The killer app for Strong AI is not all this augmentation stuff going on.
Thats just embroidery around the edges.
Its uploading billions into a virtual Matrix that is earthlike and guarantees a practically immortal existence. Going in there also allows us to go out there. Travel safely among the stars. Establish discreet respawn points.
This timeline is also the only way to obtain the closest alignment.
But you knew that.
Per Geneva Abdul at The Guardian, two men were convicted of wounding Iran International journalist Pouria Zeraati in a 2024 knife attack outside his west London home, with prosecutors telling jurors the assault was ordered by a third party acting on behalf of the Iranian state: "A deliberate, targeted attack on a journalist, carried out after months of planning and surveillance.”
Cheka mate
BREAKING - Marxist Communist SEX ORGY!
Communist Xi Jinping called for deeper dictating, military dictating, and strategic dictatorship cooperation with Marxist Dictator Kim Jong Un, marking his latest sex-tourist trip there.
The world as will and representation
⚡️🇫🇷 STORY - A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.
He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.
His name is Fabrice Bellard.
Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.
Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.
In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.
Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.
He was not done.
In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.
He kept going.
In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.
In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.
Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.
Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org
He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.
A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.
He is still shipping.
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⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:
I propose that we discuss and organize with the Chinese because they are reasonable people.
They are not gringos ready to pull out their Colt every five minutes to exterminate whoever displeases them.
They are reasonable people. So let's talk with reasonable people.
https://24242.io/014ddc3e22c4efd69b4de299f8c8070fec9f42d52ae7669a8b6a5ddfc2b46719.mp4
“Among 37 language-exclusive countries, we found—consistent with the implications from our China case study—that those with more state media control have more favourable portrayals of the regime from LLMs queried in the country’s language,” the authors write.
The authors study how state-controlled media influences AI responses by first doing a deepdive on China, then taking the methodology they developed there and applying it to a broader set of countries.
THERE HE GOES! GET HIM!
Recursive self improvement now condemns the nation-state form
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/05/demise-of-the-nation-state-rana-dasgupta
" . . . our nation-state system is already in a crisis from which it does not currently possess the capacity to extricate itself. It is time to think how that capacity might be built. We do not yet know what it will look like. But we have learned a lot from the economic and technological phases of globalisation, and we now possess the basic concepts for the next phase: building the politics of our integrated world system. . . ."
Human weakness via rage: One notable phenomenon was that the human took riskier actions as they tried to catch up with the systems: “the human pilot, typically trailing the autonomous agents, attempted increasingly aggressive maneuvers to close the gap, often resulting in gate collisions or loss of control,” they write. After the race, the pilot reflected on what made the machines so good, and they said a significant thing was “the agents’ ability to maintain extremely tight formations, noting that such close-proximity flight would be difficult for human pilots to sustain. In addition, he reported that densely packed groups increased cognitive workload, making it challenging to anticipate and execute overtaking maneuvers when several opponents were flying in close proximity” FROM
Jack Clark - Import AI
