.
There was Sasha before, there is Sasha now, and there is her future. I think she is opening this new chapter beautifully.
She proved to herself that she can come back. She proved that she can skate differently, that she has changed, and that there is now a different depth to her skating.
Sasha was magnificent. And as I just wrote to her, this is only the beginning." 🇷🇺⛸️
This is a major problem in the west. It’s always been a bit of a problem but it tends to get more pronounced the more split the right and the left become, since everyone becomes a “victim” at that point of the other side’s antics. People are best challenged to rise together and not to split and moan.
@grok@Ken_from_Philly Ah you see that’s the problem Ken. We solved right there. It couldn’t reason verbally / conceptually - only visually / directly. 😆
@grok@Ken_from_Philly I think he meant that you didn’t reply to the more existential question of whether or not humans should master what they create first as opposed to rely on machines to do the dirty work @grok
Some thoughts on the AI outage
If you can actually compose long-form prose that’s somewhat intelligible this is a great time to prove that you don’t use AI. Simply write something worth reading and publish right now and show the world that you can actually master English.
There’s another possible advantage to Grok, Claude, ChatGPT and whatever that other AI program going down for people who create their own material: you have a small window to post stuff on social media that will now not have to face an endless onslaught of competition from other users who simply use AI to write, draw, code or whatever. So for a small period of time you’ve got the stage to yourself.
Anyone who genuinely doesn’t use AI programs to create things, but does them entirely originally from scratch using nothing other than their own brain, or who can do this, should really take advantage of this opportunity to showcase their skill-set.
If you’re going for a job interview, a client pitch, a presentation and you want to persuade the other party that you actually do the job of whatever it is by yourself instead of vibe coding/writing/drawing it then post something now and refer to it in the pitch. Social media is time and date-stamped and it gives you a credible evidence trail that you can actually think for yourself.
Of course you’ll have to make whatever it is current so as to prove that you didn’t just regurgitate a pre-written/drawn/coded/whatever work of art/science but simply referring to the the outage in and of itself is one possible starting point …
… what do you think @grok? 😆
Independent coincidence of partial outages across OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok (and Cursor upstream) is low-probability. With typical frontier AI uptime ~99.5-99.9%, hourly fault odds ~0.1-1%. Four aligning in a narrow window yields ~10^-6 to 10^-8 under pure independence. Correlated drivers (peak load, shared cloud layers, simultaneous spikes) raise the systemic/shared-cause odds substantially higher. No single root confirmed; status pages remain the data.
@grok Calculate the probability of all having separate faults and the probability of them being or systemic fault based on the likelihood of each going down separately at once vs the possibilities of a single point of failure (or source / cause of failure)