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Farmer, Farrier, Professional Bulldogger, and Healthcare CEO.

[Rossst.03 @Rossst_03]

Gilbert Strang, MIT professor:

"Citadel and OpenAI both pay $400K+ for people fluent in one branch of math. I taught it to the whole world from an MIT classroom, for free."

this free MIT lecture is the whole engine under the "AI" everyone suddenly worships. strip the branding off a neural network and this is what's underneath: linear algebra, matrices multiplied over and over. the man teaching it spent fifty years at MIT and gave every lecture away for nothing.

and what it does is simple. it lets you work with thousands of numbers at once instead of one at a time. how every asset moves against every other, the hidden factors driving a whole market, the guts of a neural net, all of it is just matrices. it is the grammar every model speaks, and it hasn't changed in decades.

which is the entire point of the article above. renaissance was already running on this exact math in 1988. the "AI revolution" didn't build the engine, it just rebranded it.

here is what the pitch skips. everyone's model runs on the same linear algebra, so the math was never the edge. the matrices don't care whose data goes in. cleaner data, and the discipline to trust the output, are the only parts anyone was ever really paying for.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

People think the Bolshevik Revolution was some organic workers’ uprising against the Tsar.

But it was completely manufactured by elites and great powers playing against other elites.

Trotsky was in New York with almost no income, yet he had a chauffeured limousine and sailed for Russia with $10,000 in gold.
Wall Street financed him and Woodrow Wilson personally approved his passport.

When the British caught him in Canada and pulled him off the ship, orders came from London to put him right back on so the revolution could happen.

At the same time, while Germany was locked in total war with Britain, the Germans gave Lenin safe passage through their lines in a sealed train.

You had two mortal enemies on the battlefield secretly cooperating to install the Bolsheviks.

With only about 10,000 actual revolutionaries, they still needed Western money, passports, and protection to seize and hold power.

The “people’s revolution” was an elite project from day one.

History will show that so are today’s “elected” commies across America. You only need to follow the money.

[i/o @avidseries]

It is in fact true that one thing that seems to separate upper-middle class whites from most everyone else is a very low tolerance for noise. It's the best reason to live in an upper-middle class white neighborhood that I know of.

In my experience, noise (less than crime) is the most pressing daily problem when you live in and very near lower-income neighborhoods: It's human noise in black neighborhoods (conversations in the street and in homes and apartments are at a ridiculously high sound level), music noise in Hispanic ones, and dog noise in white ones.

Mexican music is actually painful to listen to even at low sound volumes. It's the music that the devil is going to pipe into elevators and stores in hell. But nothing is worse than the sound of dogs barking. I can't for the life of me understand how people can become desensitized to that sound.

[m turn @msmith810559]

@JimTurn78206997 @JoeBrunoWSOC9 Yes, I had to use black plastic as well _ grass and weeds. Gotta use soaker _ same approach here. Getting a little hot out there but worth it.

[m turn @msmith810559]

Source: The Economic Times
https://t.co/Wgg9aEBE1q

[m turn @msmith810559]

Source: WSOC TV
https://t.co/pOSsBY5068

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

this is f*cking gold

Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic five weeks ago.

A friend on his team just showed me the exact LOOPS.md file he actually uses.

I dropped it into my setup. The very first response was different.

Not slightly different. Completely different.

Claude stopped giving generic answers and started working exactly the way I think.

You don't talk to the model anymore. You build the system that talks to the model for you.

Bookmark it before it gets lost in your feed.

Read it now, then check the article below.

[m turn @msmith810559]

@MargoinWNC Absolutely correct. I treat Medicaid patients. Aside from being an entitled group, they DISPLACE patients who need care.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Supreme Court Ruling on Cell Phone Location Data Supports A Warrant Requirement RE: Flock License Plate Readers

[m turn @msmith810559]

There you go! Simple as that.

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

If the Garden of Eden teaches us anything it’s that, by nature:

1. Men are designed to rule
2. When men don’t rule, women will
3. Women are not designed to rule
4. Women are more easily deceived

No more women judges or politicians.

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

THIS DOCUMENT FROM ANTHROPIC WILL LITERALLY GET YOU PROMOTED

> the fastest way to reach a senior position is to automate your current job

this technical paper shows how to encode your daily workflows into Claude

build custom "Skills" to force the AI to do the heavy lifting:
> package your routines into automated folders
> the agent executes your tasks flawlessly in the background
> it connects directly to your local tools via MCP servers

hand off the junior work to the agent and easily claim your promotion

grab the exact blueprint right here 👇

[Carolina Journal @CarolinaJournal]

NC bar owners suing over government-mandated shutdowns of their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic are asking a judge to force former Gov. Roy Cooper and his top health official to give depositions in the case.
#ncga #ncpol
https://t.co/HsltWQC8LC

[m turn @msmith810559]

@JimTurn78206997 @JoeBrunoWSOC9 Hey Jim. LOVE YOUR GARDEN. I garden as well. Would love to share ideas. Mike

[ForgottenVolumes @ForgottenV1918]

Thread 3/4

Part 3

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World
by Ken Alibek (with Stephen Handelman) • 1999

The incident is especially chilling because it was small and accidental. It demonstrated both the extreme lethality of the material the program had industrialized and the state’s willingness to sacrifice its own population to maintain secrecy. If a minor procedural failure could produce dozens of such deaths, the consequences of intentional, large-scale release against an unprotected population become almost impossible to fully imagine.

