Barzin
@barzin.sanctus.ca
Iranian-Canadian dude who runs Sanctus.ca and tries to survive other human beings, bro what even is this planet. Works in AI and human biological rejuvenation. Refuses to consider LLMs conscious until they start demanding the Epstein files be released.
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Barzin
@barzin.sanctus.ca
· Nov 10
Oh, right, pinned posts, yea? 🤔
My name is Barzin, I work at my little bootstrapped IT & marketing start-up at sanctus.ca which I created for a few reasons. One, because I wanted to be my own boss, second because I was tired of watching big tech rip off and just about enslave people.
My name is Barzin, I work at my little bootstrapped IT & marketing start-up at sanctus.ca which I created for a few reasons. One, because I wanted to be my own boss, second because I was tired of watching big tech rip off and just about enslave people.
Popular news media completely avoiding the possibility that people will just be a noetic cloud floating in hyperspace before they finally understand true enlightenment is letting go of all attachments and liberate themselves from samsara
September 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Popular news media completely avoiding the possibility that people will just be a noetic cloud floating in hyperspace before they finally understand true enlightenment is letting go of all attachments and liberate themselves from samsara
OpenAI: calls them agents even though it's just an LLM with web search
Meta: calls it superintelligence when it's just a light agent in a pair of AR glasses that lets you turn down the volume on your annoying Spotify music by sliding your finger on the folding handle
Meta: calls it superintelligence when it's just a light agent in a pair of AR glasses that lets you turn down the volume on your annoying Spotify music by sliding your finger on the folding handle
a group of spongebob characters are standing around a table with the caption oh brother this guy stinks
ALT: a group of spongebob characters are standing around a table with the caption oh brother this guy stinks
media.tenor.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
OpenAI: calls them agents even though it's just an LLM with web search
Meta: calls it superintelligence when it's just a light agent in a pair of AR glasses that lets you turn down the volume on your annoying Spotify music by sliding your finger on the folding handle
Meta: calls it superintelligence when it's just a light agent in a pair of AR glasses that lets you turn down the volume on your annoying Spotify music by sliding your finger on the folding handle
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
The real reason he got all that CIA funding 🍆
Just realised Mark Zuckerberg invented Meta Glasses just so he could film you all in the nude and make a database of everyone's genitals.
September 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The real reason he got all that CIA funding 🍆
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me, age 15: conservatism seems like a fundamentally evil belief system
me, age 21: actually it is more complicated than that, things are very complicated and everyone has their own way of seeing things. i am very smart
me, age 3x: no i was right the first time nvm
me, age 21: actually it is more complicated than that, things are very complicated and everyone has their own way of seeing things. i am very smart
me, age 3x: no i was right the first time nvm
September 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
me, age 15: conservatism seems like a fundamentally evil belief system
me, age 21: actually it is more complicated than that, things are very complicated and everyone has their own way of seeing things. i am very smart
me, age 3x: no i was right the first time nvm
me, age 21: actually it is more complicated than that, things are very complicated and everyone has their own way of seeing things. i am very smart
me, age 3x: no i was right the first time nvm
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Alex Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein, a rapist and abuser, a sweetheart deal. Epstein continued to abuse girls while in prison, after which Trump made Acosta Labor Secretary in his first term.
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp
September 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Alex Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein, a rapist and abuser, a sweetheart deal. Epstein continued to abuse girls while in prison, after which Trump made Acosta Labor Secretary in his first term.
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp
Facts confirmed as having a liberal bias
Who actually commits political violence in the United States? Here’s what the data says
Who actually commits political violence in the United States? Here’s what the data says
Extensive federal and academic research indicates that right-wing extremists are responsible for most domestic terrorism deaths in the United States. Studies consistently find that violence linked to progressive or environmental groups is far less common and rarely as lethal.
www.psypost.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Facts confirmed as having a liberal bias
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Supplementary information for this article as collected by Fleetwood:
• How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: siboehm.com/articles/22/...
• Outperforming cuBLAS on H100: a Worklog: cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperform...
• How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: siboehm.com/articles/22/...
• Outperforming cuBLAS on H100: a Worklog: cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperform...
