stephani

This is where I come to hide in public view.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

SPAIN ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD FOR THE SECOND TIME

[𝙇𝙞𝙖𝙢 @OfficialVizeh]

So what the fuck do we do after the World Cup ends?

[Intrapiernoso @Intrapiernoso]

Ni el Museo Británico le robó tanto a Egipto, como la FIFA.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

To fall asleep you first pretend to be asleep. That's how everything in life works.

[Rin Celeste @CelesteRin1411]

i will experience a quiet life

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Scientists have created the first global map of Earth’s vast underground fungal networks, stretching an estimated 68 quadrillion miles.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

▶️A new study on climate projections has set the alarm bells ringing all along the 11,000-km coastline of India, from Gujarat in western India to the Sundarbans delta in eastern India.

▶️The western coast will get wetter and hotter; there will be reduced monsoon rainfall over coastal Odisha and West Bengal by 2040, it warns.

▶️ Approximately 40 coastal districts are likely to see maximum summer average temperature rise by over 1 degree Celsius (°C) by 2040.

@JamwalNidhi reports

https://t.co/eyKFseXavc

[bon @bagelcrust]

Campus looks so good when you no longer have a degree to complete

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

By Sergio Grinberg.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Erin Brockovich launches a map tracking AI data centers, and she's asking Americans for help

[the meji. @mejitwo]

I look left, Assignment!
I look right, Research!!
I look forward, Exams!!!
I look back, I turn into salt!!!!

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

Physicist 120 years ago: Maybe the inside of an atom is like plum pudding.

Physicist today: Light doesn’t experience time. All this shit might not even be real.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

5 laws of the universe that are surprisingly accurate:

1. Murphy’s Law
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

2. Kidlin’s Law
If you can write a problem down clearly, you’re already halfway to solving it.

3. Falkland’s Law
When there’s no need to make a decision, don’t force one.

4. Wilson’s Law
Prioritize learning and knowledge, and money will eventually follow.

5. Gilbert’s Law
It’s your responsibility to find the best way to achieve the result you want.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.

What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text.

"We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience."

"We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."

These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours.

And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve.

Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large."

The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨: Nobel Prize physicist Roger Penrose claims there is no such thing as nothingness.

Your soul is eternal because matter cannot be destroyed.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A dog failed his service dog exam, and was later seen at a train station carrying the reason why.

People at the station couldn’t stop staring when the dog walked onto the train with a stuffed elephant held proudly in his mouth.

At first, everyone thought it was part of his training.
But his owner started laughing and explained the truth.

The dog had been training to become a service dog, but during one of his final tests, he kept getting distracted by an elephant plushie nearby. Instead of staying focused, he tried to steal it like it was the only thing in the room that mattered.

That was the moment he failed.

But his owner said he couldn’t be mad. The dog had tried his best, and even if he wasn’t meant to be a service dog, he was still loyal, gentle, and full of love.

So before they left, he bought him the elephant toy.

That night, the dog didn’t pass the exam, but he still went home with the person who chose him anyway.

[Numbers.lk @numberslka]

How the SL 🇱🇰 Government Manufactured a Dollar Crisis

⭕ Sri Lanka imposed a temporary 50% surcharge on vehicle Customs Import Duty from May 16, for 3 months.

⭕ The LC opening numbers revealed by Dr. Anil Jayantha:

May 07: USD 2.6 million
May 08: USD 4.6 million
May 11: USD 3.8 million
May 12: USD 4.28 million
May 13: USD 8.36 million
May 14: USD 11 million
May 15: USD 23 million
May 18: USD 17 million

⭕ The government’s intention was to delay vehicle imports by making them more expensive for three months. But the market reacted in the opposite direction.

⭕ Instead of waiting, importers rushed to open LCs. This panic response increased demand for dollars, added more pressure on foreign exchange, and further weakened the rupee.

⭕ This is the problem with shallow policy decisions. A tax or surcharge may look correct on paper, but markets do not always behave the way policymakers expect.

⭕ When secondary effects are ignored, the policy can backfire. In this case, the attempt to reduce immediate pressure may have created even more pressure in the short term.

⭕ This is becoming a repeated weakness in the NPP government’s decision-making process. Policies are announced with good intentions, but without properly considering market dynamics, behavioural responses, and long-term consequences.

⭕ Commercial banks in Sri Lanka are quoting the US dollar selling rate at Rs. 354 today.

#SriLanka