John Gilda

Just remember, anyone on the moon can toss large rocks into the gravity well and using basic physics target anywhere on earth. Maybe some of that motivates moon people, hope not.

Seems to me that LLMs are low value tools for Astrophysicists. Astrophysicists might be more interested in data and image processing, clustering analysis, and anomaly detection tools, and not LLMs.

“The internet lets young people connect outside of the controlled spheres of their parents’ worldview — and that’s the danger that proponents of age verification are terrified of,” EFF’s @ericabp.bsky.social told @Salon.com. www.salon.com/2026/02/11/...

Love your stuff Ed. But cannot read that clap trap again. Even annotated.

It was a party balloon. You don’t have to humor them. Of course they screamed cartel, thy shot down a party balloon with one of their most advanced weapons. That doesn’t mean you need to talk about it seriously. Talk about what really happened.

Let kids be kids.

I saw one of these in New Hampshire being used as a sign for a bar in a very rural area. There is a story there somewhere.

Discord age verification is 10/10

Chop celery heart and carrots small, put in soup pot with tablespoon of olive 🫒 oil - cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Add tablespoon of grated fresh ginger 🫚 and two minced garlic 🧄 cloves. Cook for minute then add 3 diced beets. 🫜 1/2 teaspoon of salt 🧂 1/4 teaspoon cayenne powder 1/4 teaspoon ground Thai pepper 🌶️ and 4 cups of broth of your choice. After a bit of time add beet greens. Cook till beets are tender. You can add almond or other milk. Either eat chunky or blend with some kinda blender. Garnish with cilantro, green onion, and cheddar or other stuff that floats your boat.

Spicy beet, celery, carrot 🥕 soup. Last night was garnished with green onions, cilantro, and cheddar.

My Meemaw loved beets 🫜 and tried to sell them the wrong way. She could have just said they are super hero food that you know is working when it turns your pee and poop red.

#beets #soup #carrots

Yeah this is a great one. I periodically have Kinks amnesia and need a prompt like this to listen to something.

Another painting by Epstein network survivor Maria Farmer. Why are they redacting her paintings?
She sent these to the FBI, pleading for help to stay safe.

How cool. I summtimes struggle to say Ken too.

It is enviable but you have time to change that. See the sea.

Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG:

“I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”

The ad aged. The internet remembers.

Another painting by Epstein Network survivor Maria Farmer from the recently released files.

Maria was screaming to the FBI to be heard for years, and sent them paintings.

Suspect it will trigger a big exodus as creative people take the hint and start building ethical tech, services, etc.

Hopefully execs and investors are bigly humbled as their terrible bets on things that don't work evaporate. Their capital will burn up.

Crazy town

Was kinda hoping they would dream big and go break things in a different solar system, or galaxy.

Mostly men like me who didn’t act sooner are to blame. We shrugged 🤷 and continued doing what we were doing.

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Doubt they have any reluctance labeling normal folk as terrorists. If you have any doubts, read NSPM-7.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Functionalist approaches measure intelligence by how closely its outputs resemble the human mind. If you constantly recalibrate its outputs to resemble a human mind, you're not creating a thinking machine. You are creating a machine to trick other functionalists.

Something Big Is Happening Something Big Is Happening Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ • Feb 10 Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were

It took just one weekend for the new, self-proclaimed king of open source AI models to have its crown tarnished. Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model (LLM) - or wait, was it a variant of the older Llama 3? — that had been trained and released by small New York startup HyperWrite (formerly OthersideAI) and boasted impressive, leading benchmarks on third-party tests, has now been aggressively questioned as other third-party evaluators have failed to reproduce some of said performance measures.

Keep being sent this completely nonsensical hogslop. It has multiple egregious lies, which is appropriate because he’s a fraud. Back in September 2024 he falsified a bunch of benchmarks to hype up his open source model. Article is total dogshit. I should annotate it venturebeat.com/ai/reflectio...

In case you missed it ...
In 2020, the technofascist bible "The Sovereign Individual" was reprinted with a new preface by Palantir and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. This passage from the book says everything ... 👇

Space bro is just trying to incentivize minions to jump in space ships 🚀 because the home planet is unlivable. The sooner we get the PayPal mafia on a one way rocket 🚀 the better.

Black and white cat in a pot. He looks up at the camera. His tail drapes over the edge of the pot. He seems happy.

Cat in a pot which ironically is empty because the cat gang shreds house plants. 🪴

Don’t worry the fig tree that was here lives a quiet sometimes unwatered life in the workshop.

#cat #pot #houseplant

Large sunflower plant in the garden. Has maybe 50 individual flowers.

Sunnier ☀️ times.

We might have planted this seed. Maybe birds at feeder did.

At one point, when we were expecting 60mph wind gusts. My wife staked and chained it. 💨

It is still standing in a snow drift out there.

Gold finches and red wing black birds 🐦‍⬛ really loved its seeds.

I said this quietly to senior officials in Ireland over the last 12 months. Now it requires public statement.

Ireland became rich because -among other reasons- it is the venue where US tech firms can operate in Europe with relative impunity. But this strategy may not last much longer.

A poster in black and beige on a white background hangs on a beige wall. In small font at the top: "Beware of Artists" - Actual poster issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare. The poster itself in all capital letters reads: Beware of / Artists / They mix with all / Classes of Society / And are therefore / The most dangerous A smaller black plaque at the bottom reads : Collection of Banned or Challenged Books. Beside is a partial QR code.

With #AltText

Immigrant women founders face double hurdle in Silicon Valley Persistent racism and sexism in the venture capital industry are denying immigrant women founders an opportunity to participate in the AI boom.

The AI boom is disproportionately benefiting male-led startups, with only 2% of VC funding going to women-led startups. Immigrant women fare even worse, as they face racism and sexism. This has consequences for how AI is shaped globally.
restofworld.org/2026/immigra...

Am sure it will be spun as best most important military action since Maduro.

Personally support this type of military use more that extrajudicial killings of smugglers.