O Brasil na melancolia de uma bachiana; o Brasil imperial e arcaico de Vieira; o Brasil na palavra mística de João Guimarães Rosa; Brasil armorial, nação macunaíma. Brasil de Euclides, Darcy, Tarsila e Veríssimo; Brasil de Caymmi, Aleijadinho e Burle Marx. Eis aí meu patriotismo.
If the euro is to be successful, it has to be an economic project that
is consistent with, and even reinforces, other fundamental values. It has to strengthen democracy. But the euro has done the opposite.
The most powerful institution in the eurozone is the European Central Bank, which was constructed to be independent-not answerable to or guided by elected leaders-another neoliberal idea that was
fashionable at the time of the construction of the euro. Though it
remains fashionable in some quarters, it is increasingly being ques-
tioned. As we will see in chapter 6, the countries that performed best
during the global financial crisis were those with mnore accountable
central banks.
The actions of any central bank have large political and distribu-
tive consequences seen most clearly in times of crises. Central banks
are good at cloaking their decisions in jargon suggesting that they are
simply implementing their mandate. But there are choices in how
they implement that mandate. Though they would almost surely deny
it, the ECB's decision to shut off funds to the Greek banking system in
the summer of 2015 was an intensely political act.
COurse.
The growing democratic deficit is seen most obviously in the fact
that when given the opportunity, the countries of Europe have repeat-
edly rejected the policies being imposed on them. In 2015, 6l percent
of the electorate in Greece voted to reject the conditions imposed,
and in Portugal and Spain similar proportions supported candidates
opposed to austerity. But opposition is evident, too, in numerous
other elections, including in Italy, where voters turned out the party
supporting austerity; they elected parties calling for an alternative
In spite of these elections, the policies remained effectively
unchanged. In Portugal, matters were even worse: the president ini-
tially refused to install the antiausterity coalition on the grounds that
it contained anti-euro parties, even though, having won 62 percent of
the votes, the coalition controlled the parliament.
In each country, the newly elected government was told in effect
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If the euro is to be successful, it has to be an economic project that
is consistent with, and even reinforces, other fundamental values. It
has to strengthen democracy. But the euro has done the opposite.
The most powerful institution in the eurozone is the European
Central Bank, which was constructed to be independent-not answer-
able to or guided by elected leaders-another neoliberal idea that was
fashionable at the time of the construction of the euro. Though it
remains fashionable in some quarters, it is increasingly being ques-
tioned. As we will see in chapter 6, the countries that performed best
during the global financial crisis were those with mnore accountable
central banks.
The actions of any central bank have large political and distribu-
tive consequences seen most clearly in times of crises. Central banks
are good at cloaking their decisions in jargon suggesting that they are
simply implementing their mandate. But there are choices in how
they implement that mandate. Though they would almost surely deny
it, the ECB's decision to shut off funds to the Greek banking system in
the summer of 2015 was an intensely political act.
COurse.
The growing democratic deficit is seen most obviously in the fact
that when given the opportunity, the countries of Europe have repeat-
edly rejected the policies being imposed on them. In 2015, 6l percent
of the electorate in Greece voted to reject the conditions imposed,
and in Portugal and Spain similar proportions supported candidates
opposed to austerity. But opposition is evident, too, in numerous
other elections, including in Italy, where voters turned out the party
supporting austerity; they elected parties calling for an alternative
In spite of these elections, the policies remained effectively
unchanged. In Portugal, matters were even worse: the president ini-
tially refused to install the antiausterity coalition on the grounds that
it contained anti-euro parties, even though, having won 62 percent of
the votes, the coalition controlled the parliament.
In each country, the newly elected government was told in effect
Bezos recently revealed that he sees a not-so-distant world in which AI-driven productivity makes it easier for people to support themselves, in turn requiring fewer working hours.
In contrast to his tech peers like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI leader Sam Altman, who have warned about the technology’s potential risks, Bezos recently revealed that he sees a not-so-distant world in which AI-driven productivity makes it easier for people to support themselves, in turn requiring fewer working hours.
