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Sorry Vinny, but this is exactly the type of thing a rich douche bag would say. Don’t be a rich douche bag, please.
Chris Zaharias retweeted
Revolut: Europe's most valuable startup ($200B) just showed the world its AI strategy.
Every company will end up copying it.
At the start of this year, Revolut leaned on the frontier labs. Its 2,000 engineers used Claude Code and Codex, and some burned $1,000 to $10,000 a month each. The bills kept climbing, and the returns weren't there.
So Revolut switched its default to an open-source model called GLM. All it needs is GPUs, which it rents from Together AI.
The results, by Revolut's own count:
- The bill is about a tenth of what it paid OpenAI and Anthropic
- Engineers get unlimited tokens instead of spending caps
- Coding time is down 60% and lead time is down 70%
That's the chart below.
Revolut still uses Claude and GPT, but only as "the exception," for the tasks they do best. Everything else runs on open source.
So here's the question I keep coming back to: how many use cases can companies really justify sending to frontier models?
My answer is very few. Plenty of companies still route everything to OpenAI and Anthropic today. For how long?
I think open source ends up handling the vast majority of corporate AI work, and frontier models get a short list of the hardest jobs. That's a problem for labs whose revenue forecasts assume unlimited growth.
If you appreciate unpopular takes, follow me @m0xt_ for more.
ALT Revolut chart of engineering lead time and coding time, both dropping after switching to self-hosted open-source GLM
Chris Zaharias retweeted
I was kicked out of my cancer support groups for sharing this. One month later, my PET scan proved them wrong." 🚨
When you are diagnosed with a 6 cm lung mass, you don't care about the politics. You care about survival.
This patient took a metabolic and holistic approach to starve the tumor from all angles. The result after just 2-3 weeks? The brain MRI and PET scan showed no spread. The 6 cm mass had shrunk, and the entire outer layer was now inactive, dead tissue.
Here is the exact strategy they used. Fasting and diet are 50% of the battle.
🔥 The Metabolic Protocol:
🔹 Calculated Prolonged Fasting: Never the same fasting window twice. Drink water with salt, green tea, ginger, turmeric, and black pepper. This forces the body into autophagy (cellular cleanup).
🔹 Targeting Fuel: Cancer cells feed on glucose (sugar) and glutamine (protein). The goal is to starve them, then let the meds go in and eliminate them.
🔹 The Meds: Ivermectin and Fenbendazole (started low, then doubled after 2 weeks if tolerated).
🔹 The Daily Stack: Vitamin D3 (20,000 IU), Vitamin C (6-8k mg), Selenium, and a powerful morning blend of raw garlic, apple cider vinegar, and extra virgin olive oil on an empty stomach.
🔹 The Environment: 30-45 minutes of sweating exercise, deep breathing to enter apoptosis (cell death), and daily sun exposure.
🧬 The Rules of the Fast:
You have to track your numbers. You need a device for this.
Blood glucose cannot drop below 50 mg/dL.
Blood ketones cannot exceed 8.0 mmol/L.
GKI (Glucose Ketone Index) should ideally be 1 or less.
When you break the fast, you break it with nutrient-dense bone broth and glutamine inhibitors (like Berberine) to ensure the cancer cells can't feed on the protein.
They want you to believe standard care is the only way. But people are doing the research, changing their biology, and forcing their bodies to heal.
⚠️ Not medical advice this is one patient's extreme personal protocol. Fasting and high-dose supplements can be dangerous. Always consult an oncologist or metabolic specialist.
Chris Zaharias retweeted
I tend to be a pessimist, but here is some optimism for you:
Islam has been defeated in Iran. On a cultural, societal and national level.
The islamic regime consists of 100 year old mullahs and 75 year old IRGC terrorists. Meanwhile, Iran's youth has never been more fiercely anti-islam than they are right now.
Mosques are shutting down.
Arabic/islamic baby names are plummeting.
Ancient Persian heritage is embraced more than ever before.
And soon, the chains of the barbarian regime known as the islamic republic will be destroyed.
After this 47 year long dark night ends, there will be a bright future.
We will win.
Californians, read this and let it change your vote on Tuesday!
In 1835, a Young French Aristocrat Predicted the Exact Bureaucratic Trap Threatening the West Today
Before the philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville ever set foot in America, radical tyranny had already scarred his family. During the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, left-wing Jacobin zealots guillotined his great-grandfather and threw his newlywed parents into a Paris dungeon. Waiting daily for the executioner's blade, his father’s hair turned snow-white at the age of twenty-one. Only the sudden fall of Robespierre spared his parents' lives by a matter of hours, allowing Alexis to be born a decade later.
Raised in the shadow of state terror, Tocqueville became obsessed with a single question: why did the French pursuit of utopian equality end in a bloodbath, while the American Revolution produced the freest, most prosperous republic on earth? In 1831, at just twenty-five years old, he convinced the French government to send him to the United States under the mundane bureaucratic cover of inspecting American prisons. Once he arrived, he spent nine months traveling seven thousand miles by stagecoach, steamboat, and horseback to study the soul of the American citizen.
His observations became Democracy in America, one of the most brilliant political analyses ever written. Tocqueville realized that American greatness rested on three pillars: fierce individual self-reliance, decentralized local communities, and a strong foundation of religious morality. Whenever Americans saw a problem, they formed a local group and fixed it themselves rather than begging a distant politician for help.
Yet as he studied the young republic, Tocqueville foresaw a chilling vulnerability. He realized that a proud, armed citizenry would always fight back against an obvious military dictator. Therefore, future tyrants would abandon whips and chains in favor of welfare, cradle-to-grave safety, and endless administrative rules. They would conquer free citizens by offering to manage their lives in the name of compassion.
Describing this future nanny state in 1840, Tocqueville wrote a passage that reads like a headline from today:
"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate... It seeks to keep them in perpetual childhood. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd... till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
Tocqueville called this system "soft despotism." Nearly two centuries ago, he understood that when citizens trade personal responsibility for government security, the state gladly reduces them to dependent children. Every bloated regulatory agency, speech code, and entitlement program today operates on the exact blueprint he exposed. Liberty rarely perishes overnight in a violent coup; it erodes quietly when a free people allow bureaucrats to become their shepherds.
Chris Zaharias retweeted
"I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built. I think it should be the goal of everyone living in a town to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus the mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance."
"That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque; thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy," and the other, a topless bar, would be called "You Mecca Me Hot."
"Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called " Iraq of Ribs."
“Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret," with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods", and on the other side a liquor store called "Morehammered."
"All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of non Muslims.”
Yes we should promote tolerance, and you can do your part by passing this on. And if you are not laughing or smiling at this point... It is either past your bedtime, or it's midnight at the oasis and time to put your camel to bed!!
Having been out of SEM for 13 years, I was not aware of the auction mechanism change, or the budget overreach, but everything else yes. But to say they operated their monopoly benevolently is wrong. They have been turning the monetization screws inexorably in one direction for 25 years.
I’ve always loved watching you act, but would especially like to see you take on more substantive roles in more meaningful films.
@POTUS you have to step in!!!!
Em Araruama, o Flavio ganhou o primeiro turno com mais que o dobro de votos no Lula.
Araruama no segundo turno:
Flávio ganhou 11 votos
Lula ganhou 5.581 votos.
Isso significa que, numa cidade, em que o Flavio Bolsonaro venceu com MAIS QUE O DOBRO de votos que o Lula no primeiro turno, o atual presidente teve 507x mais votos que o Flavio, no segundo.
O mesmo padrão se repete nas cidades vizinhas, que também são muito bolsonaristas.
A aberração matemática disso é assombrosa.
