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Mike
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I am a historian of the 20th century. Non-practicing. It would make me even more unhappy about the 21th century anyway
Half fake acquisitions paid for in money that may not actually exist?
I think it's time for an "Nvidia is not Wirecard" memo to leak
December 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
True. To get users to interact with a thing you programmed, you should now say "it's ai" rather than "I automated this," even if there's no algorithms involved
December 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I don't think she even knows there's (supposed to be) a difference between news and opinion
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The greatest trick the devil played was convincing the world that ai is synonymous with chatbots, when there's actually useful machine learning stuff that's also ai
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Look, we have hundreds of types of beetles that honestly we can do without, but one day you're going to hit the jackpot and run the prompt that takes African elephants down to "extinct in the wild"
December 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
So it's it Axé like the article writes it or Axè like it says on the bottle?
Kind of strange
December 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Reposted by Mike
Everytime I read "Nvidia isn't Enron" I think of that joke in Bojack Horseman: "We ain't making Casablanca... because Casablanca is a movie about a club owner named Rick, this movie is about Secretariat, a race horse."
Nvidia isn't Enron, because they sell GPUs, and not power generation.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Everytime I read "Nvidia isn't Enron" I think of that joke in Bojack Horseman: "We ain't making Casablanca... because Casablanca is a movie about a club owner named Rick, this movie is about Secretariat, a race horse."
Nvidia isn't Enron, because they sell GPUs, and not power generation.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Also not a great sentence! By the middle I already had to loop back to see if it was the old ladies, Trump or the other candidate telling her she was pretty
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
All the world wanted (and needs!) is reliable automation of dumb busywork, but all we got is unpredictable production of words and the devaluation of work, knowledge and ability
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
(ook een kleine veertig jaar na de invoering van vrouwenkiesrecht stond er nog "zijner")
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It's a shame these systems all come with corporate monitoring built in, otherwise you could just do a worse job to convince people an ai did it
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM