(Top 0.1% at life) No longer LibertyX. The libertarians are currently making me sick.
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re: airbnb discourse
in college I worked as a server at an upscale steakhouse. we had a few different steak sauces that were made from scratch daily. they were expensive to make, and less than half of the customers that ordered steak wanted sauce, so the restaurant charged $3 for it
we got complaints constantly. just at my own tables, half a dozen times a week I'd get complaints about being "nickel and dimed" for $3 of sauce on a $70 steak. a few times a month someone would mention it in an angry online review, or ask to speak to a manager and demand that it be removed from the bill because "who the hell charges for condiments?"
after several years of this, finally management had enough. they raised the price of every steak by $3, and now complimentary sauce was included with each steak on request. want to hazard a guess about how many customers complained about the $3 price increase on steak? essentially zero.
it was great, from the restaurants perspective! no more complaints, and instead of making $3 on 40% of steak orderers, they made $3 on all of them. and the customers were much happier, despite this deal being absolutely, unequivocally worse for them.
consumers are not rational agents from microeconomics textbooks. very often the *feeling* of what they're being charged for matters way more than the absolute value of what they're being charged. I think that's more or less what happening with airbnb. people don't want to be charged a cleaning fee and then also told they have to clean, even if in the counterfactual world the additional cleaning fee is more than they'd be willing to pay someone to do the required cleaning. a $100 cleaning fee *feels* better than a $50 cleaning fee + "load the dishwasher and take the trash out to the dumpster", even though most people would not pay $50 to not have to do that.
I think a lot of you are misunderstanding the frustration. what's annoying is paying a cleaning fee and then being asked to clean. it feels like double dipping. it may be illogical, but you'd get less complaints about "$100 fee but you don't have to do anything" versus "$50 fee + load the dishwasher"
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I didn’t cry. I felt slightly stunned. I got up and went to close the curtains, because it was 2am or something, and I saw a tabby cat sitting on the wall outside my flat. I gasped and turned cold all over my body. True story.
76-84 is the Xenial generation. Defined by analog childhood and digital college. We share the GenX skepticism but with Millenial optimism. We are a bridge and I am grateful to have been part of this generation.
If they would use Fahrenheit they would realize how hot it is and turn on the AC. Can you really see it is 35 out and get worried about the heat?
Blistering record heat in Europe this summer killed more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study found. abcnews.link/EUhX7dR
We have a spam problem. SLOP is the way to fix it.
Spam isn't a tech problem. It's a price problem. Sending is free, so they send a billion. Make strangers pay a penny to reach you and the math dies. I call it SLOP: Sender List Or Pay.
Article: SLOP: Sender List Or Pay
Caveat first. None of this is new. Gates floated email stamps in 2004, Hashcash tried it with computing work, and economists have written about attention bonds for years. It never took off. I think the plumbing finally exists now.
The problem is simple. Spam works because sending is almost free. If one reply in a million pays, you send a million. Filters just make the spammer send more.
So change the incentive.
People on your list get through free. That means family, patients, vendors, anyone you already deal with. Nothing changes for them.
Everyone else pays a small fee you set, or completes a challenge. A few cents is nothing to a real person who actually wants to reach you. At a penny a message, a million messages is $10,000. The spammer's business model is gone.
After first contact, you can add them to the list. You pay once to get my attention, and if I want to hear from you again it's free after that.
How it works on each channel:
Email: a proxy address or gateway auto-replies to strangers with a payment link. Services like email35 and OnlySeriousEmail are already trying versions of this.
Texts: an auto-reply says pay $0.05, or reply LIST to get in line.
Calls: a screener says press 1 and pay $0.25, or leave a voicemail.
You control all of it: the list, the price on each channel, where the money goes, and refunds for messages you're glad you got. Payment can be by card, stablecoin, or prepaid credits. SPF/DKIM for email and STIR/SHAKEN for calls still do their job underneath. This just adds a price on top of them.
No mandate, no new federal agency, no carrier deciding what speech counts as spam. Just a price that you set on your own attention.
Stop the SLOP.
Everybody says AI will replace radiologists because it can read a film. Reading the film was never the whole job. Radiologists are not becoming extinct any time soon. But they may become dramatically more efficient
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Grok Bot just got a very big upgrade on iOS and Android
Grok Bot can now directly interact with apps on your phone and handle everyday tasks for you
New capabilities include:
• Messages: Read and send messages
• Calendar: Check schedules and create events
• Reminders: Set and manage reminders
• Contacts: Find and add contacts
• Location: Find nearby places
• Home: Control lights, locks, and other smart home devices
Instead of you constantly switching between apps, you can simply ask Grok Bot to get things done for you
This is a huge step toward having a personal SI agent that can actually interact with your phone and make everyday life easier
Rolling out now on iOS and Android. Update Grok Bot to try it
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There’s a world of difference between user-authorized agents (Muse, Instinct, Grokbot, etc.) and true unauthorized/rogue agents that could constitute cyberattacks.
