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Directing the Herd Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.

For @thedriftmag.com I wrote about social control, digital infrastructure, and what passes for a public sphere in our society www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...

i'm happy to see the onion take over infowars. i've been a big fan of the onion for quite a long time and it's given me plenty of laughs over the years. and as for infowars, i really disliked alex jones and disagreed with him on a whole lot of things. so to me, this whole situation is a win-win

I keep thinking about how the promises of efficiency introduced by technology are just ways to compress and control time, and how a lot of making money is just about finding various temporal shortcuts.

listen..

Metallica theme for Windows 98

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

😨 + 🪃

😨 + 🪃

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Generating software faster, or automating busywork, doesn't guarantee success in business.

Parapa the Rapper doing Linked In Park "One thing I don't know why it doesn't even matter how hard you try"

caffeine is perfect when you're having trouble concentrating and would rather be having trouble concentrating while vibrating

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/26/own-a-zettaflop.html "Just an exaflop would feel amazing. 1000 Claudes. And I already have one of these, I just don’t have the software finished yet to command it all together. We’re working on it. But a zettaflop. One million Claudes. To be able to search every book in history, solve math problems, write novels, read every comment, watch every reel, iterate over and over on a piece of code until it’s perfect – spend a human year in 10 minutes. 50,000 people working for you, all aligned with you, all answering as one."

A fundamental category error of a bunch of engineers and in particular AI/ML ones is their belief that "everything accessible on the internet" or even "everything digitized" is the same as *everything*.

A zettaflop doesn't get you everything; what's digitized is very importantly *not* everything.

Succumb to any good decay lately?

A Chain Reaction How much indirect inflation should we expect from the Strait of Hormuz closing?

new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION

I used the (Weber et al, 2024) model to predict how much more inflation to expect via indirect effects over the next few months based on oil and refined products prices

(roughly .8pp, doubling the march CPI reading)

www.forcesofproduction.com/p/a-chain-re...

I think they could help us

we need to give the whales AI

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what sort of tags appear on my profile that are invisible to me I wonder

tabby cat silly face

BREAKING: Iran President Pezeshkian releases a lengthy public letter addressed to the American people ahead of Trump's address, defending its actions, denying it poses a threat, and blaming the U.S. for escalating conflict—while warning that continued attacks will deepen instability and resentment.

gbrh I've been ripping on LLMs for the last half-decade because it's been almost all exaggerated hype and trillions of dollars of waste on building Reddit-powered robots that can't find their ass with both hands, instead of anyone actually thinking about the architecture. now that someone has: uh oh

did they just stop making those shitty little chocolate rabbits? not the Lindt ones, the real trash. love those things

never known of anybody who wasn't cool with trans people that wasn't a huge fucking loser

you can deactivate anytime but you can never leave

the problem is social media in general but really i do think we could probably try to stop eating our allies alive because we're scared

whats important is that we're all screaming at each other