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asura @asura.dev · Jan 13

They said it again. Someone said the thing again.

"Researchers have already studied the possibility of CEOs becoming an endangered species in the age of AI."

"[...] would say 80 percent of the work that a CEO does can be replaced by AI."

People keep babbling about robots and fry cooks... Nah.

CEO Who Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI Now Distressed That AI Will Replace His Job Too

Last month, CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski boasted that he hadn't hired anyone in a year because of AI. Now he's worried about his own job.

futurism.com

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asura @asura.dev · 3h

Rats are amazing. I no longer have pet rats but I miss them.

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asura @asura.dev · 3h

twts
(that's what they said 🥁)

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Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 16h

Oxide and @siderolabs.com are coming to KubeCon - secure your spot now: buff.ly/pBcM3zu

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asura @asura.dev · 3h

This post needs to be labelled Never Did Watch Damn Blade Runner 2049 but Made Me Read Dorley Hall

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 18h

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Christina(Tina) Hendriks @renissance1.bsky.social · 4h

www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/m...

McKinsey wonders how to sell AI with no measurable benefits

: Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity

www.theregister.com

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asura @asura.dev · 4h

But yeah TL;DR the AI industry will eat itself but the goal here is to control compute and publishing anyway

Use Kagi, follow humans, enjoy your work in the mineral mine when they turn the amassed hardware over to trying to subtly collide crypto reserves in other countries

asura @asura.dev · 4h

The web is free, yet everything is paywalled and ad driven astroturf reddit/twitter

Vector search and LLMs are now cheap and we still don't have one for ex: the Merck Manual. Worse, the moment they did add something like that, the never-read-Dune wannabe Butlerian Jihad crew would lose their shit

asura @asura.dev · 4h

Scam: "I'm going to spin up WordPress because I read search trends and now I'm going to SEO optimize colloidal silver and Sandy Hook ... like and subscribe, share, pay a bot farm to post to reddit, squarespace ..."

This is exactly how we got here
The news is now how circumcision causes autism ffs

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asura @asura.dev · 4h

The idea that people believe that we have always only ever had ad driven revenue on a blog as a publishing method is kind of indicative of the big problem here

"The web" pre-AI was WordPress and plugins on blogs reacting and re-spinning content the same way @hankgreen.bsky.social describes here

The AI business model might destroy itself

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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max and 19 others 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 7h

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asura @asura.dev · 6h

Which models?

asura @asura.dev · 6h

what is your gpu

gemma3 270m is 400M at f16, 240m at q4
gemma3 27b is 46G at f16 and 21g at q4

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asura @asura.dev · 7h

Even smaller/more efficient path with Gemma (in a browser, even)
developers.googleblog.com/en/own-your-...

Even if 100% distilled this would probably work just as well for semantic comparisons in the loop and be small enough to run off desktop CPU/webgpu/mobile/ai accel

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asura @asura.dev · 8h

Don't push master vs rebase brat

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 22h

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 16h

pee is stored in the balls and autism is stored in the foreskin

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 9h

Teachers who used to tell us YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A CALCULATOR IN YOUR POCKET WHEN YOU GROW UP now using chatgpt for everything

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asura @asura.dev · 15h

Politicians were complicit
And the celebrities were complicit
The police were complicit
Our teachers and educational institutions were complicit
Our billionaires and millionaires were silent except the ones calling for this violence
The NRA was silent
The freedom fighters and Christians applauded

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 15h

America Is Now The World’s Sundown Town

This is who we are now. We are the country that makes people who aren't white leave the country because they're not white. And this is according to this administration's own press release, which celebrates the fact that we're now the inverse of the words…

America Is Now The World’s Sundown Town

This is who we are now. We are the country that makes people who aren't white leave the country because they're not white. And this is according to this administration's own press release, which celebrates the fact that we're now the inverse of the words engraved at the Statue of Liberty's base, which read: Give me your tired, your poor…

www.techdirt.com

asura @asura.dev · 16h

OpenAI sucks, Sama is a fraud, Grok is shit, Musk sucks, xAI is bullshit, and a solar company using Methane to make a machine to tell a ketamine addicted divorced dad who was a bronze tier torbjorn that his alive child is dead is horrifying.

That's all that is needed.

asura @asura.dev · 16h

The wording is fine. Trying to rename only the usage of a thing you don't like something else is just the mental gymnastics meme.

I don't like country music, but country music is on spotify, and it would be incredibly silly to call the internet the "twang twang machine". Just silly.

asura @asura.dev · 16h

I really think the "trick" normies (wrt to both coding and/or writing) aren't quite understanding is the fundamental pitch.
The LLM is supposed to do the crap you don't want it to do. Just like MS Word will make you a table of contents, an LLM will do the same which makes time for the enjoyable work

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16h

This might surprise some people given I'm very pro-AI, but I feel this on a visceral level about my own creative writing process.

Coding? Whatever, I'm happy for an LLM to write most of that for me. But I want to solve *these* problems myself, because that feels intrinsic to my creative expression.

SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.

SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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asura @asura.dev · 17h

Well it's just great times when a friend messages you with a picture of the absolute shitshow of a DHS/ICE combo and you can see your own home in the background.

That's fun
Now gtfo

asura @asura.dev · 1d

We need a new international rating for "Americans must be accompanied by an adult that reads over an 8th grade level in order to consume this media"

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