X don’t ban me again! I swear Elon is a GENIUS and all his trolls future crypto-billionaire GIGACHADS 😂 also: restore my old account fckrs - expat in 🍌country
No human alive has seen an El Niño event this strong. In fact, it’s possible that no human in history has seen an event this strong.
Forecasts continue to project a 3.5-4.0°C ‘Super El Nino’.
Temperatures in the east Pacific are now widely 5°C above average, peaking at 6°C.
“what even is mastic gum?”
a resin from a tree that only grows on one island in Greece. Chios. you chew it like gum. or take capsules. been used for 3,000 years. published in the New England Journal of Medicine. $1/day.
not a supplement invented in a lab. a tree resin used since ancient Greece. the science just finally caught up.
i just found out my bestfriend broke up with her sf boyfriend over the weekend
i asked what happened
she goes "i found out he had an ai agent managing the relationship"
turns out the thoughtful texts, the check-ins, the good morning messages, the conflict resolution, dinner date plans...all automated
my friend was emotionally attached to a cron job
There’s a scene from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that has been haunting my dreams of late.
In the film, the Time Traveller (Rod Taylor) has traveled almost a million years into the future, expecting that when he arrived he would find an advanced civilisation marked by the pursuit of learning. Instead, he finds the Eloi, a race of simple creatures in togas who are bred like cattle, and eaten, by the subterranean Morlocks.
In the film’s most harrowing scene, he’s taken by one of the Eloi to a centuries-old library housing the last books in existence, which crumble to dust in his hands.
“What have you done?” the Time Traveller demands, as the dreams of centuries turn to ash. “Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play.”
In the last couple weeks I see a lot of men on this platform arguing with a straight face that we should let AI generate our writing for us, that it’s the future, that there’s no fighting it. And I need you all to know that THIS is the ultimate end of a world in which everyone has machines write for them. There will be no more thinking, no more creative expression, no more art or literature. It’s what C. S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.” We will be no different from cattle and our libraries will turn to dust.
When ease and entertainment become the highest good, it’s not shocking that people will find clever ways to avoid work and study. But nor should it be surprising when the ultimate fate of the Eloi becomes our own.
> jails communists without trial
> believes intelligence is hereditary & promotes eugenics
> forces every worker to save up to 1/3 of their income whether they like it or not
> takes that forced savings and uses it to build housing, healthcare and infrastructure
> Singapore ranks first in the world for healthcare
> turns renters into owners (over 80% of Singaporeans now own their house)
> makes corruption a career ending, prison sending offence (no matter who you are)
> death penalty for drug trafficking (no exceptions)
> GDP per capita goes from $500 to $56,000 in one generation
> now one of the richest nations on earth with one of the strongest passports
You can just do things.
Instead of watching 1 hour of Netflix tonight, watch this ex-Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean’s lecture. It’s the clearest explanation I’ve seen of the full AI engineering stack - from building LLMs from scratch all the way to one human coordinating 100 agents.
The best part is that it’s useful whether you’ve never touched a model or you’ve been shipping agent systems every day for the past year.
Bookmark it & watch the whole lecture this weekend, because it might end up being the most valuable thing you learn all week.