Ed is right about the labor issue, and artists, who mostly already couldn't make it, are losing the last of the paying work they had, from theft. But he consistently misses the larger issue: AI can't actually replace artists at even close to the level of quality and creativity.

I wish so much I didn't live in the idiocracy timeline where wilful ignorance and bigotry is valued over education and learning.

This is hilarious. And unsurprising for all of us who are trained in the humanities. STEM only quantitative supremacists don't have a clue about the vast fields of knowledge that are *very* relevant to the things that are possible and the things they don't know aren't possible that they want to do.

Anyone interested in joining a private, encrypted political/economic/intellectual chat group to share info and converse and maybe transition off social media? Oppo-fashits, pro public health, and collapse and COVID-aware folks welcome. DM for info. Post below if you can't DM and want to join.

Really, you don't say. All the ghouls who threatened to leave haven't already packed up? Who could have predicted?

No, it can't. JFC why is every single pseudoscience that was debunked 25-150 years ago coming back? This ridiculous, wasteful, and harmful nonsense is what happens when techbros who only had the narrowest of STEM educations get put in charge of things. They reinvent bunk and think they're geniuses.

I like this, what a great idea.

"In less than 36 hours since we announced that we will be sending payments to disabled SNAP recipients in the South—$100 to individuals and $250 to households—we have received more than 12,400 applications, totaling $2.7 million in requests." - they have to close the form tomorrow... no way to cover

Sundays my way. First online session since crushing fall COOP. Got up very late, did chores, watched TV, ate delicious leftovers, had a cup of hot cocoa, took a nap, max late regged the Sunday special tournaments at 9pm (4 MTTs total). 1 cash, 1 ft, 1 win! Fun times! 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

If I cared the slightest bit about baseball, this would be a great day for me as someone from Los Angeles currently living in Toronto. But I don't, so it's just unpleasantly loud and crowded lol.

#FoodBankChallenge Can we get to $5000 to start? With SNAP running out in Nov if the shutdown continues, more folks will be turning to food banks - which are already struggling since the administration cut $500 MILLION in deliveries back in the spring. teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participant/...

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

Counterpoint: no. There's a time and a place for identifying leaks, and before, during, and after a session is not it. Perfectionism is the opposite of helpful; it's debilitating, and was the biggest thing holding me back for years. It's a game. Enjoy crushing and study later.

I think there are basically only two positions in the debate about AI: 1) I have a brain and/or I'm an artist, I don't want to give them up, & f copyright theft 2) I know nothing about language, cognition, or critical thinking and I have no interest in learning, so holy cow it's transformational!

Too tired to do much of a write up, but back from another series. Fall results continue to be consistent "despite" very low "volume." LIVE Fall ring events: 11 FTs/Cashes: 3/3 ROI: 49% ONLINE Stars/ACR series events: 61 Wins/FTs/Cashes: 2/8/17 ROI: 99% Downswings are a choice! Time for a break!

I wanted to see how I'm doing compared to the "top" regs/pros in Ontario that I play with all the time. One lost so much in the last week (prob over $10k) they set their stats to private a few days ago. But I was able to find the rest. Pretty happy with my results!

I used to think this. Then I started playing every hand trying to figure out the best strategy to get my opponent, regardless of skill level, to make mistakes against me. And now I have fun playing against everyone. And it's super duper fun playing soft games with a huge ROI!

It was a good day. It's been a great week. But, you know, I'm just a rec and it's super low volume, so, like always, I must just be lucky! 🤣📈

Oooops I did it again! Sick week hahahahaha.

Don't mess with the Dr. in O8! 8th COOP title, 2nd in NLO8.

Not only is autism not a problem, much less one that needs to be solved, but I'm gonna say what no one else probably will: Autistic people are being targeted because they are the future and the biggest threat to those currently in power. Read Bulter's Parable of the Sower if this is puzzling.

What stage of science/academia are we in when people think that "identical" research papers, and not ones with novel ideas and perspectives, are actually publishable? The cultural elevation of group-think, crockery, and hallucinations as success is weird and wild.

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Day 5 of COOP. Really not my day even though there were two 8 game events, which are probably the ones I have the biggest edge in. But, as it sometimes happens, I just pretty much couldn't win a hand tonight in limit. 5 events played, 1 cash (but 2/5 were Total KOs where I won more than the buyin).

The difference between my approach to a series and pros. These are results to date for me (top) and a successful reg in the Ontario pool (bottom). My approach: curated schedule maximized for my capacity as well as game selecting the most profitable events for me while keeping table count to <=5.

