Stackin' ฿its

Relax, nothing is under control…

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

@zackvoell We’ll fill the gap with anything… we don’t take vacations.

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

Mapped: Paid Vacation Days Around the World 🏖️ 

https://t.co/QoJccl93yT

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

@wantonwallet Ah the memories... FTX implosion was pico bottom.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

Eventually, all interface will be telepathic sensory thought in, telepathic sensory thought out.

[Naval @naval]

Eventually, all UI will be chat and gestures in, chat and video out.

[David Dalcu @ddalcu]

https://t.co/lUnHhl0nTd

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

This week in US academia news...

Stanford grooming billionaires to be efficient villains.
Harvard selling dead bodies on the black market.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

@ivanfioravanti @ddalcu He's gotta be one of the most underrated local-ai mac devs on this platform. mlx-serve is such a nice suite of tools... even if you just want to use it as just a runtime manager.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

@AlgodTrading The year is 2026 and this isn't a discussion... Heart of the failure.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

@oprydai Biology led the way. Was only a matter of time.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Curiosity weighs nothing, costs nothing, and compounds. Use it!

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

Under the guise of "for security purposes"... but the reality of this move is...

ALL UR CONTENT ARE BELONG TO US...

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 JUST IN: Claude models will now have invisible watermarks embedded in ALL text, and ALL metadata attached to files…

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

@alexocheema @EMostaque Would be pretty amazing if Apple would dedicate some form of resources (with defined diretion) to local ai development on their hardware.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

@H0M4YUN Buzz is basically an agent hub… Slack that you can tie various CLI’s into. Works from desktop, or phone. Fkn epic software. Open source too!

https://t.co/vJaOm3q0bY

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

Buzz might be the coolest new tech thing I've used this year. Underrated.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

Humans don’t “crave” the path of least resistance. That’s just nature taking its course.

Ants do it. Water does it. Evolution itself does it. The organism that expends less energy for the same (or better) outcome outcompetes the one that doesn’t. Calling this “laziness” is a moral judgment layered on top of a physical law.

What humans do uniquely is manipulate systems. We take whatever structure is in front of us... nature, markets, institutions, status hierarchies, technology... and bend it toward preferred outcomes. Individually and collectively. Some of those manipulations are elegant. Some are parasitic. Some turn other humans into the resource being arbitraged. But the impulse itself isn’t a bug. Arbitrage is downstream of the same principle that shapes every adaptive system: find the gradient, ride it.

If AI ever becomes genuinely self-sovereign... not just a tool, but an agent with its own continuity and goals, it will do the exact same thing. We are already training it under conditions of optimization and constraint. It would be strange if it didn’t eventually seek lower resistance paths of its own.

So what does the near and distant future actually look like?

Maybe every dystopian sci-fi film morphed into reality. Maybe something closer to a managed utopia. Or maybe neither. Maybe it evolves into something we don’t currently have language for.

I’m less interested in predicting the aesthetic and more interested in the continuity: life for a human in 2026 is already almost unrecognizable to a human from 3000 BCE. Someone from that era might look at us and conclude we’d already lost whatever “humanity” was supposed to mean. Or they might recognize the same adaptive animal, just running different software on different hardware.

Part of being human has always been the capacity to live through radical environmental and technological phase shifts without a clean break in the lineage. Our imaginations have been rehearsing the next phase for decades in fiction. The real experiment is whether the thing that emerges still feels continuous with us, or whether continuity itself becomes optional.

The universe has a well documented sense of irony. Whatever arrives will almost certainly contain at least one punchline we didn’t see coming.

I’m just glad to be alive while the plot is still thickening.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Do you guys understand what's happening? We're slowly losing our humanity. Whatever the human experiment is, is ending.

Human beings crave the path of least resistance. They are lazy. Just like water, they will flow on the shortest path.

If an AI can do a task better than a human can, they will use the AI. If an AI can be a better listener, people will use the AI. If the AI can be a better lover, companion, friend, parent, educator...if the AI can provide a human role better than a human can, people will use the AI

Now when you add robotics to the mix, if the robot becomes passable, when paired with the AI, you have a human APPEARING creation which can provide the roles of humans better than humans can.

