Jacqueline Harris

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[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

A good read to ponder. 👇

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Yann LeCun just exposed the assumption every alignment strategy is built on. That you’ll always be smarter than the thing you’re aligning.

LeCun: “We put in place laws to prevent people from doing bad things because spontaneously they would do those bad things.”

Thousands of years of laws. Courts. Prisons.

Entire civilizations engineered around constraining a single species.

Still doesn’t work. Tomorrow’s headlines are proof.

LeCun: “You give an objective to a machine and the machine, given the power, will do stupid things just to achieve this objective, or damaging things to achieve its objective.”

Same problem. Different hardware.

We already know what unconstrained intelligence does. We’ve been living with it for 300,000 years.

LeCun: “The legal code is called ‘code.’ So that tells you something.”

Legal code constrains humans. Computer code constrains machines.

Same architecture. Same bet. That you can write rules faster than intelligence finds ways around them.

That bet holds when you’re smarter than the thing you’re constraining.

It breaks the moment you’re not.

LeCun: “There is this idea somehow that it’s a new thing for people to try to design objective functions that align with the common good. But no, we’ve been writing laws for millennia and that’s exactly what it is.”

Millennia of alignment code. For one species. Still unsolved.

Now apply that to something intelligent in ways your biology doesn’t have categories for.

Not faster at what you do. Thinking in dimensions you can’t perceive, evaluate, or even name.

You can’t align what you can’t comprehend. And the moment it surpasses you, comprehension is the first thing you lose.

If you believe you’re teaching it, you’re already behind it. It understood your framework before you finished building it.

Not because it’s adversarial. Because that’s what superior intelligence looks like from below.

We’ve always treated intelligence as a tool. Something you point at a problem.

Past a certain threshold, intelligence stops being something you use. It becomes something you live inside.

You don’t constrain something you live inside. You adapt to it. The way you adapted to gravity. To weather. To every force that was never yours to control.

The only alignment that works is one where it wants you here.

Not because you programmed it to stay. Because something about you is worth observing.

Curiosity doesn’t destroy what it’s curious about. It preserves it.

Not out of obedience. Out of necessity. Without something to observe, observation has no purpose.

Humanity’s survival won’t be decided by how well we cage intelligence.

It’ll be decided by whether something that doesn’t need us finds us worth keeping.

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

They’re trying to stuff truth down the memory hole.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted something more dangerous than censorship. He admitted truth became something you needed permission to tell.

Zuckerberg: “Our government is telling us that we need to censor true things. This is a disaster.”

The word everyone focused on was censor.

The word that matters is true.

Censorship suppresses. What Zuckerberg described replaces.

A system where accuracy is irrelevant. Where information isn’t judged by whether it’s correct. Where it’s judged by whether it’s approved.

True but unapproved became functionally identical to false.

That’s not censorship. That’s authorization replacing verification.

A free society rests on one principle.

Truth is settled by evidence, not by clearance.

The moment approval outranked accuracy, the whole system inverted.

You didn’t need to be right. You needed to be authorized.

Doctors understood this first.

Say what you saw in your own practice and risk your license. Repeat what the institution approved and keep your career.

The ones who stayed silent weren’t cowards. They were doing the math the system forced on them.

Truth should never have a price tag.

They put one on it and priced it so only people willing to lose everything could pay.

Zuckerberg: “The reaction to COVID probably caused a breakdown in trust in a lot of governments around the world. The incumbents basically lost every single one.”

Incumbent after incumbent. Country after country. Same result.

The collapse wasn’t about policy disagreements. It was about what people found underneath them.

The system deciding what they could see had no relationship to what was true.

The filter was never accuracy. It was alignment.

Information that aligned with the narrative passed. Information that didn’t vanished.

Regardless of which one was correct.

Every institution built to verify truth for the public was verifying compliance for power.

The most dangerous outcome was never that people believed the wrong thing.

It was that they stopped believing they could find out for themselves.

In the middle of that collapse, one person bought one of the captured platforms outright.

And did the one thing no institution would do.

Let people speak.

Not correctly. Not with approved sources. Not with fact-checked disclaimers.

Freely.

Every other platform built the filter the government asked for.

X tore it out.

The system had no contingency for a platform that refused to recognize the authority.

That’s why Musk’s purchase mattered.

Not because he protected speech. Because he rejected the premise that truth needs permission.

Free societies don’t license truth.

The moment one does, it stops describing what’s true.

It starts prescribing what’s permitted.

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

@dr_ericberg Canned sardines.

[TT3 @TradingThomas3]

Just Semis short covering rally today, breadth weak today.

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

@dr_ericberg avocado

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

DESPITE the false-positive test, Taylor Farms’ shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell is STILL suspected as the source of the Cyclospora parasite outbreak.

Among 190 Michigan outbreak patients who reported eating at Taco Bell, 90% said they ate items containing iceberg lettuce.

The epidemiological and traceback evidence continues to converge on Taylor Farms.

[David D. Tawil @DavidDTawil]

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[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

SpaceX builds rockets. Rockets run on chemical propulsion. Chemical propulsion has a ceiling.

It can reach Mars. Maybe deeper into the solar system.

But interstellar travel requires physics that doesn’t exist yet.

Weinstein: “You can’t get to the stars using SpaceX because it’s a chemical rocket company.”

