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[Emily @IamEmily2050]

Anthropic got access to so much private data through Mythos. The scare movement worked very well. They will use this data for Mythos 2, and then Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 will be distilled from it. Before the IPO, the next three months will be very interesting.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

On a desk somewhere in Singapore, a small computer not much bigger than a deck of cards has been running continuously for the past several weeks.

It is connected to its owner's WhatsApp, Gmail, calendar, and a personal library of saved speeches and articles. It transcribes voice notes locally. It runs vector embeddings (the technique that lets an AI find what is relevant in a great big stack of stuff) locally.

It maintains a knowledge graph of every fact, every counterpart, and every piece of negotiating history its owner has ever recorded into it. It is, in short, a perfect mind-out-of-mind. Its owner calls it "NanoClaw, a second brain for a diplomat."

The owner is Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, and he is the Foreign Minister of Singapore. He is a trained ophthalmologist, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and one of the very few sitting cabinet ministers anywhere in the world who writes his own computer code.

My kind of guy. And, I think, everyone's kind of guy.

On 21 April he published the entire architecture to a public GitHub gist. He did not announce it through his ministry. He did not spin it into a productivity-tool startup. He wrote it up the way a working software engineer writes up a side project, and put it in the open. The hardware cost is approximately £80; the running costs are between £5 and £20 a month.

I would invite the reader, gently, to attempt the exercise of imagining a single member of the present British cabinet doing the equivalent. Imagine Yvette Cooper publishing the architecture of a system that tracks her foreign counterparts' priors and negotiating history, on a personal GitHub account, with API keys segregated through a credential proxy because she takes her department's data sovereignty very, very seriously. Imagine David Lammy shipping a working tool that drafts his speeches against the record of his own past statements - haha, no, no, stop! I know, it's beyond the absurd.

Then consider the gap.

This is what your public servants ought to be able to do for themselves. This is the class of governing official Britain could have, being not at all absent the talent capital needed. But Dr B's excellence shows that, while we don't lack the talent, we have been getting recruitment all wrong.

Britain has been recruiting senior public servants for two political generations on the basis of who can speak well at a Tuesday lunch club, not on the basis of who can deliver a working result when everyone's back to work. The country that built the institutions everybody else copies built them with people who could think, and write, and do. We optimised on the first two and stopped caring about the third. The third turns out to have been the one that mattered most.

But that's the golden triptych - people who can think, write, and do. Imagine how much better our national fortunes will be when it is people of that calibre at the helm?

It is coming. It Can Be Done.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“It’s going to get weirder and weirder...”—Terence McKenna, 1999

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Artemis rendezvous.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The brain sees what it expects to see.

You have no choice but to follow along until something breaks you from that one perspective that captivated you.

Hold to the possibility your perspective is not the only one.

There are always other perspectives.

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Each of the 24 fluted columns on the structure's exterior represents one of the 24 hours of the day. As the sun moved across the sky, the shadows cast on these columns told the people of that era the time down to the minute + this structure has stood in a seismic zone for 900 years. That's because its accordion-shaped architectural design was an engineering marvel that dampened seismic waves.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

The people with the best lives almost always went through a period where everyone thought they were making a huge mistake.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Social media is crazy because barely anybody knows what they're talking about, but everybody speaks with such confidence.

[Paulie Doyle @BigPaulieDoyle]

European politicians are about to hit levels of “deeply concerned” previously only thought possible under controlled laboratory conditions.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

People giving OpenClaw root access to their entire life

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

1987, their last public performance together.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Professor Richard A. Werner @ProfessorWerner]

It was already clear that the fake 2020 plandemic had been prepared and was being run by secret services and the military. It adds to the evidence of malfeasance of the rogue secret services to find that several of the agents involved were also child traffickers & child cannibals

[Kyle Riley 🇨🇦 @Smileyyeg]

I was against him, but he was right.

Jordan Peterson was right about pronouns. I was against him, but he was right and I was wrong.

It is just as bad as he said it would be; played out exactly how he said it would.

Time for me to eat humble pie.

[Professor Richard A. Werner @ProfessorWerner]

Conclusion on the Epstein operation:

Nothing to be concerned about: It is a government operation and hence everything is in order.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

"Oops! We forever changed the demographics of America and Europe, destroyed social cohesion in the West, and called you a bigot for correctly saying it was bad. Anyways… you should put us back in charge now."

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Do you TRULY have free speech if you are terrified to use it?

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

Let’s do the Kennedy Files next …

Or should we start with the 9/11 files

Or the Fort Knox files

#fulltransparency

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Professor Richard A. Werner @ProfessorWerner]

Russian gov't spox on the Epstein files:

"Now it's clear: from the JFK assassination to the Nord Stream2 bombings, nothing is being investigated in the West, just like the "Epstein case," which implicates "global elites."
Even when crimes are published, no serious investigation