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2025-04-07 18:59:02

”The reality…is that large language models are no longer living up to expectations, and its purveyors appear to be making dodgy choices to keep that fact from becoming obvious.”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/deep-learning-deep-scandal
#llms #llm

2025-04-06 18:16:37

”Scaling has run out…; models still don’t reason reliably…; the financial bubble may be bursting; there still ain’t no GPT-5; Sam Altman can’t be trusted; an overreliance on unreliable LLMs…has indeed gotten the world into deep doodoo. … LLMs are not the way. We definitely need something better.”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/scaling-is-over-the-bubble-may-be
#llm #llms #largelanguagemodels

2025-04-06 00:06:44

“The USA Math Olympiad is an extremely challenging math competition for the top US high school students… Hours after it was completed…a team of scientists gave the problems to some of the top large language models, whose mathematical and reasoning abilities have been loudly proclaimed… The results were dismal: None of the AIs scored higher than 5% overall”
—Ernest Davis & Gary Marcus, Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of-llms-mastering-math-have
#mathematics #llms #llm #ai

2025-04-03 03:05:48

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”They should also threaten to limit American banks’ access to their public stock markets, put limits on what their citizens can invest in American companies annually, and increase taxes and regulations on American digital platforms.”
—Robert Reich, What Canada, Mexico, Japan, the UK, and the European Union should do in response to Trump’s grossly irresponsible tariffs
#trump #usa #canada #mexico #uk #eu #tariffs

2025-04-03 03:02:48

”My strong recommendation to Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the European Union is to join together to create a free trade zone that excludes the United States… They need to negotiate from a position of strength. A non-U.S. free trade union will give them that strength.”
—Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-canada-mexico-japan-the-uk-and
#trump #usa #canada #mexico #japan #eu #tariffs

2025-04-02 10:52:17

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“…actually knowing something and having an independent reputation are disqualifying in this administration…”
—Paul Krugman, Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness
#trump

2025-04-02 10:49:46

“…actually knowing what you’re talking about disqualifies you from being part of the inner circle… And this is especially true now that Trump is in charge: The only way to survive as an adviser is to be a lackey willing to support whatever the Leader says on any given day.”
—Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stop-looking-for-methods-in-the-madness
#trump

2025-04-01 15:26:09

Ericsson stryker orden ”mångfald och inkludering”. Djupare än så satt inte den värdegrunden.
https://www.dn.se/direkt/2025-04-01/ericsson-stryker-mangfald-och-inkludering-ur-arsredovisning/
#ericsson

2025-03-29 19:24:14

“Musk-Trump inherited a state with unprecedented power and functionality, and are taking it apart. They also inherited a set of alliances and relationships that underpinned the largest economy in world history. This too they are breaking.”
—Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#musk #trump #usa

2025-03-28 05:16:39

”The EU is considering hitting US services exports, including Big Tech’s operations, to retaliate against…Trump… A fightback could include restrictions on the intellectual property of Big Tech companies. Another example would be banning…Musk’s Starlink satellite network from winning government contracts. …the EU’s exports far outweigh its imports… Aircraft, chemicals and pharmaceutical products could [also] be hit.” (Financial Times 20250327)
#eu #usa #trump #musk

2025-03-28 03:25:00

“…Musk/Trump…will be in for a shock: Europe can effectively retaliate. … A trade war with Europe means going head to head with an economy more or less the same size as our own… And the Europeans are not going to be in a conciliatory mood. … It’s terrible watching the United States degenerate into Putin-loving thuggery.”
—Paul Krugman, Europe: Is the Force Awakening?
#musk #trump #usa #eu

2025-03-27 08:31:07

“…so many people are struggling — not because of immigrants or the “deep state” or any other Trump bogeyman but because of how the wealthy and giant corporations have rigged the economy, and how Trump and Musk are rigging even more of it.”
—Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/where-the-hell-are-the-democrats
#trump #musk