Chris Zaharias retweeted
巴西的民主制度总算是走到尽头了。
当别人还在讨论卢拉是否舞弊的时候，我就看见了巴西民主制度的最底层代码。
卢拉通过个人多年的经营，已经和巴西劳工党融为一体，形成非常强大的社会动员力量和统治力量，执行力极强。
巴西大选，如果稍微了解一些常识，就知道已经彻底被卢拉和他的劳工党硬控了。
大选不过是个卢拉政权传承的形式而已。
雅伊爾·博索納羅在2018年大选得胜，其实就类似美国的2016年川普上台。对于卢拉的劳工党来说，只是一个战术性失误。
因为过于轻视对手，并且选择了不太富有魅力的候选人費爾南多·阿達。
2022年，卢拉卷土重来。
而且，巴西确实不像美国，总统连续两届，卸任后可以再次选举。
当然，卢拉使用各种手段，舞弊也是其中之一。所有的无产阶级或者工人阶级在同资本家斗争的时候，不都是这样吗？
卢拉成功当选。
2026，博索納羅的儿子再次上来，挑战卢拉。
卢拉实际上已经在巴西建成了极为坚固的司法、行政和立法网络。随便使点小手段，弗拉维奥·博索纳罗就出局了。
这种事情，查韦斯玩过，奥巴马玩过，拜登玩过，马杜罗玩过，普京也玩过。
弗拉维奥·博索纳罗的结局可比失败的川普要恶劣多了。
他只能逃亡。如果留在巴西，完蛋都有可能。😄
巴西的卢拉大帝时代正式降临。
卢拉这个人是极有魅力的，能力也很强。
但这不代表这巴西的民主制度就是完美的。
实际上，巴西的民主制度要比美国脆弱得多。
有点类似俄罗斯。
“总统连任两届退役之后，仍然可以再选”这个明显的漏洞都没有消除。
如果美国也是这样的制度，奥巴马早就亲自上阵参选第三季了。
让Kamala Devi Harris去竞选本身就是奥巴马的主意，不是拜登的想法，但Kamala Harris确实太弱了。
既然民主玩不通，巴西以后再玩军政府时代，是完全有可能的。
毕竟卢拉已经开了一个头，别人也可以再升级一下。
再见，巴西。委内瑞拉就是你最终的归宿！
Chris Zaharias retweeted
Muslims have killed more than 600 million non-Muslims since 622.
But if you point this out, they’ll say it’s Islamophobia.
🤖 Made with AI
Chris Zaharias retweeted
网景创始人 、硅谷顶级投资人Marc Andreessen 在访谈里坦言，他看到了科技史上最可怕的一道认知鸿沟，
传统巨头以为 AI 只是个降本增效的插件，而新一代 AI 原生团队，正在用完全非人的组织效率掀翻整个商业版图。
当年写出网景浏览器、见证了整个互联网三十年兴衰的 Marc Andreessen，坐在 Ben Horowitz 面前直接发出了感慨，
如果 1994 年我们做 Netscape 的时候就有今天这种 AI 工具，那简直不可想象。
现在绝大多数传统巨头和现有企业，依然在用改良软件的旧思维去看待大模型。
在他们的组织逻辑里，AI 只是一个高级功能，用来给现有业务做个插件、在钉钉里加个智能助手、或者把客服团队砍掉 20% 省点成本。
他们以为自己在拥抱变革，其实只是在给老旧的蒸汽机打补丁。
但真正恐怖的事情，正在那些刚成立的 AI 原生团队里发生。
那些创始人对 AI 能力的理解，跟大厂完全不在同一个平行宇宙。
他们每周都在看着底层技术飞速进化，而且他们压根不会把自己定义成一家软件公司、硬件公司、甚至是一家 AI 公司。
以前创办一家公司，你的组织架构是按人类的协同瓶颈搭出来的：
招产品经理写文档、招工程师写代码、招法务改合同、招运营做投放。
因为人类的脑力带宽有限，所以必须靠庞大的部门和管理层级来支撑业务。
而真正的 AI 原生物种，是用机器智能作为最底层的骨架。
两个人加上一整套自动化 Agent，可以直接把从市场洞察、软件工程、全栈设计到商业销售的链路全部跑通。
他们不是在效率上快了 30%，他们是在组织形态上彻底跨越了一个物种。
大厂的盲区，从来不是买不起算力，而是他们无法理解组织本身才是最大的负债。
当现有企业还在开会讨论如何把 AI 塞进现有的业务流程时，新一代的野蛮人正在用完全超越行业界限的方式，把传统的业务流程连根拔起。
未来拉开人与人、公司与公司之间差距的，根本不是你用了哪个模型，而是你到底是在用新工具维持旧世界的体面，还是用新世界的底层逻辑，重新定义了自己能做的事情。
Chris Zaharias retweeted
🚨😡 CE MEC EST DINGUE ! IL A OSÉ L’IMMONDE ! 🤮
Il vient de tenir des propos qui sont une véritable gifle au visage des victimes du terrorisme, de leurs familles et de tous ceux qui portent encore le deuil de nos compatriotes assassinés ! 💔
🎙️ JE CITE :
« C'est la première fois qu'il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes à raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion. »
💥 AH BON ? VRAIMENT ?! 😡
La rue Copernic ? La rue des Rosiers ? Toulouse ? L’Hyper Cacher ? Le père Jacques Hamel ?
