Sqrat

An independent thinker opining real feedback to current events. Every now and then I get the acorn. RIP Peanut (not affiliated)

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

Community notes for the win

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

Very cool Elon. Now please remit €67 million to the EU to purchase carbon credits to offset all this pollution.

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

Safety doesn’t build trust.

Only doing what you say, repeatedly, builds it.

There will never be trust in politics. Any assumption thereof misses the mark.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry.

Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come.

But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility.

This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems.

Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy.

Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. https://t.co/ugYWQ1MyRi

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

You are in the middle of an intensive, carefully orchestrated information warfare campaign designed to make you believe that the midterms are already lost and that there is no hope.

This only works if you choose to let it work.

Don't let it work.

Fight the power.

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

@Rasmussen_Poll Your survey sources require calibration

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

Politicizing world events for political points and elections is one thing

Losing site of risk is another entirely.

Distinguish between the two.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Republicans sent over 200 billion to Ukraine. We already live under socialism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is exactly what they will do.

After that, America will become a one-party state.

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

Jeffrey Toobin logging into a Zoom meeting

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

@ZaStocks I guess you forgot COVID-19 already

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

This.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

@DisrespectedThe Quite frankly, if you believe there is a living soul on the Republican side "protecting pedophiles" then you are an enormous idiot of epic proportions.

At least have the decency of not spreading your paranoid disinformation in the general voting populace.

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

A disgusting example of what resonates with the left wing

[ABC News @ABC]

House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections. https://t.co/GkHLU6T4xE

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

Comments turned off. The irony

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Kicking out the free press is what fragile authoritarians do. Not American presidents. https://t.co/u97xVVnZB0

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

@kaitlancollins What’s the difference between CNN and Chinese State Media?

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

FAFO

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Despite the court order overnight, CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters are still being blocked from entering the White House grounds today. Yet for Xi’s visit, members of the Chinese state media are present.

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

A job for The Boring Company

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

Facts

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Hearing about more companies using open source AI models to manage token costs - a bad sign for the frontier models, OpenAI in particular.

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

Not news. Just egos

[CBS News @CBSNews]

After journalists for CNN, Politico and MS NOW were denied access to the White House Thursday morning — even though a federal judge has temporarily blocked the president's ban of their outlets — the television network pool is not covering President Trump's movements and remarks. That means that, as of 9:58 a.m., there won't be network coverage of Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival and visit.

Media outlets asked for an immediate hearing on the White House ban after reporters were still barred despite ruling.

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

We cooked

[Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll]

Democrats Lead Strongly on Corruption Issue

The Democratic Party is more trusted than Republicans to deal with corruption, an issue most voters say will be important in their midterm vote.

Full story is in the comments...

[Sqrat @Ecureuil2024]

@oliverhenry Also no evidence of two way traffic

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Thanks, Peter! This is the beginning of the end for destructive wildfires. In a country that loses ~$500B every year to wildfires, even tiny gains make for huge savings, to say nothing of the incalculable value of lives and homes.