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[EffieZ @marianefeli5]

@nntaleb Great piece of wisdom.Thank you.

[EffieZ @marianefeli5]

@policytensor By the way,mixed economies anything but failed.We were told they failed and that is totally different than actually failing.

[Bettany Hughes💙 @bettanyhughes]

Morning! My first ever book searched for the truth of #HelenOfTroy in myth, history, archaeology - out now as an audio book! Hope you enjoy/read! X

[Bettany Hughes💙 @bettanyhughes]

New adventure revealing the archaeological truth behind #myths - so excited! X

[ΜέΡΑ25 @mera25_gr]

Αυτά που ζούμε εδώ και χρόνια είναι πολιτικές επιλογές, όχι αναγκαιότητες. Το πρώτο και αναγκαίο για να πάρουμε πίσω τις ζωές μας είναι η ΕΠΑΝΑΚΤΗΣΗ.

Νίκος Θεοχαράκης, συντονιστής της Κεντρικής Επιτροπής του ΜέΡΑ25.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@KenRoth The biggest risk of AI is the concentration of power in a few dominant providers of proprietary AI assistants.
The only solution to AI sovereignty is open source foundation models.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The "Standard of Living" didn't naturally drop. It was traded for "Shareholder Value." We traded the ability for one person to support a family on a single income for the ability for a billionaire to have a private space program. It was a conscious swap.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Πρωτοσέλιδο των Financial Times σήμερα για το πως οι εφοπλιστές "μας" έβγαλαν 4 δις μεταφέροντας στα μουλωχτά ρώσικο πετρέλαιο - την ώρα που τα κανάλια τους υμνούν Ζελένσκυ-Ουκρανία και δαιμονοποιούν όποιον ζητά τερματισμό του πολέμου ως τσιράκι του Πούτιν - και σα να μην έφτανε αυτό τραβάνε τον Κλέωνα στα δικαστήρια επειδή είπε την αλήθεια από το βήμα της Βουλής. https://t.co/TFJHxIEVnH

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

During a Bloomberg interview, Yann LeCun (@ylecun ) explains why LLMs are limited in terms of real-world intelligence during a Bloomberg interview.

"Language is a very approximate, reduced, quantized, and simplified description of the world, and LLMs can only deal with discrete sequences of symbols. The world is much more complicated than language.

The biggest LLMs are pre-trained on the totality of all the publicly available text on the internet. That’s about 20 trillion words, or 30 trillion tokens.

A token is about 3 bytes. So total 10¹⁴ bytes of text.

This is the amount of data a four-year-old has seen through vision during four years. Now, the text, though, would take 400,000 years to read?

So, there is enormously more data from sensory input, like vision, touch, and everything else, than there could ever be through language."

A child does not need 400,000 years of reading to understand cups, doors, balance, faces, falls, or heat, because the body is already collecting dense feedback from vision, touch, motion, and consequence.

Text strips most of that away.

It turns a living scene into symbols, then asks the model to infer the missing world from traces left by people describing it.

That is why an LLM can sound fluent about physics and still have no native sense of how fragile glass feels in a hand.

Moravec’s paradox names this reversal: the things humans find intellectual can be easier for machines than the things toddlers do without applause.

The hard part is not producing an answer, but building a model of the world that survives contact with weight, friction, surprise, and failure.

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Link to the full video on Bloomberg's site. Link in comment.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@ZhugeEX The *median* wealth of a French is almost *twice* the median wealth of an American.
So much for the "Europoor" meme.

The *average* American wealth is high because a tiny number of Americans are absurdly rich. But most Americans get screwed.

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

Good morning 🌞🇦🇱

Today, the @ProgIntl publishes Edi Rama Files 🚨, an explosive dossier that places Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at the helm of an illicit real estate empire that stretches from the country’s coast to its capital.

Just last week, I was in Tirana to support the ‘Flamingo’ protest movement: Albanians rising up against the Trump family’s billion-dollar scheme to privatize their protected wetlands.

These files reveal the scheme as merely the tip of an iceberg — a sprawling system of permits, designations, and dispossession presided by one man: Edi Rama, the EU's darling.

The files are a forensic window into the political economy of kleptocracy on Europe's doorstep — and the first time these documents have been published and presented to an international audience.

So take a look — spread the word — and stand with the people of Albania as they take to the streets, day after day, to alert the world to Edi Rama's quiet but lethal coup against their country.

Read now ⏬
https://t.co/rO5QczxRce

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

"There can be no sovereignty built on the basis of bodies that can be expelled. Nor can there be social justice as long as Chile’s export success continues to rest on undocumented migrant women, reduced to mere bodies for export." https://t.co/QBbgnj1NQV

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

They say an author is "pregnant" with a book. As a new mum, I can confirm the analogy doesn't stop there: books have a postpartum period too — copy-edits, page proofs, sleep deprivation and all.

Anti-fascist Economics cleared the final pass at @penguinrandom! Out in October!

[Momentum 🌹 @PeoplesMomentum]

Dr. Abu Safiya has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial for 18 months.

Release him now. End the arbitrary detention.

[Michael Lazarus @Mblaz39]

Barnaby Raine interviews @adam_tooze on new @tribunemagazine podcast. Lucid discussion of political freedom, intellectual tradition and working class strategy. Especially valuable critique of Keynes. https://t.co/XLQelrUkYJ

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I’m trying to imagine being 20 years old and being ordered to torture an elderly celebrated physician who’s being endlessly detained without charges. Most would refuse that order. It’s an indictment of Israeli society that they seem to have no problem finding people to do it.

[Matt Huber @Matthuber78]

Sharp stuff from @adam_tooze.

“Discussing the question in Beijing with a Chinese colleague who specialises in Marxist political economy, he remarked that the quality of a currency system is ultimately defined by the class relations that underpin it…” (1/2)

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israeli soldiers are reportedly torturing Dr Abu Safya --a pediatrician, for God's sake!

Without strong pressure on Israel, these may could be his last hours.

@ICRCPresident
@DrTedros

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A luxury hotel in Ireland has cancelled a “retreat” for a secretive group of wealthy, famous and powerful people founded by billionaire Peter Thiel.

The Powerscourt Hotel was due to host a conference for Dialog in August – but called off the event after hackers released details of its membership and activities last month.

The invite-only organisation, founded in 2006 by Thiel and tech entrepreneur Auren Hoffman, was set to discuss preparing for a third world war, battlefield technologies, nuclear energy and how to build cults, according to a leaked schedule.

Guests would have included a Nato commander and senior Trump administration officials, the Irish Times reported.

Thiel is co-founder of Palantir, a spytech firm that has worked with Israel’s military throughout its genocide in Gaza and with US immigration agencies accused of severe human rights violations against migrants and people advocating for their rights.

Prominent Dialog members revealed in the leak include Texas senator Ted Cruz, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent, Israeli finance ministry economist Shmuel Abramzon, actor Josh Brolin, author Sam Harris and longevity influencer Bryan Johnson.

The Powerscourt Estate, which owns the land on which the hotel sits in Co. Wicklow, said it was “relieved and pleased” about its tenant’s decision to cancel.

“Following a period of great concern for Powerscourt Estate and on foot of discussions with the Powerscourt Hotel, we are relieved and pleased to announce the Dialog event planned for August at the Powerscourt Hotel has been cancelled,” it said in a statement.

“Powerscourt Estate wish to thank all of those who supported us through this difficult and challenging time. Including our staff, neighbours, friends, supporters and legal team.”

A hotel spokesperson confirmed the event had been cancelled, adding: “We have no further comment.”

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail. Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial"
https://t.co/1ejGwv9RP5