Stanton 🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The politicians imprison people to hide their crimes

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Starmer hates Musk because he's given the British people a true free speech platform.

[Stanton 🇺🇸 @stantont]

I love hearing this.

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

On our MAHA journey, we have introduced the following:

100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef ✅

100% beef tallow fries ✅

100% beef tallow tots ✅

Grade A Wisconsin butter ✅

A2 whole milk ✅

Cane-sugar Coca-Cola ✅

Elimination of all microwaves ✅

And we are working on changing our buns!

We are committed to becoming seed-oil free, because we are committed to making fast food the best it can be.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.

What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.

Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.

Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.

Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.

[Stanton 🇺🇸 @stantont]

We’re all Rhodesians now?

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

Seattle is devolving into the Rhodesian and South African models and they're now putting up physical barriers to keep some residents out of their neighborhoods as police and prosecutors won't do their jobs.

This is the "progress" that democrats campaign on.

Balkanize accordingly...

#CityLife #crime #devolve #seattle #democrats #progress #progressive #rhodesia #southafrica #balkanization #CapeTown #3rdWorld #Salisbury #IanSmith #Mugabe #urban

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

[tmuxvim @tmuxvim]

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

I’d love for HHS to take the tick problem seriously and make some kind of environmental intervention to reduce the population and stop it from spreading even further. There are parts of the US now where going outside in spring and summer is basically an invitation to catch Lyme disease and suffer a debilitating chronic disease for the rest of your life. And that’s before we even get on to alpha-gal syndrome, the meat-allergy nightmare…

One way to reduce the spread would be to target the whitetail deer populations that sustain the ticks. Another would be to introduce sterilised male ticks into the wild in large numbers. Something has to be done.

[Stanton 🇺🇸 @stantont]

@DanFriedman81 I’ll never forget the time I went to the banned book fair in Kingston NY in 2022 and they had banned RFK Jr’s book The Real Anthony Fauci from being in the fair.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

This is a massive and growing problem for American national security. Unbelievable amounts of sensitive and classified information is captured, scraped, and sent back to foreign nations.

And users have no idea. Nobody expects that their TV or monitor is a surveillance tool. When I have joked that Smart TVs should be illegal, I am only half-joking.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The vaccine dosage was obviously too high and done too many times.

I had the original Wuhan virus before there was any vaccine and it was much like any other cold/flu. Bad, but not terrible.

But my second vaccine shot almost sent me to the hospital. Felt like I was dying.

[Stanton 🇺🇸 @stantont]

If this became popular how long till the counties that keep releasing criminals stop releasing this data in an easily accessible way?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is great.

At least those judges who release violent criminals who go on to hurt more people will be publicly shamed!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption.

That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time.

Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.”

The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs.

That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone.

But the education system still runs on its logic.

A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait.

Neither is being served. Both are being processed.

Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.”

AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student.

One at a time. Every time.

It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle.

It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done.

A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture.

The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does.

No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill.

Because the math doesn’t work.

AI doesn’t have that constraint.

Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.”

The brain isn’t broken. The format is.

Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes.

That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.

Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.”

Four years. Six figures of debt.

And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you.

The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance.

Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.”

The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you.

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace.

The question isn’t whether the old model survives.

It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

[Stanton 🇺🇸 @stantont]

It is staggering how much they can do now.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability.

The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.

But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along.

So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions.

TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Healthy Alfred 🏄🏻‍♀️ @HealthyAlfred]

They clamped both carotid arteries in a rat’s neck shut. For 20 minutes. Zero blood to the brain.

Brain damage. Hippocampal lesions. Memory wiped. Motor coordination destroyed.

The untreated rats never recovered. The brain never even tried to repair itself.

The only thing that reversed the damage — was BPC-157.

Memory fully restored. Coordination fully restored. Hippocampal neurons recovered at both 24 AND 72 hours. Not compensated. Not retrained. Reversed.

(PMID: 32558293)

Stroke is the #1 cause of long-term disability in the US. 700,000 Americans every year. Most survivors never return to baseline. Ever.

You survived. Everyone told you that’s what matters. But surviving a stroke and recovering from one are two completely different things.

You relearned how to button your shirt at 58. You do speech therapy 3 times a week. You write lists for things you used to remember without thinking. You tell people you’re doing great because you’re tired of the look on their faces when you say you’re not.

You stopped expecting to get better. You just adapted. And everyone around you called that recovery.

Your neurologist prescribed rehab. Your PT retrains your muscles. Your speech therapist retrains your words. Every single one of them is teaching your brain to work around damage that nobody tried to repair.

Your aspirin prevents the next clot. Your statin manages cholesterol. Your blood pressure medication adjusts the number. They’re protecting you from the NEXT stroke while nobody repairs the damage from the FIRST one.

Researchers cut blood flow to a rat’s brain completely. 20 minutes. The exact model for human stroke. BPC-157 reversed both early and delayed brain damage and achieved full functional recovery.

A rat had zero blood to its brain for 20 minutes and BPC-157 brought its memory back. Your post-stroke fog is a simpler ask.

→ Blood to brain cut off completely: reversed
→ Brain damage: repaired at 24h AND 72h​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
→ Memory: fully restored
→ Motor coordination: fully restored
→ Side effects: zero

Your rehab retrains the brain around what’s broken. Your medication prevents the next event. Neither repairs the damage from the one that already happened.

That brain damage isn’t permanent. It’s unrepaired.

Your rehab adapts to the damage.

BPC-157 reversed it.

Not FDA-approved. Preclinical evidence. Not medical advice.

[James Van Straten @btcjvs]

I'll tell you how fucked the UK is.

Not only was February's £14B borrowing the highest ever recorded for that month,

£13B of the £14B went purely to debt interest payments.

The Ponzi is bankrupt, and this war is the nail in the coffin.

Rate hikes next, maybe multiple. The mandate is inflation, not employment.

Then it's a rush to the exit.

Bitcoin, gold—you don't own enough.

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

🚨 Simulation Theory: The Double Slit Experiment proves particles act like waves until observed then they snap into particles.

What if our reality only "renders" when we're looking, just like a video game optimizing resources?

Check out this episode from The Why Files breaking it down, tying it to Simulation Theory. Are we in a sim?

This could be the key to unlocking the true nature of existence!

The Why Files video did a great job on explaining the Double Slit Experiment & Simulation Theory

What do YOU think—real or rendered? Drop your thoughts below!