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John S. Boyd retweeted
Any Home Assistant sensor can live in your Mac menu bar. Point a Multimeter meter at the sensor's state, give it a face, and the living room temp or the solar output is always one glance away
Steps here: multimeterapp.com/guides/hom…
John S. Boyd retweeted
The quickest way to end Russia’s war is to hold the positions and move to discussions. What is very important here is that we decided: stop where we are, it’s a ceasefire, and we go to the diplomatic track. It can last one month, two months, or one year. Or it can last longer than we expect today. But we end the hot stage and people stop dying. When you hold, you speak about the contact line, slow down the pace of mobilization; the economy begins to work. You are in discussions. Dialogue is better than guns. That's why the best way to end this war is to exchange guns for words.
Of course, you will have thousands of questions. How to stop? Where to stand? What is the mandate of the monitoring mission? What is demilitarized? What does it mean? What do we need for this? Europeans. Reconstruction. Where to get the money? Thousands of questions, but this is the format to stop the war – ceasefire. If Putin doesn't want a ceasefire and says, “No, I want a long plan, with different questions, both difficult, sensitive, and not. And then, when we sign this long plan, we will stop the war,” it simply means he doesn't want to stop the war.
From an interview with DR Nyheder. (3/3)
John S. Boyd retweeted
For anyone who believes his bullshit, ask yourself, has he ever prosecuted ANYONE from the 2020 election???
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
With the same voting machines that he is complaining about today, as he attempts to build the same narrative.
Any why not?
Ask yourself honestly.
Why hasn’t Trump, the President of the United States, with control of the DOJ, prosecuted anyone from the 2020 election?
That ought to make some of you very angry especially those of you who lost personal money, personal life relationships, and even went to prison for Trump as you fought against the 2020 election.
The real truth for the 2026 midterms is that something like 14 million Trump/Republican voters stayed home because, for multiple issues, they couldn’t support Trump and Republicans anymore.
The polls weren’t really wrong, the polls his team showed him knew they were going to lose but lied to him that it would be this bad.
Because his entire political team makes money off of rallies, fundraising, and everything to do with Trump involved in elections.
And if they had told him it was going this bad, for one he might have changed course, but two probably would not have gone out and done rallies everyday like they had him doing.
But really don’t feel too sorry for him. His ego and pride are hurt and he knows the big Democrat victory is 100% on him. So this is another attempt to deflect any wrong going off of himself.
John S. Boyd retweeted
Today, I stood with Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to announce his $100 million gift to San Francisco’s parks. This is the largest single-donor gift to the city in San Francisco’s history, and will support the development of new parks, upgrades to existing spaces, expanded hours at recreation facilities, and much more.
An initial $39 million will help unlock five projects in neighborhoods across our city. SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, and downtown will all see transformational projects finish sooner, bringing more welcoming public spaces to residents across San Francisco.
As Mayor, one of my top priorities is making San Francisco a city where families can put down roots and build their futures. Earlier this year, we launched our Family Opportunity Agenda—a citywide effort to bring down the cost of living and expand economic mobility for San Francisco families.
We're building more housing, protecting tenants, expanding access to affordable childcare, and keeping public transportation safe, reliable, and affordable. We're also investing in the public spaces families rely on every day.
Our parks are an essential part of what makes San Francisco such a special place to raise a family. Our recreation programs provide exceptional and affordable opportunities for San Francisco families. With this investment, we're bringing those opportunities to more neighborhoods across our city, expanding access to recreation, and making our parks even better for the families who use them.
San Francisco has created enormous opportunity for the people who have built their businesses here. And with that success comes a responsibility to give back to the city that helped make it possible. So, my ask to every leader who sees what Brian has done today is simple: help us create more opportunities for the people who call San Francisco home. Now is the time. Our city is coming back. Don’t just watch it from the sidelines. Be a part of it.
