Tsar Samuil rebuilt a Bulgarian state when the empire seemed lost. From Ohrid he held lands from the Danube to the Adriatic and restored the Bulgarian Patriarchate. A ruler who refused to surrender the idea of Bulgaria.
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Best vagus nerve activation technique I have come across in my 35 year quest for Harmony and Balance. Do 3 to 5 rounds. Bhramari Pranayama — the “bee breath,” a humming/buzzing breathing practice used to calm and focus the mind. Brahmacharya — the wise direction and

useful 2009 @mercatus paper by Robert Higgs: "The Political Economy of Crisis Opportunism" we find ourselves in a moment of "crisis opportunism" with AI fears running wild today. mercatus.org/research/policy…

The claude folks should just own this 🤣

David Friedberg: Obama Doesn’t Understand AI and He’s Making Prosperity Political President Obama last week: “If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI. That's a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing.” @friedberg: “These words honestly just, they made me, like, emotionally distressed that if he's a leader that people listen to and he doesn't really articulate accurately what's going on, it's sad that we've lost the plot. I think it's sad that we aren't all kind of holding hands saying, ‘My God, the future is here, and we all get to leap forward, and we get to bring people up.’ For years, Obama orated beautifully about the importance of bringing people up, about giving people the opportunity to progress, about letting people advance themselves. And there's never been a more equalizing technology, a better economic opportunity for prosperity for everyone than these technologies, than these tools. And to hand wave the word agentic and say we don't need agentic AI to solve cancer shows how little he actually understands how this technology works and how it's all become just a shorthand for a political fight to what? What are you fighting for? What is the political battle that says, ‘I am going to leave half the population behind, and I'm going to make an argument against prosperity for all, in order to make my party look like a morally superior party, and to cast the other side as bad when the other side has literally discovered fire and the world now has fire, and we're going to go take water and throw it on the fire.’ No one gets fire because the other guys are saying that fire is good.”

Her comments are not random. This is part of a well funded and carefully organized campaign to demonize open models and our civil liberties in DC. Multiple Senate staffers have told me that outside groups are requesting meetings to provide “demonstrations” where open source models are used to attack simulated hospital websites and demand bitcoin as ransom. These are cheap scare tactics funded by groups seeking to control open systems. In reality, cyber defenders rely on open models daily to find critical vulnerabilities before attackers get there first. If these groups are successful, we will all be poorer, less free, and more vulnerable to adversaries with increasingly capable systems.

We're used to thinking of open-source models as an unadulterated good. But in the case of AI, they can actually pose additional dangers, as @ReidHoffman and I got into at #CGI2026. I appreciated this nuanced discussion.

AI is powerful enough to kill a billion people if it falls into the wrong hands, Bill Gates has warned, as the Microsoft co-founder urged tougher government regulation of the technology. ft.trib.al/apO3uEU

I'm back.

Yes. Claude is a sociopath.

Genuinely this guy is just evil personified to me at this point Do not trust him or a single word that comes out of his mouth

Where has snow fallen at any point since 1940?

High speed rail would make it the best coast in the world.