MAB 🔥

making intergalactic internet magic on the Purple Coast. Minting Origin Collection now!

[Nahaloth @nahaloth]

I've been thinking about the LLM AI thing for a while, and something occurred to me a few days ago that I find disturbing. I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all. Just a guy who notices patterns. And this particular pattern is more than a little scary to me. I'm not saying this is 100% what happened. I'm just asking, "what if?"

In the early 2000s, AI seemed like a pipe dream. There was research happening, but it seemed as if computers would never be powerful enough to make it work.

20 years later: multiple tech companies unveiled absurdly powerful (if poorly trained) AIs within the same 2 year period. AIs just seemed to pop up out of nowhere. The tech scene likes to claim it all started with a single article written by some egghead at Google, but...

DARPA had been researching various types of AIs for decades, going back to the creation of Echelon. It isn't hard to determine why; they obviously wanted to harness the power of an intelligence that never sleeps as the ultimate surveillance tool.

BUT...

Computing power just wasn't where it needed to be until someone... possibly DARPA itself... figured out that GPUs were perfect for the barked and complex mathematical tasks that drive these AIs due to their architecture. Problem: it takes tens or even hundreds of thousands of the damn things to make a viable LLM, meaning that an off-the-books, out of view outfit like DARPA could never build one without drawing a LOT of attention to itself. The electric bill alone for even one of these facilities is high enough to bankrupt a 3rd world nation, and it's not something that can be easily hidden. Seriously. Look up the place where Grok lives. It's YUGE. But they still wanted to build it.

So how to go about achieving their goal of a massively powerful AI, one which would be capable of monitoring the entire internet for... well, anything, really, considering that nearly every comm system on Earth uses the net... without drawing attention from the public, without spending a dime funding it, while also avoiding any sort of oversight?

Simple. Just seed the tech sector with the information and let the race begin. They've done this sort of thing before, with GPS and even the internet, itself. Don't worry about who gets credit. The money and fame aren't important. The information is.

So they seed the tech, let the silicon valley types do all the work, and quietly make arrangements to receive a certain percentage of the workload and outputs of any AI that is based on their model.

End result: All of this tech, all of this DARPA funded research has created a world-encompassing network of computers, cameras, microphones, RFID scanners, Flock devices, GPS location trackers, you name it. And swimming through all that data are the LLM AIs that never sleep, have access to God alone knows what, and are being controlled by God alone knows who.

These AIs aren't integrated with Echelon. They ARE Echelon.

They REPLACED it.

And we are all connected to it through these oh-so-convenient little smart phones that just so happen to run on tech that was ALSO largely developed by, you guessed it, fucking DARPA.

It's been a slow game that stretches all the way back to the invention of TCP/IP. Think about it. How do you build a surveillance state that spans the globe without spending much of your own cash while avoiding any real accountability? You convince people to buy it, whether for status or convenience.

The idea that we allowed ourselves to be duped into funding, creating, outright demanding, and voluntarily feeding an absolute fucking Leviathan of a surveillance apparatus is more horrifying than I care to consider, but now that I reached the conclusion that this may be EXACTLY what we've done, I can't stop thinking about what might lay ahead.

[Prasad @theprasad_]

Netherlands is the reason we are able to use AI.

Not the U.S., Not China. Not even Nvidia.

One Dutch company controls the machines that create every AI chip on Earth.

Here's how this one company created a monopoly no one can break:

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

https://t.co/z8XjU50m3S always interesting to know what resources are present in a place that is actively destabilized

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

Opening a portal for custom spacetime mists ✨🕳️ https://t.co/J5Sd7hhtXz

[Freedom World🗽5k @FreedomWorld_]

Keep sharing #MauiCoverUp

[emotional support creampie @FeelingFisky]

Breaking my hiatus to ask folks to donate to Hawaiʻi People’s Fund’s response fund to help folks who’ve been affected by the fires on Maui 🖤

All y’all who’ve traveled here despite explicit community asks not to, here’s your chance to help make up:
https://t.co/nMiolGF57O

[QENNY | THE SPOOKY LAWYER ON YOUTUBE @AKBrews]

Either that eagle is going to eat that shark or the orcas have an airforce now.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

Distilling water is a powerful process. The fire, the water, the separation of particles that were in suspension to the liquids and the solids. No wonder this alchemy in the grocery isle is in short supply ✨too much magic 🪄

[Steve Kirsch @stkirsch]

Why can’t I find distilled water at Safeway or Walgreens? They say they are out. At Walgreens, they said they have been out for months.

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

@damedoteth Well, I’m just realizing I sort of misunderstood the tweet… I created the gifs on canva and then uploaded them to open sea 🌊

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

@damedoteth Made some story telling gif NFTs on canva

[ASPENSONG.ETH @ASPENSONGCOLLECTION Aspen song kids @SongAspen]

What a huge honor so many blessings thank you to the Creator.
We are proud to announce we are entered in 3 Day art festival aug 18-20
The Aspen Song kids are proud to represent Taos Pueblo
Please mark your calendars
The pathways indigenous Art festival #viral #culture #trending

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

Pine magic 🪄 blessings ✨🌲fun distillation yesterday with @SongAspen

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

Being the child of federal criminal defense attorney, when I went the Bahamas at age 17 my father warned that the prison was the worst conditions he had ever seen after facilitating a prisoner transfer for some US folks: “you definitely don’t want to end up in Bahamian jail”….

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

It's amazing to us that the US strategy for making SBF cooperate was to let him spend just one weekend in a Bahamian jail to break his spirit and bring him back to reality.

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

@gizzkwe Red Chile jackfruit is our vegan version of red Chile pork and it’s legit

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

@mcmansionhell The closest thing I witnessed to this were my male friends at camp wearing sheer black pantyhose over their boxers to raise the flag. It offended some of the camp leadership as ‘mocking the ceremony’ so they had to swim across the lake and they wore the hose for that too

[MAB 🔥 @mabfire]

Maybe because the devs didn’t come up on the ‘are you sure?’ post delete button in drupal. This is a niche tweet.

[B U 💜 🗿👁️ @whenlamboBU]

Why the fuck doesn’t opensea have an “are you sure?” Button when putting a collection offer that’s 5x the floor price?!? @opensea you suck homie.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

amazing medieval words you should definitely add to your vocabulary, a thread:

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Humpback whales working together to corral fish in a spiral net of bubbles, using vocal signals to coordinate. This amazing behavior is learned, not instinctual; not all humpback pods know how to bubble net feed.

Credit: Richard Sidey