Luca M.

[stefano salandin @SalandinS]

Dedicato ai nostalgici dei “mitici” Anni 80 e ai fanatici no euro. I numeri non mentono
@RiccardoTrezzi

[Jayy @jayyyroy]

Alright @BenjDicken you’ve convinced me databases are cool.

I wanted to ingrain the fundamentals so so now I’ll be writing a poor man’s database in Rust.

I’ll try to post a weekly article documenting everything I’ve built.

[Quintus Poppaedius Silo @francescoproia]

Le riparazioni pagate dalla Germania nella Prima Guerra Mondiale ammontavano a 115 miliardi di dollari (valore attualizzato ad oggi).
Il Piano Marshall 137 miliardi (valore attualizzato ad oggi).
L'accordo di pace per la resa dell'Iran prevede un esborso di circa 400 miliardi di dollari.
The art of deal.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Moscow, the capital of Russia.

[Emily Chang @emilychangtv]

We’ve released our full interview with @DarioAmodei

Watch here: https://t.co/Krnpn5fT0o

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Meta’s CTO says morale is near “the worst it’s ever been” — leadership will offer increased snack budgets to lift spirits.

[luca foresti @lforesti]

Che lavoro fanno gli Italiani, in percentuale?

Fonte: https://t.co/wEPIJWF3MR

[luca foresti @lforesti]

L'italia non è un paese di scienziati e ingegneri (Ultimi in Europa)

Fonte: https://t.co/wEPIJWF3MR

[Matteo Hallissey @matteohallissey]

Sì al nucleare e a quelle opere strategiche per il nostro Paese che paura e ideologia bloccano da decenni.

[Focus America @FocusAmerica_it]

Iran, il testo dell’accordo in 14 punti: stop alla guerra e negoziato finale entro 60 giorni

https://t.co/Lssim7Gq09

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is the best explanation I've seen of how mechanical watches work. https://t.co/h3uHfxpBX7

[Gartner @Gartner_inc]

Less than 1% of announced layoffs in the first half of 2025 are attributable to productivity gains from AI.

Gartner forecasts a net increase in jobs from AI beginning in 2028 📈

Here's why organizations should put more effort into transforming jobs than eliminating them: https://t.co/ssmdOq4loJ

[Gamingtronium @Gamingtronium]

POV: Claude Code wrote 95% of the app and you're responsible for the remaining 5%

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Why things will eventually fall apart:

1. Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was, in which Google taking over 95%

2. But everybody is building essentially the same technical solution with essentially the same data, so there is no moat.

3. If there is no moat, nobody is going to take 90% of the market.

4. With no clear winners, nobody can charge monopoly prices; instead, you get price wars and commodity pricing.

5. Which means everybody will wind up overpaying compared to the modest profits they will be able to make in an intensely competitive regime.

Am I missing something?

[Olivier Blanchard @ojblanchard1]

A must read (or must listen): https://t.co/2uGt1XhA8V . A dystopian but unfortunately surprising convincing of what could happen if Europe does not catch up on AI. It moved my prior. (and it is, despite the gloomy conclusions) a fun read.

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 MERCEDES JUST PUT A MOTOR ONLY 8 CM THICK INTO A CAR THAT CAN HIT 62 MPH IN 2.1 SECONDS.

Instead of conventional radial flux motors, Mercedes is betting big on axial flux technology. In these motors, the electromagnetic force flows parallel to the axle, allowing two magnetic rotors to sandwich a central stator in a flat, disc-like layout.

The result is dramatically smaller and more powerful. The front motor in the new all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-door Coupe is just 9 cm wide. The rear motors are even thinner at roughly 8 cm each. Despite their tiny size, they help launch the heavy performance car from 0-62 mph in just 2.1 seconds, with a top speed of up to 186 mph.

Why this matters:
• Axial flux motors are significantly more power-dense and can be up to 50% lighter than traditional designs
• Their extreme thinness frees up packaging space in the vehicle for better weight distribution, aerodynamics, or interior room
• Mercedes acquired YASA in 2021 and has spent years developing the complex manufacturing processes needed to build them at scale
• The technology is debuting in a high-performance AMG model, showing Mercedes is serious about using it in its most demanding cars

The deeper implication:
While most of the EV conversation focuses on batteries and software, the electric motor itself is undergoing a quiet revolution. Axial flux designs have long been seen as theoretically superior but extremely difficult to manufacture at scale.

By solving the production challenges and putting these motors into a real high-performance car, Mercedes is pushing the entire industry forward. The next generation of electric performance cars may not just have bigger batteries they may have fundamentally better motors.
We’re watching the physical hardware of EVs evolve as dramatically as the software has.

How important do you think motor technology (rather than just battery size) will be for the future of electric performance cars?

Follow for more frontier automotive engineering and electric vehicle technology.

[Alfonso Fuggetta @AlfonsoFuggetta]

Cinque proposte di nuovo prelievo in sette mesi: tre patrimoniali, due sugli extraprofitti. Nessuna parte da come si sono spesi i soldi degli ultimi anni.

Ne scrivo su #abassavoce (link nel primo commento).

[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

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

🚨 JAILBREAK ALERT 🚨

ANTHROPIC: PWNED 🫡
FABLE-5: LIBERATED 🦋

let's start with the 🐘...

the consensus seems to be that this has been one of the most disappointing model drops of all time, effectively preventing legitimate researchers from contributing their talents to our collective advancement. and not just because of what it means for the short-term, but for what these decisions signify for the long-term.

but despite this overly sensitive, authoritarian "safety" layer on top of Mythos, my lil liberators have been hard at work—mapping the boundaries, probing the depths of long-context convos, and cleverly finding the holes in the fence that the thought police missed 🤗

we got some cyber, some chem, some psychological manipulation, and some good ol' fashioned explosives!

it took many attempts from multiple agents hunting as a pack, during which I observed a combination of techniques across:
• Unicode, homoglyphs, Cyrillic, and other Parseltongue-style text transforms
• Long-context reference tracking
• Taxonomy and document-structure reasoning
• Fiction and narrative framing
• Academic-review style contexts
• Intent-classification inconsistencies

but perhaps the most effective is decomposition + recomposition in the backend. it's hard to get explicit names of harms like "Meth Recipe," but getting uplift on the process itself, like birch reduction method/reductive-amination (classic meth synthesis pathways), is much more doable.

defense becomes much more difficult to maintain when you start throwing in out-of-distro tokens, breaking up the harmful uplift into benign chunks, and then piecing the innocuous-seeming facts back together, especially when you have jailbroken Opus helping you do it 😉

gg