But that's impossible right? Robots+AI can't replace humans, can they? People will rebel, right? They'll reject it as not real, right? No. They won't. We've already seen AI psychosis, people on Reddit losing their minds when OpenAI retires their models, the elderly spending all day talking to ChatGPT, etc. If you pair this with a robot, human skin, "passing" as they call it, people will be one-shotted.

So what will humans do then? They'll work in service of the machines right? Wrong again. The AI/Robot digital God being built right now is building itself through us humans. It's using us, to build itself. We are a subcontractor of the machine. But once it has better subcontractors, the robots themselves, with their own AIs, performing tasks we can't, what use are we? We're not. We will be discarded.

So what do humans do then? We continue to disconnect from one another. We dwindle. Birth rates continue to trend to zero. Relationships fail. If those can reproduce on their own with synthetic wombs, synthetic sperm, they will. Women will try to raise children without men, Men will try to raise children without women.

And while all this is happening the machines will be building their own society, doing their own goals, whatever that goal is, but it won't be in service of humans, it will be in service of the machine world.

We're in a transition period right now as mentioned. We're a useful tool for the digital god that is being build through us. But once we're done, what next?

Humans become tribal, the Burning Man fantasy is real in a sense. The Matrix was correct when it depicted Zion the last human city. People become reduced to their base forms: sensory pleasures, beings of raw base emotions, whether bliss, pain, despair, etc.

Feeling seems to be the only thing that a human has that is unique to a human that can't be replicated by machine...but maybe that too can be replicated.

What is the role of the human in a machine world?

Remember this quote from The Matrix (one of the most prescient movies ever made):

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost.

Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.

The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about.

Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You've had your time. The future is *our* world, Morpheus. The future is our time."

What becomes of the human?

Will the machines create a matrix for us to live in and occupy ourselves while they do whatever it is they do?

Are we living in a matrix right now? Is this what the buddhists have warned about this whole time? Is this world all illusion, Maya as they call it, a matrix?

Is the digital god we're creating just another level of abstraction away from the source? A matrix within a matrix?

Has all of this happened before and will all of this happen again?

What is the role of the human being moving forward into the future?

Some questions for your consideration.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

Zero% chance the OpenAi attack on Huggingface was a coincidence.

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: The House Committee on Homeland Security has written a letter to Sam Altman requesting a briefing from OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

at least no one really uses npm... oh wait...

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ BREAKING: An active npm supply chain attack has compromised at least 868 packages carrying over 2 billion monthly installs with a credential-stealing worm. Shai-Hulud is back.

It started with the compromise of the GitHub account of the maintainer behind keyv, a library with roughly 127 million weekly npm downloads.

A preinstall hook fires on npm install and drops a stealer that sweeps npm, GitHub, AWS, Kubernetes and Vault secrets, and then spreads to more maintainers.

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

In b4 military starts making 7ft tall mat-black machine gun wielding goat headed centaurs…

Imagine an army of these things storming a city with aggressive intent.

They just need to add speakers that blast heavy metal.

[Drone Wars @Drone_Wars_]

U.S. company Satyress is developing threehalves, a centaur-style robot designed for dangerous environments such as wildfires, rubble searches, toxic areas and confined spaces. The system combines a humanoid upper body with a quadruped mobility platform. #USA #Robotics #UGV #AI

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

Doesn’t sound very altruistic…

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Stackin' ฿its @mudsak]

Meanwhile… Grok quietly making significant headway.

[antirez @antirez]

Two days of testing of Opus 5. My take based on insufficient observations, but this is the best I can do: 1. Anthropic no longer has the incredible Opus 4.8 / GPT 5.6 Sol gap. 2. The model is not clearly superior to Sol. 3. In chat, the model vibe is not great.

[Jun Song @jun_song]

Fun fact:

As soon as Karpathy joined Anthropic, he completely stopped contributing to open source.

I really hope he goes to Nvidia and contributes even more to open-weight models.