“Some people will decide, ‘I can support my family working three days a week.’ That’s what productivity in the economy means,” Bezos told Fox News this week.
We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime. Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development.
We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime. Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development. Deno Deploy will continue operating for six months before shutting down. We will provide migration support for paying customers moving to Cloudflare Workers. JSR will continue operating, with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare. We will continue supporting rusty_v8 and work toward integrating it into workerd.
The gate is a Hermes plugin. It wraps the agent’s tool execution, so every tool result (a fetched web page, an MCP response, the output of a shell command that downloads mail, a file read) passes through it before it is written into the conversation. Everything gets scanned except a short list of tools whose results can’t contain anyone else’s text, like the agent’s memory, its to-do list and file writes. Scheduled jobs get the same treatment: the output of a cron job’s data-collection script is scanned before it lands in the prompt.
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do armády může i člověk s jediným prstem, pokud s ním dokáže střílet.
Podle mých informací jsou dnes požadavky ještě mírnější – do armády může i člověk s jediným prstem, pokud s ním dokáže střílet. Ukazuje to, jak velký strach mladí Severokorejci mají.
Lidé říkávali, že když se sejdou tři lidé, nejméně jeden z nich je udavač.
Obsah je důležitý, protože severokorejský režim vybudoval velmi silný systém kontroly mladých lidí a celé společnosti. Lidé říkávali, že když se sejdou tři lidé, nejméně jeden z nich je udavač. Říkalo se: „Nevěř ani vlastním zádům.“ Režim přiměl lidi, aby se navzájem sledovali.
Potom ale lidé zjistili, jak přežít prostřednictvím trhu.
Takový byl i můj otec. Potom ale lidé zjistili, jak přežít prostřednictvím trhu.
Koupil jsem vás za dva tisíce jüanů. Zaplaťte mi je a pak můžete jít.
Začali se často hádat. Když máma řekla, že tedy odejdeme, odpověděl: „Koupil jsem vás za dva tisíce jüanů. Zaplaťte mi je a pak můžete jít.“ Tehdy jsme si naplno uvědomily situaci.
„Než tady zemřít hlady, raději zkusíme překročit zamrzlou řeku Tuman a třeba nás při tom zastřelí.“
Máma tehdy slyšela, že v Číně se člověk může dosyta najíst sladkostí. Pomyslela si: „V Číně se asi neumírá hlady.“ Vzala mě a sestru za ruce a řekla: „Než tady zemřít hlady, raději zkusíme překročit zamrzlou řeku Tuman a třeba nás při tom zastřelí.“
There was resistance to the teaching of science, not because Victorians were hostile to science in principle, but because they thought it irrelevant to the kind of moral and cultural formation that a school for gentlemen was supposed to provide.
Všechno, co dělá strana a co nařídil vůdce, bylo správné.
Když jsem viděla první popravu, byla jsem na tom psychicky špatně, ale nemohla jsem to projevit. Všechno, co dělá strana a co nařídil vůdce, bylo správné. Kdybych cítila vůči něčemu takovému odpor, viděli by problém ve mně.
elite families in continental Europe and the United States were far more likely to keep their children at home and educate them at small local private schools. It is plausible that this contributed to the lack of subnational loyalties in the British elite, in contrast to the distinct elites of, for example, the Southern United States, Catalonia in Spain, or Hungary in the Austrian Empire.
Tři díly Terminátora jsem kdysi viděl. Tehdy jsem se tomu smál. Při dnešním čtení zpráv o tom, jak se může AI vymknout kontrole, nikomu do smíchu není.
Bizarní je, že Rusko i Ukrajina do některých svých dronů používají stejné komponenty vyrobené v Číně.
I ty s dlouhým doletem, které ničí ruskou ropnou infrastrukturu, vojenské objekty a sklady spotřebního zboží. Bizarní je, že Rusko i Ukrajina do některých svých dronů používají stejné komponenty vyrobené v Číně. K tomu další pozoruhodný příklad.
You essentially pay for intelligence twice, once with money, and again with something even more valuable: the proprietary knowledge you must reveal to make that intelligence useful.
