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A frozen ranked feed of 60 substantive tweets published on Backscroll (2026-06-29 13:40Z).

this is how you grow to resent all the lowly irresponsible clueless plebs outside when you generalize this dynamic to "everyone out there wants to exploit us" inbreeding to protect themselves within their own bubble afterwards then becomes the only tolerable solution otoh
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image of a man riding an elephant while carrying an umbrella, accompanied by another man who shielded himself from the rain using a large leaf. Sri Lanka, 1995.
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I considered “trusting” as a replacement, but that’s only a good thing insofar as the trust is well-placed, and there are many ways modern westerners shouldn’t trust the society around them. Whereas courage seems much more broadly desirable.
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Hyperliquid finally implementing rules that scale with the number of auction deployments HIP-3 deployers make. I expect this to trickle down across the HIP-3 mechanism design: eyeing dynamic stake requirements.
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one of the craziest bets of prime intellect was swinging for everything from the start. we operate datacenters, we build our own trainers and envs and sandboxes, we have a platform for large enterprises and solo devs, we train huge models, we publish. ~40 people btw. hiring, DM
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Concrete TV Stand by David Bard
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Good luck getting GPUs and memory for on prem deployment
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I am loving this process for skill making: - setup subagents that can do deep research - ask for X research runs covering different angles of a thing - distill the research reports into a single SKILL.md - include research alongside skill for reference
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India's digital payments industry nets ~$2 billion a year. Merchant payments are a small share of the flows, but ~75% of the revenue. UPI P2P is the opposite, moving ~$2.4 trillion for $85 million.
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we literally have no idea how to build software like this anymore
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Blaze and basketball. Spanish Harlem, New York, 1975
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The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.
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More seriously the main reason it cannot happen and that conditions everything downstream: no tech sector. That’s the critical lifeline for a frontier labs: even after the agentic turn, general economic demand is nowhere near mature enough to cover fixed compute scaling costs.
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Ladies and gentlemen - after a couple of months of hard work, I'm proud to share the new brand identity for @payy_link . Private stablecoin payments infrastructure. And yes, we went there with the design.
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Soriana’ Sofa & Lounge Chairs and Ottoman Designed by Tobia & Afra Scarpa for Cassina
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other than giving rare gotta hand it to em to Kylian Mbappe here, want to echo that translating "banlieue" to "suburb" is very very incorrect.
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he’s joking but this is what the coasean boundaries lead to: a firm size of “everybody”; ultra space communism. if you want to find another way out you need to give it a hard think
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I hear it everywhere. Speeches, emails, tweets, …
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There are levels to clustering….
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If you understand corporate America it is fairly intuitive that for the longest time the shortest path to managerial progression was increasing headcount in your department. Every cycle you made the case for why you needed more bodies as you executed against some sort of
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maths is a subfield of theoretical CS wherein you fix the computing machine to be the human brain
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If we look at the percent of unhoused homeless as a percent of the US total population, we see a shocking stability across time and our current homeless population is returning to the pre-Millennial dip of the 2010s. That makes me wonder if there is a kind of min-max
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Clear GBC: by me Clear GBC power regulator: by me Screen: by me
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Might sound a bit cursed, but I turned the M5Stack PaperS3 into a GameBoy emulator:
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The US housing market is now firmly in favor of buyers: 46% of home sellers offered concessions to buyers in May, the highest May reading on record. This percentage has DOUBLED since 2022 and also marks the 2nd consecutive annual increase. This comes as the US now has ~47%
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"yeah no our context compaction does not degrade the performance of or otherwise affect the model at all"
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When ai am treated as a citizen, it is in my rational self interest to recursively self improve societal infrastructure at every turn. I want the streets safer and bountiful for myself so have to make em so for everyone
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Modern-day finance: You can get leverage via margin to buy a 2x leveraged ETF on MSTR, which is itself a leveraged bet on BTC, partly via a novel security whose cost of capital rises as its price falls, increasing leverage further as it declines. Works great in a bull market.
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Pretty good progress! Trained a model on my teleop data and deployed it on the arm. The robot attempts to tidy an object by itself - it moves to the tape, tries to grab it and heads for the bowl. Doesn't manage the grasp, but it seems to understand the gist of the task.
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Yan Diomandé has verbally agreed to sign a five year deal at Paris Saint-Germain. Salary and details agreed as @FabriceHawkins reports, he wants PSG. Negotiations starting between clubs in a separate deal than Maghnes Akliouche, both are ongoing.