2025-03-27 07:21:22

”Hegseth uploaded the precise details of the attack… The evidence is damning. … Also in the chat, participants made embarrassing attacks on our allies and celebrated civilian deaths… The messages…raises the question of who is in charge at the White House. … Trump today did not seem on top of the story… …the scandal seems, if anything, to be growing.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 26, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2025
#trump #hegseth #usa

2025-03-26 20:00:32

“Elon Musk, yesterday: “Rigorous adherence to truth is the only way to build safe Al.” … May he someday hold himself to that standard.”
—Gary Macus, Musk, Grok, and “rigorous adherence to truth
#musk #ai

2025-03-25 23:29:46

“Elon Musk, yesterday: “Rigorous adherence to truth is the only way to build safe Al.” … May he someday hold himself to that standard.”
—Gary Macus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/musk-grok-and-rigorous-adherence
#musk #ai

2025-03-25 07:32:06

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”That the most senior members of Trump’s administration were sharing national security secrets on unsecure channels is especially galling… Pete Hegseth [has been] talking about the seriousness of handling secret information and the need for accountability for those who mishandle it. … Indeed, Trump rose to power in 2016 with the charge that Clinton should be sent to prison for using a private email server.”
 —Heather Cox Richardson, March 24, 2025
#trump #hegseth

2025-03-25 07:24:36

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”Many observers have noted that all of these national security officials knew that using Signal in this way was against the law, and their comfort with jumping onto the commercial app to plan a military strike suggests they are using Signal more generally.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 24, 2025
#signal

2025-03-25 07:19:12

“…Pete Hegseth is evidently going to try to bully his way out of this disaster. … Hegseth looked directly at the camera and said: “Nobody was texting war plans.” But Goldberg has receipts.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 24, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-24-2025
#petehegseth #hegseth

2025-03-24 05:47:50

“Republicans…object to government regulation of business, provision of a basic social safety net, and promotion of infrastructure. … This is a modern-day stance, by the way: it was actually Republican president Theodore Roosevelt who first proposed universal healthcare at the beginning of the twentieth century, and Republican president Dwight Eisenhower who first tried to muscle such a program into being…”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 23, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-23-2025
#usa #republicans

2025-03-23 04:23:40

“Elon Musk’s DOGE is just a rebranded version of RAGE [Retire All Government Employees]. He demands mass resignations, locks career employees out of their offices, threatens to delete entire departments, and seizes total control of sensitive government systems and programs. DOGE = RAGE, masked in the bland language of “efficiency.”
—Gil Duran, 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/
#musk #doge

2025-03-20 05:03:53

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…on March 29 [2016], Trump unveiled his new convention manager, stating that Manafort was “volunteering” his insight and expertise. The candidate called Manafort a “great asset”… Manafort said he was “honored” to serve “Mr. Trump’s campaign.” He added: “I am confident that he [Trump] will be the next president of the United States.”
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#trump #manafort #usa

2025-03-20 04:49:44

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Yanukovych moved quickly to consolidate all instruments of power: the courts, parliament, the prosecutor’s office. Plus the media and TV. The claim that Yanukovych was a reformed character was unfounded. In power, he was behaving—as Manafort must have known he would—as a classic bully and thug.
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#yanukovych #manafort #ukraine

2025-03-20 04:48:46

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Within a few months it became clear that Yanukovych was hell-bent on reversing the modest democratic gains of the Orange Revolution. His goal was simple: to destroy the opposition. This meant destroying…the independence of Ukraine’s institutions.
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#yanukovych #manafort #ukraine

2025-03-20 04:34:59

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…Manafort signed a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska. In return, the American proposed a wide-ranging political plan to undermine Putin’s opponents in Europe and the United States and in former Soviet republics.
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#manafort #deripaska #putin #oligarchy

2025-03-20 04:30:17

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Manafort began working for Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire Russian oligarch… Deripaska’s alleged ties to the mafia meant that for some years he was unable to get an American visa. … Like all superrich Russians Deripaska perfectly understood Putin’s requirements. When called upon, you did what the president commanded.
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#manafort #deripaska #putin #usa #russia #oligarchy

