Morning edition, Monday 19 October

The trouble is now reported well beyond Paris. @WarMonitor3 had clashes in Toulouse with calls to riot spreading around Paris, and @AvidCommentator asked when everyday French people start "demanding elections". Breaking911 posted video of rioters smashing a Decathlon in central Milan @Breaking911, and the luxury looting arrived in Marseille: @liz_churchill10 posted a street of orange boxes outside Hermès, "They took out the iconic Hermès Store in Marseilles". Breaking911 had Rolex and Louis Vuitton "completely looted and ransacked", though the post says Paris while the clip's own caption says Marseille @Breaking911. @zerohedge ran "France Enters 'Point Of No Return'".

Then came the image of the day. @AutismCapital posted a long-haired, bespectacled man calmly holding a smashed shopfront next to a huge Goku banner: "The autism shield says 'Not today, villains.'". Within minutes the replies had undercut it, with a SpongeBob "5 minutes later" shot of him mid-stumble and a "Worst. Riot. Ever." Comic Book Guy. A follow-up called it "how you think you look" versus reality @AutismCapital.

The account kept going anyway: "In the age of the orcs, the autist stands. Ultra Autist." @AutismCapital There was a cardboard Goku cutout in his honour @AutismCapital, and a pre-emptive "Haters will say this is AI" @AutismCapital.

Nayib Bukele wrote to France in French, and it was the most-shared post of the day. He'd heard France was finished and too late to save, but she is "toujours aussi belle", and El Salvador solved a problem "cent fois plus grave" in a year without France's means. His line: "La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine." @nayibbukele

He never names the riots or his method, but the feed filled both in. @AutismCapital quote-posted it with "Imagine the world if more world leaders had the courage to hit the Bukele button." No reply in the cards defended or attacked the model; the right read it as a template, and the post itself was retweeted by @zerohedge and @BitcoinPierre @nayibbukele.

Anthropic is committing shares to a new, wholly owned Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. It starts at 5%, and for every 50% rise in the company's value over a set baseline the board can add up to 2% more, which adds up to "roughly 20%" of shares committed to the public good. The post also says the co-founders have pledged 80% of their equity and about half of employees donate through a matching program @AnthropicAI.

@zerohedge's headline was "ANTHROPIC TO SHIFT SOME SHARES INTO NEW 'PUBLIC GOOD' FUND", with the sarcastic add-on "so... $5,000/person?".

Early reports out of CFB Wainwright, Alberta, said a live-fire artillery round struck an active natural gas well on the range, with secondary detonations after fires reached munitions storage. @AvidCommentator passed along the account with "Jesus Christ.....". A hospital doctor quoted by CBC called it "a one in every 15 to 25-year disaster", and @AutismCapital relayed that.

The death toll moved. BBC Breaking had PM Mark Carney saying four were killed and dozens injured in a "violent, fast-moving" fire @BBCBreaking. Later, @zerohedge relayed CBC News saying seven were dead, and its article puts the gas-pipeline cause down to a "Live-Fire Drill" @zerohedge.

@nic_carter found the official silence odd: the stated reason is notifying next of kin, "but that doesn't justify not sharing any meaningful information about what transpired".

The target was @BrianRoemmele's post claiming humans traded away short-term memory for language, so chimps can do a number-recall task we can't.

@CognitiveMetric answered first: the chimps trained for years, and humans given the same training "matched or outperformed" them. A review put chimp working memory at "2 ± 1", versus Miller's "7 ± 2" for humans. @KirkegaardEmil said the chimp in the clip is well trained and that trained humans "far outperform" it, even children, with chimp performance at 4-5-year-old human level on some tasks.

When @diegocaleiro said humans can't do this, Kirkegaard added the studies: a Springer paper on trained humans, and one comparing about 100 adult chimps with about 100 German 2.5-year-olds, in which "humans still won". The charts show two trained humans out-scoring the chimp Ayumu @KirkegaardEmil. @cremieuxrecueil, "This myth refuses to die", says you can beat the chimp record yourself and reposted his own August debunk.

Kirkegaard then put up a test page so people can try it @KirkegaardEmil. Its graphic says Ayumu gets 5 in order 80% of the time while university students manage 20-40% untrained @KirkegaardEmil.