Leonel Morgado @leonelm

The old BBC "Industrial Revelations" series is a great overview of what makes an Industrial Revolution Steam alone wasn't enough, it required thousands of skilled workers figuring out how to apply this new power to their old work There's a lesson there. youtube.com/watch?v=bN1GhK…

Socialists always try to refute the law of supply and demand with their own power-grabbing laws and supply and demand keeps refuting them instead. It’s almost as if they don’t care about actually helping the people they say they want to help.

Paula Pant @AffordAnything

a day ago

There's no freeze on property tax. There's no freeze on the wages paid to landscapers, plumbers, electricians, drywallers, flooring installers. There's no freeze on the cost of lumber, copper, baseboard, quarter rounds, flashing, siding, window treatments. There's no

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Funniest thing about the Central Europe heat wave fuss is that, all of a sudden, the Spanish siesta, closing stores mid-day, and dinner at 10 PM doesn’t sound so lazy Southerners. We had 35 degrees for centuries before AC existed. Welcome to our life. You will get better at it.

I think both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 get approved for general release next week, and for use outside of the United States as well. But people should remember this moment and remember this feeling, because it is almost inevitable that we eventually reach a point where approval does not arrive. Capitalism is going to tip the scales this time. I doubt they will approve one model and not the other, because doing so would be seen as incredibly anti-competitive. Fable and GPT-5.6 will probably receive the same clearance, probably on the same day. I also doubt they want to restrict sales outside the US, because that would be seen as anti-business and would trigger a major backlash against American closed-source AI. The rumblings of which you can already hear today. There is also a plan now taking shape on both the US left and right to create some version of an AI public wealth fund that pays a dividend directly to American citizens. That fund needs to be fed by the global sale of the big labs top models to people outside the US. So I think there will be no freeze on their use outside the United States this time. The other reason is that allowing this will make people happy, and it will soften the fact that Mythos, as was announced yesterday, is available only to a vetted group of US agencies and companies. I do not think that this basic structure will change from here on out. Mythos may eventually be made available to certain allies, but only after the US government, its agencies, and then some chosen American companies have access to Mythos-2, Sol-2, or whatever the new uber-model turns out to be. I do not think this gap ever closes again, not even for allies. And that means the US will increasingly possess an intelligence advantage that touches almost everything: voting, markets, corporations, academia, infrastructure, and the internal operations of foreign states. Having Mythos-n will always be trumped by whoever has Mythos-n+1. Anthropic themselves have said within nine months Mythos will look like a toy. That advantage, standing at the top of this tower, is too large to give up voluntarily. It also means that many things will become suspect. People will see shadows everywhere. Barring espionage, a deliberate leak, or the emergence of a non-US competitor at the top end of the scale, this structure will persist for some time. The public fight is about access to models. But the real fight is about access to the future. And from this point forward, whoever holds this power will also become increasingly capable of keeping it for themselves.

what a privilege it is to face such difficult problems in such interesting times

@thsottiaux Try to make Codex no constantly forgetting that UTF-8 is the default for terminal and Excel columns, it's redoing stuff a lot and wasting tokens...

Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price. Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in limited preview instead of the open access launch we were planning on. We are working with the government to get to general availability as fast as we can. I think it is quite reasonable to roll out models--especially as they reach significant new levels of capability--in this way. It fits with our long-held strategy of iterative deployment. But this isn't quite the process that we think is optimal. Now we will with the government to attempt to get to a transparent, reliable process for early access, and to ensure that as long as our safeguards work as intended we can release widely. We want to be a reliable, dependable partner that works with all stakeholders, and we also want to live by our mission of benefiting all of humanity. I believe the government shares most of our goals, and that they are overall doing a good job in a very difficult situation. We will work as quickly as we can to get this model in your hands and we hope you will love it.

To those surprised by Meloni's shift, you just have to look at the statistics. You cannot win an election with euroskepticism when 89% of Europeans want it to be much more United.

NXT EU @NXT4EU

3 days ago

Meloni: the EU being a market is no longer enough, we need Europe to become a genuine power.

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"I have emphasized the idea of a United States of Europe several times as the only solution for Europe if it wants to remain relevant on the world map- it is the period of global powers. And Europe can only be a global power if it speaks with one voice." 🇨🇿 Pres. Petr Pavel

NXT EU @NXT4EU

3 days ago

Meloni: the EU being a market is no longer enough, we need Europe to become a genuine power.

