Long ago when the four nations lived in harmony.

it's about to get extremely ugly as data center/AI appetite wanes. expect much, much more of this.

the irony of it being called “OpenAI” grows with each passing day.

truly embarrassing.

if only getting healthcare were this easy

“Sony says its approach to AI is less about cost-cutting and more about accelerating development” we have multiple confirmations of other orgs saying almost these exact words…and then immediately doing huge layoffs. what a joke. RIP Sony. my PS2 still works great, I’ll stick with that era.

happy July 4th to my fellow USA-ers. didn’t happen in the first 250, but hopefully we can figure out getting everyone healthcare in the next 250 years, among other improvements. =]

Henrico (where I live) is generally well governed imo. mixed bag here. should we all take steps to conserve the natural resources of our planet? yes. should we direct this energy primarily at the most wasteful big tech companies of this era instead of already-overburdened employees? mega yes.

I’m a veeeeeery casual soccer watcher (basically only World Cup) but it’s definitely been giving more NFL-ish replay vibes than in years past. maybe turn it into coach challenges only? one per half, keep if correct? currently serving baseball pretty well for balls vs. strikes.

Here's my full interview with CNBC, covering my bear case against generative AI, OpenAI's questionable finances, AI's lack of ROI, and how all of this is a symptom of the tech industry running out of hypergrowth ideas. It's great to see the mainstream media discussing this. youtu.be/TtmPccUTDP8?...

Musk and Zuck are both sellers of excess AI compute you say probably nothing

so ps6 = $1,000+ console where you own nothing? sign me up

If you are a normal human, and you value something, that is something that AI companies are trying to destroy few things are as multidirectionally malignant as these corporations

🎶 ~mythos battle pass~

funny how that same 40-60% drop is coming for RAM prices next. stay tuned. =]

not to mention that self-employment intentionally does not align with how health insurance is priced and offered in the US. without an organization subsidizing your premiums, the monthly bill is shocking.

amen. ex: they’ve been “keeping the powder dry” on healthcare for 15 years now while Obamacare has been slowly dismantled. they just want to hoard all the powder (aka money and power). we’re moving to “use your powder or get the hell out of the way.” good job NYC.

had a great time writing some Python code tonight. I genuinely love coding. if Anthropic ever successfully lobbied to outlaw Python by hand, I'd sit by the green reflecting pool coding on my Mac until they threw me in jail. stop cooking your brain. do what you love.

this all stopped being a “negotiation” a while ago. it’s a hostage situation and we are the hostages. “use our brain draining AI bot or be fired. pay $500+ per hard drive or get lost. by the way, we’re doubling your power bill so we can build more data centers and try to kill all jobs.”

it’s a mystery why negotiations haven’t succeeded yet. I’d love to know where historians rank this episode among the greatest foreign policy embarrassments/blunders of all time. like not just US, but out of all global relations. gotta be up pretty high at this point.

jesus tapdancing christ dude. jesus, mary, and chain what are they doing over there

total indictment of software engineering as a profession. this distinction is only happening because not enough devs saw code as craft, as their art form to protect. they yielded to Claude, and now I regularly hear of devs complaining that they can’t work because they have no more credits.

when RAM prices start to crash I’m 100% listening to Final Fantasy boss music while the lines go down. gonna be so sick.

pure fantasy. I’d sooner believe a chart showing zero-to-negative productivity in the last two actual years over this projection.

they haven’t been hiding it. they’d be more than happy to be the few winners in an economy full of destroyed, desperate, dying consumers. just computer chips chatting with each other while they wine and dine — that’s their ideal world.

Current “AI” from my perspective is less like a technological breakthrough—“the genie is out of the bottle”—and more a research fusion reactor: no matter how much energy and money you throw at the thing, nothing changes the fact that it costs more energy than it produces

heh, you thought the shoe company pivoting to unprofitable AI compute was genius? well now we have the AI image generator company, pivoting to *checks notes* …medical imaging in their new spa…? www.midjourney.com/medical/blog...

listening to the latest from @techwontsave.us and despite years of following the AI bubble at this point, this anecdote from a nurse about a major hallucination of their AI scribe completely stunned me. we have to resist and regulate, immediately. this cannot become the new norm.

China is making $6,000 electric cars and 5 minute charging stations. Meanwhile here we have, let's see... the 4th Reich brought to you by Monster Energy drinks.

nah, this is just Apple 1. passing the buck and 2. not bogging down their balance sheet in data center depreciation. never turning this on.

the fact that Siri AI is only allowed in the USA really gives away the whole game, doesn’t it

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

also still my favorite, and a core memory game for me. put it down for over 10 years because I couldn’t figure out what to do with the Magic Powder as a small kid. 🤣 it only added to the game’s natural mystery, and made coming back to crack those puzzles that much more exciting.

wow, illuminating charts here. the ROI is just non-existent, and you can see why more and more companies are starting to hit the panic button after seeing this month’s bill (which now reflects the ridiculous actual costs and not VC-subsidized ones).

This is fantastic news.

people buckling up because they know this thing is heading south quickly.

crazy how bad incentives lead to bad outcomes! right up there with “actually, we would make more money if you would please just die instead of us paying your bills” in our wonderful health insurance system.

It's inexcusable, and it's remarkable there's not more pushback. Y'know what ETFs like SPY & VOO do when they add a stock? They rebalance by selling all the other stocks in proportion. They are literally changing the rules to take value from shareholders of every S&P 500 company to give it to Musk.

embarrassing waste. we could have had high speed trains between every major city in America by now.

I live for the day that every single one of these PC retailers comes crawling back to consumers after the AI bust.

How many of these fucked up apologia pieces are we going to get before they give up

Charlie killed it here. my last 8 months have been spent wondering what my last 15+ years were for. if compute prices stay elevated indefinitely, we're handing the keys of society to Sam+Dario. if they crash, it looks a whole lot more appealing to CEOs to start slashing workers for bots. lose lose.

gen AI boosters really will say anything at this point to get this bubble to stick. the greatest “I’m not wrong, I swear” tour in history.

beautiful resistance. make them fire all of us.

we're in the heart of the demand destruction phase. all there is to do now is wait until the AI circular revenue merry-go-round stops. our #1 objective is to survive long enough to see markets crash and companies like Nvidia, Micron, Dell etc. forced to come crawling back to gamers. I cannot wait.

Pope Leo: “Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum.”

I like how being honest about consolidated corporate power always has to be relegated to the opinion section