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference by Horace He (Thinking Machines' blog, an AI lab founded by Mira Murati)
Connectionism will cover topics as varied as their research is: from kernel numerics to prompt engineering. Here, they share what they are working on.
Connectionism will cover topics as varied as their research is: from kernel numerics to prompt engineering. Here, they share what they are working on.
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models.
For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the...
thinkingmachines.ai
September 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Supplementary information for this article as collected by Fleetwood:
• How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: siboehm.com/articles/22/...
• Outperforming cuBLAS on H100: a Worklog: cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperform...
• How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: siboehm.com/articles/22/...
• Outperforming cuBLAS on H100: a Worklog: cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperform...
Hot damn it's happening
September 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hot damn it's happening
Naive AI Alignment without reckoning for geopolitical subversion could potentially become a disastrous global cultural imposition.
Not sure if @karenhao.bsky.social is already aware of this paper (osf.io/preprints/ps...) but it reminded me of her work and seemed up her alley..
Not sure if @karenhao.bsky.social is already aware of this paper (osf.io/preprints/ps...) but it reminded me of her work and seemed up her alley..
WEIRD in, WEIRD out - STRAT7
Why today’s AI thinks American - and why that’s a problem. This provocative read from STRAT7 explores how generative AI tools mirror a narrow slice of humanity - WEIRD cultures and what that means for...
strat7.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Naive AI Alignment without reckoning for geopolitical subversion could potentially become a disastrous global cultural imposition.
Not sure if @karenhao.bsky.social is already aware of this paper (osf.io/preprints/ps...) but it reminded me of her work and seemed up her alley..
Not sure if @karenhao.bsky.social is already aware of this paper (osf.io/preprints/ps...) but it reminded me of her work and seemed up her alley..
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Kepler-138c and d are twice as heavy as the Earth but half our planet's density, meaning they are likely "water worlds":
science.nasa.gov/universe/exo...
They'd be covered in a massively deep ocean topped by hot vapour atmosphere, transitioning to high-pressure ice at the bottom.
science.nasa.gov/universe/exo...
They'd be covered in a massively deep ocean topped by hot vapour atmosphere, transitioning to high-pressure ice at the bottom.
September 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Kepler-138c and d are twice as heavy as the Earth but half our planet's density, meaning they are likely "water worlds":
science.nasa.gov/universe/exo...
They'd be covered in a massively deep ocean topped by hot vapour atmosphere, transitioning to high-pressure ice at the bottom.
science.nasa.gov/universe/exo...
They'd be covered in a massively deep ocean topped by hot vapour atmosphere, transitioning to high-pressure ice at the bottom.
First time using Copilot in Outlook to convert a Markdown response from Gemini into HTML in order to neatly insert it into an email, and,
it's terrible.
You know how Gen Z said Threads was so "Millennial-coded"? This experience was very "Microsoft-coded" 😛
it's terrible.
You know how Gen Z said Threads was so "Millennial-coded"? This experience was very "Microsoft-coded" 😛
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
First time using Copilot in Outlook to convert a Markdown response from Gemini into HTML in order to neatly insert it into an email, and,
it's terrible.
You know how Gen Z said Threads was so "Millennial-coded"? This experience was very "Microsoft-coded" 😛
it's terrible.
You know how Gen Z said Threads was so "Millennial-coded"? This experience was very "Microsoft-coded" 😛
I can't believe how lucky I am, after it's all said and done, that Canada took me in. I hope to grow strong to defend this country and what it stands for, this place is as close to the promised land as I've ever seen if not it.
September 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I can't believe how lucky I am, after it's all said and done, that Canada took me in. I hope to grow strong to defend this country and what it stands for, this place is as close to the promised land as I've ever seen if not it.
I keep forgetting Trump has a son - or more than one in fact - and still that hasn't stopped him from being this much of an asshole. Should be considered child abuse to be brutally honest.
September 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I keep forgetting Trump has a son - or more than one in fact - and still that hasn't stopped him from being this much of an asshole. Should be considered child abuse to be brutally honest.
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On the last episode of MLST Karl Friston said - if he had to pick one quality necessary at a minimum for an organism to have consciousness, it would be being capable of a sufficiently large temporal depth.