2025-03-20 04:23:43

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What was a veteran Republican fixer doing in this murky post-Soviet corner, dominated as it was by oligarchs and others whose sources of wealth were never very transparent? The answer, it appeared, was money. Lots of it.
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#manafort #paulmanafort

2025-03-20 04:20:32

Over the next few years it turned out that [Paul] Manafort’s version of history was more than wrong. It went beyond spin or political PR. Everything he told me was a lie.
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#manafort #paulmanafort

2025-03-19 06:31:23

The level of incompetence is staggering

2025-03-15 11:43:09

”När Donald Trump tillträdde som USA:s president…skrotade han snabbt statliga initiativ för mångfald och inkludering. … Sedan Trump tillträde har…flera företag som Amazon, Meta, Alphabet och Disney skrotat sina satsningar på området… …nu ansluter sig svenska Spotify…” (DN 20250314)
Bakom betalvägg:
https://www.dn.se/kultur/spotify-andrar-formuleringar-om-mangfald-och-inkludering/
#spotify #amazon #meta #alphabet #disney

2025-03-15 07:06:33

”Regeringen verkar alltså inte bara ha utnyttjat den opolitiska säkerhetsavdelningen på Regeringskansliet för egna syften. Den har också vilselett i en fråga där svensk säkerhet ligger i potten. Ulf Kristersson – hans stab – valde att sätta barndomsvännens anställning före rikets säkerhet.”
—Amanda Sokolnicki (DN 20250315)
https://www.dn.se/ledare/amanda-sokolnicki-kristersson-och-hans-kompisar-kan-tala-sig-ur-det-mesta-men-sapo/
#regeringen #kristersson #landerholm

2025-03-14 20:33:42

”In many ways, Musk appeared to have won and ensured any attempt by government or regulators to rein in his power would be sidelined. But he didn’t anticipate that the public…have other ways of exerting their power beyond the ballot box.”
—Paris Marx
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-is-running-tesla-into-the
#musk #tesla

2025-03-13 19:21:10

Russia cannot become stronger, so it must make others weaker. The simplest way to make others weaker is to make them more like Russia.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
#russia

2025-03-11 04:31:15

“Tesla’s total worth…as of Friday’s close still tops the next nine most-valuable major automakers combined, which collectively sold about 44 million cars last year, compared to Tesla’s 1.8 million. Investors have long bet on Musk’s visions of Tesla’s tomorrow rather than its profits today. But the widening gap between its real-world performance and analysts’ earnings estimates for unborn products has prompted some to warn of irrational exuberance.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91294855/tesla-stock-plummets-sky-high-valuation-persists
#tesla #musk

2025-03-10 19:22:35

”The State Department intends to revoke the visas of large numbers of foreigners…in part based on AI analysis of their social media posts. …I…fear a world in which the State department can judge anyone, at any time, to be a “threat” to the state, even based on superficial AI analysis, and deport them without due process, using AI as a smoke screen to authoritarian action.”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/urgent-warning-black-mirror-has-entered
#ai

2025-03-10 19:09:35

”…Wozniak has soured on Tesla and CEO Elon Musk… “Coming from Apple, the user interface, the way you deal with technology, is the most important thing in the world to me,” Wozniak said… “And Tesla is the worst in the world at that.” “Every step up, where they changed a thing in the car, it got worse and worse and worse.””
https://fortune.com/2025/03/07/steve-wozniak-says-tesla-is-worst-at-improving-driver-tech/
#tesla #musk

2025-03-10 06:08:54

”…the point of the right wing’s dehumanization of political opponents is to dismiss the pain they are inflicting. If the majority of Americans are not really human, toying with their lives isn’t important—maybe it’s even LOL funny to pretend to take a chainsaw to the programs on which people depend.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-9-2025
#trump #musk #dehumanization #usa

2025-03-09 21:05:05

Elon Musk’s 2019 prediction: “I feel very confident predicting that there will be autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year… From our standpoint, if you fast forward a year, maybe a year and three months, but next year for sure, we’ll have over a million robotaxis on the road.”
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/nobel-prizes-and-the-ai-hype-hall
#musk #ai #aihype

