Ben Zero
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Ben Zero
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· Aug 29
Stitches get stitches, proud boys get po’ boys?
A turducken of awesomeness.
I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A turducken of awesomeness.
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linkedin job history
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
linkedin job history
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
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If the bird is, for example, a seagull, then it doesn't eat worms; it eats fries. So being up earlier than the shops open is a waste of time for it, frankly.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If the bird is, for example, a seagull, then it doesn't eat worms; it eats fries. So being up earlier than the shops open is a waste of time for it, frankly.
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Microsoft: 30% of our code is now written by AI
Also Microsoft:
Also Microsoft:
Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken | Microsoft Community Hub
A major new Windows 11 update has introduced widespread stability issues affecting core system functionality. Many users, including myself, are now...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Microsoft: 30% of our code is now written by AI
Also Microsoft:
Also Microsoft:
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This overlaps with a challenging mode of decision-making in orgs: validation.
I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.
If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.
If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
December 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This overlaps with a challenging mode of decision-making in orgs: validation.
I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.
If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.
If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
It’s worth noticing that the AI push comes in the form of threat marketing implying inevitability, not in the form of problems that it will solve or benefits to adoption. Also, ‘it makes stuff up so you have to check everything.’
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It’s worth noticing that the AI push comes in the form of threat marketing implying inevitability, not in the form of problems that it will solve or benefits to adoption. Also, ‘it makes stuff up so you have to check everything.’
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Okay, so AI rips off artists without compensation or permission and uses absurd new amounts of energy when we already use so much it threatens climate catastrophe, and the results are full of errors and misinfo because it’s just fancy probabilistic autocomplete, but is it profitable? Absolutely not.
December 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Okay, so AI rips off artists without compensation or permission and uses absurd new amounts of energy when we already use so much it threatens climate catastrophe, and the results are full of errors and misinfo because it’s just fancy probabilistic autocomplete, but is it profitable? Absolutely not.
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I understand there’s talk of his decline. In general we don’t get involved in that. But something is wrong here. I’m serious. He’s very good at the camera. He was. He was always very conscious of the camera. 25 years ago he’d never do this. Five years ago he wouldn’t.
December 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I understand there’s talk of his decline. In general we don’t get involved in that. But something is wrong here. I’m serious. He’s very good at the camera. He was. He was always very conscious of the camera. 25 years ago he’d never do this. Five years ago he wouldn’t.
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This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
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In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
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This presidency has fully devolved into a series of Make A Wish situations staged for an addled, dying man
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This presidency has fully devolved into a series of Make A Wish situations staged for an addled, dying man
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My politics are becoming increasingly "we live in a society"
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My politics are becoming increasingly "we live in a society"
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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How much antiblackness are we supposed to deal with on a regular basis before nonBlack people will agree that the racism was beyond the pale.
What’s it gonna take. I want facts and figures. How many slurs per day should we have to suffer before it’s ok not to feel sorry for some dumb white broad.
What’s it gonna take. I want facts and figures. How many slurs per day should we have to suffer before it’s ok not to feel sorry for some dumb white broad.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
How much antiblackness are we supposed to deal with on a regular basis before nonBlack people will agree that the racism was beyond the pale.
What’s it gonna take. I want facts and figures. How many slurs per day should we have to suffer before it’s ok not to feel sorry for some dumb white broad.
What’s it gonna take. I want facts and figures. How many slurs per day should we have to suffer before it’s ok not to feel sorry for some dumb white broad.
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To be fair it’s not like it was a daycare in suburban Florida, Disney’s true enemy.
Disney for generations: fuck with our IP and we will literally fucking ruin your life
Disney now: We gave $1 billion to Sam Altman so he could make a gooner Mickey Mouse that encourages kids to kill themselves, this is totally fine
Disney now: We gave $1 billion to Sam Altman so he could make a gooner Mickey Mouse that encourages kids to kill themselves, this is totally fine
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
To be fair it’s not like it was a daycare in suburban Florida, Disney’s true enemy.
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they got AI-generated stores now
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
they got AI-generated stores now
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
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Woke up and everything on my phone looks stupid now
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Woke up and everything on my phone looks stupid now
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
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It makes me want to conduct a seance so I can tell Steve Jobs’s ghost that I hate it.
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It makes me want to conduct a seance so I can tell Steve Jobs’s ghost that I hate it.
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Am I the only one who sees a bright line connecting incel culture with the fear of being revealed as bad at something? I see a lot of similarities between incels and the kind of people who always act like they know better, to the point of 'correcting' noted experts in their fields.
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Am I the only one who sees a bright line connecting incel culture with the fear of being revealed as bad at something? I see a lot of similarities between incels and the kind of people who always act like they know better, to the point of 'correcting' noted experts in their fields.
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Handwriting stuff on paper is good for your brain. Write that down.
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Handwriting stuff on paper is good for your brain. Write that down.
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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
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I know there’s a lot going on but are we ever circling back to the Epstein Files?
The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important
The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I know there’s a lot going on but are we ever circling back to the Epstein Files?
The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important
The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important