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Sword & Sorcery has a philosophical problem . The essential conceit of the genre is the battle of the normal--the swordsman--against the unnatural--the sorcerer.
However, to a modern reader, a man who fights with a sword is as unnatural as a man who casts lightning bolts. So many authors are missing the point and writing--intentionally or not--conflicts not between an ordinary man and a monster...
...but fights between two different types of superhero.
I happen to believe that @BryceBeattie has truly updated the genre--not in sense of "updating" as removing the moral dimension, but updating to renew the heart of the original genre.
I happen to believe that @BryceBeattie has truly updated the genre--not in sense of "updating" as removing the moral dimension, but updating to renew the heart of the original genre.
15 surprising things about the Peggie v NHS Fife ET judgment - a thread 🧵
1. Top of the pops has to be mis/partial quoting of the Supreme Court judgment in a way that badly misrepresents what it said.
1. Top of the pops has to be mis/partial quoting of the Supreme Court judgment in a way that badly misrepresents what it said.
2. It also includes a quote supposedly from the Forstater EAT judgment that actually isn’t in the judgment. And went onto say that the Supreme Court in endorsing the Forstater judgment implicitly endorsed that nonexistent quote.
3. Its use of partial language (“assigned male at birth”, "trans female” to talk about a male doctor who identifies as trans) while also bending over backwards nog to use pronouns for the male doctor (“second respondent” appears in judgment > 1k times) is weirdly inconsistent.
The Kiel Institute for World Economy published an update to its Ukraine Support tracker which shows aid to Ukraine flowing from Western partners since 2022. Data set ends on Oct. 31, 2025.
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Europe remains the main source of government support to Ukraine, significantly bypassing the US. US effectively ended providing aid to Ukraine in early 2025, after the Trump administration returned to the White House.
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The Nordic countries lead in terms of the share of their GDP they allocate as aid to Ukraine, especially in 2025, after the US ended its support.
They give much more proportionally than the Big Five European countries.
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They give much more proportionally than the Big Five European countries.
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I didn’t truly understand how to build strong AI agents… until one paper snapped everything into place.
Not a tutorial.
Not a YouTube demo.
A single arXiv paper: “Fundamentals of Building Autonomous LLM Agents.”
It finally made sense why most “agents” feel like chatbots with extra steps… and why real autonomous systems need an actual architecture.
Here’s the backbone the pros use the part nobody explains clearly 👇
1. Perception: what the agent actually sees
It isn’t just text.
Real agents mix:
- screenshots
- DOM trees
- accessibility APIs
- Set-of-Mark style visual encodings
That’s how an agent stops guessing at a UI and starts understanding it.
2. Reasoning: the engine behind autonomy
The paper breaks down why “single-pass reasoning” collapses almost immediately.
Real agents rely on:
- decomposition (CoT, ToT, ReAct)
- parallel planning (DPPM)
- reflection loops that critique + revise plans
This is the part that turns a model from reactive to intentional.
3. Memory: the part everyone misbuilds
Short-term memory lives in the context window.
Long-term memory lives in RAG, SQL, trajectory logs, and past failures.
Yes failures are stored intentionally because they teach the agent what not to try again.
Without structured memory, the agent resets every step and looks “dumb.”
4. Action System: where the work actually happens
This is the hardest part and the most ignored:
- Tool calls
- API execution
- Python environments
- GUI control at coordinate level
Most demos cut right before this stage because execution is where agents usually break.
Where agents collapse (and why):
The paper maps out the real failure modes:
- grounding errors on GUIs
- infinite loops
- hallucinated tool actions
- bad memory retrieval
- fragile long-horizon planning
And then it gives the fixes:
reflection, anticipatory reflection, guardrails, SoM grounding, specialized sub-agents, and tighter subsystem integration.
If you’ve ever wondered why your agent falls apart by step 3…
or why it “forgets” what it just decided…
or why it panics the moment UI changes…
This paper is the missing manual.
It turns agent-building into engineering not trial and error.
Not a tutorial.
Not a YouTube demo.
A single arXiv paper: “Fundamentals of Building Autonomous LLM Agents.”
It finally made sense why most “agents” feel like chatbots with extra steps… and why real autonomous systems need an actual architecture.
Here’s the backbone the pros use the part nobody explains clearly 👇
1. Perception: what the agent actually sees
It isn’t just text.
Real agents mix:
- screenshots
- DOM trees
- accessibility APIs
- Set-of-Mark style visual encodings
That’s how an agent stops guessing at a UI and starts understanding it.
2. Reasoning: the engine behind autonomy
The paper breaks down why “single-pass reasoning” collapses almost immediately.
Real agents rely on:
- decomposition (CoT, ToT, ReAct)
- parallel planning (DPPM)
- reflection loops that critique + revise plans
This is the part that turns a model from reactive to intentional.
3. Memory: the part everyone misbuilds
Short-term memory lives in the context window.
Long-term memory lives in RAG, SQL, trajectory logs, and past failures.
Yes failures are stored intentionally because they teach the agent what not to try again.
Without structured memory, the agent resets every step and looks “dumb.”
