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Hacker, cypherpunk. All memes are my own.
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jsm 11 months ago
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining
Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It...
 Fascinating article from Simon Willison talking about how good o3 is at guessing your location from a photograph. We’re only beginning to learn the new capabilities of reasoning models using tools during the thinking process.
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jsm 11 months ago
A Ketamine Addict's Perspective On What Elon Musk Might Be Experiencing On Ketamine
TW: Suicide
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Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 (@akarlin) on X
Many are asking why Elon Musk developed a... wide range of interesting ideas since 2020. Isaacson bio. 👇 Looks like genetics. Just 5 years late...
 New double prong theory for Elon’s mental decline. Perhaps it’s a combination of both ketamine and genetic predisposition. For some reason there seem to be a lot of incredibly smart people who took ketamine and fried themselves. Felix Hill is an example here.
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jsm 11 months ago
Probably to make his bid for Pope. He already had the look. image
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jsm 11 months ago
You don’t actually know the Ten Commandments. The ones you just thought of were smashed by Moses and then God replaced them with a new set of Ten Commandments. The new Ten are very different from the original Ten. Go read Exodus 34. Weird realization for the day.
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jsm 11 months ago
Will this be the Chinese Century?
Probably yes, though that may not mean what people expect.
 Bearish article on the future of America. Interesting insight that when information in the internet age spreads nearly instantaneously, being innovative doesn’t give you much of an advantage. Making incremental improvements to bring that innovation to market and actually implement it is what leads to world dominance. One point of disagreement though. I think everyone people were underestimating Trump but have swung way too far to overestimating his impact in 4 years. The Democrats and the bureaucracy may have been initially thrown off balance but they’ll recover and retard Trump’s initiative.
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jsm 11 months ago
Molson Hart
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back — Molson Hart
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated ...
 Lots of good points here. One thing I hadn’t considered is that tariffs make it really difficult to establish manufacturing here. The cheaper option may simply be to do as little manufacturing in the US as possible and only import the finished product rather than deal with the complexity of an industrial supply chain and trying to import the intermediate products to do the manufacturing domestically.
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jsm 11 months ago
Stock market: Thinks tariffs will be bad for business Bond market: Thinks tariffs make US bonds riskier than Greek bonds Consumers: Think tariffs will worsen economy US Dollar: Worsening against other currencies MAGA: BuT tHe TrADe DeFiCItEs https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx/ https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bonds/us
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US Consumer Confidence
A monthly survey of US consumer attitudes, spending plans, and expectations for inflation, stock prices, and interest rates
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