We need a distributed, cryptographically verifiable internet archive. Would this even be possible? I don't know.

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The truth about AI a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525 Source:

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the last test was the cleanest. he asked the models a math problem. the kind any frontier model can solve in a second. then he watched whether th...

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Saylor is promoting Ethereum. Saylor is promoting the Runes protocol on the Bitcoin network. Saylor is promoting issuance of stablecoins on the Bitcoin network. Saylor is promoting issuance of staking tokens on the Bitcoin network. Saylor is promoting the use of the Bitcoin network to support tokenized synthetic bitcoin tokens on L2s. Saylor is telling folks to exchange their BTC for stablecoins, in part so they can earn yield on those stablecoins. That yield is provided by STRC, which is purchased by entities within the stablecoin ecosystem described above. Saylor/Strategy then takes the proceeds from those entities buying STRC and buys a boatload of BTC themselves. Saylor use to tell folks to buy and hold BTC, there is no second best. Saylor now tells folks to buy a security or a stablecoin instead. Here's what's involved in the stablecoin money flow. Two different stablecoins, one riding on Ethereum, one riding on Bitcoin. Two different staking tokens, one on Ethereum, one on Bitcoin. One synthetic bitcoin token riding on an L2, which uses the Bitcoin network. One security, and last, but not least, some actual bitcoin. What could possibly go wrong? Here's the kicker, in that whole process, the only entity not buying and holding BTC is the individual customer. It's an unbelievably complex thing. I'm almost hesitant to even post this out of fear I'm going to look like an ass because there's no way this monstrosity could exist, and I'm just making shit up. Who knows maybe I've misunderstood it all, but I don't think so. Taproot and OP_RETURN are the two key aspects of the Bitcoin protocol enabling the Bitcoin network to be used for all this non-bitcoin stuff. All except Strategy are VC-backed. Here are all the entities, protocols, outputs and tokens involved for the privilege of exchanging your BTC for a yield bearing stablecoin: Hermetica (USDh, sUSDh) enabled by Runes/OP_RETURN on Bitcoin. Saturn (USDat, sUSDat) on Ethereum. Stacks (sBTC) on bitcoin L2, enabled by Taproot on Bitcoin. Strategy (STRC, MSTR) - securities.. Oh and some BTC, mostly flowing away from the individual into STRC. Unbelievable. No way this will turn into another FTX, BlockFi, Celsius, Voyager, Three Arrows Capital, etc.. No way. This time is different. How do you sleep at night Saylor?

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The problem I have now is that I have conversations spread across different llms and sometimes it's hard to locate a specific conversation. AI is making me less organized. I do feel like in a year or so we will have best practices on the use of AI as a personal knowledge base. Hooray for the future 🤣.

Jack Dorsey is a fiat Cuck. Cash App does not provide an automated low balance notification or alert feature as a standard, built-in option for all users. Unlike many traditional banks or other financial apps that offer customizable alerts when an account balance falls below a specified threshold, Cash App's notification system focuses primarily on transaction-specific events, security alerts, incoming/outgoing payments, and account activity rather than proactive low-balance warnings.

I was curious what did Tom and think about modern AI: "Pretend Intelligence" — his central objection Stallman warns that "nowadays, people often use the term artificial intelligence for [Slashdot](

Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM - Slashdot

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things that aren't intelligent at all." He specifically coined the term "Pretend Intelligence" (PI) as a counter to the marketing hype, arguing that calling LLMs "AI" endorses a false claim and encourages people to trust systems they shouldn't trust. He calls LLMs "generators" because they generate text without understanding what that text means, and make mistakes "without batting a virtual eyelash," meaning you can't trust anything they produce. (

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Stallman pointed to the real-world harm of people believing LLM output because they assume the system understands what it generated. He cited the example of a lawyer who asked a chatbot to provide relevant legal citations — and the chatbot invented plausible-looking references to non-existent cases. (https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/07/LLM_Slop_Versus_Richard_Stallman.shtml) He's particularly alarmed about LLM-generated content flooding the internet with low-quality, unverified text — what he and others call "slop" — degrading the overall quality of information on the web. His broader concern ties into his free software philosophy: if a program users don't control is doing their computing, it controls them. He urges people not to entrust their computing to systems whose operators aren't accountable to them. (https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Richard_Stallman_Can_Explain_to_Oxford_Artificial_Intelligence_.shtml) He sees cloud-based AI as another vector for the centralized data surveillance he's always opposed — where user inputs, queries, and data flow to servers controlled by corporations with no user accountability. The short version of his position: LLMs are a sophisticated autocomplete dressed up in dangerous marketing language, and the real harm is that society is building trust in systems that don't understand, don't reason, and are controlled by entities with no loyalty to the user. View quoted note →

I'd rather eat raw meat than rotten meat. "For Tetanus, You Need Rotten Meat. That's How The Tetanus Vaccine Is Made, With Rotten Meat." Dr Suzanne Humphries Because Of This, The Vaccine Puts You At Risk For Prion Disease AKA Mad Cow Disease. Here Are 4 Truths That Everyone Should Know About Tetanus & The 'Vaccine.' 1⃣ Tetanus Toxoid Vaccine Manufacture: Beef Heart Infusion (BHI) is used as a culture medium to grow C. Tetani, the bacterium that produces tetanus toxin. The infusion is prepared by suspending minced beef heart in water & then heated to boiling. The heated putrid environment allows the tetanus toxin to grow. The tetanus toxin is then treated with formaldehyde to inactivate its pathogenic properties. But some toxoid preparations can still contain undesirable contaminants such as the Prion causing Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy also known as Mad Cow Disease. 2⃣ Tetanus (Clostridium Tetani) Is An Anaerobic Bacterial Spore: It resides in the intestinal tract of ruminant animals & in their feces. If your wound was not in an area where cattle, sheep or horses graze you will not get Tetanus. Tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen. The bacterial spore dies when it's oxygenated. Blood carries oxygen, so a bleeding wound that is cleaned thoroughly will not have living Tetanus spores. ✳️Tetanus does not live on knives or scissors in your kitchen. ✳️Tetanus does not live on nails you brought home from the hardware store. ✳️Tetanus does not live on the shards of glass that broke in your sink. ✳️Tetanus does not live on the wood splinter that entered your foot in your home. 3⃣ There Is No Single Tetanus Vaccine: The Tetanus vaccine was discontinued in 2012. When a Tetanus vaccine is given, it is actually the TDaP Vaccine, which is Tetanus, Diphtheria & Pertussis. Doctors & Pharmacists do not disclose this fact when they administer a 'Tetanus Shot.' Those with milk & latex allergies are not given informed consent as to the milk casein & latex used in the production of TDaP. Many cases of fatal anaphylaxis are caused by this. 4⃣ The Tetanus Shot Will Not Help An Active Tetanus Infection: It takes a minimum of 3 weeks & possibly up to 8 weeks to build antibodies from the Tetanus vaccine within TDaP. An active injury & Tetanus infection will not be helped at all by getting vaccinated. It is pointless to get the shot & harmful side effects are well known from TDaP. Actual Tetanus bacterial infection is rare. In the US there are less than 30 cases annually. And the risk of dying from Tetanus is 1 in 44 million. The good news is, Tetanus as C. Tetani, is easily treated & eradicated from the body: *⃣ 1 Gram of Vitamin C (whole acerola complex) per day for 5-7 days kills the Tetanus bacterial spores. As shown in clinical trials as 100% reversal with no fatalities when Vitamin C is used as prevention & treatment for Tetanus bacterial infection.

Can your ring camera knock someone out? No? Then what's the point?

Bitcoiners riding along the AI tsunami #ai #japan

Email of the future will be based on your 12/24 word recovery phrase. No logins, no passwords, possibly offline 2fa.

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update from precursor team (bunnielabs iirc) "Going to custom silicon removes the supply chain hardening benefit of compiling your own FPGA code from scratch, but it greatly reduces the barrier to entry: while Precursor costs about $600, the Dabao sells for about $9"

The Super friends called it on AI.

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I saw this from ritrek at the Bitcoin++ conference in Taipei. The RITREK app allows one to pre-sign transactions to move your Bitcoin to a secondary wallet, via 2 transactions with a timelock between them (so that even if something leaks and the first pre-signed transaction is broadcast against your will, you have many days to move the Bitcoin elsewhere before the second transaction can be mined). It's now live on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ritrek.app For example, the first wallet can be your hardware wallet + a passphrase, and the second wallet the same hardware wallet without a passphrase. Then if you lose the passphrase, or something happens to you and your family wants to access the Bitcoin, you/they can broadcast the transactions.

One thing about Johnny Carson's interviews, is he doesn't rush them. They lasted awhile, and it wasn't always about just promoting the current thing that the guest was promoting. He would have a lot of fun with them. In this one, the interview started off slow and awkward. But by the end everyone is howling with laughter. This kind of charm would not come across today.