Maybe our cutest launch so far. But still packing the biggest punch.

DESMONTANDO EL RELATO IZQUIERDISTA SOBRE EL CASO DE MARICARMEN Maricarmen, una anciana de 87 años, vivía en un piso de la calle Sainz de Baranda, en el barrio del Retiro, una de las mejores zonas de Madrid. Se mudó allí en 1956, con 17 años, junto a su familia, gracias a que su padre consiguió un contrato de arrendamiento franquista de los denominados hoy como de renta antigua. Tras la muerte de su padre, hacia 1960, siguió viviendo con su madre. Desde 2005, al fallecer esta, residía sola y era responsable de pagar un alquiler de renta antigua, muy por debajo del precio de mercado. La ley solo permite permanecer de forma indefinida al titular original y a quien se subroga en primer lugar. Esa primera subrogación correspondió a su madre tras el fallecimiento del padre. La de Maricarmen fue la segunda y esta solo daba derecho a dos años, salvo que existiera una discapacidad superior al 65 %, circunstancia que ella no cumple. Es decir, Maricarmen, que trabajó durante cuarenta y nueve años como auxiliar administrativa hasta 1998 y cuya pensión actualmente ronda los 1450 euros, ha tenido más de veinte años para buscar un nuevo lugar donde vivir, pero simplemente no ha querido. Ella quería quedarse pagando 440 euros por un piso en el barrio del Retiro de 92 metros cuadrados, que disponía de tres habitaciones, salón, cocina, baño y un cuarto de servicio. Para hacerse una idea, por un piso de tres habitaciones y unos 94 metros cuadrados en la misma calle se piden 2950 euros al mes. Un primo de Maricarmen le ha ofrecido su casa para que se quede, pero se ha negado. También ha rechazado la plaza de emergencia gratuita en una residencia que le ofrecía el Ayuntamiento de Madrid. El caso de Maricarmen es un caso de caradurismo apoyado en las políticas de la dictadura franquista para vivir en una de las mejores zonas de Madrid sin pagar lo que corresponde por ello, en lugar de trasladarse simplemente a una zona más barata.

Horrifying On that note, it's $Cream

Frequent video gamers performed on cognitive tests like non-gamers that were ~13.7 years younger

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Mercator is a new router for agentic tool calls powered by MPP and Tempo. It helps your agent string together multiple paid tools to accomplish its task. Check it out at: mercator.sh

What happened to Instinct? Went from a 11/10 product to 4/10.

The Alpha school stans in my mentions kind of remind me of the crypto days where laser eye people would be all over any opportunity to pump bitcoin

I dislike the recent trend of people who clearly continue to believe >80% of the core effective altruist beliefs disavow EA and say "oh we're definitely not that, we're [rebrand]" purely strategically, purely because they sense that dunking on EA is "cool" now. It's much more honorable to just come out and say "yes, that was our intellectual upbringing and those continue to be our core values, and also here are specific points where we disagree, and here's our argument for why we think for those specific points are the subset of EA that causes what you perceive to be the problem with the whole thing". And so with that I will say: Yes, effective altruism was a significant part of my intellectual upbringing and its core values of care for others, cosmopolitanism and rigor around effective resource allocation continue to be very important to me. And also here are specific points where I disagree with what I think is the subset of that style of thought that has backfired in the largest ways: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…

you might be the first person talking about the data over the architecture! 🥲 we consider ourselves a data research lab! the vast vast vast majority of research was on making data that is truly general (ala a cognitive core) and 100% of our data is synthetic (but not the type of crap that is just spit out from an LLM obviously)

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personal AI assistants are worth trying for everyday tasks. i’d be more cautious with company work, where a failed action can affect customers. i wrote about the race for users, the burden of keeping these assistants running, and what production use requires. gidorah.substack.com/p/perso…

i honestly can not believe this worked as well as it did. i took the box from a curio toy (ESP32-S3 voice + speaker), bought a 30$ ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD from amazon. plugged them into my laptop and started a pi session with gpt-sol and asked to create an assistant that uses gemini-live, with an animated face. the 2 devices are not even connected, messages are sent via wifi. agents.md and memory.md save on the boards sd card so the assistant has context. what a time to be alive.