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"America is not handcuffed by history."
That perfectly sums up the American mentality towards the rest of the world. Past actions don't have consequences, according to many Americans. Most of the time they're not even aware of past actions.
This is also how small children think.
Jesse Watters: We don't need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they are our ally… America is not handcuffed by history. (2025) @Acyn
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Last night Trump said he could have won Vietnam in a week. His plan was “going after Ho Chi Minh City.”
Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Our ally. The enemy’s capital was Hanoi. We bombed it.
He called the presidents who fought that war stupid, then explained how he’d have won it by attacking our own side.
58,220 Americans died in that war. Trump got five deferments. Now he’s telling the rest of us how easy it would have been.
He’s had more than fifty years to learn which side we were on. He still hasn’t. That alone should disqualify him from sending anybody else’s kids to war.
Instead, he’s weighing more strikes on Iran after Tuesday. His administration has reportedly considered using the “mother of all bombs,” the one he calls “like a tiny nuclear bomb.”
The man who thinks we should have bombed our ally’s capital gets to choose the targets.
"RAG is officially cooked."
Literally the first sentence of the paper: "Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a key component for generating accurate and hallucination free answers using Large Language Models (LLMs)."
Smh... 🤦♂️
RAG is officially cooked.
IBM researchers built a retriever that produced 65× fewer invalid section references than a fine-tuned baseline.
RAG gives an AI relevant documents to read before answering. But finding the right information is still a problem.
Many systems split documents into chunks, losing the chapter headings and structure that help explain where information belongs.
IBM’s approach, STAIR, uses that structure.
Think of opening a book’s contents page and finding the right section before reading.
STAIR uses the table of contents to guide retrieval towards the section most likely to contain the answer.
On SearchTome, a benchmark covering 18 books across six domains, it retrieved the correct section first 82.6% of the time. The fine-tuned DSI baseline scored 76.9%.
Invalid section references fell from 3.25% to 0.05%. That’s where the 65× figure comes from. It measures retrieval references, not hallucinations in the final answer.
For businesses searching long manuals, policies and technical documents, this is a promising improvement.
It still needs testing on real company data, but preserving document structure could help agents find better evidence before they answer.
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The Platonic Representation Hypothesis is now a Theorem ◼️
Train JEPAs separately, on any modalities: they provably learn the same representation up to one rotation.
The result? A 109M JEPA-Text model that aligns with vision models better than 72B LLMs.
w/ @ylecun 🧵
The foundational brick of a new paradigm, laid down by @ylecun and @randall_balestr 🙏👏
alphaxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
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The guy who compared a Trump rally to Jonestown on live Fox News was invited by the Trump campaign. They called his work phone on Monday and asked him to come.
His name is Tom Hoyle. He's 57 and runs a small custom printing shop in Charlotte called MadPark Designs with his business partner. He's hated Trump since 1989, back when he was a sophomore in college. And he really, really doesn't like getting sales calls on the shop line, from anybody.
So when the rally people called, he said yes. He even signed up with his real name and contact info, because he wanted it on the record that they invited him.
Then he had to get through the door. A private security guy asked him straight up if he was a Trump supporter. Tom told him he supports the Constitution, then started talking about his shirt, which was for an old death metal band called Death. He kept going about the history of Florida death metal until the guard gave up and let him in.
His plan going in was honestly pretty juvenile. He and a buddy he grew up with figured he'd wait a few minutes into the speech and yell something filthy.
Then a Fox News reporter, Lucas Tomlinson, found him standing off by himself and asked if he could interview him live. Tom thinks a white guy with a big beard and a ball cap was pretty much exactly what they were looking for.
He told himself he wasn't going to cuss on national TV, so he made it up on the spot. He says the first line and then just waits. The reporter goes "Wait, the Jonestown Massacre?" and that's when he finishes it.
He told The Handbasket he picked that up from Billy Crystal, who said on Letterman back in the '80s that you always let the other guy set up your punchline. Tomlinson set it up for him perfectly.
A few minutes later some men who said they were Secret Service pulled him aside. He asked if this was about the concession stand, because it closed early and he was starving. They didn't love that and walked him out. On his way out he passed the guard from the front door and told him, hey man, you didn't vet me too well.
Think about how many people had a shot at stopping this. The campaign's call list found him. The signup form had his name. A guard questioned him to his face. A Fox crew put him on live TV. Every one of them took one look at the beard and the hat and filled in the rest.
That's how almost all of this screening works. Asking somebody what they actually believe takes time, and looking at them takes a second, so everybody just looks.
The one check that actually caught him came after he'd already said it on national TV.
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Secret Service walked this guy out of the event after he gave this interview. Free speech absolutism strikes again!
thehandbasket.co/p/tom-hoyle…
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Nikita nailed this
A Russian bot forgot to switch its account from MAGA to "Ukrainian." 😀
This is how Russians simulate public opinion and pressure politicians into adopting a pro-Russian stance—leading them to believe that this is what their electorate demands. That is why it is important to express your position openly.
