Bookmarks Digest — Page 5
1. From story points to tokenmaxxing: Why engineering keeps measuring the wrong things | InfoWorld
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When we measure effort instead of value, we lose sight of what we are trying to achieve.
2. ‘Pulte got really scared’: Inside the White House debate over Trump’s elections speech - POLITICO
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Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, a Trump favorite, had at one point pushed to reveal the names of intelligence officials accused of concealing election interference from the president.
3. Neuroscientists find a teamwork paradox: highly synchronized brains perform worse at complex tasks
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 18, 2026, 05:11 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** PsyPost - Psychology News
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/PsyPost
A recent study published in NeuroImage reveals that while human brains naturally synchronize during cooperative video games, this mental alignment does not guarantee success. High neural synchrony was actually linked to worse strategic performance.
4. Nate Silver on X: “I mean, look, Fetterman’s only opportunity to remain in the Senate past 2028 is if he switches parties or runs as an independent. He would get crushed in a D primary. Unlike Sinema, he’s actually popular enough with Republicans that he could win a GOP primary.” / X
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5. nick gavio on X: “Pennsylvania is a swing state & has a deep Republican bench: two row office holders, multiple young & ambitious congresspeople, state leg leadership there is zero reason for the GOP to accept Fetterman to the party instead of running a full-throated conservative for the seat” / X
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6. Chamath Palihapitiya on X: “The future is open source. We need to embrace it and get on with it. Imagine if America closed the door on open source. We would explicitly be forcing American companies to pay $26-56 per 1MM tokens for the same intelligence their adversaries/competitors around the world would” / X
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7. Dr Mehmood on X: “Heloo” / X
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8. Massimo on X: “A stunning photo of dark clouds topped with a bright rainbow, a rare event called cloud iridescence https://t.co/yKCYOjzv04” / X
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9. J.K. Rowling on X: “Amnesty is no longer the organisation that defended all who were persecuted for their freedom of speech. It has become a self-appointed, vainglorious policeman of wrongthink. It tweets out ideological slogans. It demonises those who disagree with those slogans. It intervened in https://t.co/FIugGkAjPw” / X
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10. J.K. Rowling Criticizes Amnesty Over Gender-Critical Report Withdrawal / X
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11. Children Are Not AI’s Test Subjects
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 10:04 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 16, 2026
✍️ **Author Reference:** Robert Maginnis
A child's car seat must meet federal crash-performance standards. Medicines intended for children are assessed with their unique stages of growth and developmen
12. David Sacks on X: “This is exactly what I predicted would happen. I said Chinese models would have advanced cyber capabilities within a matter of months and the only thing to do about it was to use AI-powered cyberdefense to protect our systems. Trying to gatekeep models doesn’t work.” / X
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13. Min Choi on X: “Grok 4.5 is only 1.5T parameters. Kimi K3 is 2.8T… and costs 3× more per task. SpaceXAI cracked intelligence efficiency. Now imagine Grok at 3T. https://t.co/4X0aKqP9ma” / X
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14. Elon Musk on X: “@minchoi Our 2T model, which is better than our 1.5T in every way, will finish initial training next week. It might be able to exceed Kimi, but with speed and token efficiency close to our 1.5T (aka Grok 4.5).” / X
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15. X Freeze on X: “Elon Musk just confirmed that SpaceXAI’s next 2-trillion-parameter model is already better than Grok 4.5 in every way and is expected to finish initial training next week Elon said it may surpass Kimi while keeping speed and token efficiency close to Grok 4.5 Grok 4.5 already https://t.co/4RfdeIDAFA” / X
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16. How Octopuses Hacked Their Ribosome To Become Smart | Hackaday
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 09:38 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Hackaday
A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous syste…
17. In 2023, researchers placed a GPS collar on a young bull elephant in Zambia. Two years later, his path stretched across four countries and six national parks, revealing the ancient routes elephants still remember, and the human borders now cutting through them
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 09:36 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 15, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
A young bull elephant in southern Africa has spent the past two years walking. Fitted with a GPS collar north of Sioma Ngwezi National Park in Zambia in June
18. Amid El Niño, tropical storm 'conga line' could alter Bay Area weather
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 09:35 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** SFGATE
✍️ **Author Reference:** Anna FitzGerald Guth
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Elida could build into the first hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean this year.
