When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

taste used to have FLAVOR

a shame how much tech reporting is basically copy pasting press releases

going to a computer repair guy and insisting on calling the motherboard the mommyboard

the shell casings were engraved with nonbinary ideology, including the phrases ‘you do not have to be good’ and ‘hey soft animal of your body, catch this’ newsweek runs a story titled ‘what is a tenderqueer?’

in the uk do yall call computer chips computer crisps? or like are browser cookies called browser biscuit?

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

MY petard? that doesn’t sound right

twice this weekend i heard someone say ‘i’m not a tiqqunist!!’

this spider is making eye contact with me

blue screen of eternal life

hitachi crudo

call yourself a situationist?? name literally one situation

CAN WE HAVE SINGULARITY WITH MACHINES IF WE DO NOT HAVE SINGULARITY WITH ONE ANOTHER?

ANYTHING CAN BE 'ON THE NOSE' WHEN APPROACHED OBLIQUELY

IRONICALLY THE HAYSTACK BECOMES MORE ELUSIVE THAN THE NEEDLE

After 9/11, Gore Vidal wrote about the importance of reading mainstream publications not as news, but as wish fulfillment for the "invisible government." During periods of geopolitical destabilization, legacy publications are simply the sounding board for justifications of the status quo ante power.

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

you always hear about folks crying in public in nyc and yeah thats a beautiful thing but nobody talks about how you also get to see so many people smiling to themselves with their little private thoughts 🥰

FORTUNE IS A CAT

ok one more observation analog cigs are making a huge comeback

scene report LA tgirls seem to have reached consensus that a little happy trail is cunt

EBITDA IS ANGEL NUMBERS FOR BOYS

As soon as you start reading history you discover that the concept of national borders is shockingly new. And as soon as you read about authoritarian governments you realize that border walls are in fact cages.

YOU CALL SEX ‘PLAY’ BUT YOU FUCK LIKE A BUREAUCRAT.

CANDY BARS AND GRANOLA BARS ARE FUNCTIONALLY THE SAME

MY BUSINESS: PLEASURE MY PLEASURE: BUSINESS

THE STATE DOES NOT GRANT YOUR HUMANITY

THE APOCALYPSE IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD AS YOU KNOW IT.

If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against End Times Fascism – a belief system that is genocidal at its core and treasonous to the wonder and beauty of this world.

UTOPIA IS NOT A PLACE

IN THE FUTURE WE WILL HOLD WITH REVERENCE THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OUR COMPUTERS CAME FROM THE GROUND.

THE COMPUTER OF THE FUTURE IS MADE OF TRASH

they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2

love to get cold calls from smoke and ash remediation services like thanks for checking in, the house is now primarily comprised of ash. the best one was when the caller was speaking kind of weirdly so I asked if he was an AI and sheepishly he admitted that he was

day 186 of not keeping a computer in my house. i have used my laptop like 10 times since September.

TIME IS A PLACE RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW

THAT WHICH ONCE PROTECTED YOU NOW CONSTRAINS YOUR REALITY WHO HAS THE KEYS TO YOUR CAR?

DESPITE MY GENTLE WAYS I AM SO EXTREME

a server is just a computer we use together <3

...since centrists consultants are crawling out of the woodwork once again to shit on us, gonna re-up this post-election essay on why it would be BAD POLITICS for Dems to throw trans people under the bus (in addition to being morally bankrupt): juliaserano.substack.com/p/should-dem...

songs with dial tones in them gotta be one of my favorite types of song

is this the gadget that solves my oppression?

They crossed the 'defying a court order' threshold and you probably aren't hearing about it because the cis like it

DO NOT TRY TO TEACH ME SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. “THE SUM OF THE ANGLES OF A TRIANGLE CAN BE UP TO 540 DEGREES” - AN IDEA DREAMED UP BY THE CRIMINALLY INSANE

I can’t wait for people in ten years to say of their gleeful transphobia today that it was a different time, same as the people who abused us in the 80s, 90s and 00s said ten years ago