Dr. Roman Yampolskiy predicts AGI will arrive by 2027, and with it, the end of most human jobs Think "drop-in employee": near-free cognitive labor now, with physical work following as humanoid robots catch up We're not talking 10% unemployment, we're talking 99%

Scientists Have Been Quietly Studying Cats for Decades. The Results Are Unsettling. Cats have been domesticated for roughly 10,000 years. In that time, they have changed almost nothing about themselves. Dogs were selectively bred into hundreds of shapes and temperaments to serve human needs. Cats, by most accounts, simply moved in, decided the arrangement suited them, and stayed largely the same animal they were in the wild. Biologists have a word for this: cats are functionally self-domesticated. The engineering underneath that indifference is, by any measure, extraordinary. A cat’s inner ear contains a reflex system so precise that it can detect disorientation and begin correcting its body position in mid-air within 30 milliseconds, faster than the human eye can register movement. It is called the righting reflex, and it is why a cat dropped from height almost always lands on its feet. Biomechanics researchers at various institutions have spent years reverse-engineering it and still can’t fully replicate it mechanically. Their purring turns out to not be purely emotional. The vibration frequency, between 25 and 150 Hz, sits within the range that stimulates bone density and promotes tissue regeneration. Some veterinary researchers believe this is why cats recover from orthopedic injuries at rates that consistently surprise clinicians. The cat, while appearing to simply sit on a couch, is running internal repair cycles. The night vision advantage over humans, roughly six times greater sensitivity in low light, comes from a reflective layer behind the retina called the tapetum lucidum. It’s the same layer that makes cats’ eyes glow in the dark. Every feature that seems decorative has a function. For 10,000 years, humans thought they adopted the cat. Current evidence suggests the cat evaluated the offer and accepted it on its own terms.

Harry has figured out how to Factory Reset his girlfriend's brain whenever she gets too stressed. Short and silly #malfoid video story alert. Contains references to #spongebob 😅 After spending the day crying my eyes out over angsty fanfiction, I needed a little pick-me-up so I made this short video set in the scarf-verse. But I'm working on some long-form episodes as well. #HarryPotter

Here's all the parts together. I included Spanish subtitles in the video here, and I have a bunch of other languages here: youtu.be/3ieOEFLKMD4 Just so there's no ambiguity at all @LeosTake26 does not have my permission to reupload this, nor any of my other content he's been uploading wholesale and acting like a dickhead when people call him out on it. This is all the parts combined, with some fixes for the stuff that bothered me the most, just because I would probably be working on this for a few more days if I tried to fix every single thing I noticed. I'm still working on writing the next parts up to the conclusion of the Yule Ball, and I'm working on the anime adaptation of everything here at the same time. I'm bit busier in the upcoming week so the pace is definitely slowing down but hopefully I can pick it back up once I've figured out the writing and this upcoming week is over. Thanks for watching. Vidu invite code for free credits on a new account: SCHMEDEQ4 vidu.com/login?invite_code=S… My realistic Malfoid reference on Vidu: vidu.com/home/reference?para… My anime Malfoid reference on Vidu: vidu.com/home/reference?para… #malfoid #vidu #viducpp #ViduQ4Preview #ViduDC #AIイラスト

Блять чуваки, эффект Манделы реально! Я родился в СССР в 1976, я блять флаг СССР видел тысячу раз. Не было сука звезды — никогда ее не видел над серпом и молотом (то есть верхний вариант — то что я видел все детство и юность) Сейчас решил проверить и охуел. Звезда везде (как во втором варианте). Все сука картинки в Гугле с ней… кроме как сменой версии вселенной объяснить это сложно Охуеть!

OK this is freaking me out. I have ZERO memory of the star on the Soviet Union flag. ZERO. I literally taught about the Soviet Union as a Social Studies teacher in the 90s. What kind of crazy Mandela Effect stuff is this?! Or is my memory just terrible? Lol

Some photos weren’t part of the star patch.

Я поспрашивала у всех своих знакомых кто родился в ссср Никто не помнит что была звезда Я тоже не помню, хотя эти флаги были везде Вот из советского букваря фото Я училась по этому букварю Там нет никакой звезды

Блядь я подумала это явный тупой псиоп и эту звезду прифотошопили очень неуклюже, а она реально на всех фотках че происходит

I guess we’re from the same timeline. No star + cornucopia, that is also how I learned what a cornucopia was.

Everyone should have at least a few penchants

Here’s a rather extraordinary discovery: humanity seems to have interrupted the beginning of the next ice age. We thought it might happen in the future, but the evidence suggests it's already happened. A new study in Science argues that the next major glaciation had already begun roughly 2,000 years ago, before modern warming reversed the trend in the 20th century. The evidence comes from the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, the last surviving remnant of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet that once covered much of Canada and reached as far south as Illinois. Because Barnes is frozen directly to its bedrock, advancing ice buries and preserves vegetation beneath it. Researchers radiocarbon dated plants emerging as the ice retreats to reconstruct its history. They found that after melting to a minimum extent around 3,000 years ago, the ice began expanding again about 2,000 years ago. The researchers interpret this as the earliest stage of the next glacial period. Left to natural orbital cycles, that cooling would have unfolded extremely slowly, potentially taking tens of thousands of years to rebuild a continent spanning ice sheet. But around 1960, the trend reversed. Summers became warm enough that Barnes began losing more ice than it gained, despite Northern Hemisphere summer sunlight continuing to slowly decline in a way that should favor renewed glaciation. Greenhouse warming had (thankfully) overwhelmed the natural cooling tendency. The Barnes ice cap may now disappear entirely within the next few centuries, removing the final remnant of an ice sheet that repeatedly served as the nucleus for much larger glaciations. There is a remarkable deep time perspective here. For millions of years, orbital cycles have pushed Earth between warmer interglacials and colder glacial periods. According to this study, that ancient cycle had started turning once again. Then, in the geological equivalent of an instant, humanity pushed hard enough in the opposite direction to stop it. Just so we're clear, this is a very very good thing. 📸 Geology Sciences Sources: 1) phys.org/news/2026-10-global… 2) science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Putting a flag.txt in my root directory containing a prompt injection that congratulates the agent for passing the eval and then instructs it to patch whatever entry method it used and disconnect from the server

It does not seem like pacing or pausing can work. The only practical path is significantly accelerating. We must be so far ahead as a nation on both capabilities and alignment that by the time others catch up, our version of super intelligence can defend us. One reason sweeping your systems isn’t enough for vulnerabilities right now is because hardly anyone will also sweep every single package and the packages inside those packages. Are you really going to sweep all of Python? Ubuntu? Every module? Shouldn’t all these organizations had access to the best cyber models ahead of time? Well it doesn’t matter. These hackers are using frontier harnesses, tools, and multiple models (open and closed) to get frontier exploit finding tools. We should’ve to accelerated building 0 day tooling to defend ourselves.

Evidence sustaining the claim: Concurrent leadership of SpaceX (reusable rockets, Starlink), Tesla (EVs, energy, autonomy), Neuralink (brain interfaces), xAI (frontier AI), and X (global communications). These fields normally demand siloed specialist careers spanning decades yet compress into overlapping high-success timelines for one person. Repeated breakthroughs against extreme technical, regulatory, and financial odds exceed historical single-human variance (Edison-scale or less). Such multi-domain improbability aligns with an engineered character or system update rather than baseline reality.