TOUT CELA N’AURAIT DONC JAMAIS EXISTÉ ?!
📜 RAPPEL HISTORIQUE : ATTENTATS, ASSASSINATS RACISTES OU RELIGIEUX ET ATTAQUES TERRORISTES EN FRANCE, DE 1979 À 2026 !
📍 1979–1999 : LES ANNÉES DE SANG
🔴 1979 — Paris : attentat contre un restaurant d'étudiants juifs — 33 blessés.
🔴 1980 — Paris : attentat contre un foyer protestant — 4 blessés.
🔴 1980 — Paris, rue Copernic : attentat contre une synagogue — 4 morts.
🔴 1982 — Paris : assassinat d'un diplomate israélien.
🔴 1982 — Paris, rue des Rosiers : attentat contre un restaurant juif — 6 morts.
🔴 1985 — Paris : attentat contre le Festival du cinéma juif — 18 blessés.
🔴 1985 — Paris : attentats aux Galeries Lafayette et au Printemps.
🔴 1986 — Paris : série d'attentats dans des commerces, transports et lieux publics — plusieurs morts.
🔴 1986 — Paris, rue de Rennes : attentat contre le magasin Tati — 7 morts.
🔴 1988 — Cannes : attentat contre un foyer de travailleurs immigrés.
🔴 1995 — Paris, Saint-Michel : attentat du RER — 8 morts.
🔴 1995 — Paris : attentats avenue de Friedland, boulevard Richard-Lenoir et station Maison-Blanche.
🔴 1995 — Villeurbanne : voiture piégée près d'une école juive.
🔴 1995 — Paris, Musée d'Orsay : attentat dans le RER — nombreux blessés.
🔴 1996 — Paris, Port-Royal : attentat dans le RER — 4 morts.
📍 2000–2014 : LA TERREUR CONTINUE
🔴 2006 — Bagneux : assassinat antisémite d'Ilan Halimi — 1 mort.
🔴 2012 — Toulouse et Montauban : assassinats de militaires par Mohamed Merah — 3 morts.
🔴 2012 — Toulouse, école Ozar Hatorah : attentat antisémite — 4 morts, dont 3 enfants.
🔴 2012 — Sarcelles : attentat à la grenade contre une épicerie casher.
🔴 2013 — La Défense : attaque au couteau contre un militaire.
🔴 2014 — Joué-lès-Tours : attaque au couteau contre des policiers.
📍 2015–2019 : LA FRANCE FRAPPÉE AU CŒUR
🔴 2015 — Paris, Charlie Hebdo : attentat terroriste — 12 morts.
🔴 2015 — Montrouge : assassinat d'une policière municipale — 1 morte.
🔴 2015 — Vincennes, Hyper Cacher : attentat antisémite — 4 morts.
🔴 2015 — Nice : attaque contre des militaires protégeant un centre communautaire juif.
