Shea @Boyo1989

How the Middle Class was hollowed out. This is excellent. The American Dream is dead.

The Red Sox medical staff would’ve diagnosed JFK with a minor concussion in Dallas.

Tyler Milliken @tylermilliken_

2 weeks ago

Garrett Whitlock was pitching on a fractured right tibia that was not properly diagnosed until after the Red Sox were eliminated last week, per @gfstarr1. Whitlock is in a boot for 4-6 weeks, but surgery is not required and he’s on track to have a normal offseason and expects

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This is a disaster for the human race and I’ve really lost patience with the useless morons who can’t see that. An AI video chat that passes for human has no necessary legitimate applications. It will be used to scam old people out of their life savings. Lonely, mentally vulnerable people are going to form romantic attachments to people who aren’t real. Isolation will increase. Mental illness will skyrocket even more than it already has. Kids in grade school will have AI boyfriends and girlfriends. All of this will happen. And worse things we can’t even conceive at this point. People are already forming unhealthy emotional attachments to text-based LLMs. Once there’s an audio and visual component, it’s over. Millions of brains will be broken irreparably. The benefits of this technology, whatever they are exactly, are so vastly outweighed by the societal catastrophe it will cause, and is already causing, that you can’t even measure the two categories on the same scale. But at least this is the best thing that ever happened to third world scammers. So if you’re in that community, congratulations.

Tavus @tavus

3 weeks ago

Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

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For 32 years, American workers had a simple deal: work harder, get paid more. From 1947 to 1979, productivity rose 119% and compensation rose 100%. Then the deal broke, from 1979 to 2009, productivity climbed another 80%, but compensation grew just 8% and wages only 7%. Same workers, more output, almost no raise. So where did the gains go? To the people who owned the machines, the capital, the equity, not the people running them. I spent 25 years in enterprise, including at Google, and watched this play out in real time. Every efficiency gain, every new system, the value flowed up to shareholders. Now AI is arriving, the biggest productivity leap since electricity, maybe bigger. If an 80% productivity gain gave workers just 8%, what happens when AI doubles output again? The lesson is brutal but simple. Productivity doesn't make you rich, ownership does. Your salary is tied to your time, capital is tied to growth. So don't just use AI to work faster, use it to own something: a stake, a product, a portfolio, a piece of the upside. The gap on this chart won't close by itself, it will widen. Pick your side.

@HammerHeadBets So sorry to hear this. Glad everyone is safe. Stay strong Hammer!

This video of the Patriots after the 2019 AFC Championship in KC is incredible. We’ll never see a leader like Tom Brady again. Goes up to every single person in the locker room. Belichick looks so happy. Gronk is awesome. Edelman saying “I wanna play to make you great” is so cool to see. This was peak Patriots football. This is what made the dynasty so great. x.com/LTClips1/statu…

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

In a Republican primary debate in May of 2007, @RonPaul said what couldn’t be said about 9/11: He told the American people that 9/11 was “blowback” for the wars in the Middle East. People could entertain conspiracy theories, but you simply could not say this, and especially not if you wanted to win a Republican primary. So Giuliani tried to use the moment as a “gotcha” by asking if Ron Paul blamed America for the 9/11 attacks. Ron Paul doubled down: He explained that the CIA talks about “blowback” or the second- and third-order consequences of our policies. The word first appeared in the CIA’s 1954 internal history of Operation Ajax, the 1953 coup in Iran that overthrew Mossadegh and installed the Shah. Paul pointed to that intervention and the hostage crisis that followed. The crowd applauded Giuliani. But Ron Paul went on to out-fundraise every other Republican in the fourth quarter of 2007. For most Americans watching, this was the first time someone gave a serious answer other than “they attacked us for our freedoms.” He said they attack us because we are over there. That exchange, now dubbed “the Giuliani moment,” sparked the “Ron Paul Revolution.” More importantly, though, he sparked a revolution of thought on the American right, calling for a return to its Old Right, America First, and non-interventionist roots. He laid the groundwork for someone like Donald Trump to tell Jeb Bush, on the debate stage, that his brother lied us into Iraq. When Trump was similarly booed, he turned it back on them and told the American people how the system really works: that everyone in attendance were donors of the other candidates. But here we are again, in another entanglement in the Middle East. Involved with the same country the CIA helped overthrow a government in ’53. The same operation that put “blowback” into the CIA’s own vocabulary. The America First movement is now greater than Donald Trump, and Ron Paul’s message resonates more and more, especially with young Americans. But we’re getting the same policies. The Reagan line from the Giuliani moment is extremely relevant today. At the beginning of this war, Lindsey Graham said Donald Trump was a better president than Ronald Reagan, because Trump was actually committed to this war. Repeatedly, we hear claims about Iranians killing our men in the barracks bombing under Reagan, and how we have been at war with them for 47 years. What they don’t tell you is that Reagan was dragged into that conflict under similar circumstances, and he later wrote in his memoirs about the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. In his memoirs, he said that he called the Prime Minister of Israel, threatened the entire U.S.–Israel relationship if Israel continued the war in Lebanon, and used the word “holocaust” deliberately. Ronald Reagan got out. We should get out now and listen to Ron Paul: we just marched in, we can just march out. This clip of Ron Paul should be played in every history class. It’s important for so many reasons. And on this 9/11, I hope we reflect on the second- and third-order consequences of our disastrous policies in the Middle East.

If you were looking for one image that showed how diminished worker power creates the conditions for oligarchy, this would be it 👇

This is a better way to visualize Columbus’ voyages than the traditional way (that shows him traveling through a modern map).. It looks a lot crazier and more daring when you see it as a trip into the unknown.

why normal people don't want AI agents: "in order for you to care about agentic commerce... you have to be comfortable with that agent or that AI having entire access to you, what you like, what you want, and be able to carry out that action on your behalf"

crazy.. AI made an entire epic war film for red alert 2

Parents who say sh*t like, "after everything I've done for you" don't understand the role. As a parent, you are not allowed to hold anything you do for your children over their head. Period. You brought them into this world. So it is your duty to clothe them, to feed them, to protect them, to make sure that they have direction for school, for their job, for their life, that's the role of a parent. Holding things over your kid's head like the amount of money or time they cost you in order to get them to do something you want them to do is straight up manipulation that is not parenting. They don't owe you sh*t and they deserve your love for free.

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9 months ago

an unpopular opinion that would put you in this situation.

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wwow.. AI just turned red alert 2 into 22mins epic film

He lives in his mom's "nice basement." He gulps Red Bulls to stay alert. He ices his hands to avoid cramps. And for the last 6 days, more than 1,600 attempts, he's been trying to throw a perfect game in MVP '05. Only with Roy Oswalt.🤨 Da story: mlb.com/news/man-tryin…

Best video game EVER This was my 11pm-2am for like 7 years 2005 MVP Baseball

The U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France.

"This is like Daniel Day-Lewis going on Love Island" - @KyleBrandt on Tom Brady's "feud" with Logan Paul.

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