2025-03-09 17:18:22

”Trump’s rejection of 80 years of U.S. foreign policy in order to prop up Russia’s Vladimir Putin has left many Americans as well as allies aghast. Trump’s claims that Putin wants peace were belied when Russia launched massive strikes at Ukraine as soon as Trump stopped sharing intelligence with Ukrainian forces that enabled them to shoot down incoming fire.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 8, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-2025
#trump #putin #usa #russia #ukraine

2025-03-09 01:30:46

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In the few days between the sniper massacre…and the Russian invasion of Ukraine…, shocking but fictitious reports appeared about Ukrainian atrocities in Crimea… A group of internet trolls in St. Petersburg, known as the Internet Research Agency, was at work to confuse Ukrainian and international opinion. This was by now a signature of Russian foreign policy: the cyber campaign that would accompany a real war.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
#russia #ukraine

2025-03-09 01:26:37

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The sniper massacre and the flight of Yanukovych [in 2014] marked the shift from Russia’s first Eurasian plan to its second. Russian leaders had accepted that Yanukovych was useless. His bloody downfall, foreseen in Moscow, created the chaos that served as cover for the second strategy: military intervention designed to make the state as a whole disintegrate.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
#russia #ukraine

2025-03-09 01:20:56

After the mass killing, Yanukovych was abandoned by the parliamentary deputies who had supported him and the policemen who had protected him. He fled his garish residence, leaving behind a trove of documents—including records of large cash payments to his advisor Paul Manafort, who two years later surfaced as the campaign manager of Donald Trump.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
#russia #putin #yanukovych #ukraine #manafort #trump #usa

2025-03-07 15:45:22

”The attempt to humiliate Volodymyr Zelens'kyi in the Oval Office a week ago was an American strategic collapse. … The encounter in the White House was antisemitic. I am historian of the Holocaust. I was trained by a survivor.”
—Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office
#zelenskyj #zelenskyi #zelenskyy #zelensky #trump #vance #jdvance #antisemitism

2025-03-07 05:37:43

Four hundred and nineteen Twitter accounts that posted on Brexit were localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency—later, every single one of them would also post on behalf of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
#putin #brexit #trump

2025-03-06 02:46:50

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“…pure scaling of training and compute has reached diminishing returns.”
—Gary Marcus, Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong
#ai #agi

2025-03-06 02:38:06

“…a quarter century has passed without a principled solution to even one of those problems.”
—Gary Marcus, Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ezra-kleins-new-take-on-agi-and-why
#agi #ai #aihype

2025-03-06 02:25:32

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“Eventually, push will come to shove and the tech industry will have to prove that the world is willing to put down real money to use all these [AI] tools they are building. Right now, the use cases…are marginal.”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#ai #aihype

2025-03-06 02:24:04

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“AI safety is somewhat of a concern—the models can be abused to create deepfakes or mass spam—but it exaggerates how powerful these systems are.”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#aisafety #ai #aihype

2025-03-06 02:19:41

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“…language models can fundamentally be described as supercharged autocomplete tools, prone to returning incorrect information because they are skilled at creating a facsimile of a human-written sentence—something that looks like an acceptable response—but chatbots are not doing any critical “thinking.”“
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#llm #llms #hallucinations #ai #aihype

2025-03-06 02:15:23

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“Klarna…garnered a lot of attention and investor excitement after its CEO said last year it would replace many of its employees with AI… The CEO recently walked that claim back… Klarna had replaced a basic phone tree system with AI, which…may have resulted in customers quitting chats out of frustration.”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#klarna #aichatbots #ai #aihype

2025-03-06 02:07:38

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“The early reception of Microsoft’s Copilot, an AI agent for enterprises, has not been good, with companies and even insiders at Microsoft complaining it is lackluster and not worth the cost. Microsoft and Google have begun incorporating AI chatbots into their standard enterprise subscriptions…, essentially forcing them on users following low uptake.”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#microsoft #copilot #google #aichatbots #ai