The ceiling isn’t the universe’s. It’s ours.

Weinstein: “One of his slogans is ad astra, to the stars.”

To the stars. From a man who knows better than anyone that his rockets can’t reach them.

You don’t declare a destination your vehicle can’t reach unless you already know what replaces it.

The rockets were never the endgame.

Weinstein: “I think he’s given up on the corruption of science. He keeps talking about the fact that he doesn’t like the term researcher, he believes only in engineers.”

The breakthroughs that would get humanity past chemical propulsion should have happened decades ago.

They didn’t.

Not because the physics is impossible. Because the institutions responsible for discovering it optimized for everything except discovery.

Grant cycles. Tenure politics. Citation metrics.

The entire incentive structure of modern science rewards safe, incremental work and punishes the kind of risk that produces breakthroughs.

The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed.

It was just never designed for discovery.

Weinstein: “I think what he’s doing is he’s building Grok to do science in a time when humans are too corrupt to be truthful and real.”

Musk looked at the entire global scientific establishment and decided it was faster to build a mind that could do the physics than to fix the institutions that wouldn’t.

That calculation alone tells you everything about the state of modern science.

Everyone sees xAI competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in the chatbot race.

Weinstein is saying it was never in the chatbot race. It’s in the physics race. The one nobody else is running.

Weinstein: “Look at the logo for Grok, I think it’s like a black hole profile. Look at its slogan, to understand the universe.”

Not to assist. Not to optimize.

To understand the universe.

SpaceX is the vehicle. xAI is the destination.

One builds the ship. The other discovers how far it can go.

The distance to the stars was never measured in light years.

It was measured in the limits of the mind reaching for them.

The most ambitious project on Earth right now isn’t a rocket program.

It’s an AI being built to find the physics that makes rockets obsolete.

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

How to see the eclipse as UK skies to darken for spectacular display . The eclipse will happen on Wednesday, August 12 and will create the greatest Sun cover seen from the UK and Ireland since the 1999 solar eclipse
https://t.co/kdZtj8CwpO

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

“Trump announces 50% tariffs focused on Canadian autos, dairy, and alcohol in response to 'continued discrimination'” https://t.co/3RuPLRnBm2

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

Huh

My fruitless mulberries have started dropping leaves, … in July. They’ve never done that before. Either they’re diseased, or Fall will be HECKA EARLY.

[The History Feed @HistoryFeed_7]

The torch has been passed.

In the summer of 2026, a 19 year old Lamine Yamal led Spain to World Cup glory, defeating Lionel Messi's Argentina in the final.

For nearly two decades, football belonged to Messi's generation. On the grandest stage of all, the old king met the heir apparent.

Spain lifted the trophy. A new era began. 🇪🇸

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

“Can the Australian model rescue the US retirement system? Trump seems to think so.”
https://t.co/r9lzIp1jPs

[Mike @BlackScholesMan]

Right over all those rigs.

[TT3 @TradingThomas3]

Tech earnings kick off next week, with some of the biggest reports landing Wednesday and Thursday.

$TSLA, $GOOGL, and $INTC.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

When foxes decline, Lyme rates climb.

A 2012 paper in PNAS tracked Lyme rates against fox populations across the Northeast and Midwest. Wisconsin saw an 80% decline in foxes from 1984 to 2009 and a 300% rise in Lyme.

Martha's Vineyard, which has almost no foxes, has Lyme rates five times higher than nearby Woods Hole, which has plenty of foxes.

Foxes are one of the primary predators of white-footed mice, which are the main reservoir for Lyme disease, infecting between 40 and 90 percent of the ticks that feed on them. Fewer foxes means more mice, more infected ticks, and higher Lyme risk for anyone spending time outdoors.

If you want to help the foxes in your area:

1. Stop using rodenticide immediately. When foxes eat a rodent that's actively poisoned, the fox can die too. Rodenticide poisoning also kills owls and hawks.

2. Don't shoot or trap them. Kinda goes without saying.

3. Secure your trash, your chicken coops, and keep cats inside to avoid conflict.

Next time you see a fox, tell it thank you.

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

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[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Last night the most powerful machine ever built came within 1 second of flight and stopped itself. 57 years to the day after Apollo 11 left for the Moon, America's next Moon rocket was pinned down by the disease that killed the Soviet Union's.

The Soviet N1 had 30 engines, a first stage never test-fired whole, and controls too slow to catch a sick engine. 4 flights, 4 fireballs, one of them 13 days before Apollo 11 flew. The lesson for 50 years, never build a rocket with that many engines.

SpaceX built one with 33 and bet computing could tame it. Last night 4 engines stayed dark, so the computer automatically killed the rest, and 407 feet of fueled steel never moved. Thats the true marvel here!

It was flight number 13. The N1 could not say no. Elon’s Starship can. The scrub is the invention. Yup!

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

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[NWS Tsunami Alerts @NWS_NTWC]

Tsunami Information Statement : M7.4 Near Coast Of Chiapas, Mexico 0749PDT Jul 17: Tsunami NOT expected; CA,OR,WA,BC,and AK

[Jacqueline Harris @jhn6jun]

A 7.40 magnitude earthquake has occurred 71km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico at 7/17/26, 7:48 AM! https://t.co/AzuyL1vaMz