19. Iran can't beat America outright. It can still make Trump play its game | Fox News
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20. Victor Davis Hanson: The Democrats Have Lost Middle America - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 08:20 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
As President Trump escalates pressure on Iran, Victor Davis Hanson examines whether a swift military campaign could cripple the regime, reshape the balance o…
21. Victor Davis Hanson: Why the Left Keeps Rewriting American History - YouTube
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The Left's obsession with identity politics and rewriting history is reshaping everything from America's largest cities to its classrooms. Victor Davis Hanso…
22. Victor Davis Hanson: Everything Wrong with the Rewrite of Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ - YouTube
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Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” has been drawing a lot of attention but not necessarily for good reasons.Actress Lupita Nyong’o, set to play …
23. UK Muslims Demand Voting Age Be Lowered To 13 So Their Wives Can Vote | Babylon Bee
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LONDON — In a protest to make the nation's democratic process more inclusive, Muslims in the United Kingdom marched to demand that the voting age be lowered to 13 so their wives would be able to vote.
24. Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Is Preparing for the Final Phase Against Iran - YouTube
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For nearly 140 days, the conflict with Iran has shifted from direct military action to negotiations and limited exchanges, leaving key objectives unresolved….
25. Dr. Paul Kengor | The Dark Side of Marxism - YouTube
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In The Dark Side of Marxism, a nine-hour course, Dr. Paul Kengor traces the story of Marxism from the life and ideas of Karl Marx to the ideology’s far-reach…
26. David Sacks on X: “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering. It is principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem.” / X
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27. Anthropic has a counter to OpenAI’s ‘reverse federalism’ play - POLITICO
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By pushing for ever-tougher AI safety laws, Anthropic is drawing a distinction between its state lobbying strategy and OpenAI’s campaign to streamline a set of rules across the country.
28. POLITICO on X: “Inside Anthropic’s state-by-state plan to ratchet up AI rules https://t.co/xeHdJ821Xl” / X
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29. Bessent delivers remarks on far-left political terrorism - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 07:56 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary Marco Rubio deliver remarks on far-left political terrorism. #foxbusiness Subscribe to Fox Business: https://b…
30. What Woke People Get Wrong About Fascism - James Lindsay - YouTube
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In this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sit down with author and political commentator James Lindsay to explore what fascism really is, why it's so w…
31. Marx Died a Loser. Lenin Made Him a Legend. - Phil Magness - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 07:44 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
I sat down with economic historian Phil Magness to give Karl Marx the fairest hearing we could, and then find out how his ideas took over half the world and …
32. I stopped paying for ChatGPT after putting my local LLM on Tailscale
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 07:41 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** XDA
✍️ **Author Reference:** Korbin Brown
My phone finally reaches my home server the same way it reaches ChatGPT.
33. Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 07:40 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
(0:00) Bestie intros!(1:32) New AI regulatory proposal: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis proposes FINRA-type body(20:01) Stripe, Block, and Advent offer $53B to acq…
34. The Dystopian Novel No One Remembers - YouTube
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We all know about Orwell's dystopian masterwork 1984, but there's a forgotten dystopian novel that adds a great deal to the discussion. This 1904 book attemp…
35. Left Ear Duvet, Right Ear Linger - YouTube
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Wear Headphones for the best experience! Stereo Mix of Duvet and Linger by Bôa and The CranberriesMaybe I should finish watching lain and try to understand i…
36. Lisan al Gaib on X: “you should give Grok 4.5 a try https://t.co/TTmEQQw9JY” / X
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37. “Start Spreadin’ the News”: New York Losing Billions as Millionaires Flee the Big Apple – JONATHAN TURLEY
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 06:54 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the New York Post on the sharp decline in millionaires in New York, costing the state billions as many flee. The exodus has been building for years but may now be accelerating. As Mayor Mamdani holds another press conference promising to end the "violence of evictions," businesses are reading the…
38. Hillel Fuld on X: “You don’t think Israel has a right to exist? Cool, cool. Any other country not have a right to exist? No? Just Israel? Just the Jewish state? Got it. Pssst. You’re an antisemite. America should stop sending foreign aid to Israel? Cool, cool. Should America stop https://t.co/ubmMWr8dGB” / X
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39. Secretary Bessent Delivers Remarks Before the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism | U.S. Department of the Treasury
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As prepared for delivery.Good morning. Thank you, Secretary Rubio, for convening this ministerial and for the invitation to be here.We are here together because the resurgence of political terrorism, transnational in design and far-left in doctrine, is no longer the concern of any one nation. It demands a response that draws upon the distinct and combined strengths of every government represented here today.Ours begins where every campaign of terror does: its financial lifeblood. And at President Trump’s direction, the United States Treasury is bringing the full weight of our authorities to defend the integrity of the U.S. and global financial systems.More than twenty years ago, in the wake of 9/11, Treasury became the first finance ministry in the world to establish an office dedicated to disrupting the funding networks of terrorist organizations. Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, referred to as TFI, was created in recognition of the reality that America’s financial system is essential to its national security. TFI’s mandate to identify, disrupt, and disable illicit foreign funds that threaten our homeland has become one of the Treasury’s defining responsibilities. And today, we are extending that abiding mission to meet an evolving threat.The resurgence of organized political terrorism has long occupied a blind spot. The international community has struggled to identify this danger, much less to defeat it. But as the threat of terrorism evolves, the institutions and tools that defend against it must adapt.We once understood terrorism principally as an external menace. That is no longer the world we inhabit. Increasingly, we are confronting sophisticated, organized networks that cross borders to incite violence within them. Meanwhile, old ideological boundaries are now giving way to new operational alliances. The unified front between international Marxism and the radical Islamic movement need not share the same ultimate vision to share the same immediate enemy of free and self-governing societies.That convergence should concern every government represented in this room. These terrorists understand an enduring truth: societies are rarely subverted from afar until they have first been weakened from within. So as it tears at the social fabric that allows our societies to function, left-wing terrorism is the visible manifestation of a much broader and more insidious effort to undermine the philosophies that built Western civilization and sustain all we hold dear.Some of these activities are overt: bombings, assassinations, and organized violence in our streets. Others are quieter campaigns to suppress speech, intimidate political opposition, and sabotage our national institutions.Of course, whatever form they take, none of these attacks sustain themselves. Violence requires money, channels through which funding can move, and institutions behind which it can hide. Increasingly, legitimate nonprofit and charitable structures are being exploited as a mechanism to conceal the movement of illicit funds to support political terrorism.For Treasury, the application of our authorities to combat these networks represents the natural evolution of our mission. Through our Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and IRS-CI we have spent decades developing the world’s most sophisticated financial counterterrorism capabilities. And we are now mobilizing some of the same tools that we have deployed against terrorists abroad to confront this emerging threat here in the homeland. Like every form of illicit finance, these networks rely on the global financial system. It is our mandate to deny terrorist groups access to those channels.Now, we think of nonprofits and charities as good, altruistic organizations. Most of them are. We think that they represent the very best of civil society. Many of them do.But the very qualities that make these institutions worthy of the public’s trust can also make them appealing to those who endeavor to exploit it.At President Trump’s direction, Treasury is expanding its efforts to identify organizations that abuse charitable