Anu | Navigating the chaos 1492-2029

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Now, running DeepSeek gives “good enough” results, on pretty cheap hardware, at a cost of running per year that’s… less than some individual engineers at these companies get paid in salary. It destabilizes the entire economics of the bets they were making for a decade or more. Full-on panic ensues.

DeepSeek made orders-of-magnitude leaps in all of these areas. (That means it was 10x to 100x more efficient.) Instead of gathering all that costly data, it _generated_ much of the necessary data — often using prior LLMs like Llama (Meta’s open source tool) and Qwen (an open source Chinese tool).

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

She added her Bluesky link to her X profile a few days ago. She's probably preparing a comeback here

She is here!

bsky.app/profile/bree...

Accepting bad faith demands to “engage in some debate” is actually how we got here.

Si vous manquez d'argument pour faire venir des gens sur Bluesky, dites-leur qu'Andrew Tate s'est fait ban en moins de 24h par la plateforme.

People need to realize: Trump and his folks are using the term denaturalize duplicitiously.

You cannot deport as many people as he's planning.

He means put in concentration camps, torture, then kill. After forcing them to perform capitalist slavery.

This is not a hyperbolic skeet. Please reskeet.

NYTimes headline reads “Saudi border guards accused of killing hundreds of African migrants” subtitle: “A Human Rights Watch report says the guards regularly fire on African migrants trying to enter the kingdom from Yemen and killed hundreds in a 15-month period”

A second article from Human Rights Watch is titled “They fired on us like rain” subtitle “Saudi Arabian mass killings of Ethiopian migrants at the Yemen-Saudi border”

France 24 Crimes ‘beyond imagination’: Saudi border guards killed hundreds of migrants, HRW report says AT THE BORDER Middle East Between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross the border from Yemen into the oil-rich kingdom, according to a new Human Rights Watch report released on Monday. The report comes as Saudi Arabia implements an anti-migrant policy at home and a campaign to boost its image abroad.

Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia 'continuing mass killing' of Ethiopians and Yemenis at border Mixed Migration Centre says international inaction has emboldened Riyadh to continue its abuses with impunity

THREAD: Somewhat interactive sample of horrors migrants will experience via the "Eastern migration route" which begins in the Horn of Africa & goes through Yemen & Saudi Arabia. Nothing graphic, mostly satellite imagery. Hoping to raise awareness here about Saudi border guard massacres.
#OSINT

This app already feels like a breath of fresh air compared to X

It’s only now I’m realising the insanely toxic culture on that app at the moment.

Germany has facilitated Israel's genocide from day one.

Now over 1,000 academics, civil servants and public figures have signed a letter demanding this obscenity ends.

Delighted to interview two of the signatories 👇

youtube.com/watch?v=w8hX...

She is back!

Lifeguards and beachgoers are seen on a hazy, mostly empty beach in the Bronx as smoke from wildfires in Canada inundated the New York City area in June. A headline reads: "Why Summers May Never Be the Same." Photo by Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times.

Earth’s warmest months on record redefined summer this year: Children at camps stayed inside. People worked and played outside late at night. Some considered moving to escape the worst effects. To many Americans, it felt like a climate inflection point. nyti.ms/3PCdmBq

where to find Bree Newsome Bass? She got banned from X...

Aristotle be like

UPS Driver Dies From Heat Stroke After High Temperatures Hit Texas Co-workers said Chris Begley, a 28-year veteran of UPS, "embodied the spirit of what it means to be a Teamster."

A 28-year veteran of UPS dies from heat stroke after making deliveries in 101-degree Texas weather

Europe’s online content law has teeth — now it has to bite The Digital Services Act’s ambition to clean up Big Tech will only be as strong as its enforcement.

"After years marred by tech scandals and criticism that the world’s biggest companies lack proper accountability, the Commission will face widespread demands to show its EU law has teeth."

“There's a lot of pressure on the Commission [...] it needs to deliver and deliver early and fast,” #DSA #EU

Keep Bluesky a nazi-free zone!

I’m doing my part

🏳️‍⚧️🫡

Wow, there's the headline on forcing people back to the office I never thought I'd see.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against SpaceX.

The suit alleges that Elon’s company discriminated against asylum seekers and refugees in their hiring practices.

Which is both disgusting and illegal.

Fired Founder Of Project Veritas Is Under Investigation In New York James O’Keefe was fired from the right-wing operation for spending “an excessive amount of donor funds” on personal luxuries, the company's board said.

Fired founder of Project Veritas James O’Keefe is under investigation by a New York prosecutor

Why is the most exterminationist institution in the history of Earth is still allowed to have an opinion is my question

The imperial cult be celebrating the defeat of subversive figures in the most sadistic ways

Imagine a religion with an electric chair as it's holy symbol.

White People Explain Why Diversity Initiatives Are Discriminatory With organizations facing backlash for attempting to promote equality and inclusion in the workplace, The Onion asked white people to explain why diversity initiatives are discriminatory, and this is ...

With organizations facing backlash for attempting to promote equality and inclusion in the workplace, The Onion asked white people to explain why diversity initiatives are discriminatory, and this is what they said.

Ask hippies what they think of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, you will be shocked

Research shows that when temperature forecasts are more accurate , many lives are saved because more people take preventative action. Similar research shows the same for infectious diseases. It's reckless that governments are hiding the data instead of making more people aware.