You essentially pay for intelligence twice, once with money, and again with something even more valuable: the proprietary knowledge you must reveal to make that intelligence useful. The better you want the model to perform, the more of that knowledge you have to feed it!
Last Halloween the largest commercially available yard skeleton — “Skelly,” sold by Home Depot — was 12 feet tall. This year Lowe’s is selling an animatronic skeleton that removes its own head and stands 15 feet tall, which makes it 25 percent taller than Skelly.
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I respect Anne Carson, who was just given the NobelPrize for Literature. Her essays on Catullus and Cy Twombly were essential to me when writing about grief. But her praise of the “solitary, hermetic autodidact” and the “desert saints who sit on columns” points to the exact dead end of modern literature, awarding literature’s highest honor to a philologist.
You cannot understand life from a pillar. Asceticism is an escape hatch. It is easy to preach equanimity when you live in isolation; just as a priest can lecture on marriage without ever having his face rubbed in the domesticity of two human beings sharing flaws.
The giants of literature: Homer, Shakespeare, Joyce, never retreated into precious eccentricity. They stayed in the crowd, in the taverns, in the kitchens, mired in blood, filth, and daily friction. Literature doesn't need more minds wandering in solitary towers; it needs writers willing to get down into the muck of humanity, to forge brave new words.
But modern literature’s fundamental error has been remaining trapped in the mind. The urgent task of writing today isn't to wander deeper into infernal (cerebral) corridors; it is to blaze new paths of writing leave the mind behind entirely, to tune into the stars and tune out the chatter of words.
As Dante, who torments himself through the physical filth of the Inferno and Purgatorio, ends Paradiso where his “power failed the high fantasy,” moved by something bigger that scales the sun and stars.
We need writers who can do that: show us the dirt and take us to the stars. Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Kafka, Borges, McCarthy, and Pynchon never won a Nobel.
Literature has always belonged to the muck, and to us; not a committee.
Cap'n Crunch, the adventurous sea captain of the S.S. Guppy (full name: Horatio Magellan Crunch).
It was not until Donald Trump took office in 2025 that illegal border crossings plummeted back to 1960s levels and third world migrant populations have actually started shrinking.
The Founders were realists who respected practical limits on society for the sake of stability; they were not anarchists. That is to say, they understood than not all freedoms are good and some restrictions must be applied, including borders and logical cultural discrimination.
The Founders were realists who respected practical limits on society for the sake of stability; they were not anarchists. That is to say, they understood than not all freedoms are good and some restrictions must be applied, including borders and logical cultural discrimination.
For example, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an in 1765 mainly as a legal and historical text and later used Islam as an example of a religion that, in his view, stifled freedom of thought and relied on coercion.
as an antithesis to the western ideal.
For example, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an in 1765 mainly as a legal and historical text and later used Islam as an example of a religion that, in his view, stifled freedom of thought and relied on coercion.
John Adams once listed Muhammad among
The United States was never a migrant “melting pot”. This idea has been perpetuated over the past several decades in popular media and political discourse until it became sacrosanct in the minds of many Americans, but it’s not real – It was always been a fantasy fabricated by Hollywood and the political left.
The United States was never a migrant “melting pot”. This idea has been perpetuated over the past several decades in popular media and political discourse until it became sacrosanct in the minds of many Americans, but it’s not real – It was always been a fantasy fabricated by Hollywood and the political left.
From around 2012 onward, a program of multiculturalism was introduced with mass immigration as the primary weapon.
Westerners might have been able to create supranational ties because of shared cultural roots, but they were not going to open their borders to the rest of the world without being forced. From around 2012 onward, a program of multiculturalism was introduced with mass immigration as the primary weapon.
The government may employ fewer people. It may operate fewer offices. It may eliminate paperwork and automate entire agencies. But if it can watch more people, investigate more people, process more people, target more people and exercise more power over more lives than ever before, that is not smaller government.
thoritarianism without accountability.