Temporal depth is exactly what our paper is about
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Temporal depth is exactly what our paper is about
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization: theoretical model
Multiple theoretical models of dissociative experiences have been formulated over the last century. These theories are clinically useful; however, it remains...
www.frontiersin.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
On the last episode of MLST Karl Friston said - if he had to pick one quality necessary at a minimum for an organism to have consciousness, it would be being capable of a sufficiently large temporal depth.
Temporal depth is exactly what our paper is about
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Temporal depth is exactly what our paper is about
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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I never saw this coming: A Sysinternals tool, procdump, helping to improve the security of MacOS!
www.macworld.com/article/2898...
www.macworld.com/article/2898...
Security expert details how a simple Microsoft tool led to the discovery of a serious macOS flaw
The hole was fixed by Apple in the macOS Sequoia 15.3 update.
www.macworld.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I never saw this coming: A Sysinternals tool, procdump, helping to improve the security of MacOS!
www.macworld.com/article/2898...
www.macworld.com/article/2898...
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1999: Global solar power exceeds 1000 MW.
2012: Global solar power exceeds 100,000 MW.
2022: Global solar power exceeds 1,000,000 MW.
2024: Global solar power exceeds 2,000,000 MW.
2012: Global solar power exceeds 100,000 MW.
2022: Global solar power exceeds 1,000,000 MW.
2024: Global solar power exceeds 2,000,000 MW.
September 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
1999: Global solar power exceeds 1000 MW.
2012: Global solar power exceeds 100,000 MW.
2022: Global solar power exceeds 1,000,000 MW.
2024: Global solar power exceeds 2,000,000 MW.
2012: Global solar power exceeds 100,000 MW.
2022: Global solar power exceeds 1,000,000 MW.
2024: Global solar power exceeds 2,000,000 MW.
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Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
MIT Consciousness Club
The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...
sites.google.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
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I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real
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gpt-5-codex is better, but only if you’re INSANELY specific in your prompts
(maybe use gpt-5 to prompt codex??)
(maybe use gpt-5 to prompt codex??)
September 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
gpt-5-codex is better, but only if you’re INSANELY specific in your prompts
(maybe use gpt-5 to prompt codex??)
(maybe use gpt-5 to prompt codex??)
Hey #Canada, anyone who's technically inclined and wants to start up a censorship-proof, fully decentralized social media network by and for Canadians, let me know and let's team up. More information about how it works in the link; setting up a Matrix server and outlining specs is next.
GitHub - BarzinL/North-Social: A decentralized, censorship-resistant social network protocol for Canada. Built on a peer-to-peer network of user-owned home servers, North Social prioritizes data sover...
A decentralized, censorship-resistant social network protocol for Canada. Built on a peer-to-peer network of user-owned home servers, North Social prioritizes data sovereignty, high performance, an...
github.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hey #Canada, anyone who's technically inclined and wants to start up a censorship-proof, fully decentralized social media network by and for Canadians, let me know and let's team up. More information about how it works in the link; setting up a Matrix server and outlining specs is next.
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My biggest AI flex is that I have a codebase now that costs 176K tokens to get a typical SOTA model to get up to speed with how it works and what to do with it. Apparently this is about as many words as a full-length novel.
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My biggest AI flex is that I have a codebase now that costs 176K tokens to get a typical SOTA model to get up to speed with how it works and what to do with it. Apparently this is about as many words as a full-length novel.
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This one’s fun!
CVE-2023-49565
The cbis_manager Podman container is vulnerable to remote command execution via the /api/plugins endpoint.
The web service executes with root privileges within the container environment.
CVSS 8.4
CVE-2023-49565
The cbis_manager Podman container is vulnerable to remote command execution via the /api/plugins endpoint.
The web service executes with root privileges within the container environment.
CVSS 8.4
www.nokia.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This one’s fun!
CVE-2023-49565
The cbis_manager Podman container is vulnerable to remote command execution via the /api/plugins endpoint.
The web service executes with root privileges within the container environment.
CVSS 8.4
CVE-2023-49565
The cbis_manager Podman container is vulnerable to remote command execution via the /api/plugins endpoint.
The web service executes with root privileges within the container environment.
CVSS 8.4