The AI jobs topic is uninspiring. If people have the machines and raw inputs for food, shelter, community, and meaning, compensation for labor becomes a non-issue. Scarcity need not become obsolete. #AI #Automated #jobloss #developer

The newest painting in the Louvre. “The Girl with the Suicidal Empathy.” Oil on canvas. Go see it while the Louvre is still standing.

While entertainment is often paired with modern educational content, the entertainment and educational industries are very different. Internet-native entertainment has reproduced updated versions of many of the same entertainment formats seen in age of television. Specifically, YouTubers like Mr. Beast rediscovered the game show. Innumerable podcasters like How Money Works have rediscovered journalism. Entertainment has tried-and-true formats that tap into something deep in human psychology. That industry has been largely mapped. An educational revolution is long overdue, though closer than ever in the era of the personalized AI tutor. Educational content has undergone a partial revolution with @brilliant as perhaps the most notable educational enrichment platform. However, measuring and optimizing skill attainment is a thornier question than casual consumption of unfamiliar topics. That is where human skill development will start to take off. #Education #EducaciónPública #EducaciónPública #AI

The look of someone discovering reality. This young woman stood in front of a smashed shop window in Paris last night and said the smashing and looting are not what the cause is about. She still believes the people who broke the glass share her cause. They don’t. They have their own. This is not how she imagined it. It has a name: cognitive dissonance – the pain of watching reality contradict what you were told to believe. She learned it last night, in pain. Millions of others will learn it in the coming months – the same way. Because reality doesn’t need the media. It comes through the window. We were right all along.👇🏻 And they were wrong. So will they admit it now, and let go of their delusions? Or will they double down? In 1954, an American psychologist infiltrated a small cult that had predicted the end of the world on a precise date. The date came. Nothing happened. Did the believers give up? The most committed did the opposite: they started preaching harder than ever. That is what most true believers will do. Admitting the error would cost them their friends, their careers and their image of themselves. So they will blame the police, the "far right," the economy, the weather – anything but the idea. For them to change their minds, their whole system will have to collapse – the salaries, the institutions, the friends who all think alike. Belief survives as long as the group survives. We have seen it before: in 1989, when the system fell, Poland’s communists woke up one morning as social democrats – and a good number of them as businessmen. But the believers are not the audience. The people watching are. Reality rarely converts the priests. It converts the congregation – one broken window at a time. And yesterday was much more than a broken window. A day like that must have opened the eyes of millions. Events like that change history. The priests will keep preaching. The congregation has already started to leave.

J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver. Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître. Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France. La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.

Once you see that the people dismissing Tesla are the same kinds of people running our cultural institutions, the decline of those institutions over the past 10 years makes a lot more sense.

Minimalist formal education is the future. On the high end, the Thiel Fellowship and Horowitz Andreesen Academy will pick the cream of the crop. Even without the extreme talent level of students who would qualify for those programs, education can take many lessons. Namely, 1) short-term apprenticeships with practitioners in a field 2) introducing the least formal instruction and training which allows 3) students to learn on the fly 4) with the earliest and fullest introduction to productive work in a safe and supportive environment #Education #EducaciónPública #educacion #horowitzandreesenacademy

Muslims have never assimilated peacefully in 1,400 years. Socialism has never worked in 200 years. And you want to vote for both?

The glee business people seem to take in replacing software developers with AI can be understood in contrast to the lack of similar sentiment toward other professionals. If your communication with others is immediately harsh, grating, hostile, judgmental, arrogant, and condescending, don’t be surprised when they want you gone. #AI #Automation

The definition of tyranny is unrestrained desires enforced absolutely. #politics

In modern America, nothing is more radicalizing than a locked off tripod shot of a random intersection in NYC from 80 years ago.

Let’s say Jevon’s paradox holds. Humans do work higher up the abstraction ladder. Imagine a world where one’s vocation is Civilizational Engineer. That is the kind of future I can look forward to. #AI #Automated

