hahaha pakyu madapaka www.philstar.com/headlines/20...

the end of the dollar standard is nigh

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

It’s kinda hilarious how even with unequal exchange with the global south the capitalists are just so greedy that it doesn’t work. Oh well. Anyway

when i said the US is turning into the Philippines, I was wrong. the US has surpassed the Philippines now.

meanwhile Western nations make people from the third world jump through hoops to prove they have the financial capabilities NOT to do this just for a visa www.stomp.sg/singapore-se...

the best answer i got for this:

checking back on what's been happening on ex-twitter, every post is now a video or image, and clicking on one leads you to a tiktok-esque UI showing you even more videos or images. every US social media site these days are trying to become tiktok.

i’m all for more people going to libraries for their info than chatgpt

#survivor s49e02- Jeff: okay Juwan, you have a choice between having an entire tribe of people mad at you or one person mad at you. what do you choose? Juwan: i want to have a tribe of people mad at me Jeff

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

This is another 10,000 word opus - I break down the entirety of OpenAI's finances, and explain that they're just another boring AI startup trying to build products on top of their models. Sora 2 is a mirage - an unsustainable marketing tool. Anyway, subscribe at the discount link below.

so it seems the big deal comedians had with "cancel culture" is that we plebes didn't pay them to shut up

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining. The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

did we go back in time to 25 years ago?

at this pt you can’t say you are against Elon Musk and what he stands for if you continue using his hell site.

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

There's never "enough" for these people.

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Just read the whole damn thing that goes into the very depressing state of the numbers and the math that isn't mathing, but this is a very succinct representation of a specific type of feneric Executive (Dys)Function:

millennials have been saying “this meeting could’ve been an email” for years now but no one listened, and now everything is a meeting and nothing is an email.

just guess

It's that time of year again. Happy Michaelmas to all who celebrate. youtu.be/WDXLxpQdIUQ

THE MEME IS REAL

when every episode starts with the immunity challenge and spends 50mins out of 70mins showing the drama of how the players decide who goes home tonight, that’s how.

the Philippines is the reverse

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes. Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

watching s49ep1 of #survivor makes me miss #survivorAU. between the two AU feels more like actual survivor than this new era bullshit w/ the sob stories, the overly complicated yet boring challenges, and de-emphasis on strategy

if it wasn’t clear before, we are in armageddon times

I don’t say this lightly but Mr. Beast might be Satan

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

A good reminder that we used to refer to chatgpt as a "deep fake text generator" judged too dangerous to make public by OpenAI just 6 years ago

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

i like that for 2 seasons now, James Gunn has written #Peacemaker to explore his mission to “bring peace at any cost”. S1 asks “will you accept peace at the expense of free will”. S2 asks “will you accept peace at the expense of the genocide of marginalized groups”

when journalists just serve to parrot what someone else is saying, only louder, and not actually finding out the truth, this is what happens.

literally Dr Evil

American English has no direct single word equivalent to “barkada” and bec of this Americans decided to have polycules instead.

was really fascinated how they seem to have just memory holed her entire time with American Idol

Phase 6 being 2 Avengers movies, another Spider-Man movie and Fantastic Four is the reason why Marvel is doing so badly these days. None of these literally build up any of the movies / premises they set up post Endgame

Sierra forums, irc.skynet, geocities, wtf dot com, angelfire, peyups, tsinoy dot com, pinoyexchange, icq, ym, trillian, msn, friendster, multiply, livejournal, and more i cant rmb

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

seeing White Evangelicals build idols out of people whose lives and public work are the antithesis of Jesus is something we’ve grown accustomed to/

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

not everything needs a prequel

why did you buy a slop machine if you didn't want slop

it’s meaningless bc they’re still not recognizing Palestinian right to defend itself