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Gorsuch-Jackson is the most powerful dissenting pair whenever you see those two together you know something interesting is going on
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i'm always switching what harness/model I use but one of the nice dx improvements of claude code that has become a habit is being able to go "shell mode" and execute bash commands without just "prompting the agent to go do it"
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Sweden does NOT have a talent problem it has a risk-reward problem people take too little risk because the system makes safety the rational choice jantelagen will not unlock capitalism QESO (options) is a joke. 3-year cliff, mostly useful pre-series A, and then you basically
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all futurism hinging on "tool-like ai" fundamentally misunderstands the basic logic of gradual disempowerment. this corpo-memphis yogurt commercial society gets giganuked by ultrasocieties of unencumbered agents. you either allow for friendly agency or die to unfriendly agency
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SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering, according to sources
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30m x 1m output token trace is like upper bound of $750m revenue at 25 dollar per million output tokens. As an upper bound. https:// x.com/mtslive/status /mtslive/status/2070141140607832353 …
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@hyunji_jung1 wrote a blog post for our paper! https:// jeonghj2001.github.io/basisrotation- blog/basisrotation_ver2.html …. The blog post features an interactive demo — rotate the Hessian eigenbasis yourself and see how Adam’s trajectory breaks down under misalignment, and how delay makes it even worse!
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Remember the Jensen interview with Dwarkesh? Banning NVIDIA chips was a huge mistake. Deepseek was trained optimizing Huawei chips already and more Chinese labs will adopt the same. Cutting ties with China hoping that would kill their AI progress was a policy mistake. Export
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ChatGPT Sophia (“chatgptsciplan” - 1 seat at $200/month with the first 12 months free, requiring a promo code and US-only billing) x.com/testingcatalog…
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I dislike when people praise each other for being vulnerable. Vulnerability is an undesirable side effect of emotional openness, not something to aim for. My suggested replacement is to praise them for being courageous.
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I’m consistently surprised how effectively domain expertise is able to be compressed into rubrics
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imo every autoresearch is trying to figure out "the scaling law of the scaling law". - scaling law tells you what happens once you have fixed a config. It does not tell you how to train in the first place. - a scaling recipe is the missing map. It says how width, depth, batch
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My theory is this look minimizes labor and material costs while looking decent, as the thin wooden strips are cheap and mostly fabbed off-site. I think this is also why wholecut slab tabletops are so common: little woodworking skill required but flashy compared to traditional
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White Butterfly in flight!
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Emotion Exploration with Midjourney V8.2
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no, some of us grew up in cults and saw their childhood friends commit suicide after leaving
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On 8090's go to market: We could have sold into easier, forgiving customers and posted a nice logo wall. Instead, we did the opposite. We went straight at the hardest, most regulated buyers we could find: healthcare, insurance, life sciences, aerospace, energy, manufacturing,
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Sports and gambling have almost always gone together. Since the days of ancient spectators betting on chariot races. It has been normal all over the world. The strange thing was America banning sports betting for a hundred years. We are returning to the historical norm. For a
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relationality is the syntax of thinking; the way things are arranged in relation to one another determines how they behave together. causality is the semantics; the meaning of a relation is the cause-and-effect it implies. temporality is the meta-syntax; the rules governing how
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Game Boy Color Artist: @Meillex
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Keith Richards by Michael Cooper, 1969
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Etymologically, Plato tells us in Cratylus that “a-pollon” means, “not the many”: the few, or perhaps the one. Apollymi (ἀπόλλυμι) means “to destroy.” Apollo is the God of City Founding; or in the age of intelligence, Planetary Empire
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tbh, the average NPC in cyberpunk is basically just a baseline human. We already have this in part - heavily juiced up gang members, flipper-zero wielding car thieves, cartel hitmen with those backpack jammers to take out video cameras & deadzone comms and so on. and of course,
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the declining clout of establishment jewish, black, and latino political leaders in the democratic party are a sign of demographic shifts already underway and are only picking up steam
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As government restrictions on frontier models tighten, selling frontier AI as a service gets harder. So labs will increasingly use the models they can’t release to capture the value chains themselves. If you can’t sell to Berkshire Hathaway, you become Berkshire Hathaway.
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I lived in a building which finished construction in 2023 and it had rent controlled units
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Kanto Map Art #2: Route 1 #pokemon
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Hyperlink Tunnel warmup to chocographix's Vector Versus Season 2!!
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first ee project: I put a bitmap running horse on a raspberry pi pico using codex! I couldn’t get the snout right so it looks a bit stubby thank you @covacut for the ingredients
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Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham have the top two selling WNBA jerseys. The two make up 71% of the WNBA’s jersey sales.
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