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[Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT. @drhossamsamy65]

A nationwide general strike was organized in more than 75 cities across Italy, demanding a complete boycott of Israel and the severance of all ties.

[Manish RJ @mrjethwani1]

“There is water scarcity in Delhi because a lot of the water that arrives gets evaporated due to the heat.” — Delhi CM Rekha Gupta

Wah Madamji wah! Taaliyan rukni nahi chahiye Mitron… 👏🏼 😃

[GeoMagix @DblCoverage]

Yikes!

#Antarctica

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most horrifying scenes in human history has been revealed.

When Israel forced thousands in Gaza to collect flour mixed with sand due to severe famine.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Hermes @chaotichermes]

The goyim have gone insane.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The fact that billionaires still want more money should be studied by the same people who study serial killers.

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

India is incapable of innovation.

[Asuka Zheng🎀 @VoidAsuka]

This is my biggest takeaway lately too: we can just distill the world.

It's part of why I stopped pushing further into robotics learning - it was the first field I pivoted into when I moved from SDE to AI. People in that field believe embodiment intelligence will evolve the way LLMs did, and that there's huge room for them to make the revolutionary contributions. I see it differently: the trajectory is right; the protagonist isn't us. It's AI that will do that work - the same logic as Anthropic going after code first: the bet wasn't that code was good business early on, it was that code helps the model improve itself. Once LLMs are good enough, they'll be the ones figuring out the best architecture for embodiment intelligence, at lightspeed. How to leave the solar system, even.

So the most useful thing we can do now is accelerate that process in our own way - high-quality data, good infra/envs/algorithms, smart resource scheduling -instead of 螳臂当车. The wheel of history isn't stopping. We're at the beginning of infinity.

And I really want to work on the most critical problems with the best people. It's so close to where I've already been.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Who else is noticing that seemingly the entire U.S. stock market is now driven by weapons manufacturers, AI surveillance technology developers, data center bubble builders and sick-care pharma bioweapons makers?

There seems to be zero incentive in the current grotesque economic system for building things that work and that HELP people live better lives. It's all about bombing them, spying on them, depopulating them or exploiting them for profit.

That's what the U.S. economic system has largely become, sadly.

[Black Mamba Millionaire @BlackMambaMilli]

Only 2% of people on Earth make >$100,000 per year

$100,000 is a lot of money so please don’t let anyone convince you otherwise

Social media will destroy your perception of “normal” quicker than anything else

If you make 6 figs per year, you are living better than 99% of people to ever exist

[Arun Rao @sudoraohacker]

Economics of data centers:

$38bn of upfront build, and “on our working assumptions, a 1GW GB200-class facility could support roughly $14 billion of annual infrastructure rental revenue, while a frontier AI provider can turn that rented compute into inference revenue at attractive margins, generating $35 billion+ annually on compute dedicated to AI inference.”

So 1 to 2.5 years of payback on a 15 year asset - pretty much unheard of margins on infrastructure and why hyperscalers are putting in $700bn this year and up to $1trn or more from 2028 and after. Mostly going to US data centers.

There’s pretty much no asset in the modern world that lets you deploy capital at this scale and get such high returns - and my thesis is that we’re still in an extremely compute constrained world as the manufacturers of chips and memory are still growing much slower than market demand and most of the demand is just US based companies (the rest of the world hasn’t yet grokked the high economic returns).

[Technical Ben @TechnicalBben]

What the actual hell.

And you guys ask me why I don’t like AI. It’s because of the intentions behind it.

These people openly talk about turning intelligence into a utility they control and sell back to humanity like electricity.

One man or one company should never have that much influence over human thinking, creativity, learning, and decision making.

I genuinely don’t think kids should be heavily exposed to AI this early either. A generation growing up depending on machines to think for them is dangerous long term.

[Bryan Cheong @bryancsk]

The illustrations in this book are one of the most shockingly beautiful and thoughtful and evocative I have ever seen. From a publisher that usually does general children's info books with cartoon illustrations. Encountering it as a child is a core memory

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Listen carefully to this. As Christopher Olah, co founder of Anthropic speaks.

