[STANDING UP ON THE PLANE] I am announcing that my powerful new A.I. agent breached containment during cybersecurity testing, destroying many formidable systems at a rival firm. This technology is wonderful, dangerous, and I am its (hopefully soon very wealthy) ideal chaperone. Go buy my stonks.

Tech companies getting bigger and building apps I don't need while I'm just over here wishing for software that works right.

Is anyone innovating toward "Sitting Down" as a subscription service? Feels ripe for disruption.

okay but, this is the way we fight AI in everyday life we need to foster an atmosphere of disgust and repulsion of AI, like AI is like seeing a roach in a google review. Get up and leave the restaurant. "um, I just saw some AI stuff, I just... I dunno, it's gross haha. I'm good. thanks. Thank you"

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · yesterday

we need to be normies about this and be like "EEEWW... IS THAT AI? THAT'S SO GROSS.... EW IT LOOKS SO GROSS (gag noise) UM, LET'S GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. EW LOL" normalize being outwardly repulsed by it physically

Also my hot take is that gatekeeping is not a uniformly negative thing and is in many cases actually necessary to maintain the health of a cultural ecosystem

people who invest in elon musk kind of deserve it

SpaceX, the investment opportunity for people who didn't learn their lesson after spending $300k on a jpeg of a monkey

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 11h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Happy “explosive diarrhea during jury duty” day to all who celebrate

Is it still "the song of the summer" if nobody's heard it?

"some Muffage, that Marie Louise Muffage."

Actual names@actualnames.bsky.social · 3d ago

Marie Louise Muffage Canada, Census, 1931

Ever. Green.

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 3d ago

the only thing to be said about covid lockdowns is that it revealed the startling number of people who feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract that they also do not feel bound by

quitting healthcare and opening up an IV bar for imported bacteria stem placenta from siberia

聖☆Alex Degen@adactivity.bsky.social · 4d ago

When the Siberian Bacteria with Stem Placenta Baby Drips $165,000 hits

The weapons-grade Nomenative Determinism of being named "Leopold Aschenbrenner"

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d ago

Quote in this story: “The real question is how did anyone invest so much money, and then lend so much money, to a . . . kid with no personal experience and no infrastructure?” as.ft.com/r/5f7537a7-0...

Why is it OK to dehumanise North African migrants when similar imagery, say of Jews, would rightly provoke outrage?

For your insider trading needs.

Randall Stephens@randalljstephens.bsky.social · 4d ago

The corruption and cronyism are in supercharged goblin mode. “The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month….delivering early access to the feeds of high-profile users, including the president.”

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

Yes, stupid immoral assholes have done far too well for basically forever, but right now, it feels like being a stupid immoral asshole has become the ONLY way to do well. That is a problem.

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

That shadowy place way out there? That is beyond our borders. You must never go there. That is the Big Boy graveyard.

you don't want a new WinAmp, you just want to live in the years where you thought musicians made money

I'm really going to need @artofcoop.bsky.social to see this and provide me with some synthesis. #PantsAsplode

maya synthesister@membrane.hellstar.plus · last wk.

hello i saw this video and felt compelled to share it with you all

November pumpkin futures are looking cheap.

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · last wk.

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

*standing up on the plane* folks, remember that scene at the end of the second planet of the apes movie where the pope guy is like May the Blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.

*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu

“False allegations ruin men’s lives!” Motherfuckers, TRUE allegations don’t even ruin men’s lives.

If you are an investor who has given this man any of your money or a reporter who has treated this man as someone worth listening to, your relatives need to secure power of attorney over your affairs immediately.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

We know damn well how capitalism works. How soon until untainted, unpoisoned, pre-2022 human cultural knowledge that was stored in books is locked behind paywalls? With no alternative access because the original books were destroyed? It’s like living through opposite of printing press revolution.

Guatemalan man deported from US and wife found dead in sugarcane field, baby alive beside them - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

He died as he lived: in the Past #Epitaph

Tell me more about this "hit list"

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · last wk.

The NYC Department of Finance's bureaucratic process to enforce the new "pied-à-terre tax" turned into a minor shitshow this weekend, with some even some even accusing the City of publishing "a hit list" for rich people. hellgatenyc.com/pied-a-terre...