Je vais dire quelque chose qui risque de déplaire à beaucoup de monde, mais tant pis. Je crois qu’une partie de notre société est en train de perdre quelque chose de bien plus grave que sa compétitivité économique. Elle est en train de perdre sa capacité à rêver. Hier, Tesla a présenté une démonstration spectaculaire autour d’une voiture capable de quitter le sol. Un prototype, certes, pas encore la voiture volante de Retour vers le futur. Mais quand même, bordel. On parle de technologies qui semblaient relever de la science-fiction quand nous étions gamins. Et ce matin, en regardant certaines réactions françaises, qu’est-ce que je découvre ? « Ça sert à rien. » « Musk est un raciste. » « Ça ne règle pas les problèmes de recharge. » « Ça n’efface pas ses saluts nazis. » Mais sérieusement, qu’est-ce qui nous est arrivé ? À quel moment avons-nous perdu cette âme d’enfant qui nous faisait ouvrir grand les yeux devant une invention ? Et le plus triste dans tout ça, c’est qu’on semble avoir oublié notre propre histoire. La France, c’est le pays des frères Lumière, qui ont contribué à faire naître le cinéma. C’est le pays de Louis Pasteur, dont les travaux ont révolutionné la microbiologie et la vaccination. C’est le pays de Nicéphore Niépce, pionnier de la photographie. C’est le pays des frères Montgolfier, qui ont envoyé l’être humain dans les airs à bord d’une montgolfière. C’est le pays de Blaise Pascal, qui concevait déjà une machine à calculer au XVIIe siècle. C’est aussi le pays du TGV, et l’un des deux pays qui ont donné naissance au Concorde. Vous imaginez ce que représentaient ces inventions à leur époque ? Des humains qui osaient accomplir ce que beaucoup pensaient impossible. Des gens qui n’acceptaient pas les limites de leur temps. Des visionnaires, des ingénieurs, des scientifiques, des entrepreneurs qui voulaient repousser les frontières du réel. Nous avons été ce pays-là. Alors comment avons-nous pu en arriver à un point où notre premier réflexe devant l’extraordinaire semble parfois être de chercher pourquoi il faudrait le mépriser ? SpaceX récupère des fusées qui reviennent se poser sur Terre ? On parle immédiatement d’Elon Musk et de ses provocations. Des robots humanoïdes commencent à réaliser des tâches physiques de plus en plus complexes ? « Ça va détruire des emplois. » L’IA ouvre des perspectives gigantesques pour la médecine, la science, l’éducation et la création ? « Ça pollue, ça vole le travail des artistes, ça sert à tricher. » Un entrepreneur annonce vouloir réaliser quelque chose d’incroyable ? « Encore un milliardaire qui veut s’en mettre plein les poches. » Mais est-ce qu’on réalise seulement ce qui est en train de se passer ? Nous vivons une époque où des fusées réutilisables se posent après leur mission, où l’IA accélère certaines découvertes scientifiques, où des robots apprennent à évoluer dans notre monde, où des personnes seules commencent à créer des choses qui nécessitaient auparavant des équipes entières. Et devant tout ça, on serait devenus incapables de dire simplement : « Putain, c’est incroyable. Comment est-ce qu’ils ont réussi ça ? » Je ne demande pas qu’on admire aveuglément les milliardaires. Ni qu’on ferme les yeux sur les conséquences sociales, environnementales ou politiques de leurs projets. On peut condamner les propos d’Elon Musk tout en reconnaissant les prouesses des ingénieurs de SpaceX et de Tesla. On peut défendre les travailleurs tout en trouvant la robotique fascinante. On peut vouloir encadrer l’IA tout en étant émerveillé par ses possibilités. L’esprit critique n’a jamais obligé personne à devenir cynique. Et c’est justement ce cynisme qui me désespère. J’ai parfois l’impression qu’on a remplacé l’admiration par la jalousie, le goût du risque par la peur de l’échec, l’ambition par la suspicion et le rêve par le sarcasme.

Liberal white woman are starting to realize that their desire to “HR Department” the whole world stops working the moment men decide they're done with it.

We need more Elon Musks in America and less Ilhan Omars.

Have you noticed the insane pressure to put your kids through college – almost like a blackmail? It is as if it was recruitment into a sect… Because it is. The sect of leftism. Look at how it works. Every sect uses the same toolkit. First, the threat. Without us, you are nothing. Your child will flip burgers, marry badly, disappoint the family. Parents hear it from teachers, from neighbours, from other parents at dinner. Nobody says it outright. Everybody feels it. Second, the price of entry. Years of the child’s life, and often a debt that follows him for decades. A sect that costs nothing is easy to leave. A sect that cost you everything you defend to the end, because the alternative is admitting you were fooled. Third, separation from the family. The child leaves home at eighteen, the age when the mind is most open and the family most absent. He arrives where nobody knows his parents, and everybody knows what to think. Fourth, a new language. He comes home at Christmas with words his parents don’t understand, and a moral vocabulary in which they are the problem. The father who paid for it all is now part of what must be overcome. Fifth, the reward for loyalty. The diploma is not proof of knowledge. It is proof of membership. It opens the doors – jobs, marriages, social standing – that members keep for each other. And the cleverest part: the parents pay for it. Conservative families raise the child, feed him, form him for eighteen years. Then they pay to have him converted. No sect in history has managed that. Now the honest part, which makes the blackmail worse, not better: the threat is partly real. In many professions the diploma is still the gate. That is exactly why it works. Blackmail only works when the hostage is real. The diploma was meant to certify that a young person can think. It now certifies that he thinks correctly. A society that only hires on the second has already stopped needing the first. So what do we do? Not refuse education. Refuse the monopoly. Learning is not the same as college. A young person can master mathematics, physics, history, a trade and three languages without four years of moral re-education. If he must go, prepare him before he goes. Build alternatives that don’t ask for his soul as tuition. Hire people for what they can do, not for which sect stamped their papers. We can make flying cars without them! x.com/elonmusk/status/211091…

Whatever one’s natural talents, deep self-cultivation in a small handful of skills will always be an honorable pursuit. #education #skills

Introducing Anatomy Describe a machine in one line. Claude brings it to life. - Interactive isometric wireframes you can rotate, inspect and explore - WebGL shaders for fire, water, plasma and more - Real 3D motion, with individual parts that rotate and move Install it as an agent skill. Fully open source.

Let’s build a classical-futuristic world! @SamyazaSpeaks

The post-war order is the pre-Internet order. And the rise of the Internet means that order is ending. But what comes next? Decentralized democracy — or American monarchy? Curtis makes the case for centralization. I make the case for decentralization. Live in Singapore later today. And streaming online for free. This is Network State Conference 2026. ns.com/conf2026