2025-03-06 02:02:25

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“…eventually there needs to be actual demand on the other side for the products being built or else these companies will crash and burn.”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#ai #aihype

2025-03-06 01:59:00

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“Microsoft is the primary backer of OpenAI, whose CEO Sam Altman has long stoked nebulous fears about AI taking over the world. Critics often say Altman’s fear mongering is primarily intended to place himself at the centers of power…”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#microsoft #openai #altman #ai #aihype

2025-03-06 01:55:30

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“…stop spreading hype about a so-called “artificial general intelligence” that could replace humans in most tasks. Nadella said essentially that it will not happen, and either way is an unnecessary distraction when the industry needs to get practical…”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#ai #agi #aihype

2025-03-06 01:49:37

“The world has yet to turn any of today’s AI hype and spending into a meaningful lift in the actual economy…”
—Thomas Maxwell (20250220)
https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-satya-nadella-pumps-the-breaks-on-ai-hype-2000566483
#ai #aihype

2025-03-05 19:11:19

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@nprofile…h94j Så är det! Och frågan är om det ens är möjligt? Det är en sak att fippla med hårväxten på en mus, en annan att göra om en hel elefant?

2025-03-05 17:13:28

Mastodon Mice
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/04/science/woolly-mouse-mammoth-resurrection-colossal/index.html

2025-03-04 13:33:56

“If Democrats had had the guts years ago to condemn big money in politics, fight corporate welfare, and unrig a market that’s been rigged in favor of big corporations and the rich, Trump’s absurd bogeymen (the deep state, immigrants, socialists, trans people, diversity-equity-inclusion) wouldn’t have stood a chance. My simple advice to congressional Democrats: Wake the hell up!”
—Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/democrats-wake-the-hell-up
#democrats #usa

2025-03-04 13:25:01

”For almost an hour, Trump was on the receiving end of blistering attacks from Putin and his vice president, JD Vasilevsky. “I got you elected and you haven’t said thank you once,” Putin shouted. “When you were running for president, you didn’t have any cards. With me, you had cards.” Attempting to mend fences, Trump offered to let Putin run his next Cabinet meeting instead of Elon Musk.” (The Borowitz Report)
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/putin-scolds-trump-i-got-you-elected
#putin #trump #musk

2025-03-04 06:21:59

“There has never been in the history of our country a direct assault on our government like this. It isn’t a military assault by land, or air, or sea. It’s a political and economic assault by a small group of people who for deeply nefarious purposes are gutting the U.S. government.”
—Marianne Williamson
https://www.transformarticles.com/p/how-rich-how-smart-how-brazen-they
#musk #trump #vance #usa

2025-03-02 17:26:00

”The Americans claim that their attempt to humiliate the Ukrainian president in the White House…was about peace. On that premise, nothing they said makes any sense. The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance have chosen.”
—Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-trump-chooses
#trump #jdvance #musk #zelensky#zelenskyy #usa #ukraine

2025-03-01 08:41:24

”Trump is ready to give Putin everything he wants. And then carve up the world. Make no mistake: Putin’s aggression will not end with Ukraine. By giving in to Putin, Trump is inviting him to invade Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland — and then the rest of Eastern Europe… Trump wants Canada, Greenland, Panama, and much else. … Trump believes only in power… Putin does, too.”
—Robert Reich, Today’s disgusting scene
#trump #putin

2025-02-27 00:03:24

“…Musk/Trump…will be in for a shock: Europe can effectively retaliate. … And the Europeans are not going to be in a conciliatory mood. Did I mention that Tesla sales in Europe fell 45 percent last month? It’s terrible watching the United States degenerate into Putin-loving thuggery.”
—Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-is-the-force-awakening
#trump #musk #tesla #usa #europe #eu

2025-02-26 10:15:31

If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth. —Václav Havel
#quote

2025-02-25 13:04:48

”Trump is rapidly gaining a personal monopoly on the use of force. This is his most fundamental goal. This is the essence of tyranny. … Why am I telling you this…? Because seeing the whole for what it truly is — rather than being upset by this or that part of it — is essential for fighting back.”
—Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-tyranny
#trump

