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DustinEchoeson Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

It's unfortunate but no one cares about this anymore. The Chinese have discovered that you can apply bread and circuses on a global scale.

DustinEchoeson Twitter(X) Is Down

Yes, the head of product dev recently bragged about only having 30 engineers.

DustinEchoeson EPA ends credits for automatic start-stop vehicle ignition

> Developed in response to the 1970s oil crisis, the feature was intended to cut vehicle idling, fuel consumption and emissions.

I did not know the system was that old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-stop_system#History

DustinEchoeson Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

The decline starts in your early thirties, and those who are pushing their cognition to its limit are the first to notice.

DustinEchoeson Live Variables in the Verse Language

https://xcancel.com/vukefn/status/2022809591051096233?s=46

DustinEchoeson Cuba's regime is in dire straits

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db548.htm

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-life-expectancy-8906f742eb12d...

Your source doesn’t include 2024

DustinEchoeson Hippocampus does more than store memories: It predicts rewards, study finds

More reason not to smoke weed, which destroys the hippocampus.

DustinEchoeson Cuba's regime is in dire straits

> and dropping

That’s false. There was a dip during the onset of the pandemic but now it is at an all time high.

DustinEchoeson Disney sends cease and desist letter to ByteDance over Seedance 2.0

The time to care about China respecting Western ip was 30 years ago.

DustinEchoeson FDA's rejection of Moderna threatens to stifle broader vaccine industry

Moderna has already shelved all phase 3 trials of vaccines for infectious diseases.

DustinEchoeson California Political Operative Sentenced to 4 Years as Covert Agent of PRC

We need much harsher penalties for this sort of thing.

DustinEchoeson Apple Takes Full Control of 'Severance' in Surprise Deal

> Apple apparently now plans to position Severance as a long-term flagship franchise. The show has already been renewed for a third season, and a fourth season is reportedly considered a certainty

Ok, so the show has now turned into Lost and nothing will get resolved. No need to waste any more time watching it.

DustinEchoeson Measles Is Raging Worldwide

> An analysis found that 12% of the 4,056 measles cases confirmed in the United States between 2001 and 2022 were ‘breakthrough’ infections in vaccinated people.

I do not look forward to the screeching about the vaccine not working that will occur if cases continue to blow up.

DustinEchoeson Seedance 2.0 makes it hard for agencies and production houses to ignore AI now

https://xcancel.com/heydin_ai/status/2021529833197773204#m

DustinEchoeson Choroid plexus alterations in long Covid and their associations with Alzheimer's

> This study included 86 long COVID, 67 recovered COVID, and 26 COVID‐negative healthy controls (HCs)

> Both patient groups showed higher ChP volume and lower CBF than HC

Even those who had recovered from COVID showed these changes.

DustinEchoeson xAI Co-Founders Ba, Wu Join Exodus

I wonder if this is due to ITAR reasons now that the company is part of spacex

DustinEchoeson Erythritol May Damage Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke

Does the BBB recover after you stop consuming erythritol?

DustinEchoeson The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion

https://archive.ph/ZHEF9

DustinEchoeson Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism

Yep, it’s the only image on the entire page with a non-Chinese person in it. Given the prompt, the message is clear.

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Someone take gramps’ phone away.

DustinEchoeson Every tech commercial in this year's Super Bowl sucked

Better than the nft and crypto commercials of years past.

DustinEchoeson Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

DustinEchoeson Hello world does not compile

It’s a fear response.

DustinEchoeson Prohibition worked better than you think (2019)

https://archive.ph/l8m4E

DustinEchoeson U.S. Dealers in Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

Car dealers are parasites. If Chinese cars contribute to their death in some way, then it may be worth it to let them in.

DustinEchoeson Sam Altman: I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest

Hope Anthropic keeps it up. They clearly struck a nerve.

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Remember when the right used to freak out about FEMA camps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory

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Of course she’s on the 30 under 30.

DustinEchoeson Don't discount American democracy's resilience

We’ll see. You can already see the Trump admin moving pieces into place to capture or contest the midterm elections.

DustinEchoeson Microsoft is using Claude Code internally while selling you Copilot

Many MS employees also use MacBooks instead of Windows laptops.