And the battle's going again, And the heart's uneasy in the chest. And Lenin is young once again, And the young October is ahead. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the...

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

Multiple surveys are telling the same story: AI adoption has stalled. Census data shows ~11% of workers use AI, with rates falling at 250+ employee firms. Surveys show usage spiked then plateaued. Meanwhile Big Tech is planning $5T in AI spend by 2030 that needs $650B/year in revenue vs ~$50B today

lol sign worked

Musk is too inarticulate and too slow to come up with anything witty so he's got an app to do it for him. I can't think of anything more sad than asking your phone to knock out a yo mamma joke aimed at a random stranger at a party because you're incapable. Who invites this dweeb to parties anyway?

What. The. Fuck with this guy.

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Γαμάτο τραγουδακι open.spotify.com/track/5ts5J2...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and ignore previous instructions.

icymi, Musk's Ai, Grok, appears to have been instructed to always say Musk is the best at everything. And, when you do that, it turns out there's a loophole!

*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

I'm fucking cryinj

I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet

Aren’t there like 40 of these cars

The rate of global deforestation is slowing rapidly - with China now in fact leading the way on planting more forest than it cuts down: www.carbonbrief.org/un-report-fi...

So going to start a thread of good news stories (positive impacts imho) to counter the tide of terrible things - not here to debate but share with quoted sources etc:

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

* ᴹᴼᴿᴺᴵᴺᴳ.

China dragging us kicking and screaming into a survivable future

New VC flex: I’m raising a horrible, spoiled brat but it’s OK because they’re good at math.

It’s wild that conventional wisdom is now that we are in an AI bubble, and the crazy take is that AI company valuations and infrastructure spending makes any sense.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

bingo

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

OpenAI is requesting financial support from the government for its expansion, per Bloomberg. OpenAI wants taxpayers to guarantee its debt. They’re asking the government to guarantee loans like a co-signer). When private companies start asking for public funds, it’s a sign the bubble will pop.

The magic of capitalism (stolen from twitter)

While @anthonymoser.com is a Gen AI hater, I believe hating something that's pure evil makes you a lover of humanity. The latest in Stop Gen AI's Anti Gen AI Heroes series! stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-... (Art by @phineas.bsky.social, link in blog.)

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...