I know the type: • Lives in a neighborhood full of million-dollar homes • Gets angry at mention of "$20/hr for working in fast food" • Complains bitterly about the quality of service at Burger Sovereign Post-payment is just the chef's kiss on a bad deal hashtag-nextdoorthings

> promises of robotaxis and humanoid robots Elon Musk is the world's most successful kickstarter kid: tells a story, sells a dream, collects legions of acolytes, occasionally delivers some fraction of deliverables that would embarrass PMs in the software biz

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 14h ago

Tesla *is* profitable, but very much in trouble. It can only juice sales by cutting prices, the Cybertruck continues to be a boondoggle, and its market share is down to 2017 levels. The high stock price is based entirely on wild promises of robotaxis and humanoid robots.

Nothing like a genAI shill post on linkedin claiming a ~250kW AI rack "only" consumes ~5x as much power as a typical home, drawing maximum power. When in reality the actual spread is ~75x. Just a factor 15 error there guys.

Google Streetview seems to have forgotten historical views in a number of locations, rolled back to potatovision beginning-of-time views in others. Weird.

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

*All* effort spared looking at my profile: missed said credential on my profile cleverly hidden in the Education section

It's a truck stop (that bans trucks) the size of a late 1980s walmart with similar effects on the local economy. Also a timesink easily taking 2x as long as other "travel plazas" to achieve the same things: traffic, crowds, checkout lines.

da da™️ drew@adrew.dadguy.help · 2d ago

there's lots of other reasons to hate buc-ee's too. just google their owner's political donations!

Live in an unremarkable neighborhood of North Dallas Specials. At the ~30yr mark the brick mailbox was about to collapse. Demo'ed it, replaced it with a steel security mailbox. Neighbor about had an aneurism when they saw it and literally yelled at me about it for a good five minutes.

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 2d ago

I'm not going to QT but there's a silicon valley NIMBY complaining about maintaining the historical character of Palo Alto and man that place should look like fucking singapore. Market cap of tech companies based in and around there is like $14 trillion and it's full of fucking bungalows? So broken

I'd say it's simple disingenuousness: • Conflation of GenAI spam vs useful machine learning • Furious hand-waving of the cargo cult belief that GenAI will somehow someway transubstantiate into AGI if fed enough "training data" (but mostly trillions of dollars)

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5d ago

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

Ah robinhood, you scoundrels: "There’s no better time for SpaceX to acquire Tesla than now."

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

That's the TX GOP this election cycle

Maj@lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 4d ago

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

If on a 4+ lane divided road approaching a red line and jump out of a line of cars to be the first in line in another lane, *maybe* don't be sitting there with your thumb up your butt for ~10 seconds when the light turns green, eh?

University of North Texas has a radio station. The 13-year old version of myself is disappointed their call sign is KNTU.

So many tech demos are a video game's beautiful cinematic pre-rendered cutscene against the real thing: the game engine struggling to deliver crude <30FPS assaults to the eyes often failing to *visually* render objects that it reliably *physically* simulates

That Fox News interview with the DSA spokesperson is shaping up to be this decade's "surfer on food stamps that loves lobster"

Unfortunately, there is a sum of mini-cookies that is equal to a regular cookie

A dismal account of hubris, environmental consequences, accelerating electrical demand, and the strain of running a technological dead end to failure

The Solar Plant Decaying In The Desert That Can't Be Shut Down

YouTube video by Wasteland By Wednesday

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300mg caffeine energy drinks not cutting it anymore? Now there are fkn 150mg *modafinil* (+60mg caffeine for funsies) beverage shots available from the same people that brought you DTC dick pills and GLP-1s.

104°F air temperature, heat index 114°F. With the sun low on the horizon standing still in the shade the sweat glands *just* hold their fire. Toasty for DFW. And I'm sure it's hotter in Phoenix.

I abused animals as a kid. Distinctly remember the moment I stopped when I *fully* realized I was causing another being to suffer. Folks supporting ICE, etc persecution of The Other™ I wonder if they had such an epiphany and if so what mental gymnastics rationalize said support.

There's some tipping point when the "line goes up" sociopaths, regime sycophants, and grifters become so prominent against being told to embrace blinkingly-obvious systemic problems and worsening quality-of-life where the despair begins to set in

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6d ago

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

It's all personality cult now. Trump good, Republicans that shill Trump good, other Republicans not so good, Democrats bad, whoever or whatever Trump says bad hated. The arrow of time irrelevant. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

brb going to build a pillar of flame so immense as to make the gods believe in *us* again

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

low-background grey matter

KAFUI 🇬🇭@mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

I dunno, seems relevant

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · last wk.

"Castro was a billionaire. Putin is a billionaire. The leaders of communist regimes are always rich. They steal and rob from those they govern," Really put on your thinking cap before shitting out that there nugget, Ted.

Ted Cruz Issues Communism Warning In Billionaire Rant

Cruz used New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the jumping-off point for a broader attack on communism.

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Lingering on the MS Teams / Google Meet 'preview' to see if anyone else has joined the call that no one wants to be on