Nothing could prepare me for the feeling I had during last night’s show—the absolute pride and joy I felt singing for the people of Brazil. The sight of the crowd during my opening songs took my breath away. Your heart shines so bright, your culture is so vibrant and special, I hope you know how grateful I am to have shared this historical moment with you. An estimated 2.5 million people came to see me sing, the biggest crowd for any woman in history. I wish I could share this feeling with the whole world—I know I can’t, but I can say this—if you lose your way, you can find your way back if you believe in yourself and work hard. You can give yourself dignity by rehearsing your passion and your craft, pushing yourself to new heights— you can lift yourself up even if it takes some time. Thank you Rio for waiting for me to come back. Thank you little monsters all over the world. I love you. I will never forget this moment. Paws up little monsters. Obrigada. Love, Mother Monster.

OpenAI / @sama at MS TMT: Scaling + progress: “Most important thing to know is we have been on accelerating exponential of progress; been on it much longer than 3 years; since 2019 - reason it is accelerating is algorithmic, compute, more smart ppl working on it, more economic input letting us buying GPUs faster; these are compounding exponentials… does not seem the exponential is stopping anytime soon… end of 2028, maybe sooner, will likely be more intellectual capacity inside data centers than outside of them” Codex / evolution of SWE: 2M+ users growing 25% per week. “Seeing teams of 5 ppl / 1 person + tens / hundreds / thousands of GPUs doing work of entire company engineering department. Codex can write large and complex code but now also do things like chip design where it is super human…” software engineer is now “manager of agents” Scientific discovery + new research: “Seeing beginning of AI discovering new science - still small but seeing early signs across mathematics, theoretical physics…" Models are not just learning distribution of data, we are "teaching them generalized ability to think and understand data and in general purpose way, how to reason about what comes next. It appears models have crossed this threshold and can make discoveries." Company of the future: “We will all want person making final decisions for accountability of company for a long time…" but "AI CEO can [talk to every person at company, be in every meeting, customer call, be an expert in every function]. The % of decisions relied on AI will go up [at your company] or a competitor who does rely more on AI will rise up.” Capital raise + strategic partnerships: “NVDA we have partnered with for decade - continue to lead with best chips. All training on NVDA. With partnership we get allocation to new chips we are excited about. AMZN we will take some Trainium in 2027 and 2028 which will further help us meet inference demand. Will work with them to distribute stable runtime environment for agents in the enterprise” Defense + government: "Really love and support our country, AI will be be important to defense" Did not rush into military work on classified networks but believes it's critical. "If I were running military and gov and had a bunch of AI companies saying we are about to build super intelligence which will be important for geopolitical power, but we are going to stop working with you - I would say (i) I need that tech and (ii) gov supposed to be more powerful than private companies." OAI effort was to de-escalate. DoW "very understanding and great partner" on red-lines re survelliance and autonomous weapons. Will deploy FDEs with clearance to make sure tech properly used. Three flash points of superintelligence: "(1) Are the companies developing AI or is the government more powerful? (2) How do you reconfigure economy when no one can outwork a GPU? (3) Who gets to decide the values we align superintelligence to? Have seen beginning of #1# - we believe we need to trust in democratic process which has gotten us so far over last 250 years” What people misunderstand about AI: "In general, I have found that the smarter someone is, the more they want to believe AI is going to hit a wall. Basis of this psychological flaw is understandable, the more you define yourself by intelligence, the more you are incentivized to say it can't do this." AI-native competition + adoption urgency: Companies used to only compete with competitors who adopted slowly too / they had same constraints like a “slow security org”. "Now you have to compete with not only current competitors but new companies that are mostly AI that do not have slow security org… “Next year I predict we'll talk about companies with 1/10th or 1/100th of the people and a ton of GPUs building entirely new types of competitors.”