The government may employ fewer people. It may operate fewer offices. It may eliminate paperwork and automate entire agencies. But if it can watch more people, investigate more people, process more people, target more people and exercise more power over more lives than ever before, that is not smaller government.
It is government without human limits.
Eventually AI decides who lives and who dies.
decision. Then AI makes the decision.
Eventually AI decides who lives and who dies.
At each step, humans remain tempted to
In February, U.S. missiles struck the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing more than 150 people, including at least 120 children.
Shocking: self-hosting guide explains how to self-host
Addressing abusive behavior toward our models
We’ve added a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models. The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.
There's a lot to dislike in mainstream university R&D. It's gotten so self-absorbed and self-referential. It’s been so long since a university engineering department has invented anything useful in hard tech that at this point most people hardly believe in "translational research". But I don’t think the cold fusion story has such a straightforward lesson about the usefulness of academia.
Greed is a great reason to keep a project secret. Embarrassment is not.
For Callisto, though, the mainstream stigma was a major headwind to getting to the truth of things[6]. It made hiring hard, it made error-checking hard, it made people do a lot of stuff in-house that probably could have been more easily done by others. Greed is a great reason to keep a project secret. Embarrassment is not. It’s a testament to the good intentions of the team that this work ever got published at all.
It’s a little like the effective altruism stuff where (tiny probability) x (momentous outcome) creates extremes of opinion about what’s important, and people start having heated arguments about extinction risk or shrimp welfare or the urgency of colonizing the galaxy.
Als praktischen Vorteil gegenüber nicht offenen Frontier-Modellen nennt Mistral, dass sich ML4 offenbar nicht weigert, sicherheitsrelevante Aufgaben auszuführen.
Der Hersteller sieht sein Modell in der Cybersicherheit auf Augenhöhe mit anderen Systemen. Als praktischen Vorteil gegenüber nicht offenen Frontier-Modellen nennt Mistral, dass sich ML4 offenbar nicht weigert, sicherheitsrelevante Aufgaben auszuführen. Verteidigern könnte das etwa bei der Analyse neuartiger Schadsoftware oder bei der Einstufung von Sicherheitslücken helfen.
Im Bereich Softwareentwicklung dürfte die Bilanz dagegen gemischter ausfallen. In Tests wie DeepSWE 1.1 und Terminal Bench 4.0 schlägt sich das Modell gegenüber anderen Open-Weight-Angeboten respektabel. Die Ergebnisse der führenden Modelle von OpenAI und Anthropic liegen allerdings deutlich höher und fehlen zugleich in den Diagrammen des Herstellers.
O fato de o STF achar que sua aprovação deveria ser necessária para que um Senado recém-eleito possa aprovar o impeachment de um ministro do Supremo ilustra a maior ameaça à democracia brasileira nos últimos anos, inclusive agora: o domínio do Brasil por uma ala altamente politizada do Judiciário -- que tem Xandão como seu rosto mais visível -- e que não reconhece nenhum limite (legal, constitucional, ético, moral ou político) para alcançar seus objetivos (muitas vezes políticos e pessoais).
Agora, para blindá-lo, muitos dos fiéis defensores de Moraes querem restringir o debate à questão de seu impeachment pelo Senado. Isso porque, se o impeachment fosse a punição mais severa que Moraes recebesse, ele teria muita sorte.
Com base apenas no que já sabemos sobre sua relação com Vorcaro -- mesmo antes de Dino bloquear uma investigação completa -- sabemos que Moraes já teria mandado prender a si próprio há muito tempo: pelos inexplicáveis R$ 200 milhões de Vorcaro, pelas aparentes conversas sobre fugir do país para escapar da Justiça, pela decisão deliberada de apagar todas as suas mensagens com Vorcaro para impedir que fossem descobertas, e pelas constantes mentiras que contou ao público sobre tudo isso.
