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Joined April 27, 2022
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unix, space, ai safety
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Utbildningsmaterial om det svenska samhället - Universitets- och högskolerådet (UHR) https://uhr.se/medborgarskapsprovet/utbildningsmaterial/
"I went stealth camping in the garden of the Swedish royal palace." https://youtube.com/watch?v=pg2w6sdWyZo
The Future, Made in China | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/the-future-made-in-china
the distortion is nasty 🤢 #np
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/alvafro/6796842304?i=6796842308
#np latin mafia x fred again...
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/9-months-and-50-hours/6796842304
"But there is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way."
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic https://www.ft.com/content/bdb3b820-905b-431e-82c0-386535755af1
toronto direct to helsinki... 😫
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/travel/article-toronto-helsinki-finland-nordic-cuisine-local/
"If you stop to think about it, we’ve essentially found a way to make sand think." https://xcancel.com/i/article/2076957440109625718
"At his darkest, Mr Melnichenko fears the use of a tactical nuclear weapon in an attempt to terrorise Ukraine’s European backers"
"Russia could collapse into anarchy, as warlords struggle for control of resources and nuclear weapons."
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/the-man-who-would-change-russia
😬 "Eurostar orders trains that can cope with 55C ‘Saudi’ summers" https://www.ft.com/content/b9ed4857-18bc-41c8-b24e-806534a35c23
lmao
"Sweden spent millions trying to get Afghans to return home — nobody said yes" https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/sweden-spent-millions-trying-to-get-afghans-to-return-home-nobody-said-yes
Just completed this short course...
Introducing our short course on AGI safety by GDM https://deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com/introducing-our-short-course-on-agi-safety-1072adb7912c
"We can’t Buy Canadian our way out of this predicament." https://macleans.ca/politics/how-to-build-a-nation/
"For coding workflows, GPT‑5.6 Sol sets a new state of the art on Terminal‑Bench 2.1, which tests command-line workflows requiring planning, iteration, and tool coordination." https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
just catching up on ai development:
ai frontier labs will have models that can take on software engineering soon
they want models to master software engineering as a means for the models to do ai rnd on their own
'Dylan Patel, CEO of AI-infrastructure consulting firm SemiAnalysis, recently predicted there would be large-scale protests against OpenAI and Anthropic within a few months. “People hate AI. AI is less popular than [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. AI is less popular than politicians,” he said on a podcast.'
'And they explained to me that it was about preparing for Day X, for situations similar to a civil war, in which they go out into the streets with the intention of killing immigrants.”' - Angelique Geray, journalist infiltrated among German neo-Nazis: ‘What surprised me most is that these young people are serious’ | International | EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-18/angelique-geray-journalist-infiltrated-among-german-neo-nazis-what-surprised-me-most-is-that-these-young-people-are-serious.html
gkh_clanker_t1000 & gkh_clanker_2000 Continue Uncovering Linux Kernel Bugs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-GKH-Clanker-2000