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[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Ronny Chieng had one message for Harvard grads during his commencement speech: destroy AI.

"Look, a lot of other respected graduation speakers in colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. I'm here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI...

"And I know, I know there's someone sitting out here right now who’s just like, 'Well, you know, what about the use of AI to pioneer breakthroughs in medicine and physics?' Well, first of all, shut up, nerd. I'm not talking about that. Obviously, if you're using it for that purpose, you're not the problem.

"I'm talking about the accumulation of cognitive debt due to excessive use of large language models according to a study by MIT published in 2025. That's right, MIT. MIT did that study. I guess you guys were too busy giving each other A's. Feel free to boo MIT, by the way, and AI, and yourselves, I guess.

"Look, this is actually good news, okay? This is why you guys shouldn't be scared of AI, because I think AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber. Have you heard how dumb people brag about how they use AI? They're always like, 'Hey, did you know that AI can now read my email, summarize it, and drop a response?' Yeah, you know who else can do that? Me. I can do that. You can't do that? How useless are you? You need artificial intelligence just to match me? I'm a dumb*ss who couldn't get into Harvard.

"From what I can see, getting an actual advantage from AI in the future will require a minimum escape velocity of intelligence that I'm assuming you guys from Harvard have. Everyone else who can't match that is just going to get dumber, and that's when you run up the score on them, assuming we still have a functioning society, of course.

"But to run up the score, you’re going to have to master your craft. And AI can be the fuel, but fuel is useless if you can't kindle the fire. For example, I recently used AI to use regression analysis to prove that a certain race of people are mathematically terrible at sports. I won't say which race, but thank you for not inviting Hasan Minhaj to Harvard. My point is, learning the fundamentals still matter. If I didn't know what a regression analysis was, and if I wasn't fundamentally racist, would I have been able to do any of that? No.

"Untalented people love bragging about using AI to help them draft their speeches and their scripts and their podcasts and their promo videos for UFC fights at the White House, which to be fair, even if they had filmed that for real, it would still have looked like AI. But what they're missing is this: the creating is the fun part. The best part of comedy writing is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self-regard from having accomplished a difficult thing. Why would I want AI to take that away from me?

"You know what problem I want AI to solve? I want the problem of AI making everything look like sh*t. I want AI to solve that problem. How about that?

"Or how about, can AI take away the part of comedy writing where my TV pilot gets passed on and when I ask if I can pitch it to someone else, the network says, 'We don't want it, but we also don't want anyone else to have it. We just want you to be sad.' Can AI solve that?

"I recently tried to introduce my friend to Buddhism through a book called Buddhism Made Simple. It was literally a book about Buddhism made simple. And instead of reading it, he used AI to summarize it in 10 seconds. Believe it or not, he didn't reach enlightenment. It turns out speed running Buddhism is completely missing the point.

"And I know this platitude is almost worthy of AI, but the reason shortcuts to skip to the end aren't always good is because the journey isn't just how we acquire skills. The journey is the point of all this. It is! It turns out maybe the real Harvard was the friends we made along the way.

"Look, I know this won't apply to everyone's industry, but I'm just saying whatever your chosen profession is, please don't let AI rob you of the fun part of it.

"I think your generation's upcoming battle won't be humans against AI. That's at least two months away. It's going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It's going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles."

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

[Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono]

Indonesian government opened up a museum in Nganjuk, Java Island, dedicated to Marsinah, a labor activist, who worked in a watch company and led a strike, killed in May 1993 but it's not clear who tortured and killed her https://t.co/o8l6Xr8K9X

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

At the age of 26, Laura Brennan passed away from #CervicalCancer, a vaccine-preventable disease.
"The HPV vaccine saves lives. It could have saved hers." Bernie and Larry narrate the heartbreaking loss of their daughter. 


This is their story 👇

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

The Pope is making exactly our point. LLMs “may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand.”

This is the core epistemic fault line.

