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Being a parent of a teenager in the modern digital environment means begging your kid to play Minecraft or do *something* even slightly less brain-rotting than watching short video content from Spotify, which is what they're started doing because you've blocked all YouTube content from the XBox devices at the router level and turned off the WiFi and limited the carrier data throughput after 9PM for their smart phones, which they legitimately need because that is how their coaches communicate with them about cheer routines or band practice
And if you dare to complain about how annoying it is to have this second job as an IT admin just to keep your kids from guzzling down the worlds shittiest content, half the internet calls you a bad parent for not locking them down more and the other half calls you a bad parent for being a content Nazi
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The average person thinks that we’re running out of resources, that our institutions are systemically racist, that little girls are taught not to expect the same opportunities as a little boys, that schools are underfunded, that poverty causes crime, that billionaires are hoarding wealth, and so on.
They don’t think it’s, like, a metaphor or whatever.
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Nota bene: Central to Amodei's vision for how AI will "cure" mental illness is genetic screening, meaning he expects human reproduction via sex to be largely replaced by mass embryo production and mass screening in labs on this same timeline:
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You can learn a lot about Darializa from this post.
She is proud to be a cofounder of Columbia University Apartheid Divest. She organized the encampments in that capacity.
CUAD has infamously described itself as "Westerners fighting for the eradication of Western Civilization." But that is just the tip of the iceberg. What else does Darializa's group stand for?
Take a journey with me into The Barricade, CUAD's publication. Let's see what Darializa's organization is all about.
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Insane exchange. Newly elected Democrat Adam Hamawy refuses to call Iran an adversary.
BROWN: Do you see Iran as the adversary?
HAMAWY: "We pushed them into a fight"
BROWN: But are they the adversary?
HAMAWY: "We should be making friends"
BROWN: They've been saying "death to America" for decades
HAMAWY: "We've been saying 'death to Iran'"
BROWN: They've killed a lot of Americans
HAMAWY: "And we've killed a lot of them"
BROWN: So you don't see Iran as an adversary?
HAMAWY: "I see that we are pushing Iran into a fight"
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New Jersey Democratic Congressman-elect Hamawy...
- REFUSES to say Iran is an "adversary" or enemy of the United States
- DEFENDS Iran as having been "pushed...into a fight" by Israel, which forced the U.S. to wage war
- Argues America isn't any better than Iran because "we've killed a lot of [Iranians] as well"
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The most important principle of national security export controls is to have fun and be yourself 🙂
BREAKING: The US Commerce Dept was approving sales of Nvidia, $NVDA, chips to companies in China which either did not exist, were on the sanctions list, and/or had ties to China's military, per NYT
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for the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring painting with Fable 5.2 in code. one of the most common critiques I heard about Opus 5.5’s paintings was that it was only emulating real art. I thought that was fair, so i’ve been asking Fable 5.2 to develop personas—artists with some sort of a back story and a consistent style roughly identifiable in time
not knowing what to expect, i’ve watched this project evolve in directions i never predicted. I give comments or steers, and Claude updates or revises the engines that power the brushes and paint. where paintings come up i like or find intriguing, i ask it to go deeper. these are some favorites.
each of these is a python program, some one to two thousand lines of code, that places every stroke through a simulated paint engine with different bristles. most take a few thousand strokes, but i’ve pushed much higher with varying results. Claude does not use an image model, nor render or trace in advance
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Gaming has become a corporatized industry that often takes years to churn out mediocre, woke, and worst of all, un-fun video games. But using AI, indie developers are now turning classic games into delightfully absurd new creations.
You can now 360 no-scope a Creeper while doing a kickflip. (Or in simpler terms, one developer combined Minecraft, Call of Duty, and Skate 3 into one.)
Another AI modder, @p_e_cooper, took Call of Duty: World at War’s Zombies mode and added Wii Bowling, rock-paper-scissors, and a DJ booth.
Is this a new golden age of gaming, or will corporate giants ruin all the fun again?
Read the new piece by @evanmilenko 👇
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Ron DeSantis explains why the GOP "screaming socialism" doesn't work anymore:
"Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that? Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism. The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist republicans who propagate these crony policies. The average person is seeing that and saying, 'Wait a minute, you're trying to bend the government to funnel benefits to this corporation or that industry. What about having a competitive market? ... Young people really aren't seeing that. They're seeing just a handful of companies that have an outsized influence on our economy and on our society"
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Especially when since then we’ve taken on entrenched interests to deliver big wins on immigration, education, gender ideology, crime, and Covid.
Basic IQ test.
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This is the truth. I’m glad we slayed gender ideology and protected women’s sports in Florida years ago, but just banging that drum every two years is not going to cut it with so many other issues that need to be addressed.
Gov. Ron DeSantis says he knew Republicans were in trouble when he saw them spending hundreds of millions on transgender ads.
DeSantis went to war with Disney over gender ideology in 2022. Even he says Republicans were "fighting in yesterday's battle."
DESANTIS: "I knew Republicans were in trouble when I was reading an overview about what they were running ads on. And they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars across the country on on transgender ads."
"Look, I fought Disney on gender ideology… But that was not the issue motivating voters."
"It was kind of like an attempt to just scare Republicans to vote."
"Republicans… they really were fighting in yesterday's battle."…
Last month, Pew asked Republican voters which issues mattered most.
Their top 5: the economy, immigration, the future of democracy, violent crime, and the size of government.
Transgender issues ranked 15th out of 16.
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Another notable moment: DeSantis seemed to singal that culture-war issues are no longer salient with voters.
“Four years ago we were in the peak woke era. It alienated a lot of people. …Now the issues are different, and Republicans—it seemed like with some of the ads I was seeing, with how much money they were spending—they were really fighting yesterday’s battle.”
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Congratulations to everyone on the @pangram team who earned an iPhone 18 Pro by taking 500 photos to help us eval this new model
EXCLUSIVE: Today, Pangram is releasing a new model that can detect AI-generated video.
It’s one of two new releases, including an updated static image detection model. Per Pangram, the new image detection model achieved 99.96% accuracy on an internal benchmark; video detection scored 98.57% accuracy.
Said CEO @max_spero_: “We’ve always felt that it’s going to be important to know whether something’s AI generated or not and let people make their own decisions.”
@evanmilenko reports 👇
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Big news!
EXCLUSIVE: Today, Pangram is releasing a new model that can detect AI-generated video.
It’s one of two new releases, including an updated static image detection model. Per Pangram, the new image detection model achieved 99.96% accuracy on an internal benchmark; video detection scored 98.57% accuracy.
Said CEO @max_spero_: “We’ve always felt that it’s going to be important to know whether something’s AI generated or not and let people make their own decisions.”
@evanmilenko reports 👇