Day 4 of COOP (plus bonus NLO8 OSS on ACR): - 3/4 sessions in profit (about -$200 on losing session) - 16 series events - 4 final tables (2nd, 4th, 6th, 9th) - Currently 5th on COOP leaderboard while playing about 1/4 to 1/3 of the events of the leader/all the regs - About +$1100

I treat session planning and in-session playing the same way I plan + adjust my strategy during a hand: - I come in with an idea of how I want to approach it - I adjust based on how the hand/session develops - I think of myself like I think about opponents: how can I get the max from this person?

Day 2 of COOP. Wasn't feeling great, so after running ridic bad for the last hour cancelled my plans to play another $700 in buyins and kept my risk for the day to $150. Played 3 events, cashed 2 (one is a phase, made day 2 with a big stack), and took 4th in the $20 Sunday Starter for $830.

Truly a sad day when they have to admit they're just not going to be able to manufacture consent for massacring certain populations - this time anyway - because the shooter was one of them, a conservative Christian white guy, and the calls for massacres thus need to be quickly rescinded. 😭😭😭😭😭

Newsom: "Whoa! Yes, I have terrorized California's poor for nearly 20 years, including showing up last fall to personally trash the belongings of unhoused people who were camping. But I draw the line at LEAVING people for DEAD after stealing their meds, cash, IDs. This is just too far!" Hypocrite.

My favorite Triton day is here: mystery bounty day! Bounties are worth ~400k or 16bbs (to start). How many of the players left will find the optimal adjustments when covering and/or covered at various stack depths? 👀 Let's just say that, in prior events, my work would've helped a lot of them!

Software engineer Ian Gavlick is bringing games like triple draw into the modern era of poker strategy with Stud Flop Draw. He also has some predictions for how AI will shape the future of poker... www.thinkingpoker.net/2025/09/epis...

Can an economist explain to me what happens when a "market" goes "all-in" on a fantasy that has no basis in reality and that everyone is pretending not to already know that there is zero possibility of happening? 🤣 The worst part is I'm 70% certain this insanity will continue until long after I die

What a time and resource efficiency savings! Not totally and utterly bonkers at all. 🤣

We're not being offered, much less sold, pretty much anything that isn't a total and utter delusion. The vast majority of people can't afford homes or food or medical care, and the bread and circuses that are pushed everywhere to distract us are fantasies of a future with 0 basis in reality.

(My latest!)

How are these CEOs not utterly embarrassed by this stuff, much less HOW DO THEY STILL HAVE THEIR JOBS? Releasing "products" that don't work--and that any adult with a basic education should have been able to understand when it was first proposed would never work--should lead to immediate firing.

The equivalent of AI summaries being forced on us at the top of every webpage would be if every time you visited any poker strategy website, it told you that you should always open 72o UTG and 3bet it from the blinds. If such "advice" popped up everywhere simultaneously, would you believe that too?

This is what happens when you do away with "DEI" so that the only people who get jobs are incompetent, entitled white men. Supremacist affirmative action: because otherwise how else could such ignoramuses get jobs or stay employed? They can't compete in a level playing field, so they rig the game!

An "amazing" thing that is only necessary in the most sick, repugnant, backwards country in the world...

Almost won a ring and a trip to the bahamas for my bday. 2nd in the wsop-c women's for $5.1k. Congratudolences to me!

AI literacy without Critical AI literacy is AI hype in disguise

I've been warning for a long time how late registering PKOs is extremely -EV. In my latest article, I break down some of the math and explain in detail just how much value we lose max late regging PKOs: blog.gtowizard.com/the_hidden_c...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 No, people won't be working in space. Nor will they be going to or living/working on Mars. These are lies and fantasies billionaires tell to try to convince people that the fact that they are quickly making this planet uninhabitable is fine. It's not.

LLMs can't read, understand, think, summarize, or critique. Asking it to do such things is of course not going to work. It can't replace lawyers either (and run from any lawyer that is using it to draft things or analyze for them!).

I missed all this as I've been spending less time on social media, but I appreciate Sam's take as there just isn't any good way to rank poker players. And "is a player actually profitable" is probably the only meaningful metric. Because very few MTT players are profitable. Maybe <2-5%, if that?

It's because of ignorant STEM bros like this that science is dead in the US, not to mention much of society and the environment in the process of being destroyed by "AI." And instead of realizing this truth, they're just doubling down on defending ignorance as their fields and funding burn.

That feeling when you successfully bluff to win a $700ish pot in a $30/$60 limit cash game lolololol... Yummmmm. (The key is to check raise them on the turn when they likely only have a draw at best, and then follow through on the river when the draw bricks. Turn XR in limit is weighted to nuts.)

It's not possible to do something that is a theoretical impossibility... almost always anyway. Which is how we know that the Sam Altman's of the world are lying about the potential of their products. There isn't enough energy in the universe to do it, even if it were possible.