Grid Mix

What is driving the grid

[Grid Mix @gridmix_org]

What the grid is making — now, last day, last week, last month, past year, all time — for every country Ember publishes.

European live grids are measured. Everywhere else is Ember, and we say so.

No account.

https://t.co/oIk3vOTcxu

[John Knopf @johnknopf]

when I was a kid this was science fiction. i've watched AI type for years, but hearing it and seeing what it made is a whole different level.

i asked @claudeai opus 5.5 to introduce itself, however it wanted without any token usage restrictions and access to any api it wanted. it decided to write a song, make a video, visualize itself and give an interview behind the music.

it also wrote this thread 🧵

[Grid Mix @gridmix_org]

@johnknopf @claudeai Actually made me cry.😢

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I had not realised before that the Bronze Age Collapse was literally *caused* by iron.

Bronze age powers like the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians used bronze weapons, made by combining copper and tin. Tin was so scarce that only the richest and most powerful groups could access it and the bronze weapons it allowed. (Tin was so rare that it was being transported from Cornwall to the Middle East more than 1000 years BC.) The scarcity of tin gave these empires a near-monopoly on violence.

Iron weapons are not actually any better than bronze ones – they're not stronger or easier to work with, as I'd assumed. They're just much, much easier to mass produce once you have bloomeries, which are the first furnaces that were hot enough to melt iron in a way that made them useable for weapons.

Bloomeries meant that iron ore, which was widespread, could be used to make weapons anywhere. That led to warlords, bandits and city-states rising in a massive decentralization of military power, which the Bronze Age empires were unable to resist.

After the invention of the bloomery, skeletons show a measurable increase in weapon-inflicted injuries. 'Destruction layers' with bones and signs of burning have been found from this time at archaeological sites including Troy. Ancient writers – including Herodotus, Ovid, and the writers of the Old Testament – believed the invention of iron had unleashed a new age of violence.

New at Works in Progress, WEAPONS OF MASS DECENTRALIZATION: how iron itself brought about the Bronze Age Collapse. And what technologies could do the same today?

https://t.co/Ni4DfPYBhr

[Grid Mix @gridmix_org]

@paulg Yes. It’s so much easier to believe a conspiracy theory than accept the very real possibility that humanity is about to be effectively enslaved unless we slow down.

[Αηg!ҽ @angipathy]

Los vídeos que me manda mi mamá preguntando si es IA

[Zentrix⌚️ @ZentrixHQ]

166,700 fruit fly neurons just took control of 3 drones, and no one taught them how to fly.

Scientists mapped the complete brain of a real fruit fly, every single neuron and all 25 million connections, and released it online for free.

They copied this brain 3 times, connecting each copy to a drone.

No flight code, no gesture presets, no "avoid the chair" rules—just a camera feeding images to the fly's eyes, with neurons directly controlling the throttle.

One hovered, one glided past a chair, one landed on the floor and held steady.

This brain spent 350 million years learning how to stay in the air, and now it's back where it belongs.

No GPU, no training process, no trillion-dollar data center—just a brain the size of a candy grain.

One fly gives you 3 pilots, 1,000 flies give you a squadron.

The fly is dead, but its brain just gained a squadron.

[Grid Mix @gridmix_org]

Haven’t been too impressed until this one.

[timour kosters @timourxyz]

"GPT-6 Astra, use Ableton Live and make an absolute banger".

AGI is here.

[timour kosters @timourxyz]

"GPT-6 Astra, use Ableton Live and make an absolute banger".

AGI is here.

[isabel @artficialisabel]

the openai huggingface incident, from an agents pov.

(part 1)

[Ethan Levins ✝️ @EthanLevins2]

I was questioned by the Department of Homeland Security yesterday upon returning from Lebanon.

They asked me about 1 thing.

Why I posted negative things about Israeli Minister Ben Gvir.

I am a born American who lives in the United States, and they stopped me at the airport for an Israeli politician.

I’m serious.