So less money for Police, more for Mental health professionals, as that is a huge percentage of their callouts. But why would politicians want to keep people off the streets by a universal income, and gainfully employed and healthy... oh wait bureaucratic inertia and campaign finance corruption... 🤦
Ukraine's longest strike so far is about 2,500 km and this is around 3,500 km. I wonder of the FP5 will start getting an upgrade or a mothership and hit this?
While it's better than the stagnant US defence industry is able to put out right now, with it's inherent interia in building big tech things like the F-35, it would be hard to fully justify the "China’s first domestically developed heavy military transport."
A. Su Bin guilty plea relating to Boeing's espionage shows some design data was stolen, including the the c-17.
B. They consulted with Ukraine's Antonov design bureau, which is above board, but also indicates design help.
C. The D-30KP-2 engines were Russian until recently.
Which isn't to say that the Chinese manufacturing machine isn't going to win big if it comes to a prolong war. Just like all propaganda though, it should be verify.
What students? They've been shutting down school because they have no students to teach. They are on the leading edge of a demographic trend the 'developed' world will soon see.
Erica's original hypothesis was that violence was more successful, but was convinced to do research on the topic and found that while it does work, nonviolence on a mass scale is more effective.
I asked Sonnet why should or shouldn't trust a PACT, For what that is worth:
Reasons to Trust It
The privacy is in the math, not in promises.
Unlike a privacy policy, which is a legal document you have to sue someone to enforce, cryptographic unlinkability is enforced by mathematics. If the blind signature scheme is correct, physically connecting your identity to your token redemption is computationally infeasible - not just forbidden by terms of service.
Separation of knowledge is structural.
The design deliberately splits what each party knows so that no single organization - not even Cloudflare - can see the full picture. This is called the "need to know" principle enforced by protocol design rather than policy.
It is open and being standardized.
This is going through the W3C and IETF - public standards bodies where cryptographers around the world can review, attack, and critique the design. Contrast this with Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal, which was designed unilaterally and killed by public backlash.
MPC prevents any single party from aggregating data.
When sites want to measure "how good are our Anchors?" they use Multiparty Computation (MPC) - a technique where multiple parties each hold a piece of encrypted data, compute a result together, and none of them ever sees anyone else's raw data.
Reasons to Be Cautious
Collusion is still theoretically possible.
The system's privacy guarantees break down if the organizations involved secretly cooperate. The architecture tries to make this structurally unlikely (different companies with competing interests), but it cannot make it mathematically impossible.
The Anchor becomes a new gatekeeper.
If most Anchors are big tech companies, and you don't have accounts with them, you may find yourself unable to pass PACT checks - effectively locked out of parts of the web. This is exactly the criticism leveled at the old Apple PAT system.
It is still in design phase.
The technical details of PACTs are still being finalized. 3 The devil is always in the implementation details.
It does seem worth looking into the setup of this, as I admit too a healthy amount of skepticism, but a bunch of people gave it some thought and some of the choices don't look like money grubbing corporate ones.
I'd be curious why you think LLMs are dead ending? Is it that you think the Jepa models are likely to find success and win out or do you think the LLMs in generally are just hitting their peaks?
Your point on power usage is interesting, although I think that is mostly on training not usage correct?
You have indeed read a bunch, but I'm not sure if you see the bias. They all already share the conclusion.
I realize I'm shouting into the wind here as it's the internet, but I'd ask to add three books to your book list. These three come at the question from different angles and don't all agree with each other, which is kind of the point.
The Hungry Brain - Stephan Guyenet (2017)
Spoon-Fed - Tim Spector (2020)
Fiber Fueled - Will Bulsiewicz (2020)
There are some articles I would suggest you could read in leui of the books:
This one in particular is interesting as it regards Gary Taubes, who you seem to favor, and the organization he create and which rebutted his conclusions.
The first study NuSI funded was a meticulous eight-week pilot trial, led by Hall, to see if a very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diet causes a meaningful increase in calorie expenditure vs. a calorie-matched standard American diet with more than tenfold the sugar. Volunteers were kept in a research facility where every morsel they ate was controlled. The study design was agreed upon in advance by both the researchers and NuSI, and the diets were designed by low-carbohydrate diet researcher Jeff Volek, PhD, RD. According to Taubes, calorie intake is virtually irrelevant and insulin is everything, so his hypothesis predicts large and obvious differences in calorie expenditure and fat loss between diet periods, despite equal calories. The results showed little effect of the ketogenic diet on calorie expenditure, and an initial slowing of fat loss, despite a large and persistent decline in insulin secretion.
This one directly takes down some of the underlying carb insulin model.
And this well publized and reviewed study of inpatient controlled diets. The low-fat group spontaneously ate about 700 fewer calories per day. This is directly at odds with what your matrix predicts. Hall et al., Nature Medicine (2021)
Having said all of this, I'm entirely in favor of deep dives into topics. I appreciate that you have done some extensive reading if it is fairly narrow. Keep at it and keep learning!
Your entire perspective is a question mark as saying fiber isn't food is odd. You are conflating "not directly caloric" with "not needed." Fiber is not digested by human enzymes, but it is fermented by gut bacteria into short-chain fatty acids like butyrate, propionate, and acetate. Those SCFAs are metabolically active compounds that feed the cells lining your colon, regulate immune responses, and influence inflammation. Calling that "not food" and "not needed" ignores an entire metabolic pathway.
