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What the fuck is going on?? Reports of people getting fired for not giving access to Musk? What on earth is this??

The pattern is this:

• Something fucking insane is happening, like the US government under attack by a dude not in the fucking government.
• You jump on social media.
• You saturate the fuck out of your mind with takes from the most hilarious and stupid ones to the most serious, expert ones.
• You do intensely, not leaving a millimeter of yourself unconquered.
• Your analytic side, your emotional side, your balance, everything gets to crumble and make you numb.
• After anywhere between 30mn to hours, you are numbnumb.
• To the point of not remembering/knowing what you are supposed to be doing (fight back).
• So you jump on entertainment, which is completely endless today, right there in our pockets or at arm’s length.
• Something insane happens again. Etc.

To move away from this loop because things have become urgent:

• Stop using social media so much, which means uninstall this shit from your phone. Forever. If you can’t do that, understand that you need help. Even better, quit.
• Use all the tools available in democracy to push back authoritarian BS. Get involved, etc. Never stop.
• Truly disconnect from devices, breathe longer.
• Teach yourself stuff, possibly useful ones. Don’t ever stop learning.
• Build resilience in any way you can. It’s always useful.

The numbness is rampant. We need to wake up. Now.

How Artificial Intelligence, which is one of the most international thing we’ve ever created, is seen as US VS China “war”?

Who the fuck is saying that? Why is everything so fucking inane?

Exciting. Lame as hell. Just as I thought it would be.

Exciting:

Doing decent LLMs output with a lot less is quite a feature. Mad props.

Lame as hell:
All the dudes online thrashing each other over how NVIDIA’s stock is a bubble-I-told-you-so, or how “the Chinese” are “kicking ass” or how US AI companies are crying etc.

Just as I thought it would be:
Maybe not that accurately! But my guts were telling me that there was a huge amount of optimization that could be done VS scaling up hardware and building power plants day in day out to improve AI’s performance. High-Flyer just proved it.

So to me the conclusion of DeepSeek is this: some of the brightest minds on earth, everywhere, are working really hard on AI. Progress is being made and shared at a fascinating pace. Hardware is hitting physical limits (there are rumors of the latest NVIDIA cards crashing a lot because they run superhot) so the possibility to now do more with what we have, is very welcome.

One interesting angle: the Chinese team had to find ways to optimize their systems, as they didn’t have access to the latest hardware. AKA, you get creative when you face constraints. AKA, blocking GPU export to China made them stronger.

lmao

Obviously, not much could be done differently when things were burning. But since then:

• Palisade fire was started by someone. Find them and shame the fuck out of them. 20+ folks died, that’s more than one CEO.
• They probably did something for social media. If so, grab Meta or ByteDance by the neck and make them pay. Instagram alone made $32 billion of revenue in 2024. They can drop a dozen billions to help rebuild, easy.
• Eaton fire was started by power lines. Create a mini-Marshall plan with the feds, I don’t care, and bury those lines once and for all jfc.
• New construction in Palisades has to be structural concrete/steel only. If you choose wood, you’re on your own and weird. Firefighters will be at your full expense.
• I’d go as far as mandatory green roofs with sprinklers. In the event of new wildfires, those wet areas would stop fire from spreading very efficiently. And green roofs are the best roofs.
• In Altadena, I’d go with a plan like this: either rebuild exactly the way it was with houses made out of concrete with wood paneling instead, or have a sort of Case Study with say, four house models designed for the area by local architects to choose from.
• Rebuild using all the tech available so that we can build efficiently and fast: 3D-printing using ArcGIS data, sustainable material, the whole 9.
• Pretty sure that would almost guarantee full reconstruction within a few years of this tragedy.

Instead one of the wealthiest place on earth is talking about not having enough building permits available to give to people to rebuild lmao

Which is how it makes me wonder “how tf did they send folks on the freaking moon when dad was a child, but we’re unable to control ourselves and manage some brush fires that we know are nasty since before we called this land California?”

Anyway, I’m team Nolympics ‘28. Los Angeles did it twice already, let’s stop there.

“can’t wait for rain tomorrow; my car is so dirty”

Post making the rounds lately. I don’t think it’s aggressive enough in its analysis. I suggested in 2022 that folks should detox. People can’t do that though. It’s too easy to scroll. It’s too easy to fold.

Shoutout to all the tech folks who didn’t shill for people to join a locked down ecosystem in the past 15 years. The five of y’all, thank you.

There’s something deeply democratic to see someone who has not the range to become a president, at all, become one, again.

There’s something absolutely frightening about that, too.

Dear journalists,

Fire weather is not a thing. It’s just dry and windy. What’s next? “wet wet from the sky is really needed?”

Brain rot. Get your fucking shit together, media, it’s alarming.

And stop implying that those fires are natural! They’re from us by us.