HELLGORITHM
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self-published author of a Zelda fansite. best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0
The turn most software devs have taken shouldn't have surprised me. Well before LLMs, most devs I've met had the soul of a landlord Sometimes "landlord trying to be cool". Sometimes "landlord who wants suffering with the rent" But both see the world with the eyes of a rent-seeker
Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”
It's increasingly certain that US subscription-based LLMs are financially doomed. People hype up open weight models though. I did some very simple math and, to run e.g. benchmark darling open-weight Kimi K3, the cost of entry is a quarter-million $ on the GPUs alone. Then you have opex.
If a "climate tech" company is pivoting to servicing the needs of a generative AI industry that specifically hungers for fossil fuels, how on Earth is that still "climate tech"? That is petrotech - and we should call it that, when it is that. techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/t...
The higher one thinks of their own intelligence today, the higher the likelihood they've tricked themselves into obsequious worship of a made up machine god. And everything else aside, that is pretty funny.
i don't think it's glib to say this: it's possible that nobody on earth cares less about consent than mark zuckerberg
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · yesterdayMeta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid fools would doubt them).
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 20h agoReuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Normally the "digital divide" refers to *access* to tech, but as access becomes less and less of an issue, the real divide is between people who know how to defend themselves from the cruel indifference of technology designers and people who are helpless before their enshittificatory gambits. 7/
After years of my life researching this niche topic, I can feel I'm close to a breakthrough. I think I'll paste the details into this text box owned by a company build on flagrant disregard for attribution that is currently desperate to demonstrate that its product can do novel science.
I have Thoughts about what ought to be done after the Revolution to whomever decided most salad kits should put 3.5 servings on the nutrition label instead of just 3.
Still thinking about Zuckerberg's closest friends consistently letting him win at Catan. Not even one person one time deciding against going along with it. Everyone hollowing themselves out completely just to stay friendly with the Metaverse loser. Profoundly sick stuff.
Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d ago‘PRIMETIME’ debuts with $19.2M at the domestic box office. • Budget: $15M • 69% of the opening weekend audience was under 30 #Primetime #A24
A small thing that will really stick with me from the book Careless People is the author recounting how Zuckerburg’s inner circle would let him win at Settlers of Catan. Broken culture.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”
All of the broader things that we're losing thanks to AI—from being able to trust others to cheap GPUs—are a much bigger issue but what really gets to me personally is just losing respect for people I used to like. Ah it turns out that a shiny toy and flattery overrides your moral compass. Okay.
Some of us still write code without LLMs, for work, every day. And from what I see out there our job satisfaction is so much higher it would frankly be mean to compare it. Out here just shipping qualify software to happy users. There is nothing inevitable about any of this.
Glasses, AirPods, Tamagotchi knockoff pendant… At the end of the day the form factor does not matter any more than whether it will get you to wear a 24/7 camera. They’ll try anything if you’ll just wear the camera. Please wear the camera
Dem comms, never failing to make everything, even sex, sound like nothing but bland, obligatory, dutiful maintenance. God this party fucking sucks.
Gregory Pratt@royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d ago“Talking to Rahm, it’s like middle-age married sex,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who has known him for decades. “It’s focused. You know what you’re going for. And it’s short.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...
I don’t set aside much time to indulge in gaming these days but I am really enjoying Ostranauts today. Played it pre-1.0 a bit and decided to give it another go since 1.0 was released.
AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming
Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is 100% accurate and it’s why I’d never go to Bavaria
Genuinely, half of me thinks the main area of AI experimentation going on right now is in how fully the concept of an "ai agent" can legally indemnify its operators
Nothing is going to get better until examples are made the likes of which have not been made in 80 years.
spilled iced coffee all over myself interviewing for a job at a bank & an HR recruitment coordinator shouted "this applicant drinking iced coffee" & everyone laughed.