Søren Peter Nielsen

Digital immigrant - and enjoying the ride :-)

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[Oleksiy Goncharenko @GoncharenkoUa]

A strong U.S. delegation has arrived in Odesa for the Black Sea Security Forum.

Senators Richard Blumenthal and Mark Kelly, alongside Congressman Jim Himes, are joining this year’s discussions on regional security and transatlantic cooperation.

The delegation is also accompanied by Julie Davis, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Trump looting almost $2 billion from the government coffers to pay his supporters is one of the largest scandals in US history.

But our press is so beaten down and the public has become so fatigued by his constant criminality that it's barely a news story.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet.

Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare.

Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon.

But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while.

The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached.
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[Lauren @cabsav456]

The Thomas Massie primary is truly insane. We are looking at the most expensive U.S. House primary in history, with spending pushing toward $35 million.

Massie's opponent, Ed Gallrein, has raised just $2 million on his own. The rest of the money, over $14 million, is coming from outside Super PACs who desperately want Massie gone.

On top of that, Pete Hegseth is being deployed to Kentucky to campaign against him. Stephen Miller & Con Inc. have been on massive Twitter tirades attacking him. And there was a highly coordinated smear campaign of unfounded allegations launched this week by Con Inc. influencers.

When the establishment is willing to spend $35M+ and go to these lengths to take one man down, it really makes you wonder why.

Whether you like Massie or not, this election will determine whether or not we as voters actually have a voice anymore. If outside special-interest money can successfully buy a seat and sway an election like this, we have a serious, serious problem.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

It was an honor to inviting two Iranian heroes, to the stage at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, where they spoke directly to European leaders.

Farideh lost both eyes after being shot by the Islamic Republic. Kosar was blinded in one eye and recently attacked by some Western activists in Berlin for calling the Islamic Republic and its proxies terrorists.
These women can no longer fully see the world. But they see tyranny more clearly than many in the West.
Listen to them. Share their message with the world.
@kosareftekharii

[Payam Samarghandi @PayamSamar]

Har man selvangivet min. 20.000 kr. for lidt af sine kryptofortjenester, så bliver man sigtet for skatteunddragelse og ender med høj sandsynlighed med at få en bøde.

Det er et afledt problem af de nuværende asymmetriske regler. Oveni at man skal betale skat af penge, man ikke har tjent, så ender man også med at få en bøde. Bøden er i virkeligheden bare en ekstra skat ovenpå en i forvejen uretfærdig skat.

Derudover kommer det, at sagsbehandlingstiderne for straffesagerne er flere år. Så hvis man finder ud af, at man har beregnet sin skattepligtige opgørelse forkert (hvilket 'alle' i praksis har) og henvender sig til Skat, så kan man se frem til flere års afbrudt nattesøvn med en sigtelse hængende over hovedet.

Go' dag!

[Payam Samarghandi @PayamSamar]

I dagens Store Penge podcast diskuterer panelet (@RosenvoldGeo @MadsStrange_ , etc) hvorfor krypto skattereglerne ikke er blevet ændret endnu.

Det skyldes ene og alene manglende politisk vilje, især fra S og V. Intet andet.

Skatteministeriet, Skattestyrelsen, køberne af kryptovaluta, Dansk Industri, Dansk Erhverv, osv. ønsker de nuværende regler - der er fra før, computeren blev opfundet - hen, hvor peberet gror.

Jeg ved positivt, at adskillige sagsbehandlere har sagt op i Skat, fordi de menneskeligt ikke kunne leve med at træffe afgørelser, som forgældede sagesløse borgere til evig tid. Skattestyrelsen er dem af alle, som ønsker reglerne ændret.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨Google built an invisible watermark into every image Gemini has ever generated. Over 10 billion pieces of content marked.

One unemployed engineer just cracked it open. With 200 black images and math.

It's called reverse-SynthID.

SynthID is Google DeepMind's invisible watermark. It's embedded at the pixel level into every image, video, audio, and text generated by Gemini. Invisible to the human eye. Designed to survive cropping, compression, screenshots, and format changes.

It was supposed to be unbreakable.

Here's how he broke it:

→ Generated 200 pure black and pure white images from Gemini
→ When you average enough pure-black AI images, every non-zero pixel IS the watermark. Nothing to hide behind. Just the signal, naked.
→ Used FFT spectral analysis to map the exact carrier frequencies
→ Discovered the watermark uses a fixed phase template — identical across every image from the same model
→ Cross-image phase coherence at carrier frequencies: over 99.5%
→ Built a detector that identifies SynthID watermarks with 90% accuracy
→ Built a V3 bypass that drops 91% of the phase coherence and 75% of carrier energy — at 43+ dB PSNR. Almost zero visible quality loss.

No neural networks. No proprietary access. No leaked code. Just signal processing and too much free time.

Here's the wildest part:

The green channel carries the strongest watermark signal. The carrier frequencies change based on image resolution. And the entire phase template is fixed — meaning every single Gemini image carries the same fingerprint structure.

One engineer. 200 black images. A Fourier transform. That's all it took to reverse-engineer a system protecting 10 billion+ pieces of content.

