Elon Musk radikalisiert momentan die englische Öffentlichkeit mit rechtsradikalen Botschaften. Extreme politische Inhalte werden von einem rechten Algorithmus gezielt gepusht, andere werden unterdrückt. Deshalb: X gehört reguliert und Musks Einfluss eingeschränkt - international!

"We’re living through a strange cultural reversal in which eroticism—that infamous, age-old, reliable conduit for human pleasure, imagination, and the beautifully chaotic, ungovernable side of being human—has been quietly evacuated from everyday life through alarmless emergency exits."

“The coming Slopocalypse will be the moment when the environment of the Internet can no longer support human intention. In other words, it’ll be the point when our incentives are so misaligned with powerful corporations and the technologies they provide that we can no longer accomplish what we want”

Matthew absolutely NAILED the magnificent Simone Weil in this episode. For any others who love Weil, this is definitely worth a listen.

Denkt dran: Der Klassenkampf ist noch nicht vorbei!

@edzitron.com might find it interesting that the AI-skeptic view is kinda sorta slowly going mainstream: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

This is one of the greatest screenshots anyone has ever sent me

I’m old enough to remember when companies charged you more (time or money), it meant you got an upgraded product. Now the opposite is the norm. Duolingo’s switch from hearts to energy gives you less product for your time/money. It also makes no sense—less time on the app equals less ad revenue.

I feel like an alien walking around with one of these antiques everywhere I go, while everyone else buries their faces in glowing screens.

Ich höre immer wieder, Social Media ist gefährlich für Kinder. Als Vater von Kids (10 und 17) sage ich ja, stimmt. Man sollte sie begleiten, sich selbst Expertise aneigenen etc. Als Sohn und Bekannter von Boomern, muss ich aber sagen. Social Media ist hier noch viel gefährlicher. Die dürfen wählen.

More low-tempo than my usual Medium story, but here’s my argument for preserving culture in the high-tech age based on Shakespeare’s tumultuous history.

The brain worm is still working its magic.

Next time somebody asks me "what if I'm wrong" I'm just going to start asking "what if I'm right?"

The AI bubble is bursting, and the things that will accelerate the collapse are NVIDIA's growth slowing, the death of AI startup funding, the collapse of a major AI startup, big tech turning on AI, and a collapse of neoclouds like CoreWeave. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-bubble-20...

Premium newsletter: My 14.5k word piece, "AI Bubble 2027" - extrapolations of what may happen in the next 18 months, conditions that might accelerate a collapse, and how OpenAI and Anthropic overstate user numbers and revenues while hiding their awful burnrates. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-bubble-20...

Tja, eine weitere schreckliche Nacht hier in Kyjiw gewesen. Und leider ist es noch nicht vorbei mit den Drohnen. Bisher mindestens acht Tote.

“Flow state” sounds like a characteristic of the exhaust on your car. First the industrial world and now the machine world subtly shapes the language we use in ways that constantly try—intentionally or not—to remove us, the humans, from it.

Maybe it’s me, but “flow state” sounds way more boring than “rhythmic, orgiastic, Dionysian ecstasy,” but of course, we have to operationalize everything these days and try to strip the human vivacious from it all.

One thing I think people need to get used to is that not everything works out the way it did in the past and, indeed, new things are going to burst forth from this chaos that can be energising and, I believe, lead to better things. And at the very least we may see some smarmy perverts proven wrong

Watching @edzitron.com make excellent points on Newcomer. He shows the AI-market faithful for what it is—a religion:

Fascists have to cancel public broadcasting, but Sunny Days and neighborhoods are forever. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/271-the-miseducation-of-prageru

I mean, they are singing from the same sheet of music in a way - shareholders. If the big whale shareholders have decided LLMs are over, CEOs will change their tune very quickly.

Here's part 2 of this week's two-part episode of Better Offline. I walk you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta’s AI capex - and how this will harm both our economy and markets. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

I'd love to live in a country where law enforcement views prolific child sex traffickers as a higher priority than your gardener.

"You’re not training for the fucking Olympics, Carol, you’re training for…what exactly? Oh, right, another fucking Tuesday. You do the same six things every single day in a slightly different order and pretend it’s freedom."

Also, this is a significant moment, a huge one. I don't know if there's another hiring freeze on at Meta right now. Their only hiring freeze is for the thing that everybody says is the future. Will they spin it as "efficiency"? Sure. I don't think it will play that way for long. Blood in the water.

It's Joever. Various old men that look and sound like Dracula are complaining that A.I. talent is taking away from what's most important: shareholder buybacks. This is what they start doing when they are tired of whatever dog and pony show a company is doing. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahha hell yeah dude

Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now

Hot take: “Life coaching” needs to go away.

A combination of AI and police cameras in Hamburg to investigate "[how] social relationships between local actors and those with state actors like the police changing." Yikes. This makes me thankful to be in an Asian city that's well behind the times.

AI Slop is coming for the open internet. I shed a single proverbial tear to think that this is how such a beautiful project like the Open www dies by *literally* mindless slop churned out by machines using probability predictions.

I just discovered fellow Big Tech critic (though he's a lot better at it than I am) @edzitron.com—and he is awesome. Follow Ed to stay sane in the Big Tech era. My early-2024 prediction that Generative AI might just fizzle out is still holding up well.

I’ve been revisiting Jean-Paul Sartre’s essays lately, those beautiful, verbose slogs of aesthetic perfection. They’ve inspired me, here in Thailand; I’ve got a new essay on U.S. culture from-a-distance coming up in Counter Arts on Medium.

Aside from being a professional writer, I'm also a musician. Here's my cover of Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor, played on synthesizers in FL-Studio (links in thread):

I hope the rest of the world understands that only 23.1% of the U.S. population voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Ich hoffe, dass die Welt versteht, dass nur 23,1 % der US-Bevölkerung für Trump gestimmt haben.

Wellness influencers love bashing statins and peddling cholesterol pseudoscience to sell supplements. Yet statins are one of the most effective—and most inexpensive—health interventions ever. Dr Danielle Belardo joins me on Clarity Lab to discuss. sirishealth.substack.com/p/what-you-n...

Η Ελλάδα είναι στα μπαλάκια της, δεν κάνει μαλακίες. Greece is goin' wild (again).

Ebenfalls. Genau das Gleiche.

crazy how this app is actually pretty good

Super glad we’ve finally got a new old-Twitter.

…und anstrengend.

This isn’t an immediate cause for alarm, as much more needs to be learned before anyone can say anything definitively, but this mutation in H5N1 is alarming. H5N1 doesn’t usually infect humans and has a difficult time spreading in humans, but when it does, it’s unusually lethal.

Let’s get this party started.

Me, myself and nein.

It's time someone thoroughly vetted (and debunked) the "fertility crisis" panic that's been all over the media.

My latest on why generative AI might not be either a utopian dreamscape or apocalyptic hellscape: