What’s about to go down is somewhere between the Great Recession and the Great Depression. AI might not be the feature but either it or Iran will be the straw that breaks the camels back.

IS
THIS
FUCKING
GOOD

The least shocking thing ever is learning DOGE used chatGPT to identify which grants were “DEI.” It is critical to understand that LLMs are an authoritarian technology meant to win the millennia-long war on critical thinking and art. They are a right wing wet dream.

Just curious, what’s factually incorrect?

seeing news about a "memory shortage." it's not a shortage. billionaires who hate you hoarded it all so they could make everything worse and stupider and more expensive, just like with most shortages

The fact that we came out of 2008 and decided that the commodities regulator should remain separate from the securities regulator AND the corn people should have all swaps and futures is proof that we wanted to make sure we were the home for the next 2008

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Email from Epstein to Goertzel: "free and home" Goertzel replies: ";-))) Congratulations!!!! Actually, I was just about to send you an email summarizing my recent progress, current situation, and future hypothetical plans...I'll probably do so tomorrow. I'm sure you're super-swamped, but it would be great to get together when you have the chance... ben" Goertzel continues: "p.s. Also, the Singularity Summit (futurist conference, but with some good scientific speakers this year) will be in NY this year, Oct 3-4...and Oct 5-6, afterwards, there will be a brainstorming workshop I think you might enjoy (where, basically, the ~20 speakers from the Summit will get together and try to make conceptual progress on various future-science issues). I'll remind you again when the date gets closer!"

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.

Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

this is the real test of whether anthropic actually gives a shit about anything and I would be utterly unsurprised if they cave just like they did on raising funds from the middle east

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:

- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

I mean in the current climate bribes are just standard practice sadly

YouTube star Ms. Rachel sounds alarm on kids held in Texas ICE facility "I am really worried about the kids living in Dilley detention center."

MS RACHEL SHOULD NOT BE WORKING HARDER ON THIS OR GAZA THAN DEM LEADERSHIP

Overheard a teenager deploy "SHUT UP, BRO. You watch AI porn!" as a devastating insult to one of his friends, which sent the rest of their group into a laughing fit.

this is a problem

What if Abundance is just the Think Tank and PAC jobs we made along the way?

reading vibecoders talk about how great vibecoding is for engineering real things is like reading bitcoiners talk about how they think money works

i am more, not less, convinced ai and crypto are closely analogous

My favorite budget mouse hands down.

I’m 100% believe in a moon base but I know if it ever happened the contract would just go to Space X.

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

How hard are battery replacements? I have 2 sitting on my floor that totally be repurposed but been to afraid to do it myself.

I cannot possibly describe how unbelievably disappointing it has been to be one of like ten people covering Tether, a $500 million company, and screaming bloody murder about fraud, and seeing it balloon to a ~$200 billion company that tells the US government to suck on dirt.

Not sure what FL studio is but I would probably recommend Fedora, Bazzite or PopOS if it’s your first time running Linux on a personal machine. Most Linux distros don’t require too much extra knowledge nowadays.

He always gave me weird vibes and I unfollowed him before he actually said anything off putting. Looks like my instincts were correct.

i feel like this instagram reel gets truer every day

If you, as a scientist, cannot be bothered to engage in the intellectual work of science, please quit your job and leave it to someone with skill and integrity.

this is how all cops are when they think no one is looking

Installed PopOS just to try it and I actually love it. 1.0 release but pretty solid for the most part. I installed CachyOS just so could swap between cosmic, KDE and Gnome on a whim.

Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.

Everyone should be furious at these Democrats for voting to fund ICE, but the real culprit is Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

He refused to pressure his members to vote against ICE. He quite literally chose not to lead. Pathetic.