Alex Kotlik

#MachineLearning specialist, Data Scientist. Based in New York City. Avid traveler, beginner skier and mountain biker :) #DataScience #AI .

[Fr. Chris Vorderbruggen @FatherChrisVor1]

I have been holding my tongue about something that happened during the Ohio gubernatorial race. I refused to speak while the election was underway because I did not want my words mistaken for an attempt to influence anyone’s vote.

But now that the election is over, I have something to say.

For nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma.

What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics.

They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility.

The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it.

Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election.

Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear.

I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque.

To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone.

What did you teach them about the value of their suffering?

I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure.

Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward.

If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it.

This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears.

Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better.

And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.

Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:

"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."

He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.

His point is something most people are too afraid to say.

AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?

He also flagged something nobody is talking about.

AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.

"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."

And his final warning was the sharpest of all.

"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."

The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.

Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.

Full interview here:
https://t.co/LmXJtvKc4O

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.

This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

LEFT TURN: A new FOX News survey finds 38% of voters say it would be a good thing for the U.S. to move away from capitalism and toward socialism, while 61% view socialism negatively.

The shift may be tied to divided views on capitalism itself as voters are split over whether capitalism in the United States is working well: 51% say it’s working very or somewhat well, while nearly as many, 49%, say it’s working not very or not at all well.

[Prof. Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen]

The Quiet Wealth Transfer. From Wages to Debt.
For decades, the story you were sold was simple: "Work hard, get educated, and you’ll be fine."

But behind the scenes, the engine of the economy was swapped out. We stopped powering growth with wages and started powering it with private debt.

The real macro bomb was never public debt - it was private debt. Before the 2008 crisis, U.S. government debt was about 60% of GDP. But private debt had surged up to 170% of GDP.

And that trend didn't stop.

Today, private debt remains elevated at around 145% of GDP. Higher than any pre-2000 level.

Every major modern crisis - the Great Depression, 2008 - was preceded not by government deficits, but by a collapse in private credit. When that credit engine stalls, the economy crashes. Mainstream economists ignored this. They told you banks were just "intermediaries." They lied. Banks create money, and they pumped that money into existing assets - houses - rather than factories or innovation.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

it's absolutely perfect

[Essenviews @essenviews]

👀👀

[Representative Elect McGee @SaraForTexLege]

Laughing. In front of a cage, under a tent, in the middle of a swamp, surrounded by alligators - where they plan to hold HUMAN BEINGS whose only crime was crossing a border in search of a better life for their family.

These are the darkest of days.

Please - it is OK to say that you didn’t vote for this. It is OK to say ENOUGH.

And if you look at this picture and feel joy - may God have mercy on your soul.

[🇺🇸🇺🇸GroundControlToMajorTom @Grancracker_]

Republicans have included 300 MILLION in the budget for......Trump's golf trips.

You heard that right. But there is no money to feed hungry kids school lunch. #TrumpsBillWillKill

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 LISTEN TO THIS …HERE IS ChatGpt’s thoughts on the 816 page BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL. THIS IS WHAT AI HAD TO SAY‼️ 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

A new study is out: things that make you age faster, and slower, according to 16 epigenetic age clocks.

🧵

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Srinu @srinumadala]

@ylecun @elonmusk @erikbryn Nothing more to say.

[Dave Benner, Nemesis of Neocons @dbenner83]

@RobertKennedyJr Replace “Afghanistan” with “Ukraine” in this video and it’s still true. It’s always true. And Assange remains a true hero.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

As long as AI systems are trained to reproduce human-generated data (e.g. text) and have no search/planning/reasoning capability, performance will saturate below or around human level.

Furthermore, the amount of trials needed to reach that level will be far larger than the amount of trials needed to train humans.

LLMs are trained with 200,000 years worth of reading material and are still pretty dumb.
Their usefulness resides in their vast accumulated knowledge and language fluency. But they are still pretty dumb.

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

The 12 types of ML papers.

(created by @natashajaques @maxhkw)

#MachineLearning #ML #DataScience

[Alex Kotlik @quasi_ai]

I just donated to @WinWithoutWar! Join us to build a movement for a progressive foreign policy! https://t.co/rLlQEUd8KM

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

This an image you haven't seen today because mainstream media has been covering Donald Trump's motorcade & plane all day long. These are Nashville students walking out today, sick and tired of the NRA and Republican inaction. The youth WILL save us, once again.

[Alex Kotlik @quasi_ai]

I just donated to @WinWithoutWar! Join us to build a movement for a progressive foreign policy! https://t.co/rLlQEUd8KM

[Aaron Ray Hermes 🦅🇺🇸 @realAaronHermes]

@elonmusk