“I took Zoloft in 2022… ” Nobody told Lauren Freidman that 4 years later, she would have permanently lost all emotional and sexual function. “The day I woke up with this injury, I quite literally felt my soul leave my body.” Stop scrolling for 5 minutes to hear her story: “Had I known that this medication had the capacity to cause permanent loss of sexual and emotional function, I would have sought alternatives.” “Had I known SSRIs were prescribed off-label to chemically castrate sex offenders, I would have never taken this medication.” “Had I known that the leading sexual medicine doctors in the world are finding SSRIs cause fibrosis of the genitals… I would have never taken this medication.” “I’m living with a condition called Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction.” “50-70% of all patients taking these will have sexual side effects.” “What patients are not warned about is that these side effects can be permanent.” “I’m 23 years old.” “I don’t think it’s sensational to say that this is a form of chemical castration.” “PSSD is not just a loss of sexual function, but a loss for some people of emotional function as well.” “I can’t feel love for my own mother.” “Which is the hardest thing on Earth.” “I can’t feel connection or love for my friends, or even pleasure in music.” “I was a songwriter since I was a child. It was my outlet.” “And it’s been completely neurologically severed from these medications.” “There’s a reason that every song on the radio, every movie on your television, every piece of art since the beginning of humanity centers on sex and love, and not just romantic love, but platonic, familial love.” “These are the most central, intoxicating, worthwhile, and fulfilling parts of the human experience.” “To remove someone’s ability to emotionally connect with another human being is a crime against humanity.” “And I say crime against humanity because there is evidence that Eli Lilly, who created the first SSRI, Prozac, knew their drugs could cause permanent sexual dysfunction and emotional numbness.” “They withheld this from the public because they knew it would be a threat to their bottom line.” “There’s nothing more criminal or dystopian to withhold from patients and parents of patients that your medication can permanently chemically castrate and emotionally numb its user.” “The FDA actually received a citizen’s petition from sufferers in 2018 begging the risk be added to the label.” “And it was completely ignored.” “If this correction was made, I would have had full informed consent.” “I could have chosen an alternative.” “I would have been spared from the most inorganic, inhumane suffering I could have ever imagined.” “But that decision was made for me because of pharmaceutical greed and regulatory failure that has kept the general public in the dark about the truth of these drugs.” “22-year-old women and men like myself have ended their lives because, I think we can agree, life is not worth living when you can’t feel it or participate in it.” “People deserve to know the truth.” “People should not pay with their lives for trusting the medical system.” Nobody told millions of others just like Lauren that her decision to take an SSRI would spiral into permanent, lifelong injuries. We want to hear your “Nobody Told Me” story. Because you are not alone. Millions of young people are suffering through the exact same things. Please share your story below, or post a video sharing your story and tag us @_innercompass. @MAHA_Institute @lololizzle

I got liquidated 3 times until I started making money in trading. Everyone says find a strategy, build “discipline”, then you’ll make money. This is the most bullshit and misleading advice of retail trading. Because discipline can NEVER be “practiced” into existence like a habit. You CAN'T train it like a sport where repetition makes you better. That fake discipline works fine until real pressure hits, then you completely fall apart. No strategy will ever work on you if your mind is the weakest part of your setup. Because here’s the ugly truth👇 > If life hasn’t broken you (multiple times) before, you simply don’t have the psychological resilience to REPLICATE the discipline in traders you admire. > Their strategy works because it’s PAIRED with a level of INNER RESILIENCE most haven’t earned yet. > The calm you see in profitable traders wasn't “practiced.” > It was forged from surviving enough PAIN that their old instincts had NO CHOICE but to DIE. > Their discipline came from DESTRUCTION, not DETERMINATION. > With luck and fake discipline you can make money, but you sure as hell can’t keep it for long. So HOW to get "REAL" discipline?👇 > You cannot “gradually” grow discipline over time. > It happens very suddenly and violently, usually at your lowest point when your old self finally gets ripped apart. It’s like arguing with someone. Some people stay ice cold and say exactly what destroys the other person. Others break down crying. The difference isn’t “self control.” It’s that the calm one has already survived far worse, so this moment means nothing to them. Chaos doesn’t touch them because they’ve seen bigger storms, not because they “practiced patience.” So if you're in your lowest point right now, don't waste it👇 > People don’t get many chances in life to experience metamorphosis. > If you waste all that emotional energy attacking the world or pushing away the people who love you, you’re burning fuel that should be used on yourself. > Put that energy into your own damn evolution. > Put it into the quiet moments where you sit down and actually face your shame and fear. > Start by writing down the 30 things you are most afraid of or most ashamed of. > It sounds small, but it’s huge, because the version of you who is “doing well” would never have the guts to face that list. A lot of people think the secret to trading is more strategies, more macro research, more knowledge. They’re wrong. It's stepping completely outside of trading to recognize and accept your broken parts. Your demons. And STOP studying people's success! Study how they survived their lowest point instead👇 > People love calling someone smart or disciplined, then they copy their routines like it'll magically work. > It won't. You can't copy success because half of it is luck, timing, and advantages you don't have. But you can learn from how they fell apart and got back up: > How they handled losing everything > How they kept going when most would quit > How they turned pain into power instead of self-hatred Those parts are real. Those parts can be copied. Those parts are earned through fire, not gifted by genetics or privilege. Success is personal. But the path of dying, rebuilding and coming back stronger is universal. And it’s the only damn part worth copying.

