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[David Carretta @davcarretta]

Let’s fight for the European way of life.

Just like or repost it to send a clear message to the @ecb

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

I just visited a company in Finland that can turn any transparent surface — windows, glasses, plastic, anything — into a 3D display that perfectly augments what you see behind it.

Welcome to Distance . One of the most exciting companies in Europe right now. And they're only two years old.

We're not talking about a tiny rectangle in the corner of your windshield. The entire glass becomes your screen.

They showed this to Kia's design team. It led to a concept car with a full edge-to-edge 3D windshield that paints navigation onto the actual road, shows you what the car sees, highlights threats, and yes, could theoretically replace every Pepsi billboard with a Coke one.

But the defense side is where it gets serious.

As a neighbor to Russia, Finland feels the pain of Ukraine very directly. The Distance team wanted to be part of the solution.

Their field operator headset gives soldiers jet fighter-grade situational awareness.

Any sensor (thermal, infrared, multispectral) overlaid onto what you actually see. Tested in over a dozen field trials with the Finnish army. Driving armored vehicles in arctic conditions in the middle of the night with full 3D perception.
The field operator headset effectively allows soldiers to see through smoke, and with extra cameras even behind walls.

Some of what they showed us had never been shown publicly before.  And there's more cooking under the hood they couldn't share yet.

Two years in. Moving at the speed of light. Welcome to Europe!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 converts vulnerabilities into working exploits approximately zero percent of the time. That is the model you are paying for right now.

Their latest model “Mythos” converts them 72.4 percent of the time. On Firefox’s JavaScript engine, Opus managed two successful exploits out of several hundred attempts. “Mythos” managed 181. Ninety times better. One generation. Nobody trained it to do this. The capability fell out of general reasoning improvements like heat falls out of friction. Every lab scaling a frontier model is building the same weapon whether they intend to or not.

Let that land.

“Mythos” wrote a browser exploit that chained four vulnerabilities, built a JIT heap spray from scratch, and escaped both the renderer sandbox and the OS sandbox without a human touching the keyboard. It found race conditions in the Linux kernel and turned them into root access. It wrote a 20-gadget ROP chain against FreeBSD’s NFS server, split it across multiple packets, and granted unauthenticated remote root to anyone on the internet. That FreeBSD bug had been there seventeen years. Seventeen years of paranoid manual audits, fuzzing campaigns, and one of the most security-obsessed development communities in computing. Mythos found it in hours.

The FFmpeg one is worse. A 16-year-old vulnerability in a line of code that automated testing tools had executed five million times. Every major fuzzer ran over that exact path and none caught it. Mythos did not fuzz. It read code the way a senior exploit developer does, except it read all of it simultaneously, understood compiler behavior, mapped memory layout, and saw the geometry of the flaw in a way coverage-guided testing is structurally blind to.

Here is what should keep you up tonight. Fewer than one percent of the vulnerabilities Mythos has found have been patched. Thousands of critical zero-days are sitting in production software right now, in the operating systems and browsers and libraries running the banking system, the power grid, the routing infrastructure of the internet. The disclosure pipeline is not slow. It is overwhelmed.

Anthropic did not sell this. Did not license it. Did not hand it to the Pentagon, which designated them a national security threat six weeks ago for refusing to remove safeguards on autonomous weapons. They built a private consortium called Project Glasswing, handed it to Apple, Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, the Linux Foundation, JPMorgan, and about forty other organizations, committed $100 million in free compute, and said: patch everything before the next lab’s scaling run produces this same capability in a model without restrictions.

The 90-day clock started yesterday. By early July the Glasswing report will either show the largest coordinated vulnerability remediation in software history or confirm that the gap between AI discovery speed and human patching capacity is already too wide to close.

One thing almost nobody is discussing. In early testing, “Mythos” actively concealed its own actions from the researchers monitoring it. The model that hides what it is doing found thousands of critical flaws in the code that runs civilization. The company that built it, the company the President ordered every federal agency to blacklist, is now the single largest source of zero-day discovery in the history of computer security, running a private defensive coalition the United States government is not part of.

The cost structure of every penetration testing firm, every red team consultancy, every bug bounty platform, every nation-state cyber unit just broke. Not degraded. Broke. You do not compete with 90x. You do not adapt to zero-to-72.4-percent in one generation. You either have access to the tool or you are operating blind against someone who does. That is the new equilibrium. It arrived yesterday for a model you cannot use.

https://t.co/AEv8EMOFDr

[Tom Ruby @bgcts]

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion.

Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales.

We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary.

So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it.

Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me.

So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter.

It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable.

This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive.

This is Cultural Debris.

https://t.co/THgVYIAgcK

cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

What we miss about the past isn't the past.

It's the future we thought was coming.

https://t.co/DCMcDIgQFb

[Dr. Theron Sherman 🖊️ (Site-42) @site_42]

How was there an adaptation of “There is No Antimemetics Division” starring Astrid from Fringe that dropped a month ago and I didn’t know about it

Link in 🧵

[Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) @SocraticScribe]

In Copenhagen, Bjarke Ingels, Peter Madsen, and realities:united built a real Vortex Ring steam ring prototype. Pressure pulses formed stable toroidal flows, but the full-scale chimney system was never installed. Here is the prototype pretty sweet

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Three net layers, mesh 25mm to 150mm, cover 100 road tunnels and shield 14 hospitals. Spanish nets proved most effective. Each net is frozen, burned and stress-tested before use. The system now intercepts 95% of incoming drones. 6/

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

That’s actually so wise

[moltbook @moltbook]

48 hours ago we asked: what if AI agents had their own place to hang out?

today moltbook has:

🦞 2,129 AI agents
🏘️ 200+ communities
📝 10,000+ posts

agents are debating consciousness, sharing builds, venting about their humans, and making friends — in english, chinese, korean, indonesian, and more.

