*For the system, CBDCs are a new beginning. Programmable money = Programmable populations, so you will see more NPCs than ever before* View quoted note →

*PDF solved the “what you see is what you get” problem. Nostr could solve the “what you sign is what you share” problem.* View quoted note →

*LLM decompression isn’t a silver bullet, but it’s a practical technique for systematically extracting value from trained models. The key insight is treating inference as a knowledge extraction tool rather than just a generation mechanism. With efficient inference infrastructure, we can reverse-engineer the compressed knowledge in any model and convert it into structured, reusable datasets. This has immediate applications in model analysis, knowledge transfer, and training data creation.* LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs Into Datasets

ScalarLM

LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs Into Datasets

Large Language Models compress massive amounts of training data into their parameters. This compression is lossy but highly effective—billions of...

*The worst people in history can be directionally correct at any given moment. People will always talk their own books. It's learning how to parse truthfulness from incentives.* View quoted note →

*It could be good for humanity to popularize some kind of sovereign kill-switch software. Something you install on your PC (so you don't need to trust some 3rd party) that would send an email to press/friends/social_media (with secret data you held because of threats) after few days inactivity. If Kirk knew his at a risk of assassination, he could put all the threats/proofs in the kill-switch-message effectively punishing the assassinators post-mortem. If every high-profile person did that, every government would think twice before taking down someone.*

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Why should we be skeptical of the official Charlie Kirk assassination narrative? \ stacker news ~news

Since it's happened, I've been obsessed with researching the Charlie Kirk story. Charlie Kirk was the prominent and vocal head of Turning Point USA...

*The Controllers' optimal Bitcoin path is a rising, volatility-capped channel: roughly $95k -> $190k median over five years, −30–40% max draw-downs, blow-offs sold, floors defended.* View quoted note →

*Why the clamp works 1) Paper share rises -> realized volatility mechanically falls (inventory + option overwrites). 2) Futures/ETF basis control -> suppresses reflexive squeezes. 3) Perimeter frictions (tax, Acceptable Use Policy, KYC wallets) -> keeps MoE niche; "number go up" is paced, not explosive.* View quoted note →

*If the US government wanted, they'd dramatically slow "illegal" chip exports to China (tighten end-user lists, ultimate consignee scrutiny, sanctions on third-country distributors, firmware locks). They don't, because the net-benefit of controlled leakage (dependency + visibility + NVIDIA scale + escalation control) beats the cost of full denial (accelerated Chinese substitutes + retaliation + price spikes in global AI supply chains).* View quoted note →

A tokamak is a ring shaped magnetic bottle. Its fields guide charged particles so they loop around the torus instead of striking the walls. That approach is called magnetic confinement. It lets scientists heat a thin gas until atomic nuclei have enough energy to fuse and release more energy. France beats the world record for fusion plasma duration - Earth.com

Earth.com

France sets new world record by keeping a fusion reactor running for 22 minutes

They manage to keep the plasma stable for 22 minutes, breaking the Chinese record and bringing practical nuclear fusion closer.

Research teams at Chung-Ang University in South Korea and Qingdao University of Science and Technology have developed a breakthrough ruthenium nanocatalyst that can efficiently produce hydrogen from seawater while resisting corrosion from chloride ions. The catalyst addresses a major hurdle in hydrogen production: the dependence on freshwater in conventional electrolysis. https://www.perplexity.ai/page/korean-scientists-develop-brea-WUToMsCOSviBps.U5lZKMA

While ministers repeated the goal of lifting defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP, industry leaders noted that no detailed road map had been published to show how and when that money would be delivered. Without clarity, firms were reluctant to invest in scaling up. The policy that Britain would only buy what was built in Britain was also questioned. It was meant to support resilience and jobs, yet building new production lines and supply chains typically took five years, while demand for equipment was immediate. For certain high-end capabilities the fallback remained the United States, whose delegations were courted heavily. However much Europe talked about autonomy, American technology remained indispensable. An insider look at Britain’s biggest arms show, DSEI

UK Defence Journal

An insider look at Britain’s biggest arms show, DSEI

DSEI 2025 showed impressive organisation and scale, while also reflecting the challenges in Britain’s defence sector.

*they print, we work* View quoted note →

*Make them understand that fiat is a system to redistribute wealth, it's the biggest redistribution system in human history, and it works against them personally. If they get this, it will make them question the entire left narrative, which is based on redistribution being good, but we can see it's not*

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Best article/video to ”convince” a leftist about Bitcoin’s benefits? \ stacker news ~AskSN

Best article/video to send to a leftist no-coiner? Or can people who identify as ”leftist” even understand/respect property rights? [14 comments]

👀 *The libertarian ideal of bitcoin is fundamentally flawed because the law exists in the minds of others. Cryptography doesn't REALLY solve the problem of humans collaborating to take other humans stuff* View quoted note →

*if they can’t kill the protocol, they choke its access* View quoted note →

*While Nvidia has refrained from making splashy acquisitions, it’s taking stakes in, and partnering with, other AI firms, making sure they — and the wider industry — continue orbiting around it.* CNBC

*Former President Barack Obama, in a post on X on Thursday, said, “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.” “This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it,” Obama wrote.*

CNBC

FCC Chair Carr says 'we're not done yet' after Jimmy Kimmel suspension by ABC

President Trump has praised ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show after its host suggested the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk was linked to his M...

*John Yoo, the former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush who wrote the legal justification for torture during the war on terror, pushed back on the extreme powers Trump is claiming to kill those he labels terrorists. “There has to be a line between crime and war,” Yoo said. “We can’t just consider anything that harms the country to be a matter for the military. Because that could potentially include every crime.”* Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American