I’m not sure anything has soured me more on the concept of a rational market than Elon company valuations

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

I got really mad at a CBC article for writing a long article about intellectual property without even comprehending the basic difference between copyright and trademark, and then just as I was posting my tirade…

“I don’t know what to do with my arms, does this look natural on camera?” “Nailed it in one boss, don’t change anything” “Really, just hang my hands limply like this?” “PERFECT”

More performative premeditated killing by the Trump administration. The administration is happy to share these snuff films but won’t release the DOJ permission slip for this slaughter at sea—or even identify these “Designated Terrorist Organizations.”

Holy fuck. Especially when you combine this with the mass deportations, which are targeted more at minorities than at actually-illegal immigrants, the overt racism of this government is staggering. I can't even wrap my head around it.

I take off my blindfold. Before me is a gory tableau of death and destruction, bodies strewn across the landscape. The piñata is unscathed.

did a good post accidentally show up there

Your stripper name is your banking login, followed by your banking password, go!

Incredible. A new camera angle that makes Snap’s dork spectacles look even dorkier. bsky.app/profile/ktla...

Yes. The brain doesn’t work like AI. It’s not a computer. We use metaphors for it from technology b/c it’s really hard to understand how the brain works and we don’t entirely understand how a pile of electrified jello does all this. But it’s definitely much cooler than AI.

absolutely incredible example of AI making up problems to solve that aren’t real problems nobody needs “inspiration” on how they like their coffee??????? are you serious????? I’m asking ChatGPT to tell me what tastes good??? “computer, what do I want for breakfast?” this is dystopian actually

The confirmation bias of AI hype is that *everything* is explained by it being good. Employees hate it? AFRAID OF THE POWER. Anthropic has to rate limit? TOO MUCH DEMAND FOR POWER. There's a great new model, no, you can't try it, IT'S TOO POWERFUL. OpenAI is bleeding customers? ANTHROPIC IS POWERFUL

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

@edzitron.com 👀 whoa. I don't love Linus for a variety of reasons, but he's kind of a big deal, and this feels maybe significant as a mainstream breakthrough (towards the things you've been screaming for years).

Something ironic occurs to me. With LLMs, what “not being left behind” actually means *is* leaving yourself (the part of you that uniquely thinks and does things) behind. “Oh now that a chatbot is doing X for me, I’m much more valuable!”—huh? No! Your new role in this is to be a useless fuckwit!

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

I think what has complicated liberal enthusiasm for space exploration (I'm using "liberal" here as a proxy for the values of collectivism and love of science) is that it's been co-opted by some astonishingly evil villains. Musk most obviously, but Bezos too, and Trump with "Space Force".

It’s a useful reminder that they can just flip the light switch out on this garbage when they’re tired of losing money (it ALL loses money), none of it is “inevitable”.

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

I can’t even count all the ways YouTube is making an absolute mess of its user experience. I’m not even talking about the ads (which are deliberately annoying to incentivize paying them away), I’m talking about the tremendous clutter between you and your subscribed channels.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

“Worst she can say is no” Bro, she said I look like someone tried to draw President Taft from memory

I’m declaring this a masterpiece of the medium of social media video punditry. This does at least half a dozen things, only possible with video, to make it funnier, sharper and more engaging. It’s also an undeniably great take.

it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

@greatesttrek.com Wow what a bonus ep, incredible implications.

This annoying thing they did in Discovery has also happened in Starfleet Academy, within the span of its 10 episode first season. SAM, easily the show’s best character through 9 episodes, overtly declares in the finale, “you don’t know me, I’m not that person anymore”.

I think there's a void in current AI/LLM commentary being exploited the booster bros: neuroscience. There is plenty of commentary from the comp sci crowd exposing the secrets of genAI magic tricks, but the bubble withstands the pin prick, because people go "that's also how the brain works!"

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

There are no words for how fucking angry this makes me.

"It's a distraction!" Look, if the "distraction" involves illegally killing people (incredibly, this can apply to at least 3 things the Trump admin has done), maybe you *should* be distracted. (1) There's no higher crime, and (2) it's happening now.

"It's a distraction!" Look, if the "distraction" involves illegally killing people (incredibly, this can apply to at least 3 things the Trump admin has done), maybe you *should* be distracted. (1) There's no higher crime, and (2) it's happening now.

The hammer-in-search-of-nail with LLMs has been an exercise in stupidity from the beginning, but now it’s just pathetic. They’re flailing for a target like a blindfolded drunk swinging for a piñata, that isn’t even there.

This analysis is deeply unserious, and I'm annoyed at people reposting it, who are usually more careful. Let's get this out of the way: the Cybertruck is ugly and stupid, it's a betrayal of Tesla's mission of sustainability, and it's dangerously powerful for its size, weight and cabin vision.

This is your brain 🥚 This your brain on AI 🍳

I finally understand this Tara Lipinski commercial: defector.com/i-finally-un...

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Was checking a book's reviews on Amazon, and there's one posted by the author's (sweetly supportive) dad.

I just realized something I hate: science fiction that’s *about* the fictitious science. Like, they posit medical research accidentally creating a world-ending virus, and the point is to fear monger, “oh the hubris of man, meddling in God’s domain”. But the danger is a thing you just made up!

And when it’s not that, we get sentient pubes, the most incoherent nostalgia commercial ever, diet tips from Mike Tyson sponsored by RFK Jr

Cowards.

Are any of the racially-targeted minorities being rounded up by paramilitary goons and disappeared into lawless detention camps even *named* Anne Frank? These kinds of strained comparisons simply raise tensions, and when you think about it, that's the real problem here.

*NOW*, Robert? For *THAT* movie?! ffs. Being a fan of a sports team is a hostage situation. Everyone knows losing is miserable, but the real treat is when you also get to be ashamed and miserable to be winning.

/2 The predominant ethos of the performatively masculine Right is “if I had my way I would stop these liberals with fire and sword, the way the ancients did, but I have been prevented by cancel culture, which involves people saying mean things to and about me.”