Golden 😂

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

I went to Russia once and the visa process was onerous but I wasn't required to hand over five years of social media history.

"Land of the free"

This and the Reddit AMA (12 years ago, but didn't know about it) were a positive start for my day.

People keep asking me if I’m ready for Christmas.

"Absolutely! Let's jump right in." "But... but... was he using the latest and greatest #AISlop GPT 17.0 model? Ha?"

It's National Motorcycle Ride Day 🏍️ Post a scene with a Motorcycle... 🖤

Oh, but you see, it's not the machine's fault. The magic is in how you write the prompt! It's not "plan a trip to Mars for me", it's "hey GPT, plan a trip for me to Mars AND back".

Not that long time ago, this would have been an Onion article. Boy, morning coffe news headlines sure changed.

Zelensky at the UN General Assembly session:

The #shooting hashtag sure is very diverse on Bluesky.

brazil is on the way of implementing a similar age-verification system to the uk that is """for the children""" and if that ends up happening i'll have to shut down deck.blue i'm operating under brazilian laws and i don't want to build a verification system that will do more harm than anything else

Finished Wayward Pines and Snowpiercer recently. Both went down smooth. I'm very much into dystopias lately, I wonder why?

Very strange indeed... 🫧💢

Looks like it’s a bigger scam than crypto. Sam Altman is the Elizabeth Holmes of Elon Musks…

Here I am, insisting on the creatives whose work I crib from are compensated, and they are using that good will to rip me the fuck off. Fuck you. Fuck everybody that uses this shit. Fuck Gen AI and fuck you for using or liking it even ironically as a joke, fuck you all you bitchshit motherfuckers

AI tech stocks taking a dive. Sam Altman: "Calm down people! It's only a drill! We need to exit in an orderly fashion. Me first!" 🔥😂

Read this yesterday, still amusing in the morning.

Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood. He's turning the homes into a compound. That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe. I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.

QTP with your very first mobile phone Alcatel One Touch (1998). So tiny. Replaceble battery. Monophonic ringtones. 15 calls record.

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

If you see this, I beg you to post a pic from your device without context.

Speaking of guns, since the ostensible justification for having them in the US (standing up to government tyranny) is clearly bullshit, it seems the only reason for having them is to commit mass murder, shoot schoolchildren, kill hapless animals, commit suicide, or keep people from taking your guns.

Autumn vibes in August. Perfect. 🎧 Big Thief - Shark Smile (edit) Playlists: #MusicSky, #Autumn, #Introspective, #MovieSoundtracks

After binge watching S2 of Severance (which was awesome), I needed to tip the balance so I finished watching Stick. Now it's not on par with Ted Lasso, but it's a good, cozy, feel good show. And Owen Wilson's voice and acting is so calming. He really wasn't faking it in Paint.

Our humanity is doomed. Syria finally had peace, only to be disturbed by power-hungry psychopaths no better than Russia. Fuck this world, fuck this timeline.

A message to the super rich

Is sorting emails into folders after getting back from vacation the procrastination equivalent to rearranging office stationery on your desk?

Hey artists, quote with your woman #art!

00:32 is the second nausea started to build up. At 01:00 I threw up. "Edging" with quantum physics is also what I do at 4 AM when my brain can barely function, so I watch Stanford lectures on quantum mechanics on Youtube at 2x speed. AMA on what I managed to learn 😒

Man, Whatsapp is such a stupid, embarassing piece if software. I've added a secondary account then deleted it. And it decided to indiscriminately erase all its local storage, including from the main account.

Why this isn't common sense knowledge is beyond me. Number 1 problem with society is INEQUALITY. Period. I guess it's easier to hate on the powerless, less fortunate than on someone that has you by the balls. The squeeze is getting tighter every day though, so how much more can one take?

My god these guys are such spectacular morons gizmodo.com/billionaires...

Jesus. Just google it like a normal person and find out it's cancer.

The paper has really good data on 40 million (!) Civitai images and 230,000 models, showing that despite what Civitai claimed the site is mostly used for porn www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

It's also funny that people get angry at the EU for the popups, not at the companies, which choose to go the popup route instead of not selling users data.

"I have learned to accept who I am — that I am not like most people — and people conflate my passion and vigor with anger or hate, when what they’re experiencing is somebody different who deeply resents what the powerful have done to the computer." Same Ed, same.

A dream come true to talk about my book Empire of AI on PBS NewsHour. I discuss OpenAI, Sam Altman, & why we do not have to accept the extraordinary harms of the current trajectory of AI development. Thank you Ali Rogan for having me! Order my book: empireofai.com. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

"GDP per capita is like putting someone's head in an oven, their feet in a fridge, and saying that their body temperature is normal"

Here’s last night’s story about the AI-generated content that’s taking over the internet, why it can be harmful, and the heartbreaking tale of a single AI cat father. He made us feel again. youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Respect for whoever at WaPo covered this and got the footage onto social media

Oh I see how it is DMCA notice for us plebs but corps can bootleg what they like.

I'm torn. I can't decide if the Bezos wedding is a metaphor for much of what's wrong with society, or a microcosm of much of what's wrong with society.