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[MAX @maxxmalist]

The race for AGI

Script: Sherpa by Pocket FM
Video: Seedance 2.5

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Andrej Karpathy just explained the scariest thing happening in software right now..

someone poisoned a Python package that gets 97 million downloads a month.. and a simple pip install was enough to steal everything on your machine..

SSH keys.. AWS credentials.. crypto wallets.. database passwords.. git credentials.. shell history.. SSL private keys.. everything..

and here's the part that should terrify every developer alive..

the attack was only discovered because the attacker wrote sloppy code.. the malware used so much RAM that it crashed someone's computer.. if the attacker had been better at coding.. nobody would have noticed for weeks..

one developer.. using Cursor with an MCP plugin.. had litellm pulled in as a dependency they didn't even know about.. their machine crashed.. and that crash saved thousands of companies from getting their entire infrastructure stolen..

Karpathy's take is the real wake up call.. every time you install any package you're trusting every single dependency in its tree.. and any one of them could be poisoned..

vibe coding saved us this time.. the attacker vibe coded the attack and it was too sloppy to work quietly.. next time they won't make that mistake.

[Sam dHand @SamDhand]

The new West will be defined by its values, as the old was, but no longer by ethnicity, instead by an ideology of hope. I would include nations like Argentina, El Salvador, Hungary, Poland, UAE, possibly Ukraine, and hopefully a new Iran.

[Sam dHand @SamDhand]

Wow… exactly what is happening.
Yet I believe The West will survive and remain a beacon of hope, though we will lose some nations in the process,
ones with a combination of excess debt + low economic production + low indigenous birthrate + high immigration.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

Google updates their quantum migration deadline to 2029:

“Google’s introducing a 2029 timeline to secure the quantum era with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration.
Last month, we called to secure the quantum era before a future quantum computer can break current encryption. This new timeline reflects migration needs for the PQC era in light of progress on quantum computing hardware development, quantum error correction, and quantum factoring resource estimates.”

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[BLAKE⚡️ROGUE MONEY USER @bleighky]

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[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

This girl is right about why Kamala Harris lost the election.

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[nic carter @nic_carter]

Elon basically wagered his entire net worth on the election and won. The Dems were going to absolutely destroy him if Trump lost. One of the gutsiest moves in history. Genuinely inspirational stuff.

[Balaji @balajis]

AI IS THE NEW FBI
Here's how the new administration could use a Twitter Files-like strategy to defang the deep state.

(1) FROM REVELATION TO REFORM
Recall: when @elonmusk acquired Twitter, one of his first acts was to simply reveal every "conspiracy theory" to actually be conspiracy reality. Shocking emails showed Twitter really had colluded with the state to secretly censor citizens. Of course, political dissidents long suspected this to be true...but now they had proof. These revelations delegitimized the old regime, and built the case for radical reform of Twitter.

That's the key idea: revelation justified reform. All we need to do is extend this tactic, with some modification, to the entire federal bureaucracy.

(2) FROM FBI TO AI
The Twitter Files were relatively easy to pull off because Twitter as a company was less than twenty years old, and most of its internal communications were still on a single system.

But the federal government isn't like that. It's much older, much bigger, and much more complex. The files of even one agency go all the way back to COBOL and file cabinets. And few journalists could make sense of such a mess within a short timeframe.

However, we now have AI.

So, suppose we tackled the agencies in order. Start with the security services that faked Russiagate, censored the Hunter Biden story, and manufactured the many show trials of Trump. Use the president's expansive declassification powers to pull as many documents as possible into a single filestore. Collect whatever you can collect legally.

And then let it rip with AI.

Ask questions like:

a) Who exactly was in close contact with the 51 "former" officials that misled the world into thinking Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation?

b) Which senior officials were routinely leaking to journalists in violation of their official oaths?

c) And how exactly did the election get 'fortified' in 2020, again?

The questions are simple, but the answers will be crazy. And a good AI like Perplexity can generate them in seconds. With every citation provided.

Thing is, you can't trust a corrupt agency like the FBI to conduct an investigation like this anymore, especially when it's investigating itself. But you don't have to, because AI is the new FBI.

(3) END THE FEDS
You do this to one agency at a time. You drip, drip, drip the revelations. Maybe you even make the AI search engine public. Once you've done that, you've built the case for reform.

Then you push the reforms through, which might mean shutting down the agency entirely. And you turn to the next agency.

In this fashion, you nail it, then scale it. Don't take on the entire administrative state at once. Divide and conquer, going after the most vicious first, and taking on (say) the Department of Agriculture last.

Remember, federal agencies evolved over decades to obfuscate their internals to nosy humans. But they have no natural resistance to AI. Indeed, no agency can withstand this kind of AI interrogation.

So, this is how a small group of Elon-directed engineers can carve a path through DC, without the aid of a single corrupt bureaucrat or journalist. All they need is AI to ask the questions and X to distribute the answers.

It's the Twitter Files, but for the entire federal government, and enabled by AI. And that's how the digital network defangs the deep state.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Novus Ordo Seclorum

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

NEW: 🇨🇳 China Central Television releases a news report covering Bitcoin's latest record high and Trump's promise to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

Geopolitical game theory is in full swing.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Married men make more money than single men at any age.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

This seems like the first election where new media has fully flipped traditional media.

Long form podcasts, X/social, prediction markets etc deciding this election. Also holding traditional media accountable. Happened gradually then suddenly.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The media say Trump lied when he told Joe Rogan that industrial wind turbines are killing whales, but he didn't. In fact, it's worse than Trump said. If the wind industry continues with its boats, noise, and vibrations, it will make the North Atlantic right whale extinct.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

The Trump-Hitler story is a psyop.