2025-02-24 05:08:35

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“Do not obey in advance.” —Timothy Snyder

2025-02-24 05:05:43

”They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power.”
—Timothy Snyder
#musk #trump #vance

2025-02-22 05:34:48

“It’s been 30 days of turmoil, chaos and fear. … But this week, we also saw Trump’s assault on our democracy begin to falter. … The pushback has come from ordinary Americans all around the country, and it’s starting to have a noticeable effect.” —Jay Kuo
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/pushback
#trump #musk

2025-02-21 09:54:43

”…political parties do not lead. …we are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.”
—Robert Reich, Ten reasons for modest optimism
#leadership #followership

2025-02-19 03:18:42

“No matter how good-looking the output, there are often subtle errors that most people wouldn’t catch. …the more excited people are about LLMs, the more I wonder how carefully they have examined the output. … Instead, valuations just keep rising, results notwithstanding. At least for now.”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/grok-3-beta-in-shambles
#ai #llm

2025-02-18 05:57:19

“My hot take: … No game changers; no major leap forward… Hallucinations haven’t been magically solved, etc. …profits will continue to be elusive for everyone except Nvidia. Pure pretraining scaling has clearly failed to produce AGI.” —Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/grok-3-hot-take
#ai #agi

2025-02-16 19:44:18

”If automating Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in the service of the current White House, doesn’t scare you, you aren’t paying attention. The problem here, by the way, isn’t just the blatant propaganda, but the more subtle stuff, that people may not even notice.”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks-terrifying-vision-for
#musk #ai

2025-02-16 14:23:18

”Vuxna oroar sig över vad Tiktok kan göra med barn och unga vuxna. Vi vuxna borde vara lika oroliga över vad Elon Musk kan göra med allt som samlas på X. Det övergår mitt förstånd att politiker, myndighetschefer och samhällsdebattörer fortsatt X:ar. Att högerpopulistiska politiker och samhällsdebattörer gör det kan jag förstå. Men att i stort sett även alla de andra gör det förundrar mig.”
—Jan Nilsson, Insändare (DN 20250215)
https://www.dn.se/insandare/ledande-politiker-bor-avhalla-sig-fran-musks-x/
#musk #twitter #x

2025-02-15 11:30:47

”Hur Amerikas förenta stater inom loppet av några veckor kunde gå från konstitutionell demokrati till laglöst presidentvälde är en fråga som kommer att uppta historiker så länge det kommer att skrivas historia. … Oavsett vad som sker härnäst…så är skadeverkningarna på den amerikanska rättsstaten irreparabla.”
—Göran Rosenberg (Expressen 20250215)
https://www.expressen.se/kultur/goran-rosenberg/rivningen-av-usa-banar-vag-for-en-tyrann/
#usa

2025-02-15 04:10:53

“I came to Munich full of skepticism that we as a group of nations could find common ground on anything,” Danish delegate Hartvig Dorkelson said. “That all changed the moment that asshat Vance opened his mouth.” … Dorkelson warned against taking this historic consensus for granted. “I worry that our unity could be short-lived,” he said. “So we must invite that fucker to speak again next year.” (The Borowitz Report 20250215)
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/europe-united-in-belief-that-jd-vance
#vance #jdvance

2025-02-14 12:24:40

The critical factor in Tesla’s survival has been its ability to raise ever more cash from the government and Wall Street. Its operations are chaotic and the manufacturing quality is poor.
(See Edward Niedermeyer, Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors.)
#tesla

2025-02-14 06:09:33

“These are examples of many specific, localized heuristics that OthelloGPT seems to use. … It’s a bag of heuristics that results in mostly accurate predictions, but is not algorithmically efficient (i.e., easy to use to answer questions) or abstract (i.e., it’s quite specific to this particular version of Othello, and can’t be easily adapted to new situations…).”
—Melanie Mitchell
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-world-models-part-2
#llm #llms #bagofheuristics

