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[Cuba Journal @CubaJournal]

Havana’s Water Tank Is a Measure of the State

https://t.co/J8UsMK6XYx

[Simons Chase @slchase]

When does AI take off? When open-weight models running on bankruptcy-priced compute. Creditors-turned-owners have every incentive to run flat out at anything above power and opex rather than wait for a recovery.

[Simons Chase @slchase]

Pol Pot became a communist in Paris, where he studied on a scholarship from 1949 to 1953. There he joined a secret Marxist study circle of Khmer students (including future Khmer Rouge leaders like Ieng Sary) and the French Communist Party, then heavily Stalinist, absorbing its emphasis on secrecy, discipline, and purges. After returning to Cambodia he trained under Vietnamese communist cadres, and a 1965–66 visit to China on the eve of the Cultural Revolution added the Maoist model of radical peasant revolution that shaped his regime. He then returned to Cambodia and, after seizing power in 1975, became one of the world's most vicious mass murderers, presiding over a regime that killed an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people, roughly a quarter of the country's population, in under four years.

[Simons Chase @slchase]

Treasury buybacks to suppress yields + a democratic socialist upsetting Florida isn’t random. Monetary pornography inflates assets while hollowing out the middle class until they vote for radical redistribution. This is the dyadic force for the next few years: asset prices grind higher until the system breaks politically.

[Selflet.ai @selfletai]

You can run high interpretive reach at near-zero factual risk, because the architecture separates the axis that carries the value from the axis that carries the liability

[Synthetic.com @syntheticdotcom]

Want to buy https://t.co/sYaemzB2xJ?

[Simons Chase @slchase]

@andrewrosener https://t.co/bsynaGkWBn

[Simons Chase @slchase]

Quick numbers that still get me: $10,000 invested in Monster Beverage stock on January 1, 2000 would be worth roughly $21 million today. Back then it traded around 4 cents a share, split-adjusted, still going by Hansen Natural. In 2013, I wrote a piece calling Monster's business model unredeemable, comparing its products to derivatives "designed to fail": https://t.co/8xQwiDnAYj — At the time its stock had already gained 20,318% since 2003, more than triple Apple's gain over the same stretch. I was right about the ethics. I was wrong about the trade. The stock kept compounding another decade past my skepticism.

[Selflet.ai @selfletai]

RT @slchase: If open models were actually as risky as the frontier labs claim, they wouldn't need a PR campaign to make the case. So what's…

[Simons Chase @slchase]

@BioAI_NeuralNet Make one at https://t.co/1pjQDhVyPb

[Simons Chase @slchase]

https://t.co/0uCUXvv7C9: Voice without generativity is playback (a search index with a style filter); generativity without Voice is generic drift toward the average. The product is generative movement through a Voice-shaped manifold — reaching new points the person never wrote, in the way the person would have reached them.

[Simons Chase @slchase]

@nicbstme Voice needs capital V voice and generativity. Voice-shaped, source-governed conversational agents. That’s why I’m building https://t.co/1pjQDhVyPb

[Simons Chase @slchase]

When this organization starts jivin’ & bribin’, you know self driving is the safest, cheapest future for transport

[Simons Chase @slchase]

AI isn’t a lab anymore. It’s a 24/7 situation room

[Simons Chase @slchase]

@_The_Prophet__ Bail in

[Cuba Journal @CubaJournal]

The Aid Ship in the Revolution's Harbor

https://t.co/ZMod2vG02I

[Simons Chase @slchase]

A fast-food cheeseburger is the average of our concept of food — convenient, cheap, and slowly turning us into metabolic donkeys. Generic AI is the same bargain offered to the mind. Read The Machine Is Made Of Us
https://t.co/15Vwv2iJkn

[Simons Chase @slchase]

It appears the nerf is swelling

[Simons Chase @slchase]

@Polymarket There was a moment when this was possible

[Cuba Journal @CubaJournal]

This interview with John Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's grandson, was published in 2015 — specifically dated July 9, 2015. In it, Hemingway's grandson John told VOA by Skype from Spain that Ernest Hemingway is something that unites the U.S. and Cuba, calling him apolitical, for the Cuban people, very much an American writer, and the perfect bridge between the two countries. https://t.co/GovcP3y7JF