Erik Jonker

OpenAI announces a livestream scheduled for Thursday at 10 AM PT.

GPT-5 tomorrow 👀

Kind of a haunting precedent that America’s dumbest newspeople are going “yeah sure I believed in a deepfake saying things you never said but the deepfake did sound like you so really it’s your problem”

This is so genuinely disgustingly pathetic and unamerican, my god

Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor’s Race The possibility that the president will seek to intercede could inject an element of unpredictability into an already fractious contest.

Breaking News: President Trump discussed interceding in the New York City mayor’s race to try to stop Zohran Mamdani, said people briefed on the conversations.

And here we go: Not a deal, but a deal to try to force a deal without European involvement. This allows Putin to feign good will, and Trump to back away from a largely empty sanctions threat. Not a good day for Ukraine, I’m afraid.

(A quick 🧵)

nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/…

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Trump will try another meeting about Europe without Europe and everything is fine... remember, the EU is by far now the largest contributor to Ukraine in both money and military equipment

"We will work towards [ending the war] in the days and weeks to come" doesn't sound as if sanctions on Russia are coming in 48 hours. This is obviously a huge shock and was in no way predictable.

Ik begrijp er echt niks van waarom SGP niet verboden wordt. Bij een partij van een zekere andere religie zouden de rapen gaar zijn. En terecht.

SGP - weg ermee!

Dit zijn de kandidaat-Kamerleden die klaarstaan om te bouwen aan een beter Nederland. Met deze lijst kiest D66 voor een team dat optimistisch en daadkrachtig werkt aan de toekomst.

d66.nl/nieuws/advie...

Trump's ultimatum means nothing, Putin probably just agrees with a meeting somewhere next week, days, weeks will pass without any increasing pressure on Putin. Terrible to watch.

Het kan nog smeriger.
Leon de Winter. De Telegraaf.
Israël onder de extreemrechtse en nationalistische bende van Netanyahu zaait dood en verderf in Gaza,, vermoord vrouwen en kinderen, maar volgens Leon de Winter willen de Gazanen graag dood.
Die treurende mensen bestaan kennelijk niet
SMEERLAP

Here’s a 2019 story about the “model”, explains how she was pulled into Epsteins orbit, eventually raped, taken to the private islands, etc. This seems around the same time she was passed on to Trump. just say mid-90s. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

My guess is that Putin will just stall after the meeting with Witkoff... Days, weeks will pass without any pressure on Putin

I'll admit I didn't buy this, but it's true. Here's the current version: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Here's what it looked like on Jan. 26: web.archive.org/web/20250126...

Shock as parts of Constitution disappear from government site: 'Almost didn't believe it' The Library of Congress confirmed that some portions of the U.S. Constitution were removed from the official government website.Drop Site reported Wednesday morning that Sections 9 and 10 of Article I, which focuses on limiting the power of the legislative branch, were taken down without explanation...

The Library of Congress confirmed that some portions of the U.S. Constitution were removed from the official government website.

Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws

This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

Xenofoob marktfundamentalisme uit VVD-verkiezingsprogramma speelt populisten in de kaart De VVD heeft als eerste partij haar verkiezingsprogramma bekendgemaakt . Het ligt in de lijn der verwachting dat er (helaas) een coalitie gesmeed moet worden met de VVD, omdat het in de peilingen t…

Een hoogst opmerkelijk patroon in het VVD-verkiezingsprogramma is het gemak waarmee de partij omspringt met internationale verdragen. Net zoals reguliere wetgeving wil de VVD dat “even” gaan wijzigen of desnoods opzeggen.

Alsof dit niet over hele fundamentele zaken gaat zoals mensenrechten

Maurice de Hond wederom strafrechtelijk vervolgd wegens smaad en laster Smaad: De invloedrijke opiniepeiler Maurice de Hond moet voor de rechter verschijnen wegens nieuwe uitlatingen over de Deventer Moordzaak. De Hond blijft beschuldigende uitspraken doen over ‘de Klusje...

Laten we het nu definitief vaststellen.
Maurice de Hond is een ziekelijke intrigant.
En zijn peilingen kloppen ook vaak niet.
Hij peilt (extreem)rechts systematisch hoger en beïnvloedt daarmee kiezers.

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

to think that o3-mini was my choice model for a long time, and now gpt-oss:20B is basically equivalent and runs on my laptop 🤯

‘Maar ze willen ook zelf dood’ is next level genocidevergoelijking.

"The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland."

OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good The long promised OpenAI open weight models are here, and they are very impressive. They’re available under proper open source licenses—Apache 2.0—and come in two sizes, 120B and 20B. OpenAI’s …

OpenAI has released new open weights models with impressive performance and limited hardware requirements.
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/g...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
#microsoft

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive. Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome
colton.dev/blog/curing-...

Putin is meeting Trump envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin right now.

Most likely outcome: Trump extends his deadline by 90 days after Putin makes a half-assed “promise” to explore talks.

Dit jaar is er vaker een auto een huis in gereden dan een mens door een wolf gebeten.

#probleemauto

Genuinely, if this happens, it is blatantly against any federal law, and quite literally throws the Constitution out the window. The US would no longer be a union of states.

trump is inventing entirely new forms of racism every day

Wilders kiest voor het gif van Goebbels - Joop - BNNVARA En niemand mag zwijgen.

Je reinste Goebbels-propaganda.
Uitstekend dat het beest bij de naam wordt genoemd....

www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Norway plans $3.3 billion floating wind subsidy cap The Norwegian government proposed on Monday to offer up to 35 billion Norwegian crowns ($3.29 billion) in subsidies in the country's first commercial floating wind power tender, in line with a preliminary plan outlined in June.

Agree, I think the nascent technology aspect is driving the price - the Norwegian government seems to be working with a similar ballpark. And these schemes are ceilings. With competitive bidding and a two-way CfD design, actual costs could end up lower. www.reuters.com/business/ene...