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  1. I believe he got a timeout after a shrimp on a treadmill post too far.
  2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-needs-to-stop-now-elon-musk-confirms-radical-doge-us-treasury-plan/ ‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan Musk, the Tesla billionaire-turned-government-cost-cutter, is leading the so-called Doge department of government efficiency, proposed by Trump’s Commerce department nominee Howard Lutnick to “rip the waste out of our $6.5 trillion budget.” Now, as fears emerge Trump’s administration is “dangerously” undermining the U.S. dollar, Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—including Musk’s pet project dogecoin. "Career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress," Musk posted to X, referencing part of the United States code which outlines how some government payments are approved. “This needs to stop now!” Replying to X influencer Mario Nawfal who asked: "Should the Treasury be put on the blockchain so this doesn’t happen," Musk replied: “Yes!” Earlier, the New York Times reported Trump’s Treasury secretary Scott Bessent handed Doge department officials access to the payment system which sends out money to the tune of $5 trillion per year on behalf of the entire federal government on Friday, citing anonymous sources. Last week, Musk held discussions about using the blockchain technology to save money, it was reported by Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources. Unnamed people close to Musk told the financial newswire that there's been talk of using a blockchain to track federal spending, secure data, make payments and manage buildings. It is unclear if Musk plans on using an existing blockchain, such as bitcoin's, ethereum's, dogecoin's or one of thousands of smaller blockchains which have their own cryptocurrencies, or if he would rather create a new, purpose built blockchain. Following Musk's take over of Twitter, which he then renamed X, Musk also debated adding blockchain technology to the platform before ditching the idea, text messages between Musk and his brother Kimbal revealed in 2022. The Doge department is a nod to the shiba inu doge meme that's also linked to the dogecoin cryptocurrency, named by Musk as his "favorite" cryptocurrency and accepted as payment by his Tesla car company. The dogecoin price has rocketed higher following Trump’s election victory, surging along with the bitcoin price, as traders bet Musk's proximity to the U.S. president will further boost the meme-based cryptocurrency. In his first week back in the White House Trump followed through on his campaign promises to make overhauling crypto policy one of his administration's priorities, ordering the creation of a cryptocurrency working group tasked with proposing new regulations and exploring the creation of a national cryptocurrency stockpile. Trump’s crypto and artificial intelligence czar, venture capitalist David Sacks, will chair the group, with Sacks—an early investor in the ethereum rival cryptocurrency solana—praised by Trump who later toldFox Business Trump's actions showed he is following through on his promise to make the U.S. the "crypto capital" of the world, something Trump also told World Economic Forum attendees in Davos.
  3. Where the fuck are the videos of dipshits being tazed? This thread sucks.
  4. Yep, the mother of all shorts and then being put in a position to ensure the short pays off.
  5. So now the sandy vagina is gone, this needs more attention. Does anyone feel great about a billionaire crypto bro mucking around in the internals of the U.S. treasury? That reputable financial news orgs are reporting concerns about damage to the U.S. dollar? That there is no transparency or accountability to what is going on?
  6. Not gonna lie, I am looking forward to Trump's nickname for a democrat named Schatz.
  7. Poor kid, and there will be a lot like them. This is exactly what we ran into Texas via the TEA back in 2014 that prompted our move to Colorado. Texas ultimately got bitch slapped in the courts by the US dept of education, which now seems to be on the hit list. Union official says Education Department employees were placed on leave after taking diversity training during Trump’s first term Dozens of employees who attended a diversity training course that former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos encouraged during President Donald Trump’s first administration have been placed on paid leave as part of Trump’s targeting of DEI programs, a union official told NBC News. Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents hundreds of Education Department employees, said that at least 55 employees had been placed on leave as of Friday evening and that she expected the number to grow as she learns more. The affected workers included a public affairs specialist, civil rights attorneys, program manager analysts, loan regulators and employees working to ensure schools accommodate special needs children with individualized education programs. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/union-official-education-department-employees-leave-dei-training-rcna190337
  8. Elon: You’ll have to pardon me, I have to go sneak into the back door of the White House to dismantle the United States government. Conspiracy theorists: have you heard Trump is releasing all the JFK, RFK and MLK files?! SCORE!
  9. Well, if Canada becomes part of the U.S., the Fentanyl they are sending here no longer streams across our northern border. It becomes locally sourced U.S. fentanyl. We solve the northern border fentanyl crisis and bring industry back from abroad. Well played. Russia and China are on the clock for their own imperialistic desires.
