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Silicon Valley's three historical phases
1. commercializing mostly gov't-funded research/infrastructure (and passing it off as the fruits of private enterprise)
2. stupid consumer services for millennials
3. turbo grift fascist death cult
1. commercializing mostly gov't-funded research/infrastructure (and passing it off as the fruits of private enterprise)
2. stupid consumer services for millennials
3. turbo grift fascist death cult
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This is awesome.
The US could have had this c. 2010, but the huge political stink raised around Solyndra's failure and the decision of VCs to put their money into social media (rather than something with actual societal benefit) effectively doomed the industry.
The US could have had this c. 2010, but the huge political stink raised around Solyndra's failure and the decision of VCs to put their money into social media (rather than something with actual societal benefit) effectively doomed the industry.
biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.
“South Africans like Dr. Booley have found a remedy for power cuts that have plagued people in the developing world for years. Thanks to swiftly falling prices of Chinese made solar panels and batteries, they now draw their power from the sun.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
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December 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is awesome.
The US could have had this c. 2010, but the huge political stink raised around Solyndra's failure and the decision of VCs to put their money into social media (rather than something with actual societal benefit) effectively doomed the industry.
The US could have had this c. 2010, but the huge political stink raised around Solyndra's failure and the decision of VCs to put their money into social media (rather than something with actual societal benefit) effectively doomed the industry.
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Like, even snake oil salesmen had to promise their customers a benefit. This snake oil will heal your ailments. It will benefit you. You get something out of buying my snake oil.
These fash tech dipshits can't even do that. It's just "if you buy my snake oil I get to have more money."
These fash tech dipshits can't even do that. It's just "if you buy my snake oil I get to have more money."
It's funny that literally the only use case zuckerberg can imagine for technology is "I get to surveil you 24/7 inside the panopticon I own"
Like he can't even be arsed to detail the benefit to anyone other than him.
Like he can't even be arsed to detail the benefit to anyone other than him.
“‘Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices,’ he wrote Wednesday in an online post detailing how Meta will bring AI to users.”
No, they won’t.
No, they won’t.
August 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Like, even snake oil salesmen had to promise their customers a benefit. This snake oil will heal your ailments. It will benefit you. You get something out of buying my snake oil.
These fash tech dipshits can't even do that. It's just "if you buy my snake oil I get to have more money."
These fash tech dipshits can't even do that. It's just "if you buy my snake oil I get to have more money."
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As someone who has worked in systems engineering for over 30 years, this isn't even remotely far enough. My default response to anyone calling themselves a '$X engineer' is to roll my eyes out of my skull. Any credentialed engineer that pulled 1/100th the shit they do would be *executed*.
December 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
As someone who has worked in systems engineering for over 30 years, this isn't even remotely far enough. My default response to anyone calling themselves a '$X engineer' is to roll my eyes out of my skull. Any credentialed engineer that pulled 1/100th the shit they do would be *executed*.
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Impossible to hate the IDF enough
December 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Impossible to hate the IDF enough
Hope this happens. But Chinese regulators were on the verge of effectively banning gacha games a few years back and backtracked because the stock market really didn't like it, so we'll see.
December 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Hope this happens. But Chinese regulators were on the verge of effectively banning gacha games a few years back and backtracked because the stock market really didn't like it, so we'll see.
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Naming your company after a Tolkien thing is about as much a signal as carving a swastika into your forehead.
December 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Naming your company after a Tolkien thing is about as much a signal as carving a swastika into your forehead.
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every genAI article is like, have you tried frying up poop before eating it though? have you tried deep frying the poop? and while i don't mind discussing the hows and whys of poop getting into food in theory, i don't like to eat poop, just trying to keep poop out of food. sorry i am a simple guy.
December 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
every genAI article is like, have you tried frying up poop before eating it though? have you tried deep frying the poop? and while i don't mind discussing the hows and whys of poop getting into food in theory, i don't like to eat poop, just trying to keep poop out of food. sorry i am a simple guy.
It's good and wonderful that we as a society are about to relitigate the famously non-dysfunctional American conversation on gun control, but with chatbots instead.
i’m very okay with having the conversations about, say, blatant lack of safeguards in some models. but it’s very evident that a bulk of conversations around this topic are merely trying to paint AI as bad instead of addressing the real problems
December 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It's good and wonderful that we as a society are about to relitigate the famously non-dysfunctional American conversation on gun control, but with chatbots instead.