Most of the activity described in the Axios story appears to be the former: customers sharing credentials with agents so they can take actions on their behalf. This may violate bank terms requiring humans to log in themselves, but these are in no way cyberattacks.
The direction banks should go is to support user-directed agents. For example, Amex is an authorized connection in Muse, making it easy for users to grant, limit, and revoke access.
Read-only permission levels are a sensible interim step. Several banks already support or are moving toward them. Full write access (with user credentials) is a different risk category and should be approached carefully.
Frightening the public by blurring the line between user-authorized agentic behavior and cyberattacks is irresponsible.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
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Major U.S. banks are telling you that AI agents accessing your bank accounts are a security threat.
But is security really their only concern? You need to critically think this one, before you fall into their fear mongering.
They know this is bearish for traditional finance and bullish for Bitcoin, crypto and stable coins.
Talk to me Petey… how?
so..
AI agents could automatically move your money into higher-yield opportunities, optimize your finances, and eliminate many of the inefficiencies traditional banks profit from.
You know how much idle money sits in US Banks allowing them to profit while many don’t know how to optimize in their favor?
They are scared to lose control, because with their control, they make profits off your money.
So basically my friends, banks aren’t afraid of AI stealing your money.
They’re afraid of AI making you more money and then less.
Always think critically.
Question the narrative.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
This is one of the most interesting and powerful uses for agents, modeling and real world engineering I’ve ever seen. This took Tesla years.
Jensen closed his GTC Berlin 2026 keynote with this Hermes Agent demo as the finale.
He introduced it by saying the way to build an agent is to ask an agent to build it for you, so he installed and set up a customized Hermes in one prompt.
Then he used Hermes, running on @nvidia RTX Spark, to create a simulated training environment for the @huggingface Microduck. Hermes planned an obstacle course with Nemotron and had GPT-6 Astra build it using FreeCAD, Omniverse libraries, Blender, Newton, and Isaac Lab. Hermes trained thousands of simulated ducks on that course until the validated policy was ready to run on the real robot in the physical world.
At Nous, we believe open source is a practical tool as much as a philosophical ideal. It gives users the ability to build powerful, complex workflows chaining numerous local+cloud models, devices, and tools themselves instead of waiting for a company to enable them.
Dear women of Twitter. From 0% to 100% Please respond as to how certain you are that your boyfriend, husband or ex-husband was not your brother.
California pays people to take care of their own mom. That's IHSS, and a big share of the caregivers are family. Once a job the family used to do for free becomes a paid Medicaid job, the program grows 24% in three years and nobody has to commit fraud for that to happen. Pay for something people already did for free and you get a lot more of it on the bill.
The rich athletes sue the poor physicians because they play a dangerous sport that ruins your body. Our medical malpractice system is broken. What is funny is the standard of care has now evolved and the care he received was good medical care. Jury didn’t care and was star struck.
Let’s talk about the Chris Maragos case… aka the one where a Philly jury hit Eagles doctors with a $43.5 million verdict for negligently ending a Super Bowl captain’s career.
Maragos tore his PCL (with meniscus issues) in a 2017 game vs. the Panthers. Dr. James Bradley (longtime Steelers doc) did the surgery; Rothman Orthopaedics (Eagles team docs) handled rehab.
Plaintiffs argued the meniscus wasn’t properly addressed and rehab was advanced too aggressively (including running) despite a 2018 MRI showing persistent problems. That caused further damage and forced retirement in 2019.
Defense said the meniscus was stable and more surgery would have done more harm than good.
After a two-week trial (Nick Foles, Trey Burton, and Jordan Hicks testified), the jury found negligence in under three hours.
Liability: Bradley 67% ($29.2M), Rothman 33% ($14.3M). An economist put lost earnings at ~$8.7M as the floor; the rest reflected pain, limitations, and future care.
The verdict was upheld on appeal in 2024.
Maragos’ lawyer put it bluntly: it forces team doctors to stop focusing only on “when can he return to play” and start thinking about the next 50 years of a player’s life.
I did this with grok, Claude and Chat. All got it correct. What version were you using?
Property tax is rent you pay the government on a house you already paid for. Miss it and they take the house, even if you never made a dime selling it. A sales tax hits when money actually changes hands. One taxes a transaction, the other taxes a guess about what your house might be worth. When assessment rises you pay taxes on unrealized gains
Was ejaculated is full of ambiguity.
🚨BREAKING: #BEARS WR JAHDAE WALKER WAS EJACULATED FROM THE GAME FOR HEADBUTTING A DEFENDER.
WOW.
