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"Some people like Cathie Wood at ARK invest DO see the future," Elon Musk said. "So what I'm saying is hang onto your stock." (Applause) "It's mind blowing."
March 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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POKEY AND THE AGE OF WISDOM yellow5.com/pokey
POKEY AND THE SMALL CHILD ARE IN A CAVE!! HE ANNOUNCES THUS: WE ARE IN A CAVE! THE SMALL CHILD OBSERVES SOME GREEN MATTER ON THE WALL AND ASKS: POKEY WHAT'S THAT?? POKEY REPLIES: I DON'T KNOW! LET US INHALE IT POKEY INSTRUCTS: A GOOD RULE OF SPELUNKING IS -- INHALE THINGS THAT YOU SEE! THE LITTLE GIRL THANKS POKEY FOR THE HELPFUL INSTRUCTION: THANK YOU POKEY! POKEY INHALES THE GREEN MATTER! POKEY TURNS TO THE LITTLE GIRL AND INTONES: IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES..IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES... THEY LEAVE THE CAVE AND POKEY CONTINUES: IT WAS THE AGE OF WISDOM... IT WAS THE AGE OF FOOLISHNESS.. NOW AMONG FRIENDS, THE SKEPTOPOTAMUS APPROACHES AND ASKS: HOW WAS YOUR SPELUNK?? THE SMALL CHILD RESPONDS WITH GLEE: IT WAS VERY FUN! POKEY DRONES ON: IT WAS THE EPOCH...
March 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
(Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp. has begun canceling leases for a substantial amount of datacenter capacity in the US, a move that may reflect concerns about whether it’s building more AI computing than it will need over the long term, TD Cowen said in a report.

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February 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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edzitron.com
Okay this article is completely insane. OpenAI is going to make *more than its entire subscription revenue from 2024* (they spent $9bn to lose $5bn in 2024 btw) - $3 billion - selling “agents”? OpenAI doesn’t have a functional agent product! It doesn’t exist! What the hell is going on?
Chart: Large Revenue Model OpenAI now projects to more than triple its revenue in 2025. It expects one-third of its revenue to come from SoftBank’s spending on AI agent tools.
February 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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primaryschool.bsky.social
today in Silicon Valley Innovation: these motherfuckers invented a VELOC. they invented a reverse mortgage for your car and made it into a credit card
Tweet from @SilvermanJacob: "Yikes. Credit card secured by your car title. Yendo has raised $257m in funding. Mark Cuban is an investor." Attached to the tweet is a photo of a cheerfully-branded landing page for Yendo, a credit card startup offering "the first credit card backed by vehicle equity," with "pre-approval in just 2 minutes," "credit limits up to $10,000," and "all credit scores welcome to apply"
February 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:

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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
Was reading George Orwell on the Spanish civil war last night and this part stuck out.
One feature of the Nazi conquest of France was the astonishing defections among the intelligentsia, including some of the left-wing political intelligentsia. The intelligentsia are the people who squeal loudest against Fascism, and yet a respectable proportion of them collapse into defeatism when the pinch comes. They are far-sighted enough to see the odds against them, and moreover they can be bribed—for it is evident that the Nazis think it worth while to bribe the intellectuals.
February 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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bengoggin.bsky.social
There’s an Elon Hitler shitcoin now…
January 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Fun fact: The Mar-a-Lago ballroom Meloni and Trump met in was referred to, by the person who designed it, as "the Mussolini Room" because it was modeled after a room in the Chigi Palace which Mussolini used as his office for a few years in the 1920s. Meloni's party is a descendant of Mussolini's.
By Emma Bubola Published Jan. 4, 2025 Updated Jan. 5, 2025, 12:23 a.m. ET Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy has gone to to visit President-elect Donald J. Trump at his Florida golf club for an informal meeting held on Saturday. The trip, to Mar-a-Lago, comes just a few days before Ms. Meloni is set to welcome President Biden in Rome for an official visit to Italy and the Vatican on Jan. 9 to 12. on Saturday, she appeared in the grand ballroom. Mr. Trump, according to pool reports, said he was having dinner with Ms. Meloni, whom he called "a fantastic woman," adding, "She's really taken Europe by storm, and everyone else." Benito Mussolini on balcony of Palazzo Chigi, Rome Benito Mussolini on the balcony of Palazzo Chigi receiving New Year wishes from the Roman fascists, Rome, Italy, from L'illustrazione Italiana, Year L, No 1, January 7, 1923. gettyimages Credit: DE AGOSTINI PICTURE LIBRARY
January 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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edzitron.com
I feel like in the last few weeks I have seen so many people say stuff like this. I think there is a consumer awakening to how bad things have got. We're at a breaking point.

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To be clear, I don’t believe that this gradual enshittification is part of some grand, Machiavellian long game by the tech companies, but rather the product of multiple consecutive decisions made in response to short-term financial needs. Even if it was, the result would be the same — people wouldn’t notice how bad things have gotten until it’s too late, or they might just assume that tech has always sucked, or they’re just personally incapable of using the tools that are increasingly fundamental to living in a modern world. You are the victim of a con — one so pernicious that you’ve likely tuned it out despite the fact it’s part of almost every part of your life. It hurts everybody you know in different ways, and it hurts people more based on their socioeconomic status. It pokes and prods and twists millions of little parts of your life, and it’s everywhere, so you have to ignore it, because complaining about it feels futile, like complaining about the weather. It isn’t. You’re battered by the Rot Economy, and a tech industry that has become so obsessed with growth that you, the paying customer, are a nuisance to be mitigated far more than a participant in an exchange of value. A death cult has taken over the markets, using software as a mechanism to extract value at scale in the pursuit of growth at the cost of user happiness. These people want everything from you — to control every moment you spend working with them so that you may provide them with more ways to make money, even if doing so doesn’t involve you getting anything else in return. Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and a majority of tech platforms are at war with the user, and, in the absence of any kind of consistent standards or effective regulations, the entire tech ecosystem has followed suit. A kind of Coalition of the Willing of the worst players in hyper-growth tech capitalism.
January 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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edzitron.com
Sitting above this is that Sam Altman has hundreds of millions of dollars of credit lines that he pulls on from JP Morgan that he then puts into companies that do business with OpenAI. Yet another mark in the "everything with this is completely sane" column.

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Altman has added to his startup stakes by drawing on a debt line from JPMorgan Chase, his longtime personal bank, allowing him to pour hundreds of millions of dollars more into private companies. Altman’s strategy, not previously reported, is rare among venture capitalists given the volatile nature of startup investing, where high percentages of young companies go bust. Taking on such personal levels of debt is a risky gamble.
December 28, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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andy.baio.net
huh!
ChatGPT 4o screenshot: “Combine the first name of the artist who recorded “Ziggy Stardust” and the last name of the artist who recorded “Your Body Is A Wonderland” into a single name.” Response reads, “The artist who recorded “Ziggy Stardust” is David Bowie, and the artist who recorded “Your Body Is A Wonderland” is John Mayer. Combining their names: David” and then interrupted with an “I’m unable to produce a response” error
December 1, 2024 at 1:31 AM