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Conservatives when Federal Government wants the decision of abortions given to individuals: "Noo, muh state rights!!1! Feds no interfere 😢" Conservatives when Federal Government deploys the literal army into a liberal state: "mmhh yes, those military boots taste so good 😋"

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Data & politics nerds: New historical global trade flows & payments database dropped: https://wbop.world This is 200+ years of trades across dozens of regions. Dig in.

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Even if reasoning has hit a limit (I don't think it has) like Apple paper partially claims, it would be a false hope to expect AI to just go away. We haven't seen even 10% of the use cases that CURRENT AI capabilities can enable. Foundational model development has been faster than application layers. I know Farcaster people already know this but there's a massive group of people who unrealistically think AI is just a bubble.

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Just to be clear - according to Israel, US, UK, EU logic; you are free to bomb all civilians in Israel because of hostages. (The 12 here are the additions to the 1000s of Palestinian hostages held without trial by Israel)

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In 2010, Israel raided a Gaza food aid flotilla and killed 10 American and Turkish passengers. It was a huge scandal in Europe & UK, and afaik one of the things that broke Turkish-Israeli relationship which isn't repaired ever since. I haven't heard it being reported much in US media, despite the murdered American citizen. To say what Thunberg is doing is courageous is an understatement. What she's doing is akin to Gandhi's hunger strikes. Greta Thunberg is a modern hero and none of her incel critics will ever live up to her spirit.

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Step 1) People demand healthcare, education, equality (objectively leftist policies) Step 2) Liberals in power ignore Step 3) Far right gains power but within the bounds of the system Step 4) Far right consolidates power Step 5) Far right infighting or external conflicts This cycle is timeless of course, but a complete cycle happens throughout 10-20 years in other countries (Turkey & Russia between 2000-2015, Hungary between 2010-2025, etc). USA goes through the cycle in accelerated mode, as always.

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Which one had a bigger impact on culture? Italian Renaissance or Italian Brainrot?

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Now that voice and video cloning are getting trivial, I don't see a world where authentication is only solved by anything other than cryptography and zk proofs.

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libertarian -> e/acc arc is now complete where they always focus on one single thing and ignore externalities (see screenshot). Here are realities: - Yes, OpenAI copied “millions” of Times articles to train GPT models and build itself a new business; while infringing copyright & harming NYT's subscription business. - Almost all other foundational model builders did the same, including XAI which also infringed copyright of its own users. - Yes, court order is a breach to user privacy, but that's what happens in all "trust-based" systems that centralized corporations like OpenAI or XAI heavily rely on. - There is NOTHING preventing consumers to adopt the cheaper, open-source models that now also offer more private communications. *cough* Deepseek. - Any argument that claims "intellectual property" should be open should remain consistent and claim all properties should be open; including all billionaire houses and businesses.

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Can’t imagine being so insecure about my manhood that at every opportunity I yell about how manly I am.

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How soon do we think Dem politicians will start placating to Elon, now that he's slightly at odds with Trump? (yes they're THAT detached from reality)

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10/10 and that's not the score I'm giving to the video (if you watch the video, you'll get it)

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Before dismissing it as pipe dream: Curious what people think about the chances of someone realigning GOP towards Marxist policies (without calling it Marxist) before someone realigning Dems to Marxist policies. 0.1%? 1%? 10%? Also curious: what kind of act / person could do it?

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I spent 4 years building in the NFT art space. Made good friends, met a lot of grifters, and made maybe a small % of my annual salary. I spent 6 months building in the AI space. Made good friends, met a lot of grifters, got promoted, and then landed a job with double salary & equity. I still think crypto has a culture problem, not a use case problem.

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My last day using Claude before my subscription runs out. At this point I'm completely convinced that Anthropic optimized Claude 4 models to maximize tokens. The level of over-engineering (even in non-engineering tasks) is nuts.

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SWE benchmarks have been destroyed in the last 1 year. March 2024, Devon, 14% December 2024, o1, 49% March 2025, Gemini 2.5 63% May 2025, Sonnet 4, 80% This is incredibly scary and exciting at the same time.

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Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 are here. Opus is really powerful, but my PAID PLAN credits ran out in 3 prompts. I had already unsubscribed from Claude but my plan continues for a few more days. I'm not regretting. Anthropic became a joke. o3 is the way.

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Remember, unlike the east, the west represents freedom. Also ICC Chief prosecutor's email address is blocked thanks to Microsoft's cooperation with the US and his bank account is blocked by the UK. https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

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