Miguel Alonso Jr.

I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human. 1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

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Major Good News Updates!! Good morning, happy Sunday, and get ready for some good news!!

We live in such a horrible and crazy world, so every Sunday morning, I cover just the good news.

My personal good news: because of you, we are the number 5 most watched news platform in the entire world, beating CNN, MSNBC, and more.

Start your morning off with some good news.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about.

Would be a shame if it went viral.

Tell Congress: Urge Speaker Johnson to swear in Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva Contact Congress today!

Boom! Only 132 away from 2,000! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Hey Fox "journalists" take note.

Open book with complex geometric patterns that represent fourier transforms.

just backed the Atlas of Fourier Transforms on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hla...

Zohran Mamdani, the Internet’s Mayor Mere months ago, New York’s mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.” He spoke to WIRED about building a social media machine, Big Tech capitulation, and learning from Eric Adams.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is everywhere. But it didn't start that way.

There was a time when the mayoral front-runner was polling at 1%, tied literally with "Someone Else." Now he has an 80,000-strong army of volunteers, a killer social strategy, and the internet on his side.

The Big Interview:

You should listen to this podcast on your commute back home. Just saying.

#NoKings Miami!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

CAPTAINCOLBY00: #rapture

Omg, you did it! ABC just announced that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return on Tuesday after the late-night host’s suspension became a flashpoint for free speech. We estimate that around 250,000 of our supporters canceled their Disney+ and Hulu accounts in protest. The pressure worked, money talks!

This Week in Democracy – Week 33: Trump Loses in Court. Again. Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, pressing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in Donald Trump's second term.

"This Week in Democracy – Week 33: Trump Loses in Court. Again"

Read, share, and subscribe to Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, pressing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in Donald Trump's second term.

Tencent, the world’s largest computer gaming company, released HunyuanWorld-Voyager as open-weight.

The world’s first ultra-long-range world model with native 3D reconstruction, redefining AI-driven spatial intelligence for VR, gaming, and simulations.

it's wild that The Fifth Element made one of the most accurate predictions of all 1990s sci-fi, anticipating the rise of the streamers and influencers as major celebrities.

Oh, and some of them, like Gemini, are insanely good at writing blender python scripts. Which is amazing, because I don’t really want to learn the blender API, but need it for processing assets and datagen sometimes.

I tried it for about a day and it really didn’t help much. And yeah, it sucks at RL code. And they also suck at writing code for Omniverse/IssacSim stuff. I find now i just use them (LLMs) for commenting code.

This post from Terence Tao, on the threats to research and science, should be broadly shared wherever you can. It is measured and clear: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

Ah. Yeah. I find myself writing and deleting posts all the time. I want to keep my sanity intact.

Been out of the loop for a while… which post went viral?

I'm in Montréal to present new work on XAI for RL agents using World Models at the IJCAI Workshop on XAI, Aug 17

arxiv.org/abs/2505.08073

When an agent doesn't perform as expected, we run the world model backwards to generate counterfactual states from which the agent would have met expectations

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I want you all to clearly understand our new reality. A mere tropical storm 400 miles away (from Martinique to Puerto Rico, or from central Bahamas to Miami) can intensify into a Category 4 cyclone like María in a matter of 24 hours. We’ve made our bed 🛏️ now we must lie in it.

ARC Prize analyzed Hierarchical Reasoning Model and verified scores on hidden tasks, ran ablations, and found that performance comes from an unexpected source.

- Finding #1: The "hierarchical" architecture had minimal performance impact when compared to a similarly sized transformer

A screen shot of the output of nvidia-smi.

It's that kind of night... 🤖

This is masculinity too

💯 spot on. Kindness, empathy and compassion don’t take away from masculinity. This is what we need to teach our young boys and men.