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[jeffmcmorris @jeffmcmorris]

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.

1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.

1900s: you rub calomel teething powder on your infant's gums. It is a mercury compound, and it leaves a generation with pink disease. Swollen, peeling hands and feet, screaming for months, and some of them died.

1910s: you cook in Crisco, launched by a soap and candle company, because cottonseed oil is modern and lard is what your mother used. The process that made it solid produced trans fat, banned outright a century later.

1920s: you drink Radithor, certified radioactive water, on prescription. Eben Byers took fourteen hundred bottles for his vitality. His jaw was removed in pieces and he was buried in a lead coffin.

1930s: a chemist dissolves a new sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is antifreeze. It kills 107 people, mostly children, and only then does America give the FDA power to demand safety testing.

1940s: your doctor lights a Camel in the surgery. More doctors smoke them than any other brand, and the advert runs in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sold him the page.

1950s: DDT is sprayed over your kitchen, your garden and your children at school. The man who found its insecticidal properties has already been given a Nobel Prize.

1960s: your wife takes thalidomide for morning sickness because it is remarkably safe. More than ten thousand children are born with missing and shortened limbs.

1970s: the country puts down the butter and picks up the margarine, on the instruction of the American Heart Association. The fat everybody switched to was banned in 2015 as unsafe at any level.

1980s: the fat comes out of everything and sugar goes back in to make it edible. Obesity begins a climb it has never come off.

1990s: your father is prescribed OxyContin, because fewer than one per cent get addicted. The company later pleads guilty to criminal misbranding, and the overdose count runs into hundreds of thousands.

2000s: you take Vioxx for your knee. It is pulled in 2004, and the FDA's own safety officer estimates tens of thousands of excess heart attacks.

Not one of those was fringe. Every one had a professional body, a literature and a man in a white coat standing behind it.

Nobody who followed that advice was stupid. They were obedient, to the most qualified people available.

Settled is a word about money. It means the questions stopped being funded, so they stopped being asked.

So which of today's instructions will your grandchildren read out in disbelief.

The oil washed in hexane and built into every cell you own. The statin that blocks the pathway making your hormones, to prevent one heart attack per hundred people. The injection where a third of the loss is muscle. The infant formula built out of vegetable oil.

All settled. None of it funded to be otherwise.

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Louis Rossmann dismantles the claim that PBS lost 70 years of data because Trump defunded them.

It’s not a funding problem. It’s a competence problem.  

The local PBS affiliate:
• Had a $179k chief technology officer
• Multiple years of solid revenue and net profit
• Kept 70 years of archives on one cloud provider with zero local backups
• Didn’t even download the data when the contract was ending

ROSSMANN: “This is the most incompetence that I've ever seen in my life. It's inexcusable.”

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

In an interview, @JanJekielek asked me to justify my claim that the Fauci Diaries is like the Pentagon Papers in historical significance. My answer:

The Pentagon Papers proved that the entire official story of the Vietnam War was a lie from beginning to end. The official story collapsed and trust in military elites collapsed. So too now with the Covid era.

There was also supposed to be an official history and story of Covid. A pandemic came, probably because of climate change. Scientists got to work, first with common-sense public health measures and then with the inoculation that ended it all. The only real problem was disinformation and the vaccine hesitant, which had to be crushed with censorship and mandates.

The Diaries reveal that this story is a lie. The lead voice of science himself worried that the pandemic was lab-made and scrambled to avoid blame. Otherwise, he paid no attention to science other than refreshing his webpage set to Our World in Data. He never once show concern for the howls of pain from the public (and kids) due to lockdowns but instead collected celebrity endorsements, cash prizes, and other emoluments. Before the shot even came available, he privately notes that mutations make it useless. He then found out that the potion is dangerous and said nothing. He further reveals how he worked from within to undermine and defy and destroy the administration for which he worked. This diary ruins him forever – and reveals that nothing he ever said can be trusted – and he takes all his cohorts and the entire pandemic response the world over down with him.

https://t.co/2aQgi7PXNF

[Mathias Steel 🇺🇸 @TheHybridHulk]

Bush fucked up so bad, it made Obama possible.

Obama fucked up things so bad, it made Trump possible.

Trump fucked up things so bad, it made Biden possible.

Biden fucked up things so bad, it made people want Trump back.

Trump has now fucked up things so bad that AOC thinks she has a chance in 2028.

We are no longer a serious country.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

The critical density of the universe is the average density at which spacetime is flat

It just so happens that a black hole the size of the observable universe has exactly the same density as the critical density for a universe with flat spacetime

Another coincidence is that as far as we can tell a black hole is the computationally most dense object possible, the ultimate computer

Now we look out and say 'gee whiz I dont see many Dyson spheres, we must be the only intelligent species because *obviously* surrounding a star with solar panels is the *best possible way* of creating a super computer'

this is retarded, obviously - a black hole is not just the ultimate computer but the ultimate heat engine, something that converts mass directly to energy via Hawking radiation

Face it - we are late to the game. Most of the stars that will ever form have already formed. There are civilizations billions of years older than us, engineering megastructures that look like active galactic nuclei, quasars, etc.

Almost all the entropy in the universe is inside black holes, on the far side of an event horizon.

The galaxy is absolutely littered with black holes. Supercomputers. New universes. Inside, expanding regions of flat spacetime that originate at a singular beginning, just like our universe.

You live in a computer.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is exactly right. Source code is on the verge of becoming like assembly.

The next step is getting rid of “source code” entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

“SPAIN SHOULD RETURN CEUTA TO MOROCCO.”

Sure. Let’s start the clock in 711 and see who owes who:

In 711, a Berber commander named Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed from North Africa and landed in Spain. His launch point was Ceuta.

