Kaldrenon
@kaldrenon.bsky.social
Writer, encourager, big soft nerd. Kaldrenon everywhere on the internet, Seven Eagles in FFXIV. Concerningly goobery.
Most FFXIV content will be on @lyses-good-boy, still working on setting things up.
Most FFXIV content will be on @lyses-good-boy, still working on setting things up.
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
Profit is an accounting error.
Revenue goes to paying costs, compensating labor, or investing in improvements for the business. If you have money left over after that, you did the math wrong.
Revenue goes to paying costs, compensating labor, or investing in improvements for the business. If you have money left over after that, you did the math wrong.
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DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
Daft Punk still cranking out the hits
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Daft Punk still cranking out the hits
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everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
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Destroy them, pls.
Eight more news organizations have filed a new lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, seeking $10B in damages for violating copyright law by stealing their content to build and operate AI tools. The lawsuit joins a similar one filed by other news organizations that include the Sun Sentinel.
8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps
Eight newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the tech giants of violating copyright law.
www.sun-sentinel.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Destroy them, pls.
Layers upon layers of tomfuckery encapsulated in this single image. A work of art.
Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Layers upon layers of tomfuckery encapsulated in this single image. A work of art.
I'm liking this guy more and more.
I am not Catholic and I still have many fundamental issues with the Catholic Church as an organization, but Leo XIV is clearly actually trying to be like Jesus and call other believers to do the same.
However else my faith fluctuates, I support being like Jesus.
I am not Catholic and I still have many fundamental issues with the Catholic Church as an organization, but Leo XIV is clearly actually trying to be like Jesus and call other believers to do the same.
However else my faith fluctuates, I support being like Jesus.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm liking this guy more and more.
I am not Catholic and I still have many fundamental issues with the Catholic Church as an organization, but Leo XIV is clearly actually trying to be like Jesus and call other believers to do the same.
However else my faith fluctuates, I support being like Jesus.
I am not Catholic and I still have many fundamental issues with the Catholic Church as an organization, but Leo XIV is clearly actually trying to be like Jesus and call other believers to do the same.
However else my faith fluctuates, I support being like Jesus.
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
"Don't marry [name]."
Sad, I know, but we both would have had much happier lives if we'd realized we didn't work before we did all that.
Sad, I know, but we both would have had much happier lives if we'd realized we didn't work before we did all that.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"Don't marry [name]."
Sad, I know, but we both would have had much happier lives if we'd realized we didn't work before we did all that.
Sad, I know, but we both would have had much happier lives if we'd realized we didn't work before we did all that.
Spent at least an hour tonight trying to find a way to do something that should be extremely simple, which only *isn't* simple because Google, Amazon, Apple, and their ilk actively remove and destroy consumer control over their own devices.
I want to live in a world where we make tech for people.
I want to live in a world where we make tech for people.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Spent at least an hour tonight trying to find a way to do something that should be extremely simple, which only *isn't* simple because Google, Amazon, Apple, and their ilk actively remove and destroy consumer control over their own devices.
I want to live in a world where we make tech for people.
I want to live in a world where we make tech for people.
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We are so deeply overdue for a reckoning for the people who uphold the "continuous growth, profit for shareholders" model of business management.
So many companies have *voluntarily* obliterated their products and their reputations in order to squeeze out a better quarterly earnings report.
So many companies have *voluntarily* obliterated their products and their reputations in order to squeeze out a better quarterly earnings report.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We are so deeply overdue for a reckoning for the people who uphold the "continuous growth, profit for shareholders" model of business management.
So many companies have *voluntarily* obliterated their products and their reputations in order to squeeze out a better quarterly earnings report.
So many companies have *voluntarily* obliterated their products and their reputations in order to squeeze out a better quarterly earnings report.
My current operative theory is that Ross is this man's middle name. His full name is Whywould Ross Douthat?
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
My current operative theory is that Ross is this man's middle name. His full name is Whywould Ross Douthat?
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I don't know who Jeff Wise is, but it would appear that his definition of "scientist" is extremely far afield from the definition most English speaking people use.
Last time I checked, it wasn't "scientist (noun): a credulous dipshit"
Last time I checked, it wasn't "scientist (noun): a credulous dipshit"
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don't know who Jeff Wise is, but it would appear that his definition of "scientist" is extremely far afield from the definition most English speaking people use.
