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Just a black fuzzy cat

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

Illegal aliens are slinging deadly drugs on the streets of Seattle, then living the high life in the suburbs wrapped in the warm blanket of Washington state's sanctuary policies. We wouldn't even know about it if it weren't for @DEASEATTLEDiv.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Here’s a number for you, Ted.

Election Day was six days ago and your scam of an election system is still accepting ballots and counting.

The rest of us don’t have to pretend that third-worldist slop is acceptable.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Stuff like this makes it very difficult for people to trust elections.

California has a serious problem.

Raman was in a distant third and now she’s leading every new drop to completely change the outcome. And there could obviously be legitimate explanations (esp since CA allows ballot harvesting, which is a problem in itself).. but no way anyone can look at them taking weeks to count ballot and outcome completely changing in one direction each time without having serious concerns.

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

If this were a third world country, and it took a month to count the ballots, and "late arriving mail ballots" suddenly made the 3rd place candidate who was way behind start winning, we'd all reasonably assume it was fraud.

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

Google has published a paper that might end the transformer era.

For the last 7 years, every major AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, has been built on the exact same architecture: The Transformer.

But Transformers have a fatal flaw.

To remember context, they have to process every single word against every other word. It’s called quadratic complexity. As your prompt gets longer, the compute cost explodes.

The alternative is the old-school RNN (Recurrent Neural Network). RNNs are incredibly cheap and fast, but they have a fixed memory size. If you give them a long document, they get amnesia.

Until today.

Google researchers published Memory Caching: RNNs with Growing Memory.

And it fixes the biggest bottleneck in AI.

Instead of an RNN having a fixed, rigid memory that constantly overwrites itself, Google gave it a "save" button.

The technique allows the RNN to cache checkpoints of its hidden states as it reads.

The memory capacity of the RNN can now dynamically grow as the sequence gets longer.

They built four different variants, including sparse selective mechanisms where the AI actively chooses exactly which checkpoints matter most.

The results rewrite the rules of efficiency.

On long-context understanding and recall-intensive tasks, these new Memory-Cached RNNs closed the gap with Transformers.

They achieved competitive accuracy without the explosive, quadratic compute cost. It perfectly bridges the gap between the cheap efficiency of an RNN and the massive capability of a Transformer.

We have spent billions scaling Transformers because we thought they were the only way an AI could remember a long conversation.

But Google just proved we don't need to process the whole history every single time.

We just needed a smarter cache.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Imagine that.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Baker. He dances when it’s dinner time. 14/10 top-tier tippy taps #SeniorPupSaturday

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

BREAKING: The hate group "No Hate in Washington State" which has been targeting signature gatherers, Let's Go WA, Brian Heywood & Brandi Kruse, is rallying against the initiatives & bringing in their leftist allies.

Now we know why politicians aren't condemning the attacks on signature gatherers, they agree with them

They are falsely claiming the initiatives to protect parental rights and keep boys out of girls sports are "two dangerous November ballot initiatives, sponsored by a MAGA mega-donor, that would put child abuse victims, LGBTQ+ kids, and all girls at greater risk of harm."

Their lies were so predictable

[Martin Shkreli @MartinShkreli]

i have so much Ro dirt Home Depot asked me if I wanted to be a soil supplier

but the dark arts of politics require patience

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

Here's the key excerpt in video. The same applies to much of Bloomberg's gun control.

No one was clamoring for a Glock ban, for example. But he demanded it through Everytown, and several blue state politicians jumped on command.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

5 plain clothes cops in Hong Kong arrest a 78 year old woman because she gestured “6 and 4” to memorialise the date of the June 4 Tiananmen Massacre

[Ted @TedPillows]

Saylor's unrealized loss: -$11,139,000,000

Tom Lee's unrealized loss: -$9,753,000,000

Both are now sitting on their biggest losses ever.

[Steve Cortes @CortesSteve]

CNN fired me for telling the truth about Charlottesville.

New indictments further incriminate the corrupt SPLC, a leftist group that financed and organized the underlying staged event.

A lie stacked upon a deceit…

My article:
https://t.co/CYXIrZq8st

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Ramsey. He is a mail delivery dog. Shipping is free, and while packages might not be handled with care, they are handled with enthusiasm. 14/10

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

Our civilization’s information environments are still horribly broken.

Reddit is one of the worst offenders.

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

Oh wow. Violent crime must be way up!

Zero tolerance was not about gun trafficking. It was about trying to shut down dealers over trivial paperwork errors.

[Sujeet Indap @sindap]

Davis Polk this week submitted $4.8 million in April-only billings to bankruptcy court overseeing Spirit Airlines case, including three 2nd yr associates charging $1,410/hr who together cost $725k:

https://t.co/YxyN9VN17A

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨Michael Burry just said Elon Musk and Nvidia's deal is built on fake numbers.

Burry published a detailed breakdown calling the entire structure "Fugazi", his word for fake.

He is alleging that billions of dollars in Nvidia chips are being hidden off balance sheets, and that American retirees are unknowingly funding the whole thing.

Nvidia, the world's largest AI chip company sold $5.4 billion worth of its most advanced GPUs, the GB200, to a company called Valor.

Valor is not a real operating business. It is a special purpose vehicle, a shell company created specifically to hold these chips and nothing else. Nvidia also invested $1.9 billion of its own money directly into Valor on top of the sale.

Those 100,000+ chips are now physically inside xAI's data center. xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, the one that builds Grok. xAI is using every single one of those chips right now to run its AI models.

But here is what Burry is flagging.

Neither Nvidia nor xAI owns those chips on paper. Valor, the shell company holds legal title. That means $5.4 billion in GPU assets do not show up on Nvidia's balance sheet as inventory.

They do not show up on xAI's balance sheet as assets. They are legally invisible to both companies.

Nvidia gets to book the $5.4 billion as a completed sale and record it as revenue. xAI gets full use of the chips without owning them. And the risk disappears into a shell company in the middle.

Now here is where American retirees enter the picture.

Valor needed $3.5 billion in debt to fund this structure. Apollo provided it. Apollo is one of the largest asset managers on earth with $1.03 trillion under management and $834 billion specifically in private credit.

Apollo raised the $3.5 billion, packaged it into debt securities, and sold those securities to Athene.

Athene is Apollo's own insurance company. It sells fixed and indexed annuities, retirement savings products, to ordinary Americans.

When a retiree buys an Athene annuity, they believe their money is sitting in safe, stable investments. That money is now inside a structure funding Elon Musk's AI data center.

The numbers inside Athene are most alarming.

Athene holds $74.2 billion in reserves. It has moved $217 billion in assets into a captive insurer based in Bermuda, meaning those assets sit outside normal US insurance regulation and oversight.

Of the entire portfolio, 34.7%, equal to $103 billion, is classified as Level 3 assets.

Level 3 is an accounting classification that means there is no observable market price for these assets. No outside party can independently verify what they are actually worth.

The leverage sitting on top of those unpriced assets is 16 times.

Burry's says:
Every step of this structure is technically legal and publicly disclosed. But the entire thing was deliberately engineered across 8 to 12 steps to move credit risk off balance sheets and away from any market pricing.

- Nvidia books the revenue.
- Apollo collects the fees.
- xAI gets the computing power.
- And retirees sitting at the bottom of a 16x leveraged Bermuda insurance structure, holding $103 billion in assets with no market price carry the risk without knowing it exists.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Every country on planet Earth is built on conquest. Every “indigenous” tribe claimed its land by conquest. Every line on the map, across every continent and every ethnic group, was drawn by conquest. Apologizing for this is like apologizing for gravity.