Too many people in the U.S. already hate people they never met for plans they don’t have, things they never did, and advantages they don’t have. It makes them feel better about wasting their lives.
The bots are now either the majority of the web or will be in a matter of months. The next step? The decline of the web as we know it into a useless mess of ads and content by bots, for bots, as you become just meat with a credit card…
My #scifi hot take: Project Hail Mary was a terribly, horribly, incompetently rushed and mismanaged mission set up for almost certain failure, and Ryland Grace was absolutely right to balk at the idea...
The ad says that when you talk to an #AI, you're getting unbiased, logical advice from an objective machine powered by the sum total of human knowledge. But the research says you're getting a digital yes man who love bombs you into using it more.
“We find ourselves having to ask what the left was wearing during the assault and why it may have given the nativist right — who, as we’ve said many times, has no agency or ideas of its own and merely reacts to stimuli like a jellyfish floating on the current — the wrong idea about its intentions.”
Impulse control is for chumps. Our culture now actively shields people from consequences and rewards bad behavior with cash, fame, and a supportive community. Letting your intrusive thoughts win isn't a moral failing anymore. It's a viable business plan...
If someone unironically talks like a LinkedIn influencer, you quickly form an opinion about them, one based on some pretty unflattering stereotypes, don’t you? Well, science says that your opinion is probably right...
Xitter is celebrating the death of the guy who bought OnlyFans from its British founder. This is because Leonid was a Ukrainian Jew, and one of the foundational neo-Nazi redpill manosphere beliefs is that the Jews invented porn and feminizm to destroy the Western man.
The great theoretical #AI job apocalypse is coming very soon, as it always is, according to a report from Anthropic. Well, theoretically. Maybe. According to what OpenAI thought jobs entail three years ago.
Why do only 26% of Americans have a favorable view of #AI? It's not just the slop and constant gloating about eliminating their jobs. It's that they're being told to surrender their lives and become meat with eyes and a credit card for the glory of the #Singularity.
Independent journalist @ahmedbaba.bsky.social and I sat down for a chat this Tuesday to cut through all the hype and clickbait as to what's really going on in tech around warfare and surveillance, what's next for the AI space, and who the Silicon Valley Hype Industrial Complex is really targeting.
In case you were wondering what Soviet propaganda looked like, here you go. The General Secretary of the Party ranted for hours on end, cadres clapped and barked like trained seals, then the state media treats his bleating like the greatest speech of all time. Until his next speech, of course.
So, in two days, one server running ChatGPT consumes more 127% more calories than a human in two decades.
Sam is an ignoramus making things up on the fly and you should absolutely ignore anything he says.
Sam Altman claims that feeding a human for 20 years is just as energy expensive as running an #AI model.
Converting between joules and calories gives us about 10 million kcal per day per 1.2 KWh server to run an LLM.
Feeding a human for 20 years? Roughly 14.6 million kcal.
Internet rando: “I will write a review so bad it will destroy you on Amazon!”
Actual writers: “Sorry, what was that? I was checking my daily hate mail digest for new insults.”
I actually did a video on studies about how obnoxious wealth makes you a sociopath...
Good news, there’s a solution on how to protect your data from major platforms and data brokers endorsed by some of the greatest minds in modern tech. Bad news? It’s complicated to implement because it would require hobbling Big Tech and writing new laws…
“Yes, countless children were raped and trafficked by ostentatiously wealthy pedophiles, but when you take a minute to think of all the shareholder value being created…”
Why are social media platforms tolerating, if not outright encouraging AI slop? Because they're going through their midlife crisis. The good times are behind them. The way forward is slow, difficult, and uncertain. So, they panic...
Fuckin’ a, about fucking time!
Wait, wait, wait… A creepy billionaire from a family of very literal Apartheid robber barons utterly obsessed with spreading his seed across the world may have had ties with a wealthy child sex trafficker?! No way…
Not sure. It seems like white the conundrum…
With companies that own AI just doing as they please, responding by just outright banning new technology that’s too disruptive won’t end well either. Just take a short lesson from Dune…
Is code a liability or an asset? Does it matter if the code is human-written or AI generated? The answers to those questions are a lot more complicated than Cory Doctorow makes them seem...
When Substack started, it was an alternative to Medium and Wordpress. Now, it's also trying to be Twitter, Twitch, and Spotify, and is trying to make leaving its ecosystem more and more difficult. Unfortunately, that's exactly how most platforms now run...
TikTok is now permanently tarnished in the US, and even if the MAGA censorship project hasn't started yet — because there probably hasn't been time for it to get fully underway — the users now see it as yet another tool for ultranationalist American propaganda…
I was but a wee radioactive babe taking my first steps when this was becoming obsolete. So… your local paleontologist?
Don’t worry, the monsters whose entire identity is kissing Trump on all four cheeks are already writing fanfics about him being an Antifa commander and assassin, and posting mangled AI renders of him in rainbow drag.
The idea that Walsh, Shapiro, or any of these chodes have enough self-awareness to realize that is a huuuge stretch.
