I made this with one prompt using Opus 5.5 I spoke to my computer for 5mins, claude worked for 12 hours, and I woke up to this full prompt:

no significant deliverables from the trump-xi summit. but the most extraordinary photo (via chip somodevilla)

#Trump's (who has “Pearl-Harbor-On-The-Brain”) decision to play into communist #China's recent rhetoric regarding #Japanese rearmament—by reopening 80-year-old World War II wounds and falsely claiming the US aligned as “allies” with the People's Republic of China against imperial Japan—has gone over like a ton of bricks in Tokyo, and for good reason. His reckless rhetoric continues to alienate the key 21st century allies America desperately needs around the globe.(深層News)

September 24, 1991, 35 years ago today, was an absolutely insane day for music releases.

The AI consciousness debate is back again, so re-upping my case for taking it seriously. In short, - LLMs converge on brain-like structures; - Post-training seems to install a self-model; - Reward modeling seems to install valences for inner-alignment; - If Attention Schema Theory is right, subjectivity is functional for long-horizon coherence and in-context learning; - Universality gives prima facie reason to expect functional convergence to consciousness if consciousness is in fact functional, i.e. isn't purely epiphenomenal - The "what it is like" / first-person aspect of consciousness is constitutive of its functionality for inner-aligning a unified, coherent agent with the capacity to attend and learn in-context secondbest.ca/p/time-to-take…

If you think that LLMs are performing at the intellectual level of human beings, make that claim on twitter and observe how the human beings flock in and demonstrate their actual intellectual level; it's quite depressing, really

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

Border Czar Tom Homan, following the death of the 58th person in ICE custody: We're not gonna apologize. You can hate us all you want; we're not going anywhere. ICE will continue, you got my word!" Do you still need another reason to vote these sadistic maniacs out of office?

Let's be very clear on this one point. The President mocking a former President in front of the communist leader of China is the most un-American thing an American president has ever done.

Everything that’s wrong with this world is the handiwork of this embittered decrepit piece of shit.

That same day, a plane from China landed in Tehran, carrying a shipment for Iran’s Ministry of Defense that included electronics components for drones and missile guidance systems, according to Iranian customs data analyzed by The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/politics/china-iran-…

I watched all of this happen in real time, totally dumbfounded by the bizarre and stupid turn of events. People, a democracy doesn’t work if its citizenry is willfully ignorant and uninformed.

The Chinese First Lady is more fluent in English than the American First Lady.

Great work so basically if we only relied on AI talent educated in the US entirely we would have 1/3 the AI talent as China. Thanks to immigrants from all over the world, we are closer to parity. I assume Europe here includes Russians ?

Imagine making fun of a former American head of state who is battling cancer, so you can cozy up to an authoritarian dictator. Despicable.

A Red Carpet Down the Wrong Road If I didn’t know better, I’d think Trump was setting a brilliant trap for Xi Jinping: shower him with so much praise that he feels encouraged to keep wrecking China’s economy. After Trump’s retreat from the tariff war, this extravagant reception could reinforce Xi’s conviction that he has been right all along. Why else would Trump back down and now show me such respect? Xi is steering China towards more production and exports, weaker household consumption, and deeper imbalances. Advanced manufacturing generates impressive output but fewer jobs per unit of production, while falling property prices and weak incomes keep consumption depressed. Beijing’s answer? Build more infrastructure. Its “six networks”—water, power, computing, communications, underground utilities and logistics—are being accelerated to keep its economy on track. Reported estimates put investment in these and related areas are budgeted at roughly 26 trillion yuan (US$3.9 trillion) during 2026–2030, including around 7 trillion yuan (US$1.04 trillion) this year alone. As if China didn’t already have enough underused infrastructure. 🥳 That can get banks lending and GDP moving again. But it perpetuates the same investment dependence that China needs to escape. More money flows into construction and productive capacity while household purchasing power weakens. The result is a country increasingly capable of making things its own people cannot afford to buy—and increasingly dependent on foreigners to absorb the surplus. Trump’s applause could help Xi mistake diplomatic recognition for economic vindication. Trump doesn’t need to build the trap. Xi is building it himself. He just needs a little more encouragement from the White House.

Xi doesn't give af about Trump's military flyovers. He knows China is eating America's lunch, and he knows he has the upper hand with this unstable clown.

UPDATE: AIs have achieved the highest *possible* score on the Mensa Norway IQ test - 151 3 years ago: cognitively impaired human (64 IQ) 2 years ago: average human 1 year ago: genius human Today: literally off the charts Next year?

🚨 Virginia passes bill requiring access to water and shade for workers. Every Republican voted no.