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Peace on earth

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Google is fighting every final boss at once:

OpenAI & Anthropic in models, Nvidia in chips, AWS & Microsoft in cloud, Meta in ads, Tesla in self-driving, Apple in phones and OS.

At $4.6T, it feels weirdly undervalued.

[io @iok]

@avidseries Ask Elon why he begged Epstein to be invited.

[io @iok]

ADHD reflections:
When your reward function is novelty, you get pretty good at pattern recognition.

[io @iok]

Intelligence is overrated. Kindness is underrated.

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[io @iok]

finally some common sense

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years.

"Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[io @iok]

Turkey is a full NATO ally with decades of troop deployments, one of the largest militaries in the alliance, and real combat casualties under NATO missions, while Israel is not a NATO member and has no comparable alliance burden-sharing record.

[The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post]

Opinion: Continuing to label Turkey as a reliable NATO ally is dangerous, as Ankara’s ambitions erode the very alliance structures that have long sustained Western security.
https://t.co/SRPGXOcZU6

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

We need to PROTECT TURKEY

[Jen Zhu @jenzhuscott]

I dread the day when @atmoio stops posting. 🫶🫶🫶

[io @iok]

I can't align 2 PMs in one meeting and brother aligned 7 nations just like that.

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.
Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days!

@realDonaldTrump
@JDVance
@SecRubio
@SteveWitkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
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@mb_ghalibaf
@araghchi

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

A country that has nuclear weapons is threatening to use its nuclear weapons on the country it won’t allow to have nuclear weapons because if they had nuclear weapons they would ‘use them.’

[Abraham Mendieta @abrahamendieta]

Cuando te sientas estupido, recuerda que María Corina Machado le regaló su Premio Nobel de la Paz al tipo que hoy amenaza con destruir con bombas nucleares una civilización entera…

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

I am Jewish.
I am an American.
I have family in Israel.
I support Israel’s right to exist.
I do NOT support this war.
I do not support Netanyahu.
I do not support Trump.
I do not support the Iranian regime.
I do not support Hamas.
I support the people of Israel.
I support the people of Iran.
I support the people of Gaza.
I support the people of America.
I support the people of all these nations.
I don’t support the leaders of any of these nations.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Joe Kent's wife Shannon was killed by an ISIS suicide bomb in Syria in 2019. She was a Navy cryptologist with JSOC, fluent in four languages, a mother of two. He buried her at Arlington.

Then he spent 7 years turning his grief into a career fighting the wars that took her.

This is a 20-year Green Beret. 11 combat tours. CIA paramilitary. The man Trump trusted to run the National Counterterrorism Center. He's not a pundit giving takes from a studio. He knows what a flag-draped coffin looks like up close.

170,000 people liked that post in two hours. 12 million saw it. But the number that matters is two. That's how many sons are growing up without their mother because of a war just like this one.

When the person with the most skin in the game tells you it's wrong, you listen.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.