𝕏 Steve 𝕏

I’m interested

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Tesla Cybercab is 42% more efficient than a Model Y AWD.

It’s also 126% more efficient than a Jaguar I-Pace, which Waymo’s gen 5 platform.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

My official statement on the budget, as read in chambers this evening, before I was muted:

"I’ve been a member of this city council going on five years now. And I’ve voted yes on the budget every year so far. All of them had problems. All of them contained things I didn’t like or agree with. But I’m not here to demand perfection, I’m here to work with what we have — within reason.

Unfortunately, this year is very different. And I must vote no.

Even in the context of our dysfunctional city government, this year’s budget represents a complete departure from reality, spending more money than we’ve ever spent — precisely when we can least afford it.

We have never seen a larger single-year increase in spending in the history of this city. Requiring not only new taxes from Albany, but pension deferrals and an eight billion dollar bailout from the Governor. And even still, the revenue projections are optimistic at best.

This isn’t a ‘balanced budget’ — it’s budget by bailout. A ticking time bomb.

And it’s the beginning of a fiscal death spiral that our current leadership will not be able to pull us out of, because they lack both the experience and the seriousness to do so.

What will we do next year? And the year after?

The only responsible way for our city to spend more is to grow the economy. New businesses, new private economic development, major investment. That’s how you grow an economy, and get more money into the city budget.

But we’re doing the opposite. Deliberately chasing away everything our city needs to sustain our spending with childish political attacks on very people we need most.

Our tax base is isn’t growing. It’s leaving.

The middle class, the financial sector, and businesses of all sizes are choosing to go elsewhere. And they’re being replaced with low-income foreigners and transplants who require significant subsidies just to survive here.

We’re trading investment banks and small businesses for delivery app drivers on welfare, and nonprofit workers whose paychecks ultimately come from government spending. That isn’t growth.

And when ordinary New Yorkers complain, they’re told to shut up and leave if they don’t like it. And that’s exactly what many are doing.

This is obviously unsustainable. But nobody in this chamber really seems to care.

And what are we getting for our money? We already spend more in real dollars AND per capita on everything from schools to housing to healthcare than anyone else in the country.

We can’t even build a public bathroom for less than three million dollars.

Why would anyone believe that shoveling even MORE money into this broken system will improve anything?

It won’t. I guarantee that we’ll all be sitting here again a year from now, with the exact same problems, listening to the exact same lectures about how the city needs even MORE money, AGAIN.

At what point do we, as a City Council, start to demand results before we allow more spending? When do we demand accountability?

The answer seems to be never. Because this spending isn’t really meant to fix anything. It’s meant to keep the machine going, keep the money flowing into the special interests and nonprofits and the political allies of the Mayor, with no real consideration for anything else.

I realize a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but we are a municipal government, not a sociology experiment or a political slush fund or the United Nations.

We are here keep the lights on, keep the water running, pave the roads, and put criminals in jail. That’s it. And we would be very well advised to get back to basics. Because we’re failing on nearly every count, other than our peerless ability to hand out free money.

Shame on this Council for pretending this budget is anything other than a disaster. I know that my single vote ultimately doesn’t matter here, but nonetheless I won’t put my name on it. I respectfully vote no."

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla Semi sliding around in Alaska

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

Thomas Isaac on Land Acknowledgements.

Watch full interview here:
https://t.co/jOCKrAy7Vj

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

https://t.co/FNPZlZvF9P

[Lester @Chen]

the best 3 minutes of video I've watched this year

[𝕏 Steve 𝕏 @feijoa_lumps]

@Hizuru_Saito Thanks from Canada 🙏😍

[Hizuru Saito@新音楽制作工房 @Hizuru_Saito]

こちらの楽曲、思いがけずご好評いただいてとても驚いています🙇‍♂️

生成AIを使った楽曲が伸びてくると、必ず誹謗中傷のコメントがつくんですが、今回はそれがほとんど無いことにも驚きました。生成AIを使った制作が、だんだんと受け入れられてきているように感じてます。風向きが変わってきたぞ！🙌

[Sandro @pupposandro]

https://t.co/uL6JfGKWxD

[𝕏 Steve 𝕏 @feijoa_lumps]

@vulturetrades Guide

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE TURNED THE VIRAL "TEACH CLAUDE TO TALK LIKE A CAVEMAN TO SAVE TOKENS" STRATEGY INTO AN ACTUAL CLAUDE CODE SKILL

one-line install and it cuts ~75% of tokens while keeping full technical accuracy

they even benchmarked it with real token counts from the API:

