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The Stand user could be anywhere keep an eye out
bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social Bantership Potemkin @bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social · Jun 27
Just found the guy who makes Jordan Peterson's suits and the fact his own suit looks awful on him is telling.
June 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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I have, at this point, two newsletters chambered. But I wrote this at the end of the one coming out in a few weeks. I think it’s important to realise that nothing about the tech industry/finance is black magic, and you’re fully capable of understanding exactly how these freaks run their operations.
In any case, I want to end this with something inspirational, because I believe that things change when regular people feel stronger and more capable. I want you to know that you are fully capable of understanding all of this. I don’t care if you “aren’t a numbers person” or “don’t get business.’ I don’t have a single iota of economics training, and everything you’ve ever read me write has been something I’ve had to learn. I was a layperson right up until I learned the stuff, then I became a stuff-knower, just like you can be. The tech industry, the finance industry, the entire mechanisms of capitalism want you to believe that everything they do is magical and complex, when it’s all far more obvious than you’d believe. You don’t have to understand the entire fundamentals of finance to know how venture capital works - they buy percentages of companies at a valuation that they hope is much lower than the company would be worth in the future. You don’t need to be technical to know that Large Language Models generate a response based on billions of pieces of training data. These people love to say “ah, but didn’t you see-” and present an anecdote, when no anecdote will ever defeat the basics of “your business doesn’t make any money, the software doesn’t do the things you claim it’s meant to, and you have no path to profitability.” They can yammer at you all they want about “lots of people using ChatGPT,” but that doesn’t change the fact that ChatGPT just isn’t that revolutionary, and their only play here is to make you feel stupid rather than actually showing you why it’s so fucking revolutionary. This is the argument of a manipulator and a coward, and you are above such things. You don’t really have to be a specialist in anything to pry this shit apart, which is why so much of my work is either engaging to those who learn something from it or frustrating to those that intentionally deceive others through gobbledygook hype-schpiel. I will sit here and explain ever… These people may seem all-powerful, but they’ve built the Rot Economy on a combination of anonymity and a placant press, but pressure against them starts with you and those you know understanding how their businesses work, and trusting that you can understand because you absolutely can. Millions of people understanding how these people run their companies and how poorly they’ve built their software will stop people like Sundar Pichai from being able to quietly burn Google Search to the ground. People like Sam Altman are gambling that you are easily-confused, easily-defeated and incurious, when you’ve made it thousands of words into a newsletter that I never, ever edit for brevity. You can understand every fucking part of their business - the economics of OpenAI, the flimsy promises of Salesforce, the destruction of Google Search - and you can tell everybody you know about it, and suddenly it won’t be so easy for these wretched creeps to continue thriving. I know it sounds small, and like your role is even smaller, but the reason they’ve grown so rapaciously is driven by the sense that the work they do is some sort of black magic, when it’s really fucking stupid and boring finance stapled onto a tech industry that’s running out of ideas. You are more than capable of understanding this entire world - including the technology, along with the finances that ultimately decide what technology gets made next. These people have got rich and famous and escaped all blame by casting themselves as somehow above us - when if I’m honest, I’ve never looked down on somebody quite as much as I do the current gaggle of management consultant fucks that have driven Silicon Valley into the ground.
June 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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lmfao, absolutely nobody is making money in AI
Evaluating Evaluation Startups Despite high prices, model evaluation startups have been slow to gain revenue traction. Company Revenue (date) Valuation (date) Galileo ~$5 million annualized revenue (Jan) $170 million* (Oct.) Patronus ~$1 million annualized revenue (Dec.) $90 million* (May) Braintrust ~51 million annualized revenue (Oct.) $150 million (Oct.) Weights & Biases ~$1 million annual recurring revenue (Dec.) $1.7 billion *PitchBook estimates Source: The Information reporting
April 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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April 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I think it’s been interesting to see that the Right is not even arguing this stuff is good anymore. It’s just “wow look the libs are mad! Yep no more DEI!” They are pretending half of this stuff isn’t happening at all.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Jan 31
Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency: the General Services Administration.

His former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access GSA's tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more:
Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources…
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February 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Republicans have effectively criminalized studying how information moves on the internet at the request of a handful of billionaires and racists. I was writing a book about this, but went and did some other thing. If someone wants my notes or wants to talk to me about who to talk to, let me know.
June 14, 2024 at 7:45 PM