I mean that literally, not figuratively. It’s a military-grade, multi-stage psychological operation, engineered to re-energize demoralized Harris supporters and—through stigmatization—reduce turnout among Trump supporters.

Here’s how it works:

STEP ONE: PAYLOAD

The most important component of any weapons system is the payload—that is, the material that actually detonates and causes explosive damage. In a psyop, the payload is a generally a narrative; in the case of this psyop, the narrative is that Trump is a fascist, a Hitler-sympathizer, and an outright Nazi.

If your initial reaction here is to laugh at how trite and cliched this is, you’re not wrong; you would think, after eight years of trying to will this fake narrative into existence ex nihilo (“don’t you folks get that he’s literally Hitler?!”), the Democrats and their media allies would eventually have moved on. But there are two reasons why they’ve exhumed this beaten and dead horse, and why they’ve done so just 14 days before the election:

Reason 1: They’re desperate. Kamala is behind in nearly every national poll, and, in particular, she has forfeited a meaningful level of support among Latinos, black men, and Arab-Americans. With white Americans breaking for Trump more heavily than ever before, the Harris campaign can’t afford even the slightest of shifts in voting patterns among swing-state minority demographics.

Reason 2: Unfortunately, the fictitious Nazi claim, on the margins, is effective. Most Americans, burned out on nearly a decade of continuous media hoaxes (from “fine people on both sides” to injecting bleach to the origins of Covid to Hunter Biden’s laptop), will see through it and immediately disregard it. Remember, though, that just a handful of swing states will decide this election; even more specifically, members of the aforementioned minority groups will likely be the fulcrum within those states. If, by calling Trump a fascist, the Harris campaign and the media can motivate even a small number of these people to get off the fence and support Harris, and if they can also demoralize a small number of would-be Trump voters in the same states to stay home on Election Day, it could make all the difference.

STEP TWO: THE LAUNCH VEHICLE

A weapon is no good if it can’t be delivered to its intended target. In the case of this operation, the first stage of the launch vehicle was The New York Times and The Atlantic, which published their stories within hours of each other.

Ask yourself, what are the odds that two prominent news outlets, both of which are highly friendly to the Democratic establishment but which are (notionally) independent from one another, would publish two separate articles with the same narrative, within hours of each other on a date exactly two weeks before the election?

Exactly.

STEP THREE: CHAIN REACTION

The New York Times and The Atlantic offer credibility for the narrative’s nucleus, but what they can’t offer is widespread distribution. Americans get their news from a range of sources that is wider than ever, and—as much as it might offend those who took out $200k in student loans to attend Columbia J-school—most of them don’t turn to the so-called paper of record or to a once-great literary magazine intellectually bankrupted by the widow of the guy who invented the iPhone.

Fortunately for the orchestrators of our psyop, though, if there’s one thing the media hates even more than Donald Trump, it’s missing out on all the clicks and impressions from a hot story. Within hours of the two original articles going live (within minutes, in some cases), virtually every other mainstream publication released a derivative article that summarized the salacious claims in the source articles. By the end of the day yesterday, there were hundreds of such releases, from CNN, NBC/MSNBC/CNBC, ABC, CBS, Newsweek, Axial, Business Insider, the Huffington Post, NPR, and just about any other publication one could name.

These derivative articles don’t merely disseminate the narrative’s DNA further; they also serve to reinforce it and provide it (false) legitimacy, creating the unjustified impression that dozens of outlets have looked into this, rather than just two. When Americans open up Facebook and see countless articles from countless different sources all saying the same thing, they become far more susceptible to the narrative, even if they might otherwise be skeptical. The sheer volume of logos and headlines overwhelms the mind’s natural hesitation to question propaganda.

It’s devious, but it works. And the people who engineer missions like this know it.

STEP FOUR: ITERATE AND PERPETUATE

Earlier today, Kamala Harris read a statement decrying Trump’s supposed fascism; as I type these words, she’s regurgitating these claims in her televised townhall. Biden also provided a statement about the articles today. In doing this, they essentially rebooted the news cycle for the narrative, providing it fresh life and keeping it front and center in the media.

If you’re getting a sense that the media focus comes in waves, it’s because it does (and, like everything else here, it’s deliberate and methodical). In the first 24 hours, the focus is on the original claims in the two source articles. In the subsequent 48 hours, once the original story starts to go stale, the media focus pivots to the reaction from prominent opponents of Trump, thereby creating another news cycle to reinforce the narrative. Thereafter, the media will launch yet another wave of news, this one focused on interviewing historians (all of whom will, conveniently, summarize the numerous and convenient parallels between Trump and the fascists of old), swing-state voters (all of whom, conveniently, will claim that Trump’s newly unveiled love of Hitler convinced them to get off the fence and support Kamala), and even so-called Trump supporters that have now decided not to vote for him.

The goal is to keep the narrative in front of the audience for as long as possible, giving it time and space to metastasize further and continue corroding support for Trump.

STEP FIVE: LAUNCH ANOTHER PAYLOAD

We have 13 days until the election. If you think this is the last payload the Harris campaign and the media will launch into the discourse, you have far more faith in their decency than I do.

Expect at least two more of these over the next two weeks, one of which—if I can hazard a guess—will center on fictitious claims of sexual misconduct and the second of which will focus on Trump’s business history.

Just remember: If it looks like a psyop, walks like a psyop, and quacks like a psyop, it’s probably a psyop. Remain vigilant, keep your spirits high, and, most importantly, VOTE.

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[America @america]

The U.S. National Debt has increased by $473 BILLION over the last three weeks.

It now stands at $35.8 TRILLION.

That’s $103,700 of debt for every American.

This is unsustainable.

America is in the fast lane to bankruptcy.