4. Action System: where the work actually happens
This is the hardest part and the most ignored:
- Tool calls
- API execution
- Python environments
- GUI control at coordinate level
Most demos cut right before this stage because execution is where agents usually break.
Where agents collapse (and why):
The paper maps out the real failure modes:
- grounding errors on GUIs
- infinite loops
- hallucinated tool actions
- bad memory retrieval
- fragile long-horizon planning
And then it gives the fixes:
reflection, anticipatory reflection, guardrails, SoM grounding, specialized sub-agents, and tighter subsystem integration.
If you’ve ever wondered why your agent falls apart by step 3…
or why it “forgets” what it just decided…
or why it panics the moment UI changes…
This paper is the missing manual.
It turns agent-building into engineering not trial and error.
The paper makes one thing painfully clear:
Workflows ≠ Agents.
A workflow follows a pre-written script.
An agent writes the script as it goes, adapting to feedback and changing plans when the world shifts.
This single distinction is why 90% of “AI agent demos” online fall apart in real interfaces.
Workflows ≠ Agents.
A workflow follows a pre-written script.
An agent writes the script as it goes, adapting to feedback and changing plans when the world shifts.
This single distinction is why 90% of “AI agent demos” online fall apart in real interfaces.
To build real autonomy, the paper says you must start with Perception.
Text-only agents are blind.
Real agents combine:
• screenshots
• HTML trees
• accessibility layers
• segmentation maps
• Set-of-Mark annotations
That’s how they “see” a UI the way humans do.
Text-only agents are blind.
Real agents combine:
• screenshots
• HTML trees
• accessibility layers
• segmentation maps
• Set-of-Mark annotations
That’s how they “see” a UI the way humans do.
Maps: Anglo-Saxon settlement, Massachusetts Puritans
Maps: arable land vs dairy in UK/Britain
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In the last few months, I’ve spent more time exploring how AI infrastructure is moving from the cloud to edge devices.
Right now, billions of devices are creating data and need real-time intelligence that cloud systems alone can’t deliver.
During my research, I found @EdgeAI_xyz. They’re working to solve this bottleneck with a distributed intelligence network. The token is still in its early stages with a $1.6 Billion market cap.
Let’s dive deeper into what EdgeAI ↴↴↴
Right now, billions of devices are creating data and need real-time intelligence that cloud systems alone can’t deliver.
During my research, I found @EdgeAI_xyz. They’re working to solve this bottleneck with a distributed intelligence network. The token is still in its early stages with a $1.6 Billion market cap.
Let’s dive deeper into what EdgeAI ↴↴↴
To understand EdgeAI, you first have to understand the bottleneck holding most AI systems back.
Cloud-based AI faces challenges with:
→ Making decisions in real time
→ Verifying actions directly on devices
→ Creating incentives for both machines and users
EdgeAI addresses these issues by making every device part of a decentralized intelligence network. This allows AI to process and verify data on each device and automatically reward contributions.
Cloud-based AI faces challenges with:
→ Making decisions in real time
→ Verifying actions directly on devices
→ Creating incentives for both machines and users
EdgeAI addresses these issues by making every device part of a decentralized intelligence network. This allows AI to process and verify data on each device and automatically reward contributions.
What really caught my attention recently is how EdgeAI unlocks on-device intelligence, enabling expansion into real-world industries. EdgeAI is achieving this through its partnership with CJET by @Nasdaq, a leading manufacturer of mobility and industrial equipment.
They are preparing to scale deployments from 20,000 devices today to millions worldwide. CJET has committed up to $1 billion in EdgeAI token acquisitions.
They are preparing to scale deployments from 20,000 devices today to millions worldwide. CJET has committed up to $1 billion in EdgeAI token acquisitions.
🧵 THE VEDAS KNEW HOW TO HEAL OVERTHINKING — Thousands of years before psychology did.
1️⃣ Overthinking is not intelligence.
It’s simply the mind forgetting stillness.
The Vedas said this long before modern science caught up.
It’s simply the mind forgetting stillness.
The Vedas said this long before modern science caught up.
2️⃣ When the mind spirals (chitta vikshepa), life feels heavier than it actually is.
Overthinking = the mind shouting.
Clarity = the mind whispering.
Overthinking = the mind shouting.
Clarity = the mind whispering.
We are due to be live tweeting the final hearing of clinical psychologist, Dr Anne Woodhouse (AW), before the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) Conduct and Competence Committee in relation to posts on Twitter/X from 10am this morning.
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) alleges that she posted/liked or permitted others to post/like Twitter/X social media posts containing gender critical content in contravention of their social media policy.
The allegations arise from one Complainant, an activist in LGBTQ+ politics.
The allegations arise from one Complainant, an activist in LGBTQ+ politics.
The police were notified of the matter, but confirmed they would not be pursuing any investigation. The HCPC have pursued a Fitness to Practice case against Dr Woodhouse since September 2022.
