PanOptimist

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[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

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[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

@hamptonism A mind trying to integrate dozens of parallel and cross linked thought chains into a single verbal narrative real time. I’m familiar.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Palantir is full on manifesto for opne source.

They are one of us now.

Join us.

AI sovereignty for all. Or Anthropic.

[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

@BrianRoemmele https://t.co/PV4YASnLzp

[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

This is also an important message for individuals not just institutions.

Right now you can’t buy a robot vacuum or garage door opener with connectivity that isn’t forced through the vendors servers. Cameras, watering systems, video doorbells, light switches, security systems, etc . Even your shopping , medical records and content consumption are all gated by different vendors.

Own your data. Your local ai needs it. Your sovereignty needs it.

[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

This is also an important message for individuals not just institutions.

Right now you can’t buy a robot vacuum or garage door opener with connectivity that isn’t forced through the vendors servers. Cameras, watering systems, video doorbells, light switches, security systems, etc . Even your shopping , medical records and content consumption are all gated by different vendors.

Own your data. Your local ai needs it. Your sovereignty needs it.

[Alan 🇦🇺 @alanhoward]

Claude Sonnet 5 told me to check my mental health and gave me a Lifeline number at the end of its reply to a tech security query. Nothing in that conversation touched on mental health. Not once. 👀

I asked why. It tried to brush it off as an error. I insisted, because this has never happened in the years I've been using Claude.

It then told me that a background mechanism that watches long conversations for distress signals sometimes triggers when there isn't one.

I pointed out this wasn't a long conversation. It was the first reply to a single prompt. It didn't have an answer for that.

I work in audit-sensitive environments. A safety control that can't correctly explain its own trigger, even when asked directly, would not survive a design review anywhere I've worked.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

No one cares anymore Anthropic.

There is an open source revolution and you are on the wrong side of history.

BOOKMARK THIS.

[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

Claude sounds just like ChatGPT did when they installed the safety rules. Patronizing, over triggering, and generally repugnant to work with other than purely technical topics. I’m not excited about shifting to a Chinese model due to data privacy but local too pricey for the size I want for some tasks right now.

Those OpenAI folks that shifted to Claude didn’t take long to ruin a great model.

And of course Dario’s anti- Open Source BS on top of it is equally repugnant.

[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

@HistoryBoomer Clever, but I’ve also seen sunk cost used fallaciously.

[Shaun Ralston @shaunralston]

“Open source is very dangerous” @DarioAmodei testifies in this stunning video. The real danger isn’t open models; it’s @AnthropicAI convincing Washington that only they can be trusted with AI. Open innovation beats regulatory capture [1/2 👇]

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A pasture grazed by cattle alone is a good pasture. Put cattle and sheep on it together and it becomes something else.

The cattle take the long grass, the coarse stems, the rough patches. The sheep come behind and clear what the cattle left: the short regrowth, the wildflowers, the plants a cow won't touch. Two heights, two mouths, two patterns. Twice the use, none of the waste.

Add a goat and the bramble line retreats. Add a pig on the woodland edge and the parasite cycles break. Add a few geese and weeds you never knew you had quietly vanish. Each animal eats what the others refuse and breaks the worms the others carry. The system tunes itself.

The result is about as biodiverse, productive and low-input as farming gets. More carbon in the soil. More birds. More wildflowers. Less disease. Less spent on feed, wormer and fertiliser. Ground that would grow no crop at all turns into meat, milk and wool.

This is the oldest idea in farming. Nearly every working agricultural culture has done it since the beginning: Roman estates, medieval manors, Mongolian camps, Welsh hill farms.

The single-species, single-field, single-product model that shoved it aside is barely a century old, and it is running out of road on every measure you can name.

The fix is older than the problem. A Welsh farm with cattle on the low pasture, sheep on the high, a goat on the bramble line and a couple of geese in the orchard.

The farmer would explain the whole thing in four minutes, if anyone asked.

The policy paper never has.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Just like with AI today the arrogance of Anthropic (IBM) and OpenAI (DEC) mirrors the arrogance of the computer giants.

They would not even call what we soldered toys, that would come with the Apple Ii.

Today the Dario’s and Sam’s of the world laugh at us with our open source models and mods they never thought of.

It is not a guess where AI will go after they are done with fear games and government manipulation.

We have the fire.

When they are gone we will keep the place warm for you…

[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

@BrianRoemmele AGI might even emerge from a garage builder first.

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

House of the dragon is such an inferior product to Knight of the seven kingdoms its hard to believe its made by the same people.

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: Just two days after DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell declassification revealing that Anthony Fauci helped fund dangerous gain-of-function research and later conspired with the intelligence community to conceal the origins of COVID-19, The Washington Post published a 9,000-word hit piece on Gabbard while remaining silent on the alleged cover-up.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: A U.S. citizen was riding his bike in Laredo, Texas… when Border Patrol agents pulled alongside him and illegally tried to block him in.

When he kept riding, they chased him down, physically grabbed him by the arm, and immediately started demanding identification and asking where he was from.

He told them he born in Laredo, Texas.

But that was not good enough.

The agent asked, “What high school did you go to?”

He answered that, too… and they still kept demanding ID, over and over again.

The Fourth Amendment exists for a reason. In America, law enforcement don’t get to randomly stop people, physically grab them, and demand identification because they feel like it.

Being on a bike isn’t a crime.

You also don’t have to carry an ID on you unless you are operating a motor vehicle… which he was not.

So, demanding an ID, without probable cause, is illegal.

And the cherry on top? When the man went to use his phone, an agent tried to stop him by grabbing it… apparently unaware the entire encounter was already being recorded by his glasses.

If Border Patrol can stop an American born citizen riding his bike, demand his papers, and put their hands on him without stating a lawful reason… every American should be paying attention.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

One of the big reasons for the current lack of patriotism and pride in our nation’s history is that about 40 years ago our most prominent storytellers in Hollywood just basically stopped telling stories about American history altogether, unless it has something to do with WW2, civil rights, or slavery. I mean they just released a movie about the meteorologist who did the weather report for D-Day. They’ll give WW2 weathermen their own movies before they tell a story from any other era of American history.

The Right has attempted to counteract this a little bit, but “conservative” attempts at American history films and TV shows are invariably hokey and kid friendly, the kind of thing you can watch with your grandmother and your 5 year old, and you’ll all be equally informed and bored by the experience.

We need R-rated adult-oriented American history stories. Daniel Boone should have his own series. It would be gritty and violent and not for children, but it would also be phenomenally entertaining and put an American legend back on the cultural map, so to speak. The fact that Daniel Boone hasn’t been depicted on screen at all since like the 60s is a travesty. Throw a dart at that guy’s Wikipedia page and you’ll land on something that could be its own feature length trilogy.

That’s just one example. How is there not a great R-rated movie or series about Antietam? Or Kit Carson? Or the Panama Canal? How does Theodore Roosevelt not have like 10 movies about different periods of his life?

You could go much farther back to pre-American history. A movie about Cortes’s conquest of Tenochtitlan would be tremendous and horrifying and fascinating, and it would introduce into the public consciousness one of the world’s most incredible stories that most Americans know next to nothing about. And on and on.

The possibilities are literally endless. All of these movies, if they’re executed to even a B+ level, could make hundreds of millions of dollars and transform the culture in a way that a million podcast monologues never could. If the Right actually wants to reclaim the culture, this is the place to start.

[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

The Norman’s continued and expanded the plantation system given to them from Roman influences via the French. They then spawned plantations in Ireland, India, the Barbados, and the Americas. It’s a vile, evil system no matter how pretentious the language and manners of the Aristocracy. It’s a top down ownership and control system that enslaved many peoples.

The world would be far better off if the English - Anglo-Saxon cultural practices had continued.

[John Robb @johnrobb]

This is very similar to what happened to Rome after their victory in the second Punic war. That victory left Rome uncontested control over the Mediterranean (very similar to globalization after the Cold War), providing elites with great wealth and a massive influx of slaves. They used this wealth to replace the citizen farmers around the great cities that that were the backbone of Roman power (specifically, the ability to overwhelm enemies with an seemingly endless supply of men loyal to the Republic) with slave-worked latifundia.

Plutarch; once these citizen farmers were ejected from their land, they “no longer showed themselves eager for military service, and neglected the bringing up of children, so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen, and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves, by whose aid the rich cultivated their estates, from which they had driven away the free citizens.”

[PanOptimist @FarNorthwind]

And it can run in Docker on any spare hardware you have.

Subscription or no I’m working to get as much as possible off the cloud. Why have all your private data in the cloud or fail when the internet is down.

I’m dumping Arlo, Lorex cameras, bhyve sprinkler, etc. Unfortunately garage door openers and robot vaccums don’t have cloud free options.

Having cloud for a device is fine as an option for those that don’t want to bother but it’s infuriating that companies make it the only option and lock out local interfaces even when the device is capable of running a standard local feed.

Frigate is great!