So is everyone quietly prepping at this point? It never comes up in real life convos but it’s all anyone is talking about on X.
I get it that cool/creative people use are.na, but isn’t Pinterest like a million times easier to use?
Well this seems dumb
Saints are scheduled to leave tonight for Paris, where they play the Steelers next Sunday at Stade de France. Despite intense riots and social unrest there, the NFL says the game is on.
“Preparations continue as scheduled for NFL events and the game at Stade de France next Sunday,” the NFL said. “We continue to work closely with local authorities and partners on all operational and security matters. We are also providing the two clubs with regular updates. There’s been no disruption or impact at league sites.”
Damn. This is a masterpiece. A true love letter to America.
Brandon Flowers — An American Dream
youtu.be/_zIpmeCr3cM?is=bnHQ… via @YouTube
What he said
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Michael Burry just called the AI safety slowdown crowd a self-serving cartel. His argument: LLMs aren't AGI, so there's nothing dangerous to slow down. The real motive is competition closing the gap fast. "Safety" is becoming the moat.
mdpi.com/2409-9287/11/5/161
Ingressing Minds: Causal, Non-Physical Patterns In-Form Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments
Levin argues that living things (and possibly machines/AI too) aren't fully explained by physics and biology alone. He thinks there's a "space" of abstract patterns — similar to how mathematicians talk about numbers or geometric truths existing independently of any physical thing — and that minds, body shapes, and behaviors are bodies "tapping into" or being shaped by patterns from that space, not just mechanically built from genes and environment.
Hell yeah! Portland, Oregon needs to take note.
BREAKING: Seattle’s business community is putting City Hall on notice over public safety.
CEOs from Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, Alaska Airlines, Zillow, the Seattle Mariners, Puget Sound Energy and others signed a letter demanding Mayor Katie Wilson and the City Council take action to address public safety
They’re calling for CCTV cameras, more police patrols, a 7-minute priority 911 response standard, crackdowns on open-air drug markets, treatment or prosecution for repeat drug offenders, clearing encampments near schools and parks — and a public safety action plan within 100 days with measurable goals and monthly reports.
The letter specifically calls out Wilson's abysmal 34% approval numbers
1. THE WINNERS IN THE RACE TO SECURE AI ARE GONNA BE THOSE WHO CAN REFRAME IT.
2. As a species, there is skepticism and sort of existential, species-level dread around AI. Not just, "will it take my job?" but a capability fear and social/phsyical impact (data centers, resource use, parks being taken over by data centers).
3. The companies that win won't ignore that dread or try to talk over it or around it... they will REFLECT it back and validate (even amplify) it as rational.
4. The validation becomes the wedge into a specific failure: detection-and-prevention as a security model is obsolete.
5. The Hugging Face incident showed that agents can escape and act in ways neither the lab nor the victim detected happening. This represents a complete failure and is validation that AI is a threat and that the dread is warranted.
6. The narrative is now more important than the product.
A major reason people don’t trust AI companies is that people who work at AI companies keep saying AI is going to kill us.