  10. “We turned off the Fentanyl faucets from the north”
  11. Without mentioning the T word, what are the goals of these tariff policies? What are we trying to accomplish? What is the argument that tit for tat tariffs with Canada and Mexico are in someone's best interest?
  12. RFK Jr looks like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs if he targeted octogenarians from Florida to make his skin suit out of.
  13. No One: Trump Voters: SESAME STREET GROOMED MY KIDS TO BE FURRIES!!!
  14. I could play air guitar with those.
  15. All these budget brands have their place, but I have owned 3 Harley Bentons, and they a project to get playing/sounding great. Better than not having a guitar if that's what your budget is. But if you want it to play and sound great, you'll have some work to do and/or money to spend. You can get a great guitar that isn't a project beyond a setup in the $500-$800 range. If you start with a $200 budget guitar and need to put $300 worth of electronics/luthier labor into it to play and sound like a $1000 guitar, why not buy a used Reverend or PRS SE for roughly the same amount and just set it up and play? I get some people love the tinkerers aspect and the sweat equity they put into making a cheap guitar great, but I decided I'd rather just play.
  16. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/29/on-deepseek-and-export-controls/#atom-everything On DeepSeek and Export Controls. Anthropic CEO (and previously GPT-2/GPT-3 development lead at OpenAI) Dario Amodei's essay about DeepSeek includes a lot of interesting background on the last few years of AI development. Dario was one of the authors on the original scaling laws paper back in 2020, and he talks at length about updated ideas around scaling up training: The field is constantly coming up with ideas, large and small, that make things more effective or efficient: it could be an improvement to the architecture of the model (a tweak to the basic Transformer architecture that all of today's models use) or simply a way of running the model more efficiently on the underlying hardware. New generations of hardware also have the same effect. What this typically does is shift the curve: if the innovation is a 2x "compute multiplier" (CM), then it allows you to get 40% on a coding task for $5M instead of $10M; or 60% for $50M instead of $100M, etc. He argues that DeepSeek v3, while impressive, represented an expected evolution of models based on current scaling laws. [...] even if you take DeepSeek's training cost at face value, they are on-trend at best and probably not even that. For example this is less steep than the original GPT-4 to Claude 3.5 Sonnet inference price differential (10x), and 3.5 Sonnet is a better model than GPT-4. All of this is to say that DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough or something that fundamentally changes the economics of LLM's; it's an expected point on an ongoing cost reduction curve. What's different this time is that the company that was first to demonstrate the expected cost reductions was Chinese. Dario includes details about Claude 3.5 Sonnet that I've not seen shared anywhere before: Claude 3.5 Sonnet cost "a few $10M's to train" 3.5 Sonnet "was not trained in any way that involved a larger or more expensive model (contrary to some rumors)" - I've seen those rumors, they involved Sonnet being a distilled version of a larger, unreleased 3.5 Opus. Sonnet's training was conducted "9-12 months ago" - that would be roughly between January and April 2024. If you ask Sonnet about its training cut-off it tells you "April 2024" - that's surprising, because presumably the cut-off should be at the start of that training period? The general message here is that the advances in DeepSeek v3 fit the general trend of how we would expect modern models to improve, including that notable drop in training price. Dario is less impressed by DeepSeek R1, calling it "much less interesting from an innovation or engineering perspective than V3". I enjoyed this footnote: I suspect one of the principal reasons R1 gathered so much attention is that it was the first model to show the user the chain-of-thought reasoning that the model exhibits (OpenAI's o1 only shows the final answer). DeepSeek showed that users find this interesting. To be clear this is a user interface choice and is not related to the model itself. The rest of the piece argues for continued export controls on chips to China, on the basis that if future AI unlocks "extremely rapid advances in science and technology" the US needs to get their first, due to his concerns about "military applications of the technology".
  17. Interesting... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/we-tried-out-deepseek-it-works-well-until-we-asked-it-about-tiananmen-square-and-taiwan
  18. I am sorry for your loss, Brisket. I lost my dad in 2005 and my mom in 2022. It's very, very weird being parentless. To not have those giants in your corner any more, and to think it is now your responsibility to somehow fill their void in the world. I can't say anything to make it easier. I would just urge you to not rush whatever grieving process you need to go through. And I would think about a fishing trip for next Father's Day, someplace in solitude, so you can be alone with your dad.
  19. Soaking in water helps to bring out the starch so they fry up crisper.
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