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And I keep emphasizing "engineers" when I talk about this because frankly we need to start assigning blame to engineers. We need to start treating programmers and computer scientists like what they are: a profession direly in need of ethical reform, infested with amoral bastards.
December 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
And I keep emphasizing "engineers" when I talk about this because frankly we need to start assigning blame to engineers. We need to start treating programmers and computer scientists like what they are: a profession direly in need of ethical reform, infested with amoral bastards.
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Incels were the easy mode.
Hard mode is incels who've spent 10,000 hours learning what women are like by talking to a billionaire sex pest's gacha machine disguised as a fawning sycophant with no agency with a suspiciously child-like face.
Hard mode is incels who've spent 10,000 hours learning what women are like by talking to a billionaire sex pest's gacha machine disguised as a fawning sycophant with no agency with a suspiciously child-like face.
July 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Incels were the easy mode.
Hard mode is incels who've spent 10,000 hours learning what women are like by talking to a billionaire sex pest's gacha machine disguised as a fawning sycophant with no agency with a suspiciously child-like face.
Hard mode is incels who've spent 10,000 hours learning what women are like by talking to a billionaire sex pest's gacha machine disguised as a fawning sycophant with no agency with a suspiciously child-like face.
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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Also a note to the loser Space Cult Redditors who will eventually screenshot this thread: lol you will die alone and it will be in your mom's basement, not on Mars
December 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Also a note to the loser Space Cult Redditors who will eventually screenshot this thread: lol you will die alone and it will be in your mom's basement, not on Mars
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The last repost is completely true, and I'd also add: generative AI advocates never engage with the fact that LLMs and AI art are just bad at everything they try to do.
The art is dreary, the writing is the prose equivalent of gray goo. There is no understanding behind the output.
The art is dreary, the writing is the prose equivalent of gray goo. There is no understanding behind the output.
December 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The last repost is completely true, and I'd also add: generative AI advocates never engage with the fact that LLMs and AI art are just bad at everything they try to do.
The art is dreary, the writing is the prose equivalent of gray goo. There is no understanding behind the output.
The art is dreary, the writing is the prose equivalent of gray goo. There is no understanding behind the output.
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I understand that personal taste is a whole thing and I also understand that if you think ME2 is the worst game in the series, you do not understand what a story is
December 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I understand that personal taste is a whole thing and I also understand that if you think ME2 is the worst game in the series, you do not understand what a story is
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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I sent this video to my friend and she got mad at me
December 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I sent this video to my friend and she got mad at me
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Programmers who gleefully and loudly deskill *the* essential skills of programming, desperately need to quit their fucking jobs.
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Programmers who gleefully and loudly deskill *the* essential skills of programming, desperately need to quit their fucking jobs.
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A corollary to this principle is that finding a single hallucinated citation should lead to an automatic rejection. Automatic. This should be a matter of policy.
And this is one of easier AI-related problems for our journals!
And this is one of easier AI-related problems for our journals!
Journal editors: I suggest manually clicking on DOI links in the references section of submitted manuscripts. You may be surprised by what you see.
Gen AI has lots of uses, and one of them is generating fraudulent citations.
Gen AI has lots of uses, and one of them is generating fraudulent citations.
December 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
A corollary to this principle is that finding a single hallucinated citation should lead to an automatic rejection. Automatic. This should be a matter of policy.
And this is one of easier AI-related problems for our journals!
And this is one of easier AI-related problems for our journals!
My preferred regulation would be ‘this shit is banned’, but it’s a start.
China issues drafts rules to regulate AI with human-like interaction reut.rs/4q2tPzY
China issues drafts rules to regulate AI with human-like interaction
China's cyber regulator on Saturday issued draft rules for public comment that would tighten oversight of artificial intelligence services designed to simulate human personalities and engage users in emotional interaction.
reut.rs
December 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My preferred regulation would be ‘this shit is banned’, but it’s a start.
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you cannot be palestinian on this app but plenty of assholes roaming around doing apologia for genocide that’s awesome. that’s really cool.
December 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
you cannot be palestinian on this app but plenty of assholes roaming around doing apologia for genocide that’s awesome. that’s really cool.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.