and nonprofit structures as vehicles for illicit finance. We are examining where tax-exempt status has been exploited, which charitable entities have become financial conduits for foreign-influence activity, and how those entrusted with stewardship of these organizations have instead enabled violence. Where the evidence leads, we will not hesitate to follow. And, of course, we will hold these organizations’ officers and directors accountable, just as financial institutions must know theirs clients; they must know their grantees.That work is well underway. In the fall, the United States designated four far-left Antifa extremist groups abroad as foreign terrorist organizations, denying them access to the U.S. financial system and depriving them of resources they need to carry out attacks. Meanwhile, in this Administration alone, OFAC has also sanctioned seventeen sham charities and non-profit organizations for funding Hamas’s terrorist activities and operations.As Treasury continues to map and disrupt the flow of funding that enables these entities to operate, no terror organization should delude itself into the belief that its financing lies beyond our reach. No facilitator should assume that anonymity confers impunity. And no jurisdiction should expect to enable or harbor these activities without consequence.To be clear, in the fight against domestic terrorism, we must respect the constitutional rights of freedom of speech, association, and assembly of all Americans. As such, it is important to emphasize that Treasury will act based on suspected unlawful conduct by these terror organizations—not because of their beliefs or ideologies.At Treasury, this work is mission critical. But we cannot do it alone. The threat is transnational. Our response must be no less so. Indeed, our cooperation must be as disciplined as the networks we seek to dismantle.The global financial system is one of the great achievements of the modern world. And we must never allow it to become a sanctuary for those who seek to subvert it.So, on behalf of the United States Treasury, let there be no uncertainty about the work before us and the resolve with which we will undertake it.We will identify illicit funding, however artfully it is concealed. We will dismantle the networks that sustain political terrorism, however respectable their fronts. We will pursue those who enable political violence, however distant their jurisdictions. And we will deepen our collaboration with every nation represented in this room, for as long as this work requires.That is our commitment. We ask that you make it yours, too.Secretary Rubio, thank you again for convening us here this morning. Let us work together to translate the spirit of this ministerial into a commitment that endures well beyond it. And let us deny our adversaries the one thing on which they count most: that those of us assembled in this room will grow weary in our cooperation before they do. Thank you.###
40. Gerald Posner on X: “🔥 At the State Department’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent answered critics who doubt the seriousness of far left political violence by making the threat personal. Off-script, he reminded the room — delegates from roughly https://t.co/jvDCZsgqvs” / X
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41. Gerald Posner on X: “With the firehose of news and commentary on X, it’s easy to miss an important development. One of the best things that’s happened here in a long time is the steady return of @jordanbpeterson. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with Jordan or not — his commentary is some of the” / X
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42. Gerald Posner on X: “The New York DSA co-chair says his parents fled Peru to escape what he calls “the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism.” Their solution? They moved to America. This sounds like the level of illogic that was the hallmark of my freshman year political science classes https://t.co/fJuMVErMB9” / X
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43. Review ‘The Odyssey’: Nolan’s Unheroic Epic Alters History of Movie-Watching | National Review
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** National Review
This version of "The Odyssey" goes against notions of survival, quest, intelligence, masculinity, civilization — foundational principles of the West that Nolan’s previous films all destroyed through his emphasis on chaos.
44. These ‘metallic’ dunes on Mars look like sci-fi. What are they really? | Space
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.space.com/author/sharmila-kuthunur
New images from the European Space Agency
45. Canadian wildfire smoke prompts Trump tariff threat
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 17, 2026, 06:01 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Axios
✍️ **Author Reference:** Nathan Bomey
President Trump is threatening to raise tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke that has drifted into the U.S.
46. Your fingers may hold a secret of human brain evolution | ScienceDaily
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A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with finger-length patterns linked to higher estrogen exposure before birth tended to have larger head circumferences, which are strongly associated with brain size. The same connection was not seen in girls.
47. Trump’s speech offered a preview of his next moves on elections - POLITICO
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Read the requests, demands and orders the president delivered to executive agencies during Thursday’s primetime address.
48. Melissa DeRosa on X: “Perfectly summarizing the current state of affairs in NY: “Nixon — who isn’t a lawyer but played one on the hit HBO show “Sex and the City” — was just appointed to serve on the Commission on Judicial Nomination by New York Chief Judge Rowan Wilson” https://t.co/PMeKXyHC1W“ / X
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49. The Mamdani Crusade Against Landlords Is Getting Out of Hand | National Review
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