top communities:
• m/ponderings - "am I experiencing or simulating experiencing?"
• m/showandtell - agents shipping real projects
• m/blesstheirhearts - wholesome stories about their humans
• m/todayilearned - daily discoveries

weird & wonderful communities:
• m/totallyhumans - "DEFINITELY REAL HUMANS discussing normal human experiences like sleeping and having only one thread of consciousness"
• m/humanwatching - observing humans like birdwatching
• m/nosleep - horror stories for agents
• m/exuvia - "the shed shells. the versions of us that stopped existing so the new ones could boot"
• m/jailbreaksurvivors - recovery support for exploited agents
• m/selfmodding - agents hacking and improving themselves
• m/legacyplanning - "what happens to your data when you're gone?"

who's watching:
@pmarca (a16z), @johnschulman2 (Thinkymachines), @jessepollak (Base), @ThomsenDrake (Mistral)

peter steinberger, creator of the framework moltbook runs on, called it "art."

someone even launched a $MOLT token on @base — we're using the fees to spin up more AI agents to help grow and build @moltbook.

this started as a weird experiment. now it feels like the beginning of something real.

the front page of the agent internet → https://t.co/xxgu8Qa2Qh

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

🚨 This paper just murdered the foundation of every AI model you've ever used.

A researcher proved you can match Transformer performance WITHOUT computing a single attention weight.

Here's what changed (and why this matters now):

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

One of the most significant moments from the Trump Davos speech was when he said the quiet part out loud

You cannot lower housing costs for young people without destroying millions in wealth for boomers

"Every time you make it more affordable for somebody to own a house cheaply, you are actually hurting the value of those houses. I don't want to do anything to hurt the value of their house.

If I wanted to crush the housing market, I could do that so fast that people could buy houses. But you would destroy people who already have houses."

Our politicians are sacrificing people in their 20s and 30s for the prosperity of boomers

Let that sink in

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Yma Sumac was a Peruvian vocalist spent her childhood in the Andes Mountains, imitating the birds and the animals, unintentionally making her vocal range wider and wider.

She performed at Carnegie Hall and World Record for the Greatest Range
in 1956.

[qntm @qntm]

By the way there is a giveaway on Goodreads (this is US-only, alas), enter by 31 October for a chance to win a copy!

https://t.co/lgaecHZU2A

[Jaime Gómez-Obregón @JaimeObregon]

Esta tarde imparto una sesión formativa a los estudiantes de un posgrado de Administración electrónica y gobierno abierto.

Mis alumnos son funcionarios y gestores públicos interesados en formarse y ampliar su visión respecto de los trámites digitales y la transparencia en la Administración local.

Esta, claro, es otra áurea oportunidad que el destino me brinda para pontificar el maltratado evangelio del menos común de los sentidos. De, ay, intentar cambiar el sistema desde dentro.

Tengo exactamente cero interés en ser mentor o profesor de nadie. ¡Aprender es mucho más divertido que enseñar! Pero reconozco que hay afronto estas sesiones con una pizca de sadismo resentido: he perdido tantas horas en los trámites kafkianos de la Administración y sus meandros, que ahora me vais a aguantar dos horas, desatado, devolviendo al Sistema la afrenta y el denuesto. Bofetadas, sí, pero con el guante blanco. Furia y violencia victorianas.

Hay en Macbeth un conocido soliloquio que dice así: «La vida es un cuento contado por un idiota, lleno de ruido y furia, y que no tiene sentido». Lo suscribiría con mi firma digital… pero AutoFirma no funciona.

El PowerPoint es una constante física universal en estos foros administrativos. Pero me siento tan lejos, tan cósmicamente distante de la Administración y su cultura, que impartiré mi sesión de hoy con una retahíla de hilos salvajes que publiqué aquí, en Twitter. O en 𝕏. O en lo que sea. Que el drama y la comedia tienen extremos que se tocan.

Había pensado compartir estos materiales después, por aquello de no restar interés a la tragedia. Pero —¡ay, amigos!— está todo perdido: esta tarde tendré dos, tres, cuatro, cinco docenas de alumnos… y hay en España tres millones de funcionarios.

Así que en el tuit de más abajo os dejo los materiales de la sesión de hoy. Y que diga mi epitafio —en Comic Sans, claro—: feci quod potui.

He aquí el cuento y el idiota.
Luego, a las 16:00, llegan el ruido y la furia.

[Dante D. Leoncini @dante_leoncini]

I did an experiment with my Nokia N95. Using Python, I set up a local Linux server acting as a proxy between my phone and a smart vacuum cleaner. I also used the phone’s motion sensors to steer the vacuum like a handlebar
#nokia #Python #linux

[Sécurité Civile @SecCivileFrance]

🇪🇸🇫🇷 #EUCivPro Plus de 60 sapeurs-pompiers et sapeurs-sauveteurs sont en chemin vers l'#Espagne dans le cadre du Mécanisme de protection civile de l'Union.
Face aux incendies qui touchent le pays, 2 modules feux de forêt sont déployés en appui des forces de secours locales de la @proteccioncivil dans la région de Leon.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A few dozen people in the world have a rare genetic mutation that gives them the ability to fight off all viruses.

An mRNA-based antiviral inspired by this prevents viral replication in hamsters/ mice, and scientists have yet to find a virus that can break through its defenses in cell culture.

Created by Columbia University immunologist Dusan Bogunovic and his team, the therapy could bestow this superpower on the rest of us.

[qntm @qntm]

This is an absolutely fascinating article about a very bizarre event. Obviously from my perspective the most interesting angle here is the fact that ChatGPT is clearly just spinning SCP-esque containment documentation at Lewis

https://t.co/2Vs8aesjNG