Netizen: 18: Ukraine

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

18: Ukraine

Before talking about elections in Ukraine, the US should first demand free and fair elections in Russia.
— Marko Mihkelson (@markomihkelson) February 18, 2025

Oligarchs, monarchs, and dictators gathering to divide up a sovereign nation's territory, resources, and people. This has little to do with national interests of the US or Russia (or Saudi), and everything to do with enriching individuals. The Russian model has been exported. https://t.co/0dJsmhrEaa
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) February 18, 2025

obsessing over grok is considered working 😉 https://t.co/Rzv5srgQBm
— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) February 18, 2025

The average household in America has over $21,000 in credit card debt, while the average credit card interest rate is above 28%.

Congress needs to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent.
— Rep. Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) February 18, 2025

Putin is now asking for a new election in Ukraine, conducted in a specific manner that he can influence, so that he can install his puppet and accomplish that which he couldn’t militarily. Nice try, Vladimir. Try holding a free and fair election in your own country first…
— Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸 (@RepBrianFitz) February 18, 2025

I got to see the ocean for the first time in over 11 years because @realDonaldTrump released me from prison.

On this President's Day, I would like to acknowledge a truly great American President, one who cares about freedom and second chances. Here's to you President Trump. pic.twitter.com/WQuJBf1PaS
— Ross Ulbricht (@RealRossU) February 17, 2025

BREAKING: OPENAI CO-FOUNDER ILYA SUTSKEVER IS RAISING MORE THAN $1B FOR HIS STARTUP AT A VALUATION OF OVER $30B AS PER BLOOMBERG

holy crap

this dude left Sam Altman, named his AI startup Safe Super Intelligence, got it valued at $1B…

& now just 30x’ed the valuation in 4… pic.twitter.com/v6hDmuWpx3
— amit (@amitisinvesting) February 17, 2025

Been at @xAI for 3 months, and today’s the most exciting day yet. The Grok 3 demo tonight’s got the office thrilled, everyone’s honing it. Stoked to be on the smartest team. Get ready for something huge! 😎
— Bill Yuchen Lin (@billyuchenlin) February 18, 2025

it’s now socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands
— alli (@sonofalli) February 17, 2025

The US DID NOT SEND $500 billion to Ukraine.
It DID NOT SEND $250 billion.

The US spent $106 billion in assisting Ukraine between 2022 and 2024. 70-80% of that was spent IN THE US

And Trump wants to strong arm Ukraine into "paying back" 500 billion?

How can you be a decent…
— Adrian P 🇷🇴🇺🇦 (@AdrianP_doc) February 18, 2025

Have I got this right….
The world’s liberals are enraged with a Republican U.S. president because he wants to STOP two wars?
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 18, 2025

Modern Indian making 20L in income probably has a better life than Akbar

Clean water, food accessibility, electricity, instant communication, life expectancy of 75+ years, travel anywhere

Size of home is probably only where Akbar wins

We underestimate progress, and our luck
— Aviral Bhatnagar (@aviralbhat) February 18, 2025

Throughout its history, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has served as a bridge for dialogue and a convener for peace. HRH the Crown Prince’s directive to host today’s meetings in Riyadh between the U.S. and Russia underscores the Kingdom’s leading role and its enduring commitment to… pic.twitter.com/IPhYLNoGWE
— Reema Bandar Al-Saud (@rbalsaud) February 18, 2025

They'll be saying the same things about "unique opportunities to partner" with China soon enough. We'll see if Rubio has been sufficiently lobotomized to still be the puppet for that show too.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) February 18, 2025

Karpathy on Grok 3:

"The impression overall I got here is that this is somewhere around (OpenAI) o1-pro capability,

and ahead of DeepSeek-R1, though of course we need actual, real evaluations to look at."

Sooooo, I was forced to resign for saying basically the exact same… https://t.co/vgkF2HbtUw
— Benjamin De Kraker (@BenjaminDEKR) February 18, 2025

Enjoy Grok 3. It’s amazing model and the team worked excruciatingly hard to ship it
— Yaroslav (@512x512) February 18, 2025

Elon Musk and his minions want access to your bank account and medical information.

Meanwhile.

Extreme MAGA Republicans in the House have introduced a bill to make Donald Trump’s birthday a federal holiday.

We need to defeat every single one of them.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeemjeffries) February 18, 2025

Federal holiday? Mount Rushmore? https://t.co/cxH7dLWDmJ
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) February 18, 2025

After bringing together several European leaders, I have just spoken with President @realDonaldTrump and then with President @ZelenskyyUa.

We seek a strong and lasting peace in Ukraine. To achieve this, Russia must end its aggression, and this must be accompanied by strong…
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) February 17, 2025

I tested Grok 3 vs. ChatGPT o3-mini vs. DeepSeek R1

o3-mini just crushed both Grok 3 and DeepSeek R1 pic.twitter.com/EHokdUEeWJ
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) February 18, 2025

All you need to know to understand which company will win a technology competition is look at the first and second derivatives of the rate of innovation https://t.co/rImcrpzfeY
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2025

I’m unemployable

I’m good at sales, good at marketing, good at development, good at operations

I don’t even know what I would apply for

Building businesses is the only thing I can do
— Omar (@notomarsol) February 18, 2025

The unfortunate reality of today is that outrage sells, and leads to more outrage.

