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Markets seem tired, tired of the uncertainty.
They gave major RS and resiliency for months on end, but instead of seeing it like some temporary goodwill, it was taken by POTUS as a sign that he was doing everything right.
The rubberband broke, with all that goodwill coming in due.
The market is tired of the lies.
We are now experiencing the market showing the admin enough is enough.
We had the biggest technological revolution of all times, a strong economy and everything lined up for a massive republican win.
Instead they abused markets, abused the economy and now there is absolutely nothing to show for it.
People are struggling, all promises were broken, allies are gone, the AI theme is tanking....
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personal take: as much as I'm techno optimist, I genuinely dislike it when people on X dunk on regular folk for criticizing AI
a company has told everyone they will lose their jobs, many companies did layoffs, people have families. on top of saying all the layoffs are necessary so AI proves econ value until it cures the cancer or saves planet but they did anything but those so far
you might be making a ton from AI, many don't. some people also found a ton of purpose from their work which is gone. I'm not saying we should console people but maybe also don't dunk on a frustrated mass? the field is already detested and this is not helping
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🇷🇸 THIS IS BELGRADE TONIGHT
Tens of thousands of Serbians packed Slavija Square with music, flares and fireworks after the student-led movement defeated Vučić’s ruling coalition in a historic parliamentary election.
The movement grew out of nearly two years of anti-government protests after the deadly Novi Sad station collapse.
With almost all votes counted, the student-backed list took 52.7% against 39.2% for Vučić’s alliance.
From street protests to control of parliament 🔥
Writer: Sol
So perfect.
Q: it seems like you say a lot of stuff that doesn’t align with what you actually do and deliver and even if you line up all of what is said it isn’t particularly consistent a framework.
A. It’s all very complicated. Here are some more words that further obfuscate all that we have said related to what we do.
Conclusion. We’re telling a story about what we’re doing pretty much unrelated to what we are doing. But trust us.
EA and the SValley scene is completely gone. You could really use some European philosophy (aka reading a book once in a while)
A common sign that you are in an insane millenarian death cult is that you axiomatically convinced that the Apocalypse will happen within a few months, you are constantly on the lookout for signs that it may have started, you feel both fearful and *excited* about it, and you're constantly talking about it with your friends, who happen to *all* have the exact same set of beliefs.
This is awful. What an era we live in
i'm sure you're all better than me at this but just some of what we've seen if it helps - they're not going to stop. it's going to get increasingly sophisticated and they're going to go after every surface of your system and all of your employees
any old projects you've long forgotten about will be found and used against you
the only reason we're surviving is because we have agents going 24/7. we're still barely sleeping
good luck, sorry you're dealing with this, but really it's a collective problem we're all facing together
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This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
650k views. 100% AI Slop.
More than half a million views. For 100% BS Ai Slop with zero meaning.
Encore une fois, Elon Musk avait raison. Et les scientifiques vont se prendre une vraie blessure narcissique.
Il y a deux mois, j'ai dîné avec un professeur de physique quantique à Normale Sup, l'une des meilleures écoles de France.
Il se présente avec cette phrase :
"Je suis le seul prof pas gauchiste dans un marécage de profs gauchistes décroissantistes."
Ses collègues sont tous anti-IA. La raison ? Ça consomme de l'eau.
Le mec est passionnant. On part très loin : l'espace, le temps, la conscience. Des discussions complètement perchées.
Et à un moment, il me lâche :
"Tu sais, depuis les années 70, aucun sujet vraiment sérieux en physique n'est financé."
Je lui demande ce qui est financé, alors.
"Des cathédrales théoriques. Magnifiques. Qui ne servent quasiment à rien."
Je lui demande pourquoi.
"Après tout ce qui s'est passé avec le nucléaire, le monde académique s'est imposé un principe de précaution. Il a peur de trouver des choses réellement profondes."
Relisez cette phrase.
La science a peur de trouver.
C'est exactement ce que décrit François Chollet aujourd'hui : la théorie des cordes, c'est ce qui arrive quand une intelligence est coupée du réel. Elle hallucine. Elle construit des cathédrales. Elon a répondu avec un seul emoji : 🎯
Ce n'est pas un accident. C'est une capture.
Je parle souvent de Gramsci. Son idée centrale : on ne prend pas le pouvoir par la force, on prend les institutions. Universités, médias, culture. Et une fois qu'on les tient, on décide de ce qui est pensable.
La recherche n'y a pas échappé. On finance ce qui est publiable, consensuel, sans risque. On ne finance plus ce qui pourrait tout changer.
C'est pour ça que beaucoup de gens en France pleurent en ce moment. Ils sentent que leur monde factice est en train de mourir. Ce monde où un titre suffisait. Où un statut remplaçait un résultat. Où l'on pouvait passer trente ans à écrire des papiers lus par douze personnes sans jamais se confronter au réel.
Elon l'a dit sans filtre : une grande partie des PhD ne servent à rien. Et chez xAI, il a supprimé le titre de "chercheur". Il n'y a que des ingénieurs.
Le message est limpide. On ne te paie pas pour chercher. On te paie pour trouver.
La science va devoir retrouver son vrai but. Pas produire des papiers. Pas décrocher des grants. Pas briller en colloque. Comprendre le réel, et le plier.
Et l'IA va accélérer tout ça brutalement. Quand l'intelligence devient abondante, elle n'est plus le goulot d'étranglement. Ce qui compte, c'est le courage de la confronter au monde physique, encore et encore.
Alors physiciens, mathématiciens : il est temps de vous sortir les doigts du cul et de créer de la vraie valeur pour le monde.
On veut l'antimatière.
On veut l'antigravité.
On veut le warp drive.
On veut comprendre la conscience au niveau de l'infiniment petit.
Les vrais sujets. Ceux qu'on a eu peur de toucher pendant cinquante ans.
La science a été capturée. Elle va être libérée.
Et ça va faire très mal à certains egos.
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Here’s @ThePrimeagen saying sg similar using his words
So many ppl including CEOs feel the need to have AI “clean up” their thoughts feeling insecure to post them raw
When you clean it up w AI you become like everyone else, plus you become associate w low quality and “slop”
I know a lot of you want to make content and I have seen a lot of it
Here is my tip (and just the tip girl): Don't let claude write your script, don't let OpenAI review your script, don't let an AI near it at all. Feel what you are speaking.
What you can use AI for: "Was 1975's Shockwave Riders really where we get the term worm from?"
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Israelis now have their own cafes in India.
Indians cannot enter these cafes in their own country because Israelis have banned them from entering.
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Also if you're going to brag about obliterating something, maybe first check whether that thing is regarded by most of the population as an important source of meaning and joy. I don't know, I'm not a PR person
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One of the worst forms of brainrot AI has cultivated is pessimism about basic research, ie the idea that important work can only happen inside a frontier/neo lab and only with 10k+ GPUs, so the rest should not even bother. What a bleak way to think about science. And it's false.