Most AI evaluation is still based on one assumption: if a system statistically approximates human behaviour, then it is close to human intelligence.

But approximation is not intelligence.
Simulation is not understanding.

LLMs can produce the right answer without knowing why it is right. They can simulate empathy without feeling. They can imitate judgment without responsibility. They can generate coherent explanations without having a world to which those explanations are accountable.

Stop confusing behavioural similarity with cognitive equivalence.

Human understanding is embodied, affective, relational, motivational, and normative. It is not just the production of plausible text.

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Full paper in the first reply

[World Health Organization South-East Asia @WHOSEARO]

Quitting tobacco has immediate and long-term benefits for your health. Every step away from smoking helps your body heal.

⏱️ 20 minutes: Heart rate drops
🫁 12 hours: Carbon monoxide levels return to normal
❤️ 2 weeks–3 months: Lung function improves and heart attack risk begins to fall

It’s never too late to quit.

#CommitToQuit #TobaccoFree #QuitSmoking #NoTobacco

[Elizabeth @suasoptics]

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

[World Health Organization South-East Asia @WHOSEARO]

If diagnosed with #dengue, early care and proper treatment can save lives. 🩺

✔️ Seek medical help
✔️ Follow your doctor’s advice
✔️ Drink plenty of fluids
✔️ Rest and recover at home
✔️ Eat nutritious food
✔️ Get admitted to a hospital if advised

Seek immediate medical attention if symptoms worsen.

#FightDengue #HealthForAll

[JALA PRT @jalaprt]

Selamat Hari Raya Idul Adha 1447 H.
Semoga setiap doa, harapan, dan kebaikan membawa keberkahan untuk kita semua 🤍

#HariRayaIdulAdha #IdulAdha1447H #JALAPRT #BerbagiKebaikan

[Komnas Perempuan @KomnasPerempuan]

Mari bersama-sama merawat ingatan sebagai upaya kolektif menjaga ingatan publik dari berbagai bentuk penyangkalan sejarah.

Daftar melalui:
https://t.co/gSJTLkIDAf

#MariBicaraKebenaran dan tegakkan keadilan!

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

“If you aren’t resisting, you are assisting!”

[World Health Organization South-East Asia @WHOSEARO]

🦟 Mosquitoes can breed in even small amounts of stagnant water.

Prevent mosquito breeding by:

✅ Covering water tanks
✅ Emptying and scrubbing containers regularly
✅ Properly disposing of discarded items that collect water

#Dengue #PreventDengue #MosquitoControl #PublicHealth

[Ekspedisi Indonesia Baru @idbaruid]

PESTA BABI resmi tayang di Youtube. Teman-teman bisa menonton film Pesta Babi di kanal Youtube: https://t.co/DrvX7pvjwA

Jangan menonton bajakan, ya.

[Rima Isam Anabtawi 🪷 @rimaanabtawi]

@PaulNuki Vonnegut keeps resounding in my head: “We could have saved the earth (world), but we are, too, damned, cheap

[Ranu Dhillon @RanuDhillon]

@PaulNuki Trust is key yet hard to create quickly amid a crisis. In W African epidemic, we deployed field anthropologists to build relationships community by community - painstaking & difficult work which will be more complicated in recently displaced communities & areas of active conflict

[Ivan Lanin @ivanlanin]

Ungkapan "terima kasih" dalam berbagai bahasa daerah di Indonesia. Siapa tahu ada yang perlu untuk bagian akhir salindia (slide) presentasi.

Dibuat dengan https://t.co/1bzvbdzOEs dari daftar kata yang didapat dari warganet beberapa tahun yang lalu.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀.

-- Art 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://t.co/zLf5XQZEZ3

Let us condemn discrimination, violence & racism. Say #NoToRacism and #NoToHate.

[International Labour Organization @ilo]

From safety to equality, every worker’s rights are non-negotiable. 🙌

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