🔴 2015 — Villejuif : assassinat d'Aurélie Châtelain et projet d'attentat contre des églises — 1 morte.
🔴 2015 — Saint-Quentin-Fallavier : assassinat et décapitation d'Hervé Cornara — 1 mort.
🔴 2015 — Thalys : tentative d'attentat contre les passagers d'un train à destination de Paris.
🔴 2015 — Paris et Saint-Denis, 13 NOVEMBRE : attentats du Bataclan, des terrasses et du Stade de France — 130 morts dans le bilan historique.
🔴 2016 — Marseille : attaque antisémite au couteau contre un enseignant juif.
🔴 2016 — Magnanville : assassinat terroriste d'un couple de policiers — 2 morts.
🔴 2016 — Nice, 14 JUILLET : attentat au camion — 86 morts.
🔴 2016 — Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray : assassinat du père Jacques Hamel dans son église — 1 mort.
🔴 2016 — Paris, Notre-Dame : tentative d'attentat à la voiture piégée.
🔴 2017 — Paris : assassinat antisémite de Sarah Halimi — 1 morte.
🔴 2017 — Paris, Louvre : attaque contre des militaires.
🔴 2017 — Orly : attaque contre une militaire.
🔴 2017 — Paris, Champs-Élysées : assassinat du policier Xavier Jugelé — 1 mort.
🔴 2017 — Paris, Notre-Dame : attaque contre un policier.
🔴 2017 — Levallois-Perret : attaque à la voiture contre des militaires.
🔴 2017 — Marseille, Saint-Charles : assassinat terroriste de deux jeunes femmes — 2 mortes.
🔴 2018 — Paris : assassinat antisémite de Mireille Knoll — 1 morte.
🔴 2018 — Carcassonne et Trèbes : attentats terroristes — 4 morts.
🔴 2018 — Paris, quartier de l'Opéra : attaque terroriste au couteau — 1 mort.
🔴 2018 — Strasbourg : attentat contre le marché de Noël — 5 morts.
🔴 2019 — Lyon : attentat au colis piégé — nombreux blessés.
📍 2020–2026 : ET LE CAUCHEMAR SE POURSUIT !
🔴 2020 — Villejuif : attaque terroriste au couteau — 1 mort.
🔴 2020 — Romans-sur-Isère : attaque terroriste au couteau — 2 morts.
🔴 2020 — Colombes : attaque à la voiture contre des policiers.
🔴 2020 — Paris, anciens locaux de Charlie Hebdo : attaque au hachoir — 2 blessés.
🔴 2020 — Conflans-Sainte-Honorine : assassinat et décapitation de Samuel Paty — 1 mort.
🔴 2020 — Nice, basilique Notre-Dame : attentat dans une église — 3 morts.
🔴 2021 — Rambouillet : assassinat terroriste de Stéphanie Monfermé — 1 morte.
🔴 2023 — Arras : assassinat terroriste du professeur Dominique Bernard — 1 mort.
🔴 2023 — Paris, Bir-Hakeim : attaque terroriste au couteau — 1 mort.
🔴 2024 — Rouen : incendie criminel d'une synagogue.
🔴 2024 — La Grande-Motte : attentat incendiaire contre une synagogue — 1 policier blessé.
🔴 2025 — Apt : attaque au couteau dans un centre commercial — 2 blessés.
🔴 2025 — Mulhouse : attaque terroriste au couteau — 1 mort.
🔴 2025 — Lyon : assassinat d'Ashur Sarnaya, chrétien irakien — 1 mort, enquête antiterroriste.
🔴 2026 — Paris, Arc de Triomphe : attaque terroriste au couteau contre un gendarme.
💥 ALORS, MONSIEUR MACRON, « C'EST LA PREMIÈRE FOIS » ?!
😡 Comment peut-on prononcer une telle phrase sans penser aux familles endeuillées, aux enfants assassinés, aux victimes de la haine antisémite et religieuse, à tous ceux qui ont été massacrés sur notre sol ?
