they're tempting fate with their name
CROWDSTRIKE CEO KURTZ IN TALKS TO BUY TOTO WOLFF’S MERCEDES F1 STAKE — FT
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
they're tempting fate with their name
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Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
please dm if you know any journalists working on Air bnb stories in LA, I have something damning
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
please dm if you know any journalists working on Air bnb stories in LA, I have something damning
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there has gotta be some non public information behind the tune switch on AI from “infinite productivity is right around the corner” to “you fuckers are in this boat too whether you like it or not, better psychologically prepare to open your taxpayer wallets”
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
there has gotta be some non public information behind the tune switch on AI from “infinite productivity is right around the corner” to “you fuckers are in this boat too whether you like it or not, better psychologically prepare to open your taxpayer wallets”
when i was a kid the malls had stores full of robots that actually worked
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
when i was a kid the malls had stores full of robots that actually worked
they lose a dollar on every query but they're making it up on volume
yeah but it’s good right. like this is good for sure, right
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
they lose a dollar on every query but they're making it up on volume
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Relatedly, EFF has a cellular spying tool called Rayhunter that’s fairly easy to setup. It’s a portable device but does not run on your phone, so not quite the same thing as this Android feature below.
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Relatedly, EFF has a cellular spying tool called Rayhunter that’s fairly easy to setup. It’s a portable device but does not run on your phone, so not quite the same thing as this Android feature below.
sexy mcmaster carr address
October 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
sexy mcmaster carr address
in a couple years margot robbie will be explaining NBFIs in a bathtub
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
in a couple years margot robbie will be explaining NBFIs in a bathtub
gotta say, the numbers have been really great since we fired all the assholes who kept printing the bad numbers
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
gotta say, the numbers have been really great since we fired all the assholes who kept printing the bad numbers
A couple weeks ago I opened up robinhood accounts for my mom and my kids with $100 balances. bought GLD and IAU calls and call spreads. kids are up 500%, mom's is up 750% (bought closer-dated ones in hers). Not just up, but taking profits, rolling out and up, so kids accounts are at $300 cash.
it's parabolic even when viewing on log scale. insane. i am very long gold obvi
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
A couple weeks ago I opened up robinhood accounts for my mom and my kids with $100 balances. bought GLD and IAU calls and call spreads. kids are up 500%, mom's is up 750% (bought closer-dated ones in hers). Not just up, but taking profits, rolling out and up, so kids accounts are at $300 cash.
The G in AGI stands for gooner
The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny
OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi
October 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The G in AGI stands for gooner
klarna is even offering "margin loans" at 0% interest lol. you could buy gold/silver bars, buy GLD/IAU/SLV puts to protect them and sell bars when payments come due, pocket the difference.
(this is absolutely not financial advice)
(this is absolutely not financial advice)
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
klarna is even offering "margin loans" at 0% interest lol. you could buy gold/silver bars, buy GLD/IAU/SLV puts to protect them and sell bars when payments come due, pocket the difference.
(this is absolutely not financial advice)
(this is absolutely not financial advice)
went to my friend's show last night and I was standing next to a guy beforehand who looked cool and when I left I was like "damn why didn't I talk to that guy??" and today my friend said "did you know you were standing next to Mike D all night?"
October 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
went to my friend's show last night and I was standing next to a guy beforehand who looked cool and when I left I was like "damn why didn't I talk to that guy??" and today my friend said "did you know you were standing next to Mike D all night?"
The unregulated markets people sure love to complain about unregulated markets.
The Securities Exchange Act exists for extremely good reasons.
The Securities Exchange Act exists for extremely good reasons.
Oh shit. President Crimes and his crimes friends are committing crimes with the fake money for doing crimes. Have you guys seen this.
I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.
October 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The unregulated markets people sure love to complain about unregulated markets.
The Securities Exchange Act exists for extremely good reasons.
The Securities Exchange Act exists for extremely good reasons.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.
October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.
Gold is just getting started. We're going to see a +25% month soon.
1973: +70% in 90 days, 140% in a year
1980: +78% in 90 days
1970-1980: +1800%
"Gold is money, everything else is credit" --J.P. Morgan, 1912
1973: +70% in 90 days, 140% in a year
1980: +78% in 90 days
1970-1980: +1800%
"Gold is money, everything else is credit" --J.P. Morgan, 1912
Message from my friend who's been trading crypto since the early 2010s
October 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Gold is just getting started. We're going to see a +25% month soon.
1973: +70% in 90 days, 140% in a year
1980: +78% in 90 days
1970-1980: +1800%
"Gold is money, everything else is credit" --J.P. Morgan, 1912
1973: +70% in 90 days, 140% in a year
1980: +78% in 90 days
1970-1980: +1800%
"Gold is money, everything else is credit" --J.P. Morgan, 1912
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The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,
and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,
and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,
and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,
and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
Users should have the ability to set content licenses on both the image and the alt-text, which would (maybe?) allow for better standing in a lawsuit if images are used against the license terms.
In this case here, I think it would be useful to be clear as to what’s happening and why, if only because it will help people make informed decisions about what service they want to use.
October 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Users should have the ability to set content licenses on both the image and the alt-text, which would (maybe?) allow for better standing in a lawsuit if images are used against the license terms.
Going to keep saying this: the most valuable thing about the bluesky image dataset is the accompanying alt-text. Human-labeled image datasets are extremely expensive to create.
@bennjordan.bsky.social any ideas on how we can poison this while keeping alt text usable?
@bennjordan.bsky.social any ideas on how we can poison this while keeping alt text usable?
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Going to keep saying this: the most valuable thing about the bluesky image dataset is the accompanying alt-text. Human-labeled image datasets are extremely expensive to create.
@bennjordan.bsky.social any ideas on how we can poison this while keeping alt text usable?
@bennjordan.bsky.social any ideas on how we can poison this while keeping alt text usable?
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There's a material basis to say that AI is our golden goose, but that should just freak every single rational American out that it's what we're banking the entire future of the economy on.
“The current AI boom would simply be impossible if tech companies had to pay the same tariffs that car manufacturers or homebuilders currently face.
“ .. a tacit admission that a full-scale trade war would kill America’s golden geese.”
@josephpolitano.bsky.social
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
“ .. a tacit admission that a full-scale trade war would kill America’s golden geese.”
@josephpolitano.bsky.social
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
October 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
There's a material basis to say that AI is our golden goose, but that should just freak every single rational American out that it's what we're banking the entire future of the economy on.
they had already ruined it, because providing the best results means earning the least ad revenue, and before that they ruined the internet by doing everything they could to prevent users from visiting the sites.
They ruined Google search for nothing
So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
October 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
they had already ruined it, because providing the best results means earning the least ad revenue, and before that they ruined the internet by doing everything they could to prevent users from visiting the sites.
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Of all the jobs mentioned here, the only one that could effectively be replaced by ai is studio chief because it requires no creativity or soul
“.. a Hollywood studio chief was crowing about how great A.I. is because he wouldn’t have to pay ‘all these idiot producers and actors and lighting people and composers and writers and agents.’”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
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October 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Of all the jobs mentioned here, the only one that could effectively be replaced by ai is studio chief because it requires no creativity or soul