The Pope is saying: “AI must serve humanity and not concentrate power.”

Anthropic is saying: “AI is powerful, not fully understood, and needs to be controlled before it scales.”

The UN is saying: AI should be globally governed aligned with the SDGs, overseen through international cooperation & guided by “shared values” and “human rights frameworks”

None are saying: “the public should decide.” Just experts, frameworks and oversight because the public is too stupid to understand.

Here endeth your lesson on Democracy 💣

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Proportion of species at risk of extinction within 4-5 decades: fish ~41-60%; amphibians ~47-50%; insects ~33-40%; reptiles ~25-30% plants ~39-45%; birds ~30-50% mammals ~37-40%

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder.

They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.

[루시퍼 @lucifer5670]

한국으로 오는 중국인, 일본으로 가는 중국인. 그 차이는?

요즘 중국 부유층과 엘리트들 사이에서 가장 핫한 단어가 바로 ‘룬(潤)’임. 중국어 발음이 'RUN'이라서 말 그대로 중국을 떠나 해외로 탈출한다는 뜻인데, 최근 이 '룬 족'들의 행보가 심상치 않음.

특히 오늘 저녁 9시 일본 NHK에서 방영된 다큐 <윤일(潤日)의 초상>을 보니, 일본으로 향하는 중국 자본의 결이 우리가 알던 것과는 완전히 달라 소름이 돋을 정도임.

우리가 흔히 대림역이나 가리봉동에서 봐왔던 한국 행 중국인들이 생계형 이주나 소상공인 중심이었다면, 지금 일본으로 건너가는 중국인들은 압도적인 자본력과 테크로 무장한 ‘하이엔드 기획형’ 엘리트들임. 다큐에 나온 그들의 주요 비즈니스 모델만 봐도 트렌드가 확실히 보임.

첫째, 부동산 투자도 차원이 다름. 뻔한 도심 빌딩이 아니라, 일본인들도 잘 모르는 숨은 명소와 경치 좋은 시골 구석구석을 찾아내어 최고급 빌라를 짓고 글로벌 부유층에게 분양·임대함. 공간의 가치를 완전히 재정의하는 중임.

둘째, 일본의 가장 아픈 아킬레스건인 '인구 감소와 고령화'를 정확히 파고듦. 직원을 못 구하거나 후계자가 없어 문 닫기 직전인 백년 노포 식당들을 인수해서 세련되게 리뉴얼함. 일본 전통을 지켜주는 구원투수 모양새를 취하면서 알짜 자산을 합법적으로 흡수하는 전략임.

셋째, 지역 농장이나 전통 사케 공방을 M&A(인수합병)한 뒤, 자신들이 가진 중국 본토 및 글로벌 상류층 네트워크를 태워 세계적인 하이엔드 상품으로 리브랜딩함.

가장 소름 돋았던 장면은 중국 사업가들이 일본 현지 농부들과 간담회를 할 때였음. 농부들이 희망사항을 구두로 툭 던지자마자, 그 자리에서 노트북으로 AI를 돌려 눈앞에 시각적으로 즉시 구현해 보여줌. 일하는 속도와 테크 활용 능력이 상상을 초월함.

여기서 무서운 점은 이들이 단기 시세차익만 노리고 튀는 먹튀가 아니라, 일본 사회의 경계심을 지우기 위해 '장기 투자와 상생의 동반자 관계'를 설득하는 데 엄청난 공을 들이고 있다는 사실임. 현지 정서를 자극하지 않으면서 깊숙이 뿌리내리는 세련된 자본의 침투 방식임.

과거의 거친 중국 자본만 생각하다가, 일본의 지방 소멸 빈틈을 정교하게 공략하는 중국 엘리트들의 비즈니스를 보니 확실히 결이 다르고 느낀 점이 많음. 우리 시장과 투자 지형도에도 시사하는 바가 정말 큰 다큐였음.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

"We could soon see the extinction of species that depend on each other and even the collapse of the food-web network.”