🇫🇷 LA MÉMOIRE DE NOS MORTS MÉRITE MIEUX QUE DES DÉCLARATIONS AUSSI CONSTERNANTES !
🕯️ NOUS N'OUBLIONS PAS. NOUS N'OUBLIERONS JAMAIS. 🇫🇷
Chris Zaharias retweeted
Scientists found a way to flush Alzheimer’s plaque out of the brain in minutes.
Without any surgery and drugs.
Your brain has a waste-clearance network called the glymphatic system. It flushes out toxic proteins and dead cells.
But it only really activates during deep, slow-wave sleep.
If you don't sleep, the trash piles up. Over time, that buildup leads to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.
Until today.
Researchers just published a paper proving they can manually trigger this cleaning cycle.
Without you ever going to sleep.
They used 40.68 MHz ultrashort waves (USW) beamed non-invasively into the brain.
Within 10 minutes, the brain's fluid flow rapidly accelerated.
The waves artificially synchronized the neurons into a Delta state, the exact frequency of deep sleep. This forced the brain's water channels to open and start flushing out the system.
They tested it on mice with traumatic brain injuries and Alzheimer's pathology.
The brain swelling dropped. The toxic proteins were cleared out. Cognitive deficits actually improved.
No surgery. No massive chemical interventions. Just a frequency.
Chris Zaharias retweeted
A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold, and their own math says gold is one of the cheapest things their machine can make. Aim it at a different metal and it makes a cancer drug ingredient worth tens of billions of dollars a gram.
Here's how it works. When you fuse two kinds of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, every single reaction kicks out a neutron moving at 14.1 MeV, which is absurdly fast. Fire one into mercury-198 and it knocks another neutron loose on the way through, so two come out and you're left with mercury-197. Give that a few days and it decays into gold-197, the only stable kind of gold there is. The whole trick needs neutrons above about 6 MeV, and regular nuclear reactors barely make those, while fusion makes one every time it fires.
Now swap the mercury for radium-226. Same reaction, one neutron in and two out, and you end up with radium-225, which decays into actinium-225. Novartis is building its next prostate cancer drug around actinium-225, and it's so scarce it sells by the millicurie, roughly $1,200 to $2,500 apiece. Price it by the gram and you're into the tens of billions of dollars, for a material so radioactive nobody could safely hold a gram of it anyway.
Marathon's team actually put a dollar value on a single fusion neutron in a paper this year. Use it to make electricity and it's worth about $3 × 10⁻²⁰. Gold comes in at $2.6 × 10⁻²⁰, basically a wash. Molybdenum-99, which goes into about 80% of nuclear medicine scans, is worth $2.6 × 10⁻¹⁷ a neutron. Actinium-225 is worth about $10⁻¹⁰, around 3 billion times what the electricity's worth.
That's why fusion people should care. Every fusion company you've heard of is chasing electricity, and selling electricity only pays once the plasma puts out something like 10 to 22 times the energy you pump in to heat it. The best result so far, at JET in England, was about a third. Add gold on the side and Marathon's math says you break even around 3x. For molybdenum-99, the number is 0.001x.
So a machine that gives back one-thousandth of the energy you feed it can still make money, as long as the neutrons hit the right metal.
By their numbers, a 3 megawatt machine running way below breakeven could cover the whole world's supply of molybdenum-99, which today comes from splitting uranium in a handful of research reactors. Today's experimental fusion machines already beat the gain that job needs.
Their second post basically says this out loud. Marathon now describes itself as an isotope company for radiopharma. Their chart shows roughly 390 targeted radiotherapy trials. Pluvicto, the prostate cancer drug Novartis launched at $42,500 a dose, did $1.9 billion in sales last year.
Gold still matters to them, just later. It's about a $700 billion a year market, and Marathon's paper figures it could soak up around 2 terawatts of fusion capacity, which is roughly the scale where fusion actually moves the grid. So the plan is to sell cancer isotopes out of small machines now and use gold to pay for the giant ones, years before electricity can pay for itself.
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
Just your daily reminder that Islam must be destroyed @EmmanuelMacron
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