E tudo isso sem contar os anos de flagrantes abusos de poder: ordenar a censura de dissidentes depois que as leis que autorizavam a censura já haviam expirado; atuar repetidamente como investigador e juiz nos próprios processos; ordenar secretamente que seus críticos fossem investigados e punidos; mandar prender Filipe Martins com base em um documento obviamente fraudulento e mantê-lo preso muito depois de ter sido comprovada a falsidade do documento (prender alguém sabendo que as provas são falsas é o pior abuso de poder que um juiz pode cometer); impor sadicamente a cidadãos comuns, por expressarem opiniões políticas, penas mais severas do que aquelas aplicadas a traficantes de drogas violentos e estupradores; e assim por diante.
E, durante as eleições que ainda estão em andamento: de abusos de poder arrogantes, flagrantes e à margem da lei cometidos por Moraes, Dino e seus aliados para influenciar as eleições por meio da censura e de outras formas de repressão, violando e até debochando das regras de funcionamento do Judiciário para alcançar objetivos políticos.
O impeachment de Moraes é o mínimo necessário para restaurar a credibilidade do STF e o Estado de Direito, e não uma medida extrema. Na realidade, permitir que ele simplesmente deixe o STF com sua gigantesca fortuna, suficiente para sustentar gerações, acumulada com Vorcaro e outros casos paracedios, sem sofrer nenhuma outra consequência, seria um enorme presente para ele e um insulto a todas as vítimas de seus muitos anos de abusos de poder motivados por vingança, ego e objetivos abertamente políticos e eleitorais, que devem ser completamente alheios ao exercício de qualquer poder jurisdicional minimamente legítimo.
He added a message that appeared in the terminal every time anyone installed core-js, asking for help or a job. Millions of developers saw it, and many of them complained about the message. He went to prison in January 2020 and was released early, about ten months later.
February 2024: Jia Tan releases two versions with the backdoor inside. Andres Freund finds it on 29 March.
“In case I am no longer available due to retirement or whatever.”
Take a path beyond the vortex —
Trust your own cerebral cortex.
I don’t know what we can do, except understand and accept that this is happening.
Especially those who have some savings.
I suspect that everybody’s suffering. Some are just better at pretending.
In woodworking, the power tools didn’t reduce the woodworker’s emotional investment in what they made. The worker still felt like they’d made that thing out of wood themselves.
These changes mean we’re doing more with less time, probably less reward as well, and the job itself is less interesting.
“I see your point, but this isn’t fun any more. This isn’t enjoyable. This is bad for me.”
Essa vigilância da leitura alheia é uma das características mais estúpidas de direitistas e esquerdistas.
Um dos grandes feitos editoriais relacionados ao “Mínimo” do Olavo foi a criação da lombada de livro mais identificável que eu já vi. Mesmo nas mais discretas prateleiras, era impossível não notar o “IDIOTA” roubando toda a atenção para si. E lembro que, tempos atrás, a esquerda zombava quando encontrava alguém com algum exemplar na estante.
Leu Olavo de Carvalho? Que absurdo! Com certeza é um fascista! Eu vi gente sendo cancelada por ler Jordan Peterson.
A direita não fica atrás. Certa vez recebi a visita de uma tia e, quando ela entrou no meu escritório e viu “O Capital”, ficou horrorizada, sendo até hoje crente de que eu voto no Lula. Para essa galera, ler Marx é sinal irrefutável de que o indivíduo é um comunista invasor de terras.
O quão irônico é que esse mesmo grupo fale tanto de vida intelectual, leitura e filosofia. Presos numa mentalidade binária, não se importam com a verdade, com o estudo sério, com a investigação filosófica.
demand only increases as application becomes more efficient
People who can still do that can still get paid by organisations that need that to be done. And, as I said in the linked post, demand only increases as application becomes more efficient.
Very good call. This is a practice that happens in virtually every line of work. I'm a certified ICU nurse, and in my country, hospitals have been hiring nurse contractors on one-year contracts because there's simply so much offer, both locally and in neighboring countries. They save a lot of money by paying base salaries and avoiding longer-term commitments.
In the video game industry, this also helps explain why so many studios choose to work with widely used tools like Unreal Engine. Even contractors are likely to already be familiar with these tools because they're used across the industry, which means there's little to no additional training needed.
James Irwin, another astronaut who walked on the moon, said, ‘Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.