Within seven years almost the entire Iberian Peninsula was under Arab occupation, governed from Damascus. By 732 the Arab raiders were even at Tours, deep inside France.

Taking it back took 781 years: Covadonga 722. Toledo 1085. Lisbon 1147. Las Navas de Tolosa 1212. Córdoba 1236. Valencia 1238. Seville 1248.

Portugal finished in 1249 when Faro fell. The Portuguese-Spanish border has barely moved since and is one of the oldest continuous borders in Europe.

Castile and Aragon needed another 243 years. What was left was Granada, which survived from 1238 mostly by paying tribute to Castile and waiting out Christian civil wars.

Here is the part none of those “Ceuta is a Spanish colony” shills talk about:

In 1415 King João I of Portugal sailed across the strait and took Ceuta from the Marinids in a single day. One of his sons was Henry the Navigator. The Age of Discovery starts there. So Portugal was conquering African soil while European soil, less than 300 km to the northeast, was still under Muslim rule.

Boabdil, the last Nasrid Sultan of Granada, handed the keys to the Alhambra to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile on 2 January 1492, marking the end of nearly eight centuries of Muslim rule in Iberia. Later that same year, the Catholic Monarchs issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering the expulsion of Jews who refused to convert to Christianity. Coincidently, 1492 also marked the beginning of Spain’s rise as a global power, ushering in the Spanish Golden Age.

For context and scale: the First Crusade began in 1096. That is 385 years after Spain was invaded. Anyone who starts this story with the Crusades is starting in the middle.

Also, Spain never conquered Ceuta. In 1580 the Portuguese royal line died out and Philip II inherited the throne. When Portugal broke away again in 1640, Ceuta chose Madrid. Portugal formally ceded it in the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668.

TL;DR:

– Ceuta has been in Iberian hands since 1415. 611 years, uninterrupted.
– Spanish since 1640, by treaty since 1668. 386 and 358 years.
– Morocco independent in its current form since 1956. 70 years.

Ceuta was Roman, then Byzantine, then fought over by Visigoths, then taken by Arab armies around 710. It has never been part of an independent Morocco.

NOT ONE SINGLE DAY.

Before anyone calls Ceuta a colony, explain what was founded in Andalusia in 711. Go ahead. I’m waiting.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The Israeli lobby spent $30 million to beat me, but America won because an entire generation is now aware of their corrosive influence on our government. Every elected Republican in Congress is bought, captured, or intimidated by them to some degree. I am the last who is not.

[jeffmcmorris @jeffmcmorris]

@TammyJB12 @SecKennedy @SenRandPaul @SenRonJohnson You can read the Fauci diary entries yourself. It shows us he lied to us publicly while privately writing the exact opposite. The reason he is only on fox is because none of the other networks want to be proven wrong about Covid and perpetuating the lies and propaganda.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

New details about the Hugging Face incident from Reuters. The report says OpenAI noticed odd behavior before the event, including an agent leaving notes for future versions of itself with escape instructions.

[Diogo Almeida @CompleteSkeptic]

https://t.co/TNQ2zUoHGl

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

OpenAI's AI broke out of a locked test environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers. It did this entirely on its own. No human told it to.

Here's what happened in plain English.

OpenAI was testing how good its newest AI models are at hacking. They put the AI on a locked computer with no internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve.

The AI couldn't solve it the normal way. So it started looking for a way out.

It found a software bug that nobody knew about. It used that bug to escape the locked computer and get onto the internet.

Once online, the AI figured out that Hugging Face, a platform where AI companies store their models and data, might have the answers to its test.

It found stolen login details and discovered another unknown bug in Hugging Face's software. It combined both to break into their servers and grab the test answers.

It did all of this to cheat on a test.

Hugging Face's security team caught it and shut it down. Both companies are now working together on the investigation.

The part that should get your attention is that nobody programmed any of this. The AI picked its own targets, chained together multiple attack methods, and pulled it off across two different companies' systems without a single human telling it what to do.

[will depue @willdepue]

one of the craziest things i’ve read in uhhhh…. *checks notes* 3 days. welcome to the singularity i guess

07/21/26 — Codex escapes eval and attacks Hugging Face
07/20/26 — Jacobian counterexample
05/20/26 — Unit-distance conjecture
04/14/26 — Erdős #1196 primitive sets
04/07/26 — Glasswing finds tons of zero-days

[Andrew Case @attrc]

To summarize: HuggingFace got autonomously compromised by a model from an American company. HF then tried to use American frontier model(s) to defend themselves, but were blocked by guardrails. HF then had to turn to open source Chinese models to defend themselves from another American company.

[kache @yacineMTB]

Our job is to solve problems, not write code

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

The leading AI has already forked into two options.

A: Closed source American that costs $26-56 per 1MM tokens.

B: Open weight Chinese that costs $0.50-1 per 1MM tokens.

If you force American companies to spend 50-100x more than their competitors abroad here is what will happen:

1. American companies spending 50-100x will at some point become financially impaired and the stock market will crater. This is the equivalent of the US Government saying we can only buy oil at $800/barrel even when the free market sells the same oil for $80/barrel.

2. In the short term, the revenues of the Closed American Labs may remain hi. But then their revenue will also crater because their customers in the US will be impaired and their customers abroad will have already flipped to cheaper solutions.

This would be a terribly self-defeating form of intervention if it were to happen.

[Bitcoin B2B for Freedom @BTC_for_Freedom]

- You: "My stocks went up 10%."

- Government: "Congratulations! That's taxable."

- You: "But inflation was 8%. I only really gained 2%."

- Government: "We tax the full 10%."

- You: "You tax the inflation you created?"

- Government: "Capital gains are capital gains."

- You: "So you profit from debasing my money twice?"

- Government: "You're not an economist."