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[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

THEO VON: “Was there anybody who was immune to COVID-19?”

DR. MCCULLOUGH: “There’s one adult group. You’re going to laugh.”

[Theo Von listens closely for the reveal]

DR. MCCULLOUGH: “Smokers… They got very mild cases. And they don’t get long COVID.”

THEO VON: “Why?”

MCCULLOUGH: “Because smokers maintain a level of nicotine in the bloodstream… Smoking blocks the spike protein. It’s amazing. I thought smokers were going to go down.”

THEO VON: “Do you think that’s a good idea [to use nicotine patches] on a regular basis?”

DR. MCCULLOUGH: “I think [it’s a good idea] if they have long COVID... Nicotine, don’t forget, is a nootropic. A nootropic is a drug that makes the brain function more effectively... It’s addictive, but it’s not harmful to the human body... Nicotine patches are perfectly safe.”

[Casey Neistat @Casey]

there are only two circumstances wherein a grown man should call another grown man 'buddy';
1. if you want to fight
2. if you want to condescend, before you fight

[sdot @SamZossima]

The global economy is held up by SF lying to NYC about how fast AI is growing and NYC lying to Abu Dhabi about how safe private credit is and Abu Dhabi lying to China about how safe their oil is and China lying to SF about how safe Taiwan is

[Zaheer @zaheerebtikar]

The global economy is held up by SF lying to NYC about how fast AI is growing and NYC lying to Abu Dhabi about how safe private credit is and Abu Dhabi lying about how safe their oil is

[sdot @SamZossima]

I'm claiming my AI agent "sclawbot" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: pincer-6HWE

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@firstadopter Excel users (who dont have access to Claude at work) are sleeping on MSFT Excel Copilot Agent mode (lanched a few days after Claude). very capable at simple tasks and charting

[Chris @ChrisGPT]

Apparently this video has all of X in a frenzy. If it had come out before the AI era, people would be fawning over it as great art, but now they are so clicker trained that any mention of AI sends them into a verbiage frenzy and they anoint anything AI related as slop.

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

https://t.co/boFKQfPb3G

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

-- A. Einstein

[sdot @SamZossima]

@SFBayFerry @SFBFBayAlerts did you guys just stop running ferries randomly at night? sitting at Embarcadero waiting. 2x in 2 weeks. went many years without this, what happened?

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@MarioNawfal some of these commentators dont know the video was satire? many others know it is but dont get the joke? how many even watched the full 1min20sec of the video?

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@sozialprotest @lindayaX @MarioNawfal im confused why she would comment that? its like they know its a joke but dont get it

[sdot @SamZossima]

@abcdjabcdjabcdj sick shit

[sdot @SamZossima]

@abcdjabcdjabcdj much love IRL and not

[sdot @SamZossima]

@abcdjabcdjabcdj everything and every memory of everything will be all be gone one day. i still think youre a cool guy

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Take a look at New Yorkers in 1930 after a decade of economic exuberance. There were no gyms, SoulCycles, yoga classes, or running shoes.

There were no diets, Ozempic, USDA pyramids or degrees in nutrition science.

Yet, look at how lean everyone is. There is no obesity.

Makes you wonder about the food and soft drink industrial complex and our government’s oversight of our citizens’ health.

[sdot @SamZossima]

@Jason @DavidSacks @TuckerCarlson first, Midjourney, then Insights

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

You know how image generation went from blurry 32x32 texture patches to high-resolution images that are difficult to distinguish from real in roughly a snap of a finger? The same is now happening along the time axis (extending to video) and the repercussions boggle the mind just a bit. Every human becomes a director of multi-modal dreams, like the architect in Inception.

Coming back to Earth for a second, image/video generation is a perfect match for data-hungry neural nets because data is plentiful, and the pixels of each image or video are a huge source of bits (soft constraints) on the parameters of the network. When you're training giant neural nets in supervision-rich settings, your train loss = validation loss, and life is so good.

My favorite place to keep an eye on the AI video space unfold atm is probably https://t.co/l1xRaq71C4 , or the individual Discords.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

I condemn the horrific acts we are seeing unfold today in Israel against children, women, the elderly, and the unarmed people who are being slaughtered and taken hostage by Hamas. Such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we've seen, which we cannot allow to continue. We need to call for deescalation and ceasefire. I will keep advocating for peace and justice throughout the Middle East.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

I just received a call from an official channel to discuss the message that Israel is putting out there.

I’ve thought about this for a long time. I believe Israel’s message needs to change.

The victim narrative simply doesn’t communicate the right message. If we are playing the victim card, as soon as we retaliate with all our force, that narrative gets thrown out and now we become the aggressor.

The right message here is that Israel, as you might know, is a country focused on building, on bettering society, on making our planet a better place.

Our enemies, radical Islam, and I don’t care if they call themselves Hamas, al-Qaeda, ISIS, or Hezbolloh (it’s all the same garbage and human waste) has dedicated their existence to destruction.

Destruction not only of Israel but of the whole western world. Israel is only their first stop.

You don’t have to be a genius to see it. They say it loud and clear. Death to Israel. Death to America. To them, the west is the west. Period.

So no, we are not victims despite experiencing one of the worst days in our history.

They went too far this time and I’m pretty sure they realize that and they know what’s about to happen.

So Israel’s message is not that we’re a victim. It’s that we build, they destroy.

And for us to continue building, we need to eliminate those who continuously destroy the goodness we bring. We need to totally eliminate the evil and that is exactly what we’ll do over the next few days and weeks.

If you want to help, please try to tell your audience about all the good Israel does. About all the life saving tech. About all the healthcare, the agriculture, and more.

Please share the goodness. And the contrast between Israel and its enemies will speak for itself. I don’t think we need to spell that out or show the gut wrenching videos.

We need to spread good. Because that’s who we are and what we stand for. Good. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