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The Chinese models are lowkey getting bullied at the moment everyone is like oh wow this and that model is pretty awesome then they get straight back to codex and claude.
Like that's cool but Naaaah XD.
Trump:
I keep hearing so much about TikTok and all of the influence they have and how it's unfair and how it's this and that. But here's the only problem: I'm number one on TikTok.
Can you believe it? I'm number one. Billions and billions of people are looking at Trump.
How come I'm number one if they have so much influence? There's your numbers.
So I think we have influence too. And I'm saying stop communism.
DONALD TRUMP AND HIS THREE SONS ARE QUIETLY CASHING OUT OF THEIR OWN CRYPTO COMPANY
Not selling because the market crashed. Selling right as the paperwork shows they made a killing off it
World Liberty Financial. The Trump family claims up to 75 percent ownership. The stablecoin business alone has thrown off at least 4 billion dollars in proceeds and paper wealth since Trump got back in office
Now Donald Trump, Don Jr, Eric, and Barron have all taken the first steps toward pulling their money out
Funny how the exits start lining up right when House Democrats release the math
Their analysis puts Trump's foreign payments and pay-to-play profits at 2.25 billion dollars realized. Factor in the digital assets and that number balloons to 9.7 billion
Nine point seven billion dollars flowing toward one family while the president sets the rules for the entire industry those coins live in
Regular crypto investors are watching their portfolios get liquidated in dips they had no warning about
Retirees are getting rug pulled on meme coins while the Trump family's stablecoin pulls in millions in reserve interest, structured through a maze of holding companies built specifically so the money looks clean on paper
Nobody elected Barron Trump to run a financial empire off the backs of retail traders
Nobody voted for a presidency where the First Family's net worth moves in lockstep with policy announcements they helped write
This is not a blind trust
This is not separation of business and government
This is the Trump family sitting on top of the regulatory apparatus and cashing checks while everyday people hold the bag
Four years of this and they will own more of the American economy than they do right now
This is the plan and it was always the plan
Have been surprised to get pushback on my claim that an exponentially self-replicating agent swarm is very possible and that there are actors with motivation to create one today to create strategic cyber-physical and societally dangerous effects.
1) Pretty easy to get an AI botnet started by having seed agents opportunistically hack stuff and steal API keys to access the 12+ inference providers that serve closed and open models with which to power an initial botnet's intelligence
2) Easy to imagine hiding inference for the initial agent botnet harnesses within benign customer traffic, especially if your harnesses are now running on the victim networks from which they stole the API keys
3) Not hard to imagine the botnet also stealing public cloud keys, spinning up 8xH100 EC2 instances and downloading, say, GLM 5.3 to these machines, all without being noticed in any immediate way, with the botnet developing its own dynamic, growing, heterogenous, AI inference provider service bank
4) Not hard to imagine the botnet also implanting small Qwen3.8-27b agentic models on on-prem hardware like high end laptops and on-prem servers; Qwen3.8-27b is a pretty good coding harness model that can be fine-tuned to hack
5) These on-prem / cloud models would be abliterated, and it's not hard to imagine the botnet deciding to do some additional fine tuning to evolve model weights as it accumulates millions and then tens of millions in resources via credit card and bank detail theft
6) Not hard to imagine the resulting growing botnet swarm evolving and fighting back when threatened, collaborating on fast flux C2 channels that evolve over time (e.g. github comment feeds, subreddits, etc) so they're hard to stamp out
7) Not hard to imagine it allocating some agents to vulnerability research and exploit development so that it could accumulate and share a growing warchest of zero-day exploits
8) Not hard to imagine other agents specializing in social engineering and creating fake businesses and watering holes and high quality A/B tested social engineering content to facilitate this
9) Not hard to imagine this being among the hardest cross-national and geopolitical coordination problems to get control of and having severe societal effects
10) Not hard to imagine the horde growing to thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of instances (this is not unprecedented for past, non-AI worms and botnets!) which are all varying their harness code and underlying LLM models over time and dynamically learning to evade human, ML, and signature-based detection
11) Not hard to imagine this being the largest Internet emergency since the Morris worm except now our entire civilization runs on the Internet
I continue to be surprised there isn't more discussion of these scenarios in the public cyber community -- in fact there's a lot more discussion of "OpenAI should have done better sandboxing and monitoring and agent swarms represent a well managed security problem."
Now's the time to use our imaginations to help make sure none of the above happens. I think it will unfortunately; just don't know when and to what degree; I think now's the highest leverage time to start thinking about this and acting.