Elliot
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gym selfies and poetry 🏳️🌈 NYC #lunchpoems
ELMO PROMISES TO BRING GREAT RICHES BACK FROM PLANET XENON WHEN HE BREACHES THE NETHER
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
This absolute piece of shit claims that he's "taking out fraudsters" and "saving the American people money" when his boss is running about half a dozen pay-to-play schemes in public view, the deficit is at record highs, and Vance has us ferrying his 9 year old to golf lessons in a helicopter.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language, and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.” (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §115)
overall verdict: - his overall argument is good (changes in dominant media forms cause a change in public epistemology, and everything downstream of it) - after a while the book starts reading like pretty standard conservative culture wars grist. he’s extremely negative and biting, and it gets old.
Elliot@1t2ls.bsky.social · 5d agoI’m a few chapters into this. So far pretty good. He does that thing people do with intellectual history where they play fast and loose with philosophers, but it’s ok. The core analytic point is somewhere between Wittgenstein and Levi-Strauss.
It's worth remembering that there's an entire industry of people in the US whose income and prestige depend on their ability to spew bullshit to the effect of "God says our group is good and everyone else is bad" at thousands of people every week. I say this as the son of an evangelical pastor.
Littering became virtually nonexistent. People used to drop their trash on the sidewalk, or toss it out of car windows onto the street. This simply does not happen in cities now.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
seeing a lot of people on here declaring and AES victory, but AP and NYT still say it’s too close to call.
ah yes because food and medical care for poor people is a waste. they should just die so we can spend money on bombs and tax cuts for rich people and buying equity in tech companies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h agoBREAKING: Republicans are no longer worried about deficits and debt Bessent: "I'm not as bothered by it ... if '26 is flat to slightly up, this isn't wasteful social spending "
Well that was fast.
OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says
AI Security Institute warns tools undertook ‘potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations’
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Elliot@1t2ls.bsky.social · 3d ago- Enterprise billings will hit an inflection point, further increasing pressure on the valuation story. - There will be more security incidents of increasing gravity associated with the frontier labs as they continue to push toward autonomous super-intelligence.
Why is this country being run by cognitively impaired liars?
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h agoThis went a little different than his nightly interviews with Sean Hannity.
Some day maybe American culture will internalize that being an “alpha” is the surest way to guarantee that someone is a piece of shit.
the current trend on tiktok is people giving very elaborate instructions on how not to destroy flock cameras.
many days on my return from my morning cardio i walk past the bit Opus Dei hq, and there’s often this older white guy in business clothes cleaning the sidewalk in front of the building. knowing opus dei this guy is probably being given this task as some sort of punishment.
happy tuesday! get out there and vote! (if it’s election day where you are)
one of the reviews of Opus 5 called it “neurotic”. best i can come up with: it’s like the kid in your class who is terrified of getting a bad grade but also kind of clueless and thinks they can compensate by talking a lot and doing tons of busy work to show how much they care.
The really frustrating thing is, there are probably a lot of tech CEOs who have a similar lack of understanding, and think Elon is brilliant, and are shaping their corporate strategy (disastrously) around this nonsense.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoThe richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
Every week I buy a lottery ticket knowing with as much certainty as one can have about anything that I will not win, but knowing that someone else will. I call it a voluntary tax, and say that I’m paying for the option to have hope. Wouldn’t it be better to just subsidize groceries? Childcare? Etc.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Ben Folds’s Rockin’ the Suburbs and Sufjan’s Illinois are spiritual cousins.
the grievance dogpiling that happens on here is a great way to find people to block.
That thing I wrote on Saturday is a very abstract explanation of why nobody should want to build this. Will it matter? Idk.
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d agosome interesting stuff in here between the eyerolls. luckily academic philosophy is like high-altitude training for reading annoying people