KBalanc

Political scientist. Lateral thinker. My views are probably a product of some defunct philosopher.

[KBalanc @KlemenBalanc]

@nevenvorkapic Queen🚀

[KBalanc @KlemenBalanc]

@ConceptualJames Yale’s Steven B. Smith offers much clarity on this subject in his 2021 book “Reclaiming Patriotism in the Age of Extremes”, where patriotism is described as love of one’s own, and nationalism its right wing extreme.

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

Remember to treat your body like a data center.

Consume as much literature and water as possible.

[KBalanc @KlemenBalanc]

@Gramatik These facts hit different po tolk brezbrižnem koncertu, kot je bil včeraj v Kinu Šiška.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

The resignation of a Southern California mayor who pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent for China has sparked backlash and reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination. https://t.co/Vp2B5bDRGD

[nob 🔻🍉 @mindofjdpon]

Jordan Peterson five minutes before his debate w/ Slavoj Zizek

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

God, I hate being right all the time

[KBalanc @KlemenBalanc]

@theliamnissan In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Are you concerned about insider trading on these prediction markets re: the war?”

TRUMP: “The world is a casino. It is what it is.” 🤷🏼

And there you have it, folks!

[KBalanc @KlemenBalanc]

V razpravah o tem, zakaj se mladi obračajo v desno, še nisem zasledil argumenta demografije. Meni se zdi čisto možno, da je obrat (tudi) posledica tega, da ima več konzervativnih ljudi otroke in da jih imajo več od liberalnih kolegov. #maybe

[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.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: $760,000,000 worth of oil shorts were reportedly placed 20 minutes before President Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz was open.

[Jay Black @hellojayblack]

At this point, I think we need a president who is good at playing regular old 2D chess.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns that Anthropic's new Mythos model could pose a systemic risk, per Bloomberg.

[Mehdi 麦迪⁠ @BetterCallMedhi]

the scariest part of this Anthropic story is what it implies about the timeline and I think most people are completely missing it

Anthropic built a model called Claude Mythos that found thousands of zeroo day vulnerabilities across every major operating system & every major web browser entirely on its own without huuman steering

it it found a 27 yo vulnerability in openBSD which is considered one of the most security hardened OS on earth, a 16 yo vulnerability in FFmpeg in a line of code that automated testing tools had hit 5 million times without catching it & it autonomously chained multiple linux kernel vulnerabilities together to escalate from regular user to full system control, this is the kind of work that used to require elite nation-state level hackers working for months
and here’s what should keep you up tonight

Anthropic is so terrified of what this model can do offensively that they made 3 unprecedented decisions simultaneously, they decided to never release it publicly, they contacted the US gov before publishing anything & they formed a coalition called project glasswing with apple/Google/ microsoft/amazon NVIDIA & 40+ other companies to use Mythos exclusively for defense, when the company that built the model is too scared to let it out of the lab that tells you everything about what we’ve crossedd…

but I think the real story that absolutely nobody is discussing is the second order implication, if anthropic built this then google deepmind can build it, if Google can build it China can build it, if China can build it , every state actor on earth will eventually build it, anthropic chose responsible disclosure but that choice is a luxury of being first

the next team that reaches this capability level might not make the same choice and once a model like this leaks or gets independently replicated every piece of software on earth becomes a potential attack surface

and connect this to the Google quantum paper from last week, quantum computers that can crack BTC in 9 min AND AI models that can find zero days in every operating system autonomously, both arrived in the same month, we’re watching the entire security infrastructure of human civilization get challenged from 2 completely different directions simultaneously

I genuinely think we just entered a new era where the offense-defense balance in cybersecurity has permanently shifted, the window between a vulnerability existing & being discovered just went from years to minutes and the only thing standing between the current internet and total chaos is that the people who built this capability happened to be responsible about it, that is an incredibly thin line to bet civilization on

one last thing that I keep thinking about… mythos scored 93.9% on SWE-bench verified & 77.8% on SWE-bench pro, it outperforms every model ever built at coding and reasoning by a massive margin

anthropic built built the most powerful AI model on earth and chose to lock it in a cage because its offensive capabilities are too dangerous…

Mzrc Andreessen declared AGI is here 3 days ago to pump his portfolio, meanwhile the people actually building the most advanced systems are too afraid to release them, that contrast tells you everything about who understands what’s happening and who is performing for an audience

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

Someone just broke into the brain of China's entire military industrial complex and nobody noticed for six months.

The National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin is the beating heart of China's weapons programs, aerospace simulations, and nuclear research.

Over 6,000 clients run through it, including China's top defense contractors and elite universities.

A hacker got inside through a single compromised VPN and suddenly they owned China's most classified network.

They did not smash and grab but rather waited.

They deployed an automated botnet and spent six full months slowly draining the system dry, file by file, gigabyte by gigabyte, without a single alarm going off.

What came out the other side is staggering.

Missile schematics, hypersonic weapons test data, fighter jet simulations, bioinformatics research, fusion energy data, documents reportedly stamped secret in Chinese with animated 3D renderings of military hardware.

The total haul was 10 petabytes which is 10 million gigabytes roughly equivalent to the entire US Library of Congress digitized dozens of times over.

Now the hacker, operating under the name Flaming China, is selling it on dark web forums for Monero cryptocurrency, in batches, with a preview available for thousands of dollars and full access priced in the hundreds of thousands.

Cybersecurity experts who reviewed the sample data say it appears genuine.

The files tie directly to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, and the National University of Defense Technology, the crown jewels of China's war machine.

Here is what this actually means.

China has spent decades building the most ambitious military modernization program in modern history.

Hypersonic missiles that the West has scrambled to counter, stealth jets designed to challenge American air dominance, advanced nuclear simulations and if this data is real, rivals may now hold the blueprints to all of it.

China has not confirmed the breach or not denied it either.

That silence is its own kind of confession because if this were fake, Beijing would be loudly saying so.

[KBalanc @KlemenBalanc]

@MaksutiAlem Meh, resna ponudba bi bila brez Levice v enačbi, ker so med seboj programsko nekompatibilni. Ponudba je neresna, ker se Golob zaveda, da je potencialna partnerja ne moreta sprejeti. Meji na norčevanje.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Polymarket: 99-1 odds against the president praising Allah on Easter.

Trump:

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

[KBalanc @KlemenBalanc]

@DearS_o_n Only in the abbys of darkness does one find the true light. Let go of the past and follow it with an open heart.