2025-02-13 15:19:50

“All this time, it turns out, Altman was bluffing.” —Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure
#altman #openai

2025-02-12 19:08:19

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@nprofile…h94j Här är en svensk version av artikeln (tyvärr är båda bakom en betalvägg)
https://www.nyteknik.se/elbilar/popular-tesla-modell-underkanns-med-besked-i-danmark-extremt-hog-grad/4325598

2025-02-12 18:54:47

"Populær Tesla-model dumper med et brag i Danmark: »Det er en rasende høj dumpeprocent«" ( Ingeniøren 20250123)
Bag betalingsmur:
https://ing.dk/artikel/populaer-tesla-model-dumper-med-et-brag-i-danmark-det-er-en-rasende-hoej-dumpeprocent
#tesla

2025-02-11 10:30:30

Apple Maps
https://media.mastodon.nu/media_attachments/files/113/984/785/820/643/091/original/13a2ce1723c63f27.jpeg

2025-02-11 06:50:13

“Today, Elon Musk and a group of investors made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI. … If Musk’s offer is legitimate, it sets a price on what OpenAI For Profit must pay to the nonprofit sector as part of its spin off, if that proceeds.” (Public Citizen 20250210)
https://www.citizen.org/news/public-citizen-responds-to-elon-musks-bid-for-openai/
#elonmusk #musk #openai #ai

2025-02-10 16:29:25

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“A whole lot of boldfaced named are gathered in Paris right now to discuss AI. I am not there, but from everything I can tell far afar, it’s become an absolute train wreck, displeasing almost everyone, for different, and somewhat conflicting reasons.”
—Gary Marcus, Paris AI Summit Train Wreck
#aisummit #ai

2025-02-10 16:28:14

#paris #aisummit #ai
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/paris-ai-summit-train-wreck

2025-02-10 12:17:34

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”Musk has made his intentions towards our democracy and national security quite clear. What he hasn’t yet had is the backing of the US state. That is shortly going to change. One of the first major stand-offs will be UK and EU tech regulation. … There seems no world in which the EU and the UK aren’t headed for the mother of all trade wars.”
—Carole Cadwalladr, It is a Coup
#usa #eu #uk #tradewars

2025-02-10 12:12:12

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”Musk’s career…has involved rampant criminality, gross invasions of privacy, stock market manipulation. And lies. … The biggest mistake right now is to believe anything he says. Every time, these companies have broken the law, they have simply gotten away with it. … And no-one exemplifies that more than Musk. The worst that has happened to him is a fine. A slap on the wrist. An insignificant line on a balance sheet. The “cost of doing business”.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#elonmusk #musk

2025-02-10 12:09:16

”…what is happening right now, in America, in real time, is a coup.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup

2025-02-10 04:29:35

“Elbilstillverkaren Tesla har hamnat på Råd & Röns ”svarta lista” efter att man nekat en kund garanti efter en skada på bilen. Tesla har sedan inte följt Allmänna reklamationsnämndens beslut om att ersätta kunden. Bilkonsumentorganisationen Riksförbundet M Sverige avråder från att ha och göra med de företag som finns på den här listan.”
https://emagasin.arcy.se/shared/article/varningen-till-svenskar-undvik-tesla/9YnVcURx
#tesla

2025-02-08 18:05:44

“There are new miners in America now, mining your social security number and your privacy and your rights and freedom. Mining the Treasury, which they will pocket. … Mining Congress and coming up empty, because they already bought it. Checks and balances drift like a discarded receipt in the breeze. The real money is dark money, untraceable, but you can still see oligarch names on campaign contribution lists. They like to show proof of purchase.”
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners
#SarahKendzior

2024-12-08 19:31:22

This is the earth's body, which is also our body, and it serves to support, nourish, and connect us.
—Toko-pa Turner, The Dreaming Way
#nature

2024-11-28 18:47:46

“Commercial progress has been halting precisely because the tech simply isn’t reliable. … How long do we need to keep up the charade?”
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-at-age-two
#chatgpt #openai #ai #llm