Very good. Calmly and rationally discussed, concluding with the simple truth that sits behind the whole argument.
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Seinfeld AI: Krammer hacks coinbase
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In 1984, Larry David marched up to his SNL producer five minutes before airtime and screamed, “You should be embarrassed. I’m embarrassed. I’m done. I’ve had it. I quit!”
All season, Larry had watched his sketches get cut at the last minute. That night, when another one was chopped, Larry decided, “They’re fooling with the wrong guy.”
So he unleashed on producer Dick Ebersol, who sat frozen, too stunned to speak.
Larry stormed out into the freezing Manhattan night. For a few blocks, he felt invincible.
“Well, that quickly wore off,” he admitted. He had just walked away from enough money to live on for eighteen months.
By the time he reached his building, triumph had turned to dread. His neighbor Kenny Kramer spotted him. “How come you’re not at the show?”
“I lost my temper,” Larry said. “They cut my sketch, I quit.” Then, quieter, “I’m an idiot.”
Kramer suggested, “maybe you can just go back?”
“Go back?”
“Yeah. Pretend like it never happened. You’re an emotional person. People don’t take you seriously!”
On Monday morning, Larry walked into the writers’ meeting and took his usual seat. Every head swiveled toward him. Nobody spoke.
“I’m just sitting there, trying my best to act like nothing’s happened.”
Ebersol began circling the table, collecting pitches, getting closer.
“Larry?”
“Yes.”
A second passed. Then another.
Ebersol only wanted an idea. Larry exhaled and pitched a sketch about a family of trapeze artists. He had un-quit his job.
Four years later, @JerrySeinfeld invited Larry to help create a show for @NBC. When the script needed a neighbor, Larry described his neighbor Kramer who had saved his job, so they wrote him in.
In 1991, Larry wrote an episode called “The Revenge,” where George screams “I quit!” at his boss and hears Jerry repeat Kramer’s advice: “Go back and pretend it never happened. You’re an emotional person. People don’t take you seriously.”
After the table read, @IJasonAlexander, who played George, pulled Larry aside.
“Larry, please help me with this because this would never happen to anybody, but if it did, nobody would react like this.”
Larry replied: “I don’t know what you’re talking about, this happened to me and it’s exactly what I did!”
“And that was when the bell went off in my head,” Alexander recalled. “He’s George.”
By 1995, @SeinfeldTV was the No. 1 show on television. In 1998, 76 million people watched the finale, and decades later @netflix paid more than $500 million to stream the series worldwide. This August, Netflix renewed the deal for five more years, and Nielsen says 72 million Americans watched the show in just the first eight months of this year.
Our most embarrassing moments often hold our best material. Share them with humility, and they may become our greatest asset.
To learn more about the story, check out the Seinfeld episode on @AcquiredFM by Ben Gilbert (@gilbert) and David Rosenthal (@djrosent).
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I truly do not understand why some people get so offended when I say AI isn't alive, conscious, aware, or capable of emotions, feelings, desires, understanding, etc...
As a computer scientist in AI (and also a tech founder), I see it the other way around.
People who have no idea how AI works trying to draw relations and conclusions about its abilities telling me I don’t know what I’m talking about.
My stance shouldn’t be controversial, AI is a computer program, a mathematical model doing large matrix statistics, and it is impossible for it to give rise to feelings, desires, emotions, awareness, understanding, or consciousness, and comparing it to biological systems is foolish.
And before you start telling me about the people who are saying it who are experts… they have an agenda.
Even the “Godfather of AI” (more like “God Complex”) is selling books and fear sells, as does popularity, interviews, and making batshit crazy claims.
Most of the tooling that people use to build and inference models is open source. You can read it yourself (if you know how) or you can have agent do it and explain it to you. I can assure you, its design is to emulate and generalize on its training data, not be alive.
So I’m curious how many people who know very little about how AI works will argue with me saying how little I know about consciousness, biological processes, or that my stance is somehow influenced by me being a tech bro / CEO in AI…
Funny how a few days off of X, and you forget how angry everyone is. Not a judgment; it hits me too. Everyone assumes every comment is an attack, and that's because they often are.
It has a lot of great properties, but it's truly a shame you have to walk through a an active minefield to get your morning paper.
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This scientist says the human SOUL could be a quantum-like field that interacts with electromagnetic waves, NOT directly with matter, and might survive physical death.
In a bizarre 2026 experiment, researchers used a 127-qubit quantum computer during cardiac arrest. Survivors recognized sounds played while they were clinically dead far better under quantum-entanglement conditions than in the control group.
In a 2025 paper, Edward Kamen of Georgia Tech and fellow researcher Roger D. Kamen proposed that the human soul might be made of quantum-like fields that interact with the brain through electrical and electromagnetic activity.
Kamen even suggests that the soul could interact with photons, the particles of light, potentially explaining why some people report seeing their surroundings during near-death experiences despite having their eyes closed.