The posts complained of are:
The posts complained of are:
1/ Russian soldiers who fall out with their commanders – due to personality clashes, disagreements, or a refusal to pay bribes – are routinely sent to their deaths in stormtrooper squads. Few survive for long; the following account vividly describes the life of a stormtrooper. ⬇️
2/ 'Occupant's Life', written by a frontline Russian soldier, tells the story:
3/ "Before a soulless bot deletes me from the Telegram universe; before the last spark of life in local mobile networks fades; before my phone buried under a birch tree is flooded to death, I'll tell you about the amusing adventures of a fellow soldier with whom I'd developed…
"US plans to start checking all tourists' social media"
This is why the whole "free speech" shtick of the American right is totally fake, the opposite of the truth, a classic Orwellian sleight of hand, doublespeak, doublethink, where everything is the virtual opposite of what is stated.
1/🧵news.sky.com/story/us-plans…
This is why the whole "free speech" shtick of the American right is totally fake, the opposite of the truth, a classic Orwellian sleight of hand, doublespeak, doublethink, where everything is the virtual opposite of what is stated.
1/🧵news.sky.com/story/us-plans…
What this is about, is ideological purity, a fake right wing racist and white supremacist narrative, carefully dressed up in false justifications. It's a narrative based on total lying. The oligarchs, peddling this new fascism, know that their specious narrative doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
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So they know they need to control the narrative, just like in the old Soviet Union. The irony is incredible, the right are using state communist mind control tactics. To control intellectuals, who see through their mindless, unintelligent lies.
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Going through the files at the moment, starting with Aug 1st & it's a real clusterfuck!
Meanwhile, I have to wait on that cowardly wanna-be-activist Nella anyway who still seems to be more interested in her noon existent reputation instead of helping people in need, it might be
Meanwhile, I have to wait on that cowardly wanna-be-activist Nella anyway who still seems to be more interested in her noon existent reputation instead of helping people in need, it might be
good timing for some more words of clarification. You MUST have noticed that I VERY bluntly not only reveal a lot of personal stuff of myself but also of others, like Böhnchen, Anke or even Nella of whom I had a higher opinion compared to the majority of other h00mans. There's a
very simple reason for that, and a very different one than what you most likely expect! For more than 10 years, I am pretty used to attacks on a very personal level, the moment I start to point out circumstances (or behavior) that are unacceptable. And obviously I am, of course,
I used to say 10–15 years to be conservative.
No longer.
The eurozone is on a 3–5 year countdown.
2026–27 is now the most probable rupture window.
Here’s my exact timeline — and every force guaranteeing the end of the EU as we know it.
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No longer.
The eurozone is on a 3–5 year countdown.
2026–27 is now the most probable rupture window.
Here’s my exact timeline — and every force guaranteeing the end of the EU as we know it.
🧵↓
The calendar (bookmark this 📌):
Q4 2025 – Q1 2026
French deficit 6.5–7 %, spreads vs Germany >150 bps. ECB quietly restarts secret bond buying.
Spring 2026
French snap elections → total parliamentary chaos. French 10-yr yields test 4–5 %.
Summer 2026
Trump tariffs hit full force (1.5 % GDP loss). Germany deep in recession. AfD largest party in eastern states.
Autumn 2026
ECB balance sheet >€10 tn. Germany threatens Eurosystem exit or “parallel accounting.” Northern revolt goes public.
2027 (2028 absolute latest)
One weekend: TARGET2 explodes, southern bank runs, ECB imposes capital controls. Euro fractures into neuro/seuro blocs or simply dies.
2030
EU still exists on paper. Single currency for 20 countries? Gone.
Q4 2025 – Q1 2026
French deficit 6.5–7 %, spreads vs Germany >150 bps. ECB quietly restarts secret bond buying.
Spring 2026
French snap elections → total parliamentary chaos. French 10-yr yields test 4–5 %.
Summer 2026
Trump tariffs hit full force (1.5 % GDP loss). Germany deep in recession. AfD largest party in eastern states.
Autumn 2026
ECB balance sheet >€10 tn. Germany threatens Eurosystem exit or “parallel accounting.” Northern revolt goes public.
2027 (2028 absolute latest)
One weekend: TARGET2 explodes, southern bank runs, ECB imposes capital controls. Euro fractures into neuro/seuro blocs or simply dies.
2030
EU still exists on paper. Single currency for 20 countries? Gone.
Why the euro is the detonator that blows the entire EU apart
It is the unbreakable chain that forces 20 wildly different economies to share one currency and one central-bank interest rate.
France (114 % debt, permanent >5 % deficits, four prime ministers in 12 months) cannot cut spending without riots.
If ECB lets France default → euro credibility dies overnight → Italy (real debt >120 %) collapses next.
If ECB prints to save them → German savers are robbed → Bundesbank mutiny → northern exit.
One crack and the whole supranational house of cards collapses.
It is the unbreakable chain that forces 20 wildly different economies to share one currency and one central-bank interest rate.
France (114 % debt, permanent >5 % deficits, four prime ministers in 12 months) cannot cut spending without riots.
If ECB lets France default → euro credibility dies overnight → Italy (real debt >120 %) collapses next.
If ECB prints to save them → German savers are robbed → Bundesbank mutiny → northern exit.
One crack and the whole supranational house of cards collapses.
