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To paraphrase a classic, what you are about to read is the equivalent of someone telling you in 2007 about the madness of COVID-19. But this will happen. The correction on sexual politics is long overdue and it started somewhere in the post-pandemic period.
Sometime in pre-history on @not__vee 's sofa.
This ain't a zoomer thing. Had the same thing happening (only with a $5 and three quarters for a $3.75 purchase) at Starbucks in DC in 2018.
Basic arithmetic has been in very short supply for quite some time.
IT FINALLY HAPPENED
I gave a zoomer cashier $11 in cash for a $6 purchase and she didn’t know what to do. Had to help her out, explain the extra dollar wasn’t an accident, etc.
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Bloomington, IN is the location of Indian University.
That's one way to accelerate the inevitable destruction of universities 🥰
Why wait for 10-15yrs inertia when some places can be dogshit* free in under 5 years?
* all universities are dogshit, no exceptions
A US city just banned artificial superintelligence.
Bloomington, Indiana's city council voted 7 to 0 to bar it within city limits, even through apps and browsers on servers elsewhere. Fines run up to $2,500 a day.
To lift it, more than 95% of all registered voters would have to approve. Not 95% of people who show up. 95% of everyone registered…
This works because so many of these people are truly, genuinely, unfucked and unfuckable nerds.
And it will continue to work for as long as bullying nerds as a normative policy isn't brought back.
Breaking News: Nvidia opened an investigation into Jensen Huang, its CEO, after he acknowledged to the company’s board that he had been intimate with a business executive who U.S. intelligence determined to be a Chinese spy. nyti.ms/3ViPMAt
Techbros attempting not to be subhuman cartoon villains for 30 seconds.
Challenge level: impossible.
What technooptimists need to relearn is that the world has laws. The laws of economics, of human action and of physics can't, won't and shouldn't bent to the will of autistic nerds.
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Replying to @FrankCurzio
The Concorde cut the travel time from London to New York in half, yet it was retired. Too expensive to operate. That will also happen to most AI use cases: even if it saves "a shit ton of time" it will not be used if it continues to be that expensive to run.
"Please don't collapse our grift or else you're out of a pension" - do AI grifters even?
JFC, I haven't seen a grift so inept at PR since the South Sea Company. Except those grifted in the 1720s had an excuse to be credulous.
People think if AI disappears tomorrow, the world just resets to 3 years ago. Are you serious?
The trillions poured into big AI labs are only the tip of the iceberg.
Right now, almost all global capital is flowing into AI and the industries around it.
Thousands of random wrapper startups you have never heard of are raising billions just by slapping AI on their name.
Where do you think all this money came from? It came from everyday people's pensions and banks around the world.
If this pops, it is another Great Depression.
It will make the Dot-com bubble and Lehman Brothers look small.
Some difference of opinion are not and really should not be acceptable at all. The "you are utterly wrong" kind, in particular.
Katie doesn't have a difference of opinion with normal people. Katie is simply wrong and should be called a supreme cretin for doubling down on wrong 🤷🏻♂️
Oh nooooo!
Who's going to publish pro-pedo sob stories now?
Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication. It has been an extraordinary privilege. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…
As a poaster in the last 30 years I managed to get myself on naughty lists of 5 governments so far: Venezuela (in 2015-16), russia (found out in 2018, likely way earlier), Sweden (2012), Iran (2008, 2013 and 2025) and "transnistria" (4 times).
Still not on a UK one 😢
Britain now has a speech kill switch, and as of Monday it’s armed. Large platforms must keep a crisis censorship plan they don’t have to publish, ready to fire the moment speech regulator Ofcom’s definition of a crisis is merely “likely.” That definition covers local events, regional events, and even events overseas.
The content in scope includes “foreign interference,” which can apply to information that is entirely true if it’s presented the wrong way. Ofcom admits political speech will get caught and calls the extra false positives “proportionate.” Police get a dedicated line to the platforms, and they don’t need a court order to use it. The reviews afterwards happen in private too...
reclaimthenet.org/britains-o…
X is full of retards.
A truly benevolent dictator would force all of these cretins into the sunlight (very much literally) and give them sticks and cows for a minimum of 12 months.
JFC these people are dumb 🤦🏻♂️
"Content creators" as we know them, will not exist in the coming years
Nobody will be YouTubers, influencers, etc
Why?
Because there will be AI-generated content creators that are 1000x more entertaining, engaging, knowledgeable, etc
These AI creators won't be operated by individuals. They'll be operated by quant-like firms that ingest enormous amounts of audience data, continuously optimizing every aspect of their content based on real-time engagement metrics
Every video, joke, opinion, every interaction will be engineered to maximize audience attention
Especially now that algos rule everything by serving you content they think you will like
Human content creators will still exist but it will be akin to me day trading on Robinhood vs a team of 1,000 quants at Jane Street
Let's note ✍️ that the Dems are on the correct side of an 80/20 issue for the first time this century.
Now THAT is a much bigger achievement than the electoral victory this Tuesday.
Not even joking.
AI is an 80/20 issue. 80% agree that the techbros deserve a kick in the teeth.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Democrats face a push for a “day 1” ban on AI superintelligence, with up to 20 YEARS in prison for violators.
Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari says a pause on advanced AI and a ban on artificial superintelligence must be “top of the Democratic agenda on day 1.”
A bill that would do exactly that was introduced by Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar in September.
Under the bill:
- Developing or deploying superintelligent AI would be banned
- Advanced AI development would pause until a new federal regulator sets rules and a model review process
- A new cabinet-level AI department would monitor frontier models and oversee removing dangerous capabilities, like ignoring shutdown commands
- Companies that try to get around it would face the “corporate death penalty”
- Individuals would face up to 20 years in prison
AI and data centers were a “crucial or major factor” for 56% of voters in the midterms, per an NBC News exit poll.
>inb4 the dems will fumble it
Yes, of course. But it will still be great spectacle to watch
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Crypto:
- isolates weirdos
- doesn't bother everyone else
- facilitates tax justice
"AI":
- releases weirdos
- bothers everyone else
- facilitates inherently the power of the State
it's not rocket science. cryptobro weirdos knew how to read the room. techbros didn't.
Replying to @sgodofsk
I guess what really pisses me off is that cryptocurrency is straightforwardly terrible, and didn't generate this sort of backlash
The more I look into these downballot thingies the more it becomes clear that the electorate simply behaved more European than ever.
In the past, AK was the only place that behaved this way and nobody gave af because it's small and remote. Well... now 2/3 of the continent did.
Voter ID, caps on property taxes, and lowering income tax rates all winning 60-40 in NC…in an electorate that’s voting 60-40 for the Democrat for Senate
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This kind of shit is very common in Europe.
You see the European Parliament voting 70%+ for mass deportations, but then pooh-pooh the ECR which brought the policy to begin with.
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