One case discussed in the paper involved a female physician whose heart stopped during surgery. Although her eyes were taped shut, she later claimed to have seen a senior doctor enter the operating room, a detail reportedly confirmed afterward.
And there is an interesting scientific connection. In 2022, MIT-linked neuroscientists found that electric fields generated by neurons carry information about working memory. This does not prove memories can leave the brain, but the Kamens used that finding to propose how a hypothetical soul field might receive information.
Then came a striking 2026 study published in The Innovation. Researchers investigated 142 cardiac-arrest survivors across 13 hospitals in Spain and the UK, using a 127-qubit IBM quantum computer to control auditory stimuli presented during resuscitation.
They reported that patients exposed to sounds governed by quantum-entangled states performed better on later recall tests than a non-entangled control group, which remained around chance level.
The researchers suggested that consciousness might involve processes we do not yet understand. However, they acknowledged that their results do not establish quantum causation.
Another 2026 paper in the Journal of Consciousness Studies went further, proposing that consciousness could involve higher dimensions and might not necessarily vanish when the brain stops functioning.
The quantum soul theory even explores whether the same field could explain reincarnation, remote viewing, and the possibility of detecting a soul through its interaction with light.
Does consciousness really die with the brain, or is the brain only a receiver of something much bigger?
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Claude Code just found proof that every app on your phone is listening to your conversations. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. they're using what you say out loud to build your feed. i have the data to prove it.
i've suspected this for months but last week something happened that made me finally check.
i was on a call with my friend and told him i'm thinking about breaking up with my girlfriend. didn't text it. didn't search it. just said it out loud with my phone on the table. two hours later she opens TikTok next to me and her entire feed is breakups. "signs your relationship is over." "how to heal after a breakup." she looked at me and said "why is TikTok showing me this." i said i don't know. but i did know.
i connected my iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code that same night.
it scanned every app's background microphone activity for the last 90 days. not just the apps that asked for microphone permission. apps that were supposed to only have access to photos or location but were activating the microphone anyway.
what it found:
→ TikTok activated the microphone 347 times while the app was "closed" in the background
→ Instagram → 211 background activations
→ Facebook → 189
→ Snapchat → 94
every activation lasted between 3 and 15 seconds. enough to catch a sentence. every one of them tagged a keyword and cached it locally on the phone with a timestamp.
Claude Code pulled the full keyword cache:
→ "breakup" — tagged 4 hours before her feed changed
→ "moving out" — from a conversation with my mom last Tuesday
→ "wedding venue" — from a call with my sister about her engagement that i never searched once
→ "protein powder" — said it out loud to my roommate, had ads for it within an hour
→ "flight to tokyo" — mentioned it at dinner, saw travel ads the same night
those keywords were sitting in a local cache on my phone organized by app with timestamps. TikTok had the most entries. Instagram was second. every single keyword matched a conversation i had out loud near my phone.
the scariest one was "wedding venue." my sister told me she's getting engaged on a private call. i never searched it. never typed it. within a day my explore page had engagement rings and venue tours.
then Claude Code checked a second phone in the same room. my girlfriend's. same keywords. same timestamps. both phones were picking up the same conversation and tagging it independently.
i asked Claude Code how to shut it down. it mapped every app's microphone access and built a permission audit.
what i did:
→ revoked microphone access from every app that doesn't need it to function
→ disabled background app refresh for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat
→ turned off "Hey Siri" which keeps the microphone in passive listening mode 24/7
→ revoked "nearby interaction" permission which uses ultrasonic audio between devices
Claude Code confirmed all four apps lost background microphone access after the changes. i checked her phone too. same steps. took about 3 minutes per phone.
within 48 hours both our feeds went completely random. generic content. nothing personal. nothing from our conversations. that's when i knew for sure it was real.
the full step by step and the prompt are in the first reply. takes 3 minutes. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone who's ever said "my phone is definitely listening to me." it is. now you can prove it and shut it down.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
2 days before, OP claimed to have found spyware on his "wife's phone":
x.com/starmexxx/stat…
Now, in this post, he talks about his "girlfriend":
x.com/starmexxx/stat…
OP has a history of fake AI content:
"Spy camera" found in hotel room: x.com/starmexxx/stat…
Spyware on "friend's computer": x.com/starmexxx/stat…
OP selling AI products: x.com/starmexxx/stat…
Flagged as AI: x.com/i/grok/share/b…
You're right to call that out. What happened: I lifted Jesus 100ft in the air instead of 10ft and turned the ascension into a second crucifixion. That's on me. Logging this to CLAUDE.md now.
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100: + do not lift jesus an order of magnitude higher with crane MCP
I shouldn’t be laughing at this… 💀
They were supposed to lift him just 10 feet, but the crane lifted him 100 feet instead.
Poor guy fainted up there.
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