It’s been a while since my last trip to Sydney 🇦🇺✨ I’ll be at @animagaexpo this weekend (Mar 14–15)! I’m honestly a bit nervous 🥹 Will I see you there? If you’re coming to Animaga, come say hi to me! I’d love to meet you 🫶

It isn't unexpected that the focus of the Bun Rust rewrite is on the anti-Zig side more than anything, since the internet loves to hate. What is unexpected and unfortunate is that leadership within Bun hasn't tried to steer the conversation away from that at all. There are so many positive and interesting takeaways from this and I'm not really seeing any of them pushed as the primary message. A positive thing that hasn't been talked about at all is how far Bun came thanks to Zig. And even if you dump it now, its meaningful for how good Zig was to even build a product to this point and impact by any metric. I would've loved to see anyone in leadership say this. On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. Its useful until its not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting! There's been a lot of talk about memory safety and no doubt Rust provides more guarantees than Zig. But I'd love to see a better analysis of why Bun in particular suffered so much rather than take the language-blame path. How could engineering as a practice been more rigorous to prevent this? What were the largest sources of crashes other programs should watch out for? How does Rust prevent them? How could Zig theoretically prevent them? That's interesting. I know the official blog post hasn't come out yet from Bun. But they're smart enough to know that that PR would stir up controversy the moment it opened, or they should've been. And plenty in the company have been tweeting and writing about it. Its somewhat telling to me in various dimensions what they chose to talk about first. I tend to think I'm pretty good at corporate PR/comms (especially when it comes to developer audiences) and I think appealing to the negative is never the right long term strategy; it does work to get short term eyes though.

Brené Brown, researcher and author, on the contradiction she keeps hearing in rooms full of tech billionaires: Her work puts her in rooms where the founders and CEOs of major tech platforms talk openly about how they think. What @BreneBrown hears there unsettles her: "So I hear someone say, 'Hey, you know, tech billionaire, what should my kids study? I'm worried for my kids… they should study coding, physics,' and then five minutes later, as if that answer didn't happen, someone will say, 'What do you attribute your success to?' I mean deeply when you think about it, and the same person will say, 'My deep reading of philosophy and the stoics.'" The contradiction is what stops her: the same people crediting philosophy and the liberal arts for their own success are telling other parents their kids should focus on coding and physics. That gap leads her to a bigger, more uncomfortable question: "I start to extrapolate from there and wonder if there is a thinking class that's emerging where they're like, 'We're going to read philosophy and we're going to read the liberal arts and we're going to study history, and the rest of you just keep scrolling. Don't worry about the big words. We'll handle all the big words for you.'" She points to Steve Jobs as an early signal of the same pattern: "It's like when they asked Steve Jobs, 'Boy, your kids must love the iPad.' Steve Jobs said, 'My kids don't have an iPad.' And then his biographer who spent time with his family said he wasn't kidding. There's no technology. At dinner, they're talking about art and history." The takeaway is simple but uncomfortable. The people building these platforms are protecting their own kids from them, and giving them books, ideas, and real conversation instead. So why are the rest of us being sold something different?