John S. Boyd retweeted
People have no idea how sophisticated nation state activities are
If you are a target of opportunity for China it’s not unheard of for them to dedicate O(1000) humans dedicated to compromising you
This is what happened w their NYT hack in 2013, which was designed to send a message
They will compromise your friend’s friend’s friend to compromise you
And work down that chain until your friend invites you on a fun trip on a private plane to Mexico/Thailand/wherever (example)
Where some night you have a very boozy dinner and then you show back up at the house and some girls are there
You’re drunk and make a mistake and then you’re owned until you’re disposable
Nation state kompromat for “target’s of choice” is a system designed to find any individual’s weakness (you’re bisexual; a gambler, an alcoholic, drug addict, have a debt, adulterous, etc) and then force them into a situation of maximum amplification of this weakness
99% of people can be compromised using nation state capabilities and tactics
nytimes.com/2013/01/31/techn…
John S. Boyd retweeted
In TV app when you click Download, it resets the list view to the top. That's so easy to find in telemetry, and so easy to fix.
In the Download modal I tried to drag a movie to the top to download first and it crashed TV app.
When it came back it forgot the download queue!
One thing I most frequently miss about living in Austin - the high quality texas BBQ options. I have yet to find a San Francisco establishment that can match.
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John S. Boyd retweeted
This week's results make me optimistic. We have an unprecedented bipartisan opportunity to take on Big Tech’s abuse of market power and open up markets for the next generation of founders.
Inventing powerful AI is only half the job. People must be able to use it to make their lives better and their businesses more productive. That gets harder when a few trillion-dollar companies can block new products from reaching them.
Congress can open those markets for Little Tech. Let thousands of startups compete to lower costs and grow the economy for everyone. We should spread the gains from AI as widely as possible, not concentrate even more power in the companies that already control distribution.
John S. Boyd retweeted
Elon spent over $160 million against James Talarico in Texas.
Talarico won anyway.
And his first message to Elon? He called him "a great innovator" and said he wants to work with him on technology.
In my opinion, this is how adults should act after an election. You can disagree on politics and still respect a builder.
As a psychologist, I know that turning a rival into a partner takes more strength than holding a grudge.
Texas is home to SpaceX and Tesla. Cooperation helps everyone.
Do you think they can really work together? 🚀
John S. Boyd retweeted
LLMs accumulate a lot of declarative knowledge.
That's how they can answer a large number of questions.
That's also why they require so many parameters and hence so much memory.
But one can replace the accumulation of knowledge by *understanding*
That what JEPA world models do.
That's one reason they can be useful with considerably less memory and training data than LLMs.
This paper merely shows that the underlying similarity structure of the data, whether text or image (e.g. co-occurence of words in text or objects in images) uniquely determines the shape of the representation point cloud, when the encoder is trained trained with a common anti-collapse criterion like SIGReg or VCReg (not by reconstruction).
John S. Boyd retweeted
I’ve heard reporters say that tonight is the most dramatic midterm election in a couple decades.
To me, it’s the most significant party turnaround since 1974.
From Texas to South Carolina to Ohio, voters saw life in America today and found it difficult and disappointing.
Congratulations to tonight’s successful Democrats. You've been given the right to lead, and it's now up to you to prove that you deserve it. #Midterms2026 🗳️
At 54-55 seats for dems- the real risk for Trump is GOP senators blame him for this defeat. Might be more useful to shove him out the backdoor not too long from now....
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John S. Boyd retweeted
The voters have spoken, and I want to extend my congratulations to James Talarico on his election to the U.S. Senate. I look forward to meeting him and offering my assistance with his transition as he prepares to serve Texans in the U.S. Senate.
John S. Boyd retweeted
If you know Econ you know tariffs were the biggest unforced error of the Trump presidency, and the root cause of what is going down tonight. Just look at the numbers; sure people don’t like higher gas prices but they’re not the main reason food costs more and they’re not much higher than they were during Biden. Plus they’re recent; the tariffs began nearly day 1 of the Trump Admin and at a time when he was put in office by working class people who rebelled against the high prices they paid for everything during Biden. With tariffs Trump took those prices higher with a regressive tax on working people who don’t have the means to speculate around them in stocks. On top of that, tariffs never stoked the manufacturing boom that was promised. It’s so obvious but for MAGA to admit tariffs were wrong would be like arguing the 2020 election wasn’t stolen
John S. Boyd retweeted
Hearing mixed reactions out of Ukraine tonight, ranging from cautious optimism to picking out F-35 paint schemes.
I've never seen a Senate lead like that in Texas for a dem at this point. Nice to see it finally flip.
Paxton such a deeply flawed candidate.
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