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100% Open Source.

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[Steffen W. Frølund @SteffenFrolund]

Tiden er kommet til at krypto ikke længere skal behandles skandaløst ringe 🤝

Jeg har i 4 år slået i en dyne hvad angår statens grove behandling af krypto i Danmark. Det handler nok om min tech-startup-investor baggrund. Jeg forstår det de andre er uvidende om her.

Undervejs i min dyneboksning har regeringen endda forslået at behandle området værre - men det fik jeg med gode kræfters hjælp heldigvis standset.

Vi var på vej fra asken ind i ilden med en helt igennem tech-ignorant lagerskat. Nu er en ny ansvarlig regerings næste opgave at gå fra asken hen til noget godt. Nu skal den ringe behandling af krypto stoppe.

Situationen i dag er at alt fra folkeskolelærere og førtidspensionister er slået personligt konkurs af skat - uden at have tjent penge der kunne beskattes først. Alene fordi socialdemokratiet i årevis har ønsket det var sådan. Dybt amoralsk.

Vi vælger generelt alt for ofte forkert i Prometheus-myten. Vi har heldigvis ikke forbudt og smadret brugen af ild, bare fordi ild kan brænde. Vi har høstet ildens goder. Vi har tilgengæld smadret brugen af magiske sten til energi (atomkraft) og vi har smadret kryptoaktiver, fordi de - ligesom alting - har nogle potentielle bagsider. På den måde mangler vi så alle dets fordele. Var ilden opfundet idag, så havde venstrefløjen været imod den.

Der er ikke nogle seriøse steder at sætte dit kryds, andre end hos LA og mig, hvis du ønsker at fikse dette. Så simpelt er det.

Red førtidspensionister og skolelærere fra de mest absurde skattesager, stem LA. Lad moderne teknologier gøre vores liv bedre, mere bekvemme og rigere, stem LA.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🇮🇷 The Telegraph's Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, David Blair, explains how Trump was caught off guard by Tehran's retaliation

[Steffen W. Frølund @SteffenFrolund]

Aktier skal med i formueskatten. Men unoterede aktier skal ikke må man forstå - de skal istedet opgøres af revisor på baggrund af nogle bureaukratiske sjus, og ikke de unoterede aktiers markedsværdi.

Sådan er S politik åbenbart overfor iværksættere lige nu.

Børsnoterer du din virksomhed, så overgår du altså fra Socialdemokraternes regnemaskine for unoterede aktier (sådan nogle regnemaskiner har vi gode erfaringer med😅) til at aktier skal opgøres efter markedsværdien.

En direkte skat på børsnoteringer er resultatet. Ingen vil jo ved deres sansers fulde fem børsnotere noget mere.

Håbløs landskadelig bureaukratisk nedrustningspolitik.

[Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane]

Astonishing response. Russia is helping Iran kill Americans - and Trump’s press secretary thinks “it does not really matter”.

[Daniel Korski @DanielKorski]

Når Nobelpristagere skriver om 0–0,6% skat for ultra-rige, taler de om USA/Frankrig.

I Danmark mødes iværksættere af:
55% topskat + 42% aktieskat + 22% selskabsskat + arveafgift + lagerbeskatning.

Vi har allerede et af verdens højeste skattetryk.
Spørgsmålet er ikke “betaler de nok?”
Men: Hvor meget talent og kapital har vi råd til at miste?

[Jacob Bræstrup @JBraestrup]

Så er @DanskIndustri's analyse om formueskattens betydning for iværksætteri online (se link👇):
De 22.000 danskere, der skal betale S' formueskat, har siden 2001 stiftet 13.000 virksomheder, som i dag beskæftiger 66.000 danskere i hele landet.
#dkpol #dkøko

[FritzeHeisterberg | I’m a 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇫🇴🫶🏻🇺🇦🇨🇦 @fcandersen]

Og derfor kommer jeg ikke til at stemme DF!

[Lew Anno Support#USA#NATO#Ukraine 24/2-22 @anno1540]

Odesa.
On March 2, 2024, a Russian shaheed killed 5 children.😠💔

That monster who made this shaheed still goes to work every day. ...

🕯️ Timofiy Gaidarzhi — 4 months💔
🕯️ Liza Kravets — 7 months💔
🕯️ Mark Pogozhin — 3 years💔
🕯️ Zlata Polishchuk — 8 years💔
🕯️ Serhiy Polishchuk — 9 years💔

Fuck YOU PUTIN

[Payam Samarghandi @PayamSamar]

En formueskat vil – hvis den vedtages – medføre en de facto lagerbeskatning af kryptovaluta. Man beskattes af sin beholdning, uanset den er realiseret.

Reglerne vil med al sandsynlighed også kræve, at man hvert år oplyser sin samlede kryptobeholdning til Skat – uanset om der er solgt eller ej – så Skat kan vurdere, om ens formue overstiger grænsen for formuebeskatning.

Man kan mene, hvad man vil om formueskat. Men konsekvensen er en de facto lagerbeskatning af alle aktiver og et øget indblik for Skat i borgernes samlede formuer.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster