Giovanni Toffetti

Tesla Optimus robot takes a suspicious tumble in new demo A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty...

At "Autonomy Visualized" at a Tesla store in Miami, see a five second video clip in this story, where the remote operator for an Optimus robot takes off their headset, mindlessly reproduced by the Optimus robot followed by falling over backwards. Oh dear. electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony.

However, eating too much pie is ok because the Sin of Pi is 0

A bit unsettling...

i'm surprised that nobody has called the elon's golden gating of grok "elon-gating" yet

(i guess it's a bit of a stretch)

"Awkward wording, evident throughout the document, suggests that at least some of it was originally written in Russian."

We used to be a society

Once again astonished that Elon is building a propaganda machine in public, saying "hello, here is my propaganda machine", and the tech community continues to use it

This is so good. Its actually folding like a human would. The socks look great. Its autonomous, not teleop. It looks like a sim but its real.

Unitree H2 base model is < $30,000 USD. Incredibly cheap. Most people will buy the H2 EDU for I assume $50-60k but still

Yes, vs Code typically connected remotely to a container on a GPU cluster

I personally prefer IDE-integrated coding agents, but I might be biased. May I ask why you like so much?

Demystifying Swiss mortgages with neon We know that the Swiss mortgage market might seem like a maze at first. That’s why, in this article, we want to demystify the jargon and break down the most important things you need to know.

In Switzerland most people only own 1/3 of a property and have literally endless mortgages on the rest.
It's the only way to buy a house: www.neon-free.ch/en/blog/firs...

🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme.

➡️ sohub.io/4tjw

📷 WBF/DEFR

This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.

Generalist AI has a new blog post detailing their "harmonic reasoning" model GEN-0 generalistai.com/blog/nov-04-...

Video is autonomous

The political entertainment industry 📝 A guest essay...

Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait.

It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.

As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”

But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻

I used to have the same issue with containerized ROS env. Now I run the container in a GPU k8s cluster and connect to it via remote vs code. The Claude plugin has all env and libs it needs. But in my case ROS env is enough, you seem to have multiple repos each with its own venv

4 labels from a spam labeler. Labels are "changed profile 10+ times, changed profile 50+ times, profile changes often, etc."

This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Same concept, completely different psychological framing. One invites gluttony, the other appeals to your sense of propriety.

"À discretion" quietly reminds you that you're exercising judgment here. If you stuff yourself like a pig and hurt the restaurant's margins, that's on you - you had discretion and chose poorly.

It's fascinating how language shapes behavior. In Switzerland, all-you-can-eat restaurants are called "à discretion" - literally meaning "at your discretion."
"All you can eat" frames it as a challenge: how much CAN you eat? It's almost inviting you to maximize consumption.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

This paper was referenced by @Andrej Karpathy in recent podcast.

Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent

arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677

"Senza un’informazione basata sui fatti e non manipolata, la libertà d’opinione diventa una beffa crudele."

Ricordando Hannah Arendt, nata il #14ottobre 1906.

You can also say "pompieri" in Italian

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

“Images are becoming so realistic, we now question everything we see online,” @Gruzd.ca, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, said. “Society cannot operate if we don’t know what’s true and what’s not.”