In this sense, outrage is a negative externality, pretty much like pollution.

Social media platforms *can* break this self-reinforcing loop, but they won't because it hurts their ad revenue.
— Paras Chopra (@paraschopra) February 18, 2025

Notice anything about the Xai team working on Grok 3? 👀 pic.twitter.com/0fCZhty4kB
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) February 18, 2025

My heart sinks when a startup sends me a Carta link. Carta clearly has a vision of the world where everything to do with the mechanics of startup funding happens on Carta. But just using email is so much quicker and more flexible.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) February 18, 2025

I got to use Grok 3 extensively (early). My mind is blown, very impressive model 🤯 Congrats to Elon and the team for bringing it to life 👊
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) February 18, 2025

Congratulations to @xai for building world-class reasoning models in such a short period. This is a super strong response from America to DeepSeek. America builds fast, and xAI team and Elon are setting the bar for it! When the API becomes available, we'll integrate!
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) February 18, 2025

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) February 18, 2025

You know all this "cost cutting" isn't going to help the taxpayers at all, right? If it was me, I'd cut costs (carefully), raise taxes on corporations and balance the budget. That's not what Trump and Elon are planning. They're going to use all the savings for corporate tax cuts.
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) February 18, 2025

I started Thinking Machines Lab alongside a remarkable team of scientists, engineers, and builders. We're building three things:
- Helping people adapt AI systems to work for their specific needs
- Developing strong foundations to build more capable AI systems
- Fostering a…
— Mira Murati (@miramurati) February 18, 2025

for our next open source project, would it be more useful to do an o3-mini level model that is pretty small but still needs to run on GPUs, or the best phone-sized model we can do?
— Sam Altman (@sama) February 18, 2025

On this day in 1776, Edward Gibbon published the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a monumental work he would complete in six volumes by 1788.

If you haven’t read all six (which I highly recommend you do), here are the main things you need to know! 🧵 pic.twitter.com/ywHJimUgXg
— Today in History (@HistoryNutOTD) February 17, 2025

Y'all need to stop looking at that flipped over airplane and get to work.
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) February 18, 2025

BREAKING: I have officially qualified for matching funds and am proud to report **19 TIMES** more cash on hand than my opponent, the incumbent. Our campaign will do the impossible and pull off the biggest citywide political upset in over 30 years.

This is our moment! 💪💰 pic.twitter.com/UWOleSsWhN
— Jenifer Rajkumar (@JeniferRajkumar) February 18, 2025

Those who are easily affected or offended by trivial matters are often using them as a distraction from deeper fears or larger challenges in life.
— Kunal Shah (@kunalb11) February 18, 2025

been grinding nonstop to make grok great again

may i say we did it?

just now catching a breather but no time for celebration (and little time for tweets)

we have more coming for yall! ❤️
— Greg Yang (@TheGregYang) February 18, 2025

KIIT काण्ड झिल्को मात्र हो।

यदि नेपाल सरकारले इण्डीयामा जस्तै निजी बिस्व बिद्यालय खोलन इजाजत देको भए न नेपाली विधार्थी KIIT जस्तो खाते निजी बिद्यालयमा पढ़न जान्थे न यो दर्दनाक घटना हुन्थ्यो। नेपालका नेता र सरकारी बिस्व बिद्यालयका पदाधिकारीहरू डाडूमा पानी उंभालेर तेहि पानीमा…
— Rudra Pandey (@rudrarajpandey) February 18, 2025

xAI is proof that we can all get more done in a year than we think.

Time to amp it up.
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) February 18, 2025

Wow. This post from a Ukrainian soldier says it all. pic.twitter.com/QyM5z1u5wZ
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) February 18, 2025

I remember feeling this for the first time in 1983... https://t.co/NIur01d8tx
— Paul Graham (@paulg) February 18, 2025

When the Cong was in power, election commissioners were appointed by executive fiat, opposition wasn’t even consulted. Now BJP appoints them by a majority of its own in a 3 member committee. Ideally the spirit of the SC order should have been kept to ensure an ‘independent’ EC… https://t.co/YYAC4Gv0Ma
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) February 18, 2025

why have I never seen a Native American restaurant?
— Patrick Blumenthal (@PatrickJBlum) February 17, 2025

Make Elon fly 100% commercial if he’s so confident https://t.co/Jmhxw3onre
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 18, 2025

I am stunned by how quickly checks and balances in the U.S. have collapsed. It’s as if they never existed-just a handful of people can seize control of the executive and ignore the courts

In Ukraine, that wouldn’t stand. If the judiciary failed, people would be in the streets /
— Tymofiy Mylovanov (@Mylovanov) February 18, 2025

Ukraine greatly values its relations with Türkiye, the mutual understanding we share, and the support we receive in this extraordinary time of war. We are grateful for the warm welcome, hospitality and absolutely constructive approach in our negotiations.

Today, together with… pic.twitter.com/VmiScW6Kys
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 18, 2025