Dispatches from the K(arp)-Hole

Maybe in the initial push, but my reading is that the real expected benefits now are in CoT compute. Algorithmic efficiencies (driven at least partially by agent-driven research) will raise the floor, frontier compute will raise the ceiling.

Not really a Yankees guy, but this crew is absolutely dominating the Royals rn

Blep, gimme nuts!

“Even Leo liked it! He hates every film.”

“This is not a film of honor. No good deeds are commemorated here”

And then he immediately follows it with “the Women’s March assault on the Capitol in 2018” lmao

I feel like the solution to vibecession is obvious:

fix the goddamn vibes

This tracks, Trump only keeps Rubio close by because humiliating him is so much more enjoyable.

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Trump: we’re blockading the whole Sea. international waters are now closed

Iran: we’re stopping the Earth’s rotation. the moon no longer orbits

Trump: earth will no longer orbit the Sun

Iran: the Sol system no longer orbits Sagittarius A*

Trump: Dark Energy is cancelled

Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.

Ruzzia seems to be blocking BlueSky.

Ironic since they’d regularly been making at least 20-40 new Matryoshka propaganda accounts here per day. Maybe they became frustrated that their disinformation wasn’t gaining any following?

Banana for scale.

I always buy into the Picasso raffles. Got a system y'see

We will have nice things again. Just gonna take a few years.

This clip, to me, remains one of the funniest sports broadcasting moments. I just lose it when they go "and here comes the pizza"

Those homelessness and dual income stats are literally lines on a chart.

Schlapp isn't worried at all! /s

3. Loss of predictability. Maybe the biggest one. Here's where the oft neglected "fewer people can afford a $400 emergency" stat comes in, along with the general paucity of savings. Higher certainty confers a sense of adventure, a willingness to take personal risks (new career, home, etc). Gone.

2. Loss of choice. Big tech and the return of national monopolies have made the consumer landscape stark & hellish compared to a decade ago. Even if it means lower prices in many cases, people would rather have options than hand another paycheck to Bezos or Zuckerberg or Tim Apple. 3/

1. Loss of good faith. People no longer trust institutions to look out for our best interests, while corporations and Repubs no longer even pretend to identify with/care about consumers. Grift, graft, and privateering. Nobody feels like their neighbors care about them, either. Dog-eat-dog. 2/

I think there are maybe three basic categories of this: loss of good faith, loss of choice, and loss of predictability. To unpack these one by one: 1/

Ayn Randian shitbaggery has made the simple *act* of participating in the economy less comfortable and frictionless than it used to be because the required base-layer of social fabric is being torn to shreds. To have an economy, you need to have a society, and we barely have one of those anymore.

On paper, the same amount of income today might buy a "better" meal eaten out than 5 or 10 years ago, say. But the dining out *experience* is demonstrably worse. The portions are smaller or the service isn't as good. The food quality is less predictable. Other customers are more annoying.

This is close to the nub of Vibecession, I think. Real income might be up, but the real *value* of what it affords - "basket for basket" of goods - has trended down across many sectors. That's what the traditional math is largely missing.

I live in Maine, the whitest state in the nation, and had to track down a Walmart employee to unlock the men's underwear cage a few weeks ago.

I'm comforted to know that like most American space nuts would (myself included,) Jonathan forgot the Chinese space program exists. Just out there quietly breaking records while we Westerners ignore them, just the way Xi likes it.

The perfect symbol of Trump's government. A garish, useless, irredeemable monument to the universe's most overinflated and fragile ego, standing alone in an inhospitable, forsaken land where nobody wants to be and nobody wants to go.