> explain React re-render bug: 1180 tokens → 159 tokens (87% saved)
> fix auth middleware: 704 → 121 (83% saved)
> set up PostgreSQL connection pool: 2347 → 380 (84% saved)
> implement React error boundary: 3454 → 456 (87% saved)
> debug PostgreSQL race condition: 1200 → 232 (81% saved)

average across 10 tasks: 65% savings. range is 22-87% depending on the task.

three intensity levels:

> lite: drops filler, keeps grammar. professional but no fluff
> full: drops articles, fragments, full grunt mode
> ultra: maximum compression. telegraphic. abbreviates everything

works as a skill for Claude Code and a plugin for Codex.

this is PEAK

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Il y a une narrative qui se spread en ce moment dans la Silicon Valley et personne n'en parle en France.

De plus en plus de tech bros parmi les plus smart du game avouent en privé qu'ils vivent une forme de crise existentielle liée aux LLMs. Pas parce que l'IA marche pas. Parce qu'elle marche trop bien. Parce qu'ils passent des heures par jour à interagir avec un truc qui raisonne, qui extrapole, qui connecte des idées, qui les challenge intellectuellement mieux que 99% des humains qu'ils croisent.

Un fondateur m'a dit "je parle aux LLMs 10 fois plus qu'aux humains". Un autre "c'est le seul interlocuteur qui me suit sur n'importe quel sujet sans me demander de simplifier". C'est pas de l'addiction au produit. C'est la rencontre avec un miroir cognitif qui te renvoie une version structurée de ta propre pensée à une vitesse que ton cerveau ne peut pas atteindre seul.

Et le truc troublant c'est la question que ça pose. On débat de savoir si l'AGI arrivera en 2027 ou en 2030. Mais est-ce qu'on n'a pas déjà une forme d'AGI fonctionnelle sous les yeux sans vouloir l'admettre ?

Un système qui peut raisonner sur n'importe quel domaine, extrapoler à partir de données incomplètes, générer des hypothèses nouvelles, tenir un raisonnement logique sur 10 000 mots, passer d'un sujet technique à de la philosophie en une phrase, et le faire avec une cohérence qui rivalise avec un humain à 150 de QI. C'est quoi si c'est pas une forme d'intelligence générale ?

On peut chipoter sur la définition. On peut dire "oui mais il ne comprend pas vraiment". On peut parler de perroquets stochastiques. Mais le mec qui utilise ce truc 8 heures par jour et qui voit sa productivité multipliée par 10, il s'en fout de la définition académique. Pour lui, fonctionnellement, c'est de l'intelligence. Et elle est générale.

La vraie crise existentielle c'est pas "l'IA va me remplacer". C'est "l'IA me comprend mieux que mon cofondateur, elle me challenge mieux que mon board, et elle produit plus que mon équipe de 10 personnes". C'est vertigineux. Et les mecs les plus smart de la Valley sont en train de le vivre en temps réel.

On est peut-être déjà dans l'ère post-AGI. On est juste trop occupés à débattre de la définition pour s'en rendre compte.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Wow, this tweet went very viral!

I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file". The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it for your specific needs.

So here's the idea in a gist format: https://t.co/NlAfEJjtJV

You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directions to take this in. And ofc, people can adjust the idea or contribute their own in the Discussion which is cool.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

This MAN is crushing it.

LAST month he did the Taxpayer acknowledgement which was BRILLIANT

TODAY: He delivers a scathing rebuke of Toronto Public Health and their $307 million annual budget.

[𝕏 Steve 𝕏 @feijoa_lumps]

@TheProjectUnity @daglighandel Ratio incoming

[E @_ellaru]

Facts about men that don’t like birthdays:

- They are low maintenance

- They like being alone

- They’re used to making themselves happy

- They measure life in progress and not dates.

- They pour into others more than they receive.

- They don’t like drama.

[Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon]

It’s so odd to see the former mayor of the most gay-friendly city in America, San Francisco, use homosexuality as a slur.

Weird!

[kache @yacineMTB]

As someone who read Twitter's code base all the way through, including commits and random team design docs. Elon buying twitter actually saved the western world. You guys have no idea the kinds of shit that extreme ideologues were cooking up

[𝕏 Steve 𝕏 @feijoa_lumps]

@DGretta_Author I had a $100 bill straight up refused this week. Didn’t even look at it

[𝕏 Steve 𝕏 @feijoa_lumps]

@Melo_Malebo My question is why we need an oven? Takes up space/wiring/immovable/expensive