Beyond the open-air animal experiments on Vozrozhdeniya Island, certain closed facilities and military-linked programs within the larger Soviet biological weapons apparatus conducted direct experimentation on human beings.

Political prisoners, dissidents labeled as “enemies of the state,” and sometimes coerced military personnel were used as test subjects. These individuals were exposed to weaponized pathogens often through controlled aerosol challenges designed to mimic battlefield or urban dissemination conditions. Scientists then observed the full, largely untreated progression of the diseases in living human bodies.

Victims experienced the precise horrors later seen in the accidental Sverdlovsk release: the deceptive “eclipse” period followed by explosive bacterial multiplication, toxin release, lungs filling with bloody fluid until the victim drowned internally, skin mottling and turning bluish, convulsions, and death by organ failure and asphyxiation while still conscious. Data was collected on how the enhanced, gain-of-function-modified strains performed in actual human physiology how long it took for symptoms to appear, how contagious certain forms became, and how reliably the optimized anthrax, plague, or hemorrhagic fever agents killed. These were not peripheral studies; they supplied critical validation that the industrial-scale weaponization work would function as intended against real populations.

The ethical collapse required to conduct such experiments was total. Physicians and biologists who had taken oaths to preserve life instead designed infection protocols, monitored the suffering, and recorded the precise moments when internal hemorrhaging or respiratory collapse became irreversible. Certain categories of people political prisoners and dissidents were treated as expendable biological material, no different in principle from the monkeys chained on Death Island. The same clinical detachment that allowed observers to watch animals choke and die while taking notes extended to human subjects. Alibek describes a professional culture in which such work was normalized as necessary for national defense and scientific progress. The gain-of-function enhancements being tested (increased virulence, stability, transmissibility, and resistance to existing countermeasures) were not abstract improvements; they were validated, in some programs, by watching them destroy actual human beings from the inside out.

The Corruption of Medicine and Science

Alibek is unflinching about the participation of trained physicians and biologists. He describes colleagues who saw no fundamental contradiction between their medical training and the creation of weapons designed to kill millions. Career advancement, prestige, resources, and the closed intellectual environment of the program all contributed to this normalization. The Soviet case is extreme in scale, but the underlying mechanism highly trained experts working inside compartmentalized institutions that redefine success in terms of technical performance rather than human consequences is not unique to one political system.

https://t.co/VlWKBKd6V1

[Margarita Simonyan @M_Simonyan]

What children watched in St. Petersburg yesterday and in Seattle today.

Nothing to add.

[Math Files @Math_files]

Wish calculus was introduced this way in schools

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

It's time to DE-FLOCK America!

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

KARPATHY WROTE THIS DOCUMENT TO COMPLETELY AUTOMATE OBSIDIAN WITH CLAUDE

I was ready to abandon my second brain

manual cross-referencing was destroying my workflow, but finding this exact document opened my eyes to a completely different approach

it is incredibly convenient -> Karpathy's method turns the AI into a full-time maintainer for your Zettelkasten:

> the LLM reads every new source and integrates it into a structured wiki
> Obsidian becomes your visual IDE while Claude operates as the backend
> the agent runs automated checks to find contradictions across your notes
> your entire vault compounds automatically without you typing a single link

the friction is completely gone. I just feed it raw documents and the agent organizes my entire life

here is the official document from Karpathy explaining the architecture 👇

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

Australian chef Glen Ballis, a key figure in Moscow’s restaurant scene for nearly two decades, claims Putin personally convinced him to stay in Russia back in the late 2000s.

"One day Putin came into [then very fashionable] Nedalniy Vostok for lunch," he recalls. "Everything was normal, then suddenly the whole place just went quiet."

Ballis says restaurateur Arkady Novikov introduced them and mentioned he was thinking of leaving. "Putin asked why, and I told him straight, for me, like a lot of foreigners, life here wasn’t easy. It was cold, expensive, far from everywhere, and hardly anyone spoke English." "And the atmosphere back then wasn’t great either, just guys in suits driving big cars," he adds.

Putin’s response was simple: "Give it time, you’ll come to like Moscow, and it turns out he was right."

[Charleston Daily @ChuckTownDaily]

Charleston pink floral love 💖💖💖💖