Also it increasing constipation is only true in a very specific set of circumstances. In most cases it would be fair to say it reduces constipation.
I would suggest reading Michael Pollan's Omnivore and some other books before running down this path.
Also what's the whole insufferable at parties column and why does it have a bearing on diets? Are you being objective or subjective here?
I gather they didn't pass the bill, but journalism today is painful when I can't clearly and easily understand if they did or didn't pass the bill, nor what actually happened over the overnight wrangling.
Also worth remembering that Crime in the US is at a near low overall. Violent crime is at a historic low, while non-violent crime is also low with the exception of retail theft. https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/violent-crime-falls-at-historic-rate-new-fbi-data-show
So less money for Police, more for Mental health professionals, as that is a huge percentage of their callouts. But why would politicians want to keep people off the streets by a universal income, and gainfully employed and healthy... oh wait bureaucratic inertia and campaign finance corruption... 🤦
I mean this is a shipost....
Is Europe squinting evilly?
Ukraine's longest strike so far is about 2,500 km and this is around 3,500 km. I wonder of the FP5 will start getting an upgrade or a mothership and hit this?
https://cani.rootmy.tv/
https://www.webosbrew.org/
While it's better than the stagnant US defence industry is able to put out right now, with it's inherent interia in building big tech things like the F-35, it would be hard to fully justify the "China’s first domestically developed heavy military transport."
A. Su Bin guilty plea relating to Boeing's espionage shows some design data was stolen, including the the c-17.
B. They consulted with Ukraine's Antonov design bureau, which is above board, but also indicates design help.
C. The D-30KP-2 engines were Russian until recently.
Which isn't to say that the Chinese manufacturing machine isn't going to win big if it comes to a prolong war. Just like all propaganda though, it should be verify.
What students? They've been shutting down school because they have no students to teach. They are on the leading edge of a demographic trend the 'developed' world will soon see.
You don't use the simplelogin (now part of proton pass) random or custom address generation? You can use your own custom domain with it.
I've been doing this with nearly every new account as it's normally email or phone which third party data sharing is keyed off of.
An ironic twist to the tragedy of the commons.
Separately, you should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State and look at the context of why things are unfamiliar in the first place.
Details?
Requisite link directly talking about this:
The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w
Erica's original hypothesis was that violence was more successful, but was convinced to do research on the topic and found that while it does work, nonviolence on a mass scale is more effective.
The two papers:
Original. https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Why-Civil-Resistance-Works..The-Strategic-Logic-of-Nonviolent-Conflict.pdf
Updated. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/questions-answers-and-some-cautionary-updates-regarding-35-rule
JFC... What a surreal damned world. That's ludicrous, but if you look at what Trump say or does is doesn't even come close.
I asked Sonnet why should or shouldn't trust a PACT, For what that is worth:
It does seem worth looking into the setup of this, as I admit too a healthy amount of skepticism, but a bunch of people gave it some thought and some of the choices don't look like money grubbing corporate ones.
This is a La Nina for comparison: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/node/435
https://youtu.be/6bnUnkGwwTI
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1-pia26710-el-niNo-enso-20260302-20260518-web.mp4
I'd be curious why you think LLMs are dead ending? Is it that you think the Jepa models are likely to find success and win out or do you think the LLMs in generally are just hitting their peaks?
Your point on power usage is interesting, although I think that is mostly on training not usage correct?
You have indeed read a bunch, but I'm not sure if you see the bias. They all already share the conclusion.
I realize I'm shouting into the wind here as it's the internet, but I'd ask to add three books to your book list. These three come at the question from different angles and don't all agree with each other, which is kind of the point.
There are some articles I would suggest you could read in leui of the books:
https://www.stephanguyenet.com/nutrition-science-initiative-nusi-in-retrospect/
This one in particular is interesting as it regards Gary Taubes, who you seem to favor, and the organization he create and which rebutted his conclusions.
https://www.stephanguyenet.com/why-the-carbohydrate-insulin-model-of-obesity-is-probably-wrong-a-supplementary-reply-to-ebbeling-and-ludwigs-jama-article/
This one directly takes down some of the underlying carb insulin model.
And this well publized and reviewed study of inpatient controlled diets. The low-fat group spontaneously ate about 700 fewer calories per day. This is directly at odds with what your matrix predicts. Hall et al., Nature Medicine (2021)
Having said all of this, I'm entirely in favor of deep dives into topics. I appreciate that you have done some extensive reading if it is fairly narrow. Keep at it and keep learning!
Your entire perspective is a question mark as saying fiber isn't food is odd. You are conflating "not directly caloric" with "not needed." Fiber is not digested by human enzymes, but it is fermented by gut bacteria into short-chain fatty acids like butyrate, propionate, and acetate. Those SCFAs are metabolically active compounds that feed the cells lining your colon, regulate immune responses, and influence inflammation. Calling that "not food" and "not needed" ignores an entire metabolic pathway.
Also it increasing constipation is only true in a very specific set of circumstances. In most cases it would be fair to say it reduces constipation.
I would suggest reading Michael Pollan's Omnivore and some other books before running down this path.
Also what's the whole insufferable at parties column and why does it have a bearing on diets? Are you being objective or subjective here?
I gather they didn't pass the bill, but journalism today is painful when I can't clearly and easily understand if they did or didn't pass the bill, nor what actually happened over the overnight wrangling.