Last time I checked, it wasn't "scientist (noun): a credulous dipshit"
Last time I checked, it wasn't "scientist (noun): a credulous dipshit"
"You've got to spend money to make money" has got to rank high on the tier list for most misunderstood and harmful sayings in human history
That, and Sam Altman is a deeply unserious person who doesn't think hard about anything and has no idea how to run a business. And he should be in prison.
That, and Sam Altman is a deeply unserious person who doesn't think hard about anything and has no idea how to run a business. And he should be in prison.
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"You've got to spend money to make money" has got to rank high on the tier list for most misunderstood and harmful sayings in human history
That, and Sam Altman is a deeply unserious person who doesn't think hard about anything and has no idea how to run a business. And he should be in prison.
That, and Sam Altman is a deeply unserious person who doesn't think hard about anything and has no idea how to run a business. And he should be in prison.
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Idk how many times people are gonna have to say "stop using ai it is literally killing us" before people listen.
No not even as a joke. don't go near this shit.
No not even as a joke. don't go near this shit.
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Idk how many times people are gonna have to say "stop using ai it is literally killing us" before people listen.
No not even as a joke. don't go near this shit.
No not even as a joke. don't go near this shit.
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We have created a device that shall be integral to your life, to the point where it will be hard to function in society without one; we would prefer these devices to break annually and for you to purchase a new one at full price. If you don't, that's called hoarding. They're a thousand dollars each.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We have created a device that shall be integral to your life, to the point where it will be hard to function in society without one; we would prefer these devices to break annually and for you to purchase a new one at full price. If you don't, that's called hoarding. They're a thousand dollars each.
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
The Department of (Cosplaying) War
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The Department of (Cosplaying) War
Okay, so it's responsible for GDP growth. We could always just...not grow the GDP then, and be rid of AI.
America's GDP is enormous, we don't need more. We just need what we already get to go to the people who produced the value.
America's GDP is enormous, we don't need more. We just need what we already get to go to the people who produced the value.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Okay, so it's responsible for GDP growth. We could always just...not grow the GDP then, and be rid of AI.
America's GDP is enormous, we don't need more. We just need what we already get to go to the people who produced the value.
America's GDP is enormous, we don't need more. We just need what we already get to go to the people who produced the value.
Sizzlean, Sizzlean, Sizzlean, Sizzlean
I'm begging of you, please don't fake my ham
I'm begging of you, please don't fake my ham
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Sizzlean, Sizzlean, Sizzlean, Sizzlean
I'm begging of you, please don't fake my ham
I'm begging of you, please don't fake my ham
"The AI bubble, which is already bursting, spells huge consequences for the American economy that will probably affect people who are not responsible for creating the problem.
With that in mind, let's treat AI like it's here to stay and talk credulously about a future that won't come to pass. ❤️"
With that in mind, let's treat AI like it's here to stay and talk credulously about a future that won't come to pass. ❤️"
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"The AI bubble, which is already bursting, spells huge consequences for the American economy that will probably affect people who are not responsible for creating the problem.
With that in mind, let's treat AI like it's here to stay and talk credulously about a future that won't come to pass. ❤️"
With that in mind, let's treat AI like it's here to stay and talk credulously about a future that won't come to pass. ❤️"
Something I understand: Dems in Congress not putting forth bills of impeachment that they know won't get the votes in a GOP controlled Congress.
Something I don't understand: Dems in Congress failing to remind everyone *daily* that Trump's presidency is unconstitutional and he must be impeached.
Something I don't understand: Dems in Congress failing to remind everyone *daily* that Trump's presidency is unconstitutional and he must be impeached.
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Something I understand: Dems in Congress not putting forth bills of impeachment that they know won't get the votes in a GOP controlled Congress.
Something I don't understand: Dems in Congress failing to remind everyone *daily* that Trump's presidency is unconstitutional and he must be impeached.
Something I don't understand: Dems in Congress failing to remind everyone *daily* that Trump's presidency is unconstitutional and he must be impeached.
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This.
Publicize what these people said.
Publicize that they asked soldiers to abide by the Constitution and disobey illegal commands.
The meaning of what's happening with these demands from DJT needs to be crystal clear.
Publicize what these people said.
Publicize that they asked soldiers to abide by the Constitution and disobey illegal commands.
The meaning of what's happening with these demands from DJT needs to be crystal clear.
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This.
Publicize what these people said.
Publicize that they asked soldiers to abide by the Constitution and disobey illegal commands.
The meaning of what's happening with these demands from DJT needs to be crystal clear.
Publicize what these people said.
Publicize that they asked soldiers to abide by the Constitution and disobey illegal commands.
The meaning of what's happening with these demands from DJT needs to be crystal clear.