this sentiment is the inspiration for my username: caveat ruptur (breaker beware)

entire yield curve is up after rate cuts... we are about to experience some shit.

SEPTEMBER - 2025 Trump is president of U.S. Only a broken escalator stands before him. Emotions are now battlefields.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

please keep telling us the economy has been great

The thing is that any attempt to do this will backfire. There's no plausible way to do this. The economics of llms do not allow you to spend any meaningful amount of time preparing the input data. The entire way they work - predicting tokens - is used for this exact reason, not because it's better!

Here's what happens when Abundance pretends problems can be fixed exclusively with more supply but no check on corporate power: You get housing monopolists selling off the supply to investors rather than supply creating lower prices that benefit regular people. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Would probably be a good time for you to watch this @bennjordan.bsky.social video to learn about many of the weaknesses this tech exposes.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Our customers have been begging us to increase our prices for some time. They felt like they were stealing from us.

the enemy of my enemy is also a dumbass

Powell is doing his best to be positive about AI but it's quite obvious he is not.

It's even more disgusting that all the democrats are bi (partisan)

where I live there are roving bands of murderous criminals who have been known to kill in cold blood at Burlington

i hope you guys have fun tomorrow but i don't own a rap shirt

grindr has probably generated more income than any app in history once you factor in the blackmail and extortion of conservatives.

The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now. But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine

ah yes I remember David Smith

People laugh, but the amount of companies that did this for phone books as "AAA Locksmith" or "AAA Towing" is essentially identical.

I've come to accept that the S&P line will actually go up forever, but only because the value of a dollar is absolutely plummeting. The real economy has been abysmal for everyone except homeowners and large shareholders.

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

Coverage of the Charlie Kirk Funeral begins today at 2pm on ABC, all Disney apps, Hulu, and Corncob TV

I like this -- they fed AITA posts where the humans voted "asshole" to LLMs and found that the bots would almost always tell you that you're not an asshole. ^^; No wonder they're so popular! www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

bots take up very little physical space

This is great but it's missing a CRITICAL step for iPhone users or else you will continue to broadcast your location! Settings->[Click your name at top]->Find My and disable "Find My Network" and "Send Last Location

you could adversarially automate another LLM to force tons of "cringe idiocy" out of Grok, much faster than they can "fix" infinite examples during fine tuning

It's important to train journalists how to prompt correctly. You have to give the LLM all the information, the 5 Ws, the proper context. Provide it quotations and interviews from relevant sources. Use clear and precise language so your prompt isn't misinterpreted. Put the most important stuff first.

Canceling Disney+ because they canceled Kimmel is well and good, but if you really want to make them pay attention, there is no better way than fucking Goofy's wife

Very cool that that the world is 1 major twitter outage away from total chaos. Someone’s card will get declined on a random load-bearing domain name renewal or something and the world’s functional emergency mass communication system just goes away. Good morning!

The Twitter vs Bluesky thing is boring and unhelpful because the future isn’t social media and influencers. It is collective work, blogs, books, online meets, community off apps that profile and censor us and make leaders out of fools with bot following.

it's just fication now, dei is cancelled

Making music is joy. The *process* is joy. Whether you’re playing an instrument or sequencing in a piano roll or tweaking the knobs on a synth or slicing up a drum loop to make some sickass beats. That’s the joy. Don’t outsource the *joy*.

Aside from the main issue, I can't comprehend how anyone, especially a journalist, could allow Twitter DMs at all. Elon Musk can literally just read all of your shit. Anyone who depends on sources or confidentiality puts those sources at great risk by allowing DMs.

So this New York resident kept a $50k cash payment from the FBI but did he report that on his NY income taxes?

And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

guy following 22 people and has only ever posted links to his own content has very serious opinions about the problem with bluesky, a very tired and blockworthy genre

I have a feeling the hunger survey data might show up in other ways they might find quite unexpected. Is there a pitchfork indicator?

There's a lesson here about leverage. A small group can get their way by being vocal and having that amplified by bots, but they only buy 1 subscription per human family and everyone basically pays the same price. Their voices have leverage, but their financial impact does not. Bots don't subscribe.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

ChatGPT output a good answer here, but even for the first and only arguable example of creativity, it's the human perception making it a creative act, the same way that LLMs can be unintentionally hilarious - because a human saw irony and decided to share it. The machine is like very fancy dice.

An AI-driven diagnostic tool, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), could assess Charlie Brown's existing competencies and build a bespoke degree focusing on acquiring hoes.

any boys with red hair?

anyone know of instances where influence campaigns used "subscriber capture" to manipulate metrics of large media organizations? or just targeted the metrics in general, knowing media would chase metrics? seems like several thousand "vocal" subscribers could steer coverage this way

i love using my average idea machine, which has way better ideas than i could ever think of

Wayne Connell, Chief HR officer for @washingtonpost.com, voluntarily put his name on a letter informing a Black woman that men who believe she is genetically inferior are a protected class and that she engaged in misconduct by criticizing men who have historically advocated for lynching Black people

This is great but it's missing a CRITICAL step for iPhone users or else you will continue to broadcast your location! Settings->[Click your name at top]->Find My and disable "Find My Network" and "Send Last Location

If y’all don’t stop sending campaign texts about a single comedian and find some jobs for the 300,000 Black women who’ve lost them since the current administration took over…