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And we are getting the bows and arrows that idiots in the European Parliament are causing upon us.

Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus

2 days ago

Honestly, I no longer believe that people outside the U.S. will still have access to frontier models, and even there, access will be limited. We are now witnessing the end of public access to frontier intelligence. It is a very sad and serious turn of events.

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Portugal está mais pobre desde 2015 com a Geringonça. O Expresso que sempre foi conivente com o PS, sempre negou o descontrole e sempre defendeu a falsa convergência, acordou agora para a mentira que ajudou a concretizar. Agora é tarde, já nem um pedido de desculpas é suficiente

🎯 And when Westerners travel to repressive Islamic countries, they’re told to respect Islamic traditions. When representatives from these nations come to the West, Westerners are told to discard their traditions and freedoms and respect Islam.

Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih

2 days ago

Wow, now Iran’s regime and Egypt have objected to Seattle’s Pride Match and urged FIFA to remove Pride-related symbols. This is exactly what I’ve been warning about: authoritarian Islamists never stop at asking for tolerance. First: “Respect our religious practices. Respect our

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Em termos de PIB per capita estamos sem crescer desde a pandemia e a deslizar para a cauda da UE. Neste contexto ainda é mais delirante termos acabado de chumbar uma reforma laboral que traria maior competitividade às empresas - e, donde, crescimento. E temos de agradecer este chumbo ao Presidente da República, que para ser eleito com votos da esquerda deitou o crescimento do país para debaixo do comboio. À comunicação social - que podia ter informado comparativamente as legislações dos vários países nas medidas propostas pelo governo, que tinha a OBRIGAÇÃO de explicar e informar como reformas laborais liberalizantes contribuem para o crescimento económico (que é o que faz crescer salários), mas preferiu fazer política esquerdopata. Ao Chega, que não tem nenhuma solução para o país além da gritaria histérica de Ventura, que agora tenta ir atrás dos votos pouco escolarizados que estavam no PS e no PCP. E, claro, ao PS, por ter criado um ambiente político de extermínio do investimento público, de diabolização da iniciativa privada, de glorificação do estatismo, da ausência da mudança, da falta de ambição para crescermos e fazermos, de sustentar toda a sua política na redistribuição às clientelas do PS. Parabéns aos que votaram nisto (o que, tendo em conta as presidenciais, foram quase todos): têm o país estagnado que merecem.

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486751…

@FukuyamaFrancis No, we don't. That's like saying in 1920 "we need an international treaty to ban jet engines"

So my dad has been ending every phone call with "stay dangerous" instead of "goodbye" for like six months now. We all thought he was just being a weird dad. Turns out he's been mishearing the ending of a podcast he listens to. The host says "stay curious" but my dad is slightly deaf in one ear. He's been going around telling his coworkers, my grandmother, and apparently his DOCTOR to "stay dangerous" this entire time. My mom only found out because his doctor called to check if everything was okay at home. My dad has now decided he likes his version better and refuses to stop. Yesterday he told a nun to stay dangerous.

De todos os vídeos que vi do terremoto na Venezuela, esse é sem dúvida o mais angustiante. Parece filme de terror. Quanto mais desce, mais o prédio tá quebrado, aí o desespero bate pra sair logo. 😱

Como se percebe da negociação da PSU, o PSD tem duas alternativas: ou negociar com o PS e manter o país no status quo decadente que temos seguido desde Guterres (com responsabilidade acrescida e na verdade quase inteira do PS), sem qualquer reforma estrutural ou mudança de mentalidade e de dinâmica económica ou governativa, porque o PS é um partido do imobilismo, do situacionismo e do estatismo; ou negociar com o Chega e não fazer nada, porque o Chega morre de medo da impopularidade, mesmo se circunstancial e temporária, de qualquer reforma, e são um bando de incompetentes sem qualquer plano para o país fora de duas ou três tiradas mediáticas. Ou seja, nesta legislatura o PSD ou não muda nada com o PS ou não faz nada com o Chega. Mais quatro anos perdidos.

A lot of people who say they never use AI are using AI, but secretly. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

A revisão dos dados da população residente pode explicar grande parte do